Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-01-25
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A farmer OF Templeton. San Luis
abispo County, Cal, pulled beet the
other day that weighed one hundred
and ffty-tour pounds. IT was seven
ieet long.
About 4. y. 745 books were first
bound up into leaves. and two hundred
years after they were multiplied BY
printing. The Chinese furnish books TO
each other for next to nothing,
Salt pltt in water which surrounds
the ordinary glue-pot causes hotter
glue to be obtained than where simple
water is used. Salt in the water where
mason work is being done in cold
weather prevents disintegration by
frost.
1t ia well-known that whales can
remain a long time under water, but
exact data as to the time have been
rather lacking. In his, northern trav-
els DR.. Kuckenthal, OF Jena. recently
observed that harpooned white whale
continued under water forty-fiye min
utes.
"A New York dry-goods merchant
says that frequently some OF the sub
ordinate employees receive larger re-
muneration than the men in whose
hands rests the main responsibility for
running business. The men who
usually make the most money in the
very large firms are not the superin-
tendent and his chief assistants, but the
buyers of departments.
Recent observations of the waters
Of Great Salt lake prove conclusiyely
that the statements made that no form
of animal or plant life exists in the lake
are erroneous. No fish or other large
form of animal life has been discovered,
but the presence of vegetable organisms
in the lake may be considered a fact
from the abundance OF animal exist
ences.
The testimony OF medical experts
has lately been discredited in England
by reason OF the diametrical views taken
by distinguished physicians and sur
geons when testifying in murder trials.
/ 1t is said that "one point only is de-
termined by this evidence, and that is
that the physicians have no clearly de
fined and fixed scientific basis on which
to found their opinions
I'm Bowling Green, Ky. there is ;
very sagacious dog. The other morning
horse was left standing hitched to ;
buggy, and while its owner was in al
adjacent place of business the ANNA
took fright and ran away. He was 60
ing at breakneck speed, when the dol
saw him, Jumped the fence, headed th
horse, grabbed the line in his moutl
and held him fast until the owner 0
the beast came up and relieved him.
1t is little singular, with all on
mutual benefit societies, that mutua
dowry society was never established
Imagine the effect upon the matrimonia
market of thousand young women de
voting ten cents week, a fixed pei
centage to be given to those who ar
married within the year. The anxiou
and aimless could not then become
drug in the market. Something of thi
kind is in vogue in Europe, where it
stipulated that beneficiary must hay
been a member of the society for tiv
years before reaping dot
In Algeria every girl born of natiy
parents is tattooed on her lor'
head between Tie eyebrowsz az
lust at the root OF the lose with
cross formed Of several straight line
of small star runuing close Il
gether These tattoo marks are dar
blue color. Alge.i.n women are ais
considerably tattooed on the backs
their hands. their forearms and chest
as we'll as on their shoulders, thei
wrists being especially adorned Wit
drawings representing bracelets an
flowers strung together. As a rul'
women are the operators, and it is pril
cipally on children between the ages {
seven and eight that they have to e!
ercise their art They use sometimes
needle, but more frequently Barbar
fg-tree thorn. They employ kohl as
coloring substance. II is a kind Of fin
powder made from sulphur of antimonl
which is also in great request by tn
Algerian women for the purpose of fac
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