Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-07-31
BRIEF MENTION.

NlISs ullt w dia lAOWS
from her Western wanderings and is
at home at Newport.
Mrs. James X. Polk, Mrs. Grant
and Mrs. Garfield do not need to put
stamps upon their letters. By special
act Of Congress they were granted the
ranking privilege for the remainder OF
their lives.
Expert riders say there is really no
gladys horse" as any good horse is
as much suited to skillful female
rider as to a man. Certain kinds OF
horses ale best suited to certain kinds
of riders men or women that is all.
The late E. P. Roe used to do his
writing in little workshop at the top
of his home. tits long narrow, I'm.
carpeted room under the slantlng roof.
1t is well ventilated, and filled with
law lounges and chairs while common
book shelves,a large writing desk and
cabinet of Hudson river birds are the
only other furniture in the room. MIR.
Roe's hobby was collecting birds and
studying their songs.
When people prate Of novelties
found only in Paris confound them by
stating that the tall lamps which de.
corate fashionable drawing rooms are
unknown to the conservative Partisan
households. Two of these "piano
lamps" as they are sometimes called,
were carried over as gifts in June and
set up in one of the most elegant
apartments in Paris where thew in.
stantly created sensation. French
taste has been forced to admit that
American taste is to the front in the
matter OF lamps at least.
A Kentucky gentleman of an inquir.
ing mind has been trying to find out
what the average girl talks about when
on the street. He has found out that
"if you hear 100 bits of conversation
between two women there are sixty
chances that they are talking about
says he,' says L. or says she,' with
the probabilities largelyin favor of says
he. Then there are thirty.nine
chances that they are talking about
matters of dress, and only one chance
in the hundred that they are talking
about something else.
Spain has made no progress at all
in the use of the telephone. In 1882
the government began to feel some in.
terest in the matter, and a law was
voted allowing its use in the principal
cities. Even Russia preceded Spain,
for in 1881 the instrument was there
used quite commononly and even at
greater distance than in France.
Now in France, in towns Boosting of
population of 1900 inhabitants
the telephone is completely unknown.
Luxembourg gives the cheapest rates
for yearly subscriptions and Russia
the dearest.
A letter from Capt. Chace, of the
American whaling ship Niger now on
cruise in the South Seas says that after
an exciting chase they captured four.
teen.ton sperm whale off the East
Cape, N. Z. In cutting up the fish the
head Of an old-fashioned harpoon of
the make Of thirty-fve years ago was
found EMBEDDED in the blubber. A
large lump had formed around the
iron which was in good state of pres.
ervation the projecting part showing
the action of the water. 1t must have
been in the whale twenty years or more.
The marks on the harpoon showed it
to have been manufactured in London
in 1857.
The mouse pest in Australia is
much worse than the rabbit pest.
The climate is so soft that they have
thrived enormously and there is said
to be "hardly residence or store that
is not pestered by the plague. In
some places they are so thick that in
order to get the stock properly fed.
men have to watch while they are eat
ing their provender. The week before
the Coolah races the vermin..:g into
the boxes at the station and actually
ate the bandage off the horse legs,
while from every side come tales of
crops devoured so rapidly that many
fields have had to abandoned what
was left not being worth reaping."
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