Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-15
STRAW BITS.

h will take 10000 to break up the Greaa
Eastern, which was sold recently for fSO,oO~
A blind man 10 Buffalo has just passed
law examination and been admitted 10 the
bal.
Two hundred thousand infants under
years old are believed 10 be farnied out IN
France.
An Obi. man has been charged with max
Ing love and becoming engaged 70 threa
sisters all at once.
Phylloxera and mildew have 81 SAmaged
the French vintage that the yield ell os
$500, OOO hectoliters less than last ycaif
There is such boom in tho Argentine
Republic that Buenos Ayres has bect'ole cue
dearest city In the world to live IN.
The price Of pedigree Shorthorn 'atse has
dropped in England from All average ~ f'o0'
which it reached few years ago, to ESQ
The cold was 80 severe In Monterey, Mexico
recently, that u circus proprietor had 'S o",1
fire around his elephant TO keep hn~ FROM
freezing.
DeawOdod, D. T., has an anrl.fat 0c,ety,
the members of which pledge themselves to
abstain from eating anything that "1ll ADD
to their corpulency
A bit of Chinese philosophy runs - f"i
lows: "Observe not the stranger in thy 'u-lo"
patch too closely. Inattention is Ute" The
highest form of eivility."
/ Residents Of Rapid City, D r., bsve sent
for a lot Of quail for the purpose ct stocking
that region with the birds. II IL believed
they will withstand the rigors OF the winter.
At tho mouth of the Congo there Isl re
markable submarine valley. Just at tue
mouth of tho aver it is 49, feet deep. and Is
can be distinctly traced for lOO miles out 10
sea.
In order to introduce railroads into Mo
rocco the king Of Belgium has devised the
ingenious scheme Of sending the sulta"
complete railway train with a lot of rails ~
. present.
The new Mexican law which provides that
The 18th Of July each year-anniversary Of
che death of Benito Juarez-shall be aday Ut
public mourning has been published and gons
into effect.
Hereafter ho permits will be granted in the
Ctsy If Mexico for bull fights on week days
THIS ordes Vas been given because hundreds
Of workingmen neglected their daily avoca
ton in order to go to the bull ring.
A sleight of hand performer in Thomson,
Ills, while giving an exhibition, presented
loaded cigar to Frank Potter of that town.
When the cigar exploded it burned Potter's
mustache, eyelids, eyebrows, one side of his
face and one of his eyea
A Connecticut woman has embroidered the
words and music of Home, Sweet Home"
on a linen sheet which is on the "spAre room"
bed. Her guests have not decided whether
the hostess means to Indicate that they must
feel at home or had better 60 home
In Liverpool, England, 4 play entitled
.Wh, me Lunetic!' was recently enacted.
Befr = 1t was finished half the people in the
an/ .,nre wer4 shouting: 1.-THE author. the
sxshor!" When he blushingly appeared he was
greeted with roars Of laughter and cries Of
'Hes the lunatic!"
Five Paris firemen, on a lark. captured q
countryman's wagon load of hay on public
street, and, after turning somersaults an6
going through other athletic ex~cissa, upon
began to throw the bundles of har at one
another and at others. The polis., arrived
about this time and ended the fun
The finest house in Washington is that Of
!: B. H. Warder, on K street. 1t cost $500 900,
and looks like Venetian palace. 1t has q
| O4tuO VI ulUo III Ouc ~ lu0
bedrooms there is an apartment walled with
mirrors, so arranged that one can see everv
part of himself without turning his head.
There were lynched during the year 1887
In the United States no fewer than 12S per
sons. OF the various states and territories
; Texas leads the list, with fifteen lypchings.
and Mississippi is entitled to second place,
With fourteen to her credit. All the victims
were males, eighty Of them being negroes
SaXony and Thuringia are the home aed
paradise of dolls. The annual production d
dolls stockings alone in Saxony is 35,UOO
dozen. Thousands of shoemakers find con.
slant employment in making dolls shoes
The export Of dolls to England, France and
America is very large, and increasing every
year.
The Boston and Maine railroad has jnst
awarded its prizes to the station agents who
have taken the best care Of their station
grounds and made the best floral display
Three prizes Of $50 each went to the AGENT
at Atkinson, Madbury and Kennebunk
j., There were four $50 prizes, seven $50 ami
three SIS.
A Montgomery (Ala) groceryman circn
lated the report that he had found 81 800 ID
bills hidden away among the cobwebs In I
corner of his store, and there was consider
able interest around town to know who had
, left it there. After several persons had an
nounced themselves as claimants, he quietly
informed them that It was Confederst.
money.
An Englishman named Hughes, rendered
splenetic by unrequited love, committed sui
eide at Bologna n most determined man
ner. He drank n small hOtfla If xvh;cl =
: mixed with strychnine, then locked the doom
. and windows, made fire of charcoal, anc
, finally cut the artery Of his left wrist.