Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-05-03

ing the streets.
For midsummer, linen suits with
sleeveless vests of dark Napoleon blue
linen, will be worn.
TWENTY thousand francs is said to
have been the cost of Miss Rothschild's
wedding robe.
THE women of the United States use
more pins and needles than those of fany
other country.
AN indianapolis virago has had to pay
$ll 40 for spanking neighbor's child
with rubber shoe.
BLACK silk stockings, With low shoes,
are the latest cbaussure for Young New
York in full dress.
FRENCH ladies continue the fashion OF
carrying small cane or walking stick
when promenading.
THERE is only one woman in the
Minnesota Penitentialy to grace the cir
Gle of ninety male convicts.
A WASHINGTON belle speaks five differ
ent languages, but cannot bake q loaf
of bread to save her life.
The young man VINO boasted that he
could marry any girl he pleased, found
that he couldn't please any.
PARIs1xT iafties n ar white kid gloves
and dark costumes on the promenade.
This, we believe, is the latest.
HANNAH DUSTIN, the New Hampshire
heroine who killed nine Indians, is to be
commemorated by monument.
A PRETTY FreDsd woman won 100000
francs from a German nObleman at
Baden, and contributed the entire
amount to the French debt.
FIGARO says that Helen Josephine
Mansfield is the best dressed woman in
Paris, and gives delightful receptions to
her gentlemen friends.
THE scientists have discovered that
the re3son a woman can keep lover by
her tears is because love, like beef or
pork, is best preserved by brine.
The German Parliament has rejected
a motion for the liberation of the Re-
publican Deputy Bebel, who is now
serving out his second or third sentence
of imprisonment for high treason.
THE first female graduate of Michigan
University has been offered $1,000 a
year and her expenses to tell what she
knows in Japan school-house.
A SENECA Falls man, who died the
other day, left will saying; "To that
old liar and tattler, the widow Jones, l
bequeath two cents" Didn't she hop,
though!
The lady to whom Henri Rochefort
was married just before she received
the last sacraments of the church, has
recovered her health and walks about
Versailles.
AN experienced old stager says, if you
make love to widow who has daugh-
ter twenty years younger than herself,
begin by declaring that you thought
they we're sisters.
The Rev. Henry Morgan of Boston is
lecturing on "old bonnets. !" The wo-
men are mere interested in new ones.
"STovE.PIPEs" are going out of fashion
for ladies' riding hats, and the cavalier
beaver, with a long ostrich plume, is
now the correct thing.
THE University of Zurich has ITO
female students this session-3l in medi-
cine, in jurisprudence, and % in
philosophy.
KATE GRAY, of Kansas City, married
her lover half an hour before he left her
for the penitentiary to serve out long
sentence.
Miss ELLA LAWSON having passed the
required examination has been made
Bachelor of Science and Letters in Paris.
A BEAU of much experience says that,
"the time for fellow to leave is when
young lady asks him how the walking
is"
MA -
A PHTLApELHHIA woman who, forty
years ago, at the age of sweet sixteen
married rich old fellow of three-score
for his money, expecting soon to be .
gay and festive widow, has recently
died aged fifty-six, leaving q husband oi
one hundred, and four children tC
mourn her loss.
IT IS proposed to assemble an interna
tional Congress at Vienna during the
time of the exhibition TO devise genera
principles for an international codeupor
the right of patentees. Mr. Jay, oul
Minister at Vienna, has taken the initia.
tive in this movement.
A CURIOUS letter has found its way IN
to print, and which showsthat Garibal-
di has not always been the victim Of tie
papaphobia which nov afIicts hin. The
letter is dated aA MOntevideoS October
30, 1S47, and is addressed to the Nuncis
Of the Pope in that city. IN Il he offer.
his services to the Church and Pope Pins
TX, in his own name and that Of hi
friends, and speaks about shedding th'
| last drop Of his blood in thair ssgxiaA.