Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-12-07
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ever has been before.
JAY GoULn has subscribed Sos, 900 I
the Worlds Fair fund.
A SourH KENsINGToN (R. ~ turke
weighs forty-Seven pounds.
AN official estimate of the population
oil Greece places it at =, 1S7, POS.
A PENpIEroN tOrc.) man drank
gallon of mineral water at ono sitting o,
a wager.
The fast mail time between oceans i
o four days, twelve hours and three
quarters.
The National Grange, in session n
Sacramento, Cal condemned the single
tax system.
AN Ottawa congregation froze out it.
rector by reducing his salary to one dol
lar per year.
THE lctter-carricr's monument to Sun.
set Cox will probably be erected in
Washington.
Two hearts and two livers were taken
from a chicken killed at Lock Haven.
Pa, recently.
fHINA NbillCIltlCt tUNtFnOT
blggs, of Delaware, employs a secretary
named Smalls.
GENEVA is said to be the cheapest of
all cities in Europe for a place Of per
manent residence,
In some French laundries boiled pota-
toes are preferred to soap for the cleans
ing OF soiled linen.
IHE centennial Of the introduction of
the chrySanthemum into England has
Just been celebrated,
A DEMOCRAT in Monana County, ia.
was elected to the Legislature by a
majority of one vote.
LIE Crown Princess Of Brazil wa, the
last royal parsonage to receive the
golden rose from the Pope.
HIRED ushers are taking the place Of
friends of the principals at New York
and Philadelphia weddings.
A FARMER fell asleep on a roadwa, in
Union County, South Carolina, the Other
night, and was frozen to death.
WOMEN have been admitted to the bar
In all the New England States eyccpt
Ne" hampshire and Vermont.
DAN RICE, after eight years retire.
ment from the ring, will go on the road
again next summer with a circus.
A SMITH COUNTY (Kas.) girl won $50.
the other day, by husking and cribbinc
SIXTY bushels of corn in five hours.
MORE people visited the home of
Shakespeare last summer thar ever be.
fore, the majority being Americans,
IN Idaho, a floating paragraph states.
"a deer was recently shot by a hunter
having horns with forty-two prones."
Two inmates of the Milwaukee aims.
house, the man aged y and the woman
aged 49, were married the other day.
IRWIN A. %STETLER, merchant at Fred.
erlck, "a, during the fall has shipped
LOCO barrels of shellbark hickory nuts.
S~HIPBuILDING is so active on the Clyle
that in many Of the yards work is car
REC on at night by means of electric
lights.
DURING the Paris Exposition 249 pick.
pockets were arrested, of whom 1876 we're
French, twenty-three English and seven
American.
ONLY thirteen of the 375 Senators and
Representatives who sat in Congress in
1876, the Centennial year, still retain
their seats.
IIIE garden next to the little cottare
in which Edgar Allan Poe lived at Ford
nam has been covered with ugly teno-
mcnt houses.
a CHICAGO electrician has invented
an electric fish line. The slightest nib
bic at the bait cause a shock to the fish
either kills or stuns it.
The Potter's field of New York CITY is
located at present on Hart's Island.
Since 1869 more than sixty thousand
bodies have been buried there.
ALL critics agree that in the review ,
before the German Emperor at Constan- n
tinople, the Turkish troops challenged t
comparison with any in Europe. I
A STRANGE animal is roaming around
III carter County, Mo-, which, from de-. Il
Scrlptlon, is supposed to be a kangaroo !
mat has escaped from some circus. V
BARON DouNEzAL, a French officer. +
proposes that France and Germany C
'hould hght on a new principle, each b
country to have 100, 900 men on its side
only.
AT the recent election in Beverly,
Mass, one ballot was entirely blank, I,
|ut on the back Of it was written: 81 q
want to vote the same as Maurice y
leaphy." \,
HERE is a good deal of wealth and Il
ennement among the colored people of I
Philadelphia, who number about 81, 900, b
me colored physician has a practice of Ii
30, 900 a year. cI
HE Cape Girardeau Democrat is Ii
uthority for the statement that irs can
and are cultivated in Southeast Mis-.
onri equal to any fruit of the kind
onnd in the South. II
by a vote Al TO ), the common council O
I Boston has appropriated s., 500 to pro. i
ide soup for 1.-THE worthy poor" and II
here is such a racket against the 6ve NJ
no voted mo-" that they find them. II
In the soup, also. az
GENERAL B~ouLANGER's personal OK.
nnses are betrayed by his admirers in
Every week he receives a GER
I'm amount collected from working al
'ople in the provinces. AZ
In
a POCKET typewriter is shortly to be "a
Tered to the British public. The re- h,
III price will BIO $3.50, it measures a,
and one-half inches by three
lches, and weighs about four ounces.
GLASGOW is the largest city of Scot
nd, and claims to be the second in the 10
rltlsh Empire. 1t has 500, 600 people, m
Guiding the suburbs; is 10 miles in hi
myth, s miles in width, and has over re
miles Of streets. bl
WHAT a tremendous opening there
Ill be for the makers of saw-mills
hen civilization begins to go into the
cart OF Africa. Stanley reports an i'm v
ense belt of woodland, a solid forest, :.
he says, that is nearly three hundred 80
lies square. "
~ OIL
THE hottest region on earth is on the IN
uthwestern coast of Persia, where r
'rsia borders the gulf of the same es
me. For forty consecutive days in the
onths of July and August, the ther-
ometer has been known not to fall
wer than 100 degrees, night or day, ba