Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-11-01
GRAVE AND GAY.

/ WHEs time shall hang up his soythe
he will be no mower.
/ COMMITMENT is natural wealth; lux
ury, artificial poverty,
Dr.. JOHNSON defines a ship as a pris-
on with a chance of being drowned,
The best thing to do should the drum
of your ear be destroyed Get trum
pet.
WHAT Is the champion conundrum?--
Life, because everybody has to give it
up.
No author Gao be as moral as his
works, as no preacher is as pious as his
sermons. .-Rtehter,
AMERICA is G fortunate country. She
grows by the follies Of our Europeeu
nations --Nopoleon.
JEALOUSY is only the art of torment
ing yourself, for fear you should be tor
mented by another.
A New YORK editor says sugar has
gone up 50 high as to induce a slight in
crease in the price Of sand.
TIE latest announcement for new mu-
sic. Hush, Sisters Dying with
Piano Accompaniment p
A PRUDENT gentleman, unwilling to
accuse q neighbor of lying, said he used
the truth with penurious frugality.
HE is incapable Of a truly good action
who knows not the pleasure in contem-
plating the good actions OF others
Layater.
How did Robinson Crusoe know that
he was on an inhabited island? Because
he .aw a great swell pitching into 1T
tie cove.
The most oashful girl We ever heard
OF wa= the young lady who blushed
when she was asked if she had NOT beer
courting sleep,
As old lady thinks the bonds must
be family Of strong religious instincts,
because she hears Of so many Of them
being converted.
THE brain Of a six-year-old boy, re
Gently deceased in London, weighed Sc
ounces. The average weight OF q mans
brain is IS ounces.
ACTION is the real teacher, Instruc-
ton does but prevent waste OF mistakes
and mistakes themselves are often the
best teachers OF all.-Froude.
MBs. MALAPRoP, good soul, propo-
ses 70 distribute tracts among tetotal-
ers, who, she regrets to hear, are living
in a state Of spiritual destitution.
WRuE vour name with kindness,
love and mercy on the hearts OF the peo.
pie you come in contact with year by
year, and you will never be forgotten.
II love and ambition should be equal
in balance, aud come to iostle with
equal torce, make no doubt but that
the last would win the prize. Mon
taigue,
RECTOR, going MS rounds-An un-
commonly fine pig, Mr.. Dibbles, de.
clare Contemplating villager-Ah.yes.
sir II we was only all of ne rs fit to
die as him, sirl
OHE OF the best puus ever made by
the late Phube Cary was this Why
vas Robinson Orusoe's man Friday like
rooster? Because he scratched for
himself and Crusoe.
THE Minnesota law compelling ss-
loon keepers to pay ten dollars ANIMAL
" to the support of the state inebriate
asylum has yielded twelve thousand
dollars this year.
Ii this world there Is one gOdlike
thing, the essence Of all that ever was
or ever will be Of goilike III this world
the veneration done to human worth
by the hearts of men Carlyle.
GREAT men leave two different i'm
pressions of themselves on their confem-
poraries-the one the result Of their
public career, the other OF their private
liie.-Philip Gilbert Hamerton,
THE reputation Of man is like his
shade y it sometimes follows and some
times precedes him; it is sometimes
longer, ard sometimes shorter, than hjs
natural size.-Froneh prooecb.
ABrnTcIAb wants are more numerous
and lead TO more expense than natural
wants from this cause the rich are Of
tener in greater want Of money than
those who have but a bare competency.
THE ancients had but one word for
manners and morals. It might be we'll
If the same were the case for us-yet
with this essential difference, that,
while they degraded morals to the lev.
el of manners, higher culture would
lead us to raise manne.s to the level Of
morals.-Dr. Peabody.
Try it on broken thill, or any wood
work that has been split. Put it on wet
and nail fast. Thin skins make the
best bag strings in the world. raw
hide rope is a good substitute for q
chain. 1t is valuable to mend broken
link in q trace-chain. For some purpo-
ses it is best to use it in its natural
state. For other purposes it may be
dressed soft.-JoWnay Of Chemistry.
IT is related of the G rman musician
Moschelas that, soon after his arrival in
England, he was asked at dinner what
fruit he would take. "Some sneers,
he answered. 1t afterward appeared
that he had endeavored to frame Eng
lish phrases according to the dictionary,
and having read in that, that "Not to
care fig" meant ito sneerata person,
he concluded that "sneer was a syno.
nym of Gig"
How watohful we must be 20 keep
the chrystal we'll clear, that it be not
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