Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-07-21
FRESHEST GLEANIyGs.

Hayes, ''' 'Al"'ns
Wine il made from oranges exts sivsIv
in st. Augustine, Florida.
The ferries in Boston are all owned bv
the city, and proposition to abolish fares
Is iayorably regarded by the officials.
The national brewers association pro-
poses to ask congress to prevent tho
laws. 1"O'
A recent investigator says that there
are $1,000 Jews in Jerusalem, of whom
oyer 6,OOs are wholly dependent on
charity.
An American, according to the London
World, speaking of the state of France
said, " Hell itself, sir, could not be sue.
cesstully conducted on such principles. "
The Daily Dub is the name of new
paper at EIgin. It's the only name that
would rhyme with mud" and was AZ.
lected instead of "thud" or bud"
The authorities of Portland, Maine
have prohibited the sale of "ginger
pop" and the grocers anticipate an or.
der restraining the sale of yeast cakes.
Young Joseph, the leader in the new
Indian war says the government has lied
to him six times, and that he shall take
twenty scalps for every lie. Hold on to
your hair
If ten Turks could find Montenegrin
soldier fast in bear trap, they might
possibly whip him, but still the chances
in his favor would be good enough
for an even bet.
A farmerat Mount Sterling, Kentucky,
has obtained fine sample of sugar from
the bloom of the common popular tree.
1t is granulated in appearance and snowy
in color.
New York has also been building cat.
amarans, and the other day one of them
ended over and showed the crew head
first into the mud They can capsize on
dry land as well as anywhere else
A woman puching baby cab with
one hand, holding up her skirt with the
other and carrying her parosol in her
teeth is a sight which can only be seen
since the new fashion broke out.
AcoUNsEL being questioned bya Judge
to know " for whom he was concerned"
replied: {" am concerned. nv lord, for
the plaintiff, but | am employed by the
defendant"
1t is calculated that if chickens could
be Matched in three days the hens of
America could put in one hundred and
tifty-six more days on every year. Their
early attention is respectfully solicited.
Admiral Dot came near being shot in
painful spot by bullet red hot from
gun in the hands of a man who was not
Matching a plot to kill little Dot. All of
which happened at the circus the other
day.
Two Italians shot at each other nine
times in a suburb of San Francisco. One
was killed, and the survivor refuses to
make any explanation; but all the facts
indicate that the encounter was deliber-
ately ARRANGED duel.
Any time when fifty men will band to.
gether and refuse to fee brush.bovs,
walters, pOrters, etc, a movement will
commence which will eventually rid the
public of a custom more honored in the
breach than in the observance.
A business man in Trenton, New Jer-
sey, says that the women of that city own
all the real estate, and their husbands do
all the running in debt and beating their
bills. He announces that he will not
trust any husband without a written
order from the wife.
In London invitations to parties, balls
and receptions contain request that the
invited will keep the affaira secret. The
regulation has probably been adopted to
save party-givers from bores who 20
around begging invitations
The Chicago public library contains
81 40S volumes, and is valued at $4,000.
The expenses for the year just closed
were $25, $50. There are 40,O59 names
on the list Of borrowers, and the number
of visitors to the library and reading
room during the year was 100000.
The iocose tracing OF the " first fami-
lies" OF Virginia back to Pocahontas
seems to have solid foundation. One
OF that lady's descendants has just COM
piled a genealOgy of the family, and his
investigations reveal the singular fact
that nearly every family in the state, of
any duration of residences, may be inter.
linked lineally or collaterally.
1t won't do for a young lady to pokea
sun umbrella at the wheel-house on a
billy goat, especially if her dress fits
tight, the goods are thin, and the
weather's hot One did yesterday, and
when she picked herself up out of the
gutter and went off muttering words to
herself, she discovered that her dress
was busted in forty-one different direc.
tious and in titty-two places-mostly
from the neck to the knees
Prof, Monier Williams, of Oxford, is
exploring in India He has found
shrine raised to a European who was
drunkard. The natives annually saQri-
flee at his tomb brandy and cigars, to
propitiate the intensified evil erthey
believe be became at death. At another
place he found the shrine of a white man
who had been during life a great sports
man, His personal habits, however, are
indicated by the fact that the offerings
made at his shrine are also brandy and
cigars.