Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-05-19

FACTS AND FANCIEs.

MUCH OF the charity that begins at
home is too feeble TO get out of doors.
As you cannot avoid your own COM
pany, make it as good as possible.
PHILADELPHIA is the greatest Ameri-
can city in its line. It's line is borning
marrying and dying.
ALI other signs may fail; but when
you see a woman with a straw hat ON her
head, a drop of whitewash on her nose
and an expression of great executive
ability on her features, you may bet that
the season of ethereal mildness il at
hand.
| LET me see, says the nurse of a
sick man, the doctor said one TEASPOON
full every ten minutes; that makes six
every hour, say twenty-five during the
night. ! shall give seyenty-two spoon
fhls right away, and have a chance tOget
a little sleep myself.
A WOMAN recently entered store and
sat down in front of ah iron safe to warm
her feet. After sitting some twenty or
thirty minutes, she remarked that she
"never did like them kind of stoves,
they don t throw out scarcely any heat,
those gas burners don't"
THE first thing a young man does on
seeing friend with a new hat on is to
take it off and serenely try it on hisown
head. When a young lady sees an ac-
quaintance with hel new bonnet on, she
Just lifts her nose and serenely wonders
where the thing got that fright"
HERE'S another warning: A man
down town refused to stay home after an
early supper and help his wife white
wash the back yard fence, and his black
hair turned white in less than minute.
His wfe's painful awkardness with the
whitewash brush caused the sudden
change.
LITTLE four-year-old Lulu was very
much afraid in the dark, and for that
reason had great dread of bed time.
Complaining of this to friend one day,
she was told that if she would remember
always that darkness " and light are
alike to God" she would no longer be
afraid. The next morning, upon enter.
ing the breakfast room, the little one ex-
claimed Well, Mrs. -, was fraid
agin last nightw Why, how was that?"
asked the lady, "did you not remember
what told you?" ooh, yes" replied
Lulu "I 'memberedlt, but the 'fraid is
in me, and can't be got out of me. b"
"SrPPosE, says DR.. Siemens, "water-
power to be employed to give motion to
a dynamo electrical machine, a very
powerful current is the result. This
may be carried to a great distance
througha large metallic conductor, and
there be made to impart motion to electro.
magnetic engines, to ignite the carbon
points Of electric lamps, or to effect the
separation of metals from their ores. A
copper rod Of three inches diameter
would be capable of Transmitting 1000
horse power distance of say thirty
miles, an amount sufficient to supply
100000 candle.power, which would be
sufficient TO illuminate a moderate sized
town" Some of these days it will not
be surprising to find the above sugges-
tions carried into practical effect by in
ventors in places where the necessary
conditions are favorable.
To BE perfectly natural is to be well
bred and, contradictory as it may seem,
| quite believe that natural manner may
be cultivated Just as well as an artificial
one. Affection and self.consciousness are
always displeasing, and, unfortunately, L
they often prevent most estimable per-
sons being appreciated, as from their
many good qualities they deserve to be.
If we look around us, and note who are
the most popular of our acquaintances,
we shall find that it is rarely the hard
the ceverest, or most acc0mp-
lished, but invariably those who have the
happy talent of being able to forget
These might be endowed
with fairy wands, so manifold are their
powers of charming. They make the
silent talk, the grave merry, and those
weighed down with sorrow put away
their grief. Such are ever welcome, for !
by their ready sympathy they can adapt
to any society; and in the art
Of entertaining others they are simply
for they make their friends
feel that they have really come out to
enjoy themselves, and not merely fer the
sake OF fulfilling an irksome social duty.