Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-03-14
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

| lHE Wnole production OF the precious
metals throughout the world last year
is estimate d to have been worth $219,-
000 900.
A DETROIT woman lately left her hus-
bands board, but took the bed with her
The Union says he is in quandary how
to word legal notice,
A CoSNEcrIcUT husband cues for di-
vorce on the ground that his wife "did
throw cucumbers in his face because he
helped himself too plentifully."
Az exchange declares that nothing
on earth will so disturb mans future
relations with heaven as rui ming his
neck against clothes-line in the dark. /"
PROVIDENCE. -
The ways # Heaven are dark and intricate
Puzzled in mazes and perplexed with errors
Our understanding traces them in vain,
Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search,
Nor sees with how much art the windings run,
Nor where the regular confusion ends.
addison.
SDiKINs playfully remarked to his
wife that he had four fools beautifool,
dutifool, youthfool, and delightfool.
Poor me !" said she. 81 have but
one."
IF YOU are out of debt, thank the
Lord, and then 90 round among your
friends, and enemies, too, ii you have
them, and render them all the assist
ance in your power.
DIR. SCHMIDT, professor Of astronomy
in the university of Athens, has Just
completed his great map of the moon
1t is two meters in diameter, and is a
marvel of accurate mapping and minute
draughtmanship. The shading is 80 ex-
quisite that any part of the map may be
examined by lens without the appear
ance Of coarse or rough work. The
map represents the labor of thirty-four
years, and is without doubt one of the
greatest astronomical results of the CEN
tury.
PROFESSORS Newcomb and Holden, 70
the national observatory at Washing
ton, have turned the great new teles-
cope of that institution Zone of the
greatest in the world to brilliant &C
count in the rediscovery of two satel-
lites Of Uranus, which have been be-
yond telescope vision since their exist
ence was discovered and verified twenty
years ago, by Tassell, of Liverpool.
Professor Newcomb has received the
gold medal OF the royal astronomical
society of London.
A GRADUATE in the science of loafng
writes: IF you will watch squad OF
men who are standing on corner, or
lounging about public entrance, you
will soon observe one of them carelessly
put his hand in his pocket, keep it there
a moment while he sweeps the horizon
with an abstracted glance, and then
drawing it forth wipe his mouth with
the cuff When his hand comes down
again chew o. tobacco is in his mouth,
and those about him who have no to-
bacco are none the wiser"
MARRIAGE, says the Railroad Gazette,
would not seem to have any close con-
nection with railroad traffic, but we find
an officer of an East India railroad
company explaining falling off in the
passenger receipts OF the year by the
fact that it was twelfth year." which
is regarded by the Hindoos as 50 un-
favorable to marriage that no one, or
scarcely any one, is married. And as
weddings are the great occasion in Hin
doc life, when there is great pomp and
a general gathering together Of friends,
they cause a great deal of travelling.
Mr.. GoUGH thinks that it is better
for a woman to be laughed at for not
being married than to be unable to
laugh because she is married. The
that takes all the laugh out
of woman, like the sunshine that
takes all the sweetness out of the grape,
is an exceedingly suspicious commo-
dity, and ought to give the divorce doc
tors something to do. But the idea of
trying to reconcile a woman to an un-
paired life because another woman
found it uncomfortable, is as absurd as
to try to keep her from eating apples
because of mother Ewes unfortunate
genealogical experience.