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JJltf Jt ; t IK- flJeiGO&ueni ngfteojs Kntorcd at ttio Waco Poitomco m second-clan Mall Atattrr HILL Se "WHITE, I nm IIIKTOIM 6C GENTS PES MONTH. WACO, TEXAS, DEC. 81, 18S8. It is a customary roni ark that wrink lcs como from worrying, but a phi si cian savs most of them como from laughing. A movement is on foot at 1 Paso to send 100 delegates to Washington to participate in the inaugural ceremo- Tho now bagging factory, days the Galveston Tribune, will, when running to its full capacity, employ not leas than 350 mon. A 'North Carolina justice of tho peace fined a citizen $5 for contempt of court in not bringing out a pail of water for tho justice's horses while ho was travel ing. Titus county in coming to tho front as ono of the richest counties in the State in mineral, coal, iron lead and copper, as they are to be found there in rich deposits. A London author has written thirty novels in three years. This beats the record of any living man, but the wri ter's enormous labor has brought him only $1000. A law in Prussia provides that any person carrying a stick or an umbrella in such a way as to bo dangerous to other travelers may be punished by fine or imprisonment. A Mineapolis girl, if the Mineapo lis Tribune can bo believed, turned from whito to black and then to red in less than three minuses. She went through tho tunpel with her sweet heart. - A health writer makes the point that while the good cigar has only one poison, the cigarette has five the oil in the paper, the oil of nicotine, salt peter to preserve the tobacco, opium to make it mild and the oil in the fla voring. The department of labor at Wash ington has undertaken a big job in the investigation of the wages, hours of labor, and the condition of the em ployes of the 700 railroads of the United States, who, it is estimated, number about half a million. A now dynamo with a capacity to run eight incandescent lights has been invented by a Vermont electrician. It has some novel features, one being a slow current obviating all danger, whilo one light can be shutCoff with out affecting the others on tho same circuit The city of New York has agreed to spend $75,000 as its share of the ex penses to bo incurred in celebrating the centennial of the inauguration of President Washington. That is a large turn, but not too large, taking the whole subject into consideration. Tho entire cost of tho celebration is estimated at $175,000. It is proposed to raise $50,000 by private subscrip tions, and to ask tho state to contri bute $50,000 more. At a recent meeting of tho Amer ican Ornithologists' Union, Ernest E. Thompson of Canada said that some birds, especially sparrows, have yen triloquial powers. Birds', when sur prised in tho act of singing, will be silent for a moment and then give forth a faint song that seem to come from a distanco though the singer be not raoro than ten feet away. Thrush es and robins, the lecturer said, also have this power. Cheap Shopping: Mrs. Bliffers (reading)-'An elegent winter wrap, the latest Paris style, can now be bought for $75." Mr. Bliffers (greatly interested) - "Does it say anything about tho price of overcoats?" Mrs. Bliffers (looking over the paper)-"Let me see. Oh, yes: here it is: "Go to Cheap John's celebrated miofit empo rium for an overcoat; elegent garment, prico $5, worth $8. AIbo freab.lv as- sorted stoolc of second hand goods, slightly soiled, neatly patched, $3.' iTftl? v"luB" " now- days. Just think. A wran for e J?"0T k for you can l.e got for fia. -. X. Weekly. '" Young Politician "Papa, is there any dlnerance between a Bourbon ' straight and straight Bourbon?" Old I summoned, and every effort waa made jJPaUtleUB (sighing) Yes. my ton,ltq revive the wobWs lost power, but 7"ktisaditferenceof afUeaortwto-litwaaof noavail, and "sit did two NBWSNOTBB. John Chinaman's great holiday, cor responding to Christmas, falls on Dee 20, and was celebrated in New York by the dedication of a grand new Joss house. The yearly inconio of tho great Kimblcrly diamond mines in South Africa is $20,000,000, and besides this it iff estimated tLat fully $10,000,000 worth of diamonds arc stolen ovcry year by tho natives who work in the 1U1UUS. Tourists traveling overland in Pull man coaches should beware, savs a San Francisco special, of invitations to play cards with new acquaintances Many poker "sharps" aro traveling along tho line, and several passengers nave lost sums of money recently. In Norway it has been discovered that snow is a considerable resistanco to projectiles A colonel had a snow trench 2 metres 60 centimetres thick built, and threo shots were fired at it from a distanco of S3 metres. Tho balls only penetrated to the distance of 1 motro 20 centimotres, and were found entirely shapeless. Mrs. Tammisin Harper, widow of Col. Jno. Harper, founder of Harj er & itrothers, Has just died in Mow York City, aged ninety-two years She was the daughter of Abner Higgins, a prominent Nov York merchant. Mrs. Harper was a leading member of the Methodist church and greatly inter ested in all benevolent institutions. Mrs Cleveland's latest evening dress is a stunner bustle or no bustlo. It is a Directory gown of pale pink erepe de chine, embroidered with roses and green leaves outlined in silver. The coat is of moss green velvet. For the waist thero is a belt of coral cut ;n big cameo medallions, and with coral col lar and bracelets to match. A Cincinnati establishment each year beats out 21,000 gold dollars into gold leaf, and as each dollar can bo mado into a sheet that will carpet two rooms sixteen'and one-half feet square, some.ideam&y be formed of its tenuity It requires 1400 thicknesses of gold leaf to equal a sheet of thin paper, and 280,000 to form an inch. Kate Field, who is now engaged in booming California wines, has been ar guing with tho committee in charge of President-elect Harrison a inaugural ceremonies, she claims that a party devoted to the protection of American industries should drink nothing but native wines at an inaugural banquet The committee is willing to compro mise and divide its order for wines be tween native and foreign brands. Senator Ingalls is generally spoken of as a poor man. but S. B. Glazier, a banker of Atchison, Kan , tells a' re porter "1 know that he is by no means a poor man. IIo has $100,000 worth of real estate in Atchison, whioh brings him in handsome returns. This, with his salary as senator and tho fees he receives for legal advice, must bring him in more then he spends, for he lives plainly and his family is not given to extravagances." Cardinal Gibbons has just completed a new literary work, entitled "Our Christian Heritage, and has handed the manuscript to his publishers It will make a book of about 500 pages, and is purely religious in character. One chapter of it is devoted to the la bor question, whioh is treated from a humane and religious standpoint The nrst number will be issued about April 1. The cardinal began this work shortly aftsr his roturn from Rome in 1886, but its completion was neces sarily retarded, owing to multifarious duties of his office. The Indians on the island of Old town, Me., have a novel way of bridg ing Penobsoot in the fall, after the ice prevents the running of the ferry boats. The water being so swift in the channels on each -side of the island that it would not freeze early if it wero not aided, they obtain a large cake ot ice and swing it aorops the channel in a narrow part on the Mil ford side. In a few nights that bo comes frozen sufficiently hard to bear the weight of persons crossing, and it comes into use for a number of weekB before the other ico is ready. Mary Scelwig and hor husband lived near Halifax, Pa. A few days ago the wife complained to her husband that she was suffering with the toothache. Finally the husband became angry and declared that the offending tooth or teeth must be taken out by a dentist near at hand. When Mrs. Soelwig got into the operating chair she was verv nervous and almost fainted. She oould not take an anrosthetio, and when two or threo of her teeth had been taken out she pulled violently to escape. It was necessary to have thirteen teeth removod, and the husband was deter mined not to permit his wife to leavo the chair until every one had been taken out To make the work easier anaarms so that she could not move, and the work continued until all tho i..i.i..j i.. .. j t , time the woman was exhausted and unable to rise from the chair. The 1 two men realized that she was in a I dangerous condition, and they at onoe I annUed restoratives. A nhv.im.n -. "sbd dbd two The Soap Mine of Nevada. In Novodn aro several deposits of min eral soap. Olio of these has boon worked for threo or four years. Tho soap is sometimes mado up into cakes 'as it cornea from tho mlno, but usually It Is toned down by admixture with various other soaps. In Dakota and Wyoming are also deposits of natural soap. In re gions whero soda, borax and mineral oils abound it Is only necessary to bring these ingredients together and a soap mlno is tho result Hot springs assist materially in uniting and concentrating tho mate rials provided by nature. Tho soap found about hot springs is, therefore, generally harder and more perfect than that produced in the dry way In and about tho basins of extinct lakes. Tho waters of Owens and Mono lakes are so thoroughly saturated with borax and soda In solution that tho addition of any oleaginous matter produces soap. The waters of Mono lake produce myriads of grubs (which after a tirno bocoino flics) which aro washed ashore, and in somo S laces form beaches n foot or two in epth. Tho oily matter contained in the grubs or flies, uniting w 1th tho alkali in tho water of tho lake, forms a deposit of soap an Inch or two in thickness each year. Thus, in tho courso of ages, n de posit of natural soap of great depth has been built upon tho cast sldoof tho alkali lake's, where tho worms aro stranded prevailing u inds being from tho v. est. Theso particular grubs aro the only living things found in the waters of Mono ana f Owens lakes. At certain seasons an insectivorous duck, called tho spoonbill, frequents theso lakes, and, feeding upon the aquatio flics and grubs, becomes so fat it can hardly fly. llunters kill theso spoon bill ducks for their oil, as tho grub on wliich thoy feed imparts to them a flshy tasto so strong that thoy cannot bo eaten except by Indians, who cat both worms and ducks. Ducks Lilted by hunters and lost aro sometimes found In tho waters of tho lake. All tho feathers am eaten off the fowl by tho alkaline, solution, and tho layer of fat beneath tho skin, on inch in thickness, is found to bo changed to soap, hard as tho best castilo and beau tifully white Virginia City Enterprise. Ioet micy'a Key to Success. "Do you want to succeed in life?" asked James Whitcomb Riley, tho hoosicr poet, of Nelly Bly, whoso book of poems has been most flatteringly received by the English public and press. 'I do, oho replied, w itli an earnestness that might have been felt a block. "Then dress w ell," ho said. "Tho secret of success Is a good personal appearance Why, if I struck a town with only CO cents in my pocket tho first thing 1 d do v. ould bo to go to a barter shop A bar ber shop is tho intelligence ofllco and newspaper of every tow n. So, you sec, my first movo would bo to go there I'd havo a shave and givo tho barber my GO cents, and when he offered mo back tho change I'd toll him, with a knightly wavo of tho hand, 'It's all right' Ho would tell everybody else, and it would help me to get an opening somewhere. But about dress. Now wouldn't you rather give a nickel to a beggar who was brushed and had a clean face than to ono who was not? Any ono would. When ono goes to a hotel doesn't the clerk take an Inventory of bis guest before he gives a room, and doesn't tho room always match the appearance? If I want to sell some verses tho editor glances at mo. If my clothes are shabby o thinks, 'O, ho Is in hard luck and will be satisfied at any price.' If my appear ance is that of prosperity ho'll bo of raid to offer mo a small prico, or if not afraid at least ashamed. A woman should be even moro particular. Her gowns givo her ploco more than a man's coat Men always look at tho women's dress, and in almost ovcry instanco judgo accord ingly. To bo successful ono must look successful. Good clothing makes every thing easier. Tako my advice if you want to succeed never look shabby." Chicago Herald. Surprising BU Palate. "Speaking about stimulants," said Ben jamin F. Hitchcock, tho musio pub lisher, "reminds mo of a curious habit of Fernando Wood, onco mayor of this city. Somo time in tho '50s he addressed a literary society of which I was a mem ber, in the old Broadway tabernacle, which was then situated on Broadway near Lispenard street Mr. Wood talked about Alexander Hamilton, and as it was my duty on behalf of tho society to thank him for his kindness in addressing us, I sat on tho platform. Upon tho table besido the speaker stood a pitcher and two tumblers. At frequent intervals during his talk Mr. Wood poured a little of the contents of the pitcher into the tumbler and tossed it off. I noticed that after each drink Mr. Wood became more animated, his periods were moro glow ing, his manner more assured. As tho timo drew near for me to moke tho speech of acknowledgment I becamo very thirsty. My tongue clovo to tho roof of my mouth. I stood it as long as I could, and then, fearing that I should be unable to talk when my turn como, I boldly stepped up besido the speaker, poured a tumbler three-quarters full of the liquid, raised It to my Hp3, and astounded my potato. Half of tho con tents of tho glass had gono down tho littlo red lano beforo my palato tele graphed to my brain that something was wrong. Howover, I finished tho glass and eat down. Then I felt an Insidious influence stealing along my blood and pulsing in my brain. My courage, which had becomo weakened, now was endued with a now backbone. I could have faced a Numidian lion. I havo had considera ble experience as an orator einco then, but nover havo I equaled that attempt Tho liquid In tho pitcher was gin." New York Evening Sun. The Lady of the Lninb. Thlfl TOflfl A foativnl twilllflf. f nn . rient English tnxvn iiml iwtimul In June, on tho first Monday after Wliitsun weuje. a tut uwiu was proviueu ana at a given signal, with Bcorcs of lookers on in rli(vr. tin flrmht. tlm mnMan. 9 i.i town, having had their thumbs tied bc- nina mem, siarcea in iuii cnaso after the harmless creature. Well frightened littlo woolly coat must havo been at such un usual merriment and with such a bovy of swift footed hunttrs after him. Tho damsel that with her mouth did catch and hold tho lamb wi3 declared "Lady of tho Lamb." After it was dressed it was borne aloft on a long polo to the 8ubllo green and closo behind followed ao fair prlzo winner, attended by her companions in tho race, w hllo a bond of uuuio nop step Dcsico them. Tho noxt day camo tho grand feast, presided over by tho "Lady of the Banquet " who with great decorum and rare show of pOUDAYSJ 4 .. 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