Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-06-02
hCTs AND FASclEs.

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rlag7 with Ann Eliza was iOolisb tbing
1t was a thing that allowed her Darents
TO persuade me into. ! did il ior her
good 'O' ne'
| The difference between happiness and
wisdom IL, that the man who thinks
himself most happy is 50, while he who
thinks himself the most wise is generally
the reverse.
The newly elected president of the
| Cincinnati school board said, would
have preferred that this honor had fell
on some other member" and they gave
him grammar.
one can not 0e too careful This
weather A swell exchanged his heavy
winter cane for a light bamboo, and the
consequence was severe cold that laid
him up for week.
The first time a man il interviewed he
tells you family that he doesn't see what
his opinion is worth ; ana then hs smiles
as If he had put on too much mustard. -
| ~ J. Hccaid
SAY nothing respecting yourself, either
good, bad or Indifferent; nothing good,
for that is vanity nothing bad for that
isaffectation nothing Indifferent, for that
is silly.
They who, when about 70 marry, seek
their happiness in the mere gaining of
fortune and personal beauty, evince a
heartless disposition, and their FOLLY is
often punished in their success.
SHERIFF HOLMES, who was shot
through the bead at Trinity Texas, the
llth ult., while attempting to arrest
Captain Mc(iee, late Of Indian territory,
died the 10Th ult. McGee is at large.
sTRAws swim upon the surface, but
pearls lie at the bottom. Snowy parts
strike every common eye, but solid ones
are only to be discovered by the most
accurate observers OF the human head
and human heart
MANY persons when they find them
selves in danger of shipwreck in the
voyage of life, throw their darling vices
overheard, as other mariners do, only to
fish them up again after the storm is
over.
The last words in the new French die
tionary is "zigomanique," sjgnifying a
man with his facial muscles so organized
as to produce permanent grin. This il
regarded as a defOrmity, for man may
smile and smile and be william.
WHEN a woman drinks soda she hoists
the glass at an angle Of eight degrees,
beuds over holds in her dress, and as she
looks out of the corners of her eyes, SEEM
ing to be in an ecstacy of appreciation,
little drop of soda runs down her chin
and goes like peril plummet to the
floor.
GEN. GRANT is the first ex.president
TO 90 to foreign parts since the days Of
Frank Pierce. OF the nineteen presi-
dents, Washington, Madison, Jackson,
Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Lincoln
and johnson never crossed the ocean.
Those who visited foreign lands were
John Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, Quiucy
Adams, Van Buren, Fillmore, Pierce
and Buchanan.
IT is a great misfortune to have fret
full deposition. 1t takes the fragrance
out of ones life, and leaves only weeds
where a cheerful disposition would cause
flowers to bloom. The habit of fretting
is one that grows rapidly unless it be
sternly repressed; and the best way to
overcome it is to try always 10 look on
the cheerful side Of things
DELIBERATELY workers are those that
accomplish the most work in a given
time, and are less tired at the end Of the
day than many who have not accom-,
plished half as much. The hurried
worker has often to do his work twice
over, and even then it is seldom done in
the best manner, either as to neatness or
durability. 1t is the deliberate and
-renditure Of strength which
rar.1 .ag -7nstitution and builds
uD the ,a,a
r +. mmula5 e M r Grant
VIM, aat p.. hse a,s;
" have Dov a ..a tiUa Ep
ing; ] don't take
sure, uniformity Of pracu.a
spect is desirable, but lack of SUI.
formity to the received orthOgraphy 0,
the time is not a matter of such grave
importar ln. .. .i-pal lapse from
it shoul f.i 1av ol ihame or be
mace u might
THEY ~ -ea clt,rtunate