Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-03-05

Dr.. PIERCE'S PELLETS
regulste and cleanse the liver, stomach ana
bowels They arc purely vegetable snd pes.
d i t. = 5 cents vial. '''A y
There are In India about c00ssparate species
u snakes, but only thirty-three of these are
poisonous
No Laplander has ever written song, and
no Einlander has ever written book. No
wonder they are happy people.
Tho London Times has the figures to show
TINT Spain has degenerated faster than any
aation on earth-evcn faster than Patagonia
The statistics Of New England prove that
even out OF every ten women left widows
.nder the ageof S5 marry again within two
yeara
The electric light is making great progress
In Berlin, tho number Of lamps now In use
there being about $4,000, against $50 at the
end Of 1886
Tho word folklore" invented by the late
W. j. Thomas for use In English, has beeA
adopted by the French and appears in tbl
sAsaSo VI noW PuohS]utaoAns
Expcrimentcrs at Manhattan, Kan, have
discovered that the use Of salt on wheat fields
win greatly increase tho yield It IL also an
uounced that salt win kill potato bugA
The Pawnee Indians have become 20 civH-
lied that most Of the bucks wear paper col
:ars tho squaws wear rcd stockings, and al
are catching on to popular songs and sIane
wordA
According to experiments recently made
the tensile strength Of . wet rope 3 only one
third that Of the same rops when dry, and
rope saturated with grease or soap Is weaker
till.
In its editorial department The Detroit
Free Pres has eleven persons whoss service
Averages over seventeen years The rnanag-
ing editor was engaged IN 1865, the editor-in-
chief In 1851.
|. There has been made In Geneva musical
boz that plays entire operas, tho solos rem
Tered BY pipes representing tho human voice
These newest Of harmonious inventions are
to be exhibited at the Paris exposition.
Hotel keepers at Monte Carlo endeavor to
have the habitual gamblers pay their bills
considerably In advance, lest, in bit OF dis
| appointment over great losses, they commit
suicide and leave tho boniface their creditor.
Twenty years ago there were ninety-two
lightning rod factories In the United EtateR
To-Day there arc but three, and those doing
. triding business. The lightning rod ives
the biggest humbug Of tho Nineteenth GEN.
twy.
A Freucbman has Invented ! NOW svrtem
sor nronellInr canal boats Il consists Of an
mailer cable running along the two banks
The boats are moved at double the ordinary
psed, and can readily be attached and do
Ached from the cables
An omnihua RIM bv olectricity. tho only
ana in the world. has made s,cceeful trims IN
london Il rims on any Hind Of street
vithout tho ,,nu a. rnils. wbiIe the 70 called
electric omnibus Of Paris h In reality a tram
car running on track.
There "a nothing startling In the fact that
manv Russian people have been frozen TO
Heath this winter Il Il tho business Of Russia
n IL verv ooid Tor three months IN the wear.
snd sornetbinr would he out Of order n q few
hundred neople didn't freeze 70 death.
One Newman, Of hushvuie. ind., mas u
w w s,. ~. usa.s -" ,.h . s''t =; -.
hsrn vsrI A. r,ont 4 roosts with tho nouI.
snd d,,-irr ~ A. - vt;,,,s sssis WITH them
~ sWossthss s co o,, IT. Nm a. veil dis
~ s, ch;cs-o, ,1''> = ''' = : Vs.
Acontr1vance mas 1atsiy oeen m1roduceo
on the railroads " husna 70 m1'case inc
next station AZ wnlcn me trsIn WI stor ~
Y oiai, tne lndex OF wnicn pon's 20 ~
aon n M ~ Up y :. s,ss 'as s snc ~