Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-08-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

l JJIl "a lCoAINAs
About $7j,0OOOO0 foot up the mon
ey losses of the Rothschids as the
result Of the war in Europe.
In Georgia, suBhowcrs ol three
and four feet in circumference arc
among the production of the sea-
sEE,
At the Portland Catholic Cathedral
they charge admission fees of five
cents to half dollar, according to
the location Of the seats.
Cincinnati has made a piano with.
out strings or reeds, small bars OF
steel being hammered instead, The
effect is striking.
Dom Piatt has abandoned his Gdi-
iatg department. The attempt to be
! funny to order, even once a month,
was too much for him.
Assistant assessors Of rCvCnnr H.
| different parts Of the country arc >iill
being dismissed, under the govern
mental policy ofretrcnchmcnl.
Fossil lions, tigers, lcopards, Gle
plants, hcifcrs, lemons, palm leave,
and cOCoanuts have been found in
| Colorado.
Mr. J.. G. Fcnimorc has sold Irum
ninety acres Of land, within the las,
ten years, near Wilmington, Dele
ware, peaches 10 the value of TlJO,-
Sll.
The story of William Tell and the
apple is siid 10 have been distinctly
| told in an ancient Persian manuscript
| Just discovered in the library at
Brcslau,
An old German who crossed the
ocean to see his friends in Lyons,
Iowa reached them just in time to
fall dead before a word Of grCCting
could be uttered.
The im-l'Hostcllcricdc l'Anc
Raye-whcre Joan of Ares father
and mo her were entertained by the
city of Rheims in 1929, still .eX.
lists and is still an inn.
A greyhound, which at one time
| belonged to "Jacatro, Commodore
| Stockton's guide" died rcccnhl,
near Los Angeles, at the advanced
age of twenty-tlrce years.
The Connecticut Legislature ha,
passed a law compelling railroads 10
fence unoccupied lands lying between
the line of the road and high way
The striking of soldiers in battle
| by shots is said TO vary according 10
! the uniform. Thus, of those dressed
in red, II are struck 10 I in green
& in brown and } in blue.
\ London letter says that twopro
minent Communists talk Of visiting
the United States and Of lcCturing in
I defence of their ideal federation.
The steam power employed in Tie
United States does the labor Of TO-
100000 men, while that of Great
Britain is equivalent to I00,O0O.0on.
The contemplated tunnel urdcr the
Detroit River, between Detroit and
Windsor, Canada, will extend SOS
feet from portal to portal The c-Ii-
mated cost is S2,GJ0,OO0.
The Emperor OF Brazil now in
London, is said to utterly astoumd
that city by being out Of bed aud
stirring as early as six O'Clock in the
morning.
OF the six thousand people at Nlr.
atoga last week it is estimated that
only five hundred were there ON az
! count Of their health. The other,
came TO see and be seen.
The Greeley Tribune, Il bright lit
tie paper published in the new town
Of Greeley, Col, displays its title in
| the form Of a fac simile Of the hand
writing Of the modern Horace.
MI Henry W. Peek, NJ. p, lIa, Of
lcrCd prizes Of 5000, $1,000 and SJU1
for original trcatises in favor of the
maintenance of the Church of Eng.
iaud as an established Church.
\ man in Los Angeles, who had
| been in perfectly good health, sud
IDENTIFY lost the power Of speech with
ont any apparent cause. As he can
neither read nor write, be IS unable
to give his own views in regard 10
what led to his sudden dumbncss.
In number Of the Maine towns
the drought and devastations Of the
! grasshoppers have lefl the fields As
| bare as a ledge. Farms which last
year produced fifteen tons of hay
| will not be mown over this season,
and the crops are utterly destroy
ed.
Tho number of horses in Russia is
greater in proportion to the popula-
ton than ii is in our greatest horse
rcgion.-Keutucky, Russia has ono
horse to every three persons. Ken
lucky has one horse to about four
and half of its population,
The New Bedford Mercury says
Charles d. Wrightington, mcchan.
ical genius of Fairhayen, has recent
ly completed 4 miniature steam en-
ginc perfect in every detail, of about
one mouse power, The boiler is
three inches long, and the machine
, contains over so pieces, some OF
: which are Of gold, 1t runs finely.
+ In Pekin, a new spaper ofextraor-
i dinary size is published weekly on
silk. 1t is said to have been publish
: cd more than q thousand years ago.
In 1877, public officer caused some
. false intelligence to be inserted III
: this paper, for which hc was put to
4 death. Several numbers of the pa,
e per are preserved in the Royal Libra
4 ry OF Paris. They are ten anda quar-.
{ ter yards long.
i A Philadelphia physician writes tC
a the Post to correct an impression
o that blackberrics are useful or harm
less in cases where children are con
/, valescing from diarrhpa or cholcr,
4: infautum, lie says that from clo,t
o observation during several year,
l. meantime enjoying large practice,
It he is forced 10 believe that there i
Ie no other cause so fatal to life in thc,,
T. complaints as eating biackbcrricS.
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