Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-03-05
CURRENT TOPICS.
IssE1L HARRISON has quit the news.


papcr is increasing in the west.
AN average of four persons die daily
In England from delirium tremens
ABOUT $4,000 suicides were commit
he'd in the United States during the past
year.
IT is denied that Abbotsford, once
The home of Sir Walter Scott, is sold, as
reported.
Soorcu journals resent the PROPOSE
|tion for the abandonment OF kits by
the soldiers.
THE Southern league of baseball
clubs has Teen organized, with six clubs
represented
WITHIN sixty-two years Mexico has
had fifty-four presidents. one regency
and one empire.
Two or three American plays with
american players will be given in Lon.
don next summer 49,
g.l.. s.sr~sacost Of gen sublic eiec-
kric lamp in Boston is $237 Is and in
San Francisco SHOT, g.
PAUL DU CnAlI.U has SO far recov-
ered from his recent illness as TO be
bible to lecture once more.
A TENOR at the opera in Geneva who
WAS hsscd promptly went home, thus
Stopping the performance.
A RUSSIAN can plead infancy for a
long time, as he does not come of age
bntil he is twcnty-six years old.
Fl A VERY wide belt and very big buckle
IS the latest addition to feminine street
costume by the women Of Paris.
MEXICo's presidential election occurs
b June, but no candidate has been
Z amed against Diaz, how serving u third
elsn.
EMPEROR WILLIAM is reported as say.
hg that the state of European politics
will not let him attend the Worlds fair
1t Chicago
A MAN died in Jail at Lexington, Mo-,
Ehe other day, serving out fine of 500,
hnd suit will be brought against his
Estate for the fine.
A FEW days ago Marysville (Cal
man found under the floor of his bed"
room about l35 pounds of choice honey
deposited there by wild bees.
A PIIIADELpnIAN has made an um,
brella stand two and u half feet high,
which is composed of 1,60O separate
pieces and fifteen kinds of wood.
4 BY far the greater part of the acci-
{dents that occur in mills, etc, happen
|luring the last two hours of work,
when workpcople are tired and care.
less.
PENNsYLvANIA's new ballot law goes
into effect March /, and will first be
Rested in an election in Allegheny City
for mayor, to FIJI a vacancy by resigna.
tion.
THE women of Poland will wear
black during the present year in order
Ito commemorate the centenary of the
Hoss Of Poland's independence as ma.
lion.
sx The deepest depth of the sea is re.
ported to be at point twenty three
miles north of New Guinea, where
y boundings showed depth of 26,s5O
(eet-
THE cost of lighting the Worlds fair
At Chicago will be about ten times the
fost for lighting of the exposition at
Paris The figure is at present placed
BIT 81, 500, 900.
Mrs. WARREN NEwCOMB, of New
ork, who gave $780, 900 to endow the
Sophia Newcomb college at New
Orleans, has made an additional endow.
nent of S44 0O0
A CONFERENCE of the postmasters of
forty-five of the large cities will be
held March 0 to discuss postal reforms
hnd proposed notifications of existing
laws and regulations.
BY studying the spectrum of light.
hing as it passes through the air 1t has
been found that sodium the element
rom which common salt is formed,
Exists IN the atmosphere.
THE remarkable likeness between the
latest accepted portrait Of Columbus
Ind the ordinary portraits of George
Washington is appreciated at glance.
t is at least an interesting coincidence.
1T is said that the bulk of the grain
recently purchased by the Russian gov
ernment ostensibly for the famine suf.
fcrers, is really to be stored in the ma
tional granaries as a preparation for
Nvar.
The first notice of India rubber or
record was given by Herrera, who in
Inc second voyage of Columbus observ
ed that the natives of Haiti played o
game with balls made of the gum of Q
|rce."
THE ocean cables Of the world now
stretch over 12O.25O miles. There are
900 cables in all, nearly all of English
nanufacture. Most Of the cables arc
owned and operated by private corpor
htions.
A cRusTY old Indiana bachelor no
liking the way his landlady's daughter
had OF appropriating his hair oil, filled
his bottle with liquid glue the day be
fore the ball to which the girl was in
vited, She stayed at home.
The hopes of many Bavarians tha
death was about to relieve them of
mad king have proved vain. The lat
est reports say that King Otto is phy
sieally comparatively we'll, although
his mental condition is as sad ant
gloomy as ever
EDISON thinks he may be able TO hea
the sun spot roar. His idea is that
long stretch of copper wire to be set NJ
Will be affected by the electrical dis
turoances on the sun. From the wir,
these disturbances will be translate,
into sound waves.
1T is stated that there. are NOR,
priests, monks and nuns in Jerusalem
IN proportion to the population, than il
any other city in the world. They be
long to every nation of Europe an
many of Asia and are of every creed
form OF worship and dress
1T is reported that mountain @
onyx has been discovered in Mexico
about thirty miles from Ell paso. Iti
said to be OF superior quality, fine
grained and beautifully marked wit
calico streaks Of varigated color
Ulended across the face of the edge
ne mineral, 1t is claimed, scales off i
is.ge states, making it possible to sci
was cheap as common stone.
Ten years ago a Pittsburgh mar
WINE In Dakota, received intelligenc