Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-13
NEWS NOTES.

publish her forty.fifth novel.
In the Sandwich Islands the natives
paint their faces and knock out their
front teeth in mourning fof their
friends.
The charitable and religious organi.
cation Of the Kings DaugS .crs, which
started only year or SO ag,, now mum
bers over $4,000.
Princess Mary Of 'Teck is said to
wear prettier bonnets than any other
royalty in England, always, Of course,
excepting the princess o, Wales.
Mrs. Ellen Olney Kirk, the author
Of "The Story of Margaret Kent is
putting through the press new book
which she calls "Better Times"
The feather bed is said to be declin-
ing in popularity, and yet the con-
sumption Of feathers in this country
amounts to 100000 pounds annu-
ally.
The girls in the university at Min
neapolis are to be drilled in regular
soldier fashion and to carry real guns.
A company Of 100 has been organ
lied.
Excellent progress is reported in the
effort to secure $3.50, 1000 to erect a
handsome uptown hotel in Richmond,
Va, and 0it is thought the desired
amount will be obtained in a short
time.
N. Cory, we'll know resident Of
Montpelier, vt, won enough money by
betting on Harrison's election to war
rant his inviting 1900 Of his friends,
including the entire legislature, to dine
with him.
A special Episcopal diocesan conven-
ton has been called to meet in Detroit
on February 6, for the purpose of
choosing successor to the late Bishop
Samuel G. Harris, who died last sum-
mer in England.
No one who sees the Turkish minis
ter, Mavroyeni Bey, would take him to
be Turk, and he is not Of the Turk
ish race, but of the Greek. There is
no long-headed, graver-faced diplomat
list known to Grover Cleveland.
One of the beauties of King Hum
bort's Italian court is the Marquise
Tafini d'Acceglio, who was formerly
Miss Wickersham Of Philadelphia.
The marquis, her husband, is lieu
tenant-gencral in the italian army.
Numbers Of gentlemen have left
New York city for Biscagne Bay, Fla,
to engage in the exciting sport Of tar
pom fishing. The Biscagne Bay Yacht
Club has clubhouse which stands
near the old Cape Florida light house.
Labrador is said to possess waterfall
that makes Niagara Falls insignificant
in comparison. r. F. Holm, who re-
Gently made tour of Labrador, To-
Gates this fall on the Grand River,
which is 1900 feet wide at the fall,
and the height of the fall is estimated
to be nearly 1000 feet.
There is an old porpoise that has
been in the harbor Of St. Augustine,
Florida, for years. The porpoise is
particularly tame and frolicksome. He
He is called old Ghoul, and is known
by having one fin gone. He often
plays around the 6shermen's boa is
and his presence always augurs
good catch.
A French physician has been very
successful in the treatment of con-
sumptives, because he has adopted the
common sense plan of causing his pa
tient to remain in the open air, night
and day. Tight houses and close
rooms are what kill people when the
lungs are the seat of the disease. The
army records show that thousands of
consumptives were cured by roughing
it from Bull Run to Appomattox.
Says the New York Press, speaking
Of the work "mucker" and the word
"tacky," southern oolloquialism re-
Gently alluded to by the Inter Ocean:
"New York has the best word of the
lot, and it confidently commends it to
an admiring public as unequaled in
brevity and exprcssiveness. A person
who is "tacky" in the south and
"mucker" in Philadelphia is to New
Workers simply "tad."
The third parties cut little figures in
the result Of the election, although
both increased their vote. The prohi-
bitionists showed their largest gains
in the Northwest, South and on the
Pacific Slope and in Ohio and Indiana,
and did not play as important part
in the result in the doubtful States.
The labor vote was confined almost
wholly to the Southwest, where the
Farmers Alliance made it strong, the