Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-02-15
WoMAN's WORLD.

HANNAH MOORE wrote eleven books
after she was sixty.
CLOSE study has made Mary Dean of
Alton, Illinois, a raging maniac.
THG Grecian ladies counted their age
from their marriage, not from their
birth.
TALK about the modern falling off of
home affections Our wives are becom-
ing dearer every day.
cause it's tinder sentiment.
ABOUT two-thirds of the suits decided
by the female juries of Wyoming are
appealed and the verdicts set aside.
An Omaha bride was married bare
foot because her lovers kinfolks dressed
that way, and she did not wish to seem
proud,
A BEAUTIFUL young widow of Mem
phis, Tenn, has joined the Oneida Com
munity, and recorded vow to remain
forever true to the members thereof.
A GIRL with 1000 year advertises
for husband in the London papers.
The trouble is she wants a lord, and
they are scarce at the price.
"IT seems to me that Mrs. c. 5 hair
was nearly gray year ago. "Yes,
nearly" "But now its perfectly
black. "Ah, yes You know she's lost
her husband since then.
Mrs. SAINT Corr makes $500, 900 a
year by the sale of revolvers. She sup
plies the New York markets literally,
as it is proved by the frequent murders
that are perpetrated with her pistols.
A CANADA paper tells about woman
at Kingston who recently woke from a
nine years sleep. Her slumbers we're
uninterrupted during that period, except
for short time each day at noon, when
she halted five minutes for refresh
ments.
THE chief clerk of the Portland CMe.)
pension agency is woman, and is high
~ praised for her business talents. Wo-
men are working into public offices very
rapidly all over the country. There are
numerous postmistresses in the western
States, and a number in the eastern.
IT is rather expensive to tell town
clerk of Massachusetts, young lady is
older than she really is, besides being
peculiarly narrowing to the feelings of
the lady herself. There was a young
man who wanted to marry miss of four
teen. He told the clerk she was sixteen,
and for that little act of his imagination
he was fined $500.
A MISERABLE English charwoman, with
an exhibition of audacity which is be-
coming quite common OF late among the
British peasantry, called the Earl of
Winchelsea to court for debt, and his
lordship treated the matter with con-
tempt. An execution was issued against
his goods and chatels. The officer with
the writ was resisted by a legion of fun
keys, whom he first whipped and then
sued. The charwoman got her money.
If THE boy believed that the accumu-
lation OF wealth and the acquisition of
power were what the old man says they
are, the world would very soon be
stagnant. If he believed that his
chances of obtaining either were as
poor as the majority of men find them
to be, ambition would die within him.
1t is because he rejects the experience
of those who have preceded him, that
the world is kept in the topsy-turvy
condition which we all rejoice in, and
which wecall progress c. D. Warner.
A PORTLAND sea-captain who has been
absent from home for eight years ar
rived last week. Calling upon lady
friend soon after, he was panied to see
what he supposed to be the result OF
come terrible injury to the spine. He
delicately questioned her upon the sub
ject, but she was apparently at a loss to
comprehend his meaning. Finally, after
much canvassing at cross-purposes, the
lady discovered that the old salt serious
supposed her panier to be tumor, or
some other unsightly excrescence, caused
by disease of the spine.
THERE was once an old woman who,
in answer to visiting almORer's inqui-
ries as to how she did, said: 20, sir,
the Lord is good to me; I've lost my
husband and my eldest son, and my
youngest daughter, and I'm half blind,
and can't sleep or move about for the
rheumatism; but I've got two teeth left
in my head, and, praise and bless His
holy name, they are opposite each
other p II has been said that this ola
woman was thankful for small mercies.