Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-06-06
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

BRET HARIE laSJ poem ms 10 De
read nineteen times before its pathos
can be appreciated.
QUEEN VICTORIA is reported to be fol-
loving established precedents in the re-
Iation of mother in-law.
NEW YORK people have tried hard TO
like horse meat, but they have had to
give it up and go back to beef.
SOME lord in England has ordered
two numbered living prairie checkers
from Grundy county, Iowa, and will
try to acclimate them.
CUSTOMER to barber: 81 y, don't
Chicy put any bay rum (hicl on my face,
cause it'll make (hic) my wife think
I've been (hic) drinkin'."
EVERY cat in Paris during the siege
was taxed three francs year. 1t was
noticed after this that there we're much
fewer cats in the houses, and much
better supply Of rabbits in the restau'
rants.
AUTOGRAPHS of George Washington
are selling in Philadelphia at 81 APIECE.
! The manufacturers are about introduce
ing some improved machinery, and when
that is in they can be had at forty cents
a dozen.
Ar conference meeting in Salt Lake
city recently, Brigham Young, Jr., ex-
planned his system of praying for his
enemies 81 pray for our enemies,
brethren, but always pray that they
may 60 to hell !"
DANIEL BOOK had very brief relig-
ious creed 1t was simply to love and
fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do
all the good to your neighbors and
himself that he could, and as little
harm as he could.
EARL RUSSELL is not with the Wash
ington treaty. He told the house of
lords the other night that it had "tarn-
ished the national honor, lowered the
national character, and sacrificed the
national interest.
A KALAMAZOO widow, who is not one
of the despairing kind, has the photo
graphs her three departed lords in
group, with a vignette of herself in the
centre, and underneath is the inscrip-
ton, "The Lord will provide.
The Chicago Times chronicles the
fall Of an enormous mrolite in the vi
cinty of Farmersville, Livingston
county, No. The shock of its impact
with the ground is stated to have been
like an earthquake, and the molten mass
is described as fully twenty feet high
abve the soil, and some twenty feet in
diameter. 1t presents the usual ap-
pearauce of such bodies, being black,
shining mass Of meteoric iron.
REV. Mn. WALTON, of Hightown,
n. Y, placed a sealed can of beans
upon the live Goals in the stove to
to assist in the opening thereof. An
instant explosion followed, shattering
the stove, upsetting the tea kettle,
scattering the Goals over the carpet,
and plastering the beans to the ceiling.
The whole family had a narrow escape,
and the dominic concludes that he
knows beans" now.
FROM the account of the Sanders
ville Georgia, Herald it appears there
was something to laugh at in the escape
of the convict from the Washington
county gang hired for agricultural la
Dor. The overseer had some dogs that
he was training to catch any Of the
gang who might escape, and he turned
This convict loose to exercise the dogs
and instruct them in their parts. But
the fellow took his part in earnest, and
as the dogs failed to come up to what
was expected of them he was not
caught.
The idea that Dickens intended
portraiture of his own thriftless sire in
the character of Wilkins Micawber sug-
gests to a sagacious London cores
pondent that the latter name Is but
disguise of tho literal expression,
" Ny father Change the "y" to
81" the "f" to &C." the "t to "w,"
and the "h" to "b and behold you
have Micawber at once This power
ful speculation reminds one of the old
explanation of the derivation OF Mid
iletown from Moses-you drop the
'oses and add the iddletown
QUANTITIES of unsafe dams have been
discovered in Massachusetts since the
fool. The latest dis
coverv of the kind is that a dam near
Worcester, which confines a body of
water twice the size of the Mill river
reservoir, has been in dangerous state
for eight years, and was six years since
condemned by the county commission
ers and ordered to be removed. The
order has never been complied with.
and when the dam bursts the city of
Worcester will vanish.
THE old question, does lager intoxi-
cate came before court in Dayton,
Ohio, day or two ago. A Germn
testified: eff you drink five or six
glasses of lager in little while you
will feel more pleasant as if you drink
five or six glasses of water in the same
time, and if you drink five or six glasses
Of water in little while you will feel
more disappointed as if you drink five
or six glasses of lager in the same
time. The jury were out four hours,
and stood seven to five.
The value of carrier-pigeons was so
plainly shown during the Franco-GeI-
man war, that the French government
has decided to erect large house and
to keep constantly in it for thf next six
years 5000 pairs of pigeons for breed
ing purposes. Each fortress is to have
a pigeon-house, with capacity for L.
600 birds, and two general stations are
to be established, with accommodations
for 60, 600 birds. The Germans too are
carrier-pigeons on large
scale for the use of the army.
The spring brain-work has began in
some of the principal newspaper offices.
The st. Louis Democrat says: "In
the spring, the spurs grow longer on
the gaudy ROSTERS legs in the spring,
a pullet's fancy lightly turns to thoughts
of eggs The Minneapolis Tribune
says: In the spring, the vernal blub-
Der ripens in the FURNISHED whale in
the spring, tadpole's fancy lightly
turns to thoughts OF tall" The Boston
Globe says In the spring, tn UNI
brella-owner gins to wonder which is