Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-10-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

A tin peddler who travels through
Canada can exhibit forty-one scars
where farmers dogs have taken hold
OF him to see whether he was dummy
or live man.
A girl of ffteen. OF Remove, Pa.
became insane Immediately after
drinking glass OF ice water few
days ago, and died soon after. The
doctor attributed the result to the
effect OF ice water on her brain.
From the general appearance OF
the vegetation. together with discus
sion OF the origin and relation Of the
fora, it is concluded by eminent
botanists that Greenland is not a
European province from the point OF
botanical geography. but has nearer
relations to America
The county Of Custer. in Montana.
Is the largest county in the United
States. 1t contains 1859, ,92O>acres.
and is 100 miles long and l25 miles
wide. 1t is place Of historic interest,
containing. as it does, the site Of the
great battle of the Little Big Horn,
where Custer and his forces were mas
sacred.
After considerable letter-writing
in the press, the crusade against the
game OF "tip-cat" the street arabs
cricket, which can be seen in the
streets OF New York as well as in Lon
don, was begun by the arraignment
Of a boy at Westminster charged with
"wantonly discharging, to the com.
mcr danger, a missile called cat"
OF the many uses of electricity
perhaps the most novel is its employ
ment in India to kill snakes. Before
all the doors and around the
house, two wires are laid. isolated
from each other and connected with
an induction apparatus. When the
snake attempts to enter the house he
complets the circuit and is killed by
the shock
-Whiskers, correctly speaking, are
only that portion of mans facial hair
which is worn on each side Of his face,
while the rest is shaven clean. A
man with full beard can not be SAID
to wear whiskers. As the very name
indicates, the appendages are frag
ments OF beard. The American
barber has almost lost the art o
trimming boards, they are now 81
little worn in this country.
-Women's rights are sometimes
imagined to be acknowledged only il
Christian countries. Uganda, in Cen
trail Africa, is certainly an exception
to the rule, il it is a rule Here is
passage in proof from Mr.. Ashes nev
book on that country: Sometime
women hoeing near the roadside will
capture Il passer-by, and, pain OF
severe cast cation or of robbing him
will make him take turn while the,
have a smoke"
Probably one railroad ticket neve
carried a larger party out OF Main tina
: did one sold in Saco recently, an
every thing was fair and abOve-board
The party consisted of "A young won
an and her seven children, whose age
= ranged from one to eight years. Whe
, the family were arranged, with tn
: = lady, the baby, twins about two year
old, and another child, another pair {
twins and some miscellaneous baggag
opposite them. they formed an inter
|. esting group.
1t is said that the owners OF tn
/, fremont Theater, OF Boston, anxiou
to determine the correct pronunciatio
!, of the name of their house, recent
consulted the professor of Englis
4 literature at Harvard, who decide
0 that it should be pronounced Tr'
mont. the being short. and the a
, cent on the last syllable. "Perhal
n he is right" remarks the Bosto
II Transcript, but as the word is nj
II English, but is a fine specimen {
I Bostonese Latin, his judgment is ne
4 infallible. In the fancy Latin of the'
DAYS it would be Tra-mont, But #
years and years hackmen have shoute
at the railroad stations. 'Treemol
l. House without losing Il license