Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-05-28
CURRENT TOPICS.
Nat BRITAIN has about 5000 land.

LES to be elected next November
GRUsADE is on in New York city
~ the littering of the streets with
TRAITS Of six American women
In the present exhibition of the
eolon.
~ HARRISON has a passion 70,
Il, and the executive mansion is
tied with them.
great cathedral in the city Of
10 is the largest in America, and
early g., 100000.
y Turkish government has forbid.
re Importation OF all patent medi
into that country.
Inn county, Ga, has woman
~ who has only spoken to three
6ls in sixteen years,
m Buffalo directory credits that
9TH resident named Peterje
Observation-Disclosures.
writings of Mr.. Gladstone fill
two pages Of the printed cata-
bf tho British museum.
poet Burns spelled his name
bs (his fnmily nance until the
alton of his poems in 1885.
ksIANs are SO fond of snails as al
of diet that they consume 100, OOC
B of them day, it is said.
BIZ are more priests, monks and
"a Jerusalem in proportion to the
otion, than In any other city in the
AVE DoRE, who never saw the
b Falls, put upon canvas one of
ndcst paintings of them over ex.
fw religious sect has been cstab-
in Virginia by a Negro named
hiel Brown, which he calls the
eat Eaters"
RE will be more than eleven
bd delegates to the national pro-
bn convention that assemblies in
matt June rs.
Her win Miss Amelia B. Edwards
9Wed a chair Of Egyrtology. Her
able library she bequeaths to Som
W. hall, Oxford.
M Roumanian crown is made OF
~ from the cannon that were cap.
dffrom the Turks by the Rouman-
TT Plevna in 1877.
EIDE, Col, is not yet nine months
but it has population OF 5000
two morning papers. one evening
four weekly publications.
8 late George Fowler, the million.
packer, Of Kansas City, leaves $780,
10 charitable and religious institn.
In England and the United States
RE flume which conveys the water
b the mountains to the reservoir ut
Diego is thirty-five miles in length,
composed almost wholly of red
d.
pUNoD, the composer, is an eccentric
vidual, and will only work at lis
6me and to order. 1t is said that
twelve unfinished operas lying In
! drawer.
M seriously!otated that Hassan Ben
Aorocco's commissioner to tho
Has fair, is filing in his meantime
turning an honest penny by travel
|with circus
\ the eastern shore of Maryland
busness is treated by boring three
y in a carefully selected tree'and
ling three times around it, saying,
ray, bilious
f1irIE the west is suffering from the
the state of Maine is suffering
Wrought. Lake Sebago is eight
lind nine inches below its normal
Vat this season.
u educated Indian who recently
~ half an hour in reading the
31phs in cemetery, remarked
hh! ! guess the only good white man
dead white man"
|RCnBIsuoP kENRIcK, of st. Louis
|,pe failing health and advanced age
ko grave apprehcnsions, was one Of
prelates who vigorously opposed
4pgma of infallibility.
N Japan tho man Of equality
~ forces his steed out of walk; il
brand is one which demands speed
rider dismounts, tics the fore
bf his animal together and strike.
u brisk gallop on foot.
indianapolis man has invented {
US for aging violins. He claim,
In two weeks tiioe he can impair
~ ordinary violin all the fullnes'
Richness Of tone possessed by ;
livarius.
b deepest mine in tho world is tn,
salt mine at Spczenbcrg near Der
us feet. The deepest perpendic
shaft is in the Kuttenberg mine, il
mia, S,77S feet deep. The deopes
bh mine is the Ashton colliery, 8, IS
b London World declares that Their
truth in the story that the engage
of Prince George of Wales to tn
cess May of Tcck will soon be an
cod. 1t says that he is likely t
etrothed to the Princess Alex 0
b prince of Wales Is suffering iron
Election of the throat and gossi
pets the late Sir Morell Macken
name with the opinion that it ma.
op into malady such as carric'
he late emperor Frederic of Ger
y.
EsIDENT CLARK, of the Union Pa
RAILROAD, began life as a brakeman
gravel train. He is particular.
liar with all the labor organiza
and no trouble has ever arisel
these sources since he becam
lager .,t.
RESIDENT HARRISON, Grover Clevc
and Franklin Pierce are said t.
descended from colonists of We
P, Mass, town which Is soon +
brate its 25Oth anniversary.
PHILADELPHIA boasts of the priz
p man. One morning recently h
ed the window and called out to tn
kman: "You needn't leave ut a pin
morning-my wife died last night.
LACK glass was once used for min
MS well MS transparent glass W.T.
black substance on the buck.
Lated that the Spaniards found mil
OF polished block stone, both cor
and concave, among the natives Q
tn America. 4
MORMON colonization scheme ha
y