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Evening journal., 1889-06-20
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WILrIAMsP0RT PA, hIne 20 The river
is falling and alarm over he possibility Of
another fhcd has supsd a The los fr m the
food in this eiiy Is estimated AZ Sl0.00lUO0.
Evening journal., 1889-06-20
DIed Of Chat.res veye,


NEW YORK, June 20.-Augusta Calderon,
aged 10 years, who arrived with her parents
on the Colon, died Monday in this city Of
chagres feYer.
Evening journal., 1889-06-20
ONE CENT
POSTAL CLERKS KILLED.
A Serious Wreck on the Pam
handle Road.
THREE KILLED, SEVEN INJURED.

The Cause Of the Accident n Mystery.
There Were Fifteen Postal Clerks on
the Train-More Of the Iajured Mar
Die.
PITTsBuRG, juno 20 The second section
Of Panhandle train No z, Avestbound, was
wrecked near New Cumberland junction, two
miles east Of Steubenvile, O. Rhe third
fourth and fifth cars from the engine were
thrown from the track, the cause for which
has not yet been ascertained. The train waa
running about forty-iive miles an hour, and
was made up OF express and postal cars er-
clusively.
Payne and Reinhardt Instantly Killed.
The train was manned by one engineer, ons
fireman, one conductor and one brakeman
and fifteen postal clerks. Postal clhrks J. r.
Payne and r. r. Renlnrdt were instantly
killed.
The seriously injured are Conductor Burris,
Brakeman Mcfarland, Postal Clerks W. &
Bolton and j. f. Matthews. The less serf-
ousy injured are Postal Clerks r. d Arm
strong, f. G. Benner. Q. j. Minor and Franh
Shook. The injured were taken TO the hoe
pital al Steubenville o.
brakeman Mcfarland Dead.
a special from Steuble, o.. last night SAYS,
brakeman John Mcfarland, Of Mar hald,
o., died at 3 o'clock The ho,nitaI ply slciana
say that Conductor Burris' injuries are fatal,
and that he cannot live much longer The
others injured are resting comfortably and
will probably recover
collision of freight trains occErred at thu
scene Of the wreck short time afterwards
Three sections of freight train following
the mail pulled up and stopped. Theengine
of the first section was detached from its train
and used TO assist in clearing the track
in front A fourth section of the freight
came up under full speed and CRASHED into
the rear Of the third section, smashing the en-
gine and wreclSing several cars OF nlerchan-
disc. The train men jumped and escaped
serious injury
Evening journal., 1889-06-20
Al AstropomIoal Presant

PRovIpENcE, JGne. % --Governor Ladd
has presented BIO IN university with an as
tronOmical observatory and complete outfit
Evening journal., 1889-06-20
The Road win Paw for Armach.s victims

The Road viii Pay for Armagh's Victims
DUBLIN, June 20-1he Irish Northern
I, Railway company, on whose road the dis
aster at Armagh occurred, announces that
the company VIII assume all liability for the
accideni and Is ready to consider al claims
prasen.la
Evening journal., 1889-06-20

weather Indications
The weather. rIN nai.es to be warmer and
fair,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18
A Mountain of Snakes.

81 went out to the mountains to fish
for trout last week, said a well-known
and thoroughly reliable citizen of this
place, land the rain drove me to an old
shanty which found to be inhabited by
a solitary old man. After talking to him
= little about the continued wet weather,
the conversation turned to snakes. Yes,
said the old hermit, 'rsttlesnakesis mighty
thick this year.
&" Il guess the rain has soaked them all
out. If you wouldn't mind walkin' up
there on the side of the mountain where
you see that big pile of rocks, 1 kin show
you more snakes n you seen for some
time The rocky promontory referred
to was perhaps half a mile distant, and
willingly consented to accompany him.
When we got within perhaps 300 feet of
the place l stopped, and the old man said:
DO you notice that gray rock there shaped
like haystack2 l admitted that l did.
We'll, he continued, that is no rock
that is pile O. rattlesnakes. Come along
an III show you We approached 200
feet nearer, and there, sure enough,
could see that what the old man said was
true-a pyramid-shaped pile of rocks,
fully as large as an ordinary-sized hay
stack, was so literally covered with snakes
as toappear like a seething mass of squirm-
ing reptiles. 1t was horrible beyond ex-
preston. Now watch, said the old man,
and he picked up large stone and hurled
it right into the midst of the pile In
mediately the heretofore sluggish mass
became hideons heH u arrr7rry: They
coiled, Kissed and struck viciously, sink
ing their poisonous fangs into each others
aesh, and kept up rafting that was al
most deafening. The old man hurled
stone after stone among them, and they
continued TO grow more furious until it
seemed that every serpent was in 4 death
struggle with another. The stencil arts
ing from the poison which they emitted
became so sickening that I feared we
would be overcome byit, and we hastened
away. A more frightful, awful spectacle
than this battle of the rattlesnakes could
not possibly be imagined The old man
said that this was a regular nesting
ground for rattlers, and that of the thou
sands engaged in the deadly combat
several hundred at least would die
ChicGOO Tribune
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18
treatment and Cnrsa-nfMfarts.

Warts are cancerous growths of the
skin. They are Of vascular formation,
that is they are provided with veins and
nerves, and they are contagious. A per-
son with Warty hands will be apt to
cause tkese growths on a COW that he
may milk. To remove them the whole
substance, the wart and its roots in the
skin, must be destroyed by the use of
caustics, of which nitric acid, applied by
means of strip of glass to the surface
after milking, is the most effective. As
the wart is corroded it should be rubbed
with coarse sandpaper or punice stone to
make fresh surface before more acid is
applied. When the wart is wholly re-
moved and raw spot only is left, this
should be healed by busting it with calo-
mel. When a wart has a neck around
which strong thread Oh wire may be
tied or twisted this method of strangula.
ton viii remove it.-Neto York Times.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18
Eating Raw Fish.

A correspondent who dined in Japan
describes wildly the sensations produced
by eating raw fish: ''The whole fish was
there, his head and shining blue eyes, his
tail and fins, but at touch the shape
came apart, and lay in thin slices upon
the bones, miracle of the carver's art.
l took a chop-stick full. The first taste
of caviare and onions is an event in g
lifetime; the unknown olive and pungeni
garlic have made episodes in every career,
but to close the jaws on slice of cold,
raw fish, and have the clammy, rubber.
like flesh culver and slip under the teeth
has horror peculiarly its own. The
sense of its being something lately dead,
something corpsey, is sickening. One
slice filed me almost to OVERLOOKING, and
l confined myself to the garnish."
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18
The Japanese Cooking Stove.

The japanese, with all their ingenuity,
have never produced anything that an
American would consider satisfactory IN
the way Of a cooking stove. The Jap
anese kitchen has little range or furnace,
made of plaster, with three compartments
for fire and a circular orifice above each,
in which to place pot or kettle There
is no chimney flue and no draught. The
faggots are placed in the open furnace
and lighted. The smoke issues from the
opening and fills the kitchen. The Cor
cans use similar stove or range. For
heating the japanese have little portable
braziers or boxes, hibaches, in which
charcoal is burned If a man gets cold,
as he frequently does, he clasps one Of
these boxes in his arm and then wraps a
blanket around himself and the box
Washington Star.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18
Use of Palms.

In order to be able to appreciate how
much the native tribes of the countries
where palms most abound are dependent
upon this noble family of plants, and
how they take part in some form OF 9th
er in every action of the natives life, we
must enter his hut and inquire into the
origin and structure of the various arti-
cles we see around US Suppose We visit
an Indian cottage on the banks of the
Rio Negro, in South America. The
main supports of the building are the
trunks of some forest tree of durable
wood, but the light rafters are formed of
the straight stems of the lara palm. The
roof is matched with large, triangular
leaves, and bound to the roof with for
est creepers. The leaves are those of the
carana palm. The door of the house is
framework made of the stems of the
pashinba palm. In one corner stands a
harpoon for capturing the cow-fsh; it is
made of the black wood of the pashinba
palm. Beside it is blow pipe ten or
twelve feet long, for shooting birds or
even the wild hog or tapir; it is made
from the stem of one of two species of
palms. The Indians large bassoon-like
musical instruments are made of palm
stems; the cloth in which he wraps his
valued feather ornaments is i fibrous
palm spathe, and the rude chest in which
he keeps his treasures Is woven from
palm leaves His hammock, bow-string,
and fishing line are from the fibres Of
leaves which he obtains from different
palm trees, the hammock from the mi
viii, and the bow-string and fishing line
from the tucum.
The comb that he wears on his head
is ingeniously constructed from the hard
bark of palm, and he makes fish hooks
of the spines, or uses them for tatooing
purposes. His children are eating the
agreeable red and yellow fruit of the
pupunba or peach palm; and from the
assai he has prepared a favorite drink
which he offers you to taste. That care
fully suspended gourd contains oil which
he has extracted from another species
Of palm; and that long elastic plated
cylinder used for squeezing dry the man
drocea pulp to make his bread is made
of the bark of one of the singular climb
ing palms, which alone can resist for
considerable time the ACTON of the poi
sonous Juice. In fact, there seems no
end to the economical purposes to which
the products of palms are applied in the
countries where they grow.-SeientiJfc
Agusysjc1n
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18

Why local capital fights so shy of the
Hudson river tunnel is not easily ex-
planned. Direct communication between
New York city and the railways termi-
mating at Jersey City, N. j., is bound to
be had sooner or later, and why not
sOonerl The passage by ferries is expen-
sive and subject to vexatious delays, and
the Hudson river bars three-fourths of
the railroads of the United States from
entering the metropolis. Consider the
enormous amount of traffic and what its
transhipment means. Dewitt G. Haskin
conceived the idea of tunnel under Abe
river. A s~--sP.---5 - roi-ii1d sl4c1-,S-711s
was decided to build two parallel tu1T
ncls, each 5000 feet long, Is feet high
and 16 feet wide. About 1000 feet of
the north and $50 feet of the south tun-
mel were completed under the river and
then the money gave out. The working
shafts at both shore ends are complete
and the works are abundantly supplied
with machinery. The company has leg
islative authority to condemn such real
estate as it needs for terminal facilities
both in New York and Jersey City. In
Jersey City the terminus will be in close
proximity to the great trunk lines center
ing there. On the New York side the
tunnel will come to the surface at Nor
ton street, and the tracks will by easy
gradients reach Broadway only 16 feet
below the street level. The terminals
will cover ESQ, 900 square feet in New
York and larger area in Jersey City.
The Brooklyn bridge cost S13, 900, 600,
and its passenger traffic exceeds 80, 00O,-
600, and its earnings $3.50, coo year,
while at the same time the East river
ferries carry more passengers than before
it was opened The distance across the
Hudson at the tunnel site is three and
half times that across the East river at
the Bridge site. The terminus on the
New York side will tap street railways
that will carry 24O, 900, 900 passengers
annually.
A simple statement of these facts has
been sufficient TO secure enough English
capital to complete the work. Some 49,
900, 600 has already been expended.
This will be represented by portion of
the share capital of $40, 900, 900. The
tunnel company is to issue total of 3d.,
$50, 900 in bonds, redeemable in 1899,
and secured as a first mortgage.-NeU
Orleans Picayune.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18

heartfelt voice, she said: "Thank Goa
for my narrow escape"
John Graves, whom James Monroe had
denominated "a lout, /" was young far.
mer living about three miles from Mr..
Murdock's. He was steady, upright
young man, not given to s'putting on
airs, but honest and true to his friends
as the needle to the pole. He had
large farm bequeathed him by his father,
which he cultivated to the very best ad-
vantage. In fact, he was considered the
best farmer near GAINESVILLE. His mother
and maiden sister attended to the house
hold duties, while he and two "hired
men" were constantly employed in bring
ing his broad acres into the highest state
of productiveness. Him the following
autumn, Mary Murdoch married. And
at about the same time Imogene Burton
was lead to the altar by ga gentleman of
New York. - Yankee Blade.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18
WORDS OF WISDOM
A fool is a wise mans ladder.

A fool is a wise mans ladder.
He who is born a fool is never cured.
A fool may by chance say a wise thing.
A FOOLS boil may sometimes hit the
mark
A fool always finds a greater fool that
admires HIN.
Only trust thyself and another shall
not betray thee.
A fool who speaks the truth is better
than hundred liars
Both men and women belle their ma
ture when they are not kind.
Life is not so short but that there Is
always time enough for courtesy.
Though fattery blossoms like friend
ship, yet there is great difference'in-4 -
fruit.
A man may be doing much who is
successfully overcoming adverse influ-
ences.
Those who live on vanity must, not
unreasonably, expect to die of NORTH
cation.
The humblest occupation has in it
materials of discipline for the highest
heaven.
Whatever you dislike in another per
son, take care to correct in yourself ly
the gentle reproof.
Any one may do casual act of good
nature, but continuation of them shows
it is part of the temperament.
Avoid him who, from mere curiosity,
asks three questions running about a
thing that cannot interest him.
Alteration is certain deformity; by
forming themselves on fantastic models,
the young begin with being ridiculous
and often end in being vicious.
Nothing more impairs authority than a
too frequent or indiscreet use of it. If
thunder itself was to be continual it
would excite no more terror than the
noise of a mill
Great talents for conversation should
be attended with great politeness. He
who eclipses others owes them great
civilities; and whatever a mistaken vanity
may tell US, it is better TO please in con-
versation than to shine in it.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18

Verisopht, Silt pains me to know
l have a son who is treated with derision
by his comrades
Verisopht, Jr.-"Awl Lawl beg
pawdon, Paw; but aw! don't undaw-
stand yaw."
Yerisopht, SRI presume not. lean
well believe a man who murders English
as you do cannot understand it when it is
spoken properly; but perhaps you may
comprehend the meaning of this paper l
found pinned to your coat when your
registering companions placed you on the
front steps this morning"
Verisopht, Jr.-''Awl indeedl Awl
will yaw please-aw! wead it taw mehl
I-awl left nav monocle awp sta-aws,
yaw knaw"
Verisopht, Sr.-
Here lies thing without a brain,
A form to hang some clothes on;
It's head well soaked, but not with rain,
So gently turn the hose on"
Life.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18
AN OVERSIGHT OF MAKE-uR

a sweet little baby brother
HAD come % live with Flo,
And she wanted it brought to the table.
That it might eat and grow.
1t must wait for a while, said grandma.
In answer to her plea;
"Fora little thing that hasn't teeth
Can't eat like you and me-
why hasn't it got teeth, grandmaF'
Asked Flo, III great surprise.
"Oh, my; but isn'tit funnv2
No teeth, but nose an ewes.
1 guess after thinking gravel7,
They must have been forgot
Can't We buy him some like grandpa'sy
I'd like to know why not.n
That afternoon to the corner,
With paper and pen and ink,
Went Flo, saying; Don't talk to me,
If you do it'Il 'sturb me think.
I'm writing letter, grandma,
To send away tonight,
An cause its very 'portant
want to getit right"
At last the letter was finished,
A wonderful think TO see,
And directed to God in heaven"
please read it over to me-
Said little Flo TO her grandma,
''To see If its right, you know"
And here is the letter written
To God by little Flo;
'DEAR COP: The baby you brought Us
Is awful nice and sweet,
But cause you forgot his tooies
The poor little thing can't eat.
That's why I'm writing this letter,
A purpose to let you know;
Please come and finish the baby.
That's all. From LITTLE FLo.'
-PttSblirg Post.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18

His language is artless and free,
And his fund of good jokes is immense,
his handshake is hearty and warm,
And his manners polite to intense
His clothes fit him snugly and trim,
His necktie way up in the style,
His hat is the latest thing out,
And his face wears a genial smile.
He has the time tables by heart,
He is ''chummyn at all the hotels;
He calls his trade by their first name,
And leaves copies Of all goods he sells.
His trunk is just packed with ''big jobs"
He throws out his pet little bats
He's dete mined to sell his new man,
So he's offered him all sorts of dates"
The trade never want any goods.
He's accustomed to sights and rebuff
But get man started and then
He can scarce wait day for his ''stuf. ,
Oh, jolly bright fellow is he,
This tourist Of commerce and trade.
Don't call hin drummer, y forsooth
He's full band complete on parade.
Philadelphia North american
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18

According to Chinese law a person
who commits a murder should be put to
Sc..e.stii. "a ne Tor HE, BENG the sine
qua non. This law is not always en-
forced owing to the Discrimination OF
relatives TO take the matter before the
officials. and accuse the murderer: Inc
reason of this reticence is explained as
follows: When a person dies, his spirit
ooes into the world Of shades, and, &C
cordinc to the deserts Of the deceased,
If Is either rewarded or punished. Now
the relatives expect the spirit will have
trouble enough without their adding to
fine infiiction. and that if the death OF
tbeir murdered relative is reported to the
officials. the spirit viii suffer in the IN
seem world, for it viii be mentioned that
Il had been in a court, which Is con,
sidered as carrying a certain degree OF
obioauy with it, even though the 1nur-
dered person was entirely innocent They
saw that the spirit, being annoyed at this,
will wreak its vengeance upon the lV-
ing and bring them i'll luck, so that none
of the members viii ever meet with sue
cess or obtain official employment.
Under these circumstances the latter
sometimes prefer to bury their murdered
relatives quietly and without reference to
the mandarins.-L0ndon Figaro.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18
IT HAD TO COME OUT.

"Were you ever engaged in q train
robbery" asked the prosecuting attorney,
looking at him keenly
II was never indicted for train
robbing, - answered the witness evasively.
"That is not the question" said the
lawyer. Il will ask you again. Were
you ever a train-robberln
Judge, said the witness, turning i'm
ploringly to the dignity on the bench,
Unjust l answer that question:"
"You must" answered the Judge.
"And remember you are under oath"
The witness turned pale and his knees
knocked together.
Il suppose it's got to come out. sold
books and bananas on the cars for a whole
year when was young fellow, " faltered
the miserable man. y Chicago Tribune.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18
Popularity of Log Houses.

Mr.. William Wicks has written a book
on log cabins and the best way to build
them. Speaking of the growing popu-
larity of these houses the New York
Times says: ''Where the material exists
in quantity logs make the cheapest house
that can be built, and no house can be
warmer; neither is there any material,
except stone, which will afterward cost
so little for exterior repairs. There are
some noble mansions of logs in the South
and West, and even in the East; among
Others Mr. Albert Lewis's cottage on
Harvey Lake, Pennsylvania, is visited
annually by hundreds of admirers of the
picturesque, and other handsome log
houses are being erected in densely
wooded localities"
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18
When you go to the circas,=
Take care what you drink
Look not on the lemonade -
When it is pink.
Blind Fish.

Professor Ray Lancaster accounts for the
absence of eyes in the fishes in the famous
underground Kentucky caves in the fol-
lowing way: 4 great food carries to the
Kentucky caves, some thirty miles below
the surface, a number Of FISH, among
whose numerous offspring viii be some
defective in sight, as some babies are born
blind, or without eyes at all. The fish
who can see some faint glimmerings Of
light viii swim away toward that light,
while those viii remain that cannot per-
ceive the CLEANS This with every sue
ceeding generation would occur, the
stronger in sight swimming away and the
weaker remaining, and as the breeding
would therefore occur between tlese Of
the worst sight, fish would be born with
weaker eyes and weaker until born blind.
The Professor also accounted for the
white patch on rabbits tails. He ex-
planned that as rabbits are gregariOus
animals, signaling is of great advantage
to them, and that the white patch so con-
spicuous against the darker fur Of the rest
of the body is of use as a signal. Hares,
on the other hand, being solitary animals,
do not stand in need of a signal Hence,
the tail of the hare IS not conspicuous IN
its color.-Scieatifc American.