Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-04

Wales.
O. /. SENEY is about to sell his col
,tion of pictures. which he values
$1,000, 900,
MORE bananas are consumed in tho
,ited States than in any other nation
the world.
A NEGRO at Perry, Ca, is said to weigh
D pounds and to have gained 100 pounds
thin year.
A WHALE nearly seventy feet in
peth was washed ashore near Dublin,
bland, recently.
WEST BRANCH, Mich, was so infested
wolves that the berry crop was left
most untouched.
A MAcoMB COUNTY, Mich, farmer has
ryested 6O4 bushels of good oats from
acres of ground.
A SOCIETY "for the endowment OF
br marriageablo girls" is being start.
In St. Petersburg
CLARENCE STEPHENS, a nephew OF AL.
bndor Stephens, is a conductor Of a
|llman sleeping car.
elxrY voyages around Cape Horn Is
b remarkable record Of Captain
Zines, of Mystic, Ct
\ CURIOUS prize at a progressive
khre party in a New York town was a
By pound watermelon.
Born General Merwin and Judge Nor
the candidates for Governor of Con-
fticut, are baldheaded.
fLooEs of rubber-claimed to be as
Fable as asphalt and much cheaper
being tried in Germany.
dRs, DEBORAH POWERS, of Kingston,
| Y, is worth $4,000, 900, manages he,
b affairs and is 100 years old.
PENEgAL BUTLER is fond of good din.
and Is himself an accomplished
(k. He can broil lobster to a turn.
FHE European yield of wheat this
iris estimated at 1924, 707, 900 bushels,
ich is l07, 100000 more than last year.
|Tl1lzING scrap steel rod by welding
lnd drawing it into fence wire is ono
he recent successes of electric weld.
RATTLESNAKE died in ten minutes
pr biting a colored man at Lumpkin,
The man suffered no serious re-
is.
GENERAL E, KIRBY SMITH, president
fhe Sewanee College, Tennessee, is in
w Orleans undergoing treatment for
beer.
PHREE doctors at work enforcing SAN
|ry regulations in the cholera-infected
ftions Of Spain have been killed by
: peasants.
COMMANDER DENNIS w. MULLAN has
fn presented with an elegant watch
the Maryland Legislature for his
hvery at Samoa.
MEMPHIS is the largest inland cotton
(rkes In the world, and yet they are
|klng about putting gasoline lamps in
only public park.
a Yo0NG man walked in his sleep one
fht at Statewide, Ca, and when he
|ose he found himself at a grindstone
hrpening his knife.
A FRENCH scientist declares that the
psstic cats of the world carry at least
per cent. OF the common contagious
eases from house to house.
PhE Empress Frederick, to whom the
gilsh taxpayers have contributed
700 year for the past 35 years, has
present an income of $3.50, 200 a year.
inmate of the Georgia State Hos.
ai Tor the Insane imagines he Is a
I'm OF corn and will not 60 into the
"a Tor fear the chickens will eat him.
Mss ALICE WARD, OF Coney Island,
'ne champion woman swimmer OF
world, and at present holds tho
oai' which she has won for the fifth
WASHINGTON paper, which had a
esy advertisement in IT. has been
Eown out Of the mails. The postal
utter.
HERE Is a negro woman who lives
Athens who prepares herself for
ssa every night, and who is always
noiy surprised to find herself alive
Prnings.
hhSiDENT ROBERTS, Of the Pennsyl.
AiS railroad, started In life as q track
~ thirty years ago. The combined
.,es ae he receives now amount tc
10000 year.
IS reported that one Of the nomi.
H. lot tho Legislature from the Phila.
"a .pa'a district can neither read no,
=" ana that in signing a check he
Axes his mark.
STRANGE freak Of nature in connec.
6n,s Sisn the recent tornado appears in
'a Lawrence, Mass. In the district
WY WY The storm, lilac and pear tree,
'0 begun to blossom.
1ht total number of passenrers osr.
y ~. ~ tne United States during 1885,
v',"sl7l,s4a. -. Ono passenger In ev.
.oo SUSo, o. lsS was killed, and one in ev
s0'OSA was injured.
Itah a GoRINe, the Oldest inhsbit.nt
kn,Ia n,Il,ours, Germany, died there 70.
,no', m his loeth year. He was with
loseon, N 1879 in the campaign te
FsSs OW' He was a matchmaker BY
I,ll .,.,LLiAMsroN, W.. Mich, man, whose
Iillo.s sa 4 ary' found that the roots Of {
|cIlsa uaa grown . distance Of "a feet
|ad w. up on the bottom in a solid mass
oliage, ''ns al the water into sh'
lobA,.AA ,,ASKEE has invented a chioke,
b hsn,. consisting Of a spring attachet
snus, sAs - ieg, which, when the hen st
L. .rd .s 20 scratch, will movo her ON
but o, au ,Sa VIII, in fact walk her righ
isA a, ,'o.auntry with only one.twen
mes y mous 'ae worlds population, con
ald, r,os' mUse than IS per cent Of th'
SN'p'oduOtiop Of luxuries.