Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-01
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Even snOwdrita twenty 1eeb ueep |
and packed as boys pack snowballs, are
compelled to yield to the rotary pi6~'
These modern appliances mean business
when they 60 to work.
Verdict of sorofer's Jury in Della
ware County, n Y. "The jury finds
that diseased came to his Death through
the influance Of Liquor and carlessness
on his part and while ling on West
bounded track, and killed by train No. 1
generating the Company from blame.'
The French Academy Of Science has
discovered, by experiment, that each
human body is in itself an electric bat
terry, one electrode being represented by
the head and the other by the feet.
Therefore it is the proper thing to sleep
with ones head to the north and feet to
the south.
"A wealthy farmer of Palestine, Ohio,
was arraigned before United States
Commissioner Hagerty, at Columbus re-
Gently, charged with opening a letter
addressed to his daughter. Itseems that
the old gentleman discovered that his
daughter was corresponding with a
young man against his wishes, and he
resorted to this means Of putting an end
to it. He was required to give bond in
$500.
An Englishman who came to-this
country thirty years ago, leaving wife
at home, to whom he soon after ceased
writing, was amazed recently at his
boarding house in Cohoes, n. Y, by
coming face to face with her. They
eyed each other for moment and then
embraced. She had been searching for
years for him, going from town to town
all over the country. He is weaver,
and went to Cohoes from Philadelphia.
AT the Paris Exposition Florentine
friar showed watch onlya quarter of an
inch in diameter. 1t has not only tho
two regular hands, but a third which
marks the seconds, and a microscopic
dial which indicates the days, weeks,
months and years, 1t also contains an
alarm, and on its front lid or cover an
ingcniously cut figure of Saint Francis.
On the back cover, by aid of a powerful
glass, you can distinctly see and read
two verses of the '1e Deum."
There is something curious about
the American silver dollar and half-dol-
larof 1904" says numismatist "There
were about 10000 of the dollars coined,
but not one of them got into circulation.
Two of them are in coin collections to.
day, however, and they are the most val
liable of all American coins. Why the
dollar of 1904 was never in circulation
after leaving the mint is one of the un-
solved Goyernmentmysteries. The half
dollar of 1904 is surrounded by a mys-
terry equally profound. There were
100000 of these coined, but not one was
ever known to be in circulation"
Among the countries in which re-
strictions are placed on the press is
France. The Home Ministers there may
prohibit single number OF newspa-
per. The whole Council of Ministers,
duly convened, may prohibit the circu-
lation of foreign newspaper absolute
| ly. In Spain and Portugal, in Germany
and other countries somewhat severe
press laws have prevailed, a system of
censorship being carried out. In Russia
considerable restrictions are placed on
the press. According to recent return
only lO7 foreign political journals were
at the time of the return allowed to cir
| culate in the country.
During the recent grippe period,
when almost everybody imagined
| peculiar symptoms, resident Of
Commonwealth avenue dropped into
| his doctors on the way down
town. Doctor, l don't know what
is the matter. l have a peculiar SEN
sation in one of my legs. 1t appears
to be shorter than the other" walk
across the room," said the doctor The
patient ambled gracefully. That will
do" said the doctor, smiling. You'll
have to 90 home" 81 can't; | have
business engagements. "Well. | give
you my advice, and you can take it or
not, but if you want to get rid of that
peculiar sensation you will go home and
put on pair of boots that are mates,
for a single-sole boot and one with a
! cork sole never did go we'll together.
The power of gold is phenomenal,
The discovery Of gold in California gave
population and new life to the Pacific
coast. Such discovery in Australia
populated continent, and in South AZ
rica is making the Transvaal predomi-
nently English. And now advices from
Demarara represent that it was only the
discovery of gold which prevented an
insurrection. The comparative failure
of the sugar cane industry left the ne
groes without work. The East Indian
coolies had all the places on the sugar
festates. The negroes were on the point
of rising against the Government, when
"a few exploring gold seekers found
gold along the sides of one of the upper
rivers, The gold fever set in. and it
carried into the interior so many of the
idle, strong and reckless fellows that a
great public danger was averted, and
the emigrants have speedily made and
| are now Sppndinp nice cnmnetpnrips"