Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-04-13
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL

Cicero had a very thin face when
correspondent exactly to his long at'en-
uated body. He kept himself thln ny
a system of dieting, or rather of starv,
ing. himself, on the theory that al
bodily ailments were caused by 700
much eating, and so, on every trlnihs
indisposition, he tasted from twenty
four to forty-eight hours,
"A Brooklyn mar hurt his rlgh'
hand on an elevated railroad ear oy
the brakeman closing a gate upon IT,
He brought suit for damages. Meet
ing a friend, the latter noticed that 'ne
injured man extended his left hand
and asked the reason. The answer
was, "Oh, ! can't shake hands with my
right until | win my suit"
Louis XVI. had a very heavy, red'
sensual face, with large Roman nose
full cheeks and lips and a double chln'
There was no trace of more man oro'-
nary intellect, either n his lace OF
conversation, the latter being always
commonplace, often dull. He gave ms
contemporaries the impression OF a
a who habitually ate and drank
more than was good for him.
When he was at Eton, the duke OF
Westminster was known as Jack
Sheppard" and for this nickname ms
mother was responsible. The duke,'
then Lord Belgrave, was a small, thin
boy, with a sharp figure and a sharp
face. Lady Westminster had caused
his hair to be closely cropped after the
French fashion, so that he was the
very living image of Cruikshank's
pictures of Jack Sheppard in Aims
worth's famous novel.
-Gcorge Washington's private sec
rotary, Isaac Andrews, lies buried just
east of the old Baptist church IN the
| village of Dundee, Yates county, N. Y.
His death occurred in 1929, at the adj
vanced age of 80 years. For n great
many years he was a prominent man
in that section, and was a particular
factor in the organization of Yates
county. At the beginning of this cen
fury he surveyed the old and new pre-
emption lines, upon which all SUISSE
quent surveys have been made.
Some years ago Frederick Douglass
addressed a convention of negroes in
Louisville, says the Buffalo Courier.
He said in the course of his remarks
that he did not think an amalgamation
of the white and black races desirable,
the pure negro being, in his opinion,
the best of the race While speaking,
his eyeglasses continued to slide from
their perch. "But / wish" interpo'
lated the speaker, ~ wish that we
could get up some sort of an alloy TOR
the negro which would insure a nose
capable. of holding spectacles.'
Once when Cardinal Manning was
preaching in Rome he recognized John
Bright among his listeners. On the in
slant he determined to preach to him,
and dwelt with as much force and ef-
feet as he could on the claims of the
Blessed Virgin to our veneration. Two
or three years later he met him and re-
minded him of this incident. 81 re-
member it perfectly" said John, "and
l shall never forget it. | was delight
ed with everything that morning.
gratitied smile came on the cardinals
face-"cxcepting your sermon"
--On the authority of Mile. De Les
cure, who heard it from the heroine's
own lips, a writer in the Guardian tells
the true story of Mile. De Sombreuil's
saving her fathers life from the gull
lOtine. M. De Sombreuil and hi
daughter were condemned to death al
the time of the September massacre
and were waiting in the cart, surround
ed by the mob, for their turn to noun
the scaffold. Mile. De Sombreuil turned
to the crowd and asked what harm ;
weak old man like her father could dc
to the nation. Some of the men an
swercd that If she would drink a glas,
of blood to the nation they would lie
him go, and passed up a glass. Sh,
drank 1t down Immediately. Tn,
crowd took her and her father from
the cart; they escaped and made thei
way to England. She thought at th,
time that she drank blood, but after
ward she concluded that it was rec
wine, for she saw no one stoop to fiji
the glass. To her death she was neve
able, however, to see red wine in
glass without a shudder.