Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-10-24
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,,a winter will be long and cold.
i Prssn has finally concluded not t.
% in for International copyright.
sMp cLEvELANp's revised edition
Liberty, Equality and Paternity"
sorAsnEs weighing $50 to 800 pounds
,.o common in Southern California
MORE cigarettes are sold in Texas
.h,n in any other state of the union.
CEy1oN tea planter is in Californis
wits plan to raise Ceylon tea there
Tur New York supreme court up
holds the law against the dangerou.
car stove. ..
MELBOURNE wants to sell his rain
,roducng secret to the government fol
100000
coroRApoANs believe that that state
will before long rival California even in
rs fnit-growing resources
CONNECTICUT last year took out more
catents in proportion population than
any other state in the union.
WHEN Edison gets his new electric
cars a.going we can bid trolley-la to
tbe deadly system now in vogue.
LOUIS Kossuru, the Hungarian pat
riot, has Just entered his ninetieth year.
Heis in fair health in his Italian home.
AMATEUR hunters are having no trou.
Me finding deer in the Adirondacks this
reason. The animals are unusually
tame
TIE food allowed to sailors in the
American navy is better than that
furnished in any other navy in the
world
MEXICO has rock that serves as a
weather prophet by changing color
with every approaching change in the
weather
SECRETARY Fosters portrait has just
been painted for the treasury depart
ment by Miss Blanche f. King, young
Washington artist
GREEN boughs of the eucalyptus trees
are said to be among the best dsin-
tectants known for q room where
scarlet fever exists.
A PERFUME lamp, which burns co.
logne and spreads pleasant scent
about the room, is among the late
household novelties.
THE proposed suspension bridge
across the Hudson at New York city
will be nearly mile and a half long
outside the approaches
CAPT B. J. CROMWELL has been or
dered to the command of the Norfolk
navy yard being detached from the
League Island navy yard.
FLORIDA, which was not represented
at the centennial at Philadelphia in
1870, will raise 500, for its display
at the Chicago exhibition.
ONE trouble with the artificial rain
makers is that when they get ready to
begin operations natural rain comes
along and vets their outfit.
THE longest horse car line in the
world Is that connecting the City of
Mexico with Galapa--72 miles. The
trip is made in eight hours.
IN the 10000 letters that reached
the dead letter office last year there
was money amounting to Sos, 64a and
checks and notes of the value of Sl,47l,-
ST.
Mrs. HANNAH R. RANDALL, II Rhode
Island woman of 90, has Just made a
journey across the continent to San
Francisco 1t was her seventh excur-
Sion Of the kind
BoULANGER was once under contract |
with an American manager to take a
lecture tour of tie United States, but
was dlssuaded from the purpose by the
Duchesse Dues,
The fishing industry in Saginaw bay
mas been almost extinguished owing to
ule refuse matter from saw mills and
salt blocks, which kills the young on
me spawning grounds.
lHE largest sheet or pane of glass in
!ne world, is set in the front of a build
ing on Vine street, Cincinnati, O. 1t
was made in Marseilles, France, and
measures lS6x104 inches
They are planning in England to es-
'aolish an agricultural school for wom-
en- IN which especial attention will be
la'a to teaching dairy work and the
'alsing and taking care of poultry.
fRof' IL. W. S, CLEVELAND, of Min
preapolis, has an autograph letter of
nenlam'n franklin informing the post
master in Boston that he should not ex-
'~p' governors from paying postage
y, JOSEPH TAPER, Negro, gave pecu-
aar !, reason for trying to hang himself
:" rlltsburgh the other day. He is
~ ~" iO' years old, and he had given up
ae VI. nope Of ever dying in the natural
!. ihE powerful chloro- chronic battery
n n, now used in miners lamps in France.
~. ."e iampand battery weigh about the
s sane as the old oil lamps The light is
crate.
ihE three tallest trees in the world
~ ~ 'eiieved to be sequoia near Stock
n ' oal' which is 325 feet high, and
."o ~. euea'ypti in Victoria, Australia,
lively 'peN
ALTHOUGH it is now nearly sixty
'.a's ,,' since Charles Lamb died, the
a'se y, cottage in which he and his
L.. s.'' resided ut Edmonston shows
hange. " "' eN''""'
ans. .,ss MARY DICKENS, the novelist's
Morl.e s, daughter, lives in a pleasant
,ss ,sYuro OF London. She is woman
Is'. T. '. middle age, but preserves a vivac-
" ,maa !, manner that makes her appear
-aVn more youthful.
/, a.voRplNe sa. to Herr Japing, the hour.
p,as ia'e OF water falling over Niagara
"A s on0 as. ,s looooO,o0O tons, representing
,sn ,,uVV'ooo horse power, and the total
r0r,, production of coal in the world l
'a'er back again.
N ,.,s nouSD Brook, N. j., man who I
,as 1ea 50 badly as to fracture q rib ,
Nn,,o, o,en notified by the Preferred
y,. accident Association of New
u,.d % VI INA. payment on his policy is re-
s,. M VI 'he ground that the fracture {
len,.I I'' caused by external or acci-
~ mcnnS. He will s,,a 4ha co,,,. I