Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-06
CURRENT TOPICS.
R,noN lIlrscn is worth 500. 600. nnn.

economical OF Europedn nonarcnS.
IowAs crop bulletin shows con.
tinued bright prospects for grains and
fruit
CoRDovA, a province in the Argentine
Republic, now has revolution on its
hands
IT is nineteen years since Thnddeus
Stevens died, but his viii is Still In the
courts,
ELECTRIC cars are now making daily
trips between the United .tates and
Mexico
THE Itata is pronounced + tata. with
the accent on the last two syllablcs
strongly f
IT is announced that the president
brought home 400 souvenir of his re-
cent trip.
MAx DlEuLArAIT, of Baltimore,
knows ten languages and is l't. iifteen
years old s
sWHsS 1t tones to financial matters,
there is nothing slow abou: the Phila.
delphia bankers.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JOHN JACOB AsToR
give away 100000 year in charity.
They can afford it.
WILLIAM WALDORF AsToR, the head
of his family is the greatest real estate
owner in the world,
BARON IIIRsCH will buy 100000
acres in Uruguay as site for the pro-
posed Jewish colony.
IT is proposed to introduce into the
London streets the steam carriages
which have proved a success in Paris.
NUMEROUS cities are reported as max.
Inc special efforts to raise funds with
which to make exhibits at the worlds
fair.
New York city has a hourishing
cooking school, in which free instruc.
tions are given children of the working
classes.
IT is estimated that during the last
wear about 40, 900 members of the old
union army have answered their final
roll call
The center of the spruce gum indus
try is st. Johns, N. Il. The crop is the
most profitable of any in the farmers
category.
1T has been arranged that the czar
will visit Germany in August and will
reside at the Schloss Bahelsburg, near
Potsdam.
THE Russian department of agricul,
ture and farming proposes to introduce
the cultivation of opium in the Cauca.
sian districts,
THE oyster is one of the strongest
creatures on earth. The force required
to open an oyster is more than 800
times it weight.
The Philadelphia bankers are carry
ing on at a rate calculated to make the
gold-brick and grecn-goods men ex-
tremely jealous.
THE highest point touched by gold
during the war of the rebellion was
9S5. The Argentine Republic has beat.
en- this and gone to 200.
ABlLL sticking machine which sticks
without ladder or paste pot, has made
its appearance in the streets of Paris |
and does its work well.
IT was a Philadelphia man who tied
string around his finger to remind
him to call for the doctor for his sick
wife on his way down town
NEW JERSEY importers have been
lodging the tariff by receiving pearl
buttons complete in every detail cx.
cept the drilling of the holes.
NEW YORK Sas a professional rag
picker with gold bowed glasses, which
he dons when he wants to investigate
the contents of an ash barrel.
NEW YORK burglar who robbed the
nome of wealthy citizen the other
night wiped his boots with a towel to
avoid soiling the rich carpets.
Unsupported that the heir of ]. Astor's
immense fortune, William Waldorf, has
promised to give 81, 900, 900 to endow a
negro university at Oklahoma.
lnE International bicycle road race
from bordeaux to Paris, 35S miles, was
won by the Englishman, Mills, in TWEEN.
Vsiz hours and thirty-fve minutes.
lHE only inscription Oh the simple
headstone over Daniel Websiers grave
ma httlc churchyard at Marshfield,
Mass, is the name Daniel Webster"
lEXAs has Hogg for governor, a
rig Tor Judge, Lamb for senator, a
purham for representative and Buffa.
10 lor sheriff. Texas is great stock
state.
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Harrison go for
long drive every afternoon, accom-
panied by one or 10th of their grand
children, to the evident delight of the
little folks.
lhE saltiest piece of water upon
sar'h Is Lake Urumia, in Persia, more
,nal 1our thousand feet above the sea
m'eL 1t is very shallow, and no living
'hlhg can exist in it.
1T Is said that thirteen members of
we united States senate are natives OF
new York. Ohio comes next with
sBnt while Pennsylvania and Ken.
lucky have six each.
lhE widowed Countess Lewenhaupt,
ss;ns','ccretary s;s, Bayards daughter, is re.
'u'ag In the Wilmington home prpvid.
~ ior her prior to her marriage. She
I"erlts $4,000, presented to her hus-
0and by his father.
MRS. KATE pIEp of M;lw,,,l,,o 10 ,