Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-05-23
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
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FAITH and hope cure more diseases
than medicine. Martin Luther.
A BLACKSMITH is always striking for
wages.
THE wise men of the yeast-The
bakers.
GREAT hopes belong only TO, great
souls. -MartiaeGu.
NECESSITY knows no law, but law
knows q good deal of necessity.
A GEORGIA editor was bitten by dog,
"being evi3ently mistaken for bone. i"
WHAT throat is the best for a singer
to reach high notes with? A soar
throat.
THE feeling of gratitude has all the
arior of passion in noble hearts.-
AchilleS POihcelOt.
AN article you can always borrow
Trouble, and are not obliged to re-
turn it.
PURCHASE no friends byss gifts when
thou ceasest to give, such will cease to
love. Fuller.
THERE is but ore kind of love, but
there are thousand different copies of
it.-Rochefoucauld.
SUCCESS has no secrecy about it save
this Never attempt to do that you are
not able to perform.
An old wine. .bbber says that an emp
ty champagne-bottle is like an orphan,
because il has lost its pop.
An old Scotchman used to say "I'm
open to conviction, but I'd like to see
the man that can convince me-"
An AKRON, Ohio, man has had his
wife jailed for two weeks for hitting him
on the heal while he was saying his
prayers.
A KANSAS book agent says he can sell
ten dime novels to one work on relig-
ion, and he looks for earthquakes and
hurricanes to visit that state.
SOME New York state men have COM
menced wearing linen Goals, but fire.
places ought to be painted on the back
to give them an air Of comfort.
A Missouri Judge has decided that
woman is not an cold maid" until she
is thirty-fve years old, and all the wo-
men are singing songs in his praise.
CREMATION OBITUARY.
Dear Jane is gone my darling Dan,
She was calcned yesterday;
But the wind upset the tomato-can,
And blew her ashes away.
THE esteem Of wise and good men is
the greatest of all temporal encourage
ments to virtue; and it is the mark of an
abandoned spirit to have no regard to
The editor of the Colorado Globe de-
MES that he was hung by vigilance
Western editors are great
liars, and one don't know whether to
believe him or not.
TIE brains of people advanced in
years would be greatly strengthened by
habits of study. Old people should.
have their lessons, their mental culture,a
like children. 1t would be almost &
cure for the decay Of the mind as age
adYances.-Hdrtn Ldther Ne
WHAT foe the farmers have to con.
tend against in the potato bug is showth
by the experience of man in Joliet, k-of
He placed some in bottle eight months
ago. They have been exposed to the
extremes of winter and summer, lave
had nothing to eat, and are still living.
TIE wheat crop is promising through
out all the grain.growing states, aud as
q result of drain to India on account of
the famine, and the prospect of a short
crop in England on account of labor
troubles, the chances Of brisk demand
at good prices is such as to make glad
the heart of the granger.
WE once heard of traveller at hotel,
who rose from his bed at night to ex-
anime the weather but instead of look
ing out on the ky, he thrust his head
through the glass window of acupboard.
" Bless me I" lie mutteHed, "this is very
singular weather. The night is as dark
as pitch, and smells of cheese"
A CH1NAMAN shot an American eagle,
near tcramento, one day last we k,
and cooked and ate the deceased mon
arch of birds. A few hours later sew
eral patriotic citizens were "loyally"
yelling around newly dug trench, and
there was dead Chinaman at the bot
tom of it,
CHUBBY, three-year old boy, was
much puzzled to know what made it
rain, when his orthodox mother told
him that God made it rain. A few days
after, Chubby was discovered amusing
himself by throwing water from two
story window on the heals Of passers-by,
and, on being demonstrated with by his
mother. said: "Why, mamma, l was
only playing God. OF course, the
mother was Mortified at the comparison.
IFouxD myself moralizing on the SUI
periority of money over other virtues.
It is always appreciated No ghost
need rise from the grave to proclaim its
transcendent merits. It makes the, hid
eous beautiful, the foolish wise, the
stupil witty, and the wicked saints. 1t
can patroni7e genius, and dictate to ma
tions. 1t is very fine to he Shakespeare
after death, but how much more COM
Portable TO be Rothschild while living
Kate Field.
THE three-foot narrow gauge railroad
system is rapidly becoming popular in
this country, aud but few people are
aware of the fact that since it came in
vogue, during the last three or four
years, no less than !, ,345t miles of mar
row gauge railway have been built in
this country and in Canada, which
roads, when completed, will have
mileage of 4,562l miles, while there
are 1851 miles under construction.
LET not mistakes or wrong directions,
of which every man, in his studies and
elsewhere, falls into many, discourage
you. There is precious instruction to
be got by finding that We are wrong.
Let man try faithfully, manfully to
be right, he will daily grow more and
more right. It is at the bottom the
condition on which all men have to cul-
tivate themselves. Our very walking
is an incessant falling-a falling and
catching Of ourselves before we come
actually to the pavementl It is emble-
matte Of all things man does.-Car-
lyle.
POVERTY is the safest lady-love for