Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-17
NEWS NOTES.

A Brocton, Mass shoe factory is
Operated by electricity.
Maryland's 4SS canning factories
employ $4,000 men and $4,000 can
makers.
There is no law against wife's
picking husbands pocket in order
to buy him Christmas present.
Philadelphia has just consecrated a
church for deaf motes--the only one
in the world. No oneis allowed to
sleep during the sermon.
Potatoes are a drug in the market at
Colfax, Wis, owing to the enormous
crop raised in that section. The best
price to be got is 10 cents bushel,
and one farmer offered to give friend
wagon load of choice ones if he
would take the trouble to send for
them.
There is q bootblack in the New
York City hall who is quite curiosity.
He has one arm off below the elbow
and wears wooden limb strapped
tightly to the stump. To this wooden
arm is fastened brush, and he uses
it as ardently as the one used in the
other hand.
Hon. w. w. Lang will return to
Hamburg this week. He will first go
to Paris, where his daughter, Miss
Chase, and his son Will are at school.
From there he will re.enter upon his
duties as consul-general at Hamburg
to await the pleasure Of President
elect Harrison.
The farmers alliance of Minnesota
is already organizing to have q voice
in the election of a United States SEN
ator. The alliance claims that it will
control at least twenty-five votes in
the Legislature, and proposes to cast
these first for Ignatius Donnelly, but
has no hope of securing his election.
The success Of Mrs. Shaw, the pro-
fessional whistler, has created sort
Of furore. Every pair of lips shows
tendency to pucker tunefully. The
old adage concerning whistling girls
and Growing hens must be amended by
the elimination of the first clause or
the country will go to ruination at
mad gallop.
The recent failure of Elijah Gilbert,
New Haven grocer, is said to have
been occasioned by the loss of $780,
900 at draw pocker which he played
for amusement with some Of his
friends" who combined against him.
This is another incident in the ex-
change of the culture of the East for
the vices Of the rowdy West.
They are giving Attorney General
Hogg merry particular in certain quar-
tiers, for his late circular against bet
ting on elections. 1t does seem Just
little too steep, but no worse than the
law on the subjec. itself. Why not
attack the law instead Of Hogg? Hogg
is one of those old-fashioned sort Of
men who have an idea that laws we're
made to be executed and obeyed.-Vic-
toria Advocate.
Mr.. Gladstone will spend part of
the winter in Naples. He. must
guard his health with the utmost
care, for he has great deal of work
before him, and much depends on the
way in which, if at all, he will be able
to dispose of it. The fate of home
rule in Ireland, for the present at least,
depends upon the life of this old man,
whose strength has already been taxed
far beyond the endurance of most
men.
A foreign correspondent notes the
differences between an English and an |
American girl in dancing. The Amer.
lean girl is a nervous creature. She is
IS excitable as thoroughbred mare. |
When she dances her eyes sparkle,
her cheek Pushes, her face is lighted
up and every nerve is at tension in
The thrill OF music and motion. The
English girl, on the contrary, does
not altcr her amiablc torpidity in the
least. She does not smile. She turns
solemnly around without a vestige
or abandon. She does not dance,
but tr0ts.
The postage stamp collection mania
cannot be said to be dying out. At a
recent auction in London the following
prices for rare specimens were realized:
The blue block Cape error, els; the
Lady Mcleod" Trinidad local, al3
lbs; the three.lyre Tuscany on the orig
nal envelope, sl2 lbs; the New Bruns-
wick shilling, IS; Nova Scotia shilling,
"a 5s; the penny black Great Britain,
with V. r. in corner, s5 los. All the
colonial stamina realiyed oood rr;oos