Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-04-19
NUMBER 30.
GRAVE AND GAY.

The best color for Water-color.
SUITABLE garments for winter-The
close of the year.
MORNING for labor, evening for re-
pose French proverb.
The next worst thing to raining pitch
forks-Hailing omnibuses.
GENERAL Waiting on half a
dozen girls at the same time.
How TO turn peoples heads-Come
into a concert late in thick boots.
You can't do that again, said the pig
to the boy who cut his tail off.
YOUNG ladies use powder, perhaps be-
cause they think it will make them 60
off.
CoLERGDdE said that liberation was
impossible till Indifference made it
worthless.
WITHOUT earnest convictions, no great
or sound literature is conceivable. -
LOVeH
TALENT is that which is in a mans
power; genius is that in whose power a
man is
SOLITUDE is as ncedful for the imagi-
nation, as society is wholesome for the
character
A POOR man is to be avoided-he lacks
principle and never has any interest in
anything.
He THAT lives in fear Of death, every
moment feels its tortures. l will die
but once. Julius Caesar.
He WHO is only in good health, and is
willing to work, has nothing to fear in
this world.-Lessing.
VoLTA1RE declared that the fate of a
nation had often depended on the good
or bad digestion OF a minister.
You will find this a good gauge or
criterion Of genius, whether it progress
ses and revolyes, Or only spins upon it
self.-C0Lerjdge.
HOLMES disposes Of the bigot at once,
when he compares his mind to the pupil
of the eye" the more light you let in,
the more it contracts.
He WHO longs after beautiful Nature
can best describe her, said Bettine he
who is in the midst of her loveliness can
only lie down and enjoy.
INFLUENCE, good or bad, comes not
from the opinions man processes, but
from the character he has formed, and
the life he leads. - Whjpple.
THRICE unhappy who, born to see
things as they might be, is schooled by
circumstances to see them as people say
they are, to read God in prose trans
lation.
A DBUYKARD once reeled up to White
field, with the remark, Mr.. Whitefeld,
I am one of your converts. 1 think it
very likely, was the reply, for am sure
you are none Of Gods.
HAVE heard, indeed, of some virtu-
ous persons no have ended unfortu-
nately, but never of any virtuous ma
tion. Providence is engaged too deep
" when the cause becomes so general.
-DTyden.
DOES ONE write, asks Lessing, for the
sake of being always in the right? l
think l have been as seryiceable to
truth when 1 miss her, and my failure is
the occasion of another's discovering
her, as if l discovered her myself.
IAN NOT used to begging, said little
girl to lady of whom she had asked
aims, because only two weeks ago my
father was a merchant Why, child,
how could he be reduced to poverty so
soon? My father took bad two dollar
bill at his peanut stand, and it ruined
him, sobbed the child.
VoLTARE once praised another writer
very heartily to a third person. 1t is
very strange, was the reply, that you
speak so well of him, for he says you
are a charlatan. Oh, replied Voltaire,
1 think it very like that both of us are
mistaken.
CRUEL HUsBAND-Deceive you In
dignant wife-Don't tell me any more
lies Didn't you say last night that
you were only going to quiet little
party-dominoes, and that sort of
thing? Cruel husband-Just so that's
what said, exactly. Dominoes, domi-
noes, you know Always have domi-
noes at q masked ball
COOP SENSE and good-nature are new
er separated, though the Ignorant world
has thought otherwise. Good-nature,
by which mean beneficence and can
dor, is the product cf right reason,
which of necessity will give allowance
tothe failings of others, by considering
that there is nothing perfect in man
kind. d.-DTyden.
TINS anecdote is told of Proudhon,
the great French socialist, and illus
trates most forcibly the intensity and
exaggeration of his radicalism. In con-
versation one day with Prince Napole-
on, the prince asked him what was the
form of society of which he dreamed.
Proudhon said One in which I shall be
guillotined as conservative.
THERE is a lady in Lexington, Ky,
who possesses two pets, monkey and a
parrot, who are on antagonistic terms,
and who are locked up separately when
left unmatched. One day they wese ao-
cidentaly left together, and desperate
fight ensued. The monkey ruthlessly
pulled out every feather of the unfor-
tunate parrot, and broke up the mantel
ornaments generally. When Mrs. c.,
returned, she found the monkey chat
tering on the mantel-piece, and out
crept the parrot, looking deeply injur-