Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-06
CURRENT TOPICS.


/ legally fog pupil.
A GOOD horse meat dinner can now be
/ had in Berlin for Sc.
Snow still remains on tho ground in
! the Yosemite region.
Two hundred thousand Italians ar,
now living in Brenos Ayres.
A New York dentist has the pleasure
OF operating on the Gar of Russia.
ANEwI.Y married Harrisburg coupls
went on wedding tour in a canoc.
PEARLS as a fashionable jewel are in
/ creasing in favor at an expensive rate
THIRTY thousand dollars a month i.
paid out for lottery tickets in Key West
Fla.
THE mail brings more than seven hun
dred letters a day to President IIarri,
/ son.
JOHN TINsLEY, of Toronto, aged
/ lO7 years, says he remembers Washing.
ton.
THE Atlanta Constitution knows Of a
NEGRO father of seventy-eight children.
Golly!
THE Duchess of Marlboro lives in Lon.
/ don but gets the most of her clothing in
New York.
A MOUNTAIN of alabaster is supposed
to have been discovered $50 miles north
of Denver, Col.
AN English firm has purchased the
right to slaughter and pack 800, 600 hogs
| a year in Servia.
THOUSANDS of people who ilocked to
Oklahoma are now suffering for the ne
cessities of life.
THE cholera scare is sending Ameri-
can tourists home in hurry The
steamers are Overcrowded.
MANY an acre of land in Kansas that
| is not worth more than $50 will turn out
$3.50 worth of potatoes this year.
SOME far Western producers find it
cheaper to ship by wagon train than by
rail where there is no competing line.
GENERAL EzErA, who led San SALIVA.
doris forces so successfully against
Guatemala, is only twenty-seven years
/ old.
The total losses caused by the recent
overflow of tho Mississippi river in Lou
istana is officially reported to have been
| H,213,040
RECENT excavations in Egypt have
brought to light wooden and leather
balls, which are supposed to be 1000
years old.
AN owl, shot near Jackson, Ca, re-
GENTLY measured 81 feet from tip to tin
of the wings, and had small steel trap
/ on one of it's feet.
Mrs, JACoB BENTON, of Lancaster, N.
H., has learned five languages while a
hopeless invalid these seven years past
including Volapuk.
II. L. SUMMERS a young Chicago elec.
trician, has nearly completed an inven.
tion to propel ocean steamboats, by
means of electricity.
DIR. TALMAGE estimates the wealth OF
King Solomon at f6SO 600, 900 in gold and
fl, ,O9s,OO0, 377 in silver, grand sum
total of IS, $40, OOl,S ,SS5.
A CARPET used in room of the mint
after being in wear some years, was
burned the other day in pans, and yield.
cd s., 800 worth OF gold.
Dr. ALLEN MCLANE HAMILTON thinks
death sentences should be carried out
with carbonic acic gas, the same as used
/ In soda-Water fountains
FRANCE Is preparing for great Ma
itional and Colonial Exhibition at Lyons
IN 1892 Two sections for silk and cleo
tricity will be international.
MAN at Langborne, Pa, is fitting
up pig6on-house to accommodate a
thousand birds. 1t will be the largest
nock OF carriers in the country.
TIE public in London will soon be
able to drop nickel in the slot and use
tho new telephone call boxes to be in.
stalled in various parts of the city,
BOTTLED unslacked lime, slightly
dampencd, is the latest explosive to
be used by the ''pot-hunters" in slaugh.
tering fish. 1t works like dynamite.
A CURIOUS result of Tolstoi's last book
mas been the Imprisonment in Berlin OF
one OF his disciples for publicly de.
houncing Christian marriage as immoral.
MRS STANLEY is having honors thrust
upon her. A tennis shoe, bracelet, a
restaurant, carpet a tooth-powder and
polish for silver have been named af.
ter her.
1T is said OF tho poet Tennyson that
ne is rarely seen without his pipe. He
is very fond of tobacco, and prefers a
cheap mixture of pipe tobacco to the
most fragrant cigar.
BLUE is the Chinese mourning color.
hhen you see Chinaman wearing a
oiue coat or with blue braid plated in
MS queue, you may take for granted that
some relative or dear friend is dead.
a WOMAN in Salem, n j., thirty-four
years ago lost two silver coins in a slit
IN the hoor. The other day, the floor
peing taken up for repairs, she institu,
.ed a search for the long-lost money and
found it,
AS the result of a severe burn littlo
"rass valley, CAL, girls sido and arm
grew together, becoming united by a
Neoolng OF flesh nearly an inch in thick
ness She was released from her un.
PHEASANT predicament by a successful
surgical operation.
1t mas taken seventy-five years to get
OIL for the payment Of the French
SPoiiation claims through Congress.
ferhaps this, ''our first national debt"
.s going TO be paid now, for the Senate
mas Appropriated 81, $50, 6ss for that pur-
pose' to be distributed by the court OF
claims.
liE new State Of Washington may
point with pride" to the figures of the
eensus just taken, which show total Of
ofooo4 Inhabitants, with two districts
saii lacking. Asthe population in 1880
was only :5,116, this shows a growth
curing o.. the past ten years Of more than
aS7 per cent.
iHE ground at Weehawken, N. Y,
nnere the fatal duel was fought between
Duff and Hamilton, is to be turned into
puolic park in which the spot where
,ne deadly encounter occurred is to be
anls',nctly y marked. The spot is one Of
'ue ioveliest on the Hudson river, and a
~ dsarter OF million is to be appropriate
'a Tor improving it.
Al is by omeans unusual to see q tiny
.o'nato on French bonnet, two or three
"ee brown potatoes on broad-brim.
Ioa nat currants or strawberries imi'
'a'ing nature until thew look ouite good