Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-04-28
FACTS AND FANCIES,

Now begin to plant croquet hoops,
sew Johnny's summer trousers and set
out yourgrandmotheron the south porch.
BLUE glass has achieved another tri.
umph. 1t cured book agent of lock-
jaw, but it was pale as a ghost when It
got through.
New YORK pays $50, 1000 nightly for
amusements. Counting matinee receipts,
this makes the round sum of 5000, 900
week.
CHARLES CROKER, one Of the San
Francisco millienaires, paid $4,000 for
the copper to roof his new palace, and
three cents pound for having it trans
ported from New York.
AN exchange remarks: "The only
jokes women like to read are those which
reflect ridicule on men," Yes. On tax
ing up a paper, a woman invariably
turns to the marriage column.
If the young man who sat in the chair
where lady had left dish of maple
sugar to cool, at the festival the other
evening, will return the saucer he win
save himself further interruption.
The king of Denmark and butcher
got into a quarrel about their respective
dogs, the other day, the butcher not
knowing to whom he was talking. The
kings dog Is white terrier, like that of
the interesting Russian duke now in this
country.
AFTER mourning only six weeks for
his fourth wife, Phi adelphian OF sew
enty.three years has taken fifth
mate, and he happens to be her fourth
husband. There doen't seem to be much
going on in Philadelphia except marry
ing and dying.
A NEBRASKA postmaster, who, when
finding a paper without the wrapper
bearing the address, would search through
a tableiul of papers, propably several
thousand, until the wrapper was found,
has just been displaced to make room for
man who may or may not follow his
noble example,
"TM glad they're married, They
think alike and just fit each other" she
remarked, as she came home from the
wedding. "I was glad to leave; they
fit all day like cats and dogs" she COM
mented, ungramatically, after visiting
them six months later. And so that
eternal fitness of things is ever being
married.
A GENTLEMAN met citizen of Somer-
vile recently, and said to him: Your
home is in Somervile, | believe"
No. replied the SOmerville man, "my
home is in Heaven" "Let me give you
little advice" SAID the gentleman.
You hurry aud get postal card and
write your folks that you are never COM
ing home. boston Herald.
A MoTHER-IN-LAW has sent this to the
Chicago Tribune Tor immediate pubIica-
ton:
Who fercely clutched al my good name,
And said that was all 10 blame,
And what was right until came'
Ny sOn-in-law,
Who treats my daughter like slave,
And takes from Us all that We have,
And makes our lives seem like the grave
My son-in-law
\ LONG string OF canal horses passed
through the upper part of the city on
Saturday morning, and an old gentle.
man attending conference, who looked
like an old-fashioned Methodist minister
from the rural districts, inquired with
great admiration, Where is the circu
to be?' When told that the animal
were canalers, and not the galloping
steeds of the circus, be looked unhappy
and sighed.-Kngston Freeman.
ANEcDoTE of a Pennsylvania dog: "a
bulldog attacked a two-year'old child,
daughter of Conrad Hahn, of kernville,
on Sunday, and first sunk its teeth into
the flesh over the right eye and on the
right cheek. 1t then threw the child
down, seized it tightly under the arm,
and was shaking it terribly, when the
father appeared and kicked it Off, The
dog was shot, of course, but the owner
may lose his child
A THGRrEEN-year-old girl in Ephrata,
Pa, is victim to a mysterious affection
which puzzles the doctors. Within two
weeks her whole body has swollen enOr-
meusly, but she weighs much less than
before. She says that she feels light
enough to fly, and she actually foated
in bath-tub like life preserver. When
the cuticle is perforated, air escapes in
putis, and this prevents the skin from
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