Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-08-22
SAYINS AND DOINGS.

A DELAWARE man thrashed his wife
almost to death because their baby
didn't get prize at baby show, and
: then he offered to trade the badly for a
, pig.
! A GENTLEMAN, on presenting a lace
collar to his adored one, said, carefully:
"Do not let any one else rumple 1t. F"
"No, dear, she replied, "Ill take it
of.
AMONG tie modern Improvements in
Persia which the Shah has ordered is
guillotine, gallows and corps of bal
let-girls to be shipped to him from Eu-
rope.
A Missouri writer speaks of one of
his contemporaries as a "poor old skin
ny-bony, whose knee and arm joints
have been held together for twenty
years with cotton twine.
ONE of the most cheering signs to in
dicate that the panic is over is the fact
that a stranger can display fifty-cents
shinplastcr in Chicago and not be hauled
ont of the river next morning.
THE Detroit Free Press mentions
Kansas farmer who declares that a
grasshopper sat on the gate-post and
threateningly asked " William Bryant,
where in thunder is the balance of that
cold meat?"
To ERR is human No lives are passed
without errors. The best and meanest
of Gods human creatures can, without
a great stretch of memory, recall the
time when they got hold of the wrong
end of the poker.
/ GUSTAV has found gold in abundance,
and the Black Hills country is a sort Of
paradise, half California, half Floride.
Whether the American people are ready
to take their scalps in their hands and
go to develop it remains to be seen.
/ EPIGRAM. --
waggsh wight "a shrewd one too,)
Once told me that he really knew
a girl that put her humors Off
And ceased to scod to laugh I'D SCOT
To weep and sorrow DER romances,
And went no more to plays and dances.
/ doubted long-at last he said,
1.-THE reason is, the woman's dead.
THREE giraffes Just from Abyssinia
have reached the garden of plants in
Paris. This animal threatens to be-
come extinct. He is taken now in a
very small district, and has resisted all
efforts to domesticate him as made in
Africa, though these efforts are partly
successful in European menageries.
CIVILIZATION and christianity are ev.
cry day penetrating into Japan. One
of the latest signs of the times is the
offer Of various idols for sale. The
journals of the country contain many
advertisements on the subject. Here is
one "For SALE at Kama-Kura, a very
fine idol, with six arms. 1t is fifteen
feet high, and was cast in bronze-at
Sheffield"
DURING the official life Of Police
Chief Savage of Boston, that city has
had at one time free rum, at ano a
license law, at another prohibitory
law badly enforced, and yet again for
time prohibitory law vigorously en-
forced, and yet he says there is no vari-
alton in his statistics furnishing the
least indication of when any one policy
prevailed.
IT IS asserted that, for fall goods,
browns will take tue lead. 1t is tint
which makes the complexion appear
finer, winter and clearer than any other
color, and is selected by both blondes
and brunettes. Combinations of purple
and grey are also predicted-the grey
being rough in texture, and the purple
of silk or poplin. Blues, too, from the
de- D navy to the clear Marie Louise
will be popular.
Now THE best way in the world to
seem to be anything, is really to be
what we would seem to be. Besides
that, it is many times as troublesome
to make good the pretense of a good
quality as to have it, and if a man
have it not, it is ten to one but he is
discovered to want in, and then all his
pains and labor to seem to have 1t at
last. .-1EiOtS0n.
A SINGULAR dinner took place lately
at the crystal palace, in London.
About four hundred years ago citizen
of st. Clements, Eastcheap, bequeathed
to his fellow-citizens piece of land,
the annual proceeds of which were to
be applied to defray the expenses once
wear of a meal consisting OF bread
and cheese, raddishes and ale, A large
party sat down to the humble repast,
but after it had been disposed of it was
quickly followed by banquet which
Lucullus might have envied.
A wRITR who has Airted with the We
men OF Paraguay says: "0nly imag-
inc yourself about to salute the red
lips of magnificent little Hebe, ar
rayed in satin and flashing with dla-
monds. as she puts you back with one
delicate hand, while with the other she
draws forth from her mouth abrownish-
black roll of tobacco quite two inches
long, looking like a monster grub, and
then, depositing the savory lozerge on
the brim of your sombrero, puts up
her face aud is ready for a salute. How
ever, one soon gets used to this IN Par
aguay, where you are, per force OF GUS
tom, obliged to kiss every lady you are
introduced to-"
YORK -seller-loquitur: "You
see, sir, we keep all kinds here. Now,
that little toy terrier on the floor there,
he's worth $1OO. A lady came in her
, carriage yesterday from uptown, and
J says she, 1 want that dog; he's dar-
ling; I'll give you $75 for him, but my
} price was 800, and didn't weaken;
: Bless you, she'll be down to-day and
: have that fellow out of this, with sill
4 yer collar around his neck and a long
8 ribbon to lead him. Then she'll be
/ back with him sick in a week from over
a feed, and want me to cure him. Ha
a ha p with some contempt in his voice.,
= "these women ale as wise as sarplats
v with the men, but they don't know moth
/ in bout dogs ~
d AT OLD Orchard Beach, on the coast
.. of Maine, a quaint old custom is still
i, observed with annual regularity. A
d belief prevails among certain classes ol
Ia the country folks in that vicinity that
ID the water of the ocean possesses some
ct pecial virtue on the 26th day OF JUNE
ee for the curing of chronic diseases. And
so on that day there may always bt
seen a constant stream of odd.lookinP
Of country vehicles, filed with the "lame,