Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-12-14
PERSONAL AND lMpERsoNAL.

There is a legend about chicago %
n man who smoked cheap cigars va
ing rich he bought q finer brand Ihen
he rot a tobacco heart. Returning 10
the humber variety his heart resnmeu
its ordinary jogging gait, Ihere Is No
moral attached to this story ana IL IA
not vouched for.
-McGarvin, a California nsnerman'
who lives at Almamitos bay, is an eN'
merit shark catcher. He fishes Tor tneIn
bv means of stout lines fastened 10
stakes on shore. Recently he caught
eighty in one day. They are sold LOT
the oil in them, and the Chinese con-
slider Their fins quite a delicacy'
Mrs. Eunice Russ Davis, the only
surviving member of the Womans
Anti-Slavery board, of Boston, and the
oldest female abolitionist in the UNIV
ed States, observed her ninety-tfth
birthday anniversary at her home IN
Dedham recently. Her father was o
white man and her mother a full
blooded Narragansett Indian.
"A life of Christ is about to be pub
lished, with colored photographs after
James Tissot's pictures, by NM Name
the Catholic publishers OF Tours the
first twenty impressions OF when VIII!
be sold for 81, 900 a copy and the rest OF
the 1000 copies at $500 apiece Inc al
yertiscment, with one specimen picture
and some sketches in black and white,
cost $l2.
MIR. David Plunkett, member OF
Dublin university, who has just been
raised to the peerage, though not q
wealthy man., has probably more
money standing in his name than any
single private citizen in the world. lie
is trustee for many rich people, in
Guiding the Guinesses, and generally
holds in that capacity from $3.50, 600, OOo
to $500, 900, OGO worth of securities.
Lorna Doone bids fair to be i'm
mortal in the Country Of the Doones,"
for her name is seer everywhere
throughout Exmoor. Coaches have
been named for her and inns have her
counterfeit prescntiment on their sign
boards. Many Of the places mentioned
in Mr.. Blackmore's delightful book
are placarded for the benefit of the
tourist, and the charming volume serves
as a guide-book to the region.
How completely the Boulanger
cult has decayed in France is indicated
by the scant observance of the fourth
anniversary, which occurred recently
of the burial of the general. Only
single friend visited the cemetery neal
Brussels where he is buried, and only
three gifts OF flowers came. Roche
fort, Boulanger's ardent supporter, ap
pears to have given up his pious pill
grimage to the grave, for he did not e
there this year.
Moses may easily have written the
Pentateuch and the Israelites of hi,
day have read and understood it, Prof
Sayce told the recent church congress
at Norwich, for the age of the Exodu
was as literary as that of the Renais
sance in Europe, Babylonian cities ha'
libraries then, some of them six thou
sand years old, and when Abraham
was born a Chaldee poet was ending
long period of verse by writing a poer
in twelve books.
The Fisherman's institute, G
Gloucester, a house Of refuge and c
religious help for s~eafaring men, has
notable character as it's chaplain. II
is Il Scandinavian, a converted sailol
and although he is Il graduate of n
college, his power over the weak an
SHINING, his helpfulness to the suffci
ing, his ~self-denial in order that h
may aid others, are such that, as on
who knows him we'll has said, he ha
come to represent the Christ ideal I
his people. At his Bethel he and h
|, family are slowed away in the basemer
! while the large upper chambers al
, kept as n reading room for fishermen
and as a hall where services are hel
on Sundays, and meetings and ente
+ tainments during the week.