Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-06-23
PlTH AND POINT.

THE New York beauties wall ont
with their pet dogs attached 10 strings
and foreigners wonder at the number Of
blind ladies going about.
The man who lifts his hand against
a woman save in kindness" lives in San
Francisco. The woman edited q news
paper, and had the misfortune 10 offend
the man by some journalistic utterance
A CHICAGO pork packer whose new
rent was raised to $25, exclaimed
Great Cesar, here's nice state of
afiairs-the gospel going up and pork
going down. What's to become OF US"
PEOPLE who may be malicious are
| circulating stories to the effect that soine
of the springs at Saratoga are bogus, ana
allege that the owners 70 there every
morning and throw in salt, old iron,
tomato cans and tenpenny nails Of
course this is very important--if true.
IT makes a farmer mad as a wet hen to
see a potato bug with a pick on its
shoulder crawling ever his garden fence,
and when it pauses on the top rail to'ask
why in the name of julius Cesar he
didn't plant it earlier, only a mortal
fear of the pick prevents him from or
deriDg it off the premises.
JOHN BULL, and the rest of the great
powers around the table, to the Gar:
" Your imperial majesty, what part of
the Turkey do you prefer~ The Gar:
" If you please, a couple Of sides, pair
Of wings, brace of legs, the neck, breast,
thighs and tail-piece will do, but no
sauce" Table in an uproar, especially
on the part Of John Bull.
IT is estimated that at least 100000
pilgrims will visit Rome during the
jubilee of the fftieth year of the episco-
pate of the pope. 1t is supposed that
each Of those pilgrims will give to the
pope at least SO, making a total of g.
100000. Add to this the amount that
will be sent by the churches, and the
sum may reach $2O,000,000.
THE lamblike manner in which the
Chicago and Cincinnati papers refer to
their city contemporaries is being emu
lated in the far east. The Toxic Times
has been called names by the Japan
Mail, and retorts by publishing the tol-
lowing; Wanted-At the Office of the
Japan Mail, a copy of Roget's Thesaurus,
to enable that Journal to diversity it's
epithets"
THE opponents of the dummy engine
as a tractor on the street railway are
rejoicing over the fact that q girl has
been run over by a dummy in Worcester,
Massachusetts,, and seriously injured.
There have been several persons killed
by cars drawn by horses only; yet we
have not heard Of any widespread de.
mand that cars shall therefore be drawn
only by men.
MEy's MINDS Passing through vii
lage in the evening, you will note one
light streaming out from the kitchen
window, another shining forth from attic
md gable,en with still a third beaming
from the parlor story; you will scarcely
note single home where every window
. ilgultu. Anu 81 IL Is WIN Htu
ninds...some in total darkness, others
shining only in certain directions, none
being luminous on all points.
He started out in the morning happy
10Y. When at dusk he returned with
bloody clothing, a broken finger, a
.prained ankle and big cut in his lower
ip, his fond mother asked him in alarm
8 if he had been through a threshing
machine or had been the unfortunate
,ictim Of a railroad smash-up." " Meth
r. mother" replied the youth, and then
Never mind me, ma. l
rave only been playing base ball. Our
ide, the Lilies waxed the No Names
score, 13 to s, and then he
unk into confused heap on the parlor
arpet; revived a little, lifted up his
read muttered, " Jim, put that to first
nd be thunderiog quick about it, y then
asped and expired"