Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-12-05
c,IBReNT TOPICS,

e'a n.,rr mules are in great demand
.ha south, owing to their docility.
u vrps.ulrs, % Mo-, claims vein OF
u "a feet thick, the thickest vein ON
earth r .,,,,. MO,
.sye caught blowing open bank safe
h Gardner ILL.,
rno,,ptE in Madagascar is feared on
.,.ount of the natives resisting claim
made by France
Tur largest chicken ranch in the
'.a is on an island in Belling'iam
hnS Puget sound
r. is estimated that 5000 car loads OF
.,,nces will be shipped from California
iurjnp the coming season.
r. is generally believed that congress
vill make thorough investigation OF
Ae Maverick bank failure
quv mail line between Halifax and
England has just been discontinued for
tbe first time in fifty years
MRs, ROBERT LINCOLN, wife OF the
Tinted States minister to England, is
,pendng the winter at Tours
Two hundred and twenty women are
row in the Harvard annex, but they
don't count in football statistics.
TIRE sufferers by the great Boston
sre, nineteen years ago, who still sur
yive, were paid s., 800 during the past
year ;,
Iy rabbinical law the Jew is allowed
N drink to intoXication on two days
Of the year--Purim and Simchath
Torah,
IT is stated that the crops of this
vear will enable the farmers of the
ives. to pay off $500, 1000 of mort
cages
DURING last year $50 men were killed
outright and 1911 manned and mangled
while coupling ears on the railways of
this country,
A POLISH inventor claims TO have dis
covered process Of manufacturing
smokeless and odorlcss coal at cost of
sdolar ton.
Posr OFFICES were irst established in
France in llGi The first English post
office was opened in 1881, the first Ger
man Office in l64l. Ame
A Connecticut man has invented a
machine which ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS his
chickens at night and morning, 1t is
run by clockwork.
The fame OF some men is preserved
BY their cast.off clothes An old hat
Of Dillon, the Irish leader, recently sold
In Australia for S25.
Mrs, THOMAS NELSON, of Astoria,
Ore, drowned herself few days age
because her husband refused to allow
her to hold the baby,
MucH Of the barley arriving at Chica
90 is going on sales previously made
and the stocks there are less than hal
that of last year at this time.
The arm of compositor who work,
eight hours at the case setting type
travels distance of from six TO sever
miles, according to a statistician.
MARcELLA AYALA, a Chilian, is on
Of the Oldest sinners on record. He i
over 100 years old and is convict No
hf' in the California state prison.
LAST year there was spent in thi
country for tea the sum Of $50, 900, ,00C
for coffee, S122, 800, OoO, and for NAL
and spirituous beverages, 800, 900, 900
THERE is new element, a minera
discovery in the Boleo mines. 1t is com
posed of cubic crystals of fine blu
color, and has been christened "bole
ie.n
TIE wooden shoe-pcg was invente
IN 1918 by John Walker, of Massachu
&tts' Millions of walkers have sine
'hen pegged along enjoying his inver
ton
IHE first iron bridge, built in ITS
SILL spans d little river between Wol
eester and Shrewsbury, England
is about 96 feet long and weighs 81
tons
lhE fashionable point for graspin
sucks and umbrellas in London
aOout SIX inches from the ferrule, th
nahdles being allowed to dangle dow
ward.
AN equestrian statue OF Gen Willial
henry Harrison has been designed
heolsso Of Cincinnati, for that city.
VIII be cast in bronze at Chicope,
Mass.
iHE Tower bridge over the Thame
'uiIt on the Bascule principle, h,
caused the underwriters of Lloyds
reuse to insure vessels that have
pass beneath it
"a' SAvEENY, of Catasauqua, Pa
aged lob years, believes that he is Il
olaest tobacco chewer on earth, havir
asea the weed without days brea
'Ol over ninety years
at the newly discovered metallic
Ous mines in Texas, the miners strus
blanket lead" of silver ore almost
y, u'e surface of the mountain into whit
'ncy had been tunneling.
VhiSA has been warned that at Il
suu OF appointed time the com bin,
powers mn seize her customs receip
Su0 no .'hem till satisfaction for Il
"SsloI " lots has been given.
n ihk amount of wheat which Il
.h'tcd States will be called upon
;.na TO help out the European demal
va, MA round 100000, 600 bushels, viii,
VIZ ~ make big hol. in the surplus.
a. MACON, Ca, is rejoicing over the ia
wa saa' the Ocmulgee river is now navie
nss WY from the city to the Atlant
,s' ean' and has within year becor
- important highway OF commerce.
p IT has been generally sup 5oseds tn
~ sec Arthur Bell Nienolls. .he husba
%onarlotte Bronte, was dad but
IT, s'il living in ar obscure parish
t'ano' where he Occasionally preach'
nu"iouLTURAL laUor is said to be
:, ',ee ~ IN some of the midland count
tho ',agiand a that the crops are lying
@., n. uelds ungathered, notwithstandi
per cent ' ''eN "u'ahceo 'wei
q. MISS MARY SMITH, Of yhitesbu
sn,. Is the proud possessor of b
Tan, A., quilted over 100 years ago by M
wto s,'r' u a niece of Gen. Zachary Tayl
vb;,,p picked and spun the cotton
which II is made.