Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-01-13
FACTS AND FANCIES.

PRIDE ana poverty don WORK well IN
double harness.
DIUS'T she return your low" +"
f" Yes she did she said she did't want
il. That's whats KILN me.
THE rogues' gallery in New York con-
tains, at the present time, ,429 photo
graphs, which cost the city ST ,l45.
WHEN a man gets a little money and
starts out to burst a faro bank it is
not hard to tell that he will breakfast
the next morning at free soup-house.
Tickets for reserved seats for the Rev.
Adirondack Murray services in Boston
are sold torIffty cents each. About one
hundred are disposed Of to strangers
every sunday.
NEXT to hat repose which is the
blessed privilege Of the man who lies six
feet underground in country graveyard,
is the repose enjoyed by a giIt,edged BIZ
BILE in a Chicago newspaper office
HE was a well-meaning man, but they
had been married a long while, and
when lie playhlly asked her what was
next to nothing, She sarcastlcally an
-wered that at this season Of the year she
thought hi, winter hanuels were.--Nor-
,rici Bulletin.
Mss EMILY FAITHFrL thinks that
gymnasiums and -kating Kinks should
be attached to iails for the benefit of
prisoners. Emily is a kind hearted old
gal, and we wonder why she doesn't in
vent snow shoes for poor little rabbits.
PRrycE BISMARCK cuts short inter
viewer. by aging: This is what
shall do now What ! shall do to.mor-
row cannot say till tomorrow comes,
since tomorrow may bring set of con-
ditions totally different from those an
ticipate.'
IN Russia, when cofins are covered
with cloth, the color OF the covering is
to a certain extent distinctive, pink be-
ing used when the deceased is child or
voting person, crimson or women, and
brown for widows; but black is in 40
case employed.
Up in Muscatine the muscal and liter
ary Young men of the Unitarian church
organized the lIuscatine Unitarian nut
steal philosophical society, but when the
abbreviated title ame out in print NJ.
T.M.P. =, it struck in on the a'socla-
ton and killed it Hurkeye.
'DAR's gwine to be wah, remarked
colared citizen, "an' all you niggahs
might les 5 well git ready for active
business" (Which side shall we take?"
asked one Of his hearers. You nlggahs
can take ies' what side yer please; Ise
gwine to take de Canada side !.
4 COMPARISON. A gentleman is din
ing in house not remarkable for the
generosity OF its fare.
The lady, thinking heir guest found
the repast rather slender, says, with
little grimaCe:
"In truth, &r, we are offering youvery
poor cheer
"Oh. not at all, madame; during the
siege we would have been well content
5 with such dinner.
In the treatment of malarious diseases
in India. it is found that quinine loses
its effect alter it has been administered
fora short time although it is extremely
etIieaci0us at first. Liquor arsenlcallS
in chronic Ca.es Of malaria, and the nitric
bath Tor children, are the remedies now
. in favor among the physicians OF upper
India. although they frankly express
that removal rom the maIariyus district
the only safeguard
DR. HOLLAND has an experience conf
mon to most men Of genius. lie is new
er altogether satisfied with his work.
Very often when he has finished five
, story poem and comes to put on the man
. ,qrd roof. he pauses and scans it critically,
, and thenit Locks to him more like ru-
. ined barn an "pOets castle Az
such moments the blacksmith in him
/ rises superior to the poet, and he eX-
> claims in the fierce languugeso' Quentin
: NIat,vs: $50, if | could only hit 1t with
!. hammerand lick it into shape. '-BrooE'
!, -,ya lrg@.
e "THE simplest burial says the chris
. tian, Union, discussing the burning OF the
+ body of De Palm, is the most Chris
Y tian in the wicker coffin where the pro-
cess of decay may be speediest and the
= temperance of new forms the earliest.
a Preserving the body, destroying the
= bodv-these are simply remnants OF ell
e tete superstition Christian burial SIM
e pIv leaves the body, and the more SIM
Il Div the better. And as for the lmmor-
It tsiitv of the soul, God shall give it body
as il pleaseth him"
,u-,,,, ~, onrod bv cream Of
It IL snaii,FoN ~ ti>,o ~" s"ery we hody knew the
% E".t"'' a. /, S,"rs ,,r1.n, of tho Lyerpool
u 'JCr Worcpry sov. hat it is not only a never
r ,ailin~ r.medv in the worst cases, but i,
oi.n ia,, - 7nreycn;iys The directions are to
n Jissni,ia ,j one nnnae ot cream of tartar in
sint of hoiIino water. and to drink,
1t whom ,' cod At Short intervals. Not a
as yary y,,l' exgrt nrtsrrintion. to be sure; but
in tbe remedy i. So simple that it may be
yc r"I w"r, wnrt5 v ,rviro Il is slid that thou
ar or5s ",% baye inns been cured, and that no
r, nanrl. ,a"Is ri'f nr ths ,.'IS Ji.sass remain.
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