Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

& 11E6Ir6ias and twelve Bostons in the
n 03ttGd States.
~ IN town of Addison, in Maine, has
\ 23 couples who have been married
prs orover.~.
Y & New York Legislature will pass
up5 bill prohibiting the placing OF
pio1s in cigarette boxes.
o. & EvARTs, the Senator's oldest
y aoi, deyotes his attention to managing
III bR farm at Windsor, Vt.
TkkNcE has half as many people as
the United States, but her national
debt y twice as great as ours.
MAINE folks are frugal. They in.
creased their deposits in the savings
hanks last year by over 50, 10000
1Goaxn of the orange trees at Riverside,
Cal, IRE so heavily laden with fruit that
tho branches have to be propped up,
ANEW YORK firm sued n sewing-girl
10 prevent her from working with an.
other firm. She is an expert sewer
THE new Sultan Of Zanzibar has only
tWenty-three wives. He is consid.
erod practically bachelor in that coun.
Try.
EHoULD the experiments to make
Rlass as tough as iron succeed, we may
III live in glass houses and throw stones,
too.
HxfnEsENTATIvE Charles II. Gibson,
81 Noryland, is considered the hand.
g0mo6t member of the Lower House OF
C0ngfess
PH11rILLER BRoUssARD, of Louisiana,
agQd ninety-one years, has just married
! lady somewhat over fifty. 1t is his
second marriage.
PRINCE GEORGE of Wales will soon be
promoted to the rank of commander,
thereby leaping over the heads of 6OO
( senior lieutenants.
KINa Menelilk, of Abyssinia, has re.
ceived from the King of Italy magnif
cent crown of gold, set with emeralds
and pearls of great value.
THxiG are reported to be over 100, OOC
\ 6undoy-schools in this country, with
I 1,fO4o8 teachers, and eight and one.
third Million of scholars.
MAINLAND producers expect to grow
l2,ooocQ0 quarts of Strawberries this
+ yeats INT all the same they are ordering
20,0040D quart" boxes
6Qux3 GEORGIA BARRIERS have rule
that II universal. A stranger is re.
.Qulre4o pay fifteen cents for a shave,
Bht1A fresidcnt pays ten.
lA06GH the Chinese are for peace,
tAey nre having built in England a
poNDrkul ironclad, two swift cruisers
&nd fW0 torpedo gunboats.
m NRcIEs, of Carroll County, Mo-,
wollA 85 sewing machine by producing
Wqzye oars of corn that weighed eight
(o(o ounds eleven ounces.
bX coat shirt is said to be tho latest
ION in front all tho way down, is
~ flt the figure, and does not have
nailed on over the head.
~ other day barrel containing q
beby in good shape was caught
down Tennessee river. 1t had
geted" thus for sixty miles.
meanest one yet is the man in
Int who wants the Government tc
~ interest on the money invested
IN cent stamp on delayed letter
~ kkRGE assignment of cotton seed
&1on received in Oklahoma, which
~ distributed among the settlers
ietely, and planting will begin al
Az old man lives in tower in the
44y4lnn Alps, the highest meteorolog
ol4tion in Europe. He gets S2O(
s(x and hardly ever sees human
1RowN-SEQUARD is still engaged
youthful elixir at Paris, and
in believing that his expert
MI at last be successfully estab
MILLS, of Sparta, Ca, is fatten
birds for the market. He feeds
4ell and they grow large. He
" = going into the business very
ai ely.
q OH is already being arranged
I" young King Alexander of Servia
: Not yet fourteen years old. The
alliance is with a Grand Ouch
nssia.
! All YOUNG had flfty-six chill.
whom thirty-one were girls and
ye boys. Some of them died
4 n or childhood, but the most Of
n ched mature age.
\ As colored woman living in
ex., who claims to be f45 years
: people say she looks it, She is
\ aough to admit that she never
ral Washington.
Ss lts wire conductors that have
~ use for twenty years for carry.
IA hg electric currents have bees
fr,s kamined and the copper has
* * nd extremely brittle.
LER, the artist, who is soon to
p,j country, has black hair, but
M e top of his head perfectly
,EE =, of which he is quite proud,
" ards 1t as an indication Of an
md aristocratic lineage.
aIi pr, according to recent statis-
~ nlculation, is the largest ''pri'
a' her of land in the world. The
~ bout fifty million acres, about
= Il the whole of France.
nss ,.sr Blish travelling harpist has been
vha, ID cheating the railroad by
as Sis his little girl done up in the
I'd" with his harp. He had travel
az lbout England and paid no fare
IN 4 hild.
lkS nal across the Isthmus OF Cor
liSa lasa lars destined to share the fate
Panama, for the Cecil tribun
IS s has just issued q judgment
,s@as The winding up Of the Corinth
SH mpany.
:, 4 editors have tried hard tt
SI Sd, the words Buffalo Bill. One
'% makes it; "Compagnia Amer
- iuglielmo Buffalo Occidentale
.t% ("the American troupe o.
s AZ Buffalo Savage Westl').
s Atchmaher Goering, Of Otter
ssTl l Hamburg, Germany, Is the
n" teran Of the Napoleonic wars
= 40 hundred and Ave years old OF
n, this month. In 1919 he tool
retreat Of the French ovsl
"a ina and witnessed Napolson''
- Russia
! Y 4 a .Ass y ,Aas, 1T rsilrss.
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