Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-07-19
CURRENT TOPICS.
bismarck monument fund Is we'll
IA 500, 900.

be has more than quarter of a
Barrier pigeons trained for war
hon SHERMAN has a large fortune
said to yield him l2 per cent
ETY to prevent people from be-
ed alive has been organized in
tx.
mperor of China sleeps on a bed
! wood magniHcently inlaid with
ivory.
ARD UNIVERSITY is 254 years
during that time it has gradu.
$50 pupils.
uMENT to Alexander Stephens
to be erected over his grave at
lsville, Ga.
lAL ALBERT PIKE, who is at the
the Masons in the South, Is
-four years Of age.
" particularly fatal disease,
10 black fever, is killing many
b Central America.
HoUGHToN, real estate dealer at
Falls, Wash, is said to have
30, 600 in four years.
ETHER in tho world there are
b, 100000 followers Of Buddha.
10 alone thore are 10000
king of Sweden is said to have a
sin living at Lynn, Mass, and
Is probably a shoemaker.
IA farmers complain of a scarcity
st hands and are advertising for
les men to work In the field.
tesian we'll was put in a beet
ctory in California that flows
lallons in twenty-four hours.
eHoUT the country the infant
" is assuming startling proper
1T is a hard year on the babies.
N near Fairmount. N. j., is GOV.
Is said, by shingles that were
It when the structure was built
MULLER says that some of the
bf India need fear no compari-
b the best men and women of
tallest schoolgirl in the world"
Riednaun, near STERLING. She
eleventh year and is about six
oR INGALLS, receives an average
letters a day. The services Of
writers are necessary to dispose
hil.
nail service has been inaugural.
een Chicago and New Orleans,
nnce, 915 miles, to be covered
ours.
pa is not yot epidemic, but it is
& in France, in Spain, in Portu-
Italy, enough to make every
chful.
reported that the new census
|w 400, 900 commercial travellers
country. At the last census
re 10000
Is titled lady in London who
laps for a living. New York
hould think of this when they
caps for titles.
GHTER of Ehret, the New York
has captured a title by marry.
IN Won Seidlitz. Beer and Seid-
hcw combination.
you want to test the sobriety OF
ask him to repeat quickly the
pf these three States Of the
Idaho, Iowa and Ohio.
rHoMAs A. ScOTT's residence in
phia is one of tho largest pri.
Pllings in tho United States. 1t
as many rooms as a good-sized
Ortuguese nation is said to be
10 least instructed in Europe,
Prate inhabitants being officially
eighty-two per cent of the
pulation.
N and Paris will soon be famil-
ling hello to each other, as a
e is already in successful oper.
tween London and Calais, and
BON be extended to Paris.
feamer Palestine, from Liver
PORTS that on Juno II, in latitude
rth, longitude 1854 west, she
n iccburg apparently one milo
p and about $50 feet high.
bon WILLIAM intends to have
fraft painted by Angeli for the
|nd hc is to be represented in
orm of a British Admiral of the
The picture is to be hung at Os.
Pvada telegraph poles in low
Vhere water stands in winter,
10 have taken root and arc GOV.
h foliage. The poles are cot
and were planted with the bark
gners OF the Declaration of In,
nee were bravo men and true
but they had no conception of
kers twenty inches long, four
III inches in diameter and cost
each.
ana Ohlna are building fortifi-
along the frontier between
Siberia and Mantchuria, and
way preparing for the conflict
poth powers seem to regard as
bable.
emains Of JEFF. Davis lilo in tho
8 vault of the Army of Northern
in New Orleans. They are
BY threo sentinels, a member Of
K. by day and two Confederate
by night.
achelors Of Baden have made q
'rotest against piano practice.
ve formed an anti-musical asso-
binding themselves under a
oath not to marry any girl
Us the piano.
most densely populated square
the world is in the city Of New
Ills inhabited by 27O, 600 people,
cr part OF whom are Italians,
aK only their native language.
ING is ninety-seven times the
mode Island, Fremont County
rye as Massachusetts, New Jcr.
aware M and Rhode Island com.
=, Inc whole OF New England,
uiana thrown in, has not as
uare miles asWyoming. or this
'es 100, 900 square miles OF ter
Dai helds underlie 10000 square
area twice that Of Pennsyl'
coal deposits.
faribaldi family has eoraod tc