Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-01-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


1T seems that the faith cure works
both ways. A Georgia woman prayed
that her husband might fall sick and
die, and away he went with typhus
lever in less than four weeks. Detroit |
Free Press.
A Louisville paper speaks of a |
robbery in which the victim was "a
hard working, frugal man, who, by a |
lifetime of toll, had amassed the sum
If $43 and was about to enjoy long
needed rest"
p. I. Barnum, the great Snowman,
practically endowed the city of Bridge
port. Conn, with water works and
public park. He has given handsomely
to Tufts College. where the Barnum
museum Of natural history has been
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1t wns Baron Munchausen who
lrst suggested the Panama Canal, and
the last of the barons in direct line
with not live 10 see 1t completed. Only
one-fifth OF the line is even approach
ing completion II has cost millions
)f dollars and thousands OF lives.
Western sportsmen complain that
wild duck are becoming very scarce,
and attribute their scarcity to the use
of duck eggs in making a new glue
| that is manufactured in Canada Their
eggs having become valuable, Cana
dian hunters despoil their nests and
thus materially reduce the supply OF
young ducks.
A citizen of Lebanon, Conn, got a
cotton that an attemptto rob his house
was to be made, so he changed what
money he had into silver, did it Up
carefully, and buried it at night in a
swamp behind his house, carefully
marking the spot. The heavy rains OF
last fall obliterated the marks, and
now the careful man can not find hi
money.
1t mag be safely stated that not one
drummer in ten likes his situation
says the Trade Review. After the
novelty of the life wears off an intense
loathing of the road grows upon him.
There is something utterly repugnant
to the average man in being obliged,
willy nilly, to hurry from place to
place. To a married man it is es'
pecially so, and therefore most drum
mers are young and single.
-Four young fellows thought they
would 60 out and 'see man between
the acts at a certain theater in Louis
vile recently, and so they attempted
an exit. A very large lady sat in tht
aisle seat. and the determined air Will
which she viewed the proposed fligh
boded evil for the youngsters. The,
stepped over all the others in the rov
and reached the fat lady. You can
get out hrre.' she said in so loud ant
determined voice that the boy
bushed deeply and returned to thei
seats much embarrassed.
An old sportsman who is unortho
lox enough to like bass and pike fish
ny with live bait better than using
ny for trout, uses almost any thin
| alive and small enough for the greed
fish to swallow whole. Bait for pike
he says, must be put on the hook s.
that the fish can swallow it tail frs
without swallowing hook and all. Tn
bass, on the contrary, must see tn
,ictim's head before he gulps it. so tn
hook must be at the head end of tn
bait, the tough part of the lower jay
.of the minnow being the best place +
fix the hook.
A correspondent of the San Fran
cisco Call who has been doing Ne'
Zealand describes the great Suther
land waterfall. The water he says
dashes over the cliff in three gran
. leaps, and constitutes about one-hal
5 of the entire volume OF the Arthu
river The first leap is over IA dizz
cliff into a rocky basin SD feet below
. Jumping forth again, it makes anothe
leap OF 40 feet, and then goe
I tumblng and leaping in one wild das
of 32S feet into the pool at the foot c
/ the prccipice. The total height is eA
/. actly l,90i feet. which is claimed to b
one of the highest waterfalls yet dis
;. covered in the world. When the su
/. is shining rainbows of all sizes han
e over the fall and the effect is indt
D scribaby beautiful.