Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-04-14
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL.

-Ex-United States senator Waitmar
T. Wiley, now clerk of the county
court of Monongalia county, w. Va, is
hale and hearty, though he is in his
eighty-fourth year, and can be found
at any hour of the day at his desk.
In a Brooklyn police court a deaf
mute was charged with stealing a
pocket-book. When the prosecutor
had testified and the prisoner was
asked to defend he took the oath and
vote his denial thus: ~ did not take
the pocket-book; she didn't see me
tale it, for she wasn't there when |
took it"
Uncle John Holland, colorcd, who
died in Kent county, Del, at the re-
puted age of one hundred and eight,
was famed for sobriety in all things
save u riotous imagination. Two years
ago he professed to have visited Heaven
and to have recognized there a white
lady of his acquaintance. His descrip-
tions of the celestial city were graphic
and a bit ludicrous, but they were
heard with open-mouthed wonder by
his brethren.
The youngest grandchild of Prince
Bismarck, the little daughter of Count
Herbert and the former Countess
Hoyos, was baptized Mt Schoenhausen
castle a few days ago, She received
the name of Anna ~Leopoldine Alice.
including the members of the family
and DR.. S~chweninger, who is now sci.
nom absent from any Bismarck festival,
all the members Of the nobility from =.
me surrounding country were present.
frlnce bismarck has no male grand
mud, all the children of his sons and
laughter, Countess Rantzau, being !,
girls, /
bishop Lawrence spoke in Boston Y
u The annual reunion of graduates Of =
he Lawrence grammar school, which b
vas named after his grandfather,
mos Lawrence, He said that none OF II
ne nearly welcomes offered him since III
Is elevation to the episcopal Office ~ "a
ad given more qualification. The o'
lshop recalled as one of the memories
MS boyhood the fact that it was his IN
carly TASK to squeeze enough lemons 81
} make IA barrel or two of lemonade in
" the boys of the Lawrence school. an
nom his father always made it A
'lnt to entertain at his home in Brook. sp
ne. 5Ot
queen Victoria's conservative fond raI
'ss for the things she is used to is CHI
own in the fact that the little ;vorv COS
'per-knlte with which she cuts the
Ses OF her new books was in her DOS.
Wilen She was a little princess. {
cabins OF the royal yacht are still left
o "'I"Vu Win the same old-fashioncd dar
'eoud chintz which her dead husband =
ca The queen has a particular love inn
iresh AR, and sits in rooms so cold ,voo,
no American woman could endure Inv.
m A fortnight ago she had hcr >,
'nler garden tent taken ont of its n,t
tier quarters, and sat in it in thc pu..
,oen Tor two hours or more for SOW. |
l consecutive days, signing Official OF"
CD NatANll| 7.
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The charming wife of a congress-. gun
H. noted for his energetic labor in hi'S
All OF his constituents and his con. D".'
efhclency and unfailing eood.na. @
) Is quite a noted cook. When She Nv
} entertain at dinner, she is fond Of " Us
'rlS'hg her guests with a dainty Or
ol aef preparing. Il believe" lovej
said, when some one comnlimnn+oa moth
Oh her accomplishment, that wo rom
V IKE what we eat. Nv husband Dioo
a sensitive digestion, and bad cook. Oh
anne near making II tiend of him derog
d maniac of me. ] set myself IN oel az
'ct thls' and latter myself | have magis
eeded' improperly prepared food
eSses one, and will transform NV "Nt
ana INTO a cynical pessimist in less eide
an hour, really consider that l 5ofsn,
popularity in his district and his
n to congress depend upon tho CALI
] give him and the manner in y
h u 1t is prepared" new c