Macon beacon., 1891-05-23

third set Of natural teeth.
IMAGINATION and Bismarck are the
only prominent actors id the Franco
Prussian war remaining alive.
SINCE the first of the year nearly
thirty-four million dollars in gold has
been sent out of this country.
DUBoIs, the French sculptor, piqued
that his statue was badly placed in the
Paris salon, smashed it into atoms.
IT is said that thousand barrels OF
maple syrup have been put on the mar
ket this spring by single Burlington
(Vt) firm.
THE widow of the late Gen. Han
cocks only son, it is announced, will
shortly marry Lieut. William Ratha-
day, U. S. A.
IT is explained that heavy imports
preceding the application of the present
tariff law is the cause of so much gold
going abroad now.
ELISHA BAssETT has resigned his
clcrkship in the United States district
court at Boston after fifty-one years of
continuous service.
PHILADELPHIA is proud just because
there are five baby lions, two baby
bears and one baby buffalo in its 900"
all born in captivity.
PROF. EssENwELLER, of Geissen,
claims to have discovered the bacteria
which produces badness by destroying
the roots of the hair.
S. II. BROCK, chief of the government
bureau of statistics, predicts that corn
will not go below forty cents bushel
when the new crop is gathered.
THERE are constant demands for
women who can charm snakes. The
supply is very small, and the wages are
800 a week with all expenses paid.
A CHICAGO justice of the peace has
established the principle that a mans
beard is worth $40 handful when
jerked out by an unauthorized party.
A ST. LOUIS physician is authority
for the statement that hypnotism has
been very largely introduced into the
everyday practice of the doctors of
that city.
In the national printing Office, St Pc
tersburg, Russia, documents can be
printed in every known language. 1t
is the most complete office of its kind
In the world.
LOUIS KossUTH, the Hungarian pa
triot, is eighty-ninc years old. His eye
sight is failing him, and other infirm-
tiles remind him that he is nearing his
earthly goal.
JUSTICE FULLER, of the supreme
court, has graver air than when he
went on the bench, and he has shorn
the long and curling locks that hung to
his shoulders then.
SIX miles off the Ladrone Islands, in
the Pacific Ocean, Russian vessel took
sounding few weeks ago and found a
depth of five miles, the deepest spot yet
found in any ocean.
WHILE bride was arrayed in her
wedding finery in the presence of 200
guests at Kcyport, N. j., she received a
note from the groom that he couldn't
be prescntas his wedding clothes didn't
fit him
TIE foreign steamship owners are
not at all pleased to have the immigra-
ton officers inspect their cargocs of inn
migrants before they land, but the ad-
ministration is in earnest about this
matter
A MONUMENT will be erected shortly
in Tutlingen, in the Black Forest, to
Max Scheckenburger, author of "The
Watch on the Rhine" The fund for this
purpose is IS, 9,OOO and contributions arc
still solicited.
Two Japanese mining engineers are
travelling among the coal mines in
Pennsylvania studying American min
ing methods which they desire to APP
ply to the development of the coal de-
posits Of Japan.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., has the oldest act
ing and active banker in the country.
This is Eli Aylsworth, who, at the age
of ninety, knows gilt-edged paper on
sight, and is an encyclopedia Of finan-
cial information.
THE dime savings bank inventors are
COW fighting out their rights to priority
yers are making harvest that will
need the cmptying of thousands of lit
tie safes to satisfy them
TIE fact that Italians are coming to
this country at the rate Of 1,400 per
week shows that the people of that
country do not share the opinion of
Premier Rudini that it is country full
of dangers for immigrants
GEN ABRAM DAILY, of New York, Is
one of the few remaining survivors OF
the last war with England. He is %
years old and receives only $Sper month
from the pension bureau
THEY have begun making arrests in
Philadelphia for docking horses tails.
There is no special law on the subject
in Pennsylvania, but the offenders are
to be prosecuted under the general law
against cruelty TO animals.
IT is explained that Minister Porter
had applied for leave of absence from
his post in Italy before the existing un-
pleasantness. This will enable him to
put an attache in charge of current
affairs without serious embarrassment
ALMoN GILMORE, nephew Of Presi-
dent Millard Fillmore, carries an old
fashioned open-faced gold watch which
belonged to his uncle. 1t Is an Eng
lish lever and sevcnty-6ve years ago
was probably one Of the most valuable
watches in America
WHEN the president passed between
the long lines Of spectators to witness
the launch Of the Monterey at San
Francisco, there was heard the clicking
of many gun locks, that startled many
veterans. II was not the cooking OF
guns by the Msfia, however, 1t was
merely the noise Of kodak tends press
Ing the button the president did the rest