Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-10-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A Washington policeman had MS
pockets picked by thief he was YAK
ing to the lookup. H.
A Vermont minister has preached
12l funeral sermons, with net returns
of two barrels OF apples and a silver
dollar.
About the meanest gag that could
be devised was one which an ONO
highwayman used. He filled his VIC
TINS mouth with sand.
Gold dollars are used for bangles
and trinkets to such an extent that
they have become scarce and command
a premium of twenty-five cents.
The lack of women's restaurants
down town in New York is made up IN
some instances by the ianitresses Oh
bio Office buildings who serve warm
dinners to the pretty typewrlters up
| under the caves.
--Rattlssnakes. have been unusually
numerous in Georgia during the last
i
year, and their increase is attributed
bv the newspapers of the State to the
enforcement OF the stock law, when
prohibits the hog, the rattler's great
est enemy from roaming at large.
A new disease has broken out
among the grapevines of the santa
Ana and San Gabriel valleys OF Gall
fornia. 1t is termed the sapsour, anu
the cause of it no one knows Inc
vines begin to wither and in snort
time die. The disease is Infectious anu
spreads very rapidly.
A monument to the memory Oh
DR.. Elisha Mitchell has recently oeeh
erected on the summit OF Mitchell
Peak in North Carolina. The monu-
ment is of bronze, and is probably the
, highest memorial shaft in the world
the mountain having a greater altl-
tude than any east of the Rockies
! A Boston liquor dealer was tried
S for selling without license. ne
a claimed that he only kept an ice cream
saloon; thereupon the judge asked th'
o witnesses had they ever seen any WON
Il en- entering the place. They declared
> they had not. That settles 1t, sac
the Judge, "the man is convicted. AL
, ice cream saloon without women Is al
e impossibility."
s. A writer in a Chinese paper as
a serts as a physiological fact that tn
Ell | Chinese lack the full complement Q
t. nerves that are possessed by Wester
" neople, or that their nerves are les
" sensitive than those of other races
re and explains in this way the wonoei
full endurance of the Chinese thei
IS, IS, impassiveness. and their ability to &c
nt along without bodily exercise.
ch -Japanese gongs melodiously sun
Nd mon guests to dinner, and are col
be- sidered a great Improvement upon III
IN. dinner bell. OF all devices, howeVe
Ir. which have been invented to call PEI
ie ME TO meals including the bugle' u
u" Gong, strings of bells suspended iro
nd the portiere rod, and the soft-spokt
of waiter, no arrangement sends such
ate thrill and awakes such an appetite
md the farmers horn.
md A table prepared for a workin
the mans society in Lelpslc represen
.n .n that n loss of different members OF u
oid hodv reduces the capacity to gam
law living in the following proportlof
'iy Loss of both arms, eyes, legs nan
A"' or feet. 100 per cent; loss OF rig
u, hand, 40 per cent; of right thum
rim 33I per cent; of one eye, ~ per cen
md of left thumb or right index finger
MT Mr per cent; of any other hnger' !
ain. cent.
pro. The receiving ship Wabash VIII
con- living off Boston some time ago D
'ne several curious applications from n
iup who wanted to enlist. One man St
the ho would enlist if he could do work
rsed which he was accustomed. lie
lu'| , not enlisted, for he was pap
nor hanger. Another wanted to enlist
ash. take care of the Captains horse
'lied lI, gardener would enlist If he could
t.,a s,n work. and another candidate wan
I'd to to be the ships roofer.
dson The Pail Mall Gazette publishe
: yar. re. novel suggestion in sanitary scler
,ttcr A French Colonel ascertained that
post. could wash his men with tepid wa
for centime, or one-tenth oil pc
attle per head, soap included. The !
,cifc undresses, steps into tray oi t'
r 10, water, soaps himself, when jet i
Fat n two-handed pump plays upon
tepid water, and he dries and dre
niik, himself in five minutes, against "
's'eu ' tv minutes in the bath, and with
N ,hicb gallons of water against some sew
in the usual bath.