Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-07-25
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! ILLINOIS SllA lSuus III 'i'' ii'' Va P'h
..as Granted, with Indiana a close Sec
F cud
ouy four of the British officers who
|took part in the battle of Waterloo sur
five
finn mercury in some parts of Califor-
j, recently ran up to III degrees in the
thade.
| , RRooKLYN woman's will, consist
rof ten words, is contested by her
mother,
Tpr empress of Russia and her chill
,rsD will make q tour of the Holy Land
keyt winter.
DURING recent parade in Cheboy-
ham, Mich, ten red-headed girls rode on
len white horses,
WAsuNGToN is experimenting on
PENNSYLVANIA avenue with the Paris
Eys.em Of street cleaning.
| A PORTABLE telephone for use on the
battlefield has been invented by a
Fruchman named Roulez.
| ANNA SHAW, the woman preacher,
|svs she wears short hair simply be-
kause she was born that way.
BARoy lIrRsCu now owns the house
Which Lord Reyelstoke was building
bryious to the Barring failure,
HANNIBAL HAMLIN loved dancing and
bought that no man ever became too
Ia to enjoy the pleasure in 1t.
TOBACCO merchants are said to handle
larger amount of ready money than
|ny other class Of business men.
. # is reported that the emperor and
impress of Germany are discussing the
ies Of visiting the United States.
TWICE during the year man feels the
eed Of rest-oncc just before his vaca-
on aud again Immediately after.
A COUNTERFEIT $40 bill has been re-
prned to the county treasurer Of Atoh-
Jon county by the Kansas state treas
per-
TnF state of Nevada has a popula-
on Of only 4j,7Gl, yet it has two Unit.
Estates senators and three electoral
ops
OEEGoy claims a cave that is said to
b Oh 4 much grander scale than the
tehalel Mammoth Cave of Ken
rky
SoHo w. Va, has an unique railway
alton. It's built around giant elm
Ne, and the roof is shaped like an UNI
BELLA
LEOPOLD H. king of the Belgians,
Fdes himself on being u workingman.
crises at and does two hours work
FOre breakfast
Unsupported that an English chem
has discovered a practical substitute
rplatnum in the manufacture of in
nieseont lamps.
hLEcTHClTY is now being introduced
every portion OF Paris, and that city
spent 100000 in an installa-
Fnor plant of its own.
The payments to Bret Harte by his
lgIsh publishers last year are said TO
We reached total of $4,000, while In
ferica he was paid only $1,000.
PISS MATTE WADswoRrH, a young
y living near Augusta, Me, has a
lection OF 1,2OO insects collected by
Helt in the last three or four years
Two brothers, who were born at one
rh and who were greatly attached to
A other, We're killed by one bolt of
|hining near Admission, Ala, a few
lsago
lAE women in Prussia, according to
lStcal reports far outnumber the
~ The latest estimates show q diff.
encc Of almost 100000 in favor OF
women
NE HUNDRED AND FORTY miles OF
oregon Pacific railroad cost 81 900,
Nowonder the people who put up
sey are asking sarcastically if the
are of gold.
cSDrcroE MACE, of Belfast, who
been connected with the Maine
Aral railroad for twenty-five years,
mes that he has travelled 1885. 100
LS IN that thine. J
HE queen Of Saxony maintains three
NclanS, whose sole duty is to attend
ailments of the suffering poor The
Fn pays the physicians out of her
private purse.
VoMPANY has been incorporated to
NTuet an elevated electric railway
Seen Chicago and Milwaukee. The
ance is cighty-five miles, and the
sVe'ors say it can be traversed in
hour. -
LARGE copperhead snake crawled
va par-room in Mannheim. Pa, the
aay' and the assembled topers
horlhed until they settled. the
slgn whether it was symptom OF
'pbidian.
aAlNE farmer who rectntly sen,
Wn's to man who advertised &c
-ioF that amount directions how to
alarm without being troubled with
!" engs got this reply by postal
rlant fruit trees instead of po
~ 'olumbla gas well ut McKees
"a has been plugged up, The
!" vas That all the water wells II
E'glborhood began to bubble ant
~ OF petroleum that they were
iOr nse' Suits against the ga.
raay are talked of. 2.s
,I sNASsEA man has applied for {
s WI on the ground that he lost hi
oeaang war news to the farmers
~. sseu 10 meet nights in the villag,
rg ,s His gall wasn't injured.
~. aSrooI is making "kick" at tht
h, ~ takers, who declare that IL
,.a'lon % fell off over a per cent ii
~. ras' ten years, although every 9th
s;,s sise town in Great Britain Is credit
sl',' a'c,rocution is such an easy an,
Nv Nv form of death-euthansia, il
IA WY can't the murderers be in
Nr,,' 70 use it on their victims as
~,a,e ,Ds !, Tor the knife, the pistol, tn
'ad the bludgeonp
lwAY statistics show that tn
a'an takes twenty-sevcn railwa,
Nayear' the Englishman nineteen
D, ,,S'an eleven, the Frenchman. th
Lniass swede, Norwegian and tn
4, ,u nve each, whih the Turk, IN
'no the Italian take but on