Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-10-13
FACTS AND FANUIEs.

GEORGIA buys $4,000 900 worth Of
meat from other states annually.
1'HEtriampho Of woman Is t6.bs bved
deliberately by an impul5iye fasii.
WADE HAMPTON can call over 81 600
citizens Of South Carolina by name.
THE question az 70 who is ghe Sloksh
Man Of the east is nov in much doubt.
ITisa truism not to be sainsaid that
truth is more OF q stranger than fiction.
If all Russia and all Turkey should
come to engage 10 tie strife, there would
be 100000 Russians fighting 43,0OO-
900 Turks. s-~-
SINCE woman must die it ia perhaps
well enough to wind up obituary notices
in Oregon style, viz: "She was forty,
very good looking and always did her
own work. fTa >
How is it that you have never kin
died fame in any mans hearth" asked
a rich lady Of her pOrtionless niece "I
suppose, aunt, it is because I'M not
good MATCH" meekly replied the poor
niece,
The other day a little girl of three and
half, while playing with her Aunt
Alice's ring, lost it Both looked for it
some time without finding it, when, in
despair, the little one said "Come,
Aunt Ii, let's cry!" #t
"MUslNG on the infinite, ell ?" said
facatjOus chap to a melancholy. looking
individual who was walking along the
road side with bowed head and serious
oountenance. "Well, yes; same thing
thinking Of my debts"
THE humoristof the New York Times
sapely remarks: No wise man argues
with scientific person. The latter can
always overwhelm him with nnsavory
scientific terms, to the use OF which no
sef-respecting man can descend"
WHAT do you cal, a large amount,
Mr.. Tweed ?" asked one of the examin-
ing New York aldermen. "At the
time, " replied Mr.. Tweed, " l eould call
-, 900 large amount now / call any
thing from S. up large amount. "
Now is the season when the sportsman
starts out at early day with gun and cog
and gaMe basket, and returns at eventde
bringing brace Of partridges, which he
procured from a boy who tends a snare,
and leaving his dog at distant farm
house with his forelegs in sling,
A 0UmELEss boy was deludel the
other day into picking up the handle Of q
ral7anic battery. He yelled Justify until
they shut her off," aud in describing
his sensations be aaid he could taste green
persmmons all over himself Burlington
HIwkeye. ....
EVEN the most refined and polished Of
men seldom conceal any of the sacrifices
thev make, or what it costs to make
them. This is reserved for women, and
is one of the many proofs they give of
their superiority in all matters Of afec-
ton and delicacy.- Wil!moH.
LET your sleep be necessary and
healthfui. not idle and expensive Of time
bevond the needs and conVenienccs OF
nature and sometimes be curious to see
the preparation which the sun makes
when he is coming forth from his cham
bers of the east.--Jeremy Taylor
GALL babies born in the Oneida com.
nunity are at once taken from their
mothers and given to some other woman
to nurse, and the babies are changed
around 20 that nc neither ever rears or
even knows, her own child" Remarks
by various mothers outside OF the COM
munlty ",M..M..??????-!.M!"
A SpIRITUALIsT doctor of Philadelphia
reports "a death-bed where those assem-
bled, while singing hymn, had their
spiritual ewes opened and saw the dead
brother issuing out of his mortal tene,,
ment. Joining his wife and child and
floating away If the dead brother lad
been man of two or three dead wives,
the scene would doubtless have been
much more interesting, The problem as
to whether female spirits ever puh hau
might then have been settled forever.
a., TALKING through mans body is the
:, 4 achievement OF the telephone. The
lateSN IRE cut and the man held the
wires W. II The current was pro-
ends IN hls hahue' of the telephone
duced by the magnets Jl,,sT -'sn, The
and conversation was carTIeu o..
experiment was continued until FIVE men
were put il the gap 10 complete the cir
Gle, the resistance then being equal to
twenty-five times the length of the At
lantic cable.
On the Goth of August curious case
of poisoning by nicotine occurred in
Turin. Giovanni Deloges, aged seven
teen, visited that city in compliance with
an invitation from his uncle. After
dining he Joined his uncle and several
friends in the room allotted him during
his stay in Turin. There they drank
light wine and smoked continually until
the early hours, When the company
separated he did not cease smoking until
nearly overcome by sleep. His reom was
completely impregnated with smoke, and
the young man, sutfocated by the ex;
cessiye quantity of nicotine he had
inhaled, never woke again, although
every effort was made to revive him.
Dr. Tessier, of Turin, was OF the opinion
that death was the result of poisoning
by nicotine.