Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-01-16

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Alifornia has increased from nothing
28, 900 900 pounds.
The Detroit board of public works
= sued a contractor.for stealing and
fting off two avenues.
E Y LABoUCHERE says that the Princess
N ", who is engaged to Collars and
rs, is decidedly pretty.
h is estimated that at least $50, 000,-
Of the governments paper money
- been lost or destroyed
OF the 43,634 deaths in New York
clty the past year, 1925 were of chill
dren under five years of age,
II has been estimated by shoe
man that the people of the United
states spend $780, O00 600 annually for
n 1hoes.
MRS, john SHERWOOD says it is not
4 unnsual for a New York hostess to
lpend 81, 900 on luncheon for twenty
women.
II we'll could be dug to the depth of
4prty.six miles, the density of the air at
~ bottom would be as great as that of
squtck-silver
NEW YORK is said to employ an army
\ Of cash girls 80, 900 strong, many of
K whom are nearer twelve than fourteen
years of age.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN is patrolling
Broadway, New York, every afternoon
1nthe most extensive fur coat ever seen
east of Duluth,
FOLDING linen is an accomplishment
N which each woman in Holland is ex.
N pected to be proficient before she be-
comes mistress of home.
JUDGE Moon, of Chattanooga, has
charged the grand jury to investigate
reilroad accidents and punish employees
where carelessness is shown.
y John REDMOND who has been chosen
over Michael Davitt by the people Of
H Waterford, was once clerk in the
Il house of commons, at $3.50 year
" IT is literal fact that millions of
people are starving in Russia, and that
there is no possibility of adequate re.
licf reaching the sufferers in time.
THE Jail janitor at Red Bank, n j.,
has '.cen arrested. charged with steal
Ing chickens and whisky. The plum.
der was found concealed in the Jail.
FAIR madens and timid bachelors,
this is leap year. Custom has defined
your respective privileges and the lest
interests of society demand their exer-
\ else
ss a CLERKsHIP in the agricultural de.
4 partment, Washington, has been secur.
.SSd by Frederick Douglass for u girl
" lose father owned him in slavery
pts
s 1HERE are some queer folks in Eng
4 land. In Dover certain persons, suf-
4ering from influenza, have been fined
~ apiece for appearing in public
places
A DIssoLUTE linguist, a teacher of
sven different languages, has been
Jailed at Laramie, Wyo., for beating
4 his wife who supported him by taking
n washing
ROASTED crickets are favorite arti-
cle of diet with some tribes of Utah
and California Indians, while among
others the grasshopper is relished as a
\ culipary delicacy.
M G, 4. DoUGHERTY, who is secretary of
x the American legation in Mexico, is n
con of Daniel Dougherty of the silver
tongue. He once occupied similar
posi,ion in Rome.
THE space devoted to the Chicago
Worlds fair is 600 acres Philadelphia
= had 236 and Paris li3. The buildings
will cover 1870 acres, and the cost of
& equipment will be Sl4,0O0,0 900.
are now made from pota-
toes, The tuber is treated with acids,
herdened ly means of great pressure
end the buttons manufactured from it
can not be distinguished from those of
i bone.
A WOMAN has just died in Connect.
cut whom the doctors gave but year
10 I've, way back in 1s47. The art Of
healing has not reached the stage of
iufallibility and prophecy is not one of
It, gifts.
OREGON and Washington papers have
been full of reports of second crops of
fruit gathered out there, and of flowers
found growing on the wayside. The
latest crop indicated by telegraph was
3 blizzard.
ltE TIE rates for the transportation of
seorpses on railways are so high in Ger
many that the Berlin Crematory So
|1oiety is petitioning to have them re-
(uced, as it materially intcrferes with
IS business.
THE smallest railroad in the world
nns between Ravenglass and Boot, in
cumberland, England. 1t is hardly
bore than toy affair, for which the
ngineer acts as fireman, conductor
cket'agent and porter
The German government has sent
ircular to all the state railways to the
fleet that the depressing financial con-
ition is such that all wages must he
educed and all men dropped from the
Jay rolls who can be possibly spared.
PRINCESS LOUISE and Mrs. Harrison
re the only women ever permitted to
Yet foot within the cloistcrs of the
Monastery of Santa Barbara. After
heir departure the ground trodden by
hem was reconsecrated with solemn
ceremonies and much fasting and
prayer.
Miss CoNsUEIo Vanderbilt, the four.
een-year-old daughter of Mr.. W. X.
Vanderbilt is beautiful child. with
hair and eyes as dark as q Spanish
gypsy, and the imperious manners of n
young princess. She is quite marvel
oi erudition, and speaks German and
French, Chinese and Italian with equal
aucncy.
RHODE ISLAND man made n net
profit OF S!,700 In six months by rails.
hg skunks for market He sells the
peits OF the odorous animals at good
Ngures and manufactures skunk oil,
which he disposes of to the druggists
or q rheumatic cure.
NUGGET of gold weighing 203M
Dunc's and valued MT nbont - 800 is re.
,Vr'va TO have been found recently in
~ huoy drift mine above Forest City,
"e .s,ra county, Cal. 1t measures eight
,"'s IN length by five In width, and
.''" "o to five inches In thickness
60 a Itr Hack swan was killed on the
NS"''rh roa ., utly