Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-08-08

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that a certain patron of his vas "tl.
30 ing as usual" He claims that he WI
thriving"
% ANY aristocratic woman at Cape May
70 would prefer TO die rather than be roll
ed on barrel on the beach in the hope
Z of resuscitating her.
" The passenger train between Colurr-
n bus and Macon, Ga, took in 81. 10 dur
ing recent trip, and yet these bloated
0 railroads talk of hard times
0 The Protestants appear to be making
. headway in Mexico. Five years ago
they had less than six churches there,
9 and they now have ninety-eight.
OUT on A FOUL
The bail came whizzng red-hot through the air
U The felders all looked for fly;
, 1t just tipped the bat but Barney was there
And took it in under his eye.
THE Turkish government has formal
ly stated to the Unitel States Minister
) that it intends adhering to it's recent
Prohibition Of the sales of Bibles in
Turkey.
NEXT to music, nothing so powerfully
tends to soothe the savage breast as to
see the young man who parts his hair
in the middle showing baby-wagon on
Sunday.
A PHILADELPHIA girl called a young
man thief, and when requested by the
mother of the accused to prove the
charge, said he had stolen several kisses
from her.
PATRICK" said the priest, chow
much hay did you steal 2" Well, 1
may as well confess to your reverence
for the whole stack, for l am going af-
ter the balance Of it tonight"
PATHETIC appeal from a Chicago sx-
press driver during the fire: "Do you
want to see your family beggared before
your face? Wake up and be man
I'll save you for fifty dollars !"
"KATE, I understand you have ac-
cepted a situation as governess, Rath-
er than that, / would marry a widower
with six children" "Yes, dear Sophie,
and so would I, but where is the Wild
ower?"
MosoUITos are described in certain
part of Minnesota as "thicker than the
surrounding foliage, with wings like
Appollyons, a beak Ike an artesian au-
ger, and a voice like the sound Of many
waters"
As to that paragraph about Esther
Shaw, of Davenport, Iowa, who worked
fifteen years in family without asking
a cent, it becomes necessary to say that
it was a very large family Esther worked
in, and they boarded in the state prison.
The great western railway company
OF England has abandoned the broad
for the narrow guage. The change Of
guage of the whole line was effected in
three days, and with it ends the broad
guage system in Great Britain.
A PENNSYLVANIA man has in his pos
session a cigar seventy-,wo years old,
but if he thinks the papers are going
to nominate him for Governor on that
account he will be disappointed. The
time has gone by when a cigar seventy
two years old will get up tidal wave.
DR.-, entering a military hospital
surgery, met Doyle, the orderly, and
asked which he considered the most
dangerous of the many cases then in
hospital. "That, SIR said Doyle, as
with an indicative jerk Of his thumb he
pointed to where, on the table, lay a
case Of surgical instruments.
The poison of the viper is said to be
an aHtidote to the poison of a mad dog.
All that is necessary, therefore, to in
sure safety in hydrophobia days is to
carry viper in your pocket, and apply
its fangs to your leg every time you are
bitten by mad dog. The remedy is
simple and probably certain.
WHILE was in Europe, stood in
grand cathedral, admiring the paintings
and statuarv, when friend called at
tention to the dome overhead. looked
upward to the ceiling far above u.s. but
could see only a cloud like hue. Soon,
however, the confusion vanished, and
angelic faces were looking down upon
US from every part OF the magnih-
cent dome. 1t was beautiful thought
of the artist. And so the cloud of wit
nesses gaze lovingly down upon every
worker OF Christ. Sometimes l see only
clouds about me, but they melt away,
and can behold the saints, the loved
gone before me, with looks of enoour-
agement and affection, filling the heav-
ems around and above me.-Bishop
Simpson.
The charming princess Of Wales is
very high church in her notions, and
she goes on Sundays when she is in
town to fashionable church where the
ritual is very ornate. The other day
when she entered the church little
late all the congregation stood up to
receive her. The next Sunday she came
a little early, but the congregation, in
stead of attending to their prayers, per-
formed the same homage to her. This
annoyed her, and she arranged with the
Clergyman for revenge. Last Sunday,
Just before her arrival, the clergyman,
without his surplice, appeared in front
of his astonished congregation, and in
formed them that they were requested
not to rise from their seats before the
entrance of the clergymen and the
choir" He had barely time to make
his escape when the lady with COM
panion entered. 1t is pleasant to be
able to add that the congregation proved
amenable to discipline, and that the two
ladies were allowed to slip into their
seats without being annoyed by mis-
placed demonstrations.
''No ANIMAL" says writer in Fraser, 80
contending against Darwinism, "has
ever been so honored, so carefully
tended, and so priced by man as the
horse. He has been for many years the
companion and darling OF man. Yet,
is the horse of to- day more exalted than
the horse of Job, and Homer, and Vir-
gil? Do we notice him to be in a
course of transition to higher state of
being accompanied with some change
of form, and with manifest enlarge
ment of capacity? We notice nothing
of the kind, and, moreover, expect