Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-09-14
Or GENERAL INTEREST.

says that the inhalation OF the odor OF
pine lumber is the reason why lumber-
yard horses are so healthy.
"A pious old lady at Toronto do
votes the profits accruing from the
sale of all the eggs laid by her hens
on Sunday to the missionary cause.
"A very old pear tree is now stand
ing in Richmond. Me. Its exact age
is not known, but its identity can be
traced back for one hundred and fifty
years. 1t still produces fruit.
"A Cadmus, Mich, farmer fed
flock of swine several gallons OF cider
which was not soft. The hogs went
on glorious old drunk for three days,
and a few of them passed peacefully
away, never realizing what had
touched them.
A miner of Hassayampa district,
Cal, found a bee tree some time since,
cut it down one afternoon, went next
day to get the honey, and found that
three bears-two old ones and cub
had been there and taken every thin
bleful OF the sweet stuff.
Prof Hazen, stationed at the Mt.
Washington signal station, has made
a new and careful computation of the
height of the mountain and finds that
it has a height Of $500 feet aboye
mean low tide. This is seven feet
higher than previous measurements
made it.
An English explorer has discov.
cred river which opens route fot
ordinary steamers into the Zambesi
delta and the Lake Nyassa districts.
The discovery is Of great importance
to the development of trade in Ceutra
Africa. 1t is called the Chinde river
and is forty-nve miles south@, Of the
Quaqua river, on which Quillimano
now stands.
A Congo warriors outfit which
has just been received by the Smith
5onan Institution at Washington from
Lieutenant Taunt, United States com
mercial agent in the Congo State, con-
sists of bamboo shield six feet long
and one wide, a spear four feet long,
knife that looks like pruning knife
and bow with bamboo strings and
two iron-tipped arrows.
The Chinese have barbarous way
of taking clans, which often grow to
enormous size in the Western Pacific
Ocean, some weighing twenty pounds
per clam, not including the shell,
which sometimes weighs over 200
pounds. The Chinese fishermen watch
for these clans in clear-shallow water,
as they paddle along shore in fiat
bottom boats, and when they see one
with shell open they ram a sharp
pointed stake into the creatures body
and lift it into the boat.
There is stone elephant in lnyo
County, Cal The rock that has taken
tho form Of an elephant is dark gray
granite that is almost the color OF the
skin Of IN elephant. The first travel
ers in California, it .is said, on catch
ing sight OF it, thought that they had
found petrificd mastodon. A Piute
Indian on being asked If he had ever
seen the "stone elephant replied:
= "Yash; me see him many year go.
= Long time lniun no sabe him; now see
him all same in big show ups| |irginpy
City 4
Legend tells US OF t1a'lost inven-
tion of 'malleable glass Tiberius
is said to have discouraged n genius
o who found the secret by beheading
him, fearing the innovation would re-
: duce the value of gold 1t is also re-
c corded that Cardinal Richeleu was
: presented with a bust OF malleable
r glass by chemist, who purposely let
= it fall into fragments, and mended it
@ before his eyes with hammer. The
= ingentor was promptly rewarded by
: perpetual Imprisonment lest his in
o genuity should ruin the "vested
= interests of French manufacturers.
II Only one city in the world has
ever undertaken by legal supervision
Il to put every house under positive anti
+ absolute sanitary control, and that
= city is Buenos Aytes. The purpose is
u within three years to',have this ac-
a complished. By no other means can
u a city be rendered safe for residence,
+ and in no other way can the law that
e city residence rapidly .degenrates the
c population be reversed. The matter
a of sanitation can not in any phase OF
e it be left to individuals; itmust be a
o public provision, rigidly enforced.
II Now that two-ninths of all our people
live in cities the subject is one that
n can not be deferred.