Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-03-30
PERSONAL AND iMPERsoNAL

Rev. ". T. n. GLENN, who died in
baltimore a few days ago at the age OF
eighty, performed in 1910 the burial
service over tho poet Edgar Allan roe
whose cousin he was, and to whom he
was also related by marriage. Foes
wife, Virginia GLENN, was a cousin OF
Rev. Mr.. GLENN,
"A young woman has applied for the
place OF public executioner, now va
cant, at Vienna, She states that she
is twenty-eight years old, strong n
good looking, and pleads that it will
be more humane to the criminal to see,
in his last moments, a charming woman
rather than the hideous being hitherto
employed. Pitt Sing, in "The Mikado."
thought the same way.
-Charcot used to prescribe certain
chapters of Zola as the surest emetic
known to him; other works of the same
master and his disciples were, in his
opinion, valuable as narcotics. lie
used to say the best shop for narcotics
was at Medan, where the author of
Mana" lives; there an infallible
'drowsy sirup' could always be got for
three and oue-half francs.
The new ear of Russia is a great
worker and shows remarkable capacity
for taking in and digesting details. He
is very %methodical about his work and
takes up public business at an early
hour in the morning, often working
steadily until late at night, lie came
into no %sinecure when he mounted the
| throne of all the Russias, and the cares
| of state are heavier than ever since his
recent arousing of nihilistic antago.
nism.
Gen. Barattieri, the Italian COM
mauder In Abyssinia. who recently took
Kassala and routed Ras Mangascia,
comes from the Trentino, which is part
of the Italia irredenta, still in Austrian
hands. He is 81 years old, and when
Il boy of 10 was one of Garibaldis
thousand in the march through Sicily,
after which he joined the regular army
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parliament and was for several years
editor Of the Rivista Militare.
Miles Crowley, the new member
from Texas, seems destined to main
tain his states reputation for sending
men of original personality to con-
grcss, He is a Boston boy by birth,
and Texans call him 'Sir Miles" His
first employment in the Lone Star
state was as a longshoreman at Gal
weston. After becoming Il boss steve
dore he went into politics and was
elected to the legislature. Crowley is
a man of about forty years, of rugged
appearance.
An old sailor who had drawn a PEN
sion for seventy-three years died recent
ly near Rochester, England. He was car
ricd off by II press gang when nine
years old, served at the bombardment
of Algiers in 1919, and had his leg
broken by Il falling spar in a storm
when he was seventeen. His thigh
bone was removed, but after three
years in a hospital he was enabled to
walk with an artificial support for his
leg. He drew a boys pension of 500 a
year, as he vas not twenty when hurt,
learned the cobbler's trade and worked
at it till the week before his death, al
ninety-three.
"A large number Of letters by
Charles Lamb, written between 1916
and 1920 to friends in Birmingham, and
previously unknown, were recently
discovered in a collection of old letters
of the first quarter of the century al
birmingham. In one he writes. ''There
is a quiet dignity in old bachelorhood,
a leisure from care, noise, etc, an en-,
thronisation upon the armchair of a
mans feeling that he may sit, walk,
read unmolested, to none accountable
In another he says: II know you have
chosen to take up a high opinion of my
moral worth; but | say it before God,
and do not lie, you are mistaken in
me. could not bare to lay open all
my failings to you, for the sentiment
of shame would be too pungent,"