Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-07-26
CURRENT TOPICS.

RGE colonies Of Chinese are to h
lished in M3Xico.
kRl RocnEFoRT runs his paper i
by telegraph from London.
bDGE J. N. JONES & WIFE, attol
is a legal shingle in Lansing
Empress Frederick has collecto
100 for the new children's hospita
flin,
! report that President Mencndez
Salvador, was poisoned is dcnie,
family.
natives pronounce Newfoundlan,
onon"-with tho accent hard OF
st syllable.
BOO keeps up with its present rati,
Ramities it will rub tho record O
ery closely,
he death of General Fremont Mr.
Nv becomes heir to the Honorary
The Pathfinder"
experiment Of tanning leather
balmctto roots has been successful
ID at Apalachicola, Fla.
tERAL SHERMAN receives a SALARY
1000 a year as retired General pi
$my, with nothing to do.
average width Of the path OF de,
Mon with tornadoes is said to be I
more than one thousand feet Il
hRGlE Of salt water used bcfcs
be- at night will strengthen ne
and keep off bronchial attack.
tTTMoRE hackmen have raisedthe
for attendance upon Sunda, fu.
which they wish to discourge.
: Gar Of Russia's latest whtn has
Ito utter an edict forbiddhg APP
in the theaters of st. 'eters-
A. J. SEELEY has 10000 silk
: in her house at Bento, llarbor,
busy at work spinnin their CO.
] Chinese may be bad itizcns for
lea, but it is a fact tht only two
tals were ever inmate Of an aims.
veteran artist, Rsa Bonheur,
fached her sixty-ei.hth year, but
pes on painting her5reat works in
gably.
clock recently removed from tho
bnge tower in savannah, Ga, had
"a off the time there for eighty
|years.
kAMlXoN Township, Bucks Coun-
\, boasts Of four-leggcd duck,
| fuses them al in a way that is a
Do SEQ
y kIrTREpW, of Belfast, Me-, has
b President Iarrison's last mes
Containing ten thousand words, on
hl-card.
|cemcteiy at Roadstown, n. j., on
b tombstone, is this inscription:
|am soyou must be; tell no lies,
How ne"
lastday of February and the 4th
1 always occur on the same day OF
Peh The same i, true OF Nav
y Christmas.
Maori women of New Zealand
fling themselves trying to wear
!, since they have seen them on
|ssionary women.
fTrE, the Indian chief, after whom
hshiUgton city was named, is to
monument erected to him by the
! llo died in 1866.
B Of the largest zinc smelters in
nited States are in full operation
and day and two are now under con-
Jon at Pittsburg, Kas.
rESE pheasants were introduced
|he woods of Oregon only eight
ago, and there are now said to be
million of them there.
ordinary elephant produces 100
4 Of ivory, worth $500. England
I>es $50 tons, for which it is neces-
Q ~ 1000 elephants year.
near st. Louis has a nest OF
fhis barn, and they keep it free
|atS and mice. The birds lay up
lons at night for the next day.
n all their efforts to conceal tho
the Spanish authorities are forced
less that the cholera epidemic has
'tartlingly fatal, and is still grow
Y York City boasts the possession
le great American pic-oater," who
Ny won the championship of Amer
deyouring five pics in nine min
'ERoR WILLIAM III. is considering
ect Tor creating an African State,
lne manner of the Congo State,
himself as sovereign, and an ex-
e consisting entirely of German
Is.
Of the daughters of tho Lord
OF London are deaf and dumb,
we been so thoroughly educated
oral system in Holland that they
y lip reading, understand the play
heater.
eiNlAs first woman physician is
y L. Haynes, who has recently
'iected assistant physician of the
'rn iunatic asylum, after passing a
'siul examination before the State
al Board.
report that an English railroad is
equipped with American rolling
SHOWS that at last tho English
aus are becoming alive to the part
VI system that is years behind the
lean system.
ERE Is pair of scalos at the New
Us mint capable of weighing Gs6
. Vi gold' yet so sensitive as to de-
of an ounce. An
palr' still more delicate, is capa-
weighing a hair.
:, ELISHA HOWARD, of Goldsboro,
% eighty-iive years Of age and is
ns beautiful crop of black hair
,s' .s was lately a very bald head.
shty he cut a tooth.
l,fAX M and Bermuda newspapers
seu messages congratulating
o'ucr on the completion of the ca
,,Vnnecting Bermuda with Canada
no rest of the world.
.ne convict camp on tho Scuffle
a.'0n' Florida, q number of the
''s were leaning against wire
,'n'. "Ieh the lightning struck the
!. Nul'hg one of them instantly and
''Hs several others very severely.
I"h i", Is a real floating island in Nor
lako, Me. IL hnn nm a,a, ~ an.