Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-20
Personal AND IMPERsoNAL

-Ex-Goy. Lubbock, of Texas, shook
hands with Miss Winnie Davis al the
confederate reunion at,Houston, leN''
and said: "My child, it was VINO car
ried you in my arms into the prison 10
see YOUR father" Miss Davis threw
her arms around the old mans neck
and mingled her tears with ms ana
not an onlooker could claim n dry eye
as his own.
Everybody is laughing over the
latest remark Of a society woman IN
Washington, whose habit of getting
words wrong is %proverbial, They were
discussing Mr.. Mackay-Smlth before
her not long ago and somebody SAID
"Is his nam Smith, with Mackay Tor
a middle name, or is it all one name2'
ITS all one name" she said. "He
writes it with Il siphon.'
Lady Henry Somerset has set ont
to abolish the British barmaid by leg
~islatiye enactment. The chief opposi.
ton is said to come from the barmaids
themselves, who number some 10000 IN
the United Kingdom, and who OBJECT
to being deprived of their means OF
livelihood because their more favored
sisters think dispensing liquor TO
thirsty men is unwomanly and calcu-
lated to get them into trouble.
A peer may be called to the bar,
the benchers If the Inns of Court have
decided, and Lord Ampthill, if he
passes his examination, will be the
first ever called. Lord Coleridge is a
queens counsel, but he was a lawyer
before he succeeded to the title. When
the question arose on his succeeding
his father, the late lord chief justice,
the courts decided that there was no
reason why a peer should not practice
law at the bar.
"A woman drummer for a st. Louis
vinegar mandatory is touring the
northwest on . bicycle and in stun
ming Partisan boomers. She started
from st. Louis last January and had
reached Seattle a week or so ago.
| She sends postal cards ahead of her to
the grocers saying she will wheel
into town about next week" and ask
ing them to save their orders for her.
| She is creating a sensation, and selling
lots of vinegar.
Some time ago Mr.. Arthur James
Balfour, whose suggests an
cffeminacy that his character bellies,
made some remarks in the house that
enraged the Irish members. DR.. Tan
ner was especially vociferous in his de-
nunciation of Mr., Balfour, and was
forced to apologize therefor by the
speaker. After making the apology
he brought down the house by adding:
sat least the right honorable gentle
man will have to admit that on this
occasion he was somewhat less lady
like than usual"
The widow of ex-Gov. Ira J. Chase,
of Indiana, is blind. Her financial con-
dition is distressing. Mr.. Chase had
life insurance to the amount of four
thousand dollars, all of which but n
thousand dollars was payable to Mrs.
Chase. The one thousand dollars was
payable to the estate and will be eaten
by the debts left by the late governor.
The family home is mortgaged, The
best investment of the three thousand
dollars could not possibly bring Mrs.
Chase over two hundred and forty dol.
lars a year.
1t was a young girl in New York,
aided by Mrs. William Waldorf Astor
who first suggested the flower mission
nearly twenty years ago. She noticed
the great wealth and waste of flowers
that she said would so gladden. sick
hearts. Mrs. Astor assisted her in
sending notices to the several churches
inviting the congregation to send
flowers on a certain day. Thirteen
persons responded and one hundred
and fifty men and women received
from this first contribution a little
bunch of flowers.