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7'"WF,'5y$F!?PpT llJaGoiueningleaJS Kntorcd at tlio Waco l'ostolllco as second-clots MbII Matter. HILL SB "WHITE, lnormisTons. EC CENTS PER jyTONTH. WACO, TtiXAB, JAN. 21, 18S9. Tho steel rail manufacturers of En gland, France, Germany and Belgium ha o formed a trust. The unseasonable winter weather makes somo difference in the coal business. Every warm dy means 100,000 tons of coal less consumed. A young physician of l'nll llivcr, Mass., is laid up with a discaso of tho tongue, attributed to excessive cigar otto smoking. Mrs. William Astor, at a recent re. ccption tho other day, had her house profusely decorated with Magna Char ta roses which tost $2 each, and Ja panese applo blossoms, for which the llorist taxed her $10 a spiay. Fort Worth citizens have subscribed .'17,000 of the $10,00 asked as a bonus to builod tho Northwestern railroad. Several gentlemen who did not own ical estate in the city subscribed as much as $300 each. Fort Worth al ways "gets there." C. P. Huntington declares that the Chinese exclusion bill has killed our trado with China, and as a consequence the lino of steamers running between San Francisco and China will bo dis continued as soon as their charter ex pires. Belva Ann Lockwood has become very subdued in manner since election and acts as though sho had lost her ambition. Sho spends a great deal of time reading novels and knitting socks symptoms that arc "viewed with alarm" by her friends. The railroad from Chattanooga to tho summit of Lookout Mountain was completed on Saturday. This will make a trip to the sceno of tho battle in the clouds one of real pleasure, and will bo tho means of attracting thou sands to Chattanooga, the most pros perous and progressive manufacturing center of the south Memphis Appeal. Tho Baron Von Zcdlitz, who will marry Miss Koosevelt, a young Ameri can heiress, has become so much an noyed at the assertion that liu was af ter his prospective brido's dollars that ho has had measures taken to havo her prepcrty secured so that it will always bo vested in her. According to tho standpoint taken by the average titled foreigner who seeks a rich American bride Zodlitz is unworthy of the name of Baron. According toa German scictifio jour nal they are using clcctireity in India to prevent snakes goinginto dwellings. Before all tho doors and around tho houso two wires nro laid, insolatcd from one another and connected with an induction apparatus. When the snake attempts to enter tke house or go under it ho completes the circuit as ho crawlcs over tho two wirc, and if the shock ho gets doesn't kill him it is likely to frighten him so that ho goes away from there as soon as ho Regarding the iec question, the Wor cester Spy has this: "A veteran cut ter between here and Boston is roport ed as saying that the cold cycles change every fivo or seven years. The prediction or opinion has been more than veriGed within tho past thirty years. That is to say, in 185!) ice was not fit for cutting til) the latter part of February, and tho season last ed into March; then came tho year 1863, five years intevening; then 1870, seven years intervening; then 1874, four years intervening; then 1881, seven years intervening; and now we havo the seven years from 1881 to 1888. Mrs. Cleveland has taken to wear ing the Hading veil, but she is added to that article a few clover improve ments of her own. Tho heavy eloud of gauso which hangs arouud her face is gathered in around the top of her hat and under her chin. Tho thick screen thus made is an effectual pro tection against tho impudent gsze of curious eyes. Capt. J. M. Johnson, city editor of tho Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer, who died in Carlisle on Saturday, was a compositor when a young man, and put in type Poe's ''Raven" from tho original manuscript. This manuscript ho kept and held it in sacred posses sion until a fow yearo ago, when he sold it for a largo sum to Gcorgo W. Childsof tho Philadelphia Ledger. Anniston, Ala., continues to grow rapidly. Within tho past year build ings costing $1,485,000 wero erected, including handsome resident and busi ness houses and a number of factories. The population doubled during the year, and the outlook for the present year is quite as encouraging. All the manufacturing enterprises are in a flourishing condition. The Electoral rolleg-c. Ft. Worth Gazette. The failure of the Texas electoral collcgo to prepare its returncs in accor dance with the law might have caused serious complications if the Democrats had elected a president in No ember by a majority of less than thirteen elccj toral votes. As it is, the probabilities are that the vote of the state will not bo included in the presidential count. Tho messenger, who was entrusted with tho returns left Washington with them Monday, to have them corrected at Austin by the reasomblcd college. Should he fail to reach Washington next Nonday morning, before congress completes the count, tho returns will not be received Tho incident is of triflintr importance, but it senes to call attention to the necessity for change in the method of ascertaining tho choice of the people for their pres ident. Tho mere possibility of a re versal of their decision because of the mistake or negligence of a single in dividual is in itself sufficient reason for amending tho electoral system, Henry M. Strohm, tho sixteen-year old son of Abram Strohm of Nw Paris, Ind., who was last year captur ed and held prisoner by cannibals on tho island of Gaun, one of tho South sea group, whenco ho finally made his escape, has been heard Iroin. HoN is now on his way to London in an Aus tralian ship, and hopes to reach homo in the spring, when ho will circumnavi gate the globe. The Mississippi Doctor's Error. Two agents for a now kind of cbuni came to tho house of Dr. L , of Panola county, Miss., In tho evening, and wero invited to spend tho night WhUoono w as caring for tho horses tho doctor, conversing with tho other, found tho mon wero from a place whero ho had practiced mediclno Inhlsjouth. In quiring about different persons, ho at length asked: "And the Misses Drown, where aro they I They wero without doubt tho most ugly uomen 1 ever saw." "Yes," said the agent. "What become of tbcmr "Ono is my wife." Thero was silence. The doctor presently left tho room. Going to tbo stable ho saw the other agent and made a confidant or him, winding up with: "Well, thoy wero uncommonly ugly women. Did you ever see tbcmr "Yes." And ho married tbo other. Dr. L claims that this is tho only break bo over mado in entertaining strangers. De troit Free Itoss. CURIOUS THINGS OF LIFE. Tbo town of Springer, Oklahoma, lias grown from 60 Inhabitants to 6,000 In sixteen dajs. A shlnglo nail was found In a perfectly fresh egg recently by n farmer near Nile, Mich. A Scotch grao digger onco soldi "Trndo's cry dull tho noo. I haen a burled a leo In' cratur for three weeks." A Codur Hnplds, la., clergyman recently took this for n text: "Can a .man with a family nok for $30 a month and bo a Chris tian I" "ChoMah,"tho Chtncso dwarf, tho small est llllputlan on earth, oged 00 years, Is bo smnll that ou can coer lmn with on or dinary plug hat All tho money Capt Kldd over buried on tho fchorcs of tho United States did not amount to $'J0,000, whllo hundreds of thou sands lm o been expended In searches. Ono of the On olino Islands Is owned by an American suilor named Benjamin, who has sixteen w I es, about fifty children, and has nothing to do but smoko his pipe and boss tho ranch. Ho publishes n letter In a Cali fornia paper advising other sailors to do liko wlso. Capt Sctb R McCIcllan, of Portland, Me , dreamed a fow nights ago that his mother's houso hud been entei cd by burglars, and tho next morning kited tho place- and went down tho cellar. His vision was realized by a butglar, who knocked him senseless with a club. When Jules Vtrno wroto his celebrated "Around the World in Eighty Days," it was supposed that ho bad reached tho limit of Imagination. But an English postal cord actually performed tho Journey in seventy- tho days, thus beating Verne s best tlnio ly almost n week. Mr. Chessman, a wealthy resident of Etna, Pa., who is afflicted with bronchial trouble, is compelled to sing, asleep or awake, to keep from smothering. His voice can bo heard in tho stillness of the night floating out on tho air in musical cadences which havo n weird cllcct in tho quiet village. Eugeno Crimson, n NovIIaen cai renter, while at work in a building, fell a dlstanco of thirty feet, passing between tho floor timbers of tho first and second stories, which wero only sixteen inches apart, and landed head down on a bricl: in tho cellar. Picked up for dead, bo was found to hno only sustained scalp wounds. A peculiarly novel letter has Just been sent by an inhabitant of Bath, England, to a friend at Trowbridge. It was written in shorthand on the back of a postage stamp, tho address being in ordinary writing. The inlssh o was dropped into tho letter box at tho general postoffico, and was duly delivered at its destination. ' Tho bm keeper of ono of tho largo Now York hotels has decided tho Interesting qacs- tion of tho aluo or Wow Year "swear oils.' Ho says that ho has noticed that immedi ately after tho first of tho j car tho receipts for drinks fall off on an nvcrago 85 per cent, but as tho month advances they gain steadily, and by Feb. 1 they are back to tbo starting point A "swear off," therefore, will gener ally last about thirty dajs. oWaco Curiosity Shop.) . ( i ?! t t r t : i i $ n PERSONAL GOSSIP. $ I jc t i THE Waco Curiosity Shop HAS THE - QUICK MEAL GASOLINESTOVE SAVES WOOD, TIME & LABOR. TO EXCHANGE Furni ture, Stoves or Household Goods of every description for a good horse. TO RENTGood seven-room house on Dutton street, also two-room house. ALL kinds of Household arti les to buy, sell, exchange or rent TO SELL Good seven-room House, or exchange it for Fort Worth property. EVERYBODY to call on G. L. Goocn at Curiosity Shop and buy goods on the Install ment Plan. CHEAP COLUMN. Xo Sttle, Nice Parlor Sett. Marble-Top Ileilroom ScttH. Walnut Office Dcskq. Mnrblctop Dressing Cases. Durcaus, Chairs, Rockers. New and Second-hand Stoves. Books of every description. Muslcnl Instruments. Union Sewing Machines. Wardrobes, Safes. Extension &'Kltchcn Tables. Itnttnn Hookers. Cuccnswaro ana Glassware. Lamps nntl Lamp Chimneys. Knives, Forks and Spoons. Squirrel Cages. Nice Geese Feathers. L -THE-D Waco Curiosity Shup Will buy second-hand Goods, or exchange new for old. r3 f i v ft . ! S J Waco Curiosity Shop. A Clear Conscience. Editor Cheap Monthly I tell you it makes a man feel good to do a noble action. I'll sleep well to-night Admiring Wife Have you icscucd some children from cruelty or saved a lifo, my dear! "Well, no, not exactly; but today a young woman who has bean furnishing us with beautiful poetry for three years without charge, camo into tho oQlco and I gavo her fifty cents." Philadelphia llocord Why Philadelphia la Slow. Chicago Man (in Philadelphia) Well, I don't wonder Philadelphia is called a slow old town. It would bo impossible to do business hero. Philadelphia Host Eh? Impossible to do business! Whyt "Why, tho streets aro so narrow you can't dodgo creditors." Philadelphia Record. Tho annual report of tho tomato pack of tho United States and Canada, compiled hy tho American groeer, shows that there were put up last season 3,319,487 eases, of two dozen tin cans each, or a totlal of 79,666, 488 cans, costing at tho point of pro duction abont $6,000,000, and reach ing tho consumers at a total expense of $8,000,000. This is an increase of about 600,000 cases over tho product of 1887. Tho canning industry has grown rapidly in tho Western and Southern states, indicating that in tho nearfuturo each Bcction of tho country will bo able to supply its wants from homo canneries, Suffering. "No man can over tell, unless ho has passed through a similar experience, what I suffered during my life in Arizona," said Mr. Timber- claim. "What I" exclaimed tbo listeners, "wero you tortured by tho Indians!" "Tor tured by tho Indians!" with supremo con tempt "Nawl I bought a farm on monthly payments." Durdetto in Brooklyu Eagle. Tho Slang User's Fearful End. Mother Johnnio, I do wish you would quit using slang. "Whyl" "It's as bad as profanity. What do you think will become of tbo profane and slangy man wnen no uiesi "H.e'11 bo in tho soun." KhraiV& Htatn Journal. A Natural Mistake. 'Mr. Browne," said tho milkman, "vou scut roe tho wrong check. This is drawn to tuo order or thouooiuof water commissioners." "Why, so it is," ropllod Mr. Browne, and The houso in which Lord Byron was born is about to bo demolished so as to enlargo a draper's shop. "Let mo cat the mince pies of a nation and I caro not who sings its songs or makes its laws," says Ben Butler. M. Jules Simon recently declared French to bo tho most difficult language in which to talk nonsense Yet it has been tho diplomatic language of Europe. Scandal has not agreed with M. Daniel Wilson. It is reported that bo looks almost as old as his father-in-law, M. Gravy, and is completely br oken do wn In spirits. Mrs. Gladstone is quoted as saying that her husband considers it ono of his most sacred duties to do his utmost to check tho flood of infidelity that is sweeping over England. A Sioux chief named Lamo Wolf says that BUI Cody is tho biggest coward of a whito man who over rode over tho plains, and Wil liam says he will havo tho blood of that Lamo Wolf before tho violets bloom again. Mr. Barker, tho champion American check er player, mado $1,000 by bis recent victory over Smith, tho Englishman. Mr. Barker should feel proud of the fact that he is expert enough to change checkers into drafts. It Is curious what an attraction tho guillo tine has for tho French people. At tho exe cution of Prado, tho murderer, such men as Henri Rochcfort and Alphonso Daudet were noticed in tho throng which witnessed tho execution. Ignatius Donnelly is quoted as saying that ho doesn't care a cent what anybody says about his book or himself. Ho says: "I an. right, and time will justify mo; nlno-tcnths of thoruvcs of tho world aro filled with un adulterated fools." King Milan, of Sen la, Is ono of tho few monarebs of Europe who aro entirely satisfied with themselves. Ho has mado a speech de claring tho constitution which ho lately adopted a model ono, and has Instituted a festival to celebrate tho success of his great work. Though ho has reached his three-sew o years and ten, Mrtu, tho painter, very naturally complains of tho highly anticipatory action of tho South Kensington Museum authorities In labeling ono of his pictures with his name. tho dato of his bli th and a blank for that of his death. Guy do Maupassant, u bo is at present in Algiers putting tiio llnishiug touches to new novel entitled "Strong as Death," is about to make an excursion to Central Af rica, together Itb his valet Both aro going to don tho garb of tho nathes, and, wrapped in tho black burnouse of tho Arab, visit tho homo of the Chaambals aud of tho Tout aegs, an undertaking which Is not without personal danger. MAXIMS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS. "XOW" Is tie Time to Get A 9724 ICRES of land on Red River, in Clay county, for sale cheep. $1 cash, balance on G to 10 years time at 8 per cent, inter est. It will be sold in any size tracts to suit purchasers. This is the finest body of farm laud in tho couuty. "Wnco Property. We havo just gotton in bouio fliio residonco proporty In the city of Wnco, Prices ransing from $800 to $10,000. Call and seolist. Farming Land. We have a real bargain In fanning property, 2300 acres of black waxy, 1 und 3 miles from a town of 2500 in habitants. Residences, tenant hous es, etc., divided Into pastures of va rious sizes. Four hundred acres in cultivation, on the railroad, all fenced and In Rood condition. 1'rlce $10 per aoro. That we are still loaning money cheaper than tho cheapest. J. B. GILMER & CO. TO TECE: Fiphieps of Mcbennin iqd Adjoining Counflii THE DON'T FORGET ", R. H. Gray KALER IN STAPLE AND FANCY Hay, Corn, Oat a, Bran, Etc Country Produce'Bonclit and Sold: TELEPHONE CONNECTION. lvei y boo's honey Is sw oct. Tho houso shone tli tho owner. Ho that Is at case seeks dainties. Anger at a feast betrays tho boor. In a good houso all Is quickly ready. Everything is of uso to a housekeeper. As tho j ear is so must j our pot seethe. Many a good dish Is spoiled .by an ill tauce. Tho biggest calf makes not tho sweetest veal. Never huggto about tho basket If toucot tho fruit. Ho that saveth his dinner nil! liavo tho more supper. Thero is winter enough for tho snlpo and woodcock too. Squeeze not tho oraugo too hard, lest you havo a bitter juice. When tho stomach chimes tho dinner hour dou't watt for tho clock. LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. Order your tickets from I). Domnau & Bro., opposite McLelland Hotel. Stolte - Brothers, ' FRESH -BREAD GROCERIES AND PRODUCE. Delivered In any part of the city. Increased trade assures nil of our groceries to be fresh. STOLTE BROTHERS, Corner Firth and Franklin Sts. WACO LUMBER GO. WILL EXCHANGE LUMBER, SASH, DOORS, Blinds and Builders HAKDWAKE- For Corn delivered to us at our Lumber Yard in Waco, or in Car-load Lots delivered at any of the following points, to wit : McGregor, south bo'sque, axtell, Mt. CALM, HUBBARD and DOWSON. then ho added, "Katural mistake, though. T,lov wuo uavo little butter must bo con Mr. rump very." Harper's Bazar. cnt to spread thin their bread. Table Talk All prescriptions carefully compoun ded at J. K. Sears. 425 Austin street. WE HAVE A VERY HEAVY. STOCK AND WILL EXCANGE ANY AND ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIAL Including rough and dressed Lumber, such as Flooring, Ceiling, Siding, Moulding and Shingles Also Sash, Doors, Blinds and Hardware. Coal and wood, Geo. n's uromp t delivery V. McLaugh- Castles & White, Mosor & son's old stand Is the place to buy Hoots and Shoes. Vr Dun Prion will bi Pracliily tyi nmi ilfwiiold farCiiti.