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WrM. POWELL,
UTsician ' sad. Surgeon,
ALBANY, TEXAS.
-mils must be pai4 on ' sefearge or on first ol tbs
lontU. Office east side Main opposite Manning’I
Id stand.
1 BURNS and scalds are instantly renderec
alnless and invariably cured without a scar
rthe use of Carbollsalve, the great skin
[temedv. 25 and.50 cents, at Druggists or by
ftiail Cole & Co., Black River Falls, Wis.
Ibatto IVctos
WHOLE NO. 257.
ALBANY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 14,1889.
YOL. 5. NO. 50
^T^7ijffrifsnl^B^gsaa^ah’S
MOORE & CULLUM,
a^FEED
LIVERY
.fcjjrief Description of a Salvation Army
Thrilling Experience,
STABLE,
‘Good Teams an Good Buggies” is onr motto. A first-class
,.V Wagon Yard with all Modern Conveniences attached to Stable.
Texas.
Albany,
BURNS <& CO,
-r eai.br in-
Hardware, Stoves
TINWARE AND CROCKERY.
5
tr,
Agents for Charter Oak and Brilliant Stoves, Murphy Wagons,
Glidden Fence Wire, Cistern and Wind Mill Force Pumps, Wind
Mills, White and New Home Sewing Machines.
The First National Bank,
TEXAS.
Authorized Capital, $250,000. Paid up Capital, -
Surplus, - - 15,000. Capital and Surplus
$75,000.
90,000,
NYE RELATES A FEW INCIDENTS, lire these warrio s against Satan lead.
What is their home life? While they
are battling against the. powers, of evil
and advertising tMeiiiselves a good deal
more than -they are morality and re-
ligion, what is their record as they
Journey through said unfriendly woifld?
In the extreme left wing of this de-
tachment, in front of the hotel, there, is
a woman wearing a gray Shawl aha a
pair of red yarn mittens. She is car-
rying a little child ih her arms and a
small satchel by means of a strap over
her shoulder. "Perhaps I ought to say
that edch one carries his own baggage.
But I would bke to know the future bf
that little child if I could—roosting
about over the country, fighting a
straw Satan with a miscellaneous brass
band, with no home to remember,
nothing but the clash of arms and the
bray of the trumpet, together with that
of the gentleman who does the speak-
ing for the party. But I will change
the subject.
I had a very trying" experience last
week. It was painful, but not fatal.
I had been traveling all the niglit be-
fore, and fatigue and brain fag were
together fighting formy very existence.
I got a room when I arriv d and re-
tired tb Seek much needed rest. I had
playing beneath my casement for
benefit. They desire to snatch me
Geo. T. Reynolds, President.
W. D. REYNOLDS. Vice-President. N. L BARTHOLOMEW, Cashier
-.*-
Will br and sail exchanges on the principal cities of the United States and Europe,
and transact a general banking business.
WINCHESTER .
PEffl!
SINGLE SHOT Rlfe^, RELOADING TOOLS.
0 AMMUNITION OF MtirA'INDS.
.ANUFaCTUBED XXV
IHESTER REPEATIM ARMS SO,,
Sesid. fox SO-page IllixstxsttecL Cata.
MENTION THIS PAPER.
BK1 pern
lines the \
_ wail of a brass
</ band comes steal-
ing- through my
casement. I triist
that the intelli-
gent compositor
will not strive tb
s t me right bn
that Yi rd. I re-
fer to l>.’ wail of
a plaintili when
ho has tried to enforce the payment of
a bill, and finds that the lawyer has
had it, but ban not really refund it
without personal inconvenience to
frimself.
This music, to which I at first so
feelingly alluded, comes from the vol-
unteer barn! of a salvation army. They
are
my
as a brand from the burning, but I am
in Michigan, and I would rather be a
brand at this season of the year than
to he outside, making a large mouse-
colored ass of myself.
So I step to the window and say that
wliilo thanking ohe and all for the
honor thus paid to me, a comparatively
unknown man, I am entire!y unpre-
pared tb say anything at ail suitable
for the occasion, and being a poor ex-
temporanous speaker, seeking modest-
ly to plug along the best I can and sup-
port my family, I will once more thank
one and ail for this flattering reception,
and say good-bye.
The leader is a large, red nosed man
who weeps easily and pulls out the
tremulo on his voice at all times. He
weal’s a street car conductor’s cap
with a red band around it, which
matches his nose, and as the night is
intensely cold, he wears a pair of ear
muffs which were formerly used by the
baby elephant, perhaps. Near him,
with a bleak waste bf purple beak,
knocking a poor and defenseless tam-
bourine silly-, wearing a green veil tied
under her lower jaw in order to pro-
tect her ears, and a pair of her favorite
husband’s socks over her shoes to keep
out the hitter cold from her massive
feet, stands a woman with straws in
the fringe of her shawl and a vacant
look in her hard cold eye. I a\ as just
going to say that she" ought lobe at
home with her family, but all m t once
it occurred to me that it would be a
great blow to the family. So perhaps
it is better as it is.
The plan of salvation as outlined by
the Salvation Army is too vituperative
to be successful. Life is, of course, a
warfare, and nearly all of us have to
fight more or less, with the exception
of tb a r-cgahtr'aYm V, ihTcrtfio~war TnaclV
on Satan by the Salvation Army is too
acrimonious, it seems to me. It makes
a good deal of noise and requires a
good deal of foraging, but is really
harder on the surrounding country
thail it is on the enemy.
What is the use of bombarding Satan
all winter here in Michigan when the
chances are that he is down at the Hot
Springs?
Why make a personal attack upon
Johnt-r. Lucifer with a disagreeable
brass band here in the northwest when
he is in fact down at Washington,
where he can hear good mu-ic?
a powerful solution known as embalm-
ing fluid.
: So, at U o’clock, Mr. Weston put
Julius II. GnVVyo th rest on his own
little bed at the Planter’s and %Vent out
to prosecute his researches in relatiori
to the Hold-up Mining and Improve-
ment Company. The Old Planter’s
Hotel was not exactly like the Hoffman
House Or fhb Gilsey House. You
could tell the difference almost as.sQoU
as yoti sat down at the table. If yob
spoke to thb waiter aboiit the tenacity
of the steak or the longevity 6f the but-
ter, he would give you a tart reply and
you would have to get along with thaij
tor dessert. One, man murmured
about the steak and said it was too
tough, so therefore lie Would not Cat
it.
“You won’t eat it?” calmly replied
the loose jointed, waiter. "You say
you won’t eat it?” _ .
“I say so because I Can’t cut it. No
man can cut that steak. You can’®
cut it with acids. So I won’t Cat it.”
“Well, you will eat it,” skid the
waiter, reaching around as if in the
act of adjusting his bustle. “You will
eat it or I’ll wear it out on you!”
He ate it.
LiVELY
'URNS OF THQ5
But, among other things there was a
iflot retired in " La vino- cnrefultv Fg alarm bell in the tower of the Plan-
lock, that the curious could not look
in through the key hole and see toe as
I lay there asleep and make a $5,000
painting of me.
Just then there was a slight rattle at
the door, such as you hear when a
chambermaid attacks it with a pass
key and comes in the room to sweep
holes in the carpet and till your lungs
full of debris. 1 smiled to myself, for
my own key was in the dooi’, and I
said softly as I bathed my blushing
features in the pillow,
funerals and other entertainments.
The i'ope hung in the hall and when
the help of the populace was required
in order to suppress a fire or a riot,
the first man to the bell rope Saluted
the snowy summits of the Rocky
Mountairs with this wild alarm.
While Mr. Weston was getting hik
information on the streets, the great
bell awoke the echoes in the fastnesses
of the canons twenty miles away, ancj
the excited populace swarmed to the
learn
Planters to
what great calamity
W. 0. MOODY. M. D.
luring permanently located, offers his profession-
rviees to the citizens of Albany and surround-
[jouhiry. Special attention given to the prac*
of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and
lilldrcn. All bills due the first of the month,
i at Bruckner & Goodings.
LIGE EARL,
The old reliable
jBAN Y,
TEXAS.
r° VVomen Murdered.
Tex., March 7.1-DeVr
toS!S,’r“r’“S“ White «'>
ter White discovered the dead b,v of
P“ Gra,"lc s|x mile, aove
?, j. ass. There were two bullet,oles
\e wa.«k °f her 1)ead and the ton f her
stoifp ?.peAas,witl1 au ax- Sin had a
The 6n her by a roPe ab’ut the
m>-n 2 ??c!y Wils broughtAre and
Alev-tf biy Ml"’ J‘ VV. JKiotie to be
TlnU: ,Xandei" L<>P»Z.
fie affilunltf n0!her victim was reported to
Linn vA.p‘ le's, that "’as found near the
t.l-o S3ot, chopped and weighted
' cAvvas Mrs ^Lopez. This was
W^Ts'bVft. Y esterday morn-
vas found in river at neaily the
r. The dead .girl’s;husband or
pposed to be the brutal mur-
;e authorities of Pic-urns Negras
oir utmost to capture him.
, a’ex., larch 7.—"VV. 0
too here tc-day by Wr. T
'tv sheriff, oil a telegram
Want, general manage)
•ailv\ . He is charge-,
took the east-bourn,
erd iv from El Paso am
ssage what purported to b<
r. Grant, genera]
Counterfeiting.
PARIS, Tex., March 7.—-J. N. Sheppard, a
farmer, who resided near Detroit* a small
town in JEtcd River county, was arrestc
and jailed at Clarksviile Saturday on th
charge of counterfeiting. He at first pro.
tested his Innocence, but being- caught,
is alleged, in the act of emptying a ins mix .
of nickels from his pocket ou the ground
he admitted, it is said, his guilt, v.nd con
ducting the officers to his house, lie tee-
tered them a set oi molds for makin
nickels. Sheppard claims, it is reported, t,
have obtained his molds and instructions
for making and shoving the queer from a
New Jersey man.
Local Option Defeated.
Pittsburg, Tex., March, 7.-Eleetion-
rvere held Saturday in precincts three ans
four in tnis county on the question oi
adopting local option. In precinct three
local option was defeated by a majority
of seventeen votes, and in precinct lour it
was defeated by a majority of fitty-niue
votes. Precincts one and three, which are
the principal precincts of the county and
represent about three-fourths of the vot-
i ng population, have local option in force,
Eads' Tehuantepec Ship Railway.
Pittsburg, Pa., March 8.—Col. Andrews
of the Atlantic and Paefie railroad company
“Eads’ Tehuantepec ship railway,” has re-
ceived.the resignation ot Hon. Wm. Win-
don! as president of that concern. Col.
Andrews also received information that the
Mexican government has granted the
changes requested by the company, predi-
cated upon the demands of foreign capital-
ists, and will gurantee the interest on the
| f >10,000,000 intimated to be neces-ary to con-
struct the road - in the event of any detic-
j ienev in the earnings.
} British Spy System.
Philadelphia, Pa., March 8__The Par.
nell branch of the Irish National League
will this week submit to President Harri-
son and Secretary Blaine a resolution
adopted by it this afternoon and which will
be sent t® every branch in the United
States, including the joint action by con-
gress requiring the state department to de-
mand of the English government a state-
ment of how far it has carried on its spy
system in this country, military and other-
irom
i-oadr After the train 1.-1
vie pass v s
jjgery, and ar:
ip him arrester
sssion that ii
lass from
agen t-
he Lou if
yn. dated Louisville. Ky.
•md Mrs. Cleveland.
:eh, 5.—Late this after-
^Ioyt of the Victoria hotel
Tegrahn stating that ex-presi-
feland and Jlr.s, Cleveland would
lit that hotel to-morrow evening
ishington.
"IT
injuring
uugs are
Struck Oil.
Ban Antonio, Tex., March 7.—On Chas.
Bain’s ranch, six miles south of the city,
I workmen have been boring for artesian
j water, and when they reached a depth of
1 330 feet they struck oil and stopped. The
j oil has risen ten feet in the well and is still
j coining up It is a very fine article of crude
' petroleum and burns brightly. It will need
but little refining.
House Burglarized.
San Antonio, March 7.—The residence
of A. Chevalier, was burglarized to-day. It
occurred at some time during the afternoon
as he first discovered it on going home at
dusk. Mrs. A. Chevalier is in Mexico and
during the day the house was left without
an inmate. A trunk of clothing and con-
siderable jewelry were taken. The exact
loss is not known.
Arrested and Held.
j Toyab, Tex. M . -b 7,- Advices vtai
| that two men, who are charge ! with bavin
> held up six men and robb
j blood’s store at this ph
j been arrested at Fort St*
Eflgsi = aafi .re now being held awaiting
see
-D a^a’..-e .had. befallen the new city. Mr. Wcs-
cannot enter now. s^e conLn- i 0n got thereat last and, out of breath,
ued to rattle away with her key, and I | ruglfed up to hia room. in the hall he
soon Saw, with horror, that my own foUnd julius H. Cawyo ringing the
Was hegmmng to lose its grip, and fin- j His suspendors were draped and
ally it fell to tne floor with a lovui re- | map suds were dripping from his chin
port, having been pushed out of tae and the tip of his Venetian red nose,
lock from the other side. | “What has happened?” panted Wes-
I can hardly describe the horror of | ton. “What are you ringing the belt
my situation. I thought of handing f0r, Julius?”
my handkerchiefs and perfumery over j “Well,- what do you s’pose i’m ring-
the trausom to her, and begging her, | jpg the bell for? I ani ringing for A
if she had a mother or any other rela- 1 clean towel or a funeral. If I get the
tives in whom she had any confidence towel there will be no funeral, but if
fail, you just whit hei’e a tointite and
I’ll give you she first view of the corpse
for your bright and racy paper.”—Bill
Nye, in New York World.
whatever, to go away. I thought
going to the door and telling her that
we had better go through life as near-
ly as possible by separate routes, and
that 1 needed rest really more than I
did society, but I did not dare get out
of bed for fear the door would open, Wages of Women,
and 1 was wise, for it did now burst There is a very interesting report
open as I had feared, and a tall girl in about working women. In the twenty-
tho prime of life, fl?«hing eye and two largest cities in the country,17,-
distended nostril, came into rim ^7 women who earn their living by
With a wild shriek,, I covered my heau v. or . we- Gterviewed by the govern
with the bed clothes, shuddering till ment agents. Thev n.al: : on »n aver-
my teeth, which were in a tumbler of age $5.51 per week; and they repi
jga&r-flcaT PvFchAtforf&iL to-gether^ g42 vocations. Their average age is
“Go away, you hateful tfefigWl twenty-two yeai’s seven months, and
said, “and never, never come back average engagement in work four
again any more.” yeaTsaiT^^S -fllGUths. 0i the 17>437
“But I want to change them sheets,” Women, 15,387 are riugfe, live at
THE MORGUE OF LETTERS.
BY 15; L HYDE.-
Thare is no silent horrdr, but only a
lively interest, upon entering the Dead
Letter Office as Washington.
“Twenty thotiband letters received
here daily.”
This was the information giveil by
the bright and courteous lady who
presides over the curiosity room. “And
nearly one-half of them can never be
seint oh or back, because of illegibility
of thh address’ or some other cause.”
The inclositres are kept two years,
then, if still unclaimed,- ahe sold at
auction. The room is lined with eases,
in which the curiosities are very artist-
ically arranged.
Here was a fireman’s ax. Improper
weight and a sharp instrument not
properly protected were the reasons for
its detention.- There were a n umber of
revolvers arranged on the back of the
tease. It is contrary to law to send fire-
arms through the mail.
“Oh! here is a human ear,” one re-
marked, wondering at the singular to-
ken.
“Yds,- that eaine in a newspaper. We
do hot know by whom it was sent.
Here is ah asp, ahd that is a tarantula
— both quite startling creatures to find
upbn opening a- box.- They both came
through alive,” said the attendant,
“and that is against the law, you know.
We always have live curiosities chlo-
roformed and preserved in liquor. We*
are quite careful m opening packages,
for we never know what sort of pets
we are going to find.
“Snakes!” exclaimed one of our'
party, pointing toward some large glass
cans. “Did they come through alive?”
“Yds, indeed.”
En passant, it is very amusing to
hear Washingtonians say “Yes, in-
deed,” with the emphasis on “yes,”
and the “indeed” sliding along as
though the expression were one of the
pleasures of life.
“Yes,- indeed,” she answered/
“There wei;e sixteen of them, sent from
Texas en route for Heidelberg, for sci-
entific purposes. They were in per-*
forated tin cans, were detected and
sent here. A bby brought the cans in
a hag, but one snake got away. A
lady at the chief’s desk, three days
after, felt something about her feet.
Looking down, there was the snake.-
lie ' id been in one of the drawers of
the chiefs desk for those three days.
Was she frightened? Well, there are
few things that we ladies dislike more
she said
“Go away,” I said, again. “Even
your voice is hateful in my sight.
Take my beautiful Seth Thomas silver
watch, if you will, hut, oh! go away,
and heaven will reward you even bet-
ter than that.”
She then slunk from the room, but
it was a long time before I could go to
sleep. Even then my dreams were
troubled and my mind filled with ap-
prehension. I thought I Was being
women, 10,6b 1 are tingle, than snakes, you know,
home, 8,754 give tlieir earnings
life, 15,831 are educated, 16,360 are in H&re-ife t.:..■_ ;
soo-d health, 12,020 live comfortably,
and only 2,609 do not go to church.
There is a great deal of food for inter-
esting comment in the figures that have
been collected. They show that women
who earn the highest wages are absent
from work least, which proves that in-
telligent employment is the best for
the health, as well as for money. An-
other point is the moral condition of
pursued by a red-eyecl unicorn with a working women. Mr. Wright finds
)
THE° SALVATION ARMY,
As I listen again at tho window, 1
hear the voice of the lieutenant-colonel
of the Salvation Army. He is urging
his little baud of Don Quixotes to
charge on the Satanic wind mill. He
is speaking extemporaneously and the
woman in the large woolen socks is
trying to look pleasant. This frightens
a loaded team, and a cord and a half
of dry maple wood expends itself along
the mam street with great fury.
The leader goes on again to state
that we are journeying through an un-
friendly world. That a man may lose
his money or his clothing or his wife
and st: 11 recover. But when he loses
his soul, his name is Dennis. “Oh,
then, let us fight for those souls, such
as they are. Let us challenge old
Satan and give him only time to train
down. Let us fight him without gloves.
Lei us knock his head off. Oh, I have
never saw a better time than now
whilst he is thinking about, something
else. Let us sock it"to him now. Let
us mutilate his disagreeable features
and send him back to hell looking like
a man in the almanac who explains the
Zodiac and who allows his works to
show for themselves.”
The band then strikes up a selection
or fragment of campaign song that
sounds so sacrilegious that it honestly
makes the chills and hot flashes chase
each other the entire length of my be-
ing. It is like hearing the Razzle-Daz-
zle song over your mother’s grave.
The band isvcomposed of six pieces,
the bass drum leading. It is supported
by a colored man, who has joined the
hand because he is passionately fond
of music, can wear a cap witli braid
around it and enjoy a season of much
needed rest. Coming in at intervals
there is a croupy brass horn that lias
lost its horn voi e by sleeping in barns
throughout the state. There are four
other pieces of music, but their rein
tions with each otherare strained. The
players pause ever and anon to polish
their red sweep of nose with tho cor-
ners of their shawls or to agitate their
chillblains against a brick building,
and so it often falls out that they do
lose various notes, for which their
auditors ‘hank them and anon snow
ball them as they are m the act of
'. F. Young, j journeying through an unfriendly
p.b, 22, have !
a by Bhetii
navy-blue stomach and a Chinese lan-
tern tied to his tail. I tried to shake
him eff, but I could not. He led me
down into the infernal regions, and in-
sisted on showing me the ii’on bridge
and the high school, and spoke of the
great progress of tho place, and said
that they were likely to get a new and
competing road in there this summer^
and he showed me tho library and
walked me out to the fair grounds and
down on the lake shore, so that I could;
take a sulphur bath cl spoke of the
desirability of the - rite for people,
with bronchial allV. . < s, and wanted1
me to speak of it in- my letters to the
press, and said lxe would pay me well
for it.
Just then I heard a knock on my
door. I was so glad to have anybody
knock, instead of picking the lock,
that I asked, “Who’s there?” A rich,
manly voice replied, “Me.”.
I was glad to hear the welcome voice
of one of my own sex, and so I undid
tho door for the gentleman with great
alacritv. Just as I was bounding
lightly back toward my couch with a
merry laugh, the party strolled in to
the middle of the room bearing a small
but rare collection of clammy, mucil-
aginous towels. She was a heavy set
chambermaid with terror cotter hair
and a bass voice.
I do not complain. I do not mur-
mur. I do not repine. But I say that
a chambermaid ought not to do that
way. A chambermaid who has a bass
voice ought to seek out some other
calling. She may put a guest’s slip-
pers so far under the bed that he ca^
not get them without ca ling out th*
hook and ladder company. She may
weep over his letters from his wife or
drown her sorrows in his bay rum, but
she ought not to take a bass voice into
them as honest and “as virtuous as
any other class of citizens.” This is
eminently true. Employment teaches
the value of uprightness, and people
who work are the people who lead the
most correct lives.--Baltimore Ameri-
can. _______
Cruel Kindness,
Did 1 ever tell you of the terrible
predicament in which I w«s placed
one evening when I was calling on a
girl I did not care much for? Well, I
had just got off a choice little joke and
was joining in a mild and gentlemanly]
way in the mirth that I had provoked
when my upper teeth fell out.”
“That was pretty tough.”
“Tough! I should say so! And the
consequences were something fright-
ful.”
“Girl faint?”
“No; worse than that.”
“Kill herself laughing at you?”
“Naw. Wish she had.”
“Well, what happened?”
“Why, she was so confoundedly kind
and sympathetic that I was fool enough
to marry her.”
“Ever laugh your teeth out any
more?”
“Nary time. Laughing is entirely
out of my line
drunk.”
Laughing
now Let’s go gel
Woman on Love.
A woman who pretends to laugh at
love is like a child who sings at nigh®
when he is afraid, and the woman whq
loves where she ought not—whafc
her? She scoffs at love while her
whole soul is longing to pour its wealth
of tenderness upon, ono who can never
She smiles into his eyes with
be hers.
careless coolness, while her heart is
a hotel and expect to escape criticism, praying for one tender glance from
him. She treats him at times with
tegLA°ri
worn.
1 have often wondered what sort of
studied coldness, and weeps over the
necessity when alone. If she is weak,
the man eventually discovers her se-
cret. If she is strong, she carries her
secret to her grave, and only God
knows how dark was her life, and how
brave was her fight with that which is
dearer than life to most of us.
m
‘Yes; it is the ScaTp^dr-vg- youPff JiU-.
dian girl about 18 to 20 years old. We
were told so by an expert in such
thing's—the hair fine and black and
straight, you see,- prepared with care
to be fastened to the belt.”
“Here are some balls of opium. You
notice they were disguised in a cover-
ing of candy. And here is a beautiful
large etching, exquisitely done.' It
seems a pity that it should not have
reached its destination, but we could
not help it.’1
She stepped to the desk, and took
from one of the drawers a book, open-
ing it for our inspection. In it were
pasted the addressed sides of envelopes.
Some of these addresses indicated a
close acquaintance with phonographic
spelling*, as “Ti Ti, Ga.” was spelled
“Tight I, Ga., and “Springerville, Ari-
zona,” was spelled “Spengel Bil, Ari-
zona.” Again, others were of a poet-
ical turn, and fame doubtless awaits the
composers with open arms. Here are
four of them:
“Now come, locomotive, and get on your
steam,
And speed me away o’re valley and stream,
And carry me safely to John James, State of
Illinois,
And tell him I have twins, and both of them
boys.”
*,* |
“Carry this letter over valle“and ridges
And deliver safely to A. V. Hedges.”
***
“Postmaster run with speedy feet
To 1611 North Third street,
Care of Danier Winforth,
For Frederick Aranouth.”
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"To Jack Smith, the web-foot scrub,
To whom this letter wants to go,
Is cutting cordwood for his grub,
In Boise City, Idaho.”
—Detroit Free Press.
WILLIAM AND THE BASS CHAMBERMAID.
Mayor Weston, now of Grand Rapids,
before he became wealthy, was a news-
paper man in Denver, and used to stop
at the old Plan er’s Hotel. He had a
mining deal to write up for the paper,
and connected with the deal was a
Georgetown superintendent whom we
will address as Julius H. Cawyo. Mr.
Cavvvo was to furnish the particulars
Burning Water.
This burning of water is a curious
thing. When I Avent to England many
years ago, a perfect novice in matters
relating to combustion of fuel, and
saw the firemen and engineers pouring
bucketsfnl of water on their coal heaps
just before shoveling the coal onto
their fires! I at once told them that
they were doing a very foolish thing,
for it took a lot of heat to drive off the
water before the coal would burn. But
when they told mo that it was a matter
that did not admit of an argument, as
they had proved that they had got
much hotter fires when they wet their
coal than when they put it on dry, I
was completely nonplussed, and with
my ! ‘stoker” I fed the furnaces with
tan bark, etc., so wet that the water
ran out of the hopper. I believed the
firemen were right.—Ex.
pictures of the Kussian artist, Yer-set-
ebsgin* are on exhibition in’Chicago.
fejjh ™ary Davis, a-felegraph operator al
JecksoA riile, Fla., .stayed *t her poet ali
through .-.-I yellow fev-r epidemic.
Uniformed kchool-Boys, .
Another metamorphosis is about to
take place in the uniform, of the French
school-boy or Lyceen. At the present
time the lively creature is dressed
something after the pattern adopted by
postal authorities for their letter-car-
riers, but M. Lockroy, Ministe: of Pub-
lic Instruction, has appointed a special
committee having for its object to de-
termine the kind of garment which is
to replace the postman’s tunic now
worn by young France in most of the
schools and colleges. The new style
of uniform will be the “fourteenth”
which the state has ordered to be worn
by the pupils of public schools since
the foundation of these establishments,
eighty-seven years ago.
Beginning Young.
The youngest pupil of a Sunday
School in Washington was told to learn
couplet of poetry to repeat at an ex-
hibition. She was observed studying
her mother’s volume of Tennyson, and
when oalled upon for her selection the
little miss arose and promptly recited:
“ ’Ti* better to have loved and. lest
Than never to have loved at all.”
Then she sat down gravely, amid
shouts of laughter,
In 1886 Japan had 472 earthquak- s
In a minute- the lowest sound vn..,r e-w
can cutch has been-made by 990 vihr': ! ■
Tho police department of Bos-c .■ > . d<:
city $l*2on,000 per year, and yet c-siosrnri”:
is adulterated?
It is said that church pews ha ■ averaged
10 per cant higher this year all ov r t he conn -
try in the re-renting.
Mrs. Cleveland daliced the oth r:r rh -M ter
the first time in four years. ' , '-!-
through a quadrille as easy as av ■ i snoe,
Au Ohio Woman says that pie! " '
are the first step in a dowm\ care- v. •„
Most any one can stand a bushel 4 !'
ward.
A Pekin weekly newspaper b -.
islied a serial story which ecu- hjkO
chapters. You get the worth of your money
in China, ^
A horse named “Bob J&eUsoi '■ has been
ruled off ali the California race-c ■ •■•os. He-
didn't seem to believe 'in anytt ; except
bolting.
A siilgb shad produces 100,#0C \ : coi.
only about 5,000 are hate ed natu. ubv. Bjr
the artificial method 98,000 are si • udy
hatched.
The New Orleans Picayune hr ■ "■ •me ♦ ;• > '
the conclusion that “a limited Ii i’-.\
prevents a man from paying i s - ' -*
than suit shis convenience.”
Indiana alone has 375 natural gas well
and the prediction that a large vhion
the state will Ultimately sink ma • >• >;•.• i, >’
scaring the Hoosiers 1 aid-headed.
Of the 343 swans on the Thames 178 be-
longs to the Crown, ninety-four to the Vint-
ners’ company and seventy-one to the Dy-
ers company. There is a regular keeper.
When it is one minute after 8 o'clock it
is past 8. When it is thirty minutes after 8 it
is only half past 8. Here -is another
dicovery to make the world pause alkt feci
sad.
There are explosives which haw seventy
times more power than gunpowd* and
it is only now and then that a man o
self on a keg of powder to enjo;
smoke.
An Ohio farmer mortgaged Ms fa a •
his wife some diamond ear-rings,
lost one of them in the suds the vek ve-
wash day and attempted to hang her -H ...
the barn.
A rich man in Portland, Q., got drunk the
other day and bought thirty-six coffins for;^,-
himself, leaving only about ten more in
the town. Tbs rich, are always talcing then -
advantages.
Italy can’t have the cruiser Vesuvius--
not if the newspaper fraternity have . buy
her Avith a shake purse and use he for an.
excursion boat. All the good thini; Acn
be kept at home.
Boston is to have a thirteen story busi-
ness block. If it ever gets on fire the flames
are to start in the third story, v v, ties
engines can reach them. The archii o’; ha
provided for that.
A mushroom described by a phy loan ui
Portland, Ore., as having sprung up in
single night near his doorstep, measured
twenty-four inches in circumferc ,c© and
Ave’ghcd 1}4 pounds.
Miss Amelia Wadsworth, of Sp. gfield,.
having publicly lectured on marri * as a
failure, a newspaper man went to work and
proved that she had been engaged aim jilted
three different times.
Despite the fact that women lace, wear
thin shoes and expose tlieir hedlth in«. down?
o h v Avays, the average of longeri of the
female sex is increasing. It is t. -ynttoss*-
due to their obstinacy.
Peter Johnson, a colored resident of Cairo,
was going to swallow ten fishhooks in public
on a wager ol $5. but the law step ped in and
prevented him. It was decided that the fish-
ing.season had not yet begun.
The cherry-wood cradle in whi ; Mrs.
ffeft^Ba^l.Wimqgford, C*,, w - Ucf
when a baby has -
that good lady, who at seventy-foi . v-
Death Knocking a little Avay off.
Aluminum is coming into use as
rial for dental plates. It is lip
neither odor nor taste, is not affected M
food or the secretions of the mouth, and
costs about one-sixth as much as sib, er.
The hangman at Fort Smith, Avho has
sprung the trap on about seventy men. says
that if the condemned will only behave him-
self and follow directions, he can m kv his
death as painless as turning over in i t.
An English ship which recently mitered
'Vera Cruz had seven of its crew Mid v »
with broken bones. The mate had l*-on
practicing on them for a week or two, aad
he was astonished that any complaint should
be made.
An Italian newspaper warns 1 hms
against immigrating to this country, scy .g
that Americans have no respect for ; -
That is not true. An Italian lab ■ c?
hand organ grinder is respected ft runt
there is in him.
The devil is a land owner by legf
in Finland. A man of evil repute ui
it was found that he had bequeathed
landed property and possessions
divil. The lawyers are in great a
about the matter.
The United States government receipts
during the month of January were unusually
large, aggregating $34,272,000, while ti
bursements during the same period ai
ed to only $17,618,000, leaving an exc of
receipts of $16,654,000.
A medical journal states that new exp'
ments have changed old theories up
best methods of treating frost bite:-',
physician froze sixty dogs into a cor von
of completely suspended animation; twenty
of these were treated by the usual
method of gradual resusictation in ., ■ ‘<-
room, and of these fourteen perished :t' ■ ‘uty
Avere treated in a warm apartment nd
eight of these died; while of the, rem;
twenty, which Avere put at once into
Path, all recovered.
A San Francisco lady was recently she g
to her friends a very handsome ring he nus-
band had given her. It was an oval of dia-
monds, with three pretty little opaque, blu-
ish white stones in the centre. Nobody
could tell what those stones were, and every-
body was curious to know. She did. not
knoAV herself. They insisted on his telling.
“Well, my dear, these are the first little
teeth cut by our three little children. I
saved them one by one, and there they are!”
A traveler in Norway .says that the be ; .?
in that country haAre a very sensible ave.
taking their food, which perhaps nughb ins
beneficially followed here. They have a
bucket of water put down beside their .
lowhn.ee of hay. It is interesting to see v
what, relish they take a sip of one an- •
mouthful of the other alternately, sometimes
only moistening their mouth, as a r
being would do while eating^'dinner su
dry food. A broken winded horse is sea
ly ever seen in Norway, and the question i«.
if the mode of feeding has not somethin;; in
do with the preservation of the animal’s
respiratory organs.
The average natural age of the oak is
from 1,500 to 2,000 years; of the elm 350 to
500 years; the maple 600 to 800 year ,; the
yew tree, largest of all, 2,500 to 3,000 years:.
the cedar, 800; linden, 1,200, and cypress,
350. There are trees uoav standing believed
to be more than 5,000 years old. In this con-
nection Ave remember the Avords of Susan
Feuimore Cooper sexural years ago “Of
al.l the works of creation, that mow ths
3s of life an
d dev rh, the'trees
have the lot
!?est existence; of
s that crown
. the grey earth, th
■* a, throughc
mt the greatest r«
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