Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-18
NEWS NOTES.

The dairymcn Of Central New York
have sold 626,977 boxes Of cheese this
year.
From 200 to 400 square miles Of the
great pine forests Of Georgia arc
cleared every year.
A single gold dollar can be made in
to sheet that will carpet two rooms
sixteen and one-half feet square.
A Grand Rapids (Nlich.) man who
owns Bible printed in 1899 is said
to be doing his best to prevent its be-
ing worn out.
Designs for the Grant monument to
ba erected in New York will not be
accepted after January 2. Fifty de-
signs have already been received.
Alabama nobs have been taught
that it is dangerous to fool with the
law. 1t is lesson, says the Madison
| Qnd.) Courier, that needs to be taught
in Indiana and some other states.
Mr.. Axworthy of Cleveland, Ohio,
stole $43S, 900 from the city and now
offers to compromise for 100000,
thus generously leaving himself $685.
600. There is something almost royal
in such generosity.
Mr.. H. T. Pingree, of Detroit,
Mich, purchased real gondola when
he was in Venice, paying $3.50 for it.
The freight bill exceeds the original
cost Of the boat. twill accommodate
twenty persons, and will float on the
Detroit river next season.
The increasing number of inter-
marriages between deaf mutes is at
tracing attention. 1t is believed to
imply the founding OF mute race.
BY all means let us have such race,
says the Alta Californian, and let
them be hired to do all the celebrating
of elections and Fourth of July.
Mrs. Emma c. Folsom, Mrs. Cleve-
lands mother, apropos of the readiness
with which the average newspaper
lends itself to the circulating of
ISLANDERS, says. ~ cannot but wonder
at the daily evidence that American
decency and the chivalry of the
American people is in danger of being
lost"
The Inauguration of new business
era in the south is one of the causes
calculated to operate to the advantage
of the white race, inasmuch as it
brings IN large accessions to the white
population; and unless there are politi-
cal hindrances. put in the way the race
question in the south will probably
find it's adjustment on an industrial
basis. Washington Post.
That war in East Africa is cruel
thing. Missionaries at some twenty
stations see their civilizing labors Of
many years neutralized in a day.
There were several hundred little
blacks redeemed from slavery in
school at Bagamoyo which the Ger
mans bombarded. Everything is
topsy-turyey; but the Arab slave trade
is to be suppressed at any cost,
| A native forage plant called "spiked
clover" is attracting attention in Cal
ifornia. 1t grows in great profusion
on low lands by the streams in Hum
boldt county, attaining sometimes the
height of twelve feet. The plant
puts out white blossoms or slender
spikes, and resembles the clover leaf
in formation. 1t is eaten with ayidity
by the horses and cattle.
Pierre Lorillard is now in Charles
ton, where he will make his winter
headquarters for his hunting and fish
Jag trips. He is having floating
stable built, on which he will trans
port his horses, hounds and entire
kennel. The stable will follow. Mr..
Lorillard's yacht, the Revs, and be
on hand wherever he decides to hunt.
The floating stable is Mr.. Lorillard's
own invention and the idea has attrac-
ted much attention among wealthy
sportsmen.
A farmer near Kittanning, Pa,
owns the most remarkable oil we'll in
the country, the product being refined
by nature, so that the farmer sells it
to consumers direct, who use it in
their lamps. 1t answers the purpose
without being refined. As there is a
gas well by the side of the oil produc-
er, it is supposed that the gas forces
the crude petroleum through sand and
gravel, thus clearing it Of refuse mat
ter.
There is an old man in Chichester
vile, in the Catskills, who always
speaks out in meeting Recently a
city divine preached in the little Meth
odist church of the village, and the
old man became so excited at one or
two home thrusts in the sermon which
seemed to apply to certain close
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