Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-06-15
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

minister failed on "bailiff," an anna
teur florist couldn't spell "bouquet"
and a high school professor went
wrong on "frankincense.n
1t is related that a Stockton, Cal
consumptive called up local under
taker and offered to shake dice with
him for Il coffin. The astOnished
undertaken accepted the offer and lost.
1t has been found in experiments
ing at Leipsic that skin grated from
a white to colored person becomes
gradually black, and that black skin
grated upon a white person in time
turns white.
"A man was arrested in st. Louis
the other day who had one hundred
and ninety-four door mats stored away
in his barn, every one OF which he had
stolen and carried home. He said he
intended to start bench show OF rugs
pretty soon.
For forty-eight years there was
not law case in the town Of Meddy-
bemps, Me-; neither was there law
yer But short time ago a lawyer
hung out his sign in this primitive
Paradise, and two citizens at once
went to law over a fence line.
Since the termination OF the dyna-
mite patent in 1881, there has been
immense industry in the invention OF
high explosives, and there are now
more than 800 varieties A dynamite
cartridge one foot in length takes only
l-2l,OO of second to explode.
An old man living at Wcldsport,
N. T., wanted to be buried in a barrel
when he died, and although he had
the barrel in his house for nineteen
long years, his wife managed the fu-
neral to suit herself, and he went into
$lj coffin instead OF the barrel.
-Corns are more prevalent in the
damp climates near the sea shore,
than in the interior of the country.
Boston and New York people who
come West say that complaints about
corns are not nearly so prevalent as
at home. Damp sea air seems to set
corns shooting Shoe and Leather
Review.
The total expense of cultivating
an acre of grapes in California is $l5
The curing and packing of an acre of
grapes, making a hundred boxes of
raisins, is So. And as the average
price Of raisins is Sl,5O a box, there is
a net profit of $50 per acre in the raj
sin business.
"A Lancaster, Pa, residence was
entered by thief who ate all the food
in the house and left a note reading:
Thanks for the slim lunch" The
tender missiye was written on a linen
collar. This was fastened on stick,
the other end of which was thrust into
loaf of bread
Mountain hunters of Pennsylvania
are said to use indigo instead of
whisky to cure rattlesnake bites. An
incision is made in the wound and a
piece of indigo, the size of pea, in
serted, A generous dose of sweet oil
is given as soon after as possible. The
result is said to be entirely satisfac-
tory
A pine tree on mountain in AL
pine County, Cal, was struck by light
ming during a thunderstorm. The
fluid followed the trunk into the
ground and Immediately there burst
forth brilliant fire, which has con-
tinued to burn ever since. 1t is be-
lieved the lightning ignited a bed of
coal, which is now feeding the flame.
The goat of a liveryman at Ship
ahewanna, Ind, got hold OF its own
ers vest lately and ate $40 in bills and |
two promissory notes for $50 each.
The meal was fatal; after being killed |
and dissected the animal poured out
fragments enough of the greenbacks
10 justify Il hope OF their redemption,
but the promissory notes were too far
gone to be ecovered,
speaking of an elegant new rail-
'oad station in Cincinnati. an official
,f the road says: "a fear it is too
'plendid. You see some people may
hink they will have to pay more for
heir tickets because the Office is so
inc Fact, | assure you. Lots of
will be afraid they will have
o pay more for their tickets because
II the style of the office If the office
we're a dingy, black little hole they'd
hink tickets would be sold there dirt
heap
Says the Cambridge Daily: an
very Presidential election the con-
to great missionary enter
rises fall off. This is a very curious
hing, and there are several explana-
ions. The supporters of these char
les are many of them politicians, and
ley subscribe so heavily to campaign
inds that they can not make their
sual contributions for religious work.
his accounts for part of the reduc-
on in Presidential years. The re-
lainder of the decrease from this
luse is due to the political excite
lent among the people, aud the diff
llty of fixing the minds of the people
n more than one thing at time"
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One Hundred Years Ago.
There were no express companies
len. In 1889 William +. Harndon, of ,
IL