The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1888-03-20
BITS OF GOOD READING.

Inc furniture dealers find that there is
a tremendous demand for what are called
boarding house bureaus to fit between a
bed and the end wall of hall bedrooms in
tiny modern houses. These are a now
conception, the most astonishinrlv useless
one that can he imagined Such bureaus
are about three feet long and eirht or
nlne inches wide on top. but the draw
erS' OF when there are three, are only
SIX inches deep and six inches high. lust
big enough for tooth brush, a necktie
and paper collar box. Yet nothing in
the trade sells as well as they do.
An old Plymouth Rock hen that had
been for ten years the pet of lady in
Norwich, Conn, died recently. She
weighed fourteen pounds, but was APP
preciated chiefly on account of her intel
ligence. She knew when it was meal
time as well as regular boarder, and
came regularly for her food calling for
her meal once day. Of a brood of
forty, she was the hen altogether lovely.
She always wanted a chat with her mis-
tress daily, and when She was not feeling
well would tease to be held in her lap
and rocked by pulling her mistress
apron.
There ia little girl in Baltimore who
goes out into the streets. begins CRYING
and gets the police to try to find her
| home She gives an accurate descrip-
| tion of a house, but when such a one is
| reached she always declares it is not the
/ right one. The other day She kept three
| policemen busy all day walking about the
B piiN will, h.r A.
she knew all the while where her home
was, and could have gone to it at any
/ hour
The old Rodgers house in Washington
is for sale. This interesting structure
has many curious associations. On the
sidewalk in front of it Gen. Sickles shot
| Barton Key. The house was occupied
during the war by Secretary Stanton,
and 1t was there that Payne tried to as
/ sassinate Secretary Seward The lot on
which the house was built was formerly
owned by Henry Clay, who snapped it
with Admiral Rodgers for blooded colt.
Eight sportsmen shot over the pre-
terved ground of Lord Mansfield at
Scone Perthshire, recently, when the
extraordinary number of 400 head of
| game fell to their guns. OF that number
| |, 100 were pheasants. One of the party
used three guns, which were kept loaded
| by two keepers, and at one spot during
the days work he had about 800 pleas
SAINTS lying around him
A Hungarian miner who was recently
treated by a physician at Phunixville,
Pa, had been living for three months at
an expense for food of only two cents a
day. He was earning 81 day, but ate
only black bread AS consequence his
teeth were falling out when the physician
began to treat him, and he was slowly
starving
The Mercrd canal that has been built
to convey water from the foot of the
| Sierra mountains III California, at San
joaquin, has been formally opened. The
reservoir in which the water is stored
contains Gao acres. The canal is twenty.
seven miles long, and will irrigate over q
quarter million of acres.
At the present rate of increase IN popu.
lation, by the yco" 1900 the Stars and
Stripes will probably wave over nearly
100, 900, GOO citizens And then this
country will begin to look forward to the
time when 1000, 600, 600 free citizens
will look up to the starry flag for pro
lection.
The famous Jones county belled buz-
zard was killed at Hazelhurst, Ga, by
VIII Meeks recently. The bell attached
to the bird had engraved on it the letters
sc. f. above the words Jones County
c., 1859" 1t has been known in vari.
GUS parts of the state for years.
A $4,000 lighthouse lens, made in
Paris for the United States government,
is now in Washington. 1t is the largest
lantern lens in the country. The glass.
work, or lens proper measures Is feet in
height, while the internal diameter is s
feet inches.
An etfectual way of cleaning a side
walk Of ice and snow has been adopted
in Philadelphia A rubber hose is con
nected with the boiler in the cellar of
building and jet of live steam thrown
upon the sidewalk. The ice soon dsap
pears.
a locomotive has been sent by the king
of the Belgians to Tangiers as a prescn
to the sultan of Morocco singulary in
appropriate gift, considering that there i.
not a yard of railway or tram line within
the dominions of the latter
The newest method of notifying friends
of marriage is to send cards announcing
it, accompanied by an invitation to call
This is borrowed from the French and i.
in the nature of refreshing change from
too much English.
Berlin has a population of 10000 600
only 2 per cent, Of which go to public
urnrshin With nearlN 200 900 nennln IN