Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-12-06

in lone, Cal. is graded the other day.
ANNIE L BANTER was elected clerk
in Jasper County, No, and is the frs;
woman elected to a county Office in tina,
State.
The Italian Government has ordered
that the study OF English shall be added
to the curriculum Of all Italian uniyer-
sites.
PROF. Koch has reasons TO fear, as
he says he does, the experiments o.
quacks with his anti-consumpiion
lymph.
MASSACHUSETTS claims to have the
champion butter-producing COW. In one
year she turned out cream for g45 pounds
Of butter.
An English syndicate is said to be try
ing to buy up all the seed gardens OF
this country. This is investment rum.
ming to seed.
SILK from paper pulp is made smooth
and brilliant, has about the same elias
ITCHY as ordinary silk, and is about two
thirds as strong.
JACOBS we'll and the plot of ground
surrounding it have been sold by the
Turkish Government to the Greek
church for 81, 900.
An English company has made a pro-
posal to the legislature Of the island Of
Nassau to lay a cable to the coast Of
Florida if an annual subsidy is granted
it.
THE best speed Of a railway train is
only a little more than half the velocity
of the golden eagle, the flight Of which
often attains to the rate OF 40 miles an
hour.
THE private correspondence Of the
Prince Of Wales IS something enormous.
He is said to receive four times as many
letters a day as does the President Of
the United States.
Or ali birds, the condor mounts high
est into the atmosphere. Humboldt
describes the fight Of this bird in the
Andes to be at least 20, 900 feet above
the level Of the sea.
A RAILWAY conductor has told a re.
porter in Pittsburgh that General Jubal
a. Early declined to receive in changea
f~ye-dollar bill recently because it bore
the vignette Of General Grant.
THE golden eagle may be distin.
guished from all white-heads by the
feathers on its legs. All wh~ite.headed
eagles have bare legs. while the leg Of a
golden eagle are teathered down TO the
foot.
EMMA ABBOTT is enormously cred.
tied with being the richest woman on
the stage" Patti can buy and sell
her half a dozen times over, and even
Mary Anderson can raise as much
dust.
DAgK-HAIGED persons have a better
chance in the great struggle for exist
ence than those OF the opposite complex.
ion, except in contagious diseases,
where blondes are comparatively ex.
empt.
THE heart Of the oak begins to rot at
about the age Of 3OOyears. The holly oak
alone escapes this law, it is said, and
there is a specimen Of this aged Az
years in existence near Aschaffenburg,
In Germany.
COUNT Won MoLTKE is the first landed
proprietor in Germany to adopt the
eight-hour rule for the peasants work
ing for him upon his estate at Creisau
and is we'll satisfied with the result O.
the experiment
MAJoR PoND, Mr.. Stanley's manager
Is some thing Of a d~iscoverer himself
lie is discovering, among other things
that there are a great many towns
throughout the country that will not o
can not pay 81, 600 to hear his star.
THE Panama canal works are wrecked
even traces Of the excavations are van
ishing and the constructive machiner,
Is worthless. This enterprise, in whiol
$500, 900. 900 has been sunk, will figure a
the monumental failure of the age.
TIE late Mrs. Astor had a lace dres
which cost SIS, 900, and it is stated tina
another was recently sold to an Amer
lean lady for S95, 900. There are a nun
Der of ladies in New York who each ow
laces valued at from $50, 900 to $50, 900.
n MA"IHiMONlAb oldllotlCluH mas COI
cluded that the number OF marriage
is in the proportion of seventy-ive I
every one thousand individuals borr
and the time when the greatest numbe
of marriages take place is in June an
December-about the time Of the sun
mcr and winter solstices.
THE hop vine is said to be sinistror,
because IL twincs with the motion
the sun; that is, from right TO lei
Beans, morning glories, and all 9th
species of climbing plants, with the c
ception Of one Of the h~oneysuckles, a
dextrorse, turning opposite to the
parent motion Of the sun, or from Il
TO right.
A snoE-DEALER says that girls
tween sixteen and eighteen have bigl
feet than after twenty and TWEEN
four. The foot is fleshy at that vi
and large, but as years come the f
decreases and the muscles grow m,
firm.
AT tho wedding OF the Princess \
taria, OF Prussia, in accordance with
old custom. the BRIDES garter was
into small pieces and distributed
souvenir among this relatives OF
bride and bridegroom by the first
in waiting.
CONSUMPTION causes about IA perc'
Of the deaths throughout the world.
A CITIZEN Of Chester. Pa, has a he
insured for $3.50 and his wife for SIS.
Now THAT tho watermelon season
gone ~irrevocably into the vault Of
past, : South American lady amour
that she cradicated her freckles
gained . pink and ivory complexion
hathing her face in tho juice Of the
lkeioHs fruit
z nnsFnnoB WILLIAM Of Germany
11Dpo4e hook Of regulations ordain
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