Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-06-03
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.

IN EhEJl lNU IAhAuhAI U9s
Queen Victoria is said to be worth
Sl0,000,000. She ought TO be able TO
afford trousseaux and marriage por-
tions to her bridal daughters.
A number of soda lakes have been
discovered recently twelve miles
south of Denver. The grounds COM
prise sixty acres, and the water and
soil together nearly 33l5 per cent. OF
sulphate of soda, forming the base Of
carbonate and bicarbonate of soda.
The Hindoo Mythology contains no
less than three hundred and thirty
millions of deities! Think of this APP
palling fact, we missionary collectors,
and ye supporters of Christian mis-
sions.
The Chinese have coal mines which
they have worked for hundreds of
years. They prepare the coal for use
by grinding or pounding it to pow
der, and mixing it with clay. Some
times the powder is soaking with
water, and laid around the fire.
Hope & Co., the celebrated bankers
Of Amsterdam, are said to be worth
not less than forty millions Of dollars,
most of which has been made in the
last ten years.
The vivacity of the American
character was happily illustrated by
the late DR.. Ray, Ofthe Chicago Post,
who, during his life, is said to have
made and lost five fortunes. Five,
however, in Chicago, is understood
to be a little under the average.
Rhode Island is a smart little State,
being the only one in the Union
which has as yet responded to re-
quest Of Congress that all the States
should send to the Capitol statues of
their most distinguished citizens.
The statues of Roger Williams and
General Breen have been contributed
by Rhode Island.
Tennessee has 6,704,333 acres of
improved land, and 13,S74,SlS of un-
improved land. The oat yield in this
State last year was 100000 bushels,
and the average yield per acre was
sixteen and one-seventh bushels per
acre. The potato crop is put down
at 100000 bushels, or an average
yield of fifty bushels per acre,
Some idea of the enormous and
rapid growth of the West may be
gathered from the fact that while, in
Leavenworth, Kansas, there was not
a house, not even a single human be-
ing, seventeen years ago, there are
now $4,000 inhabitants. Besides,
there are y schools, 80 churches, 2
jails, and hotels, factories and foun-
dries in abundance.
Mr.. Richard Wallace, son and heir
of the Marquis of Hertford, during
the late siege of Paris, at on expense
of S60,000 established an ambulance
corps, paid $4,000 for the behoof OF
the hospital at his own expense, and
established in his own house another
hospital for thirty patients. lie has
in six months done more for charity
than his father and grandfather did
in sixty years.
A singular instance of lead-poison-
ing is related by an Iowa newspaper
A gentleman of Davenport had been
in the habit of carrying a WhalebonC
cane with covered lead d-head. Some
weeks since the cover wore off, and
the use of the cane was still contin'
ued. Not long after, the gentleman
discovered that his arm was becom'
ing partially paralyzed, The diff.
Guilty increased; but at length an
article Oh lead-poisoning attracted
his attention, and he began to think
that possibly his own ailmcnt wa;
the result of the contact of the lead
headed cane and his hand. lie dis
continued its use, and his arm imme
diately began to recover its accus'
toned vigor.
Mr.. William e. Prime, one of ;hC
proprietors of the Journal of Com
merce, and one of the most agreeable
writers of the day, as well as a very
travelled man, recently delivered {
lecture, in which, speaking of the 10
cation of the Church of the Sepulchre
at Jerusalem, says that, while exam
lining that location last spring, 'ht
discovered a portion of an ancien
Hebrew wall, which he described a
remaining some three hundred fee
east of the Church of the Sepulchre
Should this prove to be a portion o
the long sought second wall, it sets a
, rest one greet point of Typographical
discussion, and decides the fact tina
the Church Of the Scpulchre is loca
ted on land which was outside of tn,
ancient city walls.
Some two years ago llcaly painted
a portrait of the Pope for Archbishop
Spalding, of Baltimore. 1t being i'm
: possible to obtain private sitting
the picture was painted from photo
graphs and from occasional view
obtained in public. Cardinel Anto
nclli finally saw it, and liked it S
much that he asked to send it TO tn
Vatican, and thus Mr.. Hcaly has oh
tanned a private sitting for the las
Y picture that will be taken of the Pope
D who, if he survive until the 18th Ma
!, next, will be scvcnty-eight years 0
age. The great interest, however
that attaches to Plus IN, is in tn
fact that il he lives until the 10th @
June ncxt-only three amonths-h
will have occupied the papal chai
longer than any pope since st. Pete
himself There have been two O
three instances where a pope hO
t almost reached the twenty-iifth yea
r but not ono who has fully cnterc
g upon it.
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q 1t would be interesting to know ho'
many thousand wives Of the land hay
4 taken to talking in their sleep sine
/ reading the following note from Laul
: Fair to her victim, Mr.. Crittendel
: 1t was published as part of the ev