Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-06-01
FACTS AND FANCIES.


PEARL bead oraments and fringe will
trim many OF the spring bonnets,
ScIEEcE hiss got to explain how Jonah
rendered himself indigestible.
The Assyrisn inscriptions reveal the
fact that under the Rabylonian kings il
was common 10 cast men into burning
fiery furnace, and also into den Of
lions.
A FRENcHMAN studying English
declares that, inasmuch as a number Of
cows are called cattle, why a number Of
cats are not called cowtle is thing he
cannot understand.
AN old edition of Morss's geogralbv
says. "Albsny has four hundred dwell.
ing houses and twenty-four hundred
inhabitants, all standing with their
gable ends to the street"
IFatazof one hundred dollars be
placed on every Chinaman landing in
California, the Imperial authorities at
Pekin threaten to impose a similar tax
on Americans landing in China.
THE New York dog,show was sorry
humbug. After the show an Arabian
collie dog, value $1,000, brought $50; a
cocker spaniel, valued at $500, was
knocked down at So and bull>terrier,
valued at $500, sold for g,
WATTS went to writing hymns because
he found such stuff as this in the hymn
books:
Ye monsters OF the hriny deep,
Your Makers praises spout
Up from the sands, ye coIllDgs, peep,
And wag your tails about.
"MY dearm she remarked through
the telephone that ran to her husbands
Office, "you ought to be spanked for not
changing your shirt this morning" The
young b0okkeeper who received the mes
sage didn't feel like keeping up the
dialogue.
New Minister (who wishes to know
all about his psrisbioners) Then do
understand you that your aunt is on
your fathers side, or your mother's?"
Country Lad-"Zometimes one an zomt>
times the other, 'ceptin' when feyther
whacks them both, sir :"
s"THE test Of chivalry in New York"
says an exchange, "is giyingup your seat
in a street car to q lady" The lady who
sets out With the determination to travel
there until she witnesses the test embarks
in an enterprise that will absorb her
energies for the rest Of her life.
CAUUousNEss isundoubtedlya virtue,
but when we saW Snifson the other day
get down on his hands and knees and
crawl carefully past an inofensive ban.
ana peeling, we fully realized that even
20 good thing as cautiousness may be
carried into an extreme which borders
on the ludicrous.
A LITTLE four-year old bounding out
of bed one summer morning ran TO the
front door, and seeing ram with large
spiral horns ID neighbor's yard across
the street, bounded back to his mother,
crying, Mamma mamma There's a
great big Ting over in Miss Ankin's
yard that looks like a great big thing,
and every time it sees me it looks at
me
An English merchant was dining with
a Chinese mandarin, when it struck him
that perhaps the dish which be had
eaten of 30 heartily might have been
stewed cats, for he heard that they ate
cats in china. The Chinsman didn't
know English, 50 his guest, anxiously
pointing to the dish, inquired, Miow,
| Miow?" " No, no. said the mandarin,
bow, VOW
The talk at dinner is about various
acQualntances, how they have married.
and their domestic lie. After numerous
observations from one and another, a
guest addresses the hosts daughter, a
young girl nine or ten years old, who
wears a very thoughtful expression
"Well mademoisplle, what is your opin-
ion about all this? Shall you marry or
remain single ?' Neither. | think |
shall be widow.
Or the shores of the Red sea the
natives insist on exposing a wound to
the atmosphere when they desire it
should heal quickly. VI. D'Abbadie
!Ound that their treatment was justified
by result, the experience Of western sur
geous of eminence 70 the contrary not.
withstsndiDg. This Red sea practice is
considered to owe its success to the alb.
sence in the sir of microbes which are 10
mischievOus elsewhere.
We are in receipt OF a portrait of
noted revivalist, subscribed, Yours in
Jesus, +. P. Hammond Upon the
back of the card is written He who,
being often reproyed, hardeneth his
neck, shall suddenly be Gu: off, and that
without remedy A whip for the horse,
q bride 'or the sss, and a rod for the
FOOLS back As no bride was found in
the package, we inier that Brother Ham
mend retained it for his own use."-
| Rev. Harding,
| INGERsoLL observes; To-day the
newspapers are engaged in finding out
all the mean things that are done, Tn
! less a thing is a bad thing it is not known.
/ II all the reporters of all the newspapers
would look through all the streets and
/ through all the houses Of the country,
snd find the name of some man who had
practiced selfdenial or the sake of his
wife and children, find s)me man VINO
had given up all the property he had to
pay his honest debts; who had gone out
Of his house, given up his pictures and
all there was of luxury, and taken his
wife by her hand and gone down to
poverty and penury in a hut; if they
would tell the names Of all the men who
had done generous deeds, | tell you every
newspaper in the United States would
be crowded with the names Of the men
and women"