Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-22
OE GENERAL INTEREST.

The waters of Japan furnish $50 DIFF
ferent varie ties of fish suitable for food.
The first apple tree planted in Ohio,
they say, can be seen alive and vigorous
on a farm in Marietta. 1t was planted
in 1889
"A kid glove with little outside
pocket in the palm for the wearer to
keep car fare, is one Of the latest devices
for comfort.
-Siemens, the electrician, says that
no death has ever been caused in Berlin
by contact with electric wires. The
city's immunity from danger is due to
underground conduits.
A citizen of Taunton, Mass, Says
that he knows woman who for several
years made from / 900 to 1,200 pies year
for a family of three persons, and one
member has eaten more than two-thirds
of them.
1t is said that women in New Or
leans enter more occupations unusual to
the sex than in any other city. They
become merchants. hunters, florists,
dairy farmers and manufacturers, and all
make good living.
i'm Lawrence, Kan, comparison
by means of photometer, between the
brightness of the full moon and that of
the arc lights in use in that city, showed
that at an average distance of 100 feet
from the lightof the lamp the brightness
was twenty-five times that of the full
moon.
During the year 1889 there were car
ried over the elevated railroads of New
York lS2, 413,987 passengers, not one of
whom was injured by carelessness or
other fault of the management. This is
certainly wonderful showing and af-
fords marked contrast to the accidents
associated with surface travel.
The principal sea fish that serve as
nourishment to the human race are the
skate or ray, the shark family the stur-
geon, the tunny the mackerel, the cod
fish, the herring, the sardine, the an
choyy, the salmon and the eel. Some
readers may be surprised to see the
shark included, but it is a numerous
family and all are not man-eaters. Tho
shark fishery is regularly established
industry in some parts of the world.
In the United Kingdom valuable
waste products derivable from fish refuse
are usually ignored in every household.
Excellent stock or basis for soups can be
made from the heads, bones, skins of
fish and of tilleted fish, a familiar econo-
my in China, where even sharks fins
often fetch about thirteenpencea pound.
A bread of fish flour is popular in
some countries. English rays are i'm
ported into France for making soup;
bone earth from fish refuse for manure;
albumen from fish blood.
The wife Of farmer at Maysville,
s. D., having learned that her husband
had mortgaged his farm to pay whisky
bill contracted at blind pig, as illicit
drinking places are termed there, col
lected seven more women, and the eight
sailed forth armed with pickaxes and
hatchets. Before noon the determined
women had broken up several blind
pigs and destroyed their fixtures and
furniture. The proprietors offered but
a feeble resistance, being taken by sur
prise. A large crowd accompanied the
women on their rounds and cheered
them on,
The original post-office box used in
the town of Pomfret Conn, one hun
dred years ago is now owned in that town,
being the property Of Benjamin Gros-
venor, one of whose ancestors, Lemuel
Grosvenor, was the first postmaster ap-
pointed between Hartford and Boston,
He received his appointment from Pres
ident Washington, and held the Office
until the election of Martin Van Buren,.
when the infrmities of age demanded
his REIMBURSEMENT of office. The box
itself is four and one-half feet in height
and four feet in length. There are two
apartments at the top, with five drawers
underneath, making curious relic Of
the earliest postal days and service in
Connecticut.
Divorces, according TO the report Of
the Commissioner of Labor. have been
granted in this country for the follow
ing causes: "One woman was granted
divorce because her husband persisted
in coming home at ten o'clock at night
and keeping her awake talking, This
she called mental cruelty, and the court
agreed with her. Another woman Sc
cured divorce because her husband cut
off her bangs by force, and still another
because her spouse refused to cut his toe
nails. One wife's feelings were lacerated
to the point of legal separation because
her husband would not wash himself,
thus causing her mental anguish The
sensibilities of another wife were out
ragged past cure because her husband
said her sister was thief. One man
got divorce because his wife didn' tsew
on his huttnns