Jacksboro Gazette. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 7, 1887 Page: 1 of 6
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ESTABLISHED IX 1880.
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STJCCESSOB TO THE BUBAL CITIZEN.
Entered at the Foat-Office at Jacksboro, aa “seconder
“A. Government of the People, by the People, and for the People."
VOLUME YIIL MUMBEB 1.
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)BO, JACK COUNTY, TEXAS, THUBSDAY EYENJNO, JULY 7, 1887.
Subscription $1.60 per annm in advance.
I Fono genuine unless
t<tamped with ihe above
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Attorney at Law. Surveyor & Notary Public.
|SPdfeER, SPILLER & EASTIN,
|Jaeksboro, Texas ( »
Jacksboro Land and Collecting Agency, I
Do a General Exchange Business and Negotiate Loansj
Buy, Sell and Lease Lands and ^Ranches, locate certifics.tes
and obtain patents, render lands and pay taxes in ail parts c1
the State, perfect titles and famish abstracts,- and adjust nn
collect all claims, notes and accounts.
Litigation of all kinds promptly attended to.
f Terns
Snior
td neai
Hon. John r]
posted man o.n i
/ udge Saim
hoasjithe an,
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tidilas a:
Miss.
PATENTS
Obtained, and all Patent Business attended
to promptly and for moderate fees.
Uur office is opposite the U. S. Patent
Office, and we can obtain Patents in less
time than those remote from Washinoton.
Send Model or Drawing. We advise as
to patentability free of charge; and we
make no Charge Unless Patent is Secured.
We refer here to the Postmaster, the Snpt.
of Money Order Div., and to officials of the
U. S. Patent Office. For circular, advice,
terms and references to actual clients in
your own State or county, write to
C. A. 8K0W & €0.,
Opposite Patent Office. Washington. D. C.
T. D. SPORER,
LAWYER,
JACKSBOBO,
TEXAS.
Robinson tfeWssl,
ATTORNEYS
Jacksbobo,
AT LAW.
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WALTER LORES,
SURVEYOR & LAND ICENT,
Will settle farmers and stock men
on school or vacant land in |larde-
Childres. Cottle, and
counties along the line of
Worth & Denver R. B.
Kirkland, Hardeman com
respondence solicited.
■"r* LIGHT AND AIRY.
So Exclusive.
An heir prospective bite was I •
Tfi.Unele Joe's immense estates
And bold mammas and maidens i
Invited me to gorgeous fetes;
Not one forgot or passed me by.
But all displayed
And one, who seeim
Fair, dainty mist
At hops or in the tenij
And such, my hand
If others tried, she
“Oh, no, he can't;
Poor Uncle Joe’s no
Got not a eent. T
Down town two
And one I heard
Say: “No, we're
You iknow he isi
J. H. Hend
2OJSSORIAL ART
Professor of crinicultural,
and craniological tripsis, also phre-
nological hair Gutter and hydropath-
ic shaver of beard. Alj work phys-
©gnomieally executed.
SI
ms HOOPER,
JEWELER,
Houstan St., Ft. Worth.
, Clods ana Spectacles.
td work as
Fine Watch
A SririCtALTY.
Llfe'i Petty
Omaha Servant—!
tleman at the door saj
on a subject of
future welfare.
Omaha Business
Why didn’t you ask
Maybe he has heard
deal and is going to let
floor.
“He looks like a pre
he wants to see you
fare."
“Oh! Is that all?
Oiuaha World.
; i-;
They mrtby
Till then had k
5e had no thougl
She hardly
They met by
Cast length
The long Jua
The twilight dfcn
met by
brought ti
gave the ot!
Each felt a mo:
mi*t by
Umierres them
They trust
The 'cyclist and
Sensible
“Why are you bnyi)
throwing tliem away
“Because,” rep!
outJy, “I want one
and Pm looking for
by sunstroke in it,”
“Ie she sc sensitive
Congressr
scribed as a
T 35 years old.J
Gen. Bouj
smoke wliil]
ique fire in
Henry
tennis char
son of
Yen Phc
at Yale, hi
I Was a
Mr. P<1
fame, is <
hod at
Cf**urle
erty ora!
j which
&ONAL.
it is very much better.
purchased a fine old
lville, O.
is said to lie the best
jiffairs in congress.
of St. Louis, is said to
(as if in the prime of
, Jersey cattle fancier,
it his home in Oxford,
of Kentucky, is de-
. Mra. Margaret Deland, the Boston poetess,
is always accompanied on her walks by a
fierce but muzzled mastiff.
.-/<t., , -i-
Jennie Wade, *h#only resident of Gettys-
burg killed duri ig the battle, if to be hon-
ored with a monument.
Miss Bodington, aii^imerican girl, has
gained the MoseneMs prize at Leipsig. The
test piece was tie great composer’s G minor
concerto,
Mjg;"Frank Leslie, now in Paris, will go to
featured ma>T Clty of Mexico il1 September to arrange
*’ > for the publication there of a Spams h-Aineri*
[nearly suffocg&d with
from the Opera Com-
moby;
in a<
i,‘there’s ft
wants to sue
to yoar
—Good gi*ac!ots!
into the parlor J
big real estate
iu on the ground
, sir, and I th
it your soul’s vti
him Tmlusy^—
THE FAIR'SEX.
LABOR NOTES.
igger,
> many piL
ed Merrilt.
myslieri-
home to my wife,
any death*
as f 13
EPATTERNS
l will *tfe a perfect
Cutting.
enabling aafone to
“7-
poet paid, on receipt
ueply; “but
tokhT.kC
home with j is,
fhst we
proud,
- I us
______ BP I I ake here
W* 'll b»*very giiul Ut nee them,
tT, al least. wrUj *a appear.
Provldgd that son it sudden call
Doesn't take us from the city,
On some very urgent business.
Which, of course, would be a pit
| -PJt.v.or^ nl
American Monej >'*’ Charni
! patch.
'» ma n-
9 great
u-s.”
sily.”
Ameri-
nej
“It i* wrong,” remark/d
Rger to a refKirter, “to
artist catnc here to get
“Indeed?”
“Yes; I can prove.it to ji
“Tell me aitout it.
“^'ou can stee bow little she cares , _
can money w hen I tell /ou tin t beflore sail-
ing she had il ali changed into French money.”
—Pittsburg Disjiaieh.
f j?i
To the U. p. O.
The sweet girl sfraduat
With teardropf. in he:
Sin- sadly jirhi her teach,-
A well conii>>ied goo
She to her
bhe'H miss tliem, one
She hope* tliat ea<di life
And answer duties
Sweet girl, may t<
Best lovingly on you.
And some day may yon
A* now you think y
• ,s-hr
jreel, new
mk
' T
r
Where Th
are thf*je who
the vaJediffriri.
exercls«-?at a col
meant title last grad
afartn him tliat one of
counter clerk In a dry got
t of a herdk , a third
ductor, a font th in selling a!
uiture poihih ami a fifth is
principles of the mereantii
itor iu a shoe and leather
A Que
t Of mountain, Inke
From (Jhmikanmnlc
I've heard mf ua|hes ti
But never yot^pon my
Oue-iifllf so quwr as this
|! Cbargogguggoginancha
-at*.
ne before
iMniiienct-
rni|' men.
we can
nbryiderir
iother ii
car con-
id of fur-
*bo tlrsil
9 a jan
d Bits.
10 has just won the
New England, . is a
jstial iu the senior clffia
[book ;'When
Worcestershire sauce”
personal estate val--
l000.
Jjounialist, left prop
lietl at $500,000, over
ireling.
yn of the regent of
Ici-ovrn. is 43 veal's of
(lie chilrb'en.
bdnnt at Fort l*ira-
te introduce his ini-
Cpropean armies.
EaodonaM. of Micbi-
receipt of $40,000
investment of only
lis favorite way of
sning is to lean back
of his ^juse “aud
Hampshire, has
tieth year as
iu Historical
. elected president
[ilcota. He was for-
rter in the cultured
ig Scotchman, who
|:hat stean- i; collkled
ived thirty -nine per-
|a man of medium
agef'JWtd not at ali
nice. He is, it is
|ii)-th.
elebrated journalist,
suffering from a
He i* thought to be
ist Episcopal
ing the devil black
He wants some
pictures.'
who lately came
taken into partner-
HtUe !>ank account
4,000,000.
e Rev. l\xUw> of rhe West
rorty second xstr^ Rb?nbyterian church,
ew York, preach^uongregatinn whose
wealth aggregates WOO,000,000.
C. P. Huntington, thSlilway magiiRte, has
a great passion for fires Jfand runs to all of
them in New York whe* aide. Mrs. Hunt-
ingdon also shares this ekji-aeterh:i.\
Mr. Albert Bully the inih.vay magnate, it
not only rich but g«ier.>us. He gave his
favorite niece a chock £or A50,.')00 when she
wa3 graduated from scho.ii the other day.
William K. Vanderbilt .will take an excur-
sion through the M -<HterraT,lX1!, p, the ym:ht
Alva, accompanied by hid tanuly and a few
friends. The expense win be about $250 a
day.
Ex-Mayor Spence, of Los Angeles, Cal.,
has given $50,000 as the nucleus of a fund
for erecting a splendid ast s unomieal ohserxafe
tory in southern Califomi ^
Bensardino.
The lrte William A. Wi:Uler had a
estimate of the-irop^rtanes *>f the vie
deutial office and thoug} i; with Bei n
Franklin, that its occu
“His Superfiuous Higin
Mark M. Pomeroy
charges against (hemanag-
eneur hospital of New Y
Hewitt, and if tjjcy are
carry the matter into the
Mr. Whitelaw Reid, o]
Tribune, who has been suff.
fever, lias, on the advice of
for California, iu the impt
health. He is alsc trouble!
The late Geos-ge W. Ry
up the first paper making
York at Waterloo in 1820,
later he made the mj>er
edition of the Boole of Mon
Mr. Tisza, the Hungarian
yf few words, not parti.-u
manner, cautious in makiii
in his promises, blameless il
and notably successful
man.
Chief Engineer George
arctic fame, has just jierfor
dented piece of work, p
weeks’ time lie has pr^iar
machinery of five different
uavy.
Gen. Lucius Fairchiki,
much talk, has one ]iecniiar
the inside of his left coat si
empty, the tailors have com
pocket, in which he carrie
the etlge of which apin-ars
his sleeve and his breast.
Wilson Waddiugham,
Conn., who recently purcb
Otis grant of iG3t<MK) acres oi
San Miguel county. Now
be the largest landed proprie
He owns in fee l,5i)0,()00 aci
acr?s more than are claimed
W estminster.
can newspaix-r.
Misses Mary and Len»[Caldwell, two of tbk
sw^ff society ladies of Washington, have been
Bueuhy a florist for $800 worth of violets and
roses furnished.
Grace Howard, the eldest daughter of the
journalist, Joseph Howard, Jr., has gone as
a missionary to the Crow Creek agency in
Dakota territory.
Miss VaA Duzen, of Washington, promi-
nent in aiw’irclts as the originator of the
method of plush (minting, has gone to Sara-
toga for the season.
Miss Eugenia Ozanne, of Denver, Col., is
said to be the most beautiful woman in the
west. Bhe is of Mexican parentage, and is
worth ft quarter of a million.
Mrs, Livermore has delivered m -re than
800 temperance addresses, nearly 100 of these
in Boston. For many years she hat lectured
five nights a week for five montlis iu the
year.
Miss Annie Sully, of New York, waa
among the graduates at. Metzger institute,
Carlisle, Pa. As a graduation present Miss
Sully received from her uncle, Alfred Sully,
a check for $50,00*).
Mrs. Jane A. Manley has sued Burrell A.
Olne^, of Hartford, Mich. She is plump and
comely and 50, and he is 80 years old and
worth $300,000. The widow wants $30,000 for
damaged affections.
The omnipresent'Kate Field has, -inceshe
left Washington last February, lectured in
seven states and one territory. She is now' in
San Francisco. She will visit the Yosemite
Valle^fpand afterward sail for Alaska.
Mrs. JBirtiord H. Dana, ...who was Miss
Edith L-mgfellovr. and Mrs. Joseph G.
Thropc, who was Miss Anna Allegra Long-
fe’/low, both daughters of the poet, are build-
ing bouses on his former estate, wlo :h they
will oceupy when finished.
Mrs. Oscar Wilde dresses after fashions of
her own <levising. At a recent afternoon re-
ception in Jxindonhhecame in wearin.;asnuff
bj;own ulster wrap reaching from her neck
to her heels, a black lace veil and a black
lace bonnet of no cleseribable shape.
Advances of wages have been made in quite
a number of small shops and factories
throughout*the state of New York.
Throughout New England the merits and
demerits of dividing profits with working-
men are being discussed in an informal way.
A second official report sets the number of
building and loan associations in New Jersey
at 156, with 37,730 shareholders and $9,349,000
net assets.
Some idea of the extent to which labor is
organized in New York city may be formed
from the fact that 168 societies held meetings
there last week.
The Pennsylvania legislature has enacted a
law providing for a legal half holiday eVery
Saturday afternoon from June 15 to Septem-
ber 15 of each year.
The stove manufacturers at Hamilton, Qnt.,
have refused the increase of pay demanded
by the Molders’ union, and it is likely^ the
union will order a strike.
The New England housebuilders are making
no effort to advance wages. Employers are
putting up a great many small houses v*hich
they will sell on easy terms.
At a recent meeting of the stove molders
of Chicago they resolved to drop their de-
mands for a 15 per cent advance in wages
and return to work at once.
The Pottsvfile, Pa., silk mill will employ
from 600 to 1,000 hands, and the building,
which will be 850 feet in length, including
machinery, will cost $300,000.
All the Knights of Labor in the employ of
George H. Burt & Co., shoe manufacturers,
at Randolph, Mass., are out on a strike, owing
to an alleged move by the firm to aecrease
their pay.
The railroad situation continues very i avor-
able; construction is being pushed uheatl with
more vigor. Rail mills aud briilge works are
all oversold. Very little foreign material is
being ordered.
Three Ontario weavers have invented a
process for weaving cloths of mixed materials
so that they shall be inseparably woven, show-
ing one surface of hemp or jute, and the other
of cotton or wool
There are a number of Dead wood miners
in Alaska who speak favorably of th»j fact
that they are having twenty horn-s of sun-
light It gives them a longer time to (work
than the Chicago bricklayers want.
The Omaha Knights of Labor had n lot of
printing for the Fourth of July celebration,
aud* when they discovered that it was done at
a “rat” shop they destroyed the work and
contracted for its reproduction with a: union
office. i.
The carpenters have three strong unions in
St. Paul—an English, German and Scaindina-
vian branch—the organization of the craft in
GREENROOM GOSSIP.
SOME CURIOUS THINGS.
Mrs. Robert Jones, of De Leon .Springs, ; -7
1 cats d h ♦* that city now being almost perfect. ; While
Fla., was attacked by two wild cats :be other
day. She hastily secured a club, beat out the
brains of one and crippled the other so badly
that a neighbor, attracted by her erves, was
able to finish the beast with his penknife.
The- daughter of Cashier Dwights*,of the
CojSackie bank, is a true heroine. When her
father, whose accounts are $60,000 short, was
sent to jail last Tuesday, (lending examina-
tkuffabe accompanied him in order that she
* might care for him daring his incarceration.
M?ss Goi-don, fctie daughter of Governor
Gordon, of Georgia, who is visiting friends at
West^oint, is described as a typical southern
beauty? She is a brunette, with oval feat-
ures, and her complexion is that olive tint so
rarely found in ihe southern highlands. Miss
Gordon is 20 years old.
A daughter-of Senator Eustis, of Louisiana,
is-the l >est horseback rider in Wasuington,
She gave a Sue exhibition of her accomplish-
ments in this line recently on the Ivy City
race course. She leaped her horse over hur-
dles, water jumps aud ditches in such a way
rly amaze ;he effeminate dudes pres-
Lippineott—Grace Green wo-* l
_nnitSWIlWtt
rsstfg
the brotherhood is separate and distinct from
the Knights of Labor, a majority of tiie car-
penters are members of both organizations in
that city.
BIRDS, ANIMALS AND INSECTS.
A cat at Hayes, Texas, takes greaU delight
in walking over the keys of a pianp. She
seems particularly fon4.of the high notes and
executes a regular dance on the ivories 'at that
end of the key board.
Henry Palmer, of Selma, 111., is tho owner
of a wonderful rat-killing dog. Several
weeks ago it killed 147 rate in less than an
hour and a half. It is 14 years'old and has
but three legs. , /
J. N. Clingan, of Blue Mound, I1L, has £
cow that gives three large pailsful of milk
every day—one in the morning, one aft noon,
ar-d one at night. She has the advantage of
most oows, as she has five milk giving teats.
Mr. J. B. Junker, of Jasper, Ind.,, has an
eyeless chicken. It was hatched out about a
week ago, and has but slight indentations
where the eyes ought to be. It follows the
-tber around the yard and keejw close to
Langtry is writing a novel.
Korina Yokes is very fond of horse*.
Annie Pixley’s fall season will open in
Providence on Sept. 19.
Mr. Irving, Helen Terry and party will sail
for New York on Oct. 30.
Bernhardt is said to havt made $400,000 in
her recent trip in this country.
Agnes Robertson, Boucieault’s wife, intend*
to star next season as Jeanie Deans.
Tony Hart and Gertie Granville Hart ar$
in New York city for the summer. Mr. Hart
is apparently not in good health.
Robson & Crane have just hired a bright
young actor for next season in Henry Berg-
man, who was with Janish on the road.
Alma-Tadema is said to be designing a
Greek costume for Mrs. James Brown Potter,
which she will wear in a play soon to be pro-
duced.
One of the actors in Minnie Maddem’a
company is Cyril Scott, who left Richard
Mansfield’s support. He and Mansfield could
not agree.
The Star theatre has been chosen for Char-
lotte Welter’s American debut. The Vienna
tragedienne will open her season under Herr
Conreid’s management, Jan, 2, 1888.
Adonis Dixey is spending his vacation in
touching up his tbeories about bow to make
the public laugh, and. how to induce crowds
of them to pay for being made to laugh.
Miss Groll, of Boston, has scored a success
id London with the Carl Rosa Opera company.
She is prouounced by critics the most charm-
ing Marguette since Nilsson’s youthful duys.
The Chapman sisters, Blanche ami Ella,
are in New York. Elia began as a child on
the Bowery in 18G5, and Blanche in Cincinnati
in 1858. Probably Ella will go burlesquing
again next season.
Dauncey Maskell has gone to England *and
his friends say be is threatened with iota!
blindness. The theatrical professioh
know him ns the father of Laura Joyce]
the wife of Digby Bell.
The German play right, Oscar Bham
has purchased in Berlin a site for a li-
tre, at which pieces by living drarnati
to be exclusively played. Bhimen
made $75,000 in four years with his coi|
Harry C. Hasted is confident that
his addition to the soubrette star
make a winning tour next season,
take her out again, at all events,
twelve weeks’ season as Joseph Jej
agent.
The engagement of Blanche Th<
Boston museum stock for next
misled man)r dramatic writers, who
her as the daughter of the late Cl
Thome, jr. That actor was her tl
her father is William Ii Thorne.
The great French actress, Rache
hard a childhood as ever fell to thfl
genius. Ragged, barefoot and hi
played the tambourine in the
sang and begged for a dole. Nat
was illiterate and vulgar.
Miss Georgia Cayvan and
Ober are back from Europe,
will spend a part of the summer]
iihore afid a part in the country,
vote much of her time to study i
cion for the coming season at
iJheatre, Boston, where she will
mg parte.
Tom Keene’s leading lady fori
ary season wiil be Anna Boy]
Washington girl of 25, and at'
of 15 made her debut as Juliet;
city. Keene is negotiating wiq
dith as his leading man. Cl
was originally offered the
repertoire was too extensive fc
clith is a fair actor, robust an]
everything he undertakes,
the melodrama, “Ranch 10,”
considerably.
BASEBALL.]
The Japanese make cheese from beans aud
peas, i
Perry, Shawassee ©junty, Mich., has not a
single dry goods store. . -
A Kansas man measures seven feet three
and euhalf inches in height.
An unknown man attempted to steal a
lightning rod 'from a house at Gainiivllle,
Tex.
The editor of The Plum Creek (Neb.)
Gazette has but one arm and one lej, and has
just broken the arm.
Milledgeville, Ga., has a negro turning
white. She has been the possessor oi! the
tallest young man in Georgia.
In digging wells in Kimball, Neb., & fossil
stratum is encountered, and quite interesting
specimens have been dug up at o dejth of
from forty-five to fifty feet
The most oi*dipary sombrero in the
of Mexico costs about $15, while the
expensive ones range in price fre >m $!:
$600. It costs money to be a
Mexico.
A mirage has been distinctly 9©
eral citizens at Perham, Minn. Bn asted ten
minutes. The picture was Devil's li :ke, seven
miles west. Buildings and farms wore recog-
nized.
The losses or poverty erf British landk
are attested weekly by frequently ten, soi*«j-
tirnes twenty, columns of advertise tnsnis in
The Times of sales of estates, town mansion*
and contents, libraries and jewels.
A deacon of Seymour, Ind., has beer
pel led from the church for deelarini [ hisi
lid that the world is 1,000,000 year* old and
tliat it is likely to stand for anc
before the judgment day comes.
Twenty-eight
Garfield
men.
, New York
ram typhoid
rsieian, left
iiefiiing his
thma, '
huira, put
i:i New
lew years
the first
printed.
[ isu man
ions in
! laiJhfu!
tnta life
Lawrence J. Ibaeli, tiring
lag® of Newmamtowu, Pa.,
astronomer, is dying from a
For the last twenty-four y>
calculations for some of the 1
the country. He is
quired a very exact Unnv
ly bodies ami tbeir cycles.
G. W. MoCormie, a we
Thomasville, Ga., who is not
any church, surprised the
tors of the different churches
oently by presenting each
house and lot. In exti
mentioned no other cons
the preacher's lives had been :
ate-ufc doing good.”
on their way home from Italy, where
have been spending the winter, Miss
Lippineott cultivuthig her voire under the
great vocal mas tore in Milan, and her mother
writing char^ig “letters,” etc., for news-
papers and magazines.
Mrs. HarriefcStowe, though very
feeble, was able1W attend the exorcises held
in ter honor a$ t.hp Arsenal school, Hartford,
on her 75th bhrtiklay anniversary. Chi that
occasion her aolijrfhe llev. Charles E Stows,
relate-* to the clmd^sp the story of his moth-
«r's writhig “Uncle fom’s Cabin,” as she told
it to 1dm in his boylioo<i
Mis? Agnata Ramsay has lieaten ail the
male students hi cla •sics at Cambridge, beinu:
the onlyNme of cither sex to pass in t he first
division. Whal is additionally remarkable
is that her father, Sir James* Ramsay, a
Scotch baronet, avid Iter uncle, Professor
George Ramsay, of Glasgow university, each
obtained a first el; hs in classics when they
took their degrees at Oxford.
Miss Eleanor M. Oldham, of Walden, N.
Y.. has caused a jmncPoine monument to be
?reeted iu the Walkiii valley cemetery at that
states- • (K>int to the mefftorV of John Wilson Wil-
I aon, who died four years ago, was a wealthy
He, of , hermit. He willed his estate to Miss Oldham.
His heis-s eo-utested* but they have been
defeated, and she wow refueinbers her bene-
factor. .:fy y f » •*:
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SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL.
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A San Francjsco concern is making jnessetl
brii-k out of oofil ashes and ciiulere: Thesv
brick* have stood the severest tests for
I strength, and fire trade without baki ig and
buniio^.
A tew theory of the final destructi- >n of
th*5 ea» Ui is that the polar ice is penetrating
the Ulterior of .the gloiie like a wedge, and
^ j that as soon as it reaches the furnace there
will be an explosion that will split the world
into pieces too small for truck (witches.
The bent of fire is very likely to put a
piano out of tune. This is not due to tie «x-
i painting aud contracting e/ the string*, as is
J genemUy supposed, 1 ut to the variations pro-
iti the Houuding boards under the in-
cure of the increased dryness of the air.
boards aio made of spruce, be-
se of the superior resonance of that Um-
*/Ut sprure, of all woods, is not affected
*U temperature.
Joaquin MiUc ' will have the or^Utance
John Vance fiiiemy and Mr Jehu P.
building a Jttont* house on a wjndv
pc out throngh tiie Golden Gate at
Col. Situ Lucas, of San Bernardino, Cal.,
capturedofi his ranch a bug that stalls all the
bugologistsln the city. It is not more than
half an ip&i long and yet it has fi stinger
a quarter of an inch in length. It will bite
like a dog and bold on like giim death.
A Johnston (Pa.) boy, seeing a sparrow’s
nest disturbed in a tree near the bouse,
climbed up to discover the cause, and there
found the sparrow hanging by the nock dead.
One of tlie bail's used in making th^ nest got
tw isted around the bird’s neck and she was
hanged.
Forty-lane years ago the father of Harrison
Gilbert, of Chili, 111., bought a ‘4-year-eid
pony fiom the Indians. Wheu the ' rebellion
began the pony was 25 years old,/ but Mr.
Gilbert rode him through the war aird neither
was hurt The old fellow lives on corn bread
and bran mash, and is prolmbly tjlie oldest
^tolze in America, if not iu the worM,
M. M. Slieats, of WatkinsviUe, G^., saw in
Pie woods near his house a large pine tree iu
'rthich bees hail made their newt. • He said
nothing about it, and soon moved <iut of the
neighlKU'hocd. After ten yeare L,e move«i
back, and one of the first things he (did waste
examine the bee tree. The bees f.vere still
there, and be relied in some of tlie hi-dglibors
for help, ami cut tlie tree down, wljjen it was
found to contain a hollow thirty-pigbt feet
long ami eight inches iu diameter, l-hock full
of honey from oue end to the otbeil
THE AGED.
"cisco—“the rockiest bit of ear
Gulches
that
A Kent county, Mich., man, age(d 60, who
is a grandfuther, has just been adjmifcted to
the bar.
Mrs. Eliza Fagundas, of Philadeflpliia, was
preparing to celebrate her lUOthl birthday
when she fell from a second story window
and met "fin untimely death.
Mrs. Annie Maupin, of Gasconade county,
Mo., is a well preserved woman. She is 98
years old, can walk two miles at j a stretch,
and has seventy-two grandchild,
Mrs. Magdni JSM
wa> born in l^mirester. lT'SSf, and
L«. therefore, nearly 104She
• U-i.Itli.
1:'
i-ingford, Conn.,
o£ that stale, iu VT
ringtou in 1810,
Maiia, with.’
she dying iu]
sexton of T<;
Julia Mil
Milledgevl
iqvpail
Should the Athletics
tuey could play him either oij
center field. They need a go
The St. Louis papers in
more call it Mobtawm, Row-<]
City and other such endeori
The Chicagos are counting
the California (litcher, to
the Boston and New York '
Harry Siovey is the
A thletic club this season tL
w ith the nine that won
1883.
It is evident that Ce
mistake when he predict
win would make liis marl
season.
Hayes was not a sue
1 is now pitching great baj
club. Probably he gets j
tlie latter.
It took Manager Ban<
ho was willing to trjrj
Baltimore hxs not lost i
w as in the Lux.
Corkhili is looked u(
reliable fielders in tlie
ly ns tried to secure hi
would not let him go.
Coleman is proving ]
Pittsburg club. Yet
f r the Athletics. Aj
' mst improvement iu j
It is now the gener*
of the Boston club, wT
season. He is look]
handed pitcher in tl
Umpire Doeseher j
besides Bob Fergusq
tu n to the Detroit*\
P< were or Pearce d
The Meta are
that they did i>oj>
lei -e of Sadie Hoi|
is tilling the positi^
The Memphis cljj
parted with Man*
■ lias gone ihe c-luij
| Tcq-ekti has ^x ura
Manager Chapj
| ve -y anxious to i
i Pit tsburg*, and
hit release, but1
Old Jack LeaiJ
i be found twi
the eastern
same club.]
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