Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-06-13
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

| Miss LovEJoY of Wis. has commenced
her fourth breach of promise case.
THE sale of the works Of the late Sir
Edwin Landseer, which recently took
place in London, realized nearly s367,-
800.
The Dunkards wear Quaker clothes,
and shake hands and kiss when they
come together. Most Of them live in
! Ohio.
PASSION gets less ana less powerful
after every defeat. Husband energy
for real demand which the dangers of
life make upon it.
The most fashionable OF Saratoga
cottages remit for 5000 for the season
of three months. Others bring $1,000,
others $4,000, and so on down to $500.
SARToRIs' connection with the Grants
has not improved him dramatically.
When asked, "Wilt thou have this wo-
man to be thy welded wife ?" he replied
81 do"
OLIVIA, lady correspondent, writes
to the Capital: SIN all delicacy may
we ask why you apply the term hen to
the woman attorney and the pronoun he
to the man ?"
New YORK spends annually $9,00O,-
900 on newspapers, $7,000,000 on thea
ters, $1,000, 600 for religious purposes,
and S50,OO0,O00 on liquor and liquor
establishments.
The intelligent compositor thus de-
monstrates the possibilities of type;
"Tho parents of the bride were numer-
GUS and handsome. And yet some
folks say there is no hell.
ADVICE to persons living in houses
adapted for two families When your
bell rings, wait the other people may
90 to the door, When their bell rings,
rush to your door and listen devoutly.
BECAUSE we'll dressed young man in
a Chicago omnibus remarked that
"there were no good looking girls in
Chicago" the elegant Times Of that
place denounces him as ga polished
ass"
The ailantus trees of New York are
to be displaced by horse.chestnuts. 1t
is true that the ailantus is attacked by
the caterpillar, but what proof is there
that the horse-chestnut will not come
down with the "epizootic q
MRs. SARToRIs is gentle and amiable.
If the brave young Englishman who is
her husband had married a woman Of
the disposition peculiar to good many
American women, he would in less than
two weeks imagine that Re was being
hen.pecked by the American eagle,
The "bag feat was accomplished by
Madame Fontainbleau in a Chicago
theater few nights ago. "It consists
of lepping from'the gallery to the stage,
while enveloped in bag, and catching
by her feet on trapeze. 1t was done
to the intense delight of large audi
ence."
WHEN Napoleon was small boy he
was asked whether he could tell what
nationality he was of, and he indignant
" replied. "Of Corsican." Whcn
Chang and Eng was a small boy he was
asked whether he was native OF Siam,
and he Indignantly replied, "Of course
Siam"
THE Cunard steamship line is about
to turn cold shoulder to Boston, and
hot payevtesthe conclusion that it does
reason, however, is clothed in more
delicate language, and is based on the
ground of high cost of railroad trelghts
on grain and other products.
The attention Of CRUSADERS" is re-
spectfully called to the significant coin
cidence that, for some years past, the
importation of opium has increased
pari passu with the advance OF the
teetotal movement, one hundred and
twenty-five tons Of that narcotic solace
being our present annual allowance.
THAT eminently respectable and nu-
merous body of religionists who call
themselves Dunkers, or Dunkards, will
be a good deal astonished, If not horrl-
fed. to see the way the telegraph has
libeled them in transmitting the reports
of their convention at Girard, ILL.,, to
the eastern newspapers. Several lourn-
ais published the report with the head
ing. "a Drunkards convention as
the telegraph made it, and the Boston
Journal improved upon it in this way:
/" A novel organization-Natlonal con-
vention of Drunkards."
The King OF Hawaii is becoming
alarmed lest his valuable subjects be-
come extinct, leaving nobody for him to
"boss." Says this royal idiot; Now
what can 1 do to mark my relgn-what
shall be done to signalize it p? This is
nv great desire-to witness an increase
in the population of these islands. But
l can not do this alone you must assist
me- The father who provides for
large family, and the mother who gives
birth to them and takes good care OF her
children, are the benefactors OF Hawai-,
and should be rewarded. They are the
hone Of the nation"