Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-02-27
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n in Maine
Ez Booze is the name OF Pawnee !
k (Kan.) man.
EyLoN will spend $40, 900 on an ex.
h at the Worlds fair.
RANcE's last torpedo boat made
nty-thrce knots and a half in bad
RrMsoN and the old magenta cd
be the fashionable shades ext
BON.
nERE is weed in Northern Or.
IN which renders horses that cat il
pne.
HERE are only 10000 people in Ice.
a, but they 1rint eight newspapers
Ithe island.
is said that the best Welsh scholar
ng is an English woman, Mrs Ann
liter Thomas
I'm. ANNENKoFF is Mt work on the
h for canal between the Black sea
the Caspian. $50
in Augusta (Me.) dentist is credited
h having taken gas and extracted
of his own teeth.
iIE average duration TO human life
bid to be increasing at the rate of
years each century.
(AIL matter is sent between Paris
Berlin, II distance of 700 miles,
bugh pneumatic tubes.
BILL before the Illinois senate pro.
es for only women jurors in coro-
Ps inquests on women.
W. WEBSTER, of Beckwith, New,
kmpted to kick horse and while
3hg so broke his own leg,
a YELLOW dog with two toy balloons
ping his tail taut stampcdcd Phila.
phia shoppers the other day.
H '|RTITIClAL teeth are so much in use
p fadays that it took 40, 600, coo of them
npply the demand last year
OssINls centenary occurs on Fc cbru.
20 and the day will be extensively
berved in the large Italian cities.
HE Scotch parliament passed law
Emitting women to propose to men
Fing the reign of Queen Margaret.
PnoMAs A. EDISON was born forty.
E years ago, in Alva, O., the town
Pm which he gets his middle name.
ALONG the coast of the United States
)ring the past fourteen years there
I've been l6, l2S casualties to vessels.
In cases where nature intends that
|sects shall feed on flowers at night.
lc flowers they select are all of a white
|lor.
PORTUGAL, which has the population
Pennsylvania, with a smaller area,
S nearly as large debt as the United
|ates.
posEPH FRANCIS, founder of the
pited States Life Saving service is,
the age of ninety, writing his auto
|pgraphy.
HlRs. MILLER, twenty years Of age, is
courageous deputy marshal in the
lian territory. She shrinks from no
tigue or danger.
PHE energy of n stroke of lightning
Estimated by Carl Henry to be equal
that of 100 horse power engine
rking ten hours.
MAN in Long Island has discovered
Eay Of feeding vanilla beans to his
Is so that the eggs are distinctly
Fored with vanilla
here are 400 widows of confederate
oilers on the Georgia state pension
This pension fund entails in
|orgia an annual tax of S4OO, 600.
BLESSED are the merciful' is the
kt that is engraved upon the cross of
George, which was presented by
aeen Victoria to Florence Nghtin.
lie,
BosroN is considering three plans for
pew city hall One would cost 81, OOO,-
another g., 400, 900, while the pres.
structure could be enlarged for ST..
b 900.
NURsERYMEN now sell trees on the
teen-year plan-that is the nursery.
hn is to receive choice of any two
'ops grown on the trees inside of fif.
en years in payment of the trees.
Miss MATHILDA PHILLIPS, the only
Fter of Adelaide Phillips, and herself
noted opera singer, lives in the fam.
rs old homestead at Marshfield,
pss., the old home Of Daniel Webster.
a sTERNLy just English magistrate
led a grocer at Wolverhampton, a
und and cost for weighing the paper
with some sugar and charging the
yer for full pound of sweetness.
VHlTE tar is one of the latest inven.
bns or discoveries. 1t will not become
~ under the suns rays in any eli
nte and is expected to lie used large.
in calking the deck seams of fine
|chts.
I is figured out that il the entire
pulation of the world. comprising
lOo, 900, 900 people, were divided into
|milies of five, Texas could furnish
Yen family with a half acre lot and
We plenty Of land to spare.
So MANY spurious works by old mas
rs and celebrated modern artists have
zen palmed off lately in Europe that
le Belgian police are doing their ut.
ost TO discovery the factory, which
ps been located in that city.
InE watchmakers of Switzerland, at
recent convention in Berne, decided
make an exhibit at Chicago of their
pest and costliest watches, but not to
tempt any competition with Ameri.
IN manuf acturers in cheapcrgrades.
AN English method OF keeping the
hinty embroidered cover of the toilet
hole fresh and clean, is to have piece
plate.glass cut to fit the top of the
pole exactly. This is laid over the
over' and while all its leauty is just
+ apparent no dust can come near it.
BENZ Poor was born in Raymond,
h H., September "a, 1895, enlisted
une, 1912, and was In service as fifer
r'l mustered out Novemb follow.
ng lie is still living in Raymond, and
rawing pension as veteran of the
\" OF ls, and is in remarkable vigof
Pus health.
llE sword and bloody dagger taken
rom the body of James ". of Scotland,
pa rloden field, are, with Queen Vic
or'as permission, to be deposited in
ne restored parliament hall. in Edin'
urgh' 1t was from the fortress in that
f'y that the unfortunate monarch ven
useo forth to the battle in which he
AN inventive youth connected with q
a'ssouri hardware store Is said TO have
mseoVered a compound which, II ap
pued TO tinwarc, brass, etc., OF wares
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