Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-01-20
FACTS AND FANCIES.

"DDN'T she return your love"
Z" Yes she did; she said she did't want
| it. That's what's KILN me"
THE rogues gallery in New York con-
tans, at the present time, l429 photo
graphs, which cost the city 81, las.
The modem cookstove is approach
ing a degree of perfection which will re-
quire competent engineer at a stated
salary to run it,
WHEN a man gets little money and
starts out to burst faro bank, 1t Is
not hard to tell that he will breakfast
the next morning at free soup-house.
SCENE on a street car Conductor to
passenger who is smoking: "If you want
/ to smoke on this car you must put out
your cigar or get off right away"
"WMAT did the puritans come to this
country for" asked a Massachusetts,
teacher Of his class. "To worship in
their own way and make other people do
! the same.'
BEFORE 1870 there were no horse rail-
roads in London There are now twenty
four routes in running order, and the
traffic has increased from 100000 pas
sen1ers in 1871 to p, 100000 in 1876.
| TALESTispower; tact is skill. Talent
makes a man respectable; tact makes
! him respected Talent conyinces; tact
converts. Talent commands tact is
obeyed. Talent is something; tact is
everything.
"MY son, said NJ. X, kindly, to his
youthful heir, "aCcusto yourself to be
polite to the porter, the servant girl, the
coachman. to all the servants; thus you
will come in time to be courteous to all
people, even to your parents"
He was a well-meaning man, but they
had been married long while, and
when he playfully asked her what was
next to nothing, she sarcasticalIy an
swered that at this season Of the year she
thought his winter hannels were.-Nor'
Jrich Bulletin.
THE Cherokees have over eighty com
mon schools The Chickasaws have four
public and about ten district schools.
The Choctaws have two public schools
and over fifty district schools. The Greeks
have three public schools and about thir-
ty district schools.
OF one thing there is very little seen
nowadays, even in the houses of the
wealthy, and that is solid silver. To pos
sess it is to send an invitation to the bur-
lars from far and near We respond to it
at once, and pick out the good from the
initiated with a care and accuracy which
might excite admiration, if the conse-
uueuces were not so disagreeable. .-Jeaaie
JHe.
ONE of the most graceful things ever
said in the complimentary line was the
observation made by New York paper
last week concerning the integrity of
swan. the defaulter in his dealings with
the Bleecker street savings bank, (which
he was secretary. His position" says
the paper referred to, "gave him no
opportunity to handle the funds of that
institution, and his connection with it
was marked by strict integrity
TRAGEDIES like this occur in golden
California; John c. Dawes left two
weeks ago with his flock of 1900 sheep
for the north. While crossing the alkai
lands near Tulare lake he camped for the
night. and in the morning when he awoke
he saw his sheep all lying down but one,
and on examination found that there was
but that one alive. They had all quiet
" died in the night-a loss of more than
s., 1000.
4 VENERABLE divine, who had been
dining out the night before, went into
barber shop one morning to be shaved.
He saw that the barber had been getting
more drink than was good for him, for 1t
made his hand shake very much, and,
naturally little indignant, he began to
rive him little moral advice by saying;
bad thing, drink" Yes" said the
barber, "Iv makes the skin remarkably
tender"
cor course they're all right" said
Colonel Nose in the Fashion saloon last
night, as he shutled the cards after the
dealer. "but then yer see it don't do no
harm to give em a riff Just for luck. A
man NAV believe yer when yer tell HIM
the north pole is red hot, or that ms
mother.in-law is. az angel IN disguise
but when he gets Jack full beat IN
game of bean poker, it is difficult thing
to make him believe that everything Is
exactly on the squar.
A CorNrRSAN excited some attention
on one OF the New Haven railroad trains
last week by going through the cars and
4. lo baI EnV that