Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-05-16
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

= QUESTION for forists-Is not a r, b
mandarin China Astor?
TALBOT county, Georgia, last year
produced j,832 bales Of cotton and 145,
g 800 bushels Of corn.
A GEORGIA clergyman has thirty-two
children. His sermons are nearly al
upon the subject Of "a better life tn n
this"
AT LAST General Concha is going to
try the expedient Of striking the Car
lists in the rear. Just what they de-
Eerye.
THERE are twenty mills in Montana
crushing gold quartz. The silver ore is
nearly all shipped to Europe, much of
it going to Swansea, Wales.
To A BOTTLE
Ts very strange that you and
Together cannot pull;
For yOu are full when ! am dry,
And dry when I am full
Ar A revival in western town, ont Of
one hundred converts fully two-thirds
were males, which the women explain
By saying their own seZ are mostly an
gels already.
/ IT IS astonishing how rapidlya young
mans emotion will change when lady
relieves her waist from his encircling
arms by inserting about one inch Of
hair-pin in it.
INSCRIPTION on tombstone in CO.
lumbia, Tenn: Escaped the bullets
Of the enemy TO be aFsassinated by a
coTardly pnp--a kind husband, an af-
fectionate father.
EXPERIMENTS have recently been made
with dynamite as a means Of clearing
land OF timber stumps. The explosive
compound is said to do TIE work ef-
tectually and with little trouble.
IT ONLY takes. three hours and about
half a cord Of wood to put a millionaire
into very small glass bottle. The
only difficulty to be apprelended is the
inevitable increase Of family jars.
Don MANUEL CoyCHi, who is said 10
have assumed the command Of the
Spanish Republican troops, Is nearly
eighty years old. His brother, Don
Jose, who has been lately named cover
nor OF Cuba, is over seventy-four.
CoRNELTUs C. LOGAN, minister pleni-
potentiary OF the United States to Chill,
has consented to act as arbitrator in the
question between Peru and Chilli aris.
ing ont Of the liquidation of the &C.
counts of the allied squadron during
the war with Spain.
uyor, ,evor so,y groh barnr lot of
,5o,,lo os wa boJ %ora Toslar,{ays - soii
Z lain,IIoJ,. !, Tnl;o,o l. ~, on.i,-
ed guest :"there were thirteen couples
of them" "Wbat Thirteen couples
inst married?" "Oh. no. sir thirteen
couples lust divorced"
7,, IlAFtlNt79' IA ., ,..-....,,,-
sn ~ T @ W ~ Ia iI AVE. Go5 ana a tdio rnn @
wife, '''
To kiss her warm lip in your moments Of glee,
Aud twist the cats tail when she jumps on
your Knee
FIRST RUFr1Ay. -'Wot was hup for.
md wot ave l got? Well, 1 foord a
woman and took her watch, and I've got
two years and q h5ggiug." Second rgf-
fan.-"Ah, I flung a woman out O the
top floor window: an I've only got
three months" First rufiian.-" All,
but then she was yer wife"
SOME OF the planters in the inunda
ted bottom lands OF NTississippi and
Louisiana have had three erops washed
out in the last two months. and thew no
longer feel interested in the question Of
''less cotton and more corn. but have
begun seriously thinking if it will not
be ''po cotton and still less corn"
A., r,rzropr,.,r. o-,riositv hos inst beer
,1oead in tLo yTrsa51n, Of 4ha Tnvolides
Paris-naroely. the snit of ormor which
Charles VII. presented to joan of Arc,
aud which the heroine went to deposit
at st. Denis after having been wounded
under the walls of Paris. It is COM
posed Of steel plates. weighs about fifty
pounds, and in every respect resembles
the one in the Pierrefoud's collection,
which the Maiu of Orleans wore at the
moment when she fell into the power of
the enemy in making 6 sortie from Com
piegue.
THEODORE R. TYl1BY, the inventor of
the revolving turret battery, having had
great experience in machinery for weld
iny heavy ordnance, is contemplating
the construction Of the largest telescope
lens ever made. He proposes o lens
more than twice the size of that recent
ington Observatory. Preparatory steps
Tov@ Jo S'I,l,3 Lne39 taLan kan near Tarrytown New
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