Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-02-23
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL.

i. r. De Lamar, the Monte
Cristo" of Idaho, is a native OF Holland
lie is small in stature, with large fea'
tnres and red hair, and has been n
sailor. n clue workman, n bartender,
and n butcher. As he is now Il million
aire he has given up the other jobs.
Mayor Sutro, of San Francisco is
STONED So often on the street by office.
seekers that he presents to each OF
them a card on which is printed or
written: Il claim the right of an or
binary citizen to walk the streets with
ont molestation. If you have public
business, see me at the mayors office
MIR. Lafcadio Hearn asked in differ
ent classes of his Japanese school for
written to the question, what
is your dearest wishY' Twenty per
cent. wished to gain glory by dying for
the emperor. Others stated n similar
wish in less definite language. Patriot-
ism is. in Japan, devotion to the ruler
personally rather than to the country.
-Knutc Nelson, senator-elcct from
Minnesota, was born near Bergen, in
Norway, in 1913. lie served as n pri-
vate and non-commissioned officer dur
ing the war of secession in the Fourth
Wisconsin regiment. lie is a man of
small physique, hardly moro that five
feet five inches in height. lilo is ia
miliarly known throughout the north
west as 1.-The little Norwegian"
Martin Gillen, of Middletown, N. Y,
formerly manager of the telegraph Of
flee at Paterson, had his right leg tax
EN- off above the knee several years
ago. lie purchased n cork leg and be-
came so proficient in its use that few
of his acquaintances knew of his in.
jury. He fell from IA train the other
day and the wheels passed over the
cork leg at the ankle, cutting it of.
Mr.. James Long, NJ. A., who died
in England the other day, had been
through every warm Europe since 1864,
engaged in the philanthropic service
always g~ratuitous-of distributing
money, or relief in kind, to the civilian
sufferers. Very large sums, amount.
ing in the Franco-German war alone TIC
5000, 900 of francs, were intrusted tc
him by citizens of France and her col
onies, and 4,500,0 900 subscribed in En-.
gland was disbursed by him.
M. Barthon is the most self-made
man of the group to which the dcsti-
MES of France are now intrusted. His
father kept a very humble iron.
monger's shop at Oloron, the little
town at the foot of the Pyrenees,
where the statesman was born less
than forty years ago. lie still carries
on the business in the Rue de la Pre-
lecture at Pau, and visitors to that
winter resort may observe the words
"Barthon, Quincaillier," over the win
dow.
Rev. DR.. King, the noted aboli-
zionist, from whom the character of
Clayton in Uncle Toms Cabin" is said
to have been drawn, is dead at Chat
ham, Ont. He was born in 1872, the son
of a southern planter, but some time
before the civil war, deciding that
slavery was wrong, he freed his slaves
and those of his wife, and, securing a
grant of land from the Canadian gov
eminent, founded a colony for refugee
slaves at Buxton, Ont, which. exists
till this day.
Queen Marguerite, of Italy, is not
only the best booking, but the best edu-
Gated queen in Europe. She knows
English, French, German, Spanish and
Latin thoroughly, and she speaks them
as i%luently as She does her own Italian.
She is a good Greek scholar and is not
only familiar with the masterpieces of
European literature, and quotes Pc.
trareh, Dante and Goethe, but is so
fond of Shakespeare that she has writ
ten for her w amusement a little
work on his heroines.
Kaiser Wilhelm, who is fond of re.
viving the usages of his ancestors, has
just instituted a tubakscollegium or
tobacco parliament, on the model of
those Of Frederick William l., the
father of Frederick the Great. The
tobacco parliaments" are held at the
scene of the former ones at Koenirs-
wusterhausen. Among the latest
guests were the kingof Saxony. Prince
George Of SaXony, and the duke of
~Altenburg. The emperor heads the
table and sets an example to the puests
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