Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-09-08

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WHEN Bishop Mead preached in Ohio
in the early days a backwoodman said:
He is the first Of them fine fellows that
have ever seen who could shoot without
a rest.
"MIss c." said gentleman, one
evening, "why are ladies 80 fond of Off
GERS T' How stupid" replied Miss
c.; "is it not natural and proper
that a lady should ike good offer, sirt'
VISITOR" see you have a new girl
Housekeeper--" took her a week on
trial" Visitor" And how do you like
her" IIousekeeper--" The triaP' is al
most more than can bear"
THERE is a lady at Eureka California,
who, dozen years, ago was married in
two thousand dollar dress, Now she
takes in washing to support a drunken
husband and three pairs Of twins
GoNcEREIEG the word "ladyn wo-
man writes as follows IF ! belonged
to the medical persuasion and an editor
called me lady doctor, ! would per.
scribe for that literary LIGHT gratuit0usly,
rnr nnrifv HIM of bis svnlgar gpntilitv -
P'', '.. 81. .7;Jor.I'. .,;n
1oLNg liL"n %o or - bonc I ,os.r "n
| itv is constructing a raft on which he ex-
pects next month to ride over Niagara
Falls. The raft is being constructed on
scientific principles, but no doubt the
1g'T I,'r mon viii he drowned in the com.
!onn 5WTn3 wav ,,,"
inon Wv ""' ,..1 1.,,;.o &c too ooo oao
lHE il4fheo 3; usC,Lne y, of '9o1%ot'Jg0 Eost w.
PouhoS III 'ne lnlPol 'a''In 81 i'as. 60. hn
diah cotton i51o ie"V 1o-c - .oa,n u,tis
vhe ye@is o.i vi lt, tho4 "% aI bono If snccasefi
sHoTp ,;oIT,, I'vG ,sitt % tba south mn,t he aban.
doned Ip Since 1865 IIindostan has ceased
V-lS w bo a dangeron. connection,
- r,lm a. ,ro.o 4b;x+rtn,o
DbKINV ~! v.Il tnTle WY aI,is aI;ai tIo ~
alIrti III ne% 0iA ~ C = on 4sS In
iaGtisieo 11it boro "nou oro os.iamans and adm.
aadltion !neie Tele %asl bob m5S3 ""u swai ~
dlcaIloh III oanfi upt' "mt'u 70 9%e gSn o6n IM9
a@ta' inogo.eofs5 G , W "po"S ora tho .ae "a
Inc number 9' aliul59 HGl9 s.s S'ile 5n o1n m
Tor june ana Vho ll"oiAi'Ie' are f-0'0''
greater
DIED recently in London PLucky ana
witty FTench iady, VINO, a lew .i Ia!' Si! ditea
tle teNoIulIoI VI nGt oaI aoinr, |o r,r1
out IN carriage WIN alnioIigi Iaa peol I i',ss,
She was hooted ana jsI n'op i 2fG, anu, anu 4he tho
PATRIOT taxing manu- u o .'sn iI ltTiN r INC
gutter, sIealeo lI, IL o,ss 'uu P9He'9h AZ
ing nav n5.ti+riod ~, 5C' v"nr" "r"' said tbe
you nave substitute" !0u'' S"'' VIC
lauy'
WE, still hear occasionally OF the zen
der, passionate, worshlPlns ioYeT' VINO
lies in ambush tor the ldoI ol DIS heaft
, affections, and cuts her heaa Oh WIN
: hatchet because she VII. not marry MN.
= 1t is getting to be safer Tor girl to shoot
man when he proposes thaR 10 ftlect @
him. And that possibility maHe7 II very !,
unpleasant tor the man "neh LIE ASK
--Ha"fsy'
WHAT picnic would be without nor
nets is matter OF CONJECTURE, as thefe
! never has been way to lind out ~
iuncC.' 1T" ftnds"tJ" Hl8Gh9' 9's'yo NJ .de'f5
I besides adding largeIy 70 we onLu
= Five hornets at small table VIII 40 more l
to level social distinctions and TO promote 5
/ social intercourse than an awful disaster
n in a village Dau5wy Ne'%
:, II i enonoh to make every patriotic
d American i9in the hoodIums in their
d attock nnon the Chinese quarter, to hear
e +o.@i t5ot noTisitiye geographers have recently
e tD"nd D' Two rivers in China, each Of which
" !. o'r,a nearIy a thousand miles longer tDan
5, nnr great Mississippi. 1t does seem as il
+ ooc5Iled oU, scientific observers might he
" ~ aIo"t better business than bringing fn
N Mia, n,iTstion on the noble Caucasian ra@
ID I'.l u civilization failure?
.y T,,r San Diego CCal) World says
1g ,,9nbir 9ai, D'' Socrator, who, after repeate,
9os calls for a young lady operator IN an
V7 ~, IT, Of Loot unt a response, an