Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1879-04-12
NUMBER q.
FACTS AND FANtlES.
MARY's CHILL

Which vas agsinst the rule
Ii made the cltd en- lau.h 10 tee
Poor Mary shake In SC oOl.
And 20 the teacher sent her home,
and hade h lskr sCmo lie,
To rtcOnstl uct h'T system and
10 hqlldsie lhe Tile.
What makes POOR Vary have the chIlI
and shake ~ awfLl badf
Why don't she take graz Of pills
Or aear liyeT.psd?
RtLIEF D linking in a samples
room to drown sorrow.
THE late Prince Henry. OF Holland,
let an estate Of at least $4l o. 5000.
THE largest steel rail mill in the
United States is to be erected at Bald
win, near Harrisburg Pa.
A CLOCK Keeps its hands before its face
probably, because it is ashamed of the
cowardly manner in which time flies.
IF the socialists keep on shooting at
the monsrchs Of Europe, it might pay
Tor some American to 90 over and copper
the king.
ALL the patents on Indis.rubber shoes
have expired, and that's why most any
SORT Of man can get trusted Tor pair
this spring.
CRITICS are gentinels in the grand
army OF lettera, stationed at the corners
of newspapers and reviews, to challenge
every new author.
TALMAGE may be guilty OF heresy, bur-
glary, arson and murder, but the one
great iact that no one can 90 TO sleep
u1d4r his preaching should weigh tons
in hi1 favor.
EVE, it will be remembered, had no
spring bonnet, yet she married the first
gentle man in the land. She had all suit,
however, OF the Gg-leat pattern when
she cit Eden
brilliant and impulsive people,"
saida lecturer on physognomy, have
black eyes; or, il they don't have 'em,
they're apt to get 'em il they are too
brilliant and too impulsive.'
SENATOR BURTON, cOlored member
of the lexss legislature, sends money to
Virginia to assist his old mistress who
raised him and taught him how to read,
and who is now living in strsitened cir
cumstances.
TnE last rays of the setting sun were
shining on the gilded frame of a mirror
before which a young top had been
standing tor hours, trying to arrange a
refractory tie, when he exclaimed, aha!
at last it's eyentide."
The worlds fair, at Sydney, Australia,
to be opened on the lst Of next August,
will be chiefly contributed TO by the
mother country and the United States.
Two ship loads of American machinery
and products are to be exhibited.
AT Tirn0va, the Bulgarian capital,
correspondent saw, the other day
queer sight-a dozen Bulgarian soldiers,
armed with Russian rifles, conducting
halt dozen Turks aud as many Rus
sian soldiers to the police court tor
trial.
KEEP way from dat niger, l tell
YOU, said Uucle Rlbe to his sable daugh-
Ter; keep way from him. Hes ike
what de Postle John lived on in de
wild'ness." "How's dst?' she asked.
Low cuss and Wild, honey replied
Unc.e Rube,
QUESTION AND ANSWER.
1-whst is the good aud shat i the btd'
Nhe,ei- the ptritC'ly uue3
WHAT /, The nd yuu 1--we TO- ny lad
Abu what NAV Lass, sre !oI7
Uppr0ven | fe Is y ur heaven above,
Llf. is bIt .hlr ami sor 0F.
Then Why ould We b pc, and Why shoII ID sa
And Why ould We cue for the morrow
n 60 There nay be a a mt worth 6sbtingr my friend,
Thousn v3Ctory ,here he uoue
Aud tuaugh 10 Eaven be- ours Il the md,
Still VT may steer Straight on.
And houIn nothing be good and nothi be
bad,
Yet q good ulsny Ihirgs are worse nav lad,
And on, or two hing' ART better.
REMARKABLE are the stories coming
from Newfoundland a. to the wealth CT
copper ore According to these ac~
counts vat masses OF copper have been
Uncovered near the sea, rising shove the
surface in 10 ty cliffs, EASILY quarritd,
and easily shipped, and of superior lich'
ness
EVERY now and then some chap writes
to newspaper for q recipe to prevent
hair from coming out. II men would
90 home from the lodge be ore midnight
with their legs sober, their hsir wouldn't
c,me out so rapidly. We always go
home esrv, and we have more bslr now
than the day we were born Norris
town Herald.
THR police in Alsace and Lorraine
have seized great quantities Of cigarette
paper in the shape OF tricOlor and in
tcribed with the arms Of Strssbourg,
Metz. etc; also many labels Tor bottles
marked Liberation Liquor" " and "Ex-
tract OF France, to be taken at the
psychological moment" aud some minis
ture maps with the severed territory in
black.
THE late Prince Henry of the Meth
erlands was one of the wealthiest prin-
ces in Europe. His property has heen
usually estimated in Holland at $4l 500,-
900. The greater part of 1t consists in
state funds there are also shares in com
marcial companies, landed estates and
castles, and similar property, some
of it in the Netherlands, the remainder
in Germany and the Dutch colonies.
OTro MCNANNY isa St. Louis man Of
middle age and sedate manners. Mary
Eugt lbrecht is young, with a shapely
figure and pretty face, and che dresses
, with artistic nestness Otto saw Mary
in the street for the first time, and was
overcome with admiration, he threw
one arm around her waist, drew her tc
/ him, exclaimed, 40, girly, girly," apd
kissed her three times before she coulC
break away. He subst quently paiC
e fifteen dollars fine in a police conrt.
"YoUR daughter has treated me yer,
curt--" And the young man was liitet
: up by the parental boot nom the door o
, hIs girls house to the middleoi the horse
T. car track. II arose as quick as he coult
IL aud mildly explained that ne hadn'
E finished the word, which was cour