Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-03-21
SAYINGS AND DOIyGS.

NEXT TO diary lead pencil is the
most difficult thing to keep.
CURIOSITY concerning SAKE Holm
will be heightened now it is known that
she is an unmarried lady.
THE gas made in Erie is of twenty
four candle power; that is, you have
10 light twenty-four candles to see " hen
he gas is burning.
A SIOUX CRY hotel has a fllck.apd-
tan dog that killed a thousand rats IN
month. This is a good puff for the dog,
but hard on the hotel.
IT is rule of etiquette in Arkansas
That no true gentleman will eat with his
| legs thrown over the back Of his neigh
bor's chair, if he can help it.
SINCE the temperance crusade com
menced one man in Ohio has signed
forty-two temperance pledges and
sworn off " fiity-four times.
IT IS singular that the most garrulous
speakers, no matter whether in public
or private, are invariably those who are
unaccustomed to public speaking"
FROM SEA TO SEA-
We glide through golden seas Of grain
We shoot, shining comet, through
The mountain range against the blue,
And then below the walls of snow,
We blow th9 desert dust amaiu;
We brush the gay madrona tree.
We greet the orange groves below
We rest beneath the oaks and we
Have cleft a continent in twain.
-JoHgUiH Miller.
LIEUT-GOv. CAMPBELL. of Benpal
gives most narrowing picture of the
famine in India. He says over | 600
600 persons are now in a starving con
dition.
ANY one who desires to speak Of the
5iamese twins learnedly will call them
Aiphopages of the class of Terata.ana-
catadidyma, or, for short, Omphleloph-
agus Yiphodidymus, and return thanks
to the Philadelphia doctors.
A SAILOR dropped out Of the rigging
OF ship of war some fifteen or twenty
feet, and fell plump on the head of the
first lieutenant. Wretch /" said the
officer, after he had gathered himself
up. ".Where the deuce did you come
from?" can sure l cane from the
Va Va AANApl-Nli ftL lOLDE.
HE nan who ans yered an advertise,
ment to the following effect had his Gu
riosity satisfied ; elf you would learn
to make home happy, SEM fifty cents in
postage stamps to A. b." etc Upon
receipt OF postage Stamps, A. B. replied,
- Your home woUl be more happy if
you were less frequently there.
A YOUNG lady has the letters Y. NJ. G.
engraved on one corner of her visit
ing cards, which she bands to certain
gentlemen visitors. At first they sup
pose che belongs to the Young Mems
Christian association, but it is not long
before they rightly construe the letters
10 mean, You may come again"
LIBERTY OF THE PREss.-
Around her waist put nv arm
II felt as soft as cake;
On dear, says she, what liberty
You priutermen do take,'
Why yes, my Sal, my charming gal,
Il squeezed her some, | guess.)
Can you say aught, my love, against
The freedom Of the press =
kissed her some-I dd by gum
She colored like beet;
Upon my living soul she looked
Almost too good to eat
gave another bu-s. and then
Says she, Il DO confasA rletcnle mas
loU yet turned up in Washington, with
claim of S2j, 600 for holding the ma
ional flag out OF her window in Fred
and soaring Robert E. Lee,
.oes far to prove that Whittier was
ooled in that little transaction, and
hat B. I. is, as has been suspected,
myth.
A FREycHMAS, condemned to death
or numbering his wife and child with
,ut eztenuating circumstances, demur'
ed to the sente1ce, because capital
punishment had been abolished in
France for political of. nces, and he
lad killed his wife and CHILD for no
other reason but because thay were
egitimists.
MBs JONES always believed her
Frederick when he told h,r that the
'' club" was for the social intercourse
md discussion of professional topics,
until the other night, when he came
into the hall with a rush and evinced a
desire to sleep on the front stairs.
8 Mary" said he, his voice broken with
motion, "Mary, you have been partak-
ing of the Intoxicating pledge, you
have broken the cup. Itsh no ush
d'nying it, Mary. I shee it in Your
breath and smell it in your eye. Oh,
Mary With some difficulty he was
put to bed, but since thai night he has
not visited the club.