Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-07-01
SUNDRIES.

The Emperor Of Russia is to visi
Berlin in July.
How to make q hot bed--Set Tn
mattress on fire.
Laura Fair Is to hang July 2S, hay
ing been denied q new trial.
The latest style Of bonaet is dcs
cTibed as "the size Of a scalp"
louisiana promises q rice crop thi.
season, ofabout l6, ,0O0,0 lbs.
As early as 1857, q canal boat wa
built Of iron in Wiley, England.
A colossal statue Is reported to have
been exhumed ct Gainesville, Ga.
Louis Napoleon Is suffering from
rheumatism at Chiselhurst, England.
The Hoosac tunnel is bored 1906
feet, and 9987 feet remain to be bored
A colony Of one hundred New Jer.
sey families are about to settle in Ten
nessee.
A gentleman of Bedford, Mass, is
now repairing his house, which was
built 28T years ago.
Five hundred and twenty-five thou
sand six hundred trains leave London
In the course of one year.
Three hundred and nlnety-two
works on American topics were pub
lished in Germany last year.
In the States of Iowa and Indiana,
about two hundred women are work
ing farms on their own account
In London, 1t is said, for many years
mercantile men have been the most
liberal supporters of the fine arts.
1t will take sixty years to restore to
France the forests ruthlessly wasted
in the military operations Of the late
war.
The Emperor of China is said to
have an income from gaming houses
estimated at not less than S300,0O0
year.
The word gentleman occurs 45j
times in Shakespeare; but the word
gent Is not found In any of his
writings.
The total amount of currency lost or
worn out while in circulation will ex-
ceed SO, 500 900, or Is per cent Of the
whole issue.
st. Louis has recently opened II
boulevard eight miles long and one
hundred feet wide, which is now the
fashionable drive.
The Medical Reporter estimates that
the people of the United States pay
$l25, ,0O0,OOO annually for medicines
and medical services.
Six and half millions Of pounds Of
'tooaccO were last year raised in Con-
netticut-an average of 1850 pounds
to the acre cultivated.
The capital invested in vessels on
the Mississippi river ard in the cargoes
they are constantly carrying is esti-
mated at 81, 100000, 900.
1t is pleasant, in these torid days,
to think that Capt. Hall takes with
him in his Arctic vOy age thermome.
ter which will register IS degrees be-
low zero.
The Governor of Texas has ordered
an election of Congressman and to
fill vacancies in the legislature, eIec-
tion to commence October Sd and con.
tinue four days.
Over eight thousand head Of cattle
crossed the Brazos at Waco, TeXa.,
during the week ending June Z, bring.
ing into the treasury of the bridge
company nearly $500.
London Is swarming with visitor,
There are about $1,000 Germans now
there, about 10000 French, about
$1,000 Of other continental countrie,,
and about 10000 Americans.
No plant yields anything like as
much nutriment from the same extent
Of soil as the banana. Humboldt esti-
mated that it returns twenty times a
much as the potato, and 1l3 times ~
much as wheat.
To remove ink spots, put the article
stained over warm flat iron, stretch
it well, then squeeze few drops of
lemon juice on it, and the spot will
disappear at once. Wash Immediate
ly in cold water
John Robinson's circus is being adj
vertised now by a story that some
Kansas Indians stole his elephant.
The cheerful old pacbyderm was res
cued before the savages had secured
his scalp.
Butterflies have been found flying
at sea, 800 miles from land. Their
buoyancy is great, and the muscular
effort of flying must be small, while
the wind drives them forward rapidly
over great distances.
The Internal Revenue Commission
er has decided to reduce the number
Of assistant assessors to fourteen hun
dred, being one thousand less, at the
end Of the fiscal year, July |, than at
the commencement last year.
1t is stated that this year foreign to-
bacco has been sold and smoked in
Havana, and also that Florida tobacco
has been imported there, manufactur-
ed into cigars, and then sent abroad
again as legitimate Vuelta Abajo.
1t will probably surprise many peo-
plC " lCdlh tudG lllO leIIIlUTJ Cdlleu
the "British Isles," of which Great
Britain and Ireland are the chief of
the European continent, are fully 800
in number, and that l75 are inhabited.
Mrs. Bella French lectured In a
Western town not long ago on "Cor-
sets, Tobacco, and Whiskey." A
correspondent of the Chatfield (OhIol
Democrat says: "Her lecture has had
a telling influence on our in inhabit-
ants. Every man in our village has
left of wearing corsets, and most Of
the women have quit chewing tobacco
and drinking whiskey."
Soon after the death of the poe,
| Wordsworth, a man met farmer OF
the. neighborhood, and said to him,
"You have had a great loss. "What
loss?" Why, you have lost the great
poet" ooh, ay" said the farmer,
"he's dead; but ah hey no doubt
twile will carry On tbusiness, aud
make it as profitable ivvir it was"