Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-08-11
FACTS AND FANCIFS.

A BROTHER of cold John Brown
died recently at Reedsbureh, Wis, aged
seventy. If John Browns soul is still
marching on" that of his brother will
have to move lively to overtake II.
A SUDDEN draught of hot air passed
through cotton field and peach orchard
in western Texas a few days AGO scorch.
ing and killing every green thing it
touched for spaceoi one hundred wards
long.
ANOTHER day has come and gone
leaving us all older and wiser, but as vet,
no communications have been received
indicating that any one has discovered a
man who can drink out of a spring with
out getting the end of his nose wet
A HoLLTDAYsBURG man recently OBJ
tained a divorce and declared "Once
more ] stand erect, and assume the god
like attitude Of freedom and a single
man. Then he vent home, got into
bed, and in an hour woke up with bad
case Of cholera morbus, yelling "Quick,
Maria , Quick Get a mustard plaster
or Pm gOner"
A CHICAGO young mans wife enter
tanned him with selections from WAGNER
after which he exnressed bimseIf a.
resigned to % TO he'd whore bo slent
verv soundIy, Toward midniabt cats
assembled in the hack ward and vowied
frightfully, The sleeper did not Get nm
and throw bootjacks at them, but turned
on one elbow and whispered in his dreams,
" Sing it once more, Elyira; sing it once
more"
FROM 1900 to 1870 the norulot;or of
England increased from ten to twenty.
eight millions. and that of the Tnited
States from five to tbirtv.eiobt millions
and it is moderately estimated that AMONG
civilized nations the population now
doubles in each period Of f'ftv-four vears
The advances made in hvoienic science
and the comparative miIdness Of madam
warfare are mainly resnonsible FIR this
rapid increase, frightful in view Of futnre
consequences. It is a subject If NOT \
little anxiety among proyident English
men today. how the Gltv.six millions ot
mouths which, in A short half century,
will be craving for food within the narrow
borders of that country can be satisfacto-
rily filed, and it is enough to keep a phil
anlhropist perplexedlv awake q nights
to reflect on the difficulty of feeding the
aense ,,e population OF the earth couple of
'nouSana years hence.
HERE is boy hero now at the Hot
Springs in Arkansas. He lived in Allan
ia, Ca, and was taken sut of the streets
there, squalid and starving, and suffering
from an hereditary and ncurable di,ease
transmitted to him by vicious parents.
lie was obliged to suffer the amputation
of one OF his feet; but, as soon as he
recovered, he slgnited his determination
to depend on charity no longer. Having
received SlOas capital by borrowing from
the agent OF the Benevolent Home, he
soon made money with which to pay this
back and put 'nug $50 in bank. Then
disease overlook him again; his remain
ing foot went like the first one; his
money was soon spent, and he was
reduced TO deaths door As soon as he
recovered, he went bravely to work, and
repaid all his benetactOrs. Now he has
gone to the Hot Springs for his health
with some money in his pocket, and an
uncOnquerable will never to submit or
yield even to circumstances.
E,cu mon i creotod q socioble be;rr
and wa fnJ ' him tod to,5av V fWitbont 5, stn9,
ning to inanire into tbs wbv and wberP-
iora of sa;d crootion> an atom nj q vast