Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-05-13

The Macon Beacon
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
MACON. .: MISSISSIPPI
Time to think about a refrigerator
soon.
Men will not have to wear chante-
cler hats anyway.
Leaping from midwinter to midsum-
mer is pleasant, but perilous.
AS revolutions go, they are stflE
revolutioning down in Nicaragua.
The announcement comes that New
port society is to fly. We knew tna"!
Resort-keepers are looking for an
extra spring crop of summer boarders.
The third degree seems to be get
ting something of a sweating process
itself.
Try to do a little work. The report
that the fish are biting is probably a
false alarm.
When sailing In such dizzy heights
the mercury should continually expect
to take a tumble.
The woman with a chantecler hat is
far from down t date unless she has
the new cocorico veil.
Just to be on the safe side how
would 1t do to make fun Of the comet
only after 1t has passed by?
AS a spring harbinger the mosquito
is welcome. But wait till he toots
his little trumpet in the dog days!
The man who died Of heart disease
after drawing a royal ush must have
had a string of hard luck before that.
It will be hard to conceal a touring
car from the ~lynx-eyed assessors by
poking 1t up the ventilator Of he av-
erage fat.
A Boston court has decided that a
prima donna's name cannot be given
to a soup without her: permission and,
presumably, her price.
To cure indigestion, marital in
felicity, divorce, and other things.
teach our daughters how to cook.
wash and mind the baby.
Kegs of various descriptions have
been responsible for many accidents,
but one certain keg of nails in Chica-
go saved an elevated train.
It is true that the sun has been
firing off skyrockets, but no man can
tell from here whether or not it
burned it's fingers in the process.
According to an eminent entomolo-
gist, this is an age of bugs. The line
Of talk handed out by some college
professors makes people think he is
right.
1t is rumored that an automobile
trust is in process of organization.
Can this be a fiendish conspiracy to
sky the price of the poor mans auto
mobile?
The new comet discovered recently
near the path of Halley's comet has
been lost. Perhaps it has been driven
out of business by the professional
jealousy Of it's bigger rival.
A Missouri man is advertising for a
wife with "a good, wholesome smile"
Ladies who answer the advertisement
should be warned that it will be abso-
lutely necessary for them to show him
the emile.
A steamship in Florida waters a
q hard time getting past a school Of
monster 1,0OO-pound turtles that
showed fight. 1t is early in the sea-
son, but the sea serpent is not going
to De missed.
Th gymnasium instructor in Eng
land who has made a worlds record
by swinging a pair of three-pound
clubs continuously for 68 hours could
have shown as much endurance and
done more good by saving wood
The movement for a sane n safe
Fourth of July celebration Is under
way. 1t will meet with no favor from
the small boy, who wants his consti-
~utional privilege to blow himself up
as a burnt Offering to the Goddess of
Liberty.
A Chicago man has been fined $25
and costs because he sat for II hours
on the front steps of the house in