Fort Griffin Echo (Fort Griffin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 30, 1881 Page: 1 of 4
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FORT GRIFFIN, SHACKELFORD COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1881.
NO. 20.
PROFESSIONAL.
/ It. BRQWNINO,
Attorney at lUaw,
Hobeetie, Wheeler County, Texas.
Business in any part of tbo Panhandle
of Tsxss entrusted to roe, wlU rccelvc
prompt attention.
; e. B. DAVIEN.
ItAWYEEi .
FORT ,<*RIFFIN, - . - TEXAS.
all court* of this State,
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nton.
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— MJIO NOTARY PUBLIC.
how to oatoh a POLAR BEAR'
Imeroxvd AbpIImom for Proour-
in Steaks In tha Arctic
Rwions.
A. A.«LiBKE,
AMD LAND AGEHT
Albany, Texas.
ra quarter of a million
belonging to the
l^nd Company.
4 WEBB,
• at Law,
AMD '
iUttfe' AGENT8,
Stephens Co,, Texas,
all the court* of Ste-
and adjoining counties,
) and Appellate court*,
given to land and pot
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and Surgeon,
TEXAS.
to professional call* from
c,.<£y or right. n#a
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OF TBXAS.
FortFiiflln, Shackelford Co., Tex.
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Grocer,
Texas. .
xtji brannan, Traveling Salesman.
EXCHANGE
AND RESTAURANT,
. (first Street, bet; Main and Houston,) .
poi-r WORTB. - - TEXAS.
This verv best of everything can be
7: JOHN HOFFMAN,
Proprietor.
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& CO.
DRUCCI8TS,
FOKT ORIFFIN, - texas.
MiHn constantly on band a complete
' aft .of :
and patent medicines,
Brashes,
Toilet
Articles, etc.
PiUKtipUohs carefully compounded at
•11 hours, day or night. v3nl
RESTAURANT.
Epst Side Main Street.
EVERYTHING new, neat and
clean.
MEALS TWENTY'FIVE CTS
The table supplied with the best the
market sflfords.
Via* CHARLEY HARTFIELP
HANGED HAND8.
The well known Blacksmith' aud Wag-
on Shop of J. M Cupp <fe Bro., will from
data be conducted by J. L. Thorp and
Allah Cunn. under the stylo oi J. 1.
stylo
U the only shop In Oriffln keep-
ing a fall supply of Iron and Wagon
Timbers, The Shrinker. Oareltal atten-
tion wjll be given to dl work entrusted
to tISe
nl7mS j. l. thorp & co.
w. n. porter.
C. A.'PARK.
POBTER 4 PABK,
Commission
Merchants,
Kattlland ami Cisco,
Texas.
nl9
San Francisco Chronicle.
"I do ao pity those men on
the Rogers," remarked Mrs.
Max, passing the Major the
honey, whlchhe always insists
upon having with his ri<?e cakes.
"Yes, indeed," replied the
Major, who was a trifle cinical
that moruing, having burned
his mouth with coffee. "Yes,
indeed, my dear, the life of an
Artie explorer must be hard.
They are so isolated from the
reet of the world. Justimagine,
it you can, the horror of liying
for three years out of the dast,
and wind and fog and rain of
our glorious climate; of not
meeting all that time the man
at your olub who thinks the of-
tener a story is told the better
it is; of being without'the con-
solation"' afforded you by the
busted stock speculator who
knows you are glad of the op-
portunity to lend him a twenty;
of being where millinery and
Japanese decoration stores-do
not daily entrap one's wife ; of
being—
"Why,. Major, how you do
talk ! I was only thinking ot
the horrid ' things the Rogers'
crew will have to do to get their
bear steaks."
"flow's that I" asked the Ma-
jor, instantly interested over
the subjeot of steaks, whioh
he holds of much more import*
ance than the Irish land troubles.
"What I know about it," re-
sumed Mrs. Max, "I read in a
fashion paper, and it ought to
be true."
"It oer tatatly ought to be,
Mrs. Max, if only on account of
its old age."
"Well, the article said," con-
tinued Mrs. Max, pretending to
ignore the Majors slur on her
favorite reading, "that Arctic
explorers, when they want to
kill a polar bear, plant a big
knUfe'in the. ice with the blade
sticking up. They daub the
blade with blood and the bear
comes along and licks it and
cuts his tongue. It is so cold
he don't feel the cut, but tasting
his own blood, continues to
liok the knife until the tongue
is all frayed, and he bleeds to
death; Isn't it dreadful!"
"Quiet your fears, my dear,"
said the M%jor, whett his wife
had finished, "That's the; way
they killed the bear when that
story was first published, but in
the last twenty years an Im-
provement has 'been made,
which I will tell you about, if
you will kindly give me one
more drop of coffee, with cold
milk this time. The way the
thing is done now is as
follows : When Capt. Berry of
the Rogers wants a polar bear
for d inner, he gives a midship-
man a copper bed spring and a
chunk of salt pork. The mid-
shipman compresses the spring
perfectly fiat, ivraps the pork
aroand it tight, and holds it so
until it freezes solid. Then the
frozen pork stuffed with the
bed spring is thrown out to the
nearest iceberg, where it is
promptly swallowed by a Dolar
bear. When the heat of the
bear's' stomach staws out the
pork, it releases the spring,
which flies out, and bear
soon dies trom a pain in his
aide."
"Major," said Mrs. Max with
much warmth, "I don't believe
that story is true."
"No, my dear, and you won t,
until, in a few yen, you see it in
Itjonie fashion paper« and then
' vou will swear by it."
Using Up • Used Up Horaa.
, The utilization of horses not
lit to eat and too old to be of
working service, in France, is
given as follows: It is first
shorn of its hair, which serves
to stuff cushions and saddles ;
then it is slaughtered and skin
net]; the hoofs serve to make
combs. Next the carcass is
placed in a cylinder and cooked
by steam at a pressure of three
atmospheres; a faucet is open-
ed which allows the steam to
be run off ; then the remains
are cut up, the leg bones are
sold to make knife handles,
etc., and the coarser, the ribs,
the head, etc., are converted in-
to animal black and glue. The
first are calcined in cylinders,
and the vapors when condensed
form the chief source of carbon-
ate of ammonia, which consti-
tutes the base of all ammoniac-
al salts. There is an animal oil
yielded which makes an excel-
lent inseoticide and a vermifuge.
To make glue the bones are
disso lved in muriatic acid,which
takes away (he phosphate of
lime; the soft residue retaining
the shape of the bone is dissolv-
ed is boiling water, ca6t into
squares and dried on nets.
The phosphate of lime, acted
upon by sulphuric acid and
oaloined with carbon, produces
phosphorus for lucifer matches
The remaining flesh is distilled
to obtain the carbonate of am
monia, the resulting mass is
pounded up with potash, then
mixed with old nails and iron
of every description ; the whole
is calcined and yields magnifi
cent yellow crystals—prusiate
of potash, with which tissues
are died a Prussian bine, and
iron transferred Into steel; it
also forms the bails of cyanide
of potassium and pritsic acid,
the two most terrible poisons
knows in chemistry.
John Oennls and Can. Floyd.
Early .in the late civil war
John Dennis, a full negro, be-
lieving himself fired with pa-
triotic zeal, aud able to serve
his country, 'besought his mas-
ter, a Georgian, and obtaiued
permission to accomoany a reg-
iment from the State, which
was soon placed uuder the
command of Glen. Floyd. The
history of that campaign is well
known. On the retreat John
became boin"8ick and was al-
lowed to depart. He had be-
come well known to Gen. Floyd
and all his command. On his
departure he went to take leave
of the General, when the fol-
lowing dialogue was had:
Gen. Floyd—"Well, John,are*
you going to leave uu, eh!"
John—" Yes, Mats. Floyd;
it 'pears like I could do more
good at home now dan by b«in'
here; so I thought I'd go home
an' 'courage up our people to
hold on."
Gen. F.—That's Tight, John.
But are you going to tell them
that you left us when running
from the Yankees?"
John—"No, sir ; no. Mars
Floyd,- dat I ain't. You may
'pend upon my not • telling
nothing to 'moralize dem peot>le.
Gen. F,—"But how will you
get around telling them, John!"
John—"Easy 'nuff,Mars Floyd.
It won't do to 'moralize dem
people. I'm gwine to tell 'em
dis: Dat when I left de army it
was in first-rate spirits, and dat
owin' to de situation of de
country and de way de land
lay, we waB advancing backards
and de Yankees wa a-retreating
on to wa.—Harpers for August.
■wa va. Moat.
Would it not be wise to sub
stitute more eggs for meat in
our daily diet; about one-third
of the weight of an egg is solid
nutriment. This is more than
can be said of meat. There are
no bones, no tough pieces that
have to be laid aside. A good
egg is made up of ten parts
shell,. sixty parts white and
thirty parts yolk. The whi
of an egg contains sixty-six per
cent, water, the yold flffy-two
percent. Practically an egg is
animal food, and yet there is
none of the disagreeable work
oif the butcher necessary to ob-
tain it. The- vegetarians of
England use eggs freely, and
many of these men are eighty
and ninety years old, and have
been remarkably healthy.
Eggs are best when cooked
four minutes. This takes away
the animal food which is offen-
sive to some, but does not har-
den the white or yolk eo as to
make them hard to digest. An
egg if cooked very hard is diffi-
cult of digestion. Such eggs
should be eaten with bread and
masticated very finely. An
egg spiead on toast is food fit
for a king, if kings deserve any
better food than anybody else,
which is doubtful. Fried eggs
are less wholesome than boiled
ones. An egg dropped into hot
water is._not only clean and
handsome, but a delicious mor-
sel. Most people spoil the taste
of their eggs by adding pepper
and salt. A little sweet butter
is the beet dressing. Eggs con
tain much phosphorus, which is
supposed to be useful to those
who use their biain much.
Tunis Beautlea.
Plumpness, such as would be
considered exhnberant in the
cold and critical north of Ed-
rope, constitutes this popular
ideal of female beauty in the
Regency of Tunis. Among
marriageable young women of
that province slenderness of
form and delicacy of propor-
tion are regarded with justifia-
ble aversion, as disqualification
for the wedded state. The fat-
ter a maiden the better is her
chance for making a good and
early match.. To be abnor-
mally obese is to be certain of
drawing a prize in the matri-
monial market, and loveliest
llthness remains Unwoed, while
hotaelv corpulence can pick
and choose from among a
throng of eligible suitors. How
deep a root this predilection for
capacious charms has struck in
the Tunisian manly bosom.may
be gathered from the fact that
widowers desirous to marry
again, should they haply, mov
ed by family or pecuniary con
siderations, select a bride whose
dimensions are reported '.o fall
something short of those to
which their previous experience
had accustomed them, are wont
to send the dear departed's gir-
dle and bracelets to the parents
of their too exiguous betrothed.
On receipt ot these articles,
conveying a delicate hint that
it might be expedient to niuke
rip for Nature's shortcomings
bv some judicious treatment,
the bride's papa and mamma
proceed'to fatten her withes-
siduity and dispatch. For some
weeks she leads the life of .a
Strasburg goose ; and when she
has attained the necessary pro-
portions her nuptials are cele-
brated to the entire satisfaction'
of e.verybody concerned in them.
—London Telegraph.
Big Money In It.
Our di'iccs for Job W orl< arc jib low as
any country pfllcc nin work for nnd llvr.
A Mystery Solved.
To illustrate the profits of oat- j "I wonder why Mrs. Col. Me-
rle raising in Texas, we fake; Spiikins looks so [bad. Has
the liberty of publishing- a
brief estimate of the success at-
tained by a friend of ours dur-
ing the past eight years. In
1873 the gentleman referred to
owned about 3,000 cattle, which
he offered with his horses, ranch
etc., for $26,000, but could find
no purchaser, and was forod
to hold on to his cattle. Last
year he sold from this same
stock $100,000 worth of beef,
and this year has already con-
tracted to one party over $100,-
000 worth of beeves. In addi-
tion he expects to sell and ship
this season $50,000 worth of
beef out of the stock, making
the sale this year amount to
over $160,000, and still have left
on his range 30,000 head of cat-
tle, 400 head of good horses,
outfits, etc., amounting to the
snug little sum of $400,000.
Four hundred thousand dollars
worth of stock and probably
half that amount in cash from
a 26,000 stock in eight years is
convincing -evidence that there
is money in the cattle business
in Texas. These figures are
not exaggerations but are given
from facts; and of our own
knowledge no part of this re-
markable success has been due
to speculation, but to the sim-
ple legitimate increase of the
Stock—the plan pursued during
these eight years being to sell
annually a lot of beeves and at
once re-invest the money thus
received in young cattle.
The gentleman whose sue-
ces we here record U our life-
long friend Daft Wagoner, of
Wise county. In a future issue
we shall give the experience of
some equally good friends, who
have been farming in western
Texas for the last -eight or ten
years, and see how the records
compare.—Texas Live Stock
Journal. V
she been sick I asked Gus De-
Smith of Gilhooly, as the lady
in question prahced down Aus-
tin avenue. "No, it's not that,
but the druggistH have adopted
the cash system and complex-
ions cost money they du."—
Si/lings.
When a member of Congress,
knowing his religious character,
asked him, "^Thy he did not
join some church t" Mr. Lincoln
replied : "Because I have found
difficulty, without mental reser-
vation, in giving my assent to
their long complicated confess-
ions of faith. When any church
will inscribe over its altar the
Savior's condensed statement of
law and gospel, "Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all
they heart, with all thy soul,
and with all {by mind, and thy
neighbor as thyself," that
churoh willl join with all my
heart."
"Doctor,'' said an old lady to
her family physician, "kin ye
tell me why it is that some folks
is born dumb I" "Well, hem 1
certainly, madam," replied the
doctor ; it is owing to the fact
that they come into the world
without the power of speech P
"La, me 1" remarked the old la-
dy, "now just Bee what It is to
have a physical education. I've
axed my old man more nor a
hundred times that same ques-
tion, and all I could get out of
him Was Jest . this, 'ltaze
they is.' "
'our
Postponed.
"When we are married, Lu-
cy," said the poor man's son to
the rich man's daughter,
honeymoon shall be
abroad. We will drive in the]
Bois, promenade the Prada,
gaze down into the blue waters
of the Adriatic from the Rialto
and enjoy'the Neapolitan sun-
sets, strolling along the Chiaja."
"How delicious." shje murmur-
ed ; "but John, dear, have you
money enough to do all this, for
pa 8a3r8 I mustn't expect any-
thing until he dies." John's
countenance underwent such a
change that she couldn't help
asking him if he was sick. "No,
darling," he answered faintly,
"I am not sick, I was only
thinking that perhaps we had
better postpone our marriage
uutil after the funeral."
A church in Buffalo is^said to
hare a unique matter on hand
for settlement in the case of a
young woman who has had a
Sunday school for three years
and tended bar in her father's
saloon week days during the.
time. She says she supposed
all along that it was as right
for her to sell the beer and
whiskey as it is for her co-
workers to buy it of her. And
we think she is correct.— Con-
gregationulist.
"I sells peppermints on Sun-
day," remarked n good old lady
who kept a candy shop, "be-
cause they carries 'em to church
and eats 'em, nnd keeps awoke
to hear the sermon ; but if jou
wants comfits, vou must come
week days. They're secular
commodities."
Last Bummer ehe was eating
green corn by knawing it from
the cob, when" her teeth became
entangled with a corn silk.
"O, dear P said she impatiently,
"I wish when they get the corn
made they would pull outvthe
basting threads."
A boy in Grand- Rapids pre-
vented what would certainly
have been a bloody tight be-
tween two men there the other
day. The two men were indul-!
ging in language that could on- i
ly lead to blows, a crowd had,
gathered around and excite-!
ment ran high, when the boy j
spoke up and said: "Is there!
anybody here who wants to buy !
.Osgood silver watch ?" The
speech was so evidently out of
place, and so wholly Ignored'
the existence of the lightingi
men, that everybody was as-,
touished. There wns absolute'
silence for half a minute, and
then the light broke up in a
geneial laugh.— PccVs Sun
If we Wait for everything to
be smooth and easy before us
life will all be gone and we will
never accomplish half our Crea-
tor designed w« should.
A Qnincy girl cleared four
teeu feet at a standing Jump.
The boy who yelled "rats" at
her measur-d the distance.—
Quincy Modern Argo.
We should
enrich our
true, beaui-ifi!
t a k<3
una;:
1 a ii it
care that we
inatioti with
good images.
About £l0,00().(H)0 worth of
wilting pa pel is manufactured
iii tile United Stales nnnuully.
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Fort Griffin Echo (Fort Griffin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 30, 1881, newspaper, July 30, 1881; Fort Griffin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth233174/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.