Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-02-07
GRAVE AND GAY.

THE New York Mail states positively
that the Siamese twins were 'much at
tached to each other"
A JERSEY paper describes man as
being as sociable as n batch Of can
didates two weeks before election.
Ir WAS an expressive remark Of
practical man regarding the women Of
the period recently: "She don't know
enough, sir, to bile water.
/ PATHETIC
Bring out the Grape and toll Ae knell;
] She's dead-a lovely Lockport belle;
Her stomach failed away to get
I With ninety oysters on bet.
/ A DISTINGUISHED preacher says that
+ pi ty is the best cure fer scolding
wife but he doesn't tell whether the
wife must have it or the husband. Prob
ably he meant the former.
A New ALBANY youth horrifed his
teacher at Sunday-school, by asking ii
! the slang phrase stake him out of the
wet" did not originate when Pharaohs
daughter took the infant Moses out OF
the river Nile.
JULIA WARD HOWE says that Z" there
is nothing but dumb submission for the
women" There isn't, Ell? She ought
to meander through this state and look
upon the splrntered rolling-pins and
battered potato-mashers.
AN enthusiastic African, who had
"spent de winter in Jamaky," found it
an earthly paradise. He said he could
8" lie abed, and, putting his arms out dc
windy, pick oranges, pineapples, and
Jamaky rum right off de trees" )"
The two negro girls whose bodies are
naturally united at the hips, and who
were, until lately, shown in this coun-
try, are now on exhibition III Paris.
They are called the Two Headed Night
ingale, and their manager, Franconi, IS
getting rich with them.
OK the whole globe, at least ninety
million, speak the English language,
about seventy-fve millions German;
fiftv-tive millions speak Spanish, and
o1ly forty-fve millions speak the French
language. These matters Of fact may
serve to remov erroneous opinions.
A GOOD brother in a church Of Miami,
county, Ind, while giving his ,ezpe-
rience, not long ago, said " BretheIin,
I've been tryin' this nigh onto forty
year to serve tile Lord and get rich both
at onct, and I tell yer, it's mighty hard
sleddin"
LOVES PLEA
II of our affections none find grace
In sight of heaven, then wherefore hath ca
made
The world which we inhabit Better plea
Love cannot have than that, in loving theo
Glory to that eternal peace is paid,
Who such divinity to thee impart5
As hallows and makes pure all gentle hearts.
-Micbdd Angeio.
. THE Cuban insurrection has cost the
Spaniards ten to fifteen thousand sol
diers and $40, 900, 900 per year since the
opening of hostilities. In other words,
in the last five years Spain has wasted
5000, 900. 900, and lost between fifty aud
seventv.hve thousand troops by bullet
and disease, in vain effort to subo1e
the Cubans.
A NEGRO prisoner, on his way to
penitentiary fer larceny, was asked WI
he thought of his trial. He .sal
"When de lawyer dat Tended me maze
a speech, made sure dat l was gqtng tq
take my ole hat and walk righFGut j
dat cot room; but when the ODD
LAWYER got up and commenced taIkit q
I knew was the biggest rascal on TOP
de earf.
VIA CRCcIs, VIA LUCIs.-
As, after death, our lost ones grow our y
est, p
So AFTER death our lost ones come the ne
est; L.
They are not lost in distant worlds above
They arc our nearest link in Gods own love
The hul an hQnd-clasps of the Infinite
That life to life. spirit to spirit knl.
They ill the riff they make, Ike veins Of e.
In fire-rent, assures torture torn Of old
With sweetness store the empty place
left.
A if wild honey in the rocks bare cleft.
Gerald Massey.
TR1poLrrE or infusorial earth, being q
worse conductorof heat than coal-asly 80
and almost as poor as flax cbaf, and ! e.
ing refractory, is adapted for walls If
ice.cellars and fre-proof safes, for @
ing steam boilers and pipes, etc, a !
possesses the advantage of affordi
protection ainst rats and mice.
iightness is also a great recommend
ton. One cubic foot Of it weighs 2
to 90 pounds; the same bulk Of d y
coal.ashes, 40! to Az pounds, and
dry earth, "a to 128 pounds. For c
ing steam pipes it is mixed with boil d
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