Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-05-30
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SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
YOUTH is g nius. - DisraeH.

PUBLIC opinion is a second conscience,
Alger.
THE two colors which are indiscerna-
hle are invisible green and blindman's
buff.
THERE is one town in Connecticut
that is not afraid of the measles. It's
Haddam.
The subject of cremation, says tie
Graphic, might with propriety be dis
cussed during the berrying season.
CoLoBADo prefers cross-eyed women.
as they have better facilities for per-
eeiying the approach of indians.
THOMAS THUMB and wife have set out
on their annual farewell tour around
The country, and will wind mp the show
business in about twenty years more.
WOMEN are fast becoming familiar
with politics. We have heard Of wo-
man who believes so thoroughly in in
iation that she blows her husband up
three times day.
THE Mobile Register asks: "Why
should not the federal government build
and keep up the levees on the Mlssis-
sippi river, as well as build breakwaters
on the Atlantic ocean q
A SMALL Aberdeen child, being asked
by her Sunday school teacher, What
did the Israelitas do after they crossed
the Red sea answered, do not know,
ma'am but perhaps they dried them
selves.
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THE Rev Adirondack Murray says he
doesn't believe in horse-racing, but if
any fellow comes dashing up behind
with the expectation of passing him on
the road, he will find himself most
-nably mistaken.
SHE lives in Douglas county, Oregon;
has been married eight times, has eight
living husbands, and resides with none
of them. Her daughter, aged twenty
three, with energetic emulation, has dis
posed of three husbands.
No earnest thinker is a plagiarist
pure and simple. He will never borrow
from others that which lie has not al.
ready, more or less, thought out for
himself Charles Kingsley.
DAWN
There is solemn stiffness in the air;
The moon attended by single star
Shines high in placid ether; eastward far
Along the horizons edge, there is q glare
or orange brilliance and above it fair
And paly blue the sky, without a bar
or streaky cloud the pure expanse to mar,
Is tinctured with the coming splendor. There,
The fulgent head springs, and million rays
Dazzle my study-room is charmed with light,
A golden picture Of ts window plavs
On the green bookcase, and a shalowy wight
Behind me sits, and, as turn my gaze,
MOcks all my motions like an eli7h sprite.
ADELINA PATTI, the fair Marquis of
Caux, is said to be growing enormously
fat. Several cabinet councils have been
held at st. Petersburg ABOUT it, and the
czar offers a liberal reward for the dis
covery of any means to thin her out.
A ST. LOUIS lawyer asked a witness in
court, "Did you ever know Mr.. Suther-
land to 60 back on bargain ?" The
opposing counsel objected to the ques-
ton on the ground that it was not gram
matical, and the judge sustained the
objection.
An engineer on the Western North
Carolina railroad shouted to crowd of
rustics, who had gathered to see the
first train Of cars como in, "Put down
your umbrellas you'll scare the engine
off the track p The umbrellas were
lowered at once.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS, who was married
to the daughter of very honest but
somewhat impecuuious parents Just
after the panic, says he did not find it
half so hard to get married as he did to
get the furniture.
A BOsToN millionaire offered a man
two dollers and half TIE other day for
stopping runaway team aDd saving
the life of his daughter. ecan't hope
to be a millionaire long if he is going
to squander his money in that way.
IF you suppress the exorbitant love
of pleasure and money, idle curiosity,
pursuits and wanton mirtb,
what a stiffness there weuld be in the
great cities The necessaries of life
do not occasion at most third part of
the hurry.-Bruyere.
A Missouri clergyman stopped his
discourse to cut off liberal piece of
plug tobacco for his mouth. and when
one of his hearers reproved him, the
preacher started for Kansas, where the
folks aren't SO particular, and where
plug tobacco and patriotism go hand in
hand.
CoNF1RMED old topper soliloquizes
"They say whisky is a curse. And
they say brandy is curse. And they
say tobacco is another curse. Well, I
wish all those curses would come home
to roost, and roost low, at that, so as
could pull 'em down whenever 1 want
ed EN-" .r
Miss LESTER, of Baltimore, has sent
to Tennyson wild daisy picked from
Poe's grave. The package was tied
with white satin ribbon. upon which
was written, "The only blossom from
the nameless aud neglected grave of
Edgar Allen Poe, 1874" 1t was the
only flower to be found on or near the
desolate place.