Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-08-10
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL

Rev. DIR. Parker, OF London, calls
for immediate war against Turkey
He has not attended any of the meet
ings held in this city To protest against
the Armenian atrocities, because, as ne
explained from the city temple pulpit
one Sunday, they are never likely 10
come 60 anything practical.
Mrs. olney. wife of the secretary,
does not take a great interest in the
woman question, although she hasn't
the slightest objection to other women
settling the mlttcr to their own taste
For herself, She thinks her home du-
ties are enough to occupy her whole
time. Mrs Olney is 4 young-lookinS
oma especially for a grandmother.
A man went into II Portland hard
ware store last week and asked for a
secondhand coffin. lie said he kept Il
country store and thought he would
keep secondhand collins for sale. lie
thought the Portland stores kept
everything from hornets nests to sec
ond-hand collins and was gricvously
disappointed to tind that they didn't
Boston Herald.
Lady Henry Somerset was absent,
through indiSposition, from one of the
women's meetings in London recently,
and Mrs. Ormiston Chant, who led the
crusade against the Empire theater,
took the chair in her place. Her apol-
ogy was rather awkward, Dear Lady
Henry" she said, ''has been over
worked, and we must be careful not to
kill the goose that lays the golden
egg"
In Frankfort.on-the- Main a young
woman of sixteen fell in love with one
of her neighbors, but the mother OF
the young man offered a stout resist
ance to their union. Then the young
lady denounced her intended mother
in-law for speaking dis%respectfully OF
Emperor William. Treading on impe-
rial tocs in Germany is dangerous; so
the old lady was arrested, and pend
ing her trial the young man and the
young III got married.
-Balfour is in appearance n of the
most indolcnt mcn in public life in
England, though in reality one of the
most active mentally. A writer de
scribes him as sitting on the treasury
bench with his back bone so curved AZ
to bring his head where his back
should have been, with his feet in air,
his heels resting on the desk before
him. As an orator he has presence
and self-possession, speaking with a
refined drawl and making use of irony.
Max Lebaudy, the new wner Of
lie Soir newspaper in Paris, is the son
of a f~orgemaster. He is extremely
wealthy and ~extravagant with his
fathers money, but charitable and
witty, He won a fortune at the grand
prix this year by betting on Andree
because he is delicate as whipped
cream or %marmaladc the Boulevard,
have named him SIC Petit Sucrier'-
The Little Sugar Bowl. lie Soir has
been a serious, independent evening
newspaper.
A young man named Bennett has
put his bicycle to profitable use in the
Australian gold fields by establishing
with it a postal route between Cool
gardie. the center of the mining dis
trict, and Dundos, which is $50 miles
away. Strapped on the wheel is t
small letter box, in which he carrie,
letters between the two towns for ;
shilling apiece and kilograms for five
shillings, making n round trip t
week. A revolver, a sharp knife and I
water bottle comprise the rest of the
outfit.
George Il. Knight, with his wife
and sister, arrived in Grand Rapids
Mich, from England a few days age
on what was intended to be a surprise
visit to his brother Thomas, who has
lived in that city several years. Or
inquiring the way to his brother
house he learned that Thomas hat
started for England ten days pre-.
viously, intending to surprise George
with a visit. The brothers must hav,
passed each other somewhere off SANDY
Hook. George will wait at Crane
Rapids for the return of Thomas, il
order to avoid other surprises.