Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-08-09
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81 sell cigars III seNoh i"hb uaSoS, ID
SIGN in Philadelphia.
ANGEL & DARLING is the name OF q
ksl estate firm in Dakota.
TURKISH women eat rose leaves with
hitter to secure plumpness.
SouTn AMERICA is getting ahead Of
nrope in war cloud displays,
TuE washerwomen of Massachu.
Its town are going to strike.
A RIG herd Of camels has been seen on
le plains near Harrisburg, Cal.
A BoATLoAD of 400 tons OF ice has
bne to the bottom of Lake Michigan.
THE tickets for Mr.. Stanloy's first
cture in New York will cost IS each.
GREAT swarms of grasshoppers are
aying havoc with the crops in Geor.
a.
Mrs CLEvELAND's collection of dia-
onds is estimated to be worth at least
900.
THE Empress Eugeniefis on q tour
rough Norway. She travels as a
|untess
VARIOUS American summer hotels
We added dark rooms for amateur pho
graphers
IA p1scoNsoLATE Ohio swain set fire to
house because the girl ho wanted
build not marry him.
JonN DILLON tells of an Irish peasant
ho was fined five shillings FOR calling
donkey "Balfour.
THE cultivation of tobacco has been
rbidden in Egypt and the duty upon
|e imported article raised.
1r is reported that the scheme to col
ize Swedish immigrants on the vacant
rms in Vermont has failed
"A DOLL is being exhibited at Leipsic
hich possesses the faculty of writing
Cible letters and sentences.
IA MACHINE has been invented for
lilling square, oblong or hexigonal
bles, heretofore found impossible.
THE Car of Russia INDUCES his
|uthful pleasures. He is still collec-
Of postage stamps and birds eggs.
ELEVEN thousand dollars worth OF
venue stamps have been stolen from
revenue Office in the City of Mexico.
"A YOUNG woman of Hutchinson, Kan,
learning the work Of an undertaken
tn view of adopting it as a profess
bn.
pT is said that bet Of $500, 900 lost by
10 Marquis Of Hastings is the heaviest
Ager ever lost on the result OF horse.
be.
THE ccnsus-takers have learned that
e population of Rhode Island has in
based about 67,794 during the past de-
de.
THERE arc now three female dentists
New York. all of whom are
oroughly qualified to practice the pro.
bsion.
QUIET rcigns occasionally in Oklaho-
and that seems to be about all the
n they have had there for four
bnths.
THE next birthday OF Count Won
pltko will be kept as q national holi-
y in Germany. lie was born October
1900.
A South CAROLINA paper contains an
vertisment for bids from undertakers
10 will agree to conduct funerals "rev-
ently."
TWENTY-FIVE railroads entering Chi
80 use l,lO0 miles Of track and monop-
zc 1000 acres of ground within the
" limits.
GENERAL MALONE is dropping out OF
litics into speculation. He is invest
heavily in mining lands in Tazcwell
|unty, Va.
a CHARLOTTE IN. C.) Clergyman wears
doubtcdly the largest shoes in this
rntry The size is 80 and each shoe is
HS inches.
WALLA WALLA, WASH, has three ma
Te born Cinnamon who will vote at the
xt election. Wash. is a great State
Cinnamon.
URANIUM is now classed among the
PC metals; on account OF its electrical
si'tance it is likely to be used in cleo
cal insulation.
lF you wish your silk pocket handker.
lets to remain all the year round as
od as new wash thom in saltand water
lore using them.
Miss LAURA EGAN, of Jersey City,
IS bitten by acknowledged
prm,' and died few days later from
e effects Of the bite.
lHE expense of the cruiser Philadel-
Ia In the recent trial trip was nearly
rec thousand dollars day. A navy is
expensive necessity.
lHE tolling of bells at funerals is a
&c OF the earliest ages, and originated
the Pagan idea that the sound of bells
ghtened away evil spirits.
MIR j. j. CRAvENs is the wheat king
california. His possessions are in
iare County, and this year he will
fVest 1000 bushels of wheat
PARROT owned by a Kansas City
roer' hangs in cage in front of the
punishment and occasionally advises
ssefs'by to get their hair cut.
piATlsTlcs compiled by the factory
Ppector OF Baden show that the rate
mortality among the children of ci-
'makfrs is as high as As per cent.
toLoRED CADET WHITAKER has turn.
MS opportunities at West Point 10
advantage. Ie is teaching at coll
military college at Sumter, S. c.
LATE crop reports from Europe con-
I, .he previous predictions of gen.
snort wheat crop in England and
ance and bad potato crop in Ireland.
GENTLEMAN who drew out his pipe
an aiter-dinnor smoke in the Grand
"i' taris, was Immediately told that
rules OF the house did not allow
,sNAroR PLUMB, Of Kansas sub.
,'es 10 200 newspapers, and is said to
" 'nem as carefully as he does his
mo .o's' In this way he keeps thorough
Pvs'eo on the politics of his State.
"hlLE waiting for the train at Mount
una "a, recently, President Harri-
w. ,O0N on his coat and stepped on tho
,ns s, ne tipped the beam at 1893
rtN uS' oeing the heaviest raan in the
MASS OF pure, compact rock salt,
no. " contain 100000 tons of tho
[heral is locntnd On NJ. ialal 10y fa..