Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
CURRENT TOPICS.
HARRISBURG horse sports a

Ely lloh'
Iopr champagne is drunk in America
N in all of Europe.
SCHEME is on foot to join Scotland
Ireland by tunnel
EIGHTY varieties ofgrapes were grown
The Kansas State agricultural farm
season.
N Atcbison man eats blaclbirds and
10 fond of them that he buys all tho
rs can kill
rur National Liberal Club of London
appointed a provisional committee
Irish distress.
Nav York has twenty-eight theaters,
gross seating capacity of which is
br $4,000 people.
FHE vanderbilts pay tax to the city
New York on eight million dollars OF
tsonal valuation.
hur Duke of Portland is thirty-thrce
hrs old, and one of the fattest men in
United Kingdom.
6rEpurN H. TYNG, the once popular
wv York pastor, is doing life insur-
co business in Paris.
ruE greatest city park in the world is
irmount park. in Philadelphia, con-
ming over 1900 acres.
SAN FRANCIsCo woman has been az
ted as nuisance because she played
! piano incessantly."
A BILL to forbid and punish tho maxi
Of caricatures has been introduced
tho Vermont Legislature.
THERE is a talk about one or two Brit
gun vessels being adapted for tho
Of captive balloons at sea.
JAY GouLD's income is said to be a
llion a month And with the whole
1t he is unable to buy health.
A FLOCK of blackbirds three miles
be- and half a mile wide passed over
lington, Ga, day or two ago.
THE Earl of Feversham makes 1t
Int to never pay hisservants or trades
IN until they engage in general
ike
\ LARGE number of carriages in cities
} now supplied with rubber tires to
event violent jolting and deafening
$tter.
Ex-JUDGE LEONARD, OF New York,
IS received legacy of $3.50, 600 for
kgotten favor that he did a stranger
le years ago.
THE offer Of bicycle for tho use OF
bunted policeman has been made to
police commissioners of New York
manufacturer
"A JAPANESE husband has married and
Eorced thirty-tive wives and is about
take another He is bound to be
tied at all events.
Our Consul at Piedras Negras reports
at American hogs can be profitably
ported to Mexico, despite the &c. 50
, capita duty on them.
The house of Mary Washington in
fredericksburg has been purchased by
. Society for tho Preservation of Vir.
hia Antiquities for 81, 600.
3THE highwayman who held life in
rance agent up at New Albany was in
ison with four years sentence with
fifteen hours after committing his
Fine.
IrHE Michigan State Board of Health,
)lieving consumption a communica.
E disease, advises that all pupils af.
|cted be excluded from the public
|hools.
a SUCKING pig carelessly wrapped in
|own paper with both ends open was
! article sent through the English
Pst'oftice and delivered to the ad-
lessee.
'oAfTE DE PARIS dresses plainly and
lcks like a prosperous business man.
Il Is easy to approach, and, in fact, there
nothing of the snob about any one of
le party.
AN artesian we'll was driven eighty
Ee ieet through solid rock at Pullman,
[ash', when water was struck. The
|scharge is said to be about 1000 gal
|ns minute.
!HE country place Of G. w. Childs of
bryn Mawr, is said to be one of the
nest in the United States. The pay
pil ior servants alone averages about
200 month.
Inc discoveries made by Stanley show
Pat the Nile is the longest river in the
orld' being at least 400 miles in
myth or as long as the Mississippi and
Ilssouri together.
ihE hungarian born citizens of tho
niled States are about to start sub
''p'ion to raise sufficient funds to
'e'' monument to the great Hungar-
N patriot, Louis Kossuth,
a srREET-cAR conductor has noticed |
is' men always make room for woman
W. mat women always make room for |
'en' But neither sex budges to make
'om for one Of its own sex.
ZOE GAYToN, q San Francisco woman,
walking across the Continent for q
M u,se OF a dollar a mile, providing she
aiks more than fifteen miles day. |
time.
n IL " ANGEL, of Weatherford, Tex,
10 ~ IN good health on Sunday, but he
~ MS wife that he would die Monday |
Nv. 'ka~ lie made his will, attended to
Tiness Monday as usual, and that
ight lay down and died.
~ tht latest application of the slot
'mV,pie is an automatic stamp-selling |
'a'nine ~ One drops niclsle in the slot
~ ~ se's two postage stamps. The odd |
,"' ~. pays the storekeeper and for the
Isr "a and tear on the machine.
~, 1--WE factories make tho little cap
,D" ,s' IN which nauseating medicines are
Tho largest Of them is at |
.,",, "oie where quantities of the littlo |
.''ne v boxes are manufactured.
,i.. se hLFoNzo persists in calling his !
0Sa ,~"uS oy their Christian names; his
,hs Is',ess n is trying to teach him to say
,,,o I luke p, or "tho marquis" but tho
. ,no UNI, hing laughs at her, persisting thai
' :. ",ust say Juanito or Xiquena.
,,, NOVEL fight was Witnessed on the
!, tn street in Boscobel. Wis. A large |
"a ,;'an out from under the sidewalk, |
~ ~ s mink followed and overlook 1t in
.S sb. middle oftho street, where furious
1a' LOOK place. The rat was worsted. |
4 v"tsrs occupy 80 por cent. of the to-
!, .'ea .o OF Sweden, SO per cont. of Rus
s,~ s o. OF Austria, es Of Hungary, s5 OF
many =, "a Of Norway, 10 of Belgium,
n,,. ~ Franco, IS of Switzerland, II O,
aa ~ - oil Italy, 4 of Great Britain |
"eiahd' and 10 Of the United States. |
ina, ~ astonishing how the valuo Of
,,t increase as soon as it Is known