Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-27
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


cost about s25, 900, but this is not classed
with monuments.
"A few years ago gentleman bought I
100 acres several miles below Macon,
Ga. on the East Tennessee road, 1or
which he paid $40 an acre. lie im'
proved the property at cost OF only
81 an acre, and within four years from
the date of the purchase cleared s2',ooo
from the sales of fruit grown on this
land.
Under the Dakota statutes ii man
who robs stage can be sent to prison
for life. If he attacks but fails To get
any plumber, he can be sentenced 1or
half lifetime. In a case wheie
Judge figured that fifteen years was
half a life, the supreme court has upset
the sentence, figuring that nlneteeh
wears, seven months and four days, Is
the correct figure.
A Chinese laundryman, OF Evans
vile, Ind, fell in love with pretty
.ypewrite~ of that city. whom he fol-
lowed home, and demanded her hand
from her father, without the forhality
of consulting her wishes. He was
sharply repulsed, but nevertheless con-
tinued to dog the young lady's steps.
He was arrested and given an oppor-
tunity to cool off in the lookup.
in excavating at Nimroud num-
her of drains were covered over with
pointed and elliptical arches, each layer
being built slanting so that it rested on
the one Immediately beneath it. This
method of building renders a timber
center or scatfolding unnecessary to
support the stones until the keystone Is
in place. Experiments with this plan
are now in progress in this country.
For brazen-faced liars America has
always held the banner, but Geneva,
switzerland, has furnished the world
, with the most picturesque votary OF
Ananias of which we have ever heard.
1 He is bank teller who was intrusteo
: with 5000 to deposit in another bank
v He claims that, while passing through
g field. the package containing tn'
i money blew out Of his hands h'
e chased it but it rolled into the river.
!. Certain animals have teeth whici
III grow during all their lives. The ra
Il and the squirrel are examples OF TINS
o Our own teeth are developed iron
u pulps, which are absorbed and dlsap
70 near after the teeth are grown, but IN
u, rats tooth the pulp is perpetual, and
- continually secreting material by whlc
u the incisor gains length Therefore TIL
eS animal is obliged to gnaw all the tim
&C. to keep the tooth ground down 70 th
" proper length. 1t is commonly III
o. ARMED that the rats keep gnawing 1rol
ne nnre cusspdness but such is not the cast
DIS A large bear recently entered Tn
ia .unuel of a mine in Tuolomne count.
-. Cal. and attacked several miners WI
oa TO ght him with picks. The hrst pio
'oo infuriated the brute, and he made +
''o sistless charge on the men, extlnguls
~ ing nearly all their candies and lac
III rating every one more or less vi
eo man had his scalp torn off by one bio
MS of the bears paw; others had the he'
ice of their arms laid bare The contest
be- the darkness and close atmosphe
IN lasted an hour, when the bear W
,he killed, more by good luck than
W skill.
YES There is said to be an old negro
Talbot county, Ga. who learned
SMELL in curious way in slavery tim'
His owner lived in sparsely settl
also neirbborhood. and he being a sm
non non boy was sent along to accompany
W. children to school. The teacher wo'
a not allow him to go into the scho
49, room when the pupils We're recitll
w. This aroused his curiosity, and
,nd would stealthily approach the door
repeat after the spelling class, until
red could spell every word IN "eos''
;an blue.bacl spelling book before
: knew the alphabet He now reads
ZEN. spells very we'll
!, ot The oldest epitaph in English, WI
;s found in churchyard in Oxfordsl
ata. and dates from the year 1870, to Inoo
90 readers would be unintelligible,
n, only from its antique Typography,
!, =. from it's obsolete language, the
,,,,o two lines of which run as follows,
I
Ia NAV be taken as a sample OF the wh
80 [ "Nlan com & Sc how schal allie dede
wen vow comes bad & bare; moth
than ven we away fare: all Us weriness
.l,,a for care" The modern reading W.
tor be: MAN, come and see how shall
mo dead be, when you come poor and
w ~ nothing have, when ye away rare
is weariness that we for care
aces The word pluck affords al
II go stance of the way in which slang W
AZ. in the course of time become ado
oaras into current English. We now
'eces- with pluck" and ''plucly" as the
es Of ognized equivalent OF courage
!, ,ha courageous" An entry in Sir W
sco,ts journal shows that in Isl
word had not yet lost its low csara
He saws (Vol. H., p. SO): Want OF
rman article blackguardly called pluck
ed in origin is obvious. From early
claim the heart has been popularity req
,vcrn- as the seat of courage. Now, WI
upply butcher lays open carcass he o'
war. the great vessels of the heart
sup through the windpipe, and then 7
ich to ont together the united heart and
lights he calls them-and he
IN was the united mass "the pluck