Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-13
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OSE person in every ten who died il
New York in 1889 was buried in potter
teld.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich, proudly claim
| clock that has been running for 10
FearS
GOLDEN ROD has been selected by tn,
lebool children of New York as stat.
lower.
TuE name OF one of the blackest col
red men in Mexico, Mo-, is Greer
Brown.
OLIVE oil is being shipped from
kouthern California TO fill orders il
England.
IT is estimated that Russia will with
lraw from London this month SIS, 900,
no gold,
A LONDON restaurant serves Amer
ran oysters on the half-shcll at a hal
)ollar dozen
ACCORDING TO reports from Delaware
he peach crop will be the larges
tnown for years.
The longest single line Of railroad il
he world is the new Trans-Caucasian
uilt by Russia,
A CITIZEN of St. Louis makes livinl
" renting turtles to re ttaurants for ad
5ertising purposes.
A LONDON tinancicr writes that Eu
ppean losses in ArgStine securities
mount TO $500, 600, 600.
AFTER Beaver county pa, man had
burned II log he found the ashes a
ump of silver worth S25l
. A MAN at Athens, Ga !, owns an an.
Equity in the form Of yater bucket,
Sewn out of the solid rocl
An attorney in Buffalohas been ar
ested for charging $40 fore than the
fgal fee for securing pebion.
The Chicago exposition people have
ecided that no fallirs shall be allowed
come upon the show-gronds.
Ar Queretaro, near Mexb, cakes of
pap are used as currency an are legal
tnder for the payment of dbts.
THE citizens of the Pinelrree state
re to purchase an elegansilver SER
lee for the armored cruiseriaine.
A PHILOLoGIsr estimates that the
bnage of new words goes On at the
bte Of 100 annually in TIL English
lnguage.
TALL crystal lamps are tn newest
zen. They are gotten up as,olumns
pd pillars lridescent glass ilsed oc
bslonally.
IT is estimated that at least 81 900 900
the governments paper moey sup
psed to be in circulation has bn lost
destroyed,
TIE late Congressman Lhidas
esar lIouk was one of just sixlpub-
can representatives from the Soh in
be next congress.
The Shah of Persia has recentlSeen
Fossly swindled by persons whsold
i'm yellow diamonds that had cen
Ftifcially whitened.
No sooner does the czarewitch ree,er
|om the wounds inflicted upon hitby
Japanese police officer than his flls
ck out a wife for him.
SOME one wants to arrange a regta
be participated in by all of the H.
Pg professional oarsmen Of the GLE
a feature OF the Worlds fair.
CHRISTINE n N entertained Phi
nd Albini recently in her Paris hon
pd the three divas entertained ca
ther with scugs. Admission free.
ENGINEER charts prepared by Robe
Lee, thea OF the United States arm
yer fifty years ago, are now in u
st. Louis for river improvements.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in London wi
peratc machine are expected to wo
''W holes in q day of nine hours a
fcelve penny a hundred or thirty fl
fnts day.
WHILE Mrs. Tinkham, of Eagle PoiI
lch, was fondling pet dog, her c
fcamc so overcome by jealousy that
p'ahg upon the lady and severely
erin The arm.
lHE caterpill4s plague is maxi
fs'em Connecticut look as thou
"ept by fire. Where, oh where is
nsllsh sparrow, and what is the M
with his appetite?
RECENT German tests have sho,
ia' the loss in weight of steel ra
On wear and rusting is in about
verse proportion to the tens
''ehgth of the metal.
BENEVOLENT Atchison, Kan, wo
Keeps a bar of soap on a board mt
'reek hat runs through the town
W use of tramps, and number
'c'n may be seen at that place eve
washing themselves.
LITTLE boy was seen during
e Muskegon fire trundling a who
a'tow almost rs high as himself,
"'ca were two setting hens, aw
Vl 'he neighborhood as fast as his
,iess could carry him.
niiSe with dynamite is a fearful
.'Opment of the aerial art. 1t is p
~. .',u 70 simplify work by flying h
.p,oslve kites so contrived and IN
u as to drop their destructive lo
~ hostile camps or cities.
an odd coin purse is made Of mt
=, % ~ is the natural size of the Q
t .he head and forefeet being
lea TO simulate life, and silver cl
p,s T al'lxed to the hind quarters
'ht Indian is about to be tried a,
GUAR army soldier The worst tn
~ said of this is that while his
s.''y to lire powder and ball is pl
~ aaseal ~, he has too little objection
a,l. ,aE Central park mcnagerie Of \
A Guy now contains 900 living sp
uN having been enriched dur
NV. year by thirty.six births. The b
ypUpe.amus WsI o. weighed l5o pounds W
" was i've months old.
,,%s anslDESr HIrpoLYrE, Of Ha
asS, a'es the new revolution in vigor
Or,,, n lie has cut the heads of
my M !, leading insurgents already. 7
F" Trouble him no more.
ra,,;., MASON Cry Ua) young man
ar a1slng ~, on a high bicycle the o.
r, y, When the silent steed brought
~. 'S' swill barrel and the W
,s W, header into the swill.
nss, 's ALICE vIcroRIA MURPHY,
eers,s, s,O, NJ y, the daughter Of a for