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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-02-24
How lie Shot From Memory.

Nevada exchange says: Years ago,
10 early days OF the Comstock en-
nent, Pat Holland, now postmaster
coroner in little town in Cohise
lty, Arizona, was the most respected
in the state. He had the reputa-
of being o dead shot with q pistol
course this accomplishment made
feared by somebody, and there was
nan in Virginia so bold as to cross
in public. Pat acquired his reput-
q by shooting on the stage, and
4 knock am apple ON his sons head
/ an accuracy and carelessness which
bined TO impress the public far more
tho manner IN which the pains
ng William Tell performed the feat
an arrow. Finally Pat secured a
ng lady who would allow an apple
g shot on her taken roll, and when
executed the feat he would throw
keen eye al the girl and then roll
orha up into the gallery, and with
looking At his mark, send the bullet
lugh tho fruit This was put down
he hills a. pat Hollanda psycholo
q feat Of shooting from memory,
drew crowded houses. Ono niahl
advertised 70 shoot applos liom
I've young ladies' heads "a succca.
h and only take one luoh AZ lhe
sd. PipoFh opera house was PACK "a
h men AZ u q head, and When th,
tain roae twelve immaculate ballet
cer wolo Ia line along tho wing
h with an apple on hor heai iii
ppod % tho gas lights and bovoo
II trOmendona applause ITO had
phoolor lH zach hsud. and tho Stag
naior announced that ovould shoot
lali tN apples With hn lett hand
ting l,ia eyes along tho llno. 10 cool
,ng hrqa.A =.saly moN9n. aal
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-02-24
TEXAS Topics

he cotton business of the Houston
,xas Central railroad, for the
IS of October, November and De-
Il last, is the greatest ever known
history of the road. 1t aggre-
347,7G0 bales, against 226,260 in
orsicana Observer The city com
had condensed for shipment 49,
lies up to January "a Mt noon.
pickcrs arc still in demand among
rmers. The price paid for pick
81 20 per pound. and in many To-
scarce to to get at those figures.
aroline Smith, wife of Henry
J., of East Dallas, gave birth to
ts recently. Eighteen months
le gave birth to twins, and nine
nonths ago previous to that she
firth TO triplcts. She has been
d three wears and has eight chill
all boys and all living.
G. Atteberry farmed in Texas in
md had 10 Inv corn, and since
eor he Los mover failed to have
o sell and never bought bacon.
me to Texas with nothing, and has
decided away l3,OOO acres TO ms
on, and has never cultivated cot
Has stood by the State and is
wing on what he makes.
omntollor,s hooks show that the
# Collecting taxes and putting
in fine Treasury for 1881 was
A7 or All ner cent of all the tax
esscd and mid in. including a very
nor cont mid tn the COMPTROLLER
and which cost the State nothing.
ssessment rolls inst made out and
n fle in tbe Controllers Office
20 show fiat only 94.157.5Ol acres
Il were returnedEthis is not half
nd in the State; horses and mules
rod 900 1852. valued Mt So. 5SI, l5S /;
37712l2 valued at SG.O3l ,7s0 ;
asa sos valued at si1.152, 200.
value of nil property returned.
,25 47G which il l1g per cent over
The state tax for 1889. adyal-
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Notable Mexican Women.

The women of Mexico are proving
themselves fully capable of holding a
position among women OF other coun-
tries whore female education is more
liberalJ,-si3fanisl .--s..'.sAsiC.f respecting
tho fair sex has not entirely died out In
Mexico, and il is with some difficult,
that a momen is able to do any work
except that OF teaching.
The stand taken by Senorta Montoya.
OF Puehla, is worthy Of notice. Al Inc
age of II years this remarkable girl had
finished the course Of study at the
Young ladies academy Nhero she al
tended but she was refused a final ex g..
animation because il was never given IN
pupils under 10.
Resolved 10 waste no timo, she pur-
sued alone the studios of botony. phv-
siology, chemistry and other subjects
preparatory to tho study Of medicine
upon which her whole mind
was bent Before show l6h father
ana oihoer I'M the army, died. leaving M
family ponniless, and she az once. assnm.
ing the support OF her widowed mothar
rock up the business OF nursing. maxine
a special studS OF the sliseasea Of hoi
own sex.
Under private tutor she studied
Oroek, Latin and uRthomatics, aud N
length applied for admission % the
medical college AZ puehla After mncl
opposition she apgocedod % ohmminl
pnrmissoa ironi lle Qoyeroment 1,
Onior ~ 3 special student. Whia AM
allpH hcf studies ,llr haa AunpnfloI
hgFseli by 0achlng anl hy acimg n
physiclai ln tho Woneuh hospital sh,
has rQcgnlly raesel an examination VIII
hish honogs, and VIII soon fcooNo Nh
drggee as doctor 81 modicina Sho &
top about 2a wears oit
Ava vuliuto Is alAo WCll lttolnpo,
amQng Mo>'cAn eomfo AZ iho ye1on
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Phe Penrna Canal.

At meeting Of the French Cleo
graphical society, held IN Paris few
DAVIS since, MDo Lesseps promised that
the Panama canal should he really to
bo opened in 1888 lie described the
sanitary condition Of the people engag
ed IN constructing il on satisfactory The
mortality at Panama, ho said, Is not
creator than In France, that b u does
not reach two per cont Of the popnla-
ton. AZ po lesseps also contends
thai the foare that have heon suppressed
eoncjrulng tho possibility Of ~ canal
hoihs injured hY earthquakes weo uns
founded Pauama he maintained was
quits outside ol tho yolcanlo feglpn ~
iustly dreaded on account * Az tori
hle dnestprs which have hANpeued
" ilhm its lini,l Au oagthQrhkc might
occur there. but iho iuihupIs 81 Pan.
aina was po molo likely ~ hp visited
hy one than amy eounisY 70 tWope
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-02-24
The Heads Of Great Men.

1t is usually supposed that men of
great intellectual powers have large and
massive heads but the theory of which
DIR. Gilbert, physician to Queen Eliza
beth. was the first to suggest, is not
borne ont by facts. An examination of
busts, pictures, medallions, intaglios,
etc, of the worlds famous celebrities
almost tends the other way. In the
earlier paintings, it is true men are
distinguished by their large heads, but
this IL attributable to the painters, who
agreed with the general opinion and
wished to flatter their sitters. A reced-
ing forehead is mostly condemned. New
ertheless, this feature is found in Alex
ander the Great, and to n lesser degree,in
Julius Caesar. The head of Frederick
the Great as will be seen from one of
the portraits in Oarlyle's works, receded
dreadfally.
Other great men have had positively
small heads. Lord Byron's was Ere
markedly small, as were those of Lord
Bacon and Cosmo di Modiei. Men of
genius of ancient times had only what
may bo called an ordinary or everyday
forehead, Herodotns, Alcibiades, Plato,
Aristotle Epicurus, among many others,
are mentioned rs instances, Some are
low bowded, as Burton, the author Of
"rhe Anatomy OF Melancholy" Sir
Thomas Browne aud Albert Durer. The
average foreheads Of the Greek scuept-
ures in the frieze from the Parthenon
il, we are told, clover, II anything than
what is seen in modern foreheads." The
gods themselves are represented with
"ordinary, il not low hrows" Thus it
appears that the popular notion ON the
matter il erroneous, aud that there may
be great men without big heads IN
other words, a Geneva watch is capable
Of keeping as good time as an eight-day
/
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-02-24

Xounfr ,hil1ro., who have 10 whit fii1
,1do,. neonic boyo ooto, ali tboro 10 in
,i, i'll Ldnso lid,iI r 49, nor, tho di;n
room Joo, dnr;nc H,o ,i"oi amy asI, tbo
hast if Lo 10 ,,nie,, .' 20 not oii lii ~
wake Tho co{,m ,p7 fooI M a. o9so on5
Iavs nm W. wrath IN ia norent's hoo,.t '''
Ch}I,o, sLd n, Wv, 'ot "a, ,,l. I;s,Iro1
viii tba roa,io ca pVr" t ~ dinnpr onJ
tbcn GiI M NJ o N,' n;c IA, Ho lac " Wv
,,' fnpd ID AZ al H,o ,'' s,,i.,o,
ponic On tSo ,roso, ',-o' '''''' VI ''''''''
DO Do not cloan ant he lac, Of vorr
sonn Nv tol1;no tho ,lato In ' vo,,r ,nSott,
.,nJ po,,ring tIo. iiomJ dow, V Un rliill
id mock You migLt sn;ii a and II
cnlarpes and disforis Tho month nnnec.
cssnrily.
When askod what nott of tbo fowl
Won nrofer do moi sov Won Viii toke tbe
nort tbnt noes ovor tbc foncc iost This
remark il yerv humorous Int tb ',' rising
oenoration ouoht 10 originate somc new
toLlo iol,cs thef viii Le ,yortL, ~ Tho
noe in which we i've W
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-02-24
GENERAL

GEoRaR A. Mason, who has served
term Of ton years in the Albany peniten-
uarv. for countorfeltiug, makes the charge
Tint he was the victim VI thc malice Of
Flmor Washhurn and nlutoid Wilson lilo
Ind hpHu "a detective in Canada and was en-
Mos ed hY the American secret service 60
trace out countoriclters IN the Western
COMPANY. at Acton, Macs blow up tho
other day The explosion shpek huildnga
for miles around, but no employes were IN
iurcd
TuE steamship samma, landed ~
BOSTON three Arabs who were uokotod Tor
Now York. but who decided 70 Ro no further
and Wrlo arrested ns warrants Ilio police
placed .hpin on Che Ounud dock and ordcrol
thom ialun back arro.H Che Atlantic Tho
slcaushlp aFouis shipped ttCW 90 New
York. loi which Collector WOrthiuglou rV-
fused clearance % tho sanuia uulcf
tho fudcial law regarding thc importation
oi pauppts
rnE recent storm Of slcot created
widespread hay0o among Telegraph and tol-
Whono wlrcs the aloudcr hon threads 'paii.
ring under tho accommodations oi 100. own
lnN pHlOs ln Flnu aoeiinns also h0Iug Ald
lOw iuni aud other trNN Suffered severely,
eng ws'hin2 w1 n'',.{ wpe, ie'e o.
10 rolIa hnrL NnNlll thr lnNrl
tO0tUn OH tHH plIY lud taul.as lualll
iamNlfa in ly Goa lhtl |isfN ai plisNursi
800 |0tH ni lNt NnnA Il pNipnI "a tlINNnl
dilat ilnafN NiN ll.4 ipn|N,ed AZ iuuap
epolla Nin,eiant anH olhel polais, lall
iHAi uNtpl WA 'iftto lilNuHd II
ll NI lnntNH On unllHqAIN Uatii W.
Dnc lhnutNA dlflrfalr puuiiah4nai.lI aI,
sales n ~ nluNnf ll1Nf ilf uiihfg'
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-02-24
Llfe,s SprIrg BIessIrg.

He came ont Of the side gate with
kangaroo motion to his leg, and an OK
preston of countenance that would
have frozen a tramp into solid block
Of ice in six seconds. Then he turned,
and while he held to the fence with one
hand he shook the other at the house
in wild, strange manner. Then he stood
on one foot and felt of the other as ten
DERBY as if he was caressing anew-blown
rose. WAS it all therc?' He seemed
to doubt, and that same wild expression
hoatcd over his countenance again. and
again he waved his arm around his bend
and shook his fist at an unseen enemy.
A white, scared face appeared at
window, and the man danced up and
down on his leg and cried out:
"Noverl Nevor again ON earthl
A white hand behind the glass beck
oned TO him, but he waved his arm and
replied;
~ WON'T I'll send up six men with
blocks and tacklew
The white face was pressed against
the pane and the blue eyes had be-
seeching look, but the man hobbled
along on the grass and growled out
"I'll smash the Internal thing with an
axr
Then q lady appeared in the door and
seemed TO wait TO explain something,
but he threw down his hat with an aw-
full whack and interrupted her with,
II tell ye I'm going down and have
this foot amputated. and when YOU see
me dumping around with an old wood
en- pedestal you'll remember that / told
you We ought to turn the house around
mtead Of trying to move that old cook
stove into the back kitchen ~ Detroit
Free Press.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-02-24

declined io usaft your advertise,
mont ~ Hop hlllen last Year, hiyeuse
( thOu lhnualt ihey might nGl o. mo
moiNn II iho eauag VI lfmppumep. hul
lind theN alo Mud N0lA valuable mo,l
icino, mysoll and wis having hcen
ageatlp bnnphtei hs lAem. aud / SAKE
float pl,aruf 10 urAlup ihpm known
my lOllN hEAMAN.
tlul0l Hpmf N,nillsi Nim \ n
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-02-24

exhibition OF paintings, held to celo.
brate the centennial Of the Academy Of
Fine Arts in the City of Mexico, the
second prize was awarded to Senorita
Elena Barreiro, the first having been
given to Felix PARA, young Mexican
artist Of remarkable genius, now pursu-
inc his studies i'm Enrnpo.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-02-24
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
THE EAST.


IN h'hBStoh' ia' man pameu
leonard ana ms son were found ueou irom
Grrp Vor mi,,,e , t,e Mri i "' tWo o,hcr oit
destructive dro occnrrcd nj the foot of
Charlton street New York Tho Inmnn dock
and its load of freight were do.troved and
the steamship Epynt was dmnnpcd 10 Tho
cXtont OF 81 100 1fho totnl loss il $500 OD0
a.,
LIE lhillctloh OF corporal punishment
ON convlcts in New York ponltontinrio. has
boon nrobibitcd cNceut I'm casos of rio, or
...,, -. ~, ~
scn -ueI1hse, until the l4wS ON the subject
~ ~ mite c1uAlH.SnJ i'ulge AHheisoil' OF
l i,I, H''s ueulucH tnnV Mnoh p93t-
right Of the defendant to the use of the nat
emit passes AVA, also Wong Chin Foo has
oeII, M ,vW co noiN nv, ,i'@ isV npyl o'
M. 49,, r.I., CO.
NE pIlBlh"l oupllec singers were
arrested at New Haven, Ct for giving q
concert on the sabbath in violation OF tho
e,,,,,,a,'.,,,,,,,.,, - d, $50 e,., IL,
1o,,.,,S ~. totte ,,i h. ~.
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III advertising bills due and payable after
.eraon.
dysrtisomeuts fer iess than three months
raie1.
zeal notices ID eeAts POI kne Tar firai blser.
q az fsr eAAh snhse4Hani hsertion.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-02-24

Mr.. BLAoKFAN, Superintendent Of
the Foreign Mail Service has furnished the
Senate with full history OF ocean postal
transport alton. Contracts were made with
steamships in 1875 100000 per year being
paid for semi monthly trips between Now
YORK and southampton The Government
now pays foreign steamers the ocean post
age averaging cents per letter In the past
forty years tho foreign mails have cost
s3o,2oi, i61
The House Committee on Coinage
has instructed It's Chairman TO report a reso-
luton providing that the coinage of the sill
yer dollar shall not be discontinued; and
that the surplus In the treasury above %
per cont shall be devoted 20 the payment
of the public debt by the purchase OF bonds,
also that the Appropriations Committee shall
he directed to make sufficient appropriation
TO erect any necessary vaults for the storage
of the coin, which IS held rs L security for
the silver dollar circulation.
Director BURoHARD states that of
sl85, 400, $50 in standard silver coined In tho
past i've years there are s3T, s7i1i1 in circu-
lation and s72, 40 represented by cortih-
Gates. Miss Alice Blaine, daughter OF tho
ox-Secrotary of State, and Col John q Cop
plnger, U, A. woru married I'm 81
Matthews Catholic Church no Washington.
President Arthur, the supreme Court
Justices, Senators and Representatives, and
the Diplomatic Corps being present AZ the
ceremony. In the evening Ot the samo day
Miss Mary W, Brewster, daughter OF the Az
tornoy General, was married In Washington
10 Il J W. koons OF Philadelphia botn In
going to and retuUing from the wedding
President Arthur fslarriacn was damaged by
collisions and he and III daughter walked
homo through the rain
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-02-24

he cotton business of the Houston
xas Central railroad, for the
Is of October, November and De-
II last, is the greatest ever known
history of the road. 1t aggre-
347,7G0 bales, against 226,260 in
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-02-24

Iorsicana Observer? The city com
had condensed for shipment 49,
lies up to January "a at noon.
u pickcrs arc still in demand among
rmers. The price paid for pick
81 20 per pound. and in many To-
scarce to to get at those figures.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-03-07
A Fine Assert mt. of CrOckeryI
A Cast-Iron Vacuum Pan |!

feet in diam. by feet deep.
Vacuum Pumping Engine, l4-inch Cylinder
and l2-inch stroke.
3 Wrought-Iron Tanks, each 1000 gallons
capacity.
Wrought-Iron Chimney, 65 feet high, 37-in
diam, l-s-inch thick
Multitubular Boiler, 10 feet long, feet in
diameter, with furnace, front doors, etc
complete.
30-inch Weston's Patent self balancing Sus-
pended Sugar Curing Centrifugal Ma
chimes, with the requisite independent
Iron Framing, Wrought-Iron Sugar Mixer
OF 1000 gallons capacity, with Stirrer.
Driving Gear Sc.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-03-07


Mr.. Fulton, Of the Baltimore American, spent
seventy days in a trip to and in Europe and
back, accompanied by four persons, three Ia
dies, and he gives this prosaic information,
which may be of value:
"Prior to leaving Baltimore VIC planned the
whole Of our trip, calculating to be absent for
seventy days. We started on the eth day of
july, and reached Baltimore on our return on
the 18th day Of September, having been pre-
ciseIy seventy days absent. OF this period we
were twenty-three days on the ocean-three
days longer than expected-leaving forty seven
DAYS for The tour, which were spent as follows:
In Liverpool one day, in London five days, in
Paris ten days, at Vichy Springs three days,
at Geneva four days, at Berne one day, at In
terlaken three days, at Zurich two days, at
Lucerne two days, at Lake Constance three
DAYS, at Falls of Rhine one day. at Strasburg
two days, at Mayence one day, down the Rhine
Que day, at Cologne two days, at Brussels
three days, at Antwerp three days. The en-
tire cost Of this tour of seventy days, from
Baltimore aud back to Baltimore, for party
of five, three of whom were ladies, was ST.
ss4 20, being for each of the party S3I7, or
about S5.45 per day. This was for all man
ner Of travelling expenses, including those OF
sight seeing, carriage hire, operas, theaters
concerts. fees, etc. We travelled first class in
the cars everywhere except in Germany, and
stopped at the best hotels, in no way stinting
expenses. We were DESTROYS of ascertaining
exactly for what such summer trip could he
accomplished, and the accounts were kept
strictly. OF course all of the party spent con-
siderable in the purchase of whatever took
their fancy in all the cities through which we
passed, But these expenditures were no part
of the travelling expenses. 1t may be proper
to add that we were all persistent water drink
ers, and although everywhere told that water
was unhealthy and ice positively injurious,
we stuck to our favorite beverage, using ice
when We could get it, and we return home
improved in health and invigorated by our
journey"
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-03-07

1t is the bearing of man towards his fell
lows which oftentimes, more than any other
circumstance, promotes or obstructs his ad-
vancement in life. Among the many good
qualities Of mind and heart absolutely neces-
sary for q merchant TO insure worldly success,
there is no one the Importance of which is
more real, yet which at this is so generally
moderated by many of our business men,
clerks and statesmen, as courtesy-that feeling
Of kindness, dignity and love for our fellows
which expresses itself in pleasing manners. 1t
is an undeniable fact that many of rs are IN
fortunate in not being the happy possessors by
nature Of this DESTROYS and charming quality,
good manners. For all such it is an impera-
tive duty to study, to cultivate, and improve
themselves in this qualification, by keeping a
vigilant and watchful care over all their ac-
tions and transactions in every day life with
their fellow beings. History is crowded with
examples, showing that, as in literature, it is
the delicate indefnable charm of style, not the
thought, which makes work immortal
Emerson says: give boy address and
accomplishments, and you give him the mas
terry of palaces and fortunes wherever he goes;
he has not the trouble Of earning or owning
them; they solicit him to enter and possess.
Among strangers, good manner is the best
letter of recommendation, for great deal de-
pends upon first impressions, and these are
favorable or unfavorable according to mans
bearing, as he is polite or awkward, shy OF
self-possessed. Manners, in fact, are minor
morals. and rude man is generally assumed
to be a bad man."
Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son, "You
had better return dropped fan genteelly than
give thousand pounds awkwardly; and you
had better refuse favor gracefully than grant
1t clumsily. All your Greek can never advance
you from Secretary to Envoy, or from Envoy
to ambassador, but your address, your air
your manner, if good, may"
When we come to look into the history, past
and present of some of our best and most sue
cessful business men of the present day, We
find that nine ont of ten are men of pleasing
manners, and that they owe in great measure
their success in life to this important trait o.
character, for by it they have made friend:
and customers, though they may not have had
dollar of capital to commence life with
Their good manners and pleasing address mad,
capital for them, or brought il to them. A.
Chesterfield said of the Duke of Marlborough
his charming manner often changed an enc.
my into friend, and TO be denied favor b,
him was more pleasing than to receive one
from another man. "-Hield's ,JousHol.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-03-07
Shaving the Face.

Thirty years ago few persons of foreign
birth appeared in the streets with hair on the
upper lip, and were objects OF curiosity and
sometimes of public ridicule. In 1850 some
of the young swells of the metropolis began
to wear moustaches, but for some time no clerk
would venture to initiate them. In one case a
merchant Of Pine street, who had Just engaged
clerk for twelve months, or during good be-
havior, discharged him for wearing full
beard, claiming that the adoption of the fash
ion laid the clerk open to discharge under the
good-behavior clause to the contract. About
the same time number of leading merchants
gave notice that they would employ nobody
who wore hair on the upper lip. As late as
1851 the senior proprietor of this paper made
his cashier shave off an incipient moustachc,
and soon after brought his son under the razor.
In the church of DIR. Bethune, on Brooklyn
Heights, an elder who suffering from lame
wrist, allowed his beard to grow rather than
submit TO barber. The habit, beginning in
necessity, continued on account Of the increase
OF comfort which it afforded, and the elder
Haunted his beard before the congregation con-
stantly. The result was laughable. Many of
the brethren called upon the pastor to insist
upon doing away with such scandal as a
full-bearded elder. He led them to his library
anu onOMeu tucin uOW SOME OF Inc early fatll-
ers had pleaded against cutting off the beard.
"He turned to Lactantius, Theodore, St. Au-
gustine, and st. Cyprian, who had stoutly con-
tended for the growth of the whole beard
He quoted from Clement of Alexander the as
sertion that nature adorned men, like a lion,
with beard, as mark of strength and pow-
er. When one of the visitors asked him how
he would like it if the clergy assumed the
moustache, DR.. Bethune referred him 10 a
decision of the Fourth Council of Carthage.
"a. D. 252, can. 40 in which it was positively
enacted that cleric shall not shave his beard.
and to statement made by Luther in discus
sing the subject, that all the Protestant mar
tyrs were burned in their full boards" This
did not settle the matter, for subsequently the
ladies of the congregation put in their protest.
But in few months venturesome lawyer LEI
his beard grow after the manner of the order.
and in little while smooth shaver faces were
no longer the rule but the exceptionally
York Times.