The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-17
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL.

PERSONAL AND lMPERSONAI
---An honest Pennsylyania farmer re-
Gently saw an advertisement in paper
saying that for ten dollars the adver-
t;ser would tell how to Keep butter
from getting strong. The farmer
promptly sent the money. and at once
received the reply: Eat it,
Gen. A. J. Pleasanton, of Washing
ton and Philadelphia, who was the pro
moter. Of the blue-glass cure OF twenty
years ago and, i@still known as Blue
Glass" is in his eighty-sfxth year. 1t
has been the generals unvaryinS rule
for years never to go out Of doors, even
in the driest of weather, without wear.
ing heavy ovcr-shoes, and to this pre-
caution he attributes his grand old age.
I'm London, in the time Of George
The Fourth, there was an athletic and
dashing military man. Maj. Brace
bridge by name and title. who. when
he found his powers waning, retired to
his country house and seldom showed
himself in society, Many years later
he had occasion to 60. up to London,
and there met lady who had known
him in his younger years. Dear me-!
she exclaimed, aren't you Maj. Brace
bridge?" NO, madam he answered.
.but was once -. -
Lon the question whether the late
Sir James Mackenzie, of Glenn1u.ck,
was domicilcd Scotsman depends the
disposal of sum Of about three hum
dred and fifty thousand pounds. IT he
was Scotch, the money is to accumu-
late until an heir Of his, entailed estate
.attains the age of twenty-four, the
property being settled upon his grand
son, a boy of fourteen. If the domiciie
was English, the amount will be d.
vided among his next of kin, in the
Same manner as if he had died, intes-
tate .1.t.;.1 H.
The aged Count de Iesseps can no
longer. walk unassisted, and has be-
come quite deaf. His days pass une-i
-ventfully away in mute contemplation
of his children and in the reading OF
newspapers, eonfded to him only after
members of the family have made GER
tain that neither his name nor. any
mention of the Panama disaster ap-
pears in them. He has lost all notion
of time, and never looks at or mentions
the date of q paper. He may live,
says his physicians, for several years
yet"
Sonora Candelaria, who is said to
be one hundred and nine years old. is
the last survivor Of the Alamo She
was in the fort during the twelve days
from February 20 to March 6, 1886,
when one hundred and seyenty-seven
Texas Americans held it against SIX
thousand Mexicans. Sonora Candle
laria asserts that she was sup
porting the head Of Col. Bowie,
who lay i'll in the fort, when the Mex
leans rushed in and killed him and
wounded her. Her life began under
the dominion Of Spain, and she has
seen five flags float over Texas. Her
home is near San Antonio.
Mrs. Beatrice Potter Webb, who is
said to have inspired William Black to
write Sunrise" and to have suggested
the princess Casamassima" to Henry
James, Is probab bly, the richest and most
beautiful woman In the socialist ranks.
She comes Of wealthy and intellect
ual family and was educated by Her
bert Spencer, but instead of devoting
herself to society, she joined the social
lists, tried work in different shops,
wrote such vigorous articles on sweat
ing" that parliament took up the mat
ter, and at last married Mr.. Sidney.
Webb. They are now trying to live in
the East End lodgings on about three
hundred pounds year.
The engineer of wheezy little
steamboat running OH the Caloosa-.
hatchee river in southern Florida is an
.ex-confederato- who was second engi-
neer on the Alabama, but was trans.
ferrcd TO another privateer just before
the destruction of the former. The
old man has not voted or exercised any
other official act Of citizenship since
the carly SIXTIES" because the out
lawry carried against the officers OF
Alabama by President Lincoln's proc.
lamation declaring the ship pirate
and her officers outlaws has never been
removed, In other. words he is, &c.
cording to his own account, one of the
few unreconstructed confederates still
living. -