Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-09-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

United States
THE Sultan of Bareda has ma
worth $3.50, 900.
THERE are in Sweden l43. 600 NOR
women than men,
THERE is a hotel keeper in Main
whose name is I'm ...fs
AFRICA is now completely cncirclet
M submarine cables
By the laws of Texas Homestead
.su not be touched for debt
A PHILADELPHIA man wears pair o.
.boes made from elephant hide.
GRAIN men in the west are beginning
b complain of the scarcity of cars
A TREMENDOUS sulphur spring has
been tapped near San Antonio, Tex
A WOMAN is to drive the last nail
!. ,lle woman's building of the World's
fair
MASSACHUSETTS is to spend $40, 900 on
nor educational exhibit at the Worlds
tr
THERE is only one sudden death
among women to every eight among
men.
THERE are more ducks in the Chinese
smnire than in all the world outside
Of it.
A SQUAD of policemen in Philadel-
mia now rush over their beats on BIZ
cycles.
THE latest adviees from China show
that the floods are killing more people
than the riots.
The widow of Hannibal Hamlin was
| bis second wife, and was the half sister
| d bis first wife. H8
The Western train-robbers seem to
hold up their end of the lines with un-
usual success this year.
CLARENCE II. FREEMAN. the champion
ehecker-player of the land, is mulat-
10 with slight tinge of Pequot Indian
/ blood
LORD SALISBURY has made twenty.
one new peers since he has been in
Office besides raising the rank of sew.
|sal more.
SURVEYS show that several lofty
mountain peaks in Idaho are from Is
bsS feet lower than they were few
years ago
The glut Of potatoes in Southern Cal
|Hornia continues In one section they
|nn being offer at five cents a sack in
|he ground
GOLD coin is shipped in e-gallon
|aken kegs bound with iron hoops.
Zach kcg holds two lags. and each bag
contains ,1Oj
DAILY Photographs of the sun taken
|rncc 1851 show conclusiYely that tho
|umlnary makes complete revolution
y eleven years.
SESAToR HARRIS, of Tennessee, is
ald to be the oldest living congress-
nan lie was first elected in lS49, at
NE age of 81 years.
WITH American hog and hominy, the
aappy German may increase his avoir-
Eap''s and get higher look at life and
Us |sMbstantial Joys,
NJ ADER of Paris, after cypcndinr
pore than $780, 900 on flying machine
Pfh produced one in which he flew
'@ot one hundred yards
iHE total appropriated by the differ.
~ states Tor exhibits at the Worlds
~ mus Tar is S2,695,ooo. Many states
nyet to make appropriations
WE man al Evans, Col, threshed tho
'aeat OF 100 acres of his farm and rot
'~ bushels for his trouble. Twenty
'aes OF barley yielded 67l bushels.
iht Notre Dame cathedral, Montreal
M'he largest bell in America, II
'sns u 'SO pounds, is eight feet sew.
~V''es III diameter, and six feet high.
aiREE bed has been established in
I Mary fletcher hospital, at Burlinr-
y W., by Secretary Proctor, who
~ 'u' III his check for S., 900 to foot the
GEORGE ", 7. Roor, who wrote The
Sue'ery of Freedom" "Tramn
lamp ramp and "Thc Vacant
s saIr' Is living at an advanced age in
nm, aah daughter of Queen Kapiolani and
.aess 10 the throne OF Hawaii, is stay.
a. MOTEL in London, in the strict
y. ! n'ogh''o' attended by suite OF I
iee persons. ,.
an oia lady of Salina, Kan, began {
:, prayer by saying; 20. Lord, Thou |
!. PROBABLY read in the morning ;
.spaperS .s how Thy day was desecrat. !
yesterday"
.aa, I p'el Swinburne is small, red.
' 'aVu and bachelor. His forehead
w! w prominent, but his mouth is
:" "n auo feminine, and his chin weak !,
pses y are large and brilliant
! .as s,on ,roin'lsourgh plunger who has lust ,
y s,uVVoo on Il horse race should
'urhish list of his losses some '
4, 'ne Sporting fraternity always
A., j" QUO" That side of the ledger.
, =. newspaper supporters of Chili's
,ia,. president Ralmaceda, are now I
4 seSoa., wi. country as fast as they can, c
! ,".sral 's, OF the more prominent cd. Il
,,. ,".li DC shot unless they escape. b
,,oa ,rv'afa !, crazy Indian has turned up !;
n s y. .nc ., chcyennes, and the indica. y
pes e ioo,i mat all the Messiah and ghost =
Inv. nv ..oo''shness, which had such dis.
ag again. "''i oe se' =,
NM MN, thousand Colorado peonle, as. I
,lrs,. ,Ssa at Rocky Ford recently to h
,,.s e mysterious festival stvled
,"eion W,s u day" Each person pres
Ion - ,as made the recipient Of a water. -.
lowed dA0 strange and CORY repast 81 81
apooiaa. ',eket-punch, carried in his W
eorpia e, Just over the heart, saved
NJ S0. 'al'road conductors life, the
,al aa;s,'.e s' .he bullet from a Negroes 9,
sss @'u,.aning u on the punch. - -
'lrsh' h'TIIz.elERALD, N the president of n
he rjchas. ha'.onal League in America, o.
'inp 'tnest : ines man in Lincoln, Neb., ., o.
his sa. ,or'une of $1,000, 900. He be. q, %
| l,hova,, ,eer as laborer with pick
,1', u''Vel e. on western road. w
AVE w "AhlowE. "a the actress, is said
H.. "Onuerful memorv A.. 4o,4