Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-08-15

, Bates as :" the flag g-toting tiend."
IT is observed that at the fashionabl,
seaside resorts no ladies under one
hundred and forty pounds 'avoirdupois
are in bathing this season. ET7sE's.s "a
"Ir costs less to take aSsweekly. pc.
per" argues the Cape Ann'Advertiser,
ethan a diligent hen CAM earn in a
year, at the market price ofleggs.".
BALD mountain has got through shak.
ing, and singularly enough the new
PLAYING cards and setting up again.
IT may be the right of an American
citizen to ride around in a wagon and
howl like a wild beast, but quiet people
wish that elections we're further apart.
| A MASSACHUSETTS man has been in a
successful business forty nine years,
and never advertised. The business
consisted chiefly in lying about his
neighbors.
WGTH stupidity and sound digestion
man may front much. But what in
these dull, imaginative days are the
terrOrs of conscience to the disease OF
the liver ?-Caryyie.
"OUr in Wisconsin horse kicked a
book agent, whereupsn the citizens
made a donation party for the horse,
and he now has oats enough to last him
a full horse lifetime.
A YOUNG LADY asked a clerk in the
Wisconsin News company's store if he
| had "Featus" "No," replied the
clerk, "but I'm afraid boil is CON-
ing on the back of my neck"
A MICHIGAN girl was killed by light
ming while picking feathers for her
uuptial pillow, This seems to be fair
warning to those young ladies who are
too proud to sleep on corn husks.
DEATHS take place, the world over,
at the rate Of one every two seconds.
There is a sense of profound relief in
the thought that every time a man
goes out of the world, baby and a
half are coming into it.
THE PHILADELPHIA LEDGER doesn't
write obituary poetry for children out.
side of Philadelphia, This is the style
in which it mentions the death of a
small boy of Lowell Lowell-Satur-
day. Two little boys and pistol. Now,
only one little boy and pistol.
In the time of the second Emperor Of
the Ming dynasty, some learned China
men began to make a digest of num-
Der of Chinese books. The digest YVES
completed fourteen hundred years age,
and has never been printed, because it
would make twenty-five thousand eight
hundred and seventy seven volumes, a
work much larger than the Chicago
tax-list.
An ingenious fellow in Lewiston, Me,
has been selling a keg, supp sed to con-
tain ten gallons of liquor. By an in
genious arrangement in the kegs pint
Of rum was sealed up inside these kegs
and so placed that, taking out small
cork, the purchaser could test the liq-
nor, but while there was pint of liq-
uor there were nine gallons and several
pints Of water separated from it.
MORE than fifty women applied for
admission at the Agassiz School at Pen
iKesg. UuI1 5,ya-.' ,..----,, orfared tbap,-
selves this year for examination a6 Har-
yard. Apparently there is a difference
between studying at scientific school
open to men and women and passing an
examination for women" under the
auspices of q celebrated university. Bat
the former seems most popular.
Two SCORE years ago Signor Blitz,
whoseems to flourish in perpetual youth,
was notified by the Mayor of Boston
and the town authority of Lowell that
he must not perform on Saturday
while in Connecticut there was law
prohibiting his exhibitions. Now he is
regularly engaged for the entertainment
of children in Sunday-schools, Just as
lecturers are engaged for lyceums;
sometimes being lowed to set his table
on the pulpit platform.
An ENGLISH writer in a recent article
gives a cooling description of Iceland.
After stating that there are no trees, no
vegetables to speak of, DO town except
the capital, no inns, no hens, no pigs,
no roads, no shops. no manufactures,
no army, DO navy, no criminals, only
one policeman, and two lawyers, he in
ouires of himself, "Wbat, then, is
there ?" and himself replies, "Snow-
mountains, glaciers, hot springs, earth
duakes, volca oes, northern lights, cav
erns, norasses, and, above all, deserts"
This is hard on iceland.
As though it hadn't enough on its
hands already, the German government
has undertaken to regulate dueliug in
the army. Boards of honor are to be
formed, and without the sanction of
such board and the presence Of its
president no duel is hereafter to be
fought. Officers complying with these
conditions are to be exempt from GRIM
inal prosecution for casualties occurring
on the field of honor, except in peculiar
" fragrant cases OF unprovoked insult.
The old emperor is quoted in the Lon
don Times as saying: Il will no more
tolerate in the army an officer who wan
tonlv attacks the honor of comrade
than an officer who does not know how
TO guard his own honor. " & p
EUGENE LAWRENCE writes in Harpers
Weekly: "The war party in France en-
ploys in private language that seems
the extravagance of bombast. Newspa-
pers may be cautiously silent, and min
listers yielding and submissive, but the
politicians of the cafes and the clubs
have no hesitation in confessing the
future policy of aggression. France,
they assert, is gathering an army that
nothing in Europe can resist. All its
youth aud manhood are to be converted
into soldiers. In some unguarded mo-
ment they will strike Germany. The
war will be one of uusparing severity,
and if they fail, Paris will be razed to
the ground and the name OF France be
blotted out from among nations. )"
SOME ONE has said that man who
can play a good game of chess has al
the mental requisites necessary for
great general. A professor of the manly
art of fencing and boxing says the man
who can spar well has attained the
highest point of physical development.
In this exercise every nerve and muscle
is brought into simultaneous action at
the command OF the brain. Dancing
and fencing are graceful sparring u
more graceful than either, because 1t
demands both boiy and mind, More
over no man can spar well unless ne Eas