Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1875-11-20
FACTS AND TANCIEs.

Another brilliant wedding" Tbs
young man with flower on his coat IL
TO marry the young woman with the
habit Of saying " The ide-yah.p
A Pennsylvania named Wingert cut
his toe off because Of an aching corn, and
then hung himself because Of the aching
OF the amputated toe.
| Patti has SO many diamonds that Il
takes one man constantly to watch them,.
either at home or abroad, and double
care is taken while travelling
The price Of squaws has declined on
he approach Of winter. One can now
be purchased for seven dollars in cash
and pound Of powder.
The New York Herald will have its
Stanley letter about once in SO often even
if some one in the Office has TO consult a
map Of Africa and write it.
Politics Is the same all over. The
man who runs fox constable Is lust e's
soandiy abused by papers - the man
MAO runs fof eonsft3s j, Y.
What does 1so.{. l'.' X s.,e,.: y. w
asked one schooIboy Of another. You
had better 81 aiiome and read your Rob
inson Crusoe," was hewithefing reply:
The Princess Frederica, daughtsr of
the ex-King of Hanover, is said to be
without doubt the most beautiful prin-
cess in Europe. She is the devoted COM
panion of her blind father.
---Californians say they can tell an
Eastern man as soon as he makes pur-
chase. If there's two cents change COM
ing to him he wants it.
"A Dutch assessor says it is positively
amusing how cheap property becomes as
he passes up or down street. 1t falls
seventy per cent. whenever he enters
house.
If your horses have the epizoot, dis
solve teaspoonful of crystal chlorate of
potash in bucket of water, this amount
making morning dose for four horses.
"A purchaser of a riverside property
asked the real estate agent if the river
did not overflow its banks. WE'LL"
said he, ait isn't one of those sickly
streams that are always confined to their
beds"
Various American artists who have
been living and working abroad during
the past ten years have returned home,
convinced that American cities afford
better market for their work than all
Europe.
THE cruelest joke that happened this year
Was that of the cheeky passenger
Who passed counterfeit shinplastecr
On an innocent horse-car conducteer,
And then slipped out of the car at the rear
And round the corner waltzed off on his ear.
The Rev. Henry Morton's sermon ON
"Seventeen Reasons Why Men Don't Go
to Church " is likened by wise people TO
that famous song with 499 verses. The
first reason why men don't go to church
is because they don't want to, and the
seventeenth reason is the same
"A Paris writer is wondering what
becomes of all the lost children in Paris.
He says: "The newspapers record their
disappearance almost daily. Two quar-
tiers ought to be well looked after, espe-
cially as their operations are now very
active-the sausage-making machines anu
the schools of medicine"
The st. Louis Times revives dear
old memories by remarking: "There are
Young men who cannet hold skein of
warn for their mothers without wincing,
but will hold one hundred and twenty
five pounds of a neighboring family for
the best part Of the night with patience
and docility that are certainly phc-
nomenal.
The late eccentric Marquis of Water
ford offered railroad company $4,000
if they would allow him to witness the
exciting spectacle of two engines dashing
into one another at full speed from OPP
posite directions on the same line; but
the company could not see the matter in
a sporting light, and the offer was res
pectfully declined.
Always be courteous. The maxim
was uppermost in the mind of the lady,
who, wishing to say lively thing, ex-
claimed: "What lovely boyl Just the
image of his fatherw kneeling in simu-
lated enthusiasm beside the cradle where
she supposed the babe was sleeping, when,
to her confusion, the cat sprang from the
cot and cut short her eulogium.
Edwin Booth has discovered some
thing new during his confinement from
his broken arm which he will introduce
into his next impersonation of 7" Hamlet"
1t is that in Hamlet's time no such thing
as velvet was known, and Hamlet's dress
on Booth hereafter will be stripped of
velvet.
"A young fellow entered church and
took his seat, keeping his hat on. An
elder noticing it requested him to take it
off. His request not being complied with
he spoke to the young man a second time,
and seeing he still hesitated, the elder
gently lifted the hat of, when, to his
chagrin, out rolled quart OF hickory
nuts, making more noise than was CON
sistent with decorum. "Man," quietly
said the youth, "see what you have
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