Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

DUG Uhat can t bark IS one OF the
2ositios of Edinboro, N. j.
wo-THIRDso of all the children born in
lnecticut in 1889 were boys.
ENERAL SHERMAN will be seventy
rs old the Sth of February.
Eo XIlI. will be eighty years old on
rch 2, should he live till then.
10 less than 1000, 900 prairie chickens
marketed in Chicago every year.
oLoNEL NORTH, the English nitrate
g, has a private dog-house that cost
p50.
HT Farmers Asfociation of South
plina will nominate a State ticket
year.
ALBERT, the pianist,is strict vege-
IAN and eats an enormous number
apples.
UBBER pavements have successfully
d tried on bridge in Hanover and a
let in Berlin.
NcLE SAM pays his 200, 900 employees,
Iuding soldiers and sailors, an aver
salary of $S25 apiece.
|3|s PHILADELPHIA shoemakcr's dog died
|kkqm swallowing piece of sole leather
mistake for beefsteak.
HIGHT HUNDRED pennies were received
~ single collection in one of the Chi
|c41o churches not long ago,
R WILLIAM GULL says that when
faGged out by professional work he re-
|cMits his strength by eating raisins.
HUI New York man has been sent to
PRISON for failing to pay his wife $500
|Ahot he borrowed before their mar.
|riage.
|8A PENNSYLVANIA newspaper reports
|24At young girl at West Chester, that
AtAte, has utilized one of her tingcr-nails
~ pen.
DIE new Spanish Minister of Com
|IpSece, the Duke of Vcragua, is reported
|el1e lineal descendant of Christopher
|G0mmbus
BILL has been introduced in the Do
ion Parliament to abolish French as
l44 official language in tho Northwest
(ritories.
BUFFALo JONES'" OF Garden CITY,
~, killed buffalo from his herd the
er day and sold the meat for fifty
Is pound.
4EvI WILLIAMSON, of Ansonia, Conn,
|9f4 hog that is seven feet long and
|Nighs 1000 pounds. 1t is SO fat that it
rnable to get up.
"a H1CAGo is to have a fourteen-story
1el costing over million of dollars
|Ine projectors expect it to pay for it.
sell during the Worlds Fair.
|'A BUNDLE Of spider webs, not larger
Man buckshot and weighing less than
|pne drachm, would, if Strengthened out
foIh d distance of $50 miles.
ERoMAs f.. BLAcKsHEER, OF Thomas
Ca, is eating new potatoes from
tings made in September, and has
Strawberries on his place.
BIZ freedom OF the serfs in Russia has
repeatedly declared great failure.
are said to be far worse off now
in their former condition.
bNcuRRENTlY with the reports Of
u'.t" .na. -, - ,no Nor.n"es' arc assei.
'n"o oa.'io sro 50 oneap 'ha' ~
NV pay W 9nip 'le"i East
= " .ho LESSONS taught py Nelile
girdling the earth is that young
IN an ,n"S ~ on an eA' A'elsiVe 'riP Win
o, D"ss"so 'hah erip.Saoh'
= hrs' cohVor' 70 christianity IN
upper oohgo Vaiiey was recently
i1ou ~ Hq ua.or oIa.ioh' Inc val
o' S"'' 'n''y ihiiiioh peopie'
oosot vanS contemporary mas made
lis'otery ry 'na' inc iair shouia mol
eiu @ AZ alie"so, New iork' ot LOUIS
;s sanuo5 .h.s a ss. ,no m"''0'
~ .Sa I.sns.. .''o. s.nu no"ses "ei.
ar,v w. G A. ,o"a an"ss, s..... sa''oi' anu
Iro soa ,oss o .h." a I.,.a u.s'0S .S % s .a,ueu
~, ~ won 'eio'o 'n' noou.
mas ueseiopeu sore OF moss-hke
"s which i"s'ehs itseii on walls,
iroh's' every tnihg' IN lact' OF an
,eo'urai nature
niFFEL not only got MS idea OF
tower from american suggestions
ie oen.enniai Exposition, but an
ican eievator iiitea the patrons OF
LIVER W 'ne top oi IL.
BAILEY ALDRicH, VINO Is recent
y oi Sne grip, compares tho sensa-
70 that OF a "misfit skull, that Is
isne across 'ne iorehead ana that
es oehina tne ears.
OF the professors OF tho Universe
VIENNA Is said to have discovered
pacciilus OF the influenza, and 1t
10 DO a near cousin, II not the
orotner Oh the pneumonia germ.
p Germauimperial administrations
to pass bill for the expulsion of
ocialists from the empire has been
n In the National ReichS.ag by the
Ghelming vote Of 1850 nays to 9s
recent autograph sale in London
signature of Voltairo brought only
Tuineas, while that Of Isaac Watts
for three; and while ten pounds
given for Boswell letter, one by
son brought only nine.
= Shah of Persia in addition to the
es OF jewels in tho royal treasury,