Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-12-12
CURRENT TOPICS.


,.cretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby, $40,
and gives him house rent free.
Tur Berlin system for the swift de-
livery of light mail by pneumatic tubes
!. 10 be adopted in Philadelphia,
Nrw YORK is bound to head the pro.
,ossion II now promises free life pol
ices to those who will read its papers
THERE were two ties in York county,
Mob as the result of the late election,
.rd lots were drawn to decide the re-
suit i
THE newspaper offices that supported
Fonseca during his brief reign as dicta'
for of Brazil have been sacked by
mobs.
Mr. GLADSTONE manages to get along
without stenographers for secretaries.
His clerical assistants are iong-hand
writer's.
TWENTY years ago George c. Ball, OF
Rloirstown, N. D., started to save a
ouarter daily The fund now amounts
toSlS25
A roun.AcRE bed of peat, with
depth of sixty feet, has been discovered
on farm near Niles, Mich. 1t makes
splendid fuel
MEXICO, Mo, has adopted Monday
instead of Saturday as school holiday,
so that the children can stay at home
and help with the washing.
THE summer in Alaska this year was
very fine. There were three months of
warm, dry weather such as the oldest
settler had not experienced before.
THE glassmakers of Thebes, forty
centuries ago, possessed the art of
staining glass, and they produced the
commodity in the utmost profusion.
THE oldest capital in the United
States is Santa Fe, which was the seat OF
government in New Mexico as far back
as 1910, and yet its population is only
6lS5.
THE Rothschilds brothers, of London
Baron Lionel. Alfred and Leopold
are noted for their unostentatious char
ity, great love of order and attention to
business.
A PLATTE county (Mo. man recently
handed in 740 pennies for a railroad
ticket He has been saving his money
for long time to enjoy the pleasures
of travel.
A PARIS newspaper says that ex-
King Milan, OF Servia, will shortly
leave for Teheran, the shah of Persia
having appointed him to command Per-
sia's cavalry.
THE largest dry dock on the great
lakes has just been completed at De-
troit. Its length is 37S feet; beam, 81
feet; depth of water over the sill, 10
feet inches.
For choice mahogany, which is one
of the chief articles of export from
Honduras, London pays Sl75 per thou.
sand superficial feet. Rosewood brings
about $40 per thousand.
THE marks c, S., d., used in the desig.
nations for the principal denominations
of British money are an abbreviation
for the Latin libra, solidi ct denarii,
pounds, shillings and pence"
FARMER GENEsEo BURKE, Of Roscom
mon, Ia, has pippin grown on his
farm which he vows won't get into 6
peck measure. OF all the apple records
this seems the greatest to date,
THE agitation OF better county roads
w steadily spreading, Georgia has
Just held state mass meeting for dis
cussion of the subject, and Texas is t'
follow with similar gathering soon.
THE first chair OF labor ever insti
tuted in Europe was decreed by thu
Paris municipal council last July
Henri Reville has been named as pro
fessor He will lecture at the Hotel d.
Vile.
The development of the cotton-see'
industry has been SO great. and tn
many articles now made from it are s.
useful, that it has supplanted the ia
nous olive-tree products in majorit.
of cases.
YOUNG man who has never had tn
sense of smell has been the subject @
some curious tests, which have show
Prof Jastrow that many things whic
we eat with relish are not tasted, bu
only smelled.
THE alcohol process Of obtainin
sugar from cane sirup has revolution
lied sugar making from that source
The process is very simple and it
said that but one per cent. Of the alec
hol used is lost
Dom PEDRO before his death, carrie
out an idea he formed when he was a
emperor. He presented medals to I'll
three physicians who attended him
Brazil, when he was sick almost uni
death and was only saved by their ski
and attention.
ONE of the most curious COINCIDENCE
OF the makeup of Congress soon to a
semble is that it will have among il
members three Taylors, 'and that the
VIII represent three adjoining di
tricts--the Eighteenth. Nineteenth al
Twentieth, Ohio.
DR.. LESLIE KELLEY, whose idea
curing the drinking habit by the
chloride of gold treatment has made ,
most as much talk as the Pasteur Gu
or the Koch remedy in other lines, is
tall, whte-haired and benevolent-loo
Ing old gentleman.
j. A. HAzELTINE, Of Mitchell count
Kan, had 500 acres OF wheat this We
which yielded 10, 500 bushels. He h
Just finished sowing 700 acres Of whe
Tor next years crop.
The poorest paid national law-ma
ers' it appears are those Of Portug'
where peers and commoners each
eeive about $685. year, and, just
likely as not, some OF them art r
even worth that
FOR the year 1898 the figures for
herman army are as follows: 2O,'
oi1cers, 4s6,9sS men, 1887 surgso
osS paymasters and aeronauts,
veterinary surgeons, s55 gunsmiths
saddlers and 9S, $50 horses
THE superintendent of the natiol
observatory will ask congress for
appropriation 10 pay the expense
one or two expeditions to observe
Total eclipse Of the sun April is, IL
The central line OF the shadow swe,