Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-08-03

hallfOau, ny 4 lalC utclelOn OF the
Supreme Court, acquires title
to many millions Of acres Of the
and public domain.
Paterlamilias recently came upon
a scientific treatise on "Ihc Ncloci-
ty of Light" he says he can under
now how it is that his gas
bills runs up 50 rapidly.
You run no risk by pouring oil
out of Il can into your stove if you
no fire in it, Another safe
way is to have no oil in the can.
A Connecticut sheriff says: at
any man doubts the Bible doctrine
of human dcpravity, only ask him
to be sheriff Of this county one year.
An American paper says the
spectacle Of a boy leading
his drunken parent was wit
messed at burlington, Iowa, last
week, The progress was quite slow,
however, as the boy was considcra-
bly, the drunken OF the two.
MARRIAGE AND Wmr&.--Mar-
rage, after making a will, renders
the will void, probably for the rca-
son that the tcstator is leld to have
been OF unsound mind or he would
not have committed the folly Of get
ting married.
An immense catfish was lately
captured in Lake st. CroiX with a
GuII-grown axe, handle and all, in
It's little stomach. 1t may be an
"axc'- o%spcratiug question, but we
should like to know what he did
with the man that was taken down
With the weapon.
81 wish you wouldn't give me
such short weight for my money!
said Il customer 10 his grocer; who
replied remembering the customcf's
unpaid grocery account) "and |
wish you would not give me such
Tong wait for mine"
st. John, Me-, has produced a
lamb with one head, two bodies,
nine legs, ten hools and two tails,
"nol5rrs fnalur&;?' instead Of looking
upon it in the light of a ca omb"-
ity, as it really is. -Boston Post,
While Il Waterbury (Ct.) farmer
was moving his dooryard, a sly
puppy hid in the grass and then
jumped out TO take the scythe by
surprise. But the puppy turned
out TO hc more surprised than the
scytlr; for he found himself in two
places at the same time.
Careful wiG% "Don't, Charles,
20 to Boston with that hole in the
elbow Of your shirt" Husband:
'Why not, my dcar?' Careful wife.
" Because if the train should run off
the line, and you should get killed,
people would think me a very neg
ligcnt wife" Husband: (]buttouing
up his overcoat): "Ahem! yes, |
dare say they would
FOREIGN lNTELLIGENCE-THE
VERY LATEsT.-Thc Pckin Gazette
contains the following -"Thc per-
nilsson to use a yellow bridal pre-
viously granted to HIsi-li-pa-cha-
crh-cho-p u, a Magnolian noble of
the first rank, is Withdrawn, it hav-
ing been discovered that no such
privilege has ever been allowed to
mobiles OF either the third or fourth
rank.
There is a cry of distress among
the poorer classes of all the capitals
of Europe from the impossibiIity of
securing decent homes in the cities.
In Berlin it is absolutely necessary
for the police and the Government
to interfere on behalf of the poor,
while the same evil is assuming such
proportions in London that the mat
ter has actually demanded the alten-
ton and interference of Parliament.
A St, Louis nobby dry goods
clerk, who attended u dance in the
rural districts a few days since,
wore a Cheyoir shirt and put on
many airs. lie was somewhat
taken down, however, when he over
heard one country lass say 10 an
other: Chat St. Louis chap sings
on a heap ofstyle for "A fellow that
wears a hed-tick shirt"
Two neighbors, living in Win
chester county, had u long and en-
vcnomed litigation about a small
spring, which they both claimed.
The Judge wcaricd ont with the
case at last said: "What is the use
OF making so much fuss about a lit
tie water" "Your honor will see
the use of it," replied one of the
lawyers, "whcn | inform you that
the parties are both milkmen!"
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