Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-03-07
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Ne coast Of Maine. :,
~ legislature of Oregon has passed
nrohibiting profanity,
rr, Is to be built on the top Of
ncak-l4,2OO feet above the sea
RAY MANN (ex.Mra lIamilton)
aositivcly that she will not go up
,,rrar. Mo-, warms its street cars
slectricity and lights its churches
toal oil. :.
o,1rcroR of idols who died recent.
San Francisco had a collection Of
tie deitics'
rrao, rIM.MoroR tricycle. has been
..d that will run forty milo on
|allon Of oil.
MAS A. EDISON, accordingefo
Of his, is a vegetarian, cschSving
fowl and fish.
census which was taken in Hsean
ar showed the population OF ths
Re to be 4O,O72,o2o,
LONDON editor has been mulcted IN
nm of S32, 500 by a fair plaintiff In
ach of promise suit.
oldest woman in Austria-llun-
is a widow named Jcnci, who
IS that she has lived ia years.
savings banks deposits in Ire.
are now larger than ever before
IN in the history of the country,
WHITE man stole an umbrella at
bta and within fifteen minutes was
cht into court tried and convicted.
IIAysnRoUGH, the new senator.
from North Dakota, Is said to have
twelve years ago touring com
or
recognition of some present sent by
lev of Algicrs. the Italian king has
brmed the miracle of turning the
into a knight,
|GYNNAsiuM for women Is TO be
ed in Rome ON April /. The date
bpropitious, but there will be no
shness about 1t.
GRAIN of fine sand would cover 100
he minute scales OF the human skin,
bet each of these scales in turn cov-
rom 800 to 500 pores.
h has been discovered in Ashby's
of war fame, in Virginia, and a
tn, tho ,;.t ai;o,S S'6GS" 6rI 900 Of capital has
.~l ., a mine.
HE copper mines al = hci"r t"~"a to
utmost to supply the demand
hopper wire and the other appa.
5 used in the application of elcc.
bty.
hE state of Georgia is about to
ertise for site for a state college
rolored people, which is to be con.
led as a branch of the state uni.
Bity.
h electric light company has been
ted in Jerusalem, and a pleasure
bmer is about to be launched to ply
Eeen shore resorts on the sea OF
Flee.
N Atchison (Kan.) man paid
hber's bill Of nine dollars because
|wife had taken the covering off the
rant to wrap around fift&sn cent
bush. - ~
FOX which had been hased Wy
y horsc-mcn and twenty dogs for
hour, was killed with n stone by u
inland at Lower Merton, Pa, the
er day.
|lss MINNIE CHADWICK, a Brooklyn
OF l0 summers, ate an average of
pounds of candy per day for seven
pths and then died singing a Sunday.
pol ode.
PIE managers of the Columbian ex-
ptlon expect to spend SIS, 900, 900 be-
the great show opens, which is
re money than was ever devoted TO
exhibition before.
oHN llAMrDEN, an Englishman, who
do himself conspicuous by writing
nphlets and lecturing to prove that
earth is fiat, died recently. The
I'D still goes round
HEY say that Gen. Sherman and
J. Johnston entered into an agree
nt, soon after the war, that the sur
Or OF them should serve rs pail
rer at the others funeral.
he knights Of Tara, of New York
! nave started fund to erect mon
eht 10 Robert Emmct on the ground
ere he was executed in Thomas
'et Dublin, September, 1903.
'hlsILEs, rattles, soap boxes, key
IS billiard cue chalkcrs, cork screws,
Ol cases, cheese tops are a few Of the
'es made In solid silver for the de-
II OF those who can afford them.
hE Harvard faculty has voted to
~ the petition OF . Japanese stu
who asked to be allowed to substi-
Chlnese and Japanese for Latin
dreek at the entrance examination.
EN- CAcEREs, ex-presidcnt OF Peru,
'e most illustrious Peruvian living.
lame was established by his sup
'sloh OF brigandagc in Peru, after he
r'urned the government of some RI
"o years ago the Delaware peach
was failure; last year it was a
ure' and it is feared it will this year
wise be failure. 1t begins to look
noush the peach was the forbidden
SALEM IA. man put a cart
- oe'ween his teeth and accident
!. olt hard upon It. II exploded,
. 'ne bullet buried itself in an op-
.e wall, while the man was unin-
~, M'ssocm weekly paper recently in,
,eu IN some critical remarks about
and a farmer named John
thinking the family insult
lshing.
hirE tar Is one Of the latest inven-
!, VI discoveries. II will not become
!. snoer the suns rays In any climate,
,,', - expected to be used largely In
'Ains the deck seams Of fine yachts.
AXIOM GERsoN Won BEIcHRoEpER,
m,ealthy Hebrew banker, Of Berlin,
gwen 100000 marks and twenty
;ss a,les OF land for the purpose of es-
,mg ,,,n,ng q hospital in which the Koch
,''nent is to be used.
nm. nHN q certain New York woman got
y ,p''snt piano, she made a red plush
,,s. ,or II, so that the rosewood
W.. get scratched. Then she