Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1879-02-08
NUMBER l8.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
TOUCH U GEN rLY, TINE!

TOUCH U GEN rLY, TINE!
Touch US gsn'l-, Tine
| Let u glide adoEn thy stream
Gtnlr--rs We sometimes Glide
Through quiet dram.
Humble voyagers are We,
Hu-bAnd wife and chil Ten three
(One ia lost an gel fed
10 the azure overhead ,
Touch u gently Time!
We've nOt proud nor soaring wings;
Our tmbitlOF, our content
Lie in slmt lie to nSs.
HumI lie vovalers are We,
t'er f.s dim u0sOuGd d Fe1,
Seek NJ only some calm eli 2;
tou US sen'l!, gentle Line!
Bury Cornwall
IN Russia there is literally no demand
for books
In Canada greenback is now as good
aa local coin.
MEXICO is importing corn from the
United States.
The Afghan troops are provided with
breech.oading rifles.
PLAYING football by electric lights is
all the rage in England,
AN Irishman died at Boston, the
other day, at the age OF J03,
A LICENSE for a Protestant marriage
in Buenos Ayres cost nearly $500.
The pipe and cigar are the cause OF
many confagrstions.
INDIA-RUBBER is to be made in On
tario from tue iu ce OF the milk. weed.
DEsPfsE not small things; the largest
corn is always found on the smallest toe.
The writer who uses weak arguments
and strong epithets is like the landlady
who gives weak tea and strong butter.
THERE is an oil well off Santa Barbara
running to waste in thirty fathoms OF
ter. Tae Yankee residents OF Santa
Barbara grow sick thinking OF it.
A MAN advertises for a competent
person to undertake the sale Of new
mtdicine--and adds that "it will prove
highly lucrative to the undertaken"
NFw faus of painted silk have ap,
peared on which is portrayed bird,
which shows on the outside of the fan
when the tan is closed and is in the mid
die when it is opened.
IHE Rev. Mr.. Pentacost, OF Boston,
IN a sermon against round dancing, said
that q very intelligent young lady had
assured him that the hugging was TO her
the pieasantest part OF the ball.
IN Egypt mummies feed the fires that
prop the iron horse on the railroads.
l.,.l h,r h,Aiaa fhn
tenements Of immortal souls, are said to
make verv ho' FIRE. Their supply is
almost inexhaustible.
A YOUTH Of about twenty winters ex-
hibited the respect iOr age prev.l mt
among the youth OF this country by zoe
following remark; There's my old
alher now. he'4 most seventy wears Old,
and know nearly as much as | do"
A PERSON who WAS recently called into
court Ior tie purpose of proving the cor
ractness Of surgeons bill WAS asked by
the lawyer whether " the doctor cid not
make several visits after the patient was
out of dnnger?" No. replied the
witness, 81 considered the patient in
danger as long as the doctor continued
ans visits
"BoYs," said the old man, holding an
Inverted match in one hand and a dark
cigar in the other, "never acquire the
peruieous ha0t of smoking. | am
slave to it now, and yet l hate it. |
never zee cigar that do not want to
burr it up" And then, with extreme
satisfaction, he burned up the one he had
in his hand.
THE crew Of 4 shipwrecSed vessel was
l,tely killed and eaten by the blacks on
the coast OF Queensland, Australia. The
bodies OF two OF the men were found in
an oven on the mainland opposite Kings
Rect, on when the yes el struck. The
features OF the men were uufecogniz bic,
the skulls being smashed in and parts of
the flesh being removed but traces OF
paper, clothing, ETC., in the neighbor-
hood of the camp lett rO doubt as to
their identity.