Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-27
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cuBlsuoP CoRRdAN Is tne son oi d
Hrk hotel proprietor. :.
Walker County, Ga, tho canteloupe
Maid SIPS to the acre.
: skeleton of big mastedon has
found in Piatt County, Ill.
murrain is destroying herds OF
in the southern part of Kansas.
NAN of Adrian, Mich, has been
e. IS for swearing at a neighbor.
n value of the New Jersey cranber-
On Is estimated at one million of
rs
xrI RocHEFoGr, the French jour
A is a real Count bpt scorns to use
tile.
bNry domestics are in demand in
bpis and other points in Oregon and
hipgton, =
!, REppArH is aiding Mrs. Jeifer-
Davis in getting up the memoirs OF
husband.
arNr had 100000 tourists the past
mer. according to the estimates of
|oad officials.
uRly is the first italian city which
boast of library intended exclu-
ly for women
Atchison woman makes all the
er her family uses by shaking the
In in glass jar.
lE trades unions in England are
" where moving for an increase of
and shorter hours.
1LLIAMsoN HOWELL, of New York,
invented q machine for making
strings out of paper.
bIE Car of Russia is so strong in the
|ers that he can tear a pack of cards
Sieces, ffty-two cards at a time.
REPRESENTATIVES. KENNEDY, of Quay
Sck notorioty, enlisted in the war as q
late and came out Brigadier-Gen-
bMEBoDY estimates that it would
b ten ordinary locomotives to draw
silver now in the U. S. Treasury
lts
IHE Korean alphabet is phonetic, and
imple that any one can learn to read
! day; nearly all the women in Corea
read.
NEW mania for collecting has
ken out. This time it is not snuff
es or canes, but shaving mugs.
at next?
L. FARJEoN, the popular novelist,
once newspaper man in New Zea-
d, where he was the proprietor of
bll newspaper.
b is reported that a diet Of fresh
bet butter-milk has often been found
orable and even eifcctual to the cure
Bright's disease
lME CouRDARC recently celebrated
! ll1th birthday in Bergerac, France.
b distinctly remembers the first Ma,
con and his first wife.
'E demand for photographs OF CO.
5rties has fallen oil so largely in Lon
that photographers are dropping
y branch OF their business.
NONEN are longer lived than men;
Foman of twenty may expect forty.
B years more Of life, a man Of the
pc age only thirty-nine years.
fNNEY COUNTY, in Western Kansas,
an abundant crop of corn this parch.
year for the first time in its history,
tits attributed to irrigation.
4 CITIZEN of Rondout, n. Y, while
(lking through patch of woods in
|Opus found puff ball that measured
fty-eight inches in circumference.
Prince ALBERT NIcroR is the only
p Of a Prince of Wales who has taken
seat in the House of Lords before
Fsiather's accession to the throne.
n is said that more than 5000 wom-
work around English mines on sur.
F. Jobs. The wages they receive
prcely give them the necessities OF
e,
|cAsSlUs NJ. CLAY, JR., president of
E Kentucky Constitutional Conven.
Pn' is nephew of General Cassius M.
|ay and q cousin of the late VIM. Cas-
fS Goodloe.
MAJOR LEWIS GTNTER, of Richmond,
r. will soon occupy his elegant man
Pn' on West Franklin street, in that
~ 1t contains fifty rooms and cost
POut $500, 600.
|ADVlcEs from st, Petersburg state
Pat the Car has given directions for
Peclal exemption from conscription of
/ men who have widowed mothers de-
fnaent upon them.
iHE theory that good apples can not
Fgrown in the South, seems to be dis.
FOSen' Apples ten and thirteen inches
circumference are raised as far to.
|a'a the equator as Southern Florida.
a THEATRICAL manager has been for
[uueh BY Philadelphia authorities to
Leas posters in that city representing
u i, star actress dressed in tights and
Avn What are described as ''decollete
(unks,n
iaE heroes of no less than s5 Of the
p'eis reviewed in the London Specta.
Y since last October stood six feet OF
PHm their stockings-a marked in.
vase IN average height in heroes Of
Pmance.
ias balloon proposed for polar ex.
EEvla'lons Is ninety-nine feet in diam;
~ and 100000 cubic feet In volume.
l.S .uS'!ourney Is to be begun from Spitzber'
[.A, and with favorable wind is ex'
|'v'sa " to last four or five days.
l. .Isnh n aro twenty-five post-ofiices In
/. United States named after the cele'
[a.u .a' French General who did this
ruay a'iy great service during the Revo
S,v,usfy war, and twenty Of them are
|sy.ou =. La Fayette and two Lafayette.
lame sAAEs M, TURNER, whom the Repub
Evans OF Michigan have nominated 70,
IA s'hor Is several times a millionaire
NV ~. iesa farmer. He lives on = 5000
[oao S arm near Lansing, runs dairy o.
In.. 6,svVows, and has large quantity o.
I', s'ock' including q kennel of dogs
,.,,e, 'howMAN billed q small town IL
n,n. s~ some time ago with announce
'.ra.'r s mat he would distribute "lusl
ns.. gratis at each performance
M ''e proved to be painted beans, bu'
,sn, ,.vc'plent of one Of them has sinot
M. n'm 500, with tho news that he hat
u 'Iu.,. notified tho day after he got hi,
sY M A., Stone that q deceased uncle hat
b,a.s ~.SAroR HEARsr's Washington
(l,n o ooe contains seventy rooms. SO fal
ma 'vOo %, has been spent furnishing 1t
rh,,,u' u's is said to be only a beginning
"ty years apo tho Son.4o. ...,o;nJ