Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-01-09
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

There are one hundred and fifty
million tons of coal waste piled up
in the anthracite regions.
"A human life is lost for every fifty
thousand tons of Goa, mined in the
anthracite regions. -PiHSJurgh Post,
"A statistician AYERS that the aver
age man spends ten dollars a year
more for dress than the average
woman.
A patch OF land known as House
Point Island, off West End light, Prov
incetown, Mass, was swept away in a
recent storm,
"A new method of illumination was
spoken of in story published recently.
The author depicted "a ''long, low
room, made cheerful by widow at
each end. - PpindelPhta Press.
The estimated loss in Douglas
County from hog cholera is forty-tiye
thousand dollars. This is the worst
visitation to farmers in Kansas since
the grasshoppers in lS7t-5.-Ch'cago
Times,
In New York when the elevated
roads were built horse car stock fell in
value. Now, however, the elevated
roads are worked to the limit of safety,
yet the horse cars were never so
crowded N y Times.
1t would seem that Nutield, in
Surrey County, Eng, is the most
healthy spot in the world, as the rector
has announced that, with population
of one thousand two hundred, only one
male died last year, and he was eighty.
eight years old
The much-abused drug clerk is not
the only person liable to accidents with
poisons. A recent case is cited at
Jeanette, La, in which a father OF
two sick children gave the medicine
prescribed for each OF them to the
other, thus killing both children
An elevator boy is authority for
the statement that ladies never thor
oughiy become accustomed to the eie-
vator. No matter how often they ride
up and down they invariably catch
their breath when the elevator starts
on its downward iourney.-Chtcago
Times
1t gives a notion OF the cost of
royal travelling in the last century that
the bill of George ". al the Hotel
d Harscamp, Namur, for one day was
three thousand francs (six hundre3 and
one dollars and eighty GentS). The
charge at the table 'hote at that time
was two francs.
While Sothcrn was in New York he
hired an attenuated livery horse for Il
drive up the road. He stopped at a
wayside tavern. and while his servant
was blanketinc the animal McCullough
came mn and asked. "What do YOU put
that blanket over Your horse for, Ned?
He looks too weak to bear up underit it. -
oh" was sothern's reply, "that is
to keep the wind from blowing the hay
out of him.
A reverend gentleman of Morris
town recently had occasion to visit
Brockyillc on business. and the health
officer on his return insisted that he
should be vaccinated. 10 this he sub
mitted quietly. On his arrival home
his friends asked him why in the world
he did not tell the officer that he had
had the smallpox. Il declare" said
he, II forgot to state that fact to him.
-VaiertoWp (N. ~ Times.
The newest narlor diversion OF
wealth and fashion is not intellectual.
but il bos the GOOD quality of perfect
innocence. 1t consists in throwing
cards into a hat a silk tile is set on
the floor, The player takes pack OF
iifty-two playing cards, stands ellgnt
feet distant, and endeayors to cast them
one by one into the receptacle. Inc
feat is not so easy as 1t seems, ana
there is room for much eXpertneH-'
Twenty ont of pack IS high average,
-ChIcog0 Tribune.
The following sentence, written by
! Alfonso, the late King of Spain, in the
autograph album of Miss Foster, the
daughter Of our last Minister TO that
country, will he read with special in
terest Since his death "A Ia Senorita
Foster: FL gefe del pals dc In tradicion
y los remerdos' que eS uh e'uSias'a ao'
mirador de las giganteseas ereaclones
de la libre America, del pais del par
venir. Alfonao, Mario, 1851 lhe
translation Of this IS; The chief OF
the country OF tradition and memories
who is an enthusiastic admircr OF the
gigantic accomplishments OF free
America, the country OF the future
A few days apo a heated lamr
chimney IN a New York elevated rail.
wav cor snouned INTO twenty pieccS ot
more which fell upon the seats below.
Fortunately there was Int one po,sen.
mer within ranoc of them. and no dam.
9co was done Not many months arn.
af the Union Leoonc Clubs ladies' re-.
ccrtion. a niece Of carbon. heated to 2
white heat and about as LARGO a, n pea.
fell mon ,bo white silk dress of a Ind,
7 llnpirip lirli Had il tol lon a .pgnnf