Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-11
CURRENT TOPICS.


IA BALTIMORE tramp named Welch has
lien heir to $4,000.
a WOMAN in New York furnishes love
ters at dollar piece.
Prince BISMARCK keeps the wolf from
door with Sl70,0O0 year.
|rryAs has an ex-Governor-Mr Hub
rd-who weighs $50 pounds.
TuERE are fully fifty thousand Rus
m Hebrews in New York City.
MINISTER PHELPS spends $4,000 year
,re than his salary in Germany.
IA GENUINE portrait of Columbus paint
by Lotte, in 1901, has been discover
TuE Countess OF Paris is crack shot,
4 never allows the attendants to load
gun
In was originally intended by his
her to make pianist of Editor Henry
ptterson.
huE mostexpensive fur is the Russian
bic, for single skin as much as $3.50
sometimes paid.
sUNFLowER stock fourteen feet
th, with 15l flowers on it, is tho pride
Versailles, Mo-
PAsrEUR is small and pale, and limps
len he walks. With all his discoveries
has not found health.
?. Il. BARNUM always takes tea and
Hee mixed at regular hourly intervals
ring the day and night.
SPECIAL commissioner has been ap.
nted by the Gar to inquire into the
bition of Jews in Russia.
r appears from the New York dis
tches that Castle Garden has become
egular matrimonial bureau.
n NUMBER OF United States Senators
agitatng the question of increasing
Senator's pay to $40, 900 a year.
EVERY night $4,000 houseless and
meless people sleep by the Thames,
what they call the Port of London.
Mss CoIENso of Natal, daughter of
! famous bishop of that name is lec-
ling in London on the Zulu question.
rnE handsomest residence in Hart
ID, Conn, is said to be that of Mrs.
/, the widow of tho revolver inven-
fnE library of Napoleon III saved
IN the Tuilcries when it was
flames, is shortly to be sold by auc-
n.
GENERAL BENJAMIN BUTLER once sup
fted himself by making chairs at fifty
hts day. Now his income is $500, 600
hually,
ALMOST "a, 600 Frenchmen belong to
/ Legion Of Honor, 81, Of them be-
connected with the army and the
/ civilians.
NEAT, unadorned marble cross has
en erected over the remains of Williio
llns In the northern part of Kensal
cen cemetery.
FARMER took a load of potatoes to
chita Kan, the other day, and sold
m for as much money as seven loads
ought last season.
AS instance of rctribution is found in
case Of the man who invented tho
ts-in-cloycr puzzle. He has been sent
sn insane asylum.
THERE is never any telling where am
lion and ability may end. Lord VOL
ley was once an errand boy in sta
mary store in Berlin,
HE average temperature Of Sitka,
hska, in winter, is 43 above zero. In
fty years the mercury has fallen be.
zero but four times.
THE engineer on locomotive near
pen Cove Spring, Fla, caught two
ftridges in his hands out of covey,
lie flying through the cab.
4oNG distance telephoning is a great
cess in Philadelphia, man in no.
there talking with one in Washing.
could hear him distinctly.
lHE banana plant has been found to
ntsin greater quantity of pure fibre
an any of the other numerous vege-
pie products used for paper making.
TEXAS is the eighth State in point of
pulation in the Union, the order be.
New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
llo, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan,
lxas
DoYLEsrowN, Pa, ducks are addicted
dissipation. They eat the tomato re-
% from seed establishment which
$ undergone fermentation and get
astly drunk.
HE President Of Uruguay lives owe,
millinery store with his wife, but
wing the entire resources of the coun.
at his command the expense does
worry him.
HE champion butter-producing-coN
the would is named Euratisamas,
ned in Massachusetts, and her record
s45 pounds and nine ounces of but
in one year.
HE measures against the introduce
IN OF cholera to Europe by pilgrims
em Mecca have been entirely success
The sanitary condition Of France
y spain is now fairly good.
.oLoNEL JOHN BENTON and N. NJ.
nhson' respectively Democratic and
publican candidates for Congress in
ptth Dakota, will jointly discuss the
I'm throughout the campaign.
oAPTAlN JAMES BEND, who saved the
res OF 29s persons wrecked off Long
'ach on the ship State Of Georgia, in De-
noer 1852, still Ii, IS, at the age Of
netY' near Beach Haven, N. j.
AMONG the Oldest officers in the Ger
ah army, in point Of service, is Theo
Won Fries, of Munich, General of In
ntry' Chief of tho Bavarian Engineer
rps and Inspector Of Fortiflcations
recently began the fiftieth year o.
military service.
MRS ANNIE HALL, who is suing for {
sorce @ in Brooklyn court, bases hel
'''ion upon the alleged wreck Of he,
tVous system by her husbands habi
!, grinding his teeth during his sleep.
NE famous Hindoo god, Lingham, il
Nv owned by an English gentleman
mea Spencer, who paid $500 for |
ah auction sale in London in 1888
igh. ' ''' 10 "0"'
"hAr is probably the largest ros'
uSa ., IN the world grows alongside tn
,'aence OF DR.. Z. b. Matthews, in Mo
os w. Aia' 1t was planted In 1918, an,
0ring trees.
NJ WHEELER, OF Odebolt, Sac Coun
mas under cultivation the larges
sa sm IN Iowa. 1t comprises e,2oO acres
Isry loot OF which is under cultivation
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