Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-07-18
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

From all the Ol0 uDNbI-lltl'AH VI tA4D h'N'F
And. weary seekers Of the beet,
We come back laden from our quest,
To find that al the sages said
l. in the Book our mother read.
TIGHT LAcING is again coming INTO
fashion. This is good news for short
armed lovers.
"Now is the time for roasting ears,
writes rural editor. He should carry
a sun umbrella.
Love matches are often formed by
people who pay for month OF honey
with life Of vinegar.
THAT was bright little chill who in
quired, "Ma, when COWS die, do they
go to the 'milky-way|"
Mrs. Lizzie Lloyd Ph9nix, the
Russian diamond scandal person., IS
known as the "Grande Duchesse IN
Paris.
A PHILAxTHRoPIsr suggests that 1t
would lower the price OF small comls
to muzzle the boys during the green ap-
pie season.
JAPANESE civilization has progressed
so far that they now allow criminal
his choice between being sawed up, be-
headed or hung.
1t is considereda pretty well-settled
fact that death has no terrors tor the
man who marries woman after thif-
ty years courtship.
NEVER witt friends with ut some an
nouncement of your coming. Crockett
motto is a good one: "Be sure You
write, then go ahead.
ALEcTURER aptly demonstrates the
theory that heat generates motion oy
pointing to boy who accidentally sat
down on piece of punk.
Mime. Lind. Goldschmidt and MI
Sims Reeves are each said to nave
child whose promise of future renown
as singer is very great.
A MOTHER advised her daughter to
oil her hair, and tainted fiat away when
that damsel replied, ooh no, ma; It
spoils the gentlemens vests.
THE French and English press con
slider that the manifesto of Count de
Chambord makes it impossible Tor MN
to become king Of France.
WHILE Texas women claim to ride on
both sides of their horses, the New
York Herald claims that all sensible
people ride only on the outside.
THE chancellor OF the New York law
school told the graduating lawyers to
marry as soon as they could. So as to
develop their argumentative powers
The Detroit Free Press tells us that
"the sable Georgia agriculturists fol-
low the Plow or work among the corn corn
~. - s-:tl-..ss S--~--ol+ NA0'+A
ine on TO conceal a good sized wart.
WALT WHITMAN on the Bescher mys-
terry
Himslaya Of bsmboozement ,--,
Great crayfsh Of the social seas and sacerdota
likewise.
odnm theologicum, and 60 and come again
Which il to be, or not, is why or WAlcA'
Here seeing that by What we 1hH4A we seS'
And nothing see at all
. THE "beautiful and accomplished
| daughters around Memphis 80 ont
oooH-lunting with their beau1, and on
} returning home climb into the second
) story window so as not to arouse the
old man.
PRoF, TYsDALL is exhibiting fire
g mans mask which enables the wearer tC
D remain in an atmosphere of heat and
smoke without danger. II a fellow
could only take the things OF this WorII
along when he dies
PRoF. MUGG1Ns having carefully ex
amined the comet" by the asslstanc
=, of several powerful glasses-at leas
- two.thirds full-is fully satisfied tina
!, it is straggler" from some drove
~ consequently nameless.'
CAPT, SHAW, the chief OF the Londol
o fire brigade, will very likely lose HI
% position. Recently, in order to sho'
Q the efficiency of the iremen, he ordered
I. an alarm of fire at the British Museur
re- re- to be reported. The result was tina
81 London, after having been frightene
in from its propriety only to find that nc
thing was the matter, is full OF rlgh'
n. eous Indignation, and demands the sax
rifce Of Capt. Shaw.
ne -Constantinople has adopted som
decisive steps to promote the moraIlt
I'd of the city. All public or secret gan
bling in cafes or other places IN an
h part of the capital is forbidden. Husl
Pasha, minister Of police, has just
,;t sued an order under which all theater
cafes chantants, cafes, and places OF
ba like nature in Pera and other parts
no Constantinople must in future be close
he. at midnight. Any establishment kee
: ng open after that hour will be cor
as pulsorily closed by the police, and l
mr. proprietor subjected to heavy tine.
,re WHEN the celebrated French cher
of ist. Orhla, was on one occasion W
ness at a trial for poisoning, he W
lst asked by the president if he could sta
Ok, the quantity of arsenic requisite to k
,he a fly. Certainly, NJ. lie Presld, Mt
replied the expert " But l must knt
l beforehand the age of the fly, its Sc
its temperament, its condition a
inc habit of body, whether married or 81
gle, widow or maiden, wldower
sir, bachelor.
md The MAIDEN's LAMENT
The setting sun glded her soft brown hair'
it's Aud mellowed the gloom III her lumlh'
ewes,
- Then Redeemed with bushes her bosom fair
II And sank in a blaze of luXuriant dyes.
iel' Yet the sun comes up with the coming mori
! We And the west will flame again, az OF yore
But hope once set is never reborn,
}, And heart that is broken is dead eYermC
was So the maiden mosned with the moaning trt
the And lifted wet eyes to the rising moon,
me-. And whispered her woes to the whisper
"a breeze
leu She must wear her spring hat till the en'
June.
Nor a bad joke is attributed to one
for the suite of the Russian emperor.
,em talk of his English entertainers fell
ow- on the rather worn out talk OF invad
for London, when the gentleman alluded
ner. saw the merits of the subject and
3 ad marked. "London is so immese tina
this believe any small invading army la
,anv ipg at the east end of your capital wo
rid lose its way, and at the close OF "
net or ten days the soldiers would be ia
/ n up by the police at the west END
lied begging"
. of IT is said that DIR. Chalmers once
By tertained a distinguished guest II
it," Switzerland, whom he asked II
low would be helped to kippered salm
so 1 The foreign divine asked the mean
Of the uncouth word "kippered,"
was told that it meant preserve
fall Soon after the poor man made use