Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-06-10
SUNDRIES.

| Alabama.
Montreal is going to repair It's Mel
son monument.
1t is proposed to stock the Delaware
with salmon.
Thieves at Augusta, Ga, steal the
street lamps.
"The wifes secret Her opinion
Of her husband.
A girl may as well hang up her nd
lie when she loses her beau.
In Mobile "acclimated Chinese tea
plantsn are advertised for sale.
Several Wisconsin farmers are build
ing trout ponds and raising fish.
Scorching winds are creating ankle
" for the crops i'll central California
Only one-fifth of the population of
Naples can read and write,
There are annually shipped from
Baltimore 100000 cans of oysters.
Eapoleon's estate at Arensberg, in
Switzerland, is worth about $4,000.
What is that which is SO brittle 1t
fyou name it you are sure to break it?
Silence.
The Nova Scotia giantcss, the Ken
tucky giant and the double-headed
girl have gone to Europe.
Why will next year be like last 2
Because last year was 1870, and next
year will be l872(too).
Mosaic and cameo jewelry is coming
in fashion again, and is set in burnish-
ed gold and enamel.
Bug-catching is quite a profitable
business in Illinois. The most active
catchers make $3 a day.
The negroes in GAINESVILLE, Ga, reg
ulate their chronometers by a wooden
watch used as a jewelers. sign.
A Chicago saloon is called "What
time is it? ?"
New Orleans ships 100000 worth of
rags annually.
Detroit has only twenty-seven or
ganized baseball clubs.
New York State has twenty-one
cities, gain of five in two years.
Lexington, Ky, consumes thirty
thousand pounds of fresh fish per week
A blind woman runs a Newark,
Ohio, sewing machine, and gets eight
dollars per week.
Schenectady, New York, has boot
black who summons his customers
with an accordion.
Ward Eleven in Boston paid last
year one ninetieth part Of the total
personal income tax Of the whole
United States.
A New Haven gentleman recently
recovered 1915 for tree spoiled by gas,
from the New Haven Gas C0mpany's
pipes.
Witty black snakes, measuring in all
POI feet in, length, were recently killed
at Oxford, Massachusetts,, in one after
noon.
So careful have English newspapers
now to be about libel that the Times
is always subr6tted to an able lawyer
before it is issued.
A large whale was recently seen dis
porting himself in the waters OF Chesa-
peake Bay q short distance from Will
| ioughby Spit light, ship.
A gentleman at Norfolk, Va, has
one hundred acres of strawberry vines
growing this spring, and he expects to
pocket $40, 600 clear profit.
A very small island in Ossipee Riv-
er, New England, constitutes q part Of
four towns, three counties, and the two
States of Maine and New Hampshire
India-rubber trees are said to abound
in Trinidad, but no attempt is made
by tie inhabitants to gather the gum
Adeposit ofgenuine black diamonds,
such as are used in drilling rocks, has
been discovered in Mount Hope town.
ship, Orange county, n. Y.
The size of bottles is getting to be an
exciting topic in England. 1t is claim
ed that a pint bottle ought to hold a
Pint. .,.
Every house 10 let within twenty
miles of New York is advertised eff
, teen minutes from the ferry"
The average weekly price Of eggs in
| Chicago for the past five years is stat
} ed at twenty-five cents a dozen.
: The Galena led mines are age in
! yielding plentifully. Several Ii, ID
veins have been struck recently.
I About $4,000 canary birds have al
| ready been imported this season by
r Philadelphia and New York dealers
1 Several valuable relics of Frederick
the Great have recently been stoler
from the "Frederick room" at Sans
= Souci.
( Some Cinnamon at the Berlin dig
| gings, in Australia, bave lately strucf
G a nugget of gold weighing 17l7 ounces
and worth $34, $50.
: The Strasburg library will be rebuilt
B by the first of May, 1879, and will thel
o be reopened with more books than ]
ever contained before.
n The Wilmington, North Carolina
: Morning Star puts its State news un
o der the appropriate heading OF" Spirit
OF Turpentine."
Sixty-fve tons of silver ccin wer
shipped to Europe recently in q singl
steamer from New York. The valu
was about $2,OO0,0OO.
The latest style of visiting cards 70
s ladies is of pink-tinted paper, in whicl
G the name is engraved in small gilt let
= ters.
If A stock-raiser, named jeremiah Ra.
d owns strip of land 40 miles long eas
}. and west, and 12 miles wide, in Em
met and Crocker counties, Iowa.
1t The retail price of milk has been re
Il duced in New York from 10 to s cent
o a quart, delivered to families. The re
I tail price of butter is also rapidly fall
|. ing.
II Color Augustus Funk is the name
L the president Of fashionable NeN
York club; George Calamity is new
T. ly-captured burglar at Providence, Il
" T.; and Mrs. Greese hung herself q
. Worcester, Mass, short time since
L Gen. Albert Pike, of Arkansas, ha
10 been the editor and proprietor OF II
> less than twenty-five different news
10 papers,
Q The head nurse of the children's d.
Or partment of the Oneida Communit
~ ~ says that during the past three yeal
~ ~ the children have been in such goo
7, health that she has been obliged to az
re minister no more medicine than tW
ID doses Of castor oil and few doses
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