Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-03-07
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

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can get in this world.
IT is now the practice of somesilkmau-
ufacturers to weight their silks with
solution Of lead acetate, by which means
poisous properties are impaired to The
silks, as well as an increase in weight.
IN seventeen years Spurgeon has re-
ceived 1900 persons into his church,
erected thirty.six chapels in London,
and supplied the same with ministers
trained in college of his own found
ing.
ALLUDING to the death Of citizen
recently, the Danbury News remarks:
With the single exception of twenty
three years ago, when he took a few
lessons on a violin, his life has been
blameless.
THE Aericulturalist states that very
fine white vinegar may be made from
the Juice of the white part Of water
melons. At certain stage the fluid is
bitter, but when perfected acquires
vinegar flavor.
A COAL field with seams varying from
five to thirty-fye feet in thickness, and
extending over q region of 250 miles,
has been discovered in the new terri
tories on the line OF the Northern Pa
cifc railroad.
A LITTLE girl asked a minister, "Do
you think my father will go to heaven"
"Why, yes, my child. Why do you
ask ?" "Well, because if he don't
have his own way there, he won't stay
long, I was thinking"
LOVES LAND
In the south ia loves land,
Where the roses blow,
Where the summer fingers,
Fearless Of the snow,
There no winter chllls IT,
SO its life IS long
Gentle breezes fan il,
Age but makes It strong,
Nay, fresh roses wither
Where the sun IS hot
Not in tOrrid regions
Blooms forget-me-uO'.
loves tender blossom,
Which the winter cAills,
But too eager summer
with its kisses kills.
For pure grit and long-continued pa
tience you ought to go to Toledo. A
Young lady in that town has sent one
hundred and sixteen pieces OF poetry to
the newspapers, and though all have
been rejected, she is struggling with an
other.
ONE might write a column obituary
notice on an ofTice-holder and then not
equal the brief announcement in an
Iowa paper: " Harvey Jackson, county
treasurer, is dead. He was lenient
with the widowed, and his books always
balanced"
THE Illinois Central railroad is about
to inaupurate the planting Of trees to
furnish a supply of ties for the road.
The particular portion Of the line on
which the work will begin this season
is that part of the branch" " betUee1
Chicago and Champaign.
NJ. MULLER states that in a series OF ex-
periments recently made, frogs That were
frozen in brooks If ice for eight hour
wsre alive and breathed normally
soon as the ice was thawed. Ot two o.
thase creatures of equal weight, the
most vo acious consumed the most OK
ygen.
A PEORIA naturalist, in attempting to
warm the ears of a frozen wasp over a
GAS let discovered that the tail of the
insect thawed out first, and worked with
a rapidity that was as astonishing as
the nideous profanity OF the natural
list. who held the insect by the tail
while thus experimenting.
ACCORDING to Pettenkofer, cholera
patients may be attended with perfect
impunity if proper attention is paid to
cleanliness. In addition to the ordinary
cleansing of rooms and utensils, he
especially insists on the Immediate sub
lection of all soiled linen or other cloth
lug the action of boiling soapsuds.
The most appalling case of deafness
that we ever came across outside OF an
ASYLUM was an old lady who lives Just
across the street from the navy yard. The
other day they fred salute OF twenty,
one guns. The old lady was observed
TO start and listen as the last gun was
| fred. and then exclaim, Come in.
A WOMAN applied to the police justice
in Detroit the other day for warrant
for another for SANDER The justice
stated that it was a case for the record
er's court, but asked her what the
woman said. "She called me q liar,
replied the female. "Did she qualify
y" inquired the Judge. Yes, she
did-look a-here," replied the COM
plainant, showing a scalp-wound four
inches long. "She'd qualified me
again if l hadn't knocked her over with
a brick
TT is n circumstance worth noting that
the native British regiments who are en-
Gagged on the gold coasts have been
found to withstand the climate much
better than the West Indian troops. all
of whom are colored. The facility with
; which the British race becomes accll-
) matized has long been well marked and
3 recognized by authropologists; but the
contrast afforded in the present IN
stance has not often, if ever, been OBJ
tainable before, and it is of some seen
' tifc value.
s MILE. LEvAsUER, a leading tragic ac
G tress in Paris, was once playing mos
e touching part in which the heroine com
e mits suicide by taking poison. At thu
6 most pathetic passage, while she wa
r bidding adieu to life and making ever.
n body in the theater sob, she suddenl,
II changed her tone, and shrieked, " Dam
d nation, what has been put in thu
It how'll Imagine the effect OF thl
o homelv prose delivered in SO energeti
o manner in the midst Of stately poetry
If The actor, Beauvallet, who loved,
g practical joke, had smeared the beake
y with asafetida.
Of oman AND APES. Mr.. Mivart, i
r. his hook entitled "Man and Apes in
II vestigates the question OF the relatio
n of apes to man from an osteologicai an
nc anatomical point of view. He denle
10 IL. "a ,,roeont GENERALLY accented MOTTO