Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-11-28
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'Dr Tnr world uses daily $3.50 600 steel
paS po.ros alderman is paid q salary
Of $500 year "a
NEARLY $4,000 pensions were granted
during October ,.,.
n,,.b were over 81, goo.
mp ap,ryr VS. Bliss" is the title OF law
80 renorted in the Boston papers
'' , rrRylr is on exhibition in Grand
p,nds that weighs twenty-four pounds
T0r American pig will soon be parad.
inc the Austrian markets with proud
curl in his tail !.
VIRGINIA has fully $1,000, 600 acres OF
,-,blc land lying idle. 1t is owned by
lsrgc landholders
THE phosphate mines near Charles
AN 8 C.. have in use ths largest steam
,hoyel in the world.
Ar the Boston flower show forty va.
,.tes of chrysanthemums were named
FOR Ruth Cleveland
The recent progress VI railroaoihB
.hovs that the wooden ties must soon
cve way to those of steel.
Cuc,Go has followed New York in
oneninc an art institute on Sunday,
The result was a great success.
NoRAIy has fallen in Alden, Egypt,
since three years ago, when a drought
ot twenty.six years was broken.
LENT begins forty days before Easter.
The latter will occur in 1892 on April
n II occurred in 1891 on March 90
Tue Chicago physicians have unapi-
mopslv indorscd the bicycle as afford.
Inc proper and hcalthful exercise for
women
TuE next New York legislature will
contain as members of the lower
house two ncphews of the late Senator
Conklng
THE recent improvements in electric
motors would seem to indicate that the
days Of cable and horse railroads are
drawing to close.
A NEVADA MOI gentleman shows
cfrysanthcmums to the extent of ZIG
varieties of thirty-thrcc colors, and he
Is not florist, either.
The new public baths established in
New York by the income of Baron
Hrsch have just been opened. Only
five cents for bath is charged.
Or the 10000, 600 persons who were
carried last year on steam vessels but
sxty-hve were killed. This shows that
this means Of travel is the safest in the
world
ASoTED American physician in Paris
Dr. Pratt, has died lately of great poy-
rty He had lived in great luxury upon
one Of the most lucrative practices in
Europe
IN London the number of raupers Is
smaller than it has been since 1851
Roughly about So, 900 paupers were re-
lieved in the metropolis each week dur
Ing August
APPLES weighing three pounds each
have been grown in Southern Califor-
MIA and apples that weigh two pounds
Rnd half are so common as to excite
no comment.
ANANGRovE plant has been success.
fully grown in the University of Penn.
tylvania Hitherto it has been found
impossible to grow this plant away
from the ocean.
IHE Choctaw council has passed an
Oct which will have the effect of max
ing Negroes from the states, who seek
apromised land, go to some other coun-
try than that nation.
IT is announced that the ladies' OF
Tacoma have organized rainy-day
club with view of inducing its
members on rainy days to wear skirts
which reach only to the ankle.
RlGEL, the magnificent star Of the
INST magnitude in the constellation OF
Vrlon, has recently been discovered by
sronomers to be one of the most dis
'ant stars in the celestial vault.
A. GEBAuER, of Bridgeport CT, has
issued a challenge to any person in the
Vni'cd States TO meet ln an egg
eating contest He is prl Jared to back
himself to the amount of 81, 900.
lHE tallest three trees in the world
arc believed to be a scquoia, near
Nockton, Cal, which is 325 feet high,
una Two eucalyptuses, in Victoria, Aus
ualia, estimated to be 435 and 45O re-
spectively
VT lS7 counties in the state OF Gcor-
sa only nineteen show n decrease in
puatlon between 1850 and 1890 The
,HVfe population of the state increased
from l'5i2, lSo in 1880 to 1887, 353 in
''v, an increase of 10 IA per cent.
iHERE is man in Asheville, u. c.,
named I, 7. Bryson, who is 63 years
vu and claims to be quite youth yet,
~ nus father is still living and very
,,m'sN'iy at 9S. His grandfather was
u, anu his great-grandfather was ITO.
pEA1iL was trying to escape lottery
incubus when the recent revolution
'foke ous' The Rio News says the senti.
"'en' In Brazil is that lotteries are i'm.
mural and demoralizing and the cause
VI wee and impoverishment among the
masses
lhE Princess Marguerite, known as
,"V most beautiful and most religious
.o'nan connected with the imperial
.anlly of Austria, and Abbess of the
,oHinunity of noble ladies, is recover.
her life ~ ' N'o'"
NE late Gordon L, Ford, of Brook
Sn' was roor boy in Connecticut C who
," ",u' 10 work at the ago of fourteen
'o aWr picking up slight education. He
ts O" began to collect books, and now
N.s.i Ia ,Gi' the largest private library in
brooklyn
,oI oIa nAN'lEr llosMER, who was expected
G,e cave Rome at about this time for
d..s' d".aso' has been obliged to delay her
,,ns, STATURE But the completion OF her
Iin', I'cS OF Queen lisa ella and Abraham
da," .o'n Tor the worlds fair will not be
waved in consequence.
,o,,. .eotDlNd to an author there Is a
,bss ,bs as'onishing curiosity in Thibet in
,s,,Sn Az SSnape OF plant that flies. 1t re.
n O,es .0. dog in shape, is the color OF
lioO. v''olSe'shc'l and is very tame II
truS S or elephants see it they are