Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-04-12
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n IhLADLfhIA puySlClhu ouluhS
will be able to put an L to his house
this spring, as green cucumbers are in
market.
MAX STRAKosH offers handsome re-
ward for any information concerning
Wilson's German lover He thinks he
can utilize him again next fall.
CINcNNAI is honizing the door
keeper of a minstrel show because he
has such an immense moustache that he
is compelled to carry it in sling.
A CUBAN paper states that if O'Kelly,
The Herald commissioner, were an
American, he would be executed at
once. Cant some one take out his
naturalization papers?
Now that the weather is mild enough
for baseball, affectionate mothers are
raking over the ash-heaps in search of
bottles of arnica tossed aside during the
recent thaw.
WILLIAM PENN, we are told by history,
determined that Philadelphia should be
"a faire greene country towne." The
widest dreams of his imagination have
been realized.
The readers of The Boston Post re-
cline under pile-driver, to prevent the
rupture of their sides with laughter,
when they tackle the jokes of the klepto-
maniac of that establishment.
A TERRE HAUTE youth threw fork at
his only mother because she refused to
erect pistol pocket in his new pants.
The boy says he can't sit very comforta-
bly, until the poultice begins to dry.
The Dramatic critic of The Epening
Journal, who thinks Richelieu' the
the best play Shakespeare ever wrote,
also believe that Oliver Doud Byrons
- Across the Continent is as good as
his "Don Juan"
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Pittsburg
to drill hole through the atmosphere
and fit each end with a magnifying glass,
thus making a cheap, simple, and dura-
BILE telescope for astronomical observa-
tions.
IT Is encouraging to find that the bit
ter animosity which has SO long marked
rival newspapers is being curbed to
degree. For instance, The Sadalia
MO- BazOo magnanimously congratu-
lates The NeW York Herald on the
purchase of new press.
RUBBER bustles shouldn't be worn
slippery nights. The other evening an
inebriated patriot on Wabash avenue
hearing a number of explosions from
ladies sitting down suddenly, thought
it was the Fourth of July and remarked
that "it's the coldest weather for season
of year (hic) ever saw"
MEMPHIS gloats over the possession of
man so free from the preiudiees of the
age that he married his mother-in-law.
1t will strengthen other mothers-in-law
to know that she was true to herself and
her sisterhood, for in less than two
months she has made it so hot for that
man that he is now an applicant for
divorce.
ST.. LOUIS never does things by halves,
and the new Lindell hetel will be finish
ed in the highest style Of art. We learn
that purse is being raised. and in fact
dollar and thirty cents has already
been subscribed, to send the gentleman
who has the contract for whitewashing
the back fence to Italy to perfect his
style under the inspiration of the old
masters.
"EKI PERKINS" the absence of whose
limitations of Artemus Ward from the
columns of The NetO York Commercial
Advertiser has proved so remunerative
to its proprietors, writes for the new
Graphic. Eli has but a single COM
petitor in the field of harmless luuacy-
the young man who attempts Jokes for
Ese st, Louis Globe and sends marked
copies to exchanges with the reques,
"pleese copy"
4 LOUIsvMLEAE lost a pOOket-bOOk
containg $500, which ayoung man found
and returned to him. The owner de-
termined to reward the noble act and re-
quested the finder to call next day. The
young man was promptly on hand and
was met by the appreciatve gentleman,
who, with tears in his eyes and jack
knife IN his hand. said "My young
friend you have proved yourself
worthy Of reward, and as 1 have just
bought me a new knife want to make
go !, 4 = .,