Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-05-21
CURRENT TOPICS.
EcHURz promises to pay off old
1gainst his enemies in his new

kgainst his enemies in his new
waters Of a spring at Auburn,
Re said to restore hair to bald
eaE EIFFEL is said to have made
900 as his share in the Eiffel
American has made large fortune
goducing the American pie into
Ind.
IEADINa pa clergyman has been
yled 25 cents in his suit for 5000
ges
rwITHsTANDING the disordered con-
s of affairs, Paris Is crowded with
eicans
RK brown is the prevailing color
he hair Of the people of English
pnality.
IL absence of tourists in Germany
kreat source of complaint from the
keepers.
hn McWinter, of Boltonville, Conn,
to be 105 years old, and then died
eart disease.
DER HAGGARD thinks Egypt the
interesting and the least explored
TRY in the world.
liz Kansas City statutes present the
zen the alternative of voting or pay
o poll tax of $3.50.
COLT was born on farm at Irving,
IT,, with only one eye, and that in
center of the forehead.
HERE are $50 women students in the
hiversity Of Michigan distributed
rough all the departments.
II is estimated that the German
npire will lose 100000 of its popula-
bn by emigration during the current
)ar.
IA FAMILY named Bates in Lawrence
unty, H., claims to have the original
anuscript of Bunyan's Pilgrim Pro-
less.
THE duke of Westminster offers re-
ard of $4,000 for the discovery of the
lprit who poisoned the race horse
tmc.
SINCE the Franco-Prussian war Ger
Aany has spent two thousand two hum
led million dollars on her army and
IVY
RETHE private railway train designed
~ the emperor of Germany, for his own
Be, is at last completed. 1t cost
I55O, 900.
M II is said the street preachers in Lon
Xon are merely "blind' to have crowds
'1bllect to give pickpockets oppor-
Entities.
MA SnARPsTowN, Pa. mother has
1fdered her son to marry one of three
3&pung ladies of the town whom she has
lelected.
III The California state board of health
- trying to start movement for the
<ota blishment of a lazarette for the
care of lepers.
K THE house of representatives passed q
bill appropriating sl5O,OoO to pay our
nhare of hecxpenses of the Behring sea
arbitration board.
I'm court in Mississippi an important
se was interrupted because one of the
rors caught the mumps and gave it
4 the other eleven.
The earth, at the equator, moves at
l1e rate of mile in SO seconds, four
4enths of second slower than the
Selocity of a cannon ball.
Office Of college president seems
P 60 a-begging nowadays. Seventeen
xpllcges have just eked out a full year
nth the head chair vacant.
NJ The legislative assembly of Styria, in
ustria, has passed law forbidding
Dor people to marry without special
Hcense from the authorities.
y A Birmingham, Eng, judge decided
nat an artist has cause of action
Ggainst persons who ascribe his name
- pictures not of his painting.
ri CoILIs p. HUNTINGTON has made a
ut of s25, 900 to the Golden Gate park,
IN Francisco, for an artificial water
III. The fall will be seventy-fve feet.
w BARON HIRsCn's turn winning amount
a to s35, 900 last season, and he intends
5 benefit his own race by devoting the
htire sum to hospitals and like institu-
Ions.
a THE Chinese have kitchen god,
fhich is supposed to go to the Chinese
eaven at the beginning of each year to
eport upon the private life of the fami-
les under his care.
A PARIS policeman begins service
Fith seventy.seven cents day and
5ftcr twelve years he gets cighty-fve
)ents day. The police have asked for
\ day as the minimum.
SENATOR BLACKBURN is credited with
being the readiest of congressional
|peakers. He carries at his tongues
3nd vocabulary which is remarkable
Tor its range and copiousness.
THE farmers of Iowa and Texas are
treatly encouraged over the condition
f the crop prospect this season, and
rom the present outlook a great crop
bf oats, wheat and corn will be Sc
kurcd.
JOSEPH MURPHY is put down as the
tichest of actors. He is said to be worth
45O,OOO most of which represents the
tavings from his annual income, for lie
Is one OF the most economical of stage
rtists.
| A LITTLE colorcd boy was struck by
|he tail of an alligator while he was
wading in pond, in jefferson county,
Fla, the other Jay, and had one leg
broken in two places. The stroke
threw him on shore.
A TOPEKA man was born Elder ana
christened Berry, but the people in
sisted on calling him Elderberry, and
he finally yielded to public sentiment
and the name Elder Berry now appears
over his place of business
The French papers have story that
the young crown prince of Germany
used as target for his pistol practice
an image of French infantryman. and
that he recently asked his father if he
would not be permitted after his pro-
motion to licutenancy TO fire at Rus
sian officer.
CREUsoT, France, has the most gigan-
tic iron chimney that has yet been con-
structed in the world. 1t is funnel
shaped, big end down, twenty-three
feet in diameter at the bottom and
seven at the top. 1t is exactly s7e feet