Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-01-23
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pldsr worth $3.50.
The average camel will travel 800
biles in eight days
TRUCKEE, Cal, has child with one
lack and one blue eye.
No SHIRT has been elected chief OF
be Umatilla Indians in Oregon.
A BELGIUM viscount has enlisted as .
rivate in the United States army.
A GIRL in Norway must be able to
AXE bread before she can have beau.
In Buffalo one line Of street railway
rosses fifty-four railroad tracks in its
purse.
FoRTy-EIGHr stage coaches carrying
he United States mails were held up
ast year.
A GENIUS proposes 10 transmit power
rom Niagara to run the Worlds fair
hachinery.
"A LARGE mum ber of men in Washing.
bn make their living by writing con.
fessmen's speeches.
THERE are now 27, 1855 Irishmen in the
british army In 1850 there were co..
II 10 and in 1870 $4,000.
FRANCE ought to be happy, according
an old saying, for her revenue last
ear exceeded expenditures by $40, 0O0,.
4 10.
JAMES COLE, of Vernon county, Mo-,
4. ks been sent to the penitenti ary for
y eeaking his wifes nose with fence
sil
The cost of round-trip ticket on
ke proposed new railroad between
4. bppa and Jerusalem will be about four
pllars
|S A PLACE called Pro Tenn in Taney
z bunty, Mo-, has lasted now for many
bars and bids fair to become per.
banent.
SOME butchers Of Ligonier, Pa, made
SAA Christmas sausage sixty.two feet four
hches in length. H. weighed thirty.
even pounds.
N LOUIS KossUTH is very sick at his
hcme in Turin. He suffers considera-
bly, from asthma, and also has trouble
With his eyes.
8 SLATE and pencil are not good enough
for the New York school boy. He must
have letter pad and fountain pen to
do his sums with.
N THE other day New York city pa.
per published record OF 100 deaths,
4 Etwenty.seven of them being OF persons
over 70 years Of age
1,I In1, 10 !,
pnt epidemic of grip in that city is
much more severe than that which pre-.
Ssiled in the winter Of 1SS9-9O.
THE c.Aperor OF China still persists
IN studying the English language,
although much remonstrance against
bis doing SO has been expressed.
8 BY majority Of Liza the voters Of
the city Of Toronto, in Canada, declared
against the running Of street cars on
sunday, and only one newspaper advo.
psted the change.
a. THE noted Australian lyre-bir6 ia
threatened with total extinction in
cw South Wales, owing to the Ameri-
In demand for its tail-feathers to adorn
sminine head-gear.
|a A RESIDENT Of Saratoga, Ark, un'
earthed what is supposed to be the
bones of morstrous serpent There
were thirty nine joints and some OF
them weighed nine pounds.
N STEEL caskets for the bodies OF those
|who die suddenly on shipl oard are be-
Ing carried on many Of the transatlan'
BIC liners. The remains are placed in
them and Theoretically sealed
PRESERVED as a memento at the
Adams house, Boston, is tox contain
Ing few cigars which belonged tc
Gen Grant at the time his illness c-m'
PEELED him TO give up smoking.
WHILE James Wilkerson, of Ray
county, Mo-, was being buried, and his
family and friends were gathered al
the cemetery. thieves drove thirty-tw.
head of cattle from his pasture.
ALL the linen for Princess Victoris
Mays trousseau will be made in Ire
land, her tweed dresses will come frolr
Scotland, and some of her finer cos
tumes are to be Of English-made silk.
Two colored delinquents in Raleigh
N. c., were recently condemned TO re
ceive thirty nine lashes each, and spec
tators were admitted to witness thu
whipping at twenty-five cents head
The gate receipts went to the prison
prs.
w ELLEN TERRY's signature is wortl
exactly los, Cd sterling. She placed he
hame, unsolicited. on some 1Sd photo
graphs of herself at an Edinburgh fai
the other night and the price Of th'
: pictures at once advanced to one guine,
I each.
Ar the auction sale Of autographs IL
London. the other day, 4 letter Of Ad
elina Patti, in which she declares tina
every body is madly in love with her
brought only eleven shillings, and doc
uments signed by Richelieu went 70
two shillingA
SECRETARY ELKINs has in West Vii
ginia house which 10 described % on
of the finest country residences in tn
south. II contains ninety rooms an
commands superb view Of the SUI
rounding country, which Is exception
ally beautiful.
LIBRARIAN SPoFFonD points out
strange error in the Encyclopedia
britannica, which, confounding stat
legislation In Virginia with nations
enactments, states that the Unite
States congress had passed seventy ao'
authorizing lotteries
THERE are 1919 sailors In the Anne
lean navy, Of whom S,9s7 are foreigl
ers, 2,756 have never taken out natura
ization papers, and 1.2sS have mover n
sided in the United States at all.
A CALIFORNIA prune grower has r
fused an offer from . Bordeaux firm II
his prune crop In sacks They woul'
OF course, bc repacked and shipped
French prunea But the California
means to make the profit himself.
TRADE between this country ~
Australia Is Increasing especially
the demand for our manufactured q
tclea A S25,000 Australian order 4
an electric plant will be filed at Guy
hoga Falls O., and Fort Wayne, Ind
The London city council has decid,
that the wedding gift to be presents
oy that body 10 the duke Of Clsren
and his bride shsll be diamond nee
laea valued at 1,e0o yuineas for q
II.