Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-03-16
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

-"K0Dert Elsewhere was tne DoOh |
inquired for by a youngster at the cir
culsting library the other day.
There were 1887, 100000 bushels
of corn raised in the United States in
1888, which sold for $666, ,j6l, $50.
Statistics show that in New En-
gland seven out of ten widows under
thirty-fvc marry within two years.
1t is claimed that about five dol
lars worth Of dogs have killed $4,000
worth Of sheep in Michigan the past
year,
1t is now given out in Boston that
the cremationists have lost ID per
cent. of their strength in the last year,
and it is believed that another year or
two will finish them.
"A well-known magazine statisti-
clan says that America has u popula-
tion of over 60 600, 900, and a working
power OF one hundred and eighty thou
sand billions Of foot pounds per day.
y--Beniauip Franklin's watch is
owned by Lancaster Pa. gentleman,
who still carries it and says that it
keeps good time. 1t is Of silver,
shaped like a biscuit and has engraved
on its back: Ben. Franklin, l776,
Philadelphia"
-"Underdonedom' is what n. p.
Willis dubs the brigade Of half
fedged masculines who crowd the
door-ways and blockade the entrance
to every ballroom, and are generally
too weary and blase to enjoy any thing
but the supper.
Statistics show that in England
business conditions really regulate the
number Of marriages When wages
are good many more marriages take
place than when they are not, so that
! the marriage rate corresponds closely
with the gget rhanges in trade.
"A resident 5i lexington, Ca has
in his possession the brand that vas
used durin. the days Of slavery Ter
branding slaves who were guilty Of
murder. II is a rudely constructed
IN made of iron, which was heated
red hot and applied to the person,
sometimes to the cheek, of the one to
be branded.
A cat in Lee County, Ga. is said
to have committed suicide on account
of the loss Of her kittens. The young
felines were drowned. In the after
noon the cat went around in great
grief, and that night ended her life
by placing her head through a large
crack in the crib and moving along
until she got to a narrow place and
then letting 90, She was found in the
morning hanging stone dead.
There is water wheel in use al
Bowdoinham, Me, which is probably
the only one Of its kind in existence
1t is twenty-seven feet in diameter
with foot OF its rim out of water al
high tide; the spokes are wide and sci
diagonally, like the yanes of Il wind
mill. II turns eighteen hours of the
day by tide power, running one way
with the flow, the other way with the
ebb. With one foot fall of the tide
this wheel gives about fifty horst
power.
-Bartolo Sepulveda, who was par.
doned and released from the peniten.
tiary after twelve years of imprison.
ment, asked the Legislature to appro
pirate Sl5, 600 to pay him for his loss ol
time and damages by reason of his i'm.
prisonment, says the Los Angeles
Tribune. He proved an alibi after
twelve years had elapsed. His crime
was murder and his excuse for wait.
ing so many years to prove his inno
cence is that he was drunk when tht
murder was committed and could moi
take care OF his interests.
Three years ago John Wright, o
Pike County, Ga, lost his sight, ant
the oculists that he consulted agreed
that there was no possibility of hi:
ever seeing again. The other day a,
Mr. Wright sat on the porch in th'
sunlight his eyes began to itch violent
| ly. He rubbed them, and when he
took away his fingers he was consciou;
that he could distinguish objects dim
ly. During the day his power of yisior
increased, and at last account the ole
gentleman was in fair way to see as
well as ever