Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1895-06-27
FsH soNAL AND LITERARY.

The elder Pitt had an idea that his
bias toward craftsmanship was gwen
hiru by his mothers love of political
sffairS He once said that had she
teen a man she would have been one
OF the leading politicians of the day
-Macauley had good mother. and
revered her memory lie said: In
after life you NAV have friends-fond.
dear friends. but never will you hare
again the iueNpressible love and gen
tleness lavished upon you which none
hut mother hestows-
beatrice Hsraden Is visiting in san
Francisco. and the Examiner reporter
says she looks ike child. with her
slight figure and her short, brown,
curly hair and her big. brown. aston
ished eyes-a very good little child.
with nice gentle manners and . sweet
voice and wonderful amount II in
terest in everything she sees
-Zangvill. the novelist. has long.
lank figure and strongly-marked sal
low face He Is Londoner bv birth.
and il was while he was teacher in
an east end school that he learned 50
much of the Jewish poor and their
wars Of life As an instance Of his ca
nacity for work il was while he was \
teacher that he took a London univcr~
stir degree with honorS
The death in Paris. France. 81 Mr.
Sarah 4 smith. widow of Richard
smith. the well-kaown and wealthy
type-founder Of Philadelphia uakes
operative her husbands iezzcieS 81
500. 60 for memorial arch or mouu-
ment IN tie West park. ssg.oo9 for a
ehildren'> huilding AMI playground in
the East park. s.. 1000 to the PhiIadel-
phia typographical society and ss.Oo0
to Philadelphia typographical union
No
Princess Brancaecio-MasSiuo. the
fair daughter of former New YORK
belle allies herself - family as az
cient a. any IN Italy The Massino
claim descent from the great Fabfus
Maximus of early Roman days. tie
originator uf the Fabian policy of
delay There : an anessiote 20 the e.
feet that Napoleon once asked a Mas
SiEno IN ruugh ant slSeptical way IL
sbe story of his family origin were
true i can not prove il. answered
the Roman noble. but IL ! ! trzif-
tiun that has run in our family fsr
more than tro thousand Te1rS
->iE- Crispi Is said 20 be wonder
fully clever N rcuarte~- Here = the
latest a that line Cr5sDi and Cardinal
Hoheulohe have becn close friends for
many years- Daring one Of So Girls
pi's visits 20 him the German Carfiuai
hsd placed his red cariinal-s cap upon
the table Sis- Crispi tooiz 1t NJ znd
he-an 10 examine L with curiosity.
when The cardinal. taking IL from him.
placed Il upon the prenier-s head say
ing " hat n fine cardinal vou would
make feel sure you would have 3D.
come one had vou been n priest To
tAis remari< Sig Crispi drvIv replied
Perhaps | would have become pope
Bluff Gen 10 shelby. vho : now
JnItei States marshal IN Missouri.
szys that he had the pleasure Of can
turing Admiral Meade during the war.
This interesting event occurred On ths.
White river n Arkansas IN Issz3- when
Measi-. was a Lieutenant On the gun
boat Queen city shelby was n co-a-
mand of >ix-Eun battery and two
Thousand men His guns disabled the
MON Suat AT the first fire bat the
combat continued for two h0ars before
the Queen city surrendered After the
dead, wounded and prisoners had been
removed >helby's forces set the vess.sl
on IRE just a. Eunboa;s - and : cane
round the bend u the ne>eue- i after
ward received a letter from Admiral
Meade thanking me for the way I
treated him while he was lny prisoner
says Ten shelby