Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-07-14
violets won't grow in Chicago.

front yards of st. Louis.
Not many women are blacksmiths, but
most of them can shoe a hen.
The century plant doesn't like Phila-
delphia, but manages to grow there.
seawced dies on approaching Cincin-
natl, and southern vegetation withers at
| Somerset.
Russians, Poles, servians and Rou-
manians have little eyes,
Lager is 50 lively that it comes in hops
whenever you call forit
The British national penny bank an
nounces $2,000000 deposits,
The printing of one and two dollar
notes by the United States government
has ceased.
The sunhower fights nobly at Indian
apolis, and the pigweed strives by the
union depot,
The English Quakers have become re-
duced to about 1900 persons, from
/ 10000 century ago.
There are in this country nineteen
libraries containing each 10000 or more
volumes
Fig culture in Florida, which has been
so greatly neglected during the war, is
now attracting the attention of capital
lists.
A quart of peaches for every man, wo-
man and child in the country, is the esti-
mated crop from Delaware alone this
I season.
The military authorities in Paris are
enumerating the horses and mules which
| could, in case of need, be pressed into
their service.
North Carolina has paid for fertilizers
within the last twelve months So, ,000,0O0;
| Georgia 100000; Virginia probably
more.
A twenty-four pound turtle recently
captured near Norfolk, Conn. was strong
enough to move about from place to place
while bearing on his back man weigh
ing two hundred pounds.
1t has been discovered in Paris that
the little yellow marks on certain brands
of Havana cigars, which cause them 10
be greatly priced by smokers, are created
by the Sprinkling of acid
While Mr.. Adam Miller was plowing
his farm in KinderhOok, he brought TO
the surface a large turtle, which was
alive, and had marked on its shell;
May 80, 1871, H. A. D."
Thirty years ago a Sheboygan Wis,
school teacher struck a boy on the head
with ruler One day recently the boy,
now m9n of forty, met the teacher and
pounded him. The wheel of time never
stops.
They tell us of Kentucky schoolmas-
ter who had his wife for pupil, and
found it necessary to chastise her one
day. Next day a notice appeared on
the door, saying; School closed for
one week schoolmaster is i'll"
To-day Berlin is covered with the
wrecks Of speculative credulity. Many
of the millionaries Of few years ago are
in state verging on absolute poverty.
Over production and over speculation
have caused the crisis.
Glass bottles were first made in nEIg
bottles and drinking glasses was known
to the Romans eighteen hundred years
ago. as they have been found among the
ruins of Pompeii.
Among the curiosities of the Columbia,
n. Y, college library are the old arm
chair in which Gov. De Witt Clinton
died and the armchair in which Benja-
min Franklin was wont to sit.
A young gentleman who ventured
west in the prevailing fashion of neck
wear. was Immediately utilized by the
thrifty grangers, who smeared his collar
with coal tar and set him up as a grass
hopper trap.
The little town of Salem, n. c., with
two thousand inhabitants has gathered
, and sent to market during the past three
years more than three million pounds OF
2 blackberries, tor which the gatherers re-
2 ceived nearly half a million dollars.
War helps a great many trades. A
paper concern in Ohio has an order for
! $50 tons of paper for cartridges for Iur-
; kew. and PENNSYLVANIA towns shipping
7 six hundred tons of spelter to Europe as
b fast as it can be made, for cartridges.
One of the newspapers tells of a man
q whose life was saved by plug of tobacco
= carried in his pocket. A pistol bullet.
+ fired at him lodged in the tobacco, and
n the man was unframed. Moral; If you
d use tobacco, don't take it out of your
;. pocket
n The flower loving citizen, who has
spent all his leisure time this season in
b lavinC out flower beds and fostering the
l. same. will have his reward this summer,
o when his daughters beaux will carry OF
It his choicest varieties for button'hole
$ bouquets,
A farm laborer near Seilhac, in France
while ploughing somewhat deeper than
:, usual, found his blow arrested by what
he thought stump. 1t proved to be ar
=. ox.hide filled with gold pieces OF tht
a reign of Francis l., worth 500, 900 FOL
u their weight alone, without reckoning
q their special value as rare COINS
d The German government is preparing
n the organization and equipment OF th'
d Land,turm, which comprises all able
q bodied men from seventeen to fifty year
1t of age not belonging to the Line, lie
s. serve, or Landwehr. The Landsturn
N has net been summoned since 1913.
,g " The full capacity of the salmon,curini
. factories in Oregon, on the Columbia
~ -, river, for one season, is 54Sl0,OOo cans
as This amount will not be reached thl
1s summer. If hatching stations are no
" established, this season, says the Oregol
- = Astorian, will be the last profitable one
n A crand-niece of Lord Nelson is sue,ni
he for the possession of certain vaIuaol
EST Jewels given her by the emperor anC
a empress of Russia during her thlrt!
he years residence in that country, an'
nd entrusted by her to the son OF vice
me Admiral Sir William King Hail. H. M
and pawned by him.
A Russian charges So to print ON ON
hundred visiting cards. This IS aDou
ten times as much as the American prln
yer yer tiers charge for similar job But thel
Vas Va il takes the former ten lines az long =
.p .he set up Russirn namt, and although IN
Inc Inc card is two feet long he is sometime