Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-06-03
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The last instance of modesty is that
of o lady who refused to wear a watch
in her bosom because it had hands.
Eggs are two dollars dozen in Pres
colt, Arizona.
"Seventeen-year" locusts are visit
ing Muscatine, Iowa.
Stock raising in Nebraska is greatly
on the increase.
Owyhee, Idaho, is now shipping
SAL 900 in bullion weekly.
Colorado coal has finally been con-
quered and forced to make gas.
The introduction of the telescope is
due to a little boy playing with spec
taele glasses.
Mound City, Kansas, is getting up a
picnic to plant its public square with
trees.
One hundred and two houses have
been built at Parsons, Kansas, within
the last six months.
Some Western gentleman has pre-
sented President Grant with three bui-
faloes, which have been sent to rusti-
cate on the Presidents farm near ST.
Louis.
Two American ladies, accompanied
by male relative, recently made the
overland trip by sledges from OkhotsB
Sea, across Siberia, to st. Petersburg
a distance of 1000 miles.
Memory is a patient camel bearing
huge burdens over life's sandy desert
Intuition is bird of paradise, drink
ing in the aroma ofcelestial flowers
A Minnesotian-Hawley by name
has entered into a contract to invent 9
machine of perpetual motion before
the first day of August next
There is only one stimulant thai
never fails and yet never intoXicates
duty. Duty puts a blue sky over
every man-up in his heart, may be-
into which the sky-lark, happiness
always goes singing.
An enthusiastic Engiishman has Of
fered Count Bismarck two hundred
thousand thalers for his country seal
at Varzin, twice as much as it is worth
but Bismarck has rejected the offer.
There is a split in the North Polar
expedition, some disagreement having
arisen between the commander, Capt
Hall, and the scientific officer, DR.
Walker. The latter will probably
withdraw.
Statistics show that there is abou
nine times as much coffee consumed IL
the United States as in Great Britain
and nearly three times as much tei
consumed in Great Britain as in tht
United States.
A young man says that there may
have been such a thing as real true love
in old times, but that now the notiol
is entirely obsolete and ifyou ask
young lady nowadays to share you
lot, she Immediately wants to know
how large that "lot' is.
A Dubuquer wrote recently to Ware
Beecher, and, among other things, de
sired his opinion as to the greatest nat
uralist we have any record of. Mr.
Beecher replied that he had Away
considered that Father Noah was tn.
person Justly entitled to this distlnc
ton, by the marvellous skill he eXhib
tied in determining the sexes of th'
lower order of creation, such as lice
bed.bugs, etc, at the time OF entering
the ark, in order to get them correct.
paired. He also stated that the enor
nous preponderance of the Vermil
tribe since that time is probably OWN!
to a lack of personal cleanliness on tn
part of some member or members o
society, which was overlooked in tn
confusion. Then he referred his cor
respondent to Proverbs, 26; ..
J,T. Alexander, the "cattle kingo Q
Illinois, sued William Fitch, of Ney
York, who had been selling his cattl
on commission, for S25O,0OO, balanc
due. The telegraph reports a settle
ment, without trial, Of the suit. MI
Alexander withdraws the claim {
$250,O00, and pays Mr.. Fitch $4,000
besides. Mr.. Fitch desired to be sue
again.
They have q singular method c
long measurement in the West. A
Oregon teacher writes to her Easter
friends: "a panther was killed las
week near my school-room, ,measurin
seven feet from the tip of the ears
the extremity of the tail and seve
back again, making fourteen feet
all.n
The powers of the Old W orid, i
the order of their population, are no'
exclusive of colonial possessions
Russia, 69O00,000; Germany, $4,000
900; France, 36,400,000; Austri
36,OOO,0O0; Great Britain, 81 ,OOO,OOL
Italy, 25,50O000O.
Ifthe stars should appear only on
night in a thousand years, how woul
men believe and adore, and preserv
for many generations the remen
brance of the city of God, which ha
been shown? But every night con
out these preachers Of beauty, an
light the world with their admOnisl
ing Smile.
The timber of Pugent Sound, accorC
ing to Mr.. Samuel Wilkerson, writir
in the Christian Union, dwarfs the 70
ests on the hither side of the Rock
Mountains into brush. Trees are to !
found everywhere in that region ?.
feet in height and "A feet around at
feet from the ground, which render
cutting $50 lineal feet of clear, sol
wood below the branches.
According to the Blair Register, tr'
planting in Nebraska is prosecuted
a lively rate. One day 10000 your
trees passed through that town to ia
mers farther West. A company
Swedes have contracted forl 2,OOO &C
tonwoods to set out on their farm
This tree planting is now a regul
routine of agricultural settlement, al
cannot fail to produce the most benei
cial effects upon the climate and pr
ductive powers Of that young State
A green hand in the milk busines
who bought out dealer in Sprln
field, Mass, found he did not ha'
milk enough to go round to all the 9
circle of customers, and applied to u
seller for relief, who gave him the fc
lowing recipe for making "milk," q
surfing him that with this he would
"all right - "Take three tablespoon
full of molasses, one and a half te
spoonsful of saleratus, and three qual
Of milk, to twenty-five quarts OF W
ter; add three pints Of this mixture
each twelve-quart can of milk" :,