Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-06-24
BRIEF MENTION.

Detroit has q colorcd base ball club
called the 'WaYing Lilies"
The Germans of New York arc go
ing to erect 100000 theater.
The London AheRGum mildly
tells Mario he has lived too long.
And every day makes the oiense
worse.
The Indians call o locomotive u
"Coughing Hoss,"
A. Z. Stewart is credited with an
income of 81 ,537, ,595 last year.
Over 100000 people, it is reported,
left Paris at the outbreak of the ros
cent troubles.
The population of London
April was 1921, ,80l.
Londoners say that one-third OF
the population Of that city never saw
grain field.
Josh Billings Lecture for next
summer is to be "What I know about
hotels.'
All the Communist leaders but
two, in Paris, are said to havo been
killed or executed.
"Solifcd beer is very poplar on,
West A man can carry enough Of il
in his wai:tcoat pocket to ruin \
temperance society.
A colorcd men has been elected
Alderman of IN interior town in In
diana on the Democratic ticket
Miss Nellie Noe, an Iowa sculp,
tress, wants to rival Winnie Realn,
and lay hands on o Congressman's
bust. No, Noe,
Two Ohio girls filled lighted kero.
sene lamps last week. 1t was the
explosive kind, and both sleep in the
valley.
The King Of Bavaria has hada gar
den laid out on the top ofthe palace at
Munich. In the centre of it is lake,
upon which swans are seen swim
ming.
A few days ago 256,OO0 quarts Of
strawberries passed through VIII
mington DeleWare, on their way to
market. They weighed $50 tons.
On week days you buy your music
by the sheet; on Sundays you can
have it by the choir for nothing.
Chinese cucumbers are said to grow
five to eight feet in length, and from
six to nine inches in diameter.
June 18th, the anniversary Of tho
battle of Waterloo, is to be the day Of
the triumphal entry of the Germans
into Berlin,
The fifty post offices of the United
States in l776 have increased to over
twenty thousand.
It's the general belief that the
troubles of France are far from being
ended yet,
A robin in Detroit has been taught
to whsle Yankee Doodle.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. Thumb and Mr..
and Mrs. Commodore Mutt, are an
nounced in London.
a handsome cottage at New York
is built upon a rock, and has an iron
band which goes across the roof and
fastens the house securely to the
rock.
The Boston Post thinks the KcR-
lucky Republicans must be in a stew,
as at their recent convention they
nominated S. S. Fry, of Boyle county,
for State Treasurer.
Visalia, California, claims to
have the biggest tree of the "BIg
free" region, tree with q trunk 10
feet 4 inches in diameter.
The New England fishermen arc
complaining that on account of the
excessive catch this season, the prices
of Goldfish and mackerel have not
been so low for many years.
Much interest is beginning to be
manifested in the scientific world in
regard to the transit of Venus, which
takes place in 1874. Germany and
Russia are to unite in sending out
commissioners to observe the transit.
The King ofSweden has been near
ly killed by dying his hair with
hair restorer said to be made of veg
etable ingredients, but containing, as
most Of these restorers do, powerful
mineral poison.
Near Geneoa, Illinois, an agricuI.
alist is carrying on an extensive
poultry farm, and expects to keep
$4,000 hens Of the choicest breeds,
The announcement is made by
Spanish newspaper that General
SickleS, American Minister to Mad
rid, is soon to be married to a Span
ish lady.
Somebody has written book en-
titled What shall my son be?"
Upon which some one replies, 'If
the boy be as bad as the book, the
chances are that he will be hanged
Rochester boasts gold fish with
two tails-a sort Of Maltese cross af-
fair, one being attached at right an
giles to the other.
Wisconsin farmers complain BIZ
terly of the damage done to their
wheat fields by millions Of pigeons.
They make regular raids every morn
ing, and leave little oftho soWn wheat
behind them when they retire.
The combined population of the
eight largest cities of the United
States-Now York, Philadelphia,
Brooklyn, ST. Louis, Chicago, Balti-
more, Boston and Cincinnati-arc
less than the population ofthe city of
London, as announced by the recent
British census.
An Australian gentleman, examin.
ing a mining claim, was seized, strip
ped, and covered with tar and wool.
lie went and got himself photograph
cd in this guise, and sued his assail-
ants for $1,000 damages, putting in
the picture as evidence.
Telegraphic communication be.
tween Europe and America now
rests upon the slender thread Of a
single cable, and with this there is
but one American connection, and
that the precarions land line through
| the wilderness Of Newfoundland.
The risk of telegraphic commumica-
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