Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-08-04

IN Detroit, even though the salesman de-
clares it a. Boss suit.
The popular road to suffering peoples
heart in this red-hot weather leads
through fitteen.minute sermon.
| No man can see a fashionable lady
make wild dive for the bottom of her
dress without fearing for the moment
that she is going to use her train to knock
a fly off her bonnet
THE Chicago Times wit has issued a
circular to the members of the Para
1 graphers' Association offering them four
cents apiece for each Of his Jokes they
copy.-We Graphic, Now, then, produce
/ your jokes
THE New York Graphic is excited
over the banishment Of the ladies' boot
and the temperance OF the slipper. And
yet there is no convenience for lady
who is the mother of a large family like
a plant and well hung slipper.
BETWEEN new-made lovers: "Then
AdeIgitha, you will be mine ?" Yes,
Ferdinand, if pa is willing Ialways do
what he wants me to-" But will he
give his consentI" He will. Pa al
ways does what | want him to-"
"WHICH is the most valuable-ex.
perience or instinct was the subject
up for discussion at country debating
society recently. One member said ex-
perienCe teaches US to back up to a hot
stove when we are cold but when our
coat-tails ketch fire instinct is boss.
YoUNG people, this is a good time to
get married. A new kind Of bracket is
made out of paper, looks exactly like
walnut, and only costs $3.50 dozen.
And you don't need anything beside
good assortment of brackets to go to
Housekeeping with.
IT was at a party, and another fellow
had marched triumphantly off with his
girl. That's the way" said he sadly;
81 it isn't merit that wins in the world
it's brass watchchains and paste dia-
monds and dyed moustaches." And he
swallowed down his Adams apple fully
three times before it would stay such
was his grief.
"MY dear" said an afectionate wife
to her husband, a, she looked out Of the
window, "do you notice how green and
beautiful the grass looks on the neigh
boring hills ?" "Wel,' was the un-
poetic response, "what other color would
you have it at this time of year%
A PLEASANT item for persons who
don't like smokers is published in Paris.
OF twins, one was given pipe and
taught to smoke in infancy. 1t kept up
the vice to the age of manhood. Its
brother, on the other hand, acquired the
tobacco habit. The unfortunate smoker
now has the appearance Of puny child,
and is stunted both in mind and body,
while the uncontaminated twiI is
large, strong, healthy man,
The safety. board Of the town Of Ca.
naa0 Conn, in l776, sentenced Hannah
Capr0n to be publicly whipped; 20 lashes
on the naked body, to be branded on
her forehead, wear rope around her
neck during life; and to be whipped 20
lashts every time she was seen with the
rope off, because she had left her husband
and taken up with Joseph Lincoln. The
safety-board of the town Of Canaan did
nothing whatever to Joseph Lincoln.
New YORK Mail Sunday morning
Miss May Murphy, after preparing her
self for church, called to her father to
accompanyher, Scarcely were the words
out of her mouth when she dropped to
the floor in a iainting fit, and in less
than quarter of an hour she was a
corpse Physicians were summoned, but
their services proved useless, and Miss
Murphys death resulted from heart dis
ease superinduced by tight lacing,
THE drug cuca, which comes from
Peru, and is worse in its effects than
opium, is recommended as a cure for
bashfulness, the shamefaced, under its
influence, becoming bold as lions. 1t
would be well for a few drummers to try
some of it. A wad of it under the dam
ask cheek of a northwestern commercial
traveler might do much toward stimula-
ting trade.
Tue rainfall is measured by means OF
an instrument called rain-guage, which
consists generally of a funnel opening
for collecting the rain as it falls, and
smaller tube below into which the coll
lected water runs suppose the funnel
opening be ten inches diameter, then,
because the areas efcireles are proportional
to the squares of their diametersr the
one-hundredth part of an inch of rainfall
would fill the lube to the depth of one
inch. and very small quantity Of rain
could be measured accurately. In prac-
tice the ratio between the dimensions
is not generally so great as above stated,
but the principle is the same. The rain
is collected into a smaller area of base
than the area on which it falls, and this
arrangement has the double advantage OF
permitting accurate measurement and
having a small surface from which the
water can be lost by evaporation. The
ran,gauge should not be placed in a
sheltered locality and its height above
the ground should be 10 greater than
sufficient for due exposure and safety:
Strictly speaking, the average rainfall
of whole county will seldom be exactly
equal to that of any one spot in the
county but unless the location of the
rain-gauge be improperly chosen, the dit
ference will be small. The gauge is
usually examined at the same hour every
day, and the water emptied out alter
HAVING hapn measured