Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-07-13
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

1t Is sdlu ludb ono "Oih" 49,
three all over Utah drinks whisky ana
gets drunk about so often. They claim
they do it to keep off malaria. /
Baseball is going up in the world.
An American sculptor has a statue un-
der that titlein the Paris Salon, repre-
senting young man in the act OF
throwing a ball.
The Atlanta Journal, suggesting |
the bloom of the cotton plant for the
National flower, says; "ls there any
other flower OF the country whose
product is so essential to the thrift OF
millions of its people, which is in every
way so well fitted for Uncle Sam to
wear in his buttonhole"
Ten years ago there were twenty
two railroads which could not inter-
change cars owing to the gauge. Now
all are alike and cars owned in Maine
are seen slipping over the rails IN
Texas. The railroad system OF the
United States is declared to be as per-
feet as a system can be made,
The Governor Of Wyoming lately
pardoned man sentenced to a term OF
years for a murderous assault on the
condition that if the convict ever
drinks another drop of liquor he shall
forfeit his liberty and be sent back to
prison. A similar pardon was granted
in Mississippi few years ago.
During 1888 there were 525, ,0le
immigrants landed in this country.
From Germany there were lO6,9'3
from England, 76,040 from Ireland
II, ,9G6; from Sweden, 48,Slj; from
italy, 7,424, and from Russia, 80, jO4
The lowest recorded was from Malta
and the mex tlowest q from Portugal
According to the New York Sun,
new industry has been invented by
clever English girl. She calls hersel
an accountant and auditor for larg'
households. She finds plenty OF EN-
plovment in looking after the bushes
of a few families OF large expenditure
whose heads have not taste for tn
work.
, Recently an old lady died at Beth
G lehem, leaving an estate OF S2,OOO
0 which fell to near relative. In
heir secured a Bethlehem attorney
who in turn sec ured another attorney
When final settlement was made tn
h LAWYER deduced 81, 250 from the estat
q for his services, and the near relatlV
n got the balance.
). Among the curiosities develope
y in the hunt for relics OF Washington
% "A contract with his gardener, in whlC
% stipulation is made that the garden'
= = shall keep sober all the year, exec
II that he is to have four dollars
christmas with which to be drur
"a four days, and two dollars at East
and Whitsuntide to be drunk t'
days Fancy such contract ben
made with the President OF the Unit
y States in 1889.
Is -"Ihe hair OF the beard in gro
~ inr, raises little hills Of flesh arou
al each root" says barber, land
I'd shaving a man smoothly the razor CT
ho these Off, leaving the blood vess'
to cyposed. Under the microscope the
nd bleeding vessels can be distinctly set
nd and the flesh is seen to be entlr
IS without the covering of skin it shot
have. The natural result is that
close shaver is always troubled WI
en- colds and affections of the throat y
IRE The great plate Ilass windo
les that adorn large store fronts h'
a their origin in the vanity OF won
- A woman like, to see herself as oth
~ ~ see her. She can do that in MIR
- When she is on the street the sh
g., windows serve as mirrors to tell
, how pretty or bad she appears, ii
hat is on crooked, her back hair dc
or her new tangled hustle awry. II
they are attracted to the goods in
windows and 90 into the stores to
lis spect aud buy. Tradesmen who
,s+- served the manner in which t
ON looked in the windows urged the gl
10 manufacturers to make large pal
the They gradually made them larger
lue larger until now they fill the en-
be front.