Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-15
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Fh IL ~ Salu that tnere are fOrty-eight
slanenages and dialects spoken in Mex
/ ice
EW GLADSTONE thinks Swinburne will be
the successor OF Tennyson as poet lau-
Hreate.
M The taxes for State purposes are lower
lin Missouri than in any State in the
Union.
s SHOULDER capes OF lace and beads are
TO take the place of the fur ones in the
'1stspring.
SIR MoRRELIa. .MAckESzlss csnAp-
z} plates making a-@f6etuge todSSot<a Ma.
country. sSsssx.S.>-
& CANADA has permanently hired doc,
tor, who is a leprosy expert to- .
Mat disease. A9&sHf
LUCIA ZARATE, the Mexicaa ldget,
fdied on one of tho w-blockaded trains
In California.
W JEwETr NORTON has donated $50, 900 to
the town of Trenton Mo-, for free
public library.
A WICHITA man was fined ten dollars
for stealing loaf of bread from q
y bakers wagon.
MI SENATOR STANFoRD's degree of LII. D.
from Tennessee college has cost him
6 thus far $1,000.
&# A TELEPHONE test between st. Peters
burg and Moscow has been successful on
ordinary wires.
# JOHN ii. APpLEGATE, of Asbury Park,
ssis8made $4,000 by inventing machine
q for lasting shoes.
" The newspapers of Italy are raising
subscriptions to erect a monument to
" Colyimbus on American soil.
In little Uruguay in fifteen days, four
sthousand persons have been seized with
grip. The President has it.
& RHODE ISLAND was once famous for
its greening apples, but the trees have
Il Exhausted themselves.
a# They are to have a new color in Lon
don, according to fashion magazines, to
~ be called 'India sunset"
' ROBERT Il. GIcK, although serving
out life sentence in Joliet prison, acts
as the Wardens coachman
WI GERMANY is the only civilized country
tho world wherein murders are still
. beheaded with an axe or sword.
s# BURDETrE the humorist, is little
man who talks ina sharp, quick way.
u He is tired of humorous writing
In Edinburgh it is found possible TO
supply for half a penny wholesome
a meal of vegetable broth and bread
GERMANY is importing live hogs from
ii the United States, and the new ertor-
prise is said to be profitable all around.
ONE hundred and sixty-eight railway
accidents. in which fifty-eight persons
were killed, occurred during Decem-
Der.
a. IT is decided that tho different organ
tzations of Good Templars in England
n shall reunite and form one organiza-
Zion.
M THE five counties comprising South
ern California have an area almost 1000
Square miles larger than the State of
Ohio.
FERDINAND WARD, whose financial
Napoleonism landed him at last in Sing
Sing prison, looks like physical
S@Swreck.
4# BosToN is agitating a proposition to
'5Alimit by law the number of passengers
that may be carried in a street car at
sAny one time.
~ JOSHUA MONTGOMERY SEARS Contin-
ues to be the highest individual tax
payer In the city of Boston, He paid
last year $50, ,950.55.
e A pLUcKY Franklin County, Pennsyl-
III svania, widow took an axe and attacked
and killed bear that was trying to
e Steal one of her pigs
- The coal dealers have Jared poor
~ this winter, but they have prospercd
in comparison with the man who writes
.zx' Shut the Door" signs.
M VANpALs have girdled the Grant elm
al Lexington, Mass, which was planted
by the General on April 10, 1878, the
10Qth anniversary Of the battle.
# PHuADELpHIA's final contribution to
the Johnstown sufferers will probably
be the four fire engines that have been
IN service in that town since the flood.
5 A KANSAS CITY family consists of siy
ack Frost, Winter Frost, White Frost,
Gold Frost, Early Frost and Snow Frost.
A BUTLER pa.) County man. whose
lntire property is assessed at SIS, is the
Dwner of five dogs. ON which he will
lave IN nav q 5O tax His nronortv tax
S2.75.
A SHOE trade journal saws tnat the
host time IN oet fitted IN Shoes is tho
attor mart Of tho dav. Tho feet then
re at their maximum Of sizo and sensi.
iveross
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON comes from
N old and formerlv wealthv soutbetn
hmilv. AT the outhreak ~ The war be
ad fron3J q o06t Ia so0o slaves an His
lantations. A'ssS kss
prnu.ps ~. r.,s. as,n,. .r.r
harried in North Carolina have Just
been united in Davis County. The
room is thirteen and his bride two
ears younger.
Next MAY c. j. Murphy's Indian corn
xhibit design for tho Paris exhibition,
but not shown. will bo disnlayed at tbe