Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-01-13
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL


Claus Spreckels is credited with the
intention of building n magnineent
bouse in the fashionable part OF san
| Francisco on n lot he has just bought
1t is understood that he will entertain
lavishly, though heretofore Mr. SprecK-
els has lived in an old.fashioned house
That there is money in the news
paper business is evinced blythe cXpe-
rience of James Crassan, a Journalist Oh
Muneie. Ind. He intends suing the city
for ten thousand dollars damages be-
cause he was quarantined for twenty
one DAYS in an old box car under the
supposition that he had been exposed
to smallpox.
Mime. Nilsson Countess dc Casa
Miranda) now lives in Paris in a most
luxurious hotel in the Quarter Mar
bnuf. She has a unique collection OF
art treasures, among them being IA
beautiful clock which belonged To
Charles MI. of Sweden, and a magnlh'
cent fan once the property OF the swed'
ish Queen Christine.
1t is said that art critics are fairly
raving over Turini's design for u Co
lumbus-lsabella group of statuary-
Giovanni Turini is a New York artist
He represents Columbus standing WITH
a scroll in his hand and beside him lisa
bella, holding up her court train With
her left hand while with her right she
is pointing to the scroll.
The comte de Montesquieu, who
exhibits exquisite specimens of inlay
ing at the Grafton galleryin London, is
a rich and eccentric French nobleman.
who lives in the immediate neighbui-
hood of Paris. His house is a show
place, and especially remarkable fol
the dining-room, which contains a
winter garden. Walking about among
the plants are a great number of small.
live Venetian turtles, variously enain-
eled and incrusted with diamonds and
other precious stones.
Miss Helen Gould has offered 81
great farm at Irvington-on-thc- Hudson
to the kindergarten and Potted Plant
association" The land will be dotted
with a number of frame buildings, in
which two hundred and fifty or more
children are to be lodged and fed dur
ing the summer months. These will
be ready June l.. There will be flower
beds as object lessons, laid out by Ok
pericnced gardeners; but each child
who is brought there will be allotted a
plot of ground and taught to cultivate
it.
The Empress Elizabeth, of Austria,
is said to submit herself to the severest
regimen in order to retain the bcauti-
ful figure for which she is noted. She
fasts morning and evening, making her
only regular meal at noon, of grillcd
meat, biscuits and a glass of wine.
Occasionally she cats a raw egg or IA
little fruit. She wears heavy flannel
underwear winter and summer, takes
vapor baths and massage, and by dint
of all this and much horseback riding
she keeps a waist measure of twenty
inches, in spite of her hfty-six years.
Harper's Bazaar.
A man who had been twenty years
in the employ of some timber mer-
chants in Hull became disabled, and
the firm, out of consideration for his
long services, decided to keep him on
the pay rolls at n reduced wage. The
trade union with which he was con-
nected objected to such an arrange
ment, insisting that he should be paid
full wages, Under the circumstances
the firm was obliged to discharge him,
and he was thrown on the hands of the
guardians of the poor. They have
granted him three and a half shilling>
and Il loaf of bread per week for 81,
weeks.
Howard Pyle has taken for tho
subject of an illustration in a recent
magazine the house which he is now
occupying--that of Ambassador Bayart
IA charming old mansion, whose
lofty, pillared porch overlooks the city
of Wilmington and the valley Of tho
lower Christiana, A dead and gone
Delawarcan sunk a considerable par
of his fortune in building the ole
house, and subsequent owners have
added to it as they needed more room,
until it is now a rambling structure,
w thout unity OF plan, but all the more
delightful for its defects. 1t stands
with its back TO the street, because the
house long antedates the new city
thoroughfarc by which it is now APP
preached.