Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-10-17

hhhpoo "Hb, WHO 10 running a ralr
cry in the west, gets S., 900 shower
The Oldcn fruit farm near Yves
Plains, Mo-, has 500 acres of yariou
fruits
Asnr capable OF crossing the Allan
tic in four days must have 1856, 600 horse
power.
A SYNDICATE has offered to bu,
the Washington monument for sbo
tower.
THE actual length of the new ST
Clair tunnel is 6,02G feet 1t cost 81.
100000.
In the year 1886 tulip bulb was sold
in Holland for 81, 200; it weighed but
200 grains.
The first Indian tobacco sign erected
in America was put up in Baltimore,
and it still stands.
LEAD ore, assaying so per cent, has
been found near Badenweiler, ON tho
right bank Of the Rhine
The Grand Duchess Sergius of Russia
Is so strlkingly beautiful that she is
known as n crowned Ophela.
d. T. BURR, of Griffin, Ga, has piece
Of linen cloth taken from an Egyptian
mummy that is $500 years old.
TEMPERATURE of 22o degrees below
zero has been produced by a bath of
carbon bisulphide and liquid nitrous
acid.
some vandal has broken off a piece
OF the tombstone of Washington's
mother and it is now on exhibition in
Boston.
lHE United States holds in the treas.
ury and IN the various national banks
somewhere about 500, 900, 600 in gold
and silver
IHE Bank of England, which is the
great depository of bullion in the realm.
holds at ordinary times in its yaults
25OOO,O 600.
VLEAR summer sunlight is said to
penetrate the Mediterranean sea 10 n
uepth OF l,sOO feet; winter sunlight To
only 600 feet,
WILD goose killed in California had )
agrain of wheat in its crop which t
when planted, produced a variety hith. l
erto unknown, r
Twice as many crimes are committed .
IN farls by persons between the ages J,
VI nl'een and twenty as by those be.
tween twenty and forty. II
BOSTON is certainly the hub of the
universe so far as base ball is concerned ?
,o' she has won both the league and !,
me association pennant u
lHE proposition to reduce the full y"
Term OF military service in GERMANY to
Moyears has been received with favor
W 'he emperor and the press n,
II IS estimated that the western rail. te
4 ,oAuS nave earned $3.50, 600 the past wear yc
nOm 'he transportation of Mormon mis- at
AonarleS and their proselytes. ca
Ill laE marble capitol building at Hart an
,slu' Vonh', is 800 feet long and the en-. tn
tu'eers queer declare that it is three inches w
'',Ser IN summer than in winter. 10,
If Melbourne can produce snow nc XII
,s..' asslalms' he will be very useful in pro. Lc
,s.. sans winter wheat in places where Les
'4s'e Is usually light fall of snow. wi
,,oaa 'h'EhAL =, hundred Pittsburgh people
,n,s; ,w1 IN line for hours, jostling and ,
,a'a,ng, Tor the singular honor of buv. -.
'ace s''u ia 'he new post Coz
rsn,i n,.inli,sEvEN steamships, not to s1a ao'
,on. u'on vessels of other classes, sailed ~, ~
0o. ,o4 baltimore in September and nes ns
s.a o.,. away more than IS, 600, 900 of ex. w u.s
orts Va wa
,ama ann newest change pocketbook for "A'
nils ~. ~ d, nat square of leather that
noaaa ,' Uu. IKE an accordion, and is tinv .
10 hand. n '"e paim OF and
No ~ ;"a,lVAL OF the famous Tichborne s. ,".
,p rosi. % threatened 1t is alleged that u ,ua
, !. 'eri'able Arthur Orton has turned .n. an''
p,,r,n 'unatic asylum at Paramatta, ,S". ,.a.
1a ini', JULIAN PAuNcEForE, the British ,nal ,nol
r ,hoSo 70 the United States, although ''''
,maUg ough Englishman, was born in
do'y' r and educated chiefly in Paris
'e'eva lie is sixty-three years -,
m m,us mOst powerful telescopes now in 90 ee", =
Nm ;snaly y qa.y 1000 diameters As the c.. o.
thus to nil ;n,~.. I'm .hc earth' II term
lught N ,,,,.,, GNU purposes Natl
N G 70 within 1870 miles of the -"'
|, vsIS N"m y enough the people of syd. n,
! any arsa, ron.h Wales, fail to recog- Walls
livan,s dramatic ability in John /. ,on n' ,
Boys" season ,hs anu 'he hos day {
lentable failnra "as proved unde
III baya bra men
sters hsn'ng hia fire.flies, with which he
the 40 a.. nest The baya does not Th,
nest M w. ny, but simply attaches it to yorl, IL
! c o., " means of a piece Of moist ,"1a aorh
Tie M ana. dark night a baya's nest ths e,a %,
p q" eiec'ric street. high
JAcop ,ho off tn
soi Women and ,hn al us lnJurt
oaby of ,o.dau en''oreh' says that senge
q Is ,oa ua life than the baby Of sftv
thai ~ Possibly this is due to The An
d medicine a'c not dosed with so arisen
her times ,n ~" as they were In news
IDLY. WI" are dressed more gagged
Mar ., bank
. s' q, asks correspondent d st'si sllud. uaI
ty all ou n'ng OF the cable and cleo. The
recalls Nh ,he country. The cues. to bui
It s ths s. Mark rwain's interropatorv asS those
seae; .rwp.,ahtlng .w. Of whale oil by ages o
b . lv;n" mat viii the poor whale the va
a M. now?' Auelv'
no,,' om,,'',,LlAMs, the famous. f,.,. A. fair.
lie nv was ,S' man man Of Philadelphia, is
'ared fva sr.y-six years old aud Az
his eno,, .ee' around the chest, wind I
teet In c;ss. ;as stomach distended an inc
bis whs,a n circumference. Otherwise ended
u 70 lSsils.l b Ne. like belly, william, ap ment :