Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-01
BRIEF MENTION.

caused among the farmers of the
South of England by the almost total
destruction Of crops bv hailstorm
June 20 and al.
Bob lngersoll writes to d. A. Blod-
gets, Grand Rapids saying the story
that his (Ingersoll's) daughters have
joined the Presbyterian Church sis
SANDER"
B. F. Toothaker, Lisbon (Me.)
farmer, was stung on the leg few
days ago by bee. Inflammation
has now set in impairing the action Of
the heart and his condition is con.
sidered very critical.
1t reported that Fanny Davenport,
who was granted decree of divorce
from her husband, Edwin w. Price,
early in June, was married in Los
Angeles CAL, on the 18th instant, to
Melbourne Mcdowell, the leading
man of her company.
Milk shakes have received set
back in Pittsburg. That city has
Sunday law which does not permit
the sale of Intoxicating liquors on
SUNDAY and prohibits the sale Of milk,
though permitting its delivery on that
day. The proprietor Of the Fulton
Market was recently arrested and fined
$s5 and costs for vending milk shakes
although the temperance agitator and
orator Francis Murphy and the chief
of police appeared in favor of the
milk shake.
The French Minister of Agriculture
has published interesting statistics
on forestry. The total area Of Europe
laid out in torest-exclusive ofTnrkey,
Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina
omitted in the official statements
set down at 1862 100000 acres:
that is about 1877 per cent of the area
of Europe is forest land. In proper
ton to its area Great Britain and
Ireland has the least extent of forest,
amounting to only 4 per cent of its
surface. Russia has the most forest,
the area being 81 per cent of its whole
extent.
A watch dial now being made at the
; Waltham Works, has it is said instead
of the twelve Roman numerals on the
dial twelve small silhouette figures.
One o'clock represented by young
women with babe in her arms. Al
; o'clock the child is large, at 3 it is III
short clothes and so 1t goes on until a,
O'Clock the babe is schoolbcy, and
the woman disappears. AT 9 he wears
a college gown and mortar board
and at 10 he is parting from the
woman at her deathbed. At II he i.
a middle.aged man and at IL is ole
. and decrepit,
"Some time ago. says Nature
"an English resident at Canto, Mr.
Pitman, bought a curious monstrosit,
:. "a SOW with six legs. The front par
u of the body is simple that is, the ami
S NAL has one head, one thorax, and two
: front legs. Behind all the organs ar,
n double. M. Bexaure the French Con
sui at Conton persuaded Mr.. Pitmal
to let him have this strange creature
!, for the Paris Museum of Natura
II History where it may now be seen
c 1t is white, with great black spots ant
d appears to be in perfect health. Tn
!. separation of the two trunks seems t,
:, begin after the dorsal vertebre but tn
II animal is so fat that this cannot b
: precisely determined"
e A cablegram to the New Yor
e Herald OF the Goth, says: "Yonn
!. William Walter Phelps Dodge and
still younger Miss Ida Lena Cook
were married here by the high sheriff
who is as successful at tying the ma
N trimonial as the more fatal moose
IN The BRIDES father was present an
y. some of her friends. 1t was allege
e. that the young bridegroom had re
4 ceived his parent's blessing and cor
. sent by cable and that the principe
10 motive for this was the chivalric on
lie of saving the young lady from the ide
m of her having been compromised b
d. the elopement. The young coupl
looked happy and have returned t
the romantic lake district where love
young dream began" Miss Cooke
ol the circus rider with whom Dode
ar eloped some days ago.
en- Mr.. George M. Pullman the palat
a. car prince is building himself hon
of at the THOUSANDS Isles River