Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-07-11
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

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Handel.
DR.. Brown.Sequard- has sailed for. Eu-
rope-and-hyphens-wil ill-now-have-a-rest.
STRAW is in demand, but in lengths Of
about twelve inches with glass at the
end
GREAT places are great burdens dis
tinguished conditions in life exact great
servitude.
| scorr ROGERS carried his shotgun
out on a slippery log, in Missouri, few
days ago.
NOTHING, it is said, contributes 80
much to the Emusic of the future" as
matrimony."
LIFE is as tedious as a twice told tale,
vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
! Shakespeare.
Man is the merriest species of crea-
ton; all above and below him are se-
[ rious.-Addi8on.
THE worm Of concience is the COM
panion of the owl the light is summed
by evil spirits only.-,Schiller.
The anti-ics reform is not making
much head-way. "Ho, waiter glass
OF ice-Raterrwith dash Of animalcule. "
TENNYsoN is writing another "Idyl of
the King" Writing idyls should never
be encouraged during the corn-hoeing
season.
TASTES differ with localities. In Fort
/ Wayne a man with red nose is looked
up to as profound thinker and deep
philosopher.
THE Leghorn fiat of the season has
wide brim without any wire, so that it
may be shaped at will. After the wearer
has been ont in a shower the fat shapes
itself.
/ AUGUSTUS LEONARD dressed up like an
Indian, and descended on the cabin of a
Missouri family for fun. They kept the
Uody on ice three days for his father to
arrive.
A BROOKLYN husband comforts his
wife for the loss of their dear little
eight-months-old, by reminding her that
there will be more room on the clothes.
line now.
GOLD PROBABILITIES" predicts light
winds and hurricanes for July, but he
can't scare man who lives in a rented
house and has his furniture insured for
its full value.
! THESE old fellows are perfectly resist
less. Four months after the death of
his wife, Asahel Mix, Of Bristol, Conn,
aged eightyyears, conn itted matrimony
with a girl fourteen years and six
months old.
An Evansville damsel Witnessing
foot race between a number Of young
men few days ago, became disgusted
with the performace, pulled off her
shoes challenged and beat the whole
crowd.
/ IT is to the credit of Milwaukee that
only four men looked at a giraffe the
other day without remarking that it
would be nice to have that throat-ons
could taste his drink so long.
THIS is the month in which little
boys find that their hats have grown
too large for them, and walk into school
with long faces, amid sympathetic
whispers of "Why didn't you have
your head filed, instead of sand-paper-
ed?
An Idaho school teacher has intro
duced a new feature in his school.
When one of the girls misses word,
the boy who spells it has permission to
kiss her. As result, the girls are fast
becoming poor spoilers, while the boys
are improving.
4 MARRIED men who have extravagant
families, which they are in duty bound
to support, get no credit for refraining
from suicide. Just hear Louise Stock
ton "It is worth noticing thar, while
the men who commit suicide are almost
always unmarried, the women are mar
ried or widowed. This leads to the in
ference that, while men can not live
without women, women find life unbear-
able with men"
I A FIRM dealing largely in coal in one
of our western cities had in their SER
vice an Irishman named Barney. One
day the head of the firm, irritated be-
vond endurance at one of Barney's
b1unders, told him to go to the office
and get his pay, and added: Hon
are so thick headed I can't teach you
anything" "Begorra," says Barney,
"T larn wan thing since I've been wld
We ~ "What's that" asked his en-
ployer. "That sivinteen hundred
make ton"
THE San Francisco Alta makes the in
teresting announcement that ''the
amount of money, in round numbers
nineteen millions, realized from the
sales of the surplus wheat crop of the
state for the past year has exceeded the
value of the gold produced from the
California mines. The remark does not
embrace the bullion product of Nevada,
, which is the result of California capital
and labor. 1t merely points out that
the soil of California for the past year
has rewarded industry with more value
in wheat than in gold. If we were to
take the whole production the difference
, would be much greater"
THE proposed abolition OF patronage
in the church of Scotland is stoutly op
posed on variety of grounds Among
t others because, it is alleged, there Il
5 thus created a state-endowed churcl
! perfectly independent of all state con
troll. The ladies' are also up in arms up
on the slight put upon them by th'
5 measure giving the election of clergy
S men entirely into the hands of "mal'
= communicates, while still another ob
l lection is that the proposed measure
g would add immensely to the power o
5 the clergy, inasmuch as the formation
!, of the communion roll is entirely with
! in their power, so that they could fran
+ the different constituencies as the
b chose.
/ National Bank Reserves.