Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
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Ern telling by the foot instead
|N,ud is the latest. ,,,,..,.,,,
p'ii' J is made to get the Mississippi
rsa5v 4 for another food
rraSs ,,ni;ed states fish commission
a an tbe demand for rainbow
FIGHT languages are spoken
,n, and telephone girls are
|, TEX. has a bride who is 6 feet
f., ,, in height and only seventeen
w. .ho latest crazes in st. Louis
" " riding upon the electric cars
rheumatism ,,.
T. are 5000 Indians living on
ptiOns in New York State Inc
number 1000
pspryIlLE, n. j., has . midget
p Dlr vears old and scarcely two feet
She is Mary Kelly.
.ovest nickel-in-a-slot machine
Iou a photograph of yourself in
;rutes by the watch.
Se llth day of April next the peo-
Nav York will vote on the ques-
urohibiting the liquor traffic,
ran SQUIRE, of Washington, has
|pme Of $4,000 month. He owns
asal Of real estate in Seattle
ar VANDERBILT has already ex.
siOO. 600 on the foundation and
orv Of his North Carolina castle.
|us and death in New York City
Ior were almost equal in number,
ptbs slightly leading the births
SIDNEY ANN WlLHITE, who has
h Missouri lO3 years, died the
nav at sedalia. She weighed $50
MINI was unknown a century
hi lode has been found in a
IN Cornwall, England. 1t sells
900 a ton.
4 lsO species of fish abound along
bust of Uruguay, and more than
necies of insects have been classi-
fthin its borders.
kDAyEyPoRr, the Irish governess
bins juvenile King, gets $500 a
phry, and will soon be entitled to
bcnsion of 81. 500 "A year.
kEyyrR statistician estimates that
doproduccd last year silver worth
1905. besides gold, lead, and cop
thc value of over 80, 500, 900.
|JANEs CRoLL, the first to explain
Iyement of the gulf stream, has
\ the age of sixty-eight, q distin-
n fellow of the Royal Society.
ktChison woman recently fell in
! hd married a widower for no 9TH
ton she says, than that he took
hood care of his first wife's grave.
kEEpHoNE line about five miles
AS been established in ireland,
regarded as a great curiosity, be-
|e first ever established on the
! WEsrLAKE, of Wheeling, has in
Esssion a land grant made out
)ary6, 1907, containing the sigma
/ Of Thomas jefferson and James
pn.
! fire department of London has
fity steam engines, scventy-cight
engines and eighty hose carts and
bremen, who are mostly superan.
isailors,
family cradle Of the Hohcnzol.
|waS made in ire, and has rocked
Prince and Princess of the royal
! Of Prussia since that time. 1t is
|h old oak.
J physicians of Berlin assert that
practice has fallen off 25 per cent
|ROch's operations began, and con
pity they demand from the Gov
Fnt free lymph.
ED Tow is dying of consumption,
Pc 100000 which he earned by his
Eapianist has mysteriously dis
lnd' leaving him a paupcr inmate
fnatic asylum.
Ftin-plate produced in the world
fear amounted to 562,50O tons, of
the United States bought and
lned $4,000 tons, or nearly three.
Sof the whole.
PALS are kept on the roofs of the
SIN Lima, Peru, and it frequently
gus that a COW passes her whole
pa roof, being taken there as a
pa brought down finally as fresh
\ seventh Cavalry boys will have
'lrrlng army tales to tell when
~ back to friends and civilization.
Pglment has had the hardest time
\ any in the service since the days
ker
Oas Light and Coke Company,
|lng IN London, has been fined
"''n costs for deficit of one can
|ser in the Illuminating power of
|'npsany's gas during a recent fog
Eh. Is a beautiful little artificial
The Soldiers Home at Leavcn-
winch covers about five acres. 1t
w pack bass and croppie, which
PSme that they will cat out of a
lEsScE h V. GREATHousE, formerly
''anciSco newspaper man, after
appointed to a Japanese consul
a1s n, succeeded in winning the favor
N,,s OIL Corea and has been made
" King.
F,lS =, oattle-ships, with an aggre-
,usplacement of 10000 tons, are
~ ~"s pullt for the German Gov
H. Ea'-'hree at Bremen, two at
.u II. near kicl, one at Wilhelmshaf-
Stettin. '"'"' ''''N"'
'oHk Cry has 1857 electric
Nv :, an annual cost of 500 each;
t,,l,. V,leans has l,o1O, at $50 each;
|,,pnla at has 500, at SLIT each; Tole-
N. Y aas s.s sOo' at 500 each; Scranton,
N No. '''' at 500 each, and Spring.
aass'' has 300, at $3.50 each.
!, aew ', house purchased in London
II h, 4 Mackay is one of the mos,
~, ~ IN the kingdom. The marble
~ s. alone cost 100000, and all the
IisaaS.e aase been fitted up in the most
|, w., J, curious indication of the lin.
| VI superstition is an apenc,
"dS been iponrA