Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-11-10

In the japanese religion, the FIRST
human being born on earth was a wo-
man.
GALgNA is exceedingly pompous be-
cause it has sent out of its limits one
president, one secretary of state, one
secretary Of war four members of CEN
gress seven governors Of states. two
foreign ministers and many generals.
THE midsummer returns Of paupers in
England and Wales showed diminutiou
Of 2,1I0 IA compared with last year,
which, in view Of the rapid increase Of
population, and the exceedingly de.
pressed condition of trade, is remark
able decrease.
A PETRIrIED wasp nest has been found
near Eureka, New, by blasting in the
solid rock forty feet below the surface Of
the ground. On breaking it open, some
cells, lsrva, and two perfectly formed
wasps were found, also petriied. The
rock is a granite sand stone of sedimen-
tary formation.
A Mr.. HOwLAYD, OF San Francisco,
claims after an expenditure CT $4,000 and
several years Of labor, to have discovered
an inIallibie indicator, with which he has
been able to tell how much coin a pcrsOn
carried about him and the proportion of
gold and silver. The invention supplies
q long felt want among borrowers.
II was reported some time ago that the
king of Holland was about to marry a
French stage master. The Dutch laws
do not, however, permit morganatic
alliance, and the woman who the king
espouses becomes the queen, DO matter
what her standing in or oat of society
may have been. As the king is not
willing to resign, and his marriage to an
actress would he an af'ront to the'states'
general, the affair is now said to be in
defnately postponed.
Cocoa, so much enjoyed by invalids,
and supposed to be the purest of all
articles used for beverages, is just as
liable to adulteration at the hands of the
manufacturers and dealers as tea and
coffee. Genuine cocoa is hard to find.
Manyof the preparations Of the cocoanut
sold under the name of chocolate shells
and chocolate powder consist of dis
gushing mixture OF bad or musty cocoa
nuts, with their shells, sugar of the poor
est quality, ground up with potato
starch, old sea biscuits, coar.e, branny
-four taIIow or lard, red and yellow
ochre, chalk, sulphate Of lime, red lead,
etc. Nine-tenths of the preparations
from cocoa contain these ingredients in
greater or less propOrtion.- Boston Bul(e-
tin.
WHEN people ask Gordon H. Gid
dins a one-legged commercial traveller,
how he lost his leg he generally replies,
" Lost it on election" and that satisfies
the most curious Utica Herald.
! (iiddIngs seems to have got on new
track, as he used 10 take pride in inform
ing his friends that it was 'bitten off bya
COW. y Rocb. Union The last time
! he was in Rome he said he lost his leg
through hole in his pantaloons pocket.
Rome Sentinel On the contrary he
has frequently said that when he lost it
he was going on the stump.-LN. \.
Herald. What he really did say was
that he wanted to sec the boot on the
other leg. .-,- Courier Journal
PRAIRIE dogs are nuisances pure and
simple, and they are capable of doing an
/ immense deal of damage in any country
where they permanently locate them
selves. They eat OF" all the grass-roots,
and make desert in every place where
their towns are located. never saw SO
many as | did while on my way hither;
and in my opinion, it i3a most iortu'
nate thing that the rattlesnakes eat so
many of the young ones, or they would
in few wears overrun the whole country.
They may do thisin any event. They are
pests of the worst order, and have al
ready done great deal of damage near
several of the water courses-Chic' 1r'o
Big Hora Letter.
| 4 STRICT Turk is obliged not only to
wash his head, face, neck, ears and ieet,
but also his teeth at each ct the lve
daily calls 10 prayer, sc he very soon
wears out his toothbrush, and those
articles are generally sold in packets OF a
dozen. They are made OF olive sticks
about ten inches long and half AN inch
in diameter. At one end for about hall
an inch they are split in all directions, 50
AS to form brush 1t is easy to see that
they are not calculated to endure hard
ware. The lessparticular Turks use
ordinary European toothbrushes, but as
even the most lax among them look or OF
the pig and all belonging to him as vile
and unclean, they would as soon think o
defling their mouths with a KusslaI
bristle toothbrush as OF eating PorS
chop or a rasher of bacon; The shop
keepers, therefore, swears by the heau ,
and souls of his father and mother that
the hair of which his toothbruShes arc
made grew oa the back of the camel, th'
-,,,, or tho horse jTlrkS