The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-07-13
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Catholic population of any city in the
world
Windsor. Conn. has Il rogue detect
i've society. embracing in its member
ship 100 of the most influential men of
the town.
A commercial paper in Boston
prints Credit register which eX-
poses the names of those who do not
pay their grocery bills
Letter and note paper, either in
gray or palest blue is conceded the best
form at present. Heraldic devices and
names of places either in solid colors
or illuminated are newer than mono
grams
"A woman makes the surgical in
strumcnts used by the most skilful
operators on human flesh in New York
City. She has been in the business
her sharp-edged wares.-N. Y. Herald.
Rev. John NJ. Steiner, the retired
minister of Fishkill, n. Y. who had
been missing from his home in that
place for several weeks, was found re-
cent in IA distant town in PENNSYLVANIA.
His mind had become drranged BY the
recent loss of his wife. -1r0y Tin,cS.
John Thomas, a colored boy of
Lexington, KY, rot up mouse trap
entirely on his own ideas. A drummer
saw the boy with ii, and paid him fifty
cents for it. He sent it to Washington.
secured a patent, and now thousands
of them are being sold all over the
country. lhicogo Herald
Patti seems 10 have carried off all
tie money in San Francisco. A sad
looking citizen of that town the other
day carried 10 the express Office an old
and battered silver dollar which he had
found in the street, and asked to have it
sent to Nine Patti. He thought itmuSt
belong to her. as ii was the only money
he had seen since she went away. -CNi-
cago Inter Ocean.
There are, ii is said, but two author
lied dynamite factories in France one
at Banville. the other at lionleur: and
the utmost supervision is exercised over
these establishments. The names of the
manufacturers have to he entered in Il
special register, a deposit OF fifty thou
sand francs is required OF them. and the
formalticS relating to the sale or trans
mission OF explosives are numerous.
A correspondent in AN agricul-
tural paper asks. what is good for
cankcr worms" After considerable
experience in the matter we can sug-
gest nothing so good As an apple tree.
1t appears to be particularly healthful
for ;hc canker worm, and We were
not aware. until this correspondent sug.
grsted it, that the cankcr worms were
not entirely satisfied Herewith. Boston
Post.
While Antonio Morie, an Italian
bootba ok, was shining a pair of boots
belonging to Il marketman in New York
City he found roll of bills amounting
to seven numbered dollars in the Lee OF
one of the boots. The money had falleI
| through hole in the mans poke
into the boot, and the man did no
discover his loss when he took tn,
boot off. The boy returned the none.
TO the owner, who gave him rs a reward
five cents for the shine-N J. NeaOS.
The United States is the only Gov
eminent which imposes no burden OF
commerce for the support OF the light
house and buoy system AT prescn
there are over seven hundred light
houses on the American coasts and riv
crS and also twenty-five tloating-ligh
stations. the total annual expense bein!
81 ,sS9.Ol7. In addition to the abov,
there are nearly six thousand buovs an,
bcaconS, which mark danger of les
threatening character. Chicag0 Times
The few gvmnasia for ladies in Bos
ton and the vicinity are about to close
very successful season, showing tina
gymnastics, when properly conducted
are beneficial. 1t is little surprising
however, to see at the eNhbitic ms youn.
girls of fourteen and fifteen climb a rop
to the ceiling hand-over-hand, vaul
bars higher than their heads, and turn
somersaults in the air on flying rings
One is inclined to believe that the oil,
Greek days have returned. and that ",
shall soon have Spartan mothers Dos
ton Heruid
The Providence OR. ~ Journa
says of the high opinion held of himsel
by the boy who has reached sixteen. TIN
last stare of boyhood; There is not
question of which lie has not a coniidcn
and all-diSposing judgment. Why,
we were all sixteen, there would be NJ
need of Congress nor OF the Suprem
Beach We should each know it all. |
religion his opinions are equally dec
syc. But do not understand me, IN
friends, that in making fun OF the boy
at this or any other period of his life,
mean to deprccate or discourage his n
pratious Far from il. | would no
give penny ior the boy OF sixteen VIII
did not try to be Il man,
Bcggars in the new mining town
share in the general contempt for none
in beggarly sums. In the CTur 1t Alien
region the solicitor usually asks for
. dollar at least. 1t would not be {
much use to give him less. A night
| lodging always costs dollar-thc az
commodation consisting generally OF
share of bunk strcwn with ccda
boughs and couple of blankets, an
sometimes of only corner of tioc
and few cedar boughs. The ordinar
meal of bacon, pork-chop, beans, an
coffee is a dollar and the extra mca
which has two eggs added, costs fit
cent, more Chicago Times.