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i one of Gladstone's peeuliaritie»
i he cares very little what he eats,
en he eats it, or where.
1 Is St. Louis, says one of its news-
papers, four-iiftht of the inhabitants
have taken to chewing gum.
^
i. It is rumored Governor Cleveland
>s to marry "a beautiful brunette, aged
thirty-five, of Poughkeepsie."
Lobd Wolseley is accused of be-
ing a military dude because somebody
has seen a bracelet on his arm.
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Heidelberg students are said to
have formed a strong attachment for
our ojvn American lager beer.
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Pakis is full of American and En-
glish tourists whose future movements
will be regulated by the cholera.
,* / French newspapers hare commenc-
ed to be satirical at the espense of the
Bartholdi pedestal contributions.
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As the bustle grows larger and
larger the fashionable woman of the
period look more and more deformed.
ITew York gamekeepers have caught
a yacht fishing near Buffalo with dyna-
vv'v
I, secretary of the Chica
that the Texas lover
has been "entirely tradica'ed by the butchery
of the infected herd, and that no further trou-
ble with cattle is expected.
A coroner's jury at Toronto has found ample
evidence to snsta!n the charge that Mrs
Christian starved a number of illegitimate in-
fanta left in her keeping.
Jennie Bartleit, of BoBton, a beautiful girl,
who was infatuated with a policeman, killed
herself with carbolic aoid because he failed
te keep an appointment.
The estimated decrease of tha public debt
for July, is about ,0',0,000.
The school oensus of Chicago shows a popu-
lation of 829,000.
A fire in the business portion of Little Rock,
Arkansas, caused a loss of $65,000.
Advices from all portions of the cotton states
report the crops in fine condition.
CoL 0. B. Waring, of Long Island City, haB
been sentenoed to fi f teen years in the peniten-
tiary and to pay a fine of $5,000 for killing his
brother-in-law.
James Reynolds, a burglar, who shotBheriff
McCord at Marshalltown, Iowa wan captured
at Council Bluffs, and sent back in charge of
six sheriffs. Two brakomen will divide the
rewatd of $1,000 offered for his body.
Cholera carried off twenty-four persons at
Marseilles, Wednesday, eight at Aries, and
four in Toulan. One case is reported near
Lucca, Italy. A mild form of the epidemio is
said to have developed at St. Petersburg and
Charkoff, Russia.
The Baltimore and Ohio road has appropri
ated $85,000 per annum for the payment of
.pensions to employes incapaeited from earn-
ing a living.
Yellow fever is spreading in Sonora, Mexi
oo, and federal officials in Arizona have been
urged to vigilant action to prevent its crossing
the border.
ug the requisite verification of
work and for re-examinations of
ooast of Texas, $1800.
lenal—Completing the
two story storehouse, $10,150; complet-
ing one set »f officers' quarters, $3000.
The river and harbor appropriations,
as finally agreed upon, are as follows:
Improving ship chiftinel in Galveston
bay, from Morgan's out to Bolivar
charnel—Continuiog improvement,
for which purpose the balance now re-
maining of the money heretofore ap-
propriated for this work is hereby
directed to be expended by the secre-
tary of war in the completion of said
channel in accordance with the plans
heretofore adopted, and in making out
sail channel by piles or stakes, so as
to enable navigators to find the same
without difficulty; provided, that no
part of said money shall be se expend-
ed until the secretary of war shall be
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A New York photographer alleges
that women now wear false eyebrows,
false eyelashes and an artificial neck
and throat. Beautiful tinted thin rub-
ber is utilized for the purpose.
j La CtTiaiNE is of the opinion that
there is no place in the world where
coffee is so badly made as in thia
country.
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TwENTr-ofrE thousand widows of
soldiers of the war of 1812 are stated
to be still drawing pensions from the
government.
One of the inconsistencies of fashion
is that in summer the hottest looking
colors—red, scarlet, etc.—are made
the favorite colors.
The report is again given out that
the Keeley Motor is about to start,
but no intimation is given as to what
direction it will take.
Paul Stevens, who died in Washington,
Wednesday, was librarian of the bouse of
representatives under Presidents Lincoln and
Grant.
The Tin Can Mission.
Philadelphia Record.
! As Mme. Nflssoti wears the sack
coat, vest, standing color, and gentle-
man's serai with horseshoe pin, the
fashion is fairly established.
General Robert Toombs, who is
now seventy-four years of age, stoops
considerably, has an infirm walk and
a oateract growing in one eye.
Victoria is said to be growing mel-
ancholy agjiin, and objects to anything
akin to gayety or festivity in court
circles, much to society's disappoint-
ment.
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Most fashionable of the watering-
place hotels now serve fruit at
breakfast instead of dinner. In the
morning, says the proverb, fruit is
golden. w- -
1 It is a curious fact that when a dog
is bitten by a rattlesnake he instantly
buries hl.L' lj**n swamp mud, if ho
sofih a place, as that draws
out the poison.
j" The most influential man in Dodge
City is said to be Jiatt Matterson, who
has killed thirty-two persons, accoid-
ing to common fame,' and is spoken of
as a "sociable, good follow, when ho
isn't crossed."
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Dr. Schlie'mann .has returned to
Athens from his excavations at Tiryns.
The Greek government talks of con-
tinuing the work. The ornaments
found strongly resemble those dis-
covered at Mycenaa.
At Gisborne, New Zealand, in March
last, died A. H. Braithwaite, the man
who designed the locomotive Novelty
which competed with George Stephen-
Ron's locomotive Recket, so many
ye&rs ago.
The empty tin can at last has
mission, and a profitable one at that.
Emptied of its contents of peaches or
tomatoes, discarded and thrown out at
the kitchen gate, it may soon be sent
in at the front door or find an honored
place in the best room of the house,
Thousands of these cans are gathered
in Philadelphia every week and made
into shining sheets and used to decorate
or cover largo traveling trunks, and
thus get a promotion from tho back
yard to the boudoir. On the outskirts
of the oity within a short time, a num-
ber of factories for the converfion of
these old, buffeted and battered cans
and other tin refuse from the ash-hesps
have sprung up and the business is a
growing one. One of considerable size
is on Moyamensing avenue, below
Mifflin street, where a largo force of
men is kept busy day in and day out.
The cans are collected in various ways,
but principally from the city ash heaps
and the hotels and , large bosrding
houses.
At the factory the soldered seams
are subjected to an intense heat in such
a way that the solder is allowed to run
in a receptacle, and is carefully saved
and sold, the profit from this source
alone almost paying for the expanse of
gathering and handling the cans. The
tops and bottoms are turned into win-
dow tash weights. The labels on tho
tin plates are easily taken off, after
having been thoroughly soaked and the
plates themselves roiled out flat by
machinery. As discolored by the con-
tents they present a clean surface and
make excellent covers for trunks, the
seams being hidden by the trunk braces
either wood or sheet iron. Other uses
are also made of the tin plates, and
there is considerable profit in the bus-
iness. The process is quite simple, and
very little capital is required. One
concern in this city rolled out 40,000
of these plates in less than two months
and the industry promises to be largely
developed both hero and elsewhere.
satisfied that the Buffalo Bayou Ship
Channel company has relinquished or
abandoned to the United States, for-
ever, all their franchises and any and
all rights to collect or impose tolls, or
charges from any part of said ship
channel or Buffalo bayou. Aransas
pass and bay up to Eockford and Cor-
pus Christi, $100,000; harbor at Brazos
Santiago, $25,000; improving and
deepening bar at the mouth of Neohes
river, completing the work, $7000:
Pass Cavallo inlet to Matagorda bay,
$50,000; harbor at Sabine pass and
Blue Buck bar, $200,000; mouth of
Braz is river, $10,000; Buffalo bayou,
$25,000
In a dition, the following provision:
is made;
Tho secretary of war is hereby di-
rected to cause a resurvev of the work
of improvement of the navigation of
Cypress bayou and the lakes between
Jefferson, in Texas, and Shreveport, in
Louisiana, in order to ascertain if the
necessary improvements can not be
made upon soma otlier plan than build-
ing a dam across the Albany flats, as
recommended by the engineers, and
for this purpose he is authorized to
expend so muoh of the unexpended
balance of appropriations to the credit
of the work as may be necessary."
The third bill of a publio'nature that
passed both houses of Congress was
that authorizing the increase of the
capital stock of the First National
Bank of Fort Worth.
The following are the bills local to
Texas which became laws: To fix and
render certain the terms of the United
States and district courts in the east-
ern and northern districts of Texas; to
amend the laiv of February 24,1879,
so as to provide for holding terms of
the United States courts at El Paso;
to authorize the constiuotion of a
bridge over the Rio Grande, between
the cities of Laredo, Texas' and Nuevo
Laredo, Mex; a similar bill passed for
a bridge between Eagle Pass and Pie-
dras Negras; to grant the right of way
to the Gulf, of Colorado and Santa Fe
Railway company through the Indian
Territory.
The following private bills also be-
came laws: To pay to T. J, Boyles,
administrator of the estate of Marcus
Radich, $450 in full for the rent of
two buildings in Brownsville, which
were occupied by United States troops
in 1865-66 ; to pay to Santiago de Leon,
of Victoria, $2988 for mules, and wag-
on harness taken from him for the use
of the government, at Brownsville, in
1865, to pay to the legal representa-
tives cf James Vance and William
Vance $5500 for the use of buildings
at San Antonie in 1865-66. A pension
of $50 a month was also granted to the
widow of General E. O. C. Qrd. The
above is a complete statement of the
legislation accomplished during the
late session in which the people of
Texas have an immediate interest. Of
course there were other measures that
affect the people of the State in com-
mon with other portions of the country
but it was the intention of your cor-
respondent'to give a resume of legis-
lation of a local character.
.
this
iind his trunks and boxes
icJcecf /or Frankfort, Ky., and with-
| out going to the clerk, had his servant
change his room from one in a remote
urt of the house to No. 27, which is
lust at the head of the stairs on the
second floor, the windows opening on
Sixth street, near Pennsylvania ave-
nue. Alter having his trnnks checked
he was not seen any more, and it was
supposed he had gone out. Offieer
Farrar wss standing at the corner of
Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue,
when five pistol shots rang out in quick
succession, apparentlv from a window
above his head, he rushed into the
hotel, telling Officer Lamb, whom he
met on the way, to come along, as
some one had probably shot himself.
The clerk had not heard the firing, and
the officers passed through the lobby
unnoticed and ran up stairs to wheie
they had heard the firing. A s they
were looking for the roam the key
turned in No. 27 and Representative
Culberson stood before them with a
pistol in his hand and dripping with
blood. The first thing he said on see-
ing the officers was: "I'm afraid I
haven't done it boys, I want to, though,
and I will." He seemed dazed, and
handing his pistol to one of the officers
asked him to see if there was another
load in it. The offioer told him there
was not, and he asked them to load
for him. The conversation occupied
but little more than a moment, when
the wounded man began'to stagger and
the officers laid him on a bed, Medi
cal aid was called and iu a moment
doctors Townshed, W. C. Brisco, B. G.
Poole and J.C. McLean were in the
room, doing what they could. Two
shots were found to have taken effect
in the baok of his head, just below the
base of the brain, both balls going
through both walls of the skull. The
brain had not been injured, the doctors
said, but the wounds are of a serious
character. The wounded man lay in a
half unconscious state, part of his body
across the bed, and his legs resting on
a chair, propped up with pillows. Af-
ter his face had been bathed and prop-
er medical attention rendered, he re-
covered sufficient to talk a little. He
then felt his own pulse and whispered
to the doctor that lie was afraid he was
getting better. He offered no explana-
tion of his act. When asked where his
wife was, he replied that she was at
Frankfort, but said not to send for her,
as he was ashamed to meet her. "1 am
afraid I won't die," he said, but I am
bound to do ii: you can't help it, that's
positive. There is no use sending for
any one. The only cause assigned for
Culberson's attempt at suicide is ner-
vous depression resulting from a little
too free use of stimulants during the
hot weather. The wounded congress-
man was taken to Providence Hospital.
Tlie Law in Regard to Animals.
Waste of Food.
The flesh of domestio animals fit for
food is almost a waste substance in
many countries, since it cannot be lo-
cally consumed nor profitably pre-
served. In the the River Plate repub-
lics alone th;re are 80,000,000 stieep and
25,0'JO,000 cattle to a population of
2,6P* rfJO. For years sheep wore only
valued there for their wool, and when
flayed, carcasses were left to rot, or
when dried in the sun, piled up in
stacks for fuel, while later on they
were boiled down for their tallow.
Shf ep got very fat in the province of
Buenoa Ayers, and those of three or
four years will give frequently from
eighteen to twenty-five pounds of tallow,
Countless numbers of sheep are
down every year ju the so
An East Indian Version of the flood.
In East India there is a legend that
ages ago mankind became so very bad
that God determined to destroy all
except just enough to begin with anew.
The exceptions were mostly preserved
along with pairs of all sorts of animals,
in a gclden palace on a mountain top.
A boy and girl, born of parents who
were neither good nor bad, had been
previously carried off by an angel from
their respective homes on the day of
their birth, and were brought up in a
crystal palace suspended in mid-air,
where they were tended by a mute
female figure of gold. When they grew
up they were married, and a girl was
born to them. The destruction of the
wicked having been effected by fire,
the earth was thereby greatly smirched.
So giants were sent to wash it clean.
They used so much water that a deluge
was produced, and the waters rose so
high that the golden palace and its
inmates were in danger of being sub-
merged, — Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Iron <m Southern Railroads.
In Virginia,on theChesapeake & Ohio
and Norfolk & Western railroads, the
progress made in the last few years iu
the manufacture of pig iron has been
phenomenal. On. the first of these
roads, says correspondent of the Amer-
ican Manufacturer, the Victoria
Furnace, owned in England, and the
Lowmoor Furnace, owned in New York,
not to mention several others, rank to-
day among the largest and most
the United
Ordinarily wild animals are npt pro-
tected. Any man may hunt and kill
them. In some places however, regu-
lations are made to protect certain
kinds of animals from hunters, so that
the species may not become extinct.
Once confined an'd under the control
of man, they beoome private property,
and are protected as such. To take a
deer out of a park, or a cow from a
pasture, is stealing. The old Norman
kings of England punished deer-steal-
ing with death, but this law has been
long a dead letteff
Animals that have a money value,
such as cattle, sheep, and pigs, have
always in law been considered as much
private property as horses and lambs.
Pet animals, like dogs and cats, were
formerly held of little account. The
man who stole a cow could be sent to
prison for theft, but if he stole a pet
dog, he would not be prosecuted as a
criminal. The owner, however, could
sue him and rccover damages for the
loss. In later years laws were passed
to cover this defect.
Owners of animals have always been
liable for any mischief their pets may
commit. Formerly they were not liable
unless they knew their animals were
dangerous. For example, the first time
a dog killed a sheep the owner was not
obliged to pay, but the socond time he
was not excused.
A man may keep a fierce dog to pro
tect bis house from burglars, but must
see to it that the dog is chained. If,
then, he bites a person who carelessly
goes too near the kennel, the owner is
not responsible.
Modern laws hold a dog owner re-
sponsible for the animal's acts, even if
he thinks that the dog is not vicious.
Inasmuch as every dog is liable to
become fierce,the law says that whoever
keeps a dog must take his ohanoes.
Any person may kill a dog thut
attacks him while out of control of its
owner. If the dog is worrying cattle
or sheep, anybody may kill it. How
ever, the dog is proteoted while on the
laud of its owner.
Kow-a-days nearly all countries have
laws providing dog owners with licenses
to keep their animals. Unless eyery
dog has an owner who is responsible
tor it, much damage would be done for
which no one could be called upon to
pay. Under these laws, owners of
unlicensed dogs may be fined! The dogs
themselves are killed by public officers
who are specially charged with the
duty.
In the anoient German empire a
curious use was made of these animals.
The Emperor Otho 1, and Frederick
Barbarossa condemned persons who
were guilty of trying to stir up sedition,
and disturb the peace of the public, to
notoriety and derision. The offenders
had to oarry a dog upon their shoulders
from one town to another.
Uses of this kind are no longer in
existence. Our dogs and other pets are
dearer to us in that we are obliged to
take care of them-
eee
of late years the
fallen off. Hardware
lost its sacred prestige from the
fact that some of the holy waters of tlie
Ganges|have been profanely 'diverted
into a canal constrnoted by the English
authorities.
There immense numbers of human
beings gather upon a bare, sandy
plain on the banks of the Ganges,
massed like herds of swine, without
means of sanitary protection. The
earth and air, as well as the water, are
polluted, and the odor from the campB
is perceptible for many miles. Day
and night the devotees pour through
the great thoroughfares of the country
to and from the festival in parties of
from ten to BOO, following so closely
as to make an almost continuous pro
cession. Ninety-five out of every 100
are on foot, but occasionally some
great nabob sweeps past with an
enormous retinue, or a rajah with his
caravan of elephants, camels, horse-
men, and swordsmen passes in all the
grandeur and confusion of Indian
royalty. They ride over the poor
wretches who line the roads, trample
them down, and hurl imprecations
upon them for blocking the way. Some
march hundreds und some thousands
of miles to engage in the festivals and
to bathe in the sacred river. Many
die on the way. and all arrive lame and
gaunt from hunger and fatigue, with
their feet bound up in rags and their
soanty clothing covered with blood and
dust. They rush into the river as
soon as they arrive, and drink the
water as fast as they can scoop it up
in their hands.
They are fed from the Temple ki ^li-
en, where as many as 90,000 cooks are
at work, and the food is distributed
among them in a rude way. When
fresh it is not unwholesome, but tco
much of it produces indigestion and
great sufferings. The half-starved
pilgrims eat like gluttons, rush into
the water again to bathe and drink,
and the result is derangement of the
digestive organs. When they have
eatan their fill, whatever food is left
is preserved. It is sacred and cannot
be thrown away. Under the hot sun
it soon becomes poisonous to the pil-
grims who eat it.
In these hot beds of disease, under
conditions that would breed a plague
anywhere, these pilgrims live. The
heat is almost unendurable. The liv-
ing, tha siok and the dying are huddled
together, with only just as much space
as they can cover iying down. As fast,
as they die they are buried in tho sand.
But on the return journey the misery
of the pilgrims reaches its height
They are sick and lamo, but stagger
along until the weak fall by the road-
side and die. Their bodies lie thickly
along the journey uncovered. Some
drag their weary limbs until they
reach a village where they drop and
lie in masses, blocking up the streets,
until they get strong enough to move
forward, or die of starvation and dis-
ease.
It is impossible to calculate the
number that perish. The Bishop of
Calcutta estimates it at about one to
five, and and those who do not die on
the journey, carry the germs of disease
homo with them, scattering pestilence
along their path. Thus the cholera
is started on its periodical march
around the world.
No great Asiatic pestilence has ever
scourged the east and allowed the
cities of Arabia to escape. The pil-
grims to Mecoa and commercial cara-
vans to Damascus carry death in their
train under any quarantine that can be
devised, but the attempts to establish
quarantine are weak, ineffectual and
spasmodic.—New York Sun.
P of oth
of their own.— i
I situation
iday 'School Tunes,
A Crick In the Baek
If there is any one thing we know
more about than another, it is a crick
in the back, and on the other hand, if
there is one thing we know less about,
it is that same crick in the back. That
is, we experience its beauties, and
know itothing of its origin and nothing
will prevent it when it is due. A man
may chop - wood and shovel snow,
drive a pair of pulling horses, exercise
with dumbbells, go through a gym-
nasium and try all the appliances for
developing muscle, and expect every
minute that his back will break, and it
will be all right. And yet some day
he will be putting on his overcoat, or
will roach across his desk for a photo-
graph of his girl, or pick up a paper
off the floor, and the crick catohes
him, and he is limp as a rig, and suf-
fers horrors for two days, every breith
he draws seeming to go right through
that crick. When a large healthy
man has a crick in the back he realizes
what a wealc, puny thing he is. Before
the arrival of the crick he admires him-
self in the glass before retiring, as he
looks at his muscles, and almost wishes
somebody would pitch onto him to whip
him, when he could wade in and maul
the filling out of his antagonist. He
often looks up in an impudent manner
to a tough as though he wished for an
excuse to thump liim, and if a lady was
insulted in his presence he feels that he
would make a hero of himself in her
defense. He wants something to occur
that will give liira an opportunity to
show that though ha is confined to an
office, and does no hard work, that he
is endowed with herculean strength,
and it would be miglitv unsafe for an
ordinary man to tackle him. But when
the crick is duo by schedule time, and
shows upon his back, the great, power-
ful man is a perfect '. aby, and he is
afraid of a child on a handsled. It is
then that he bunts up an old revolver
and cirri'1 s it when ho goes down town
nights, for fear he will be assaulted
Before the crick arrives lie just aches
to have sand-baggers and foot-pads
attack hihi, and as he walks along he
picks out places where he would knock
sand-baggers down, and in his mind he
has them c rded up all along the
streets, but after the civk comes, a
living skeleton with a link of sausage
could drive him all over town.—Feed's
Sun.
TEXAS TOPICS.
a,has about 4».'r
feet of pine in her forests
In New York city last }<
men were on duty at fires
A quarantine hospital i
at Victoria, British Colur
A military bank for an
to be started at the City oi
w
xr 148 lire
o be bum
ticers is
xico. . ..
orro at
turned
h\ Brit-
ong and
o n ted a
/arbage
A woman at New London, t, ,nn.,
died last week from the e° U of a
cat-bite.
In the future Wost Poi'it cadets who
are unable to swim will be tn« g» how (
to swim.
Fourteen foreign gove m -nts have
secured space in the Ne\. Orleans ex-
position.
The monthly shipment of borax from
Belleville, Cal., will av< r ■. seventy-
five tons.
An unusually hot August is pre-
dicted. The summer hot< l-keepers
arc willing.
At a free ice-water tan'" in > e\v
York over 1,200 pounds of H J wer ,
used in one day.
During a recent thuur
Fall river, Mass., the light ;i
on the gas and lit it.
A sturgeon caught at 1 U
isli Columbia, was eleven fe
782 pounds in weight.
A New York jeweler '
process for utilizing the
in the manufacture of g
Nero, the faithful d
the noted actor, is yet
Pa., the pet of tho Wes
Arizona taxes drumn
and Montana $100 a
county, with $25 ext
City.
Cherokee county, Te
gum tree forty-nine fee
ence and nearly seventeen
ameter.
Vormont druggists o
rates on patent medi.
soon hold a meeting at
to stop it.
A negro thief near M
had stolen $7,000 fron i
received 175 lashes fo
day last week.
The Baltimore schoi ,
it seems, made itself p', , t:
izing die study of Gei
mary schools.
The dairymen of 1 if..- i ■
pose to establish a c
purpose of working
milk into butter.
of Fee
Quaker)
for
ow:
tie people of Ed
* are so
worth,-on Staten
:ed up over a
cream-of-
Alfalfa.
Colorado Live-Stock Racord.
It is now a Settled matter that alfalfa
is to be tho great forage crop in all
parts of the country that are rainlesB
or nearly so, and where water for irri-
gation can not be had. It has been
successfully grown at elevations of six
or seven thousand feet above the ocean
level, and it has grown successfully in
some of tho dry est plains and valleys
that are found in tlie countrp. Alfalfa
is closely akin to clover in its general
chararter, but it attaiils mammoth pro-
portions as to size and height when ifc-i
growth is completed, It, however, ex-
cells all kinds of clover in nutritious
richness as a food crop, and it seems
to be perfectly well adapted to the
feeding of horses, cattle, sheep or hogs,
especiallj when cured as hay. When-
ever it is introduced into any given
locality, it stems to take possession of
the ground and it has been claimed
that it strikes its roots to the depth of
twenty feet, even through hard clay
Coil, and this is the condition that en-
ables it to grow fresh and green where
any other kind would wither and die.
In Nevada, California and the cotton
states it continues its growth from
year's end to year's end; und in some
districts as high as eight crops have,
according to report, been cut and made
into hay in a single year, and there is
hardly any locality wlieve two crops
of alfalfa hay cannot be secured in one
season,after the grass has become firmly
rooted and set. One great advantage
in raising this crop is found in the fact
that in all the arid districts, the climate
is such that tho cutting and curing of
alfalfa for hay can always be done at
exactly tho right time and in the right
way, and it is claimed th*t the hay will
make cattle, hogs and sheep as lat sis
need to be for slaughtering, and we
oan see no reason to doubt Ihis claim,
for within the p*st two or three years
some oi our western cattle men have
fattened cattle very well on the hay
made of the wild grass which is found
growing in some of the valleys and
pams in the rocky Mountan country.
Abilene thinks she will market
about five million pounds of wool this
season.
Mr. Gleun, of Bluff Dale, is like
the rich man of the Bible: his wheat
crop is so large that he has "no place to
bestow it."
Meridian Blade: The wheat crop of
Bosque county will average this year
about twenty bushels to the acre, which
is the largest average yield we have
ever known in the county. Oats wid
doubtless yieid forty bushels per acre.
■In 1880 Texas bad 71 looms, and
two thousand six hundred and forty
eight spindles; now the figure has
grown to 165 looms, and 12,264 spin-
dles; an increase of nearly 50 per cent.
j)e raipum.
the 1,702,222 acres of public
school lands leased, 1,052,557 acres are
held by corporations, one syndicate
alone having leased 287,517 acre3, an
other 130,560, acres, and still another
99,840 acres, end so on, in amounts
somewhat smaller.
"~=^-In 1880 the assessment of Texas
was $311,470,736. It increased next
year $46,529,264, and in 1882, $62,925-
476, bringing it up to $419,025,476. In
1883 an increase of at least fifty million
was calculated on, but instead, it
proved to be double as much—$100,-
000,000.
—The re-union of Parson's Texas
Brigade. Association will take place at
Hillsboro on Wednesday and Thursday,
13th and 14th, of August. The regu
lar time fixed by the constitution of
the association is the first Wednesday
and Thursday of August, but in conse-
quence of the Confederate re-union at
Dallas on those days, the president oi
the Parson's Brigade Association has
appointed the following week.
— On the evening of July 29th two
young, ladies aged respectively 19 and
21 years, daughters of Capt J. M 8hel-
ton, were drowned in Little river, near
Milam. They wero with their father
traveling in a wagon for health aud
pleasure, and concladed they would go
in bathing in the river, close by the iron
bridge at the o'd McCowan ferry
Captain Shelton wont into the water
also, and playfully invited his daugh
ters out to him, where the water v, as
de p The young ladies went, but
becoming scared, fell upon their father
upsetting him aud themselves, and
falling into the deep water, were car-
ried und(ir by the whirl of the current
aud both were drowned. Tho old gen-
tlemen could render no assistance, and
himself narrowly escaped drowning,
—The Austin correspondent of the
Daily Express sends the following in-
teresting goat gossip to his paper:
"Governor Ireland is in reoeipt of a
pair of boots that are of the very finest
goat, and all of Texas make. There is
a new company and factory formed iu
Sulphur Springs, Texas, where the
skin is tanned and leather of all de-
scriptions manufactured and made up
into boots, shoes, saddles, harno3s etc.
The billy-goat from whose hide the
governor's new boots were made, was
raised in Sulphur Springs; he died
there; his hide was tanned there; the
boots were made there—thread, pegs,
etc.—all made there, and by a shoemak-
er born and raised in Hopkins county,
and Governor Ireland naturally feels
proud, and walks like a Texan in Texas
clothes.
try
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Religion.
Once in a \?H3.e we still hear the old
croak that religion has lost its lioM t
the general publio that the church
and its pulpit are no longer a power in
the world, and that religious rea< ng
has given place to the dailxnewspa
To this veserabte fiotion tin
that given by U...
this venerable fiotiou there ia-)i.>
answer than that
the n.imbo! J
merica anil J ■
i<m| <jf She
Brooklyn is delight
the Prospect park res
of its water supply,
by tramp bathers.
A woman at Ncwca
a room her three littl
babe of 4 months, an
vation army meeting!
Mud baths, in will
submerged in a claye
ly up to his ears, are j
Springs for rheumati
Twelve policemen
cently attended the fr
cat that had been a f(
lice court for several
Application has bet i
Edson, of New York ,ity, lor ilie uso
of a steam fire engino to wash down
tho streets near the n. tvkot
Samples of the fir.* pxiuteii cali ocs
ever produced in Ca a have just
been shown, having I- .. nanufac-
tured at Magog, provj iQueb
Crickets are so niirae i ' iu vV sh-
ington territory,that i he, > becou
a scourge. They aro an In- i.
half long, and are de' iiec >>.
Seventy-five carle > > buhai!
flowers, worth aboi
gone to Stockton fro i C;
to be manufactured into i : po -
der.
Last week an I .n Ik; i;;
coffin at Cloverdale, V .h
bury his child. Th i s <:
fin ever used by an i in '
cality.
Popocatapetl, the
of Mexico, that rise: o < '. :
feet higher than Mo a! Hi «•., lit
cently been scaled by '
women.
The old-fashionei ,i! nr '
garden" hollyhock
favor, and can be , i > >
bloom in nearly i. :
gardens.
San Franciscans i o v-
in summer to get w in in
and about the 1st Jitr ■
their tickets for Lo.' :!«» a ! > :
hot resorts.
The Salt Lake j > , t i ■ ■
organ, charges that ,\!
install their wives , i
so avoid open ackn
marital relation.
Miss Mary F. Se^ • l>
cently appointed ,ou.r,
deeds for New Jers
She is the first won;
testimony in a Nev
America's love o
by a recent writer , i :
English eharaeteri:
oped and even grot • >•>...
Have we no indige
Nases, in 1875, v
reached latitude 8!
26 seconds. Lie 1 L
Leigh Brainerd, of >
tion, wont over tl
reached a point a few miles m,.
p<Ve. This is a g in of lour i.
eight years at a cost of seventeen live9.
At this i^.te of scieniifio progress tho
flag-planting exl%)itkm at the north
!>
The rvealth of the United States i»
**0 W0.00C 000, or $900 to each inhabi-
tant; mat of Great Britain is $40,000,-
000.0W, < >r 1,000 to each inhabitant.
. -.ptUont b-mchea. which can be closed
1,jri J.oi v.jVd at night, are favored for
biie. y.W' iu the down town parks in
, J%Jr, where tho old beneheo wew
htwi-i for tramps and loafers.
tVeiia favors «fiarginj;; a
ha soata affcui' Urn i.u#
polo will take pi
2684, und at a Co:
hundred lives. ' 1
worth it?
about the
of about sixf,'
the north p
:ar
Tho Maine fish
just finished the
1,400.000 sail
able waters c
to put the yi
sea salmon oi
into small i
lakes and poi
ed to the gre
The fish are I
tho instincts,
Is, descend t
below, as tb-
the sea, ate
''<1 )>
commissioners
ju <: u b tho
thin , !,v . |;; s .
ng ash, whe !uer jrom
.ad-locked salinon-egg't,.
foams tributary to tho
ippi entlv best adapt-
th of the salmon family.
iu< enabled to exerei-o
f the true salmon—that
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