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Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13


Asst Postmaster General Clarkson
has an eye. single to politics, and
entertains no other considerat ions in
making his appointments to office.
Recently Judge Lock Mcdaniel
called on Mr.. Clarkson and stated
that all he wanted was that poor
widow lady who now holds $3.50
postmastership at Anderson, Texas,
should be retained. Clarkson asked
him II there was not any republican
there who wanted the Office. Mcdaniel
said that he did not know of any re-.
publican who wanted 1t; that every
body there was anxious that Mrs.
Scots should be retained. Clarkson
said that 1t was not good politics;
that he could not entertoin Mr.. Mo
Daniels request. All of which shows
that Mr.. Clarkson Is the agent of the
republican party instead Of the Amer
loan government, and that he Il
looking out for the interest OF tn,
E. OPP. The question with him con
corning an application for an appoint
ment 10, will 1t further the Interests
Of the republican party. Tho inter
ests Of the government are Of smal
4 consequence to Clarkson.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

The Office hunters have got even with
the congressman at last. Honorable
members can no more make the excuse
that owing to the bad mail delivery their
constituents little applications never
reached them. The constituent who
wants an Office now registers his letter.
The congressman must receipt for It.
and In due time the little red card come,
back to the writer Then he knows hi
letter got there. Senator Quay recently
received hfty such letters In one day.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

Call at D. H. Spencef's Music House
and examine his stock Of Pianoes and
Organs. He keeps always on hand the
famous Hallet & Davis piano, the
greatest school piano Of the world-in-
dorsed by the great artists Of the world.
1t has been chosen to be used at the
music teachers national association to
be held in Philadelphia in July next;
also, at the Ohio music teachers con.
vention to be held at Cleveland in
June. lw
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

The population Of the Samoan Islands
is not more than $1,000 all told. The
natives are an erect, handsome brown
race. with straight black hair. The
French commander who originally dis
covered the islands named the group
Navigator Islands, from the skill dis
played by the people In handling their
canoes and boats. The 6amoans wers
long ago converted to Christianity. but
In case of volcanic eruptious, which still
recur at intervals, they are rather in.
clined to lapse into the worship Of Their
ancient earthquake god.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13
The Congressional Library.

ING OOukI086lOuhl 1lOI6Iys
In the congressional library at Wash.
ington there are 600, 900 books and 200,-
600 pamphlets. Many Of them arc packed
In vaults and boxes, where they areprao-
tically inaccessible to the public. Ono
branch Of the library Il the duplicate do
partment The librarian Is permitted to
exchange books Of which he has dupli-
Gates for others Of which he has no copy.
Yet the duplicate space has been 90 out
grown that the books have had to bs
carried down stairs and packed away in
. basement room. Tones on tones have
been piled upon them, till It Is no longer
possible to reach many Of them. Persons
wishing to exchange books can only de-
post their volumes, get the librarians
check for value received, and keep it till
the new library Is finished. That win
have accommodation Soe ths duplicate
department..
At present there 3 - usws reading
room In the establishment There are NO
proper convenienoes for students or
writers. With the best efforts Of Mr..
Spoford and his amistants there are not
enough attendants 10 promptly accom-
modate visitors. The supply Of foreign
books Is very inadequate, that q many
Of the large libraries IN the country being
superior. Copies Of American books are
required by law to b sent By publishers
to the Congressional library. Appropria-
lions Of money must be made BY con-
gress for the purchase Of foreign books,
and congress does not in this case err II
the direction Of extravagance. But
American books md pamphlets are COM
ing in by the dozen daily, adding to the
already ruinously crowded burden Of the
a,coves.
Meantime congress has been for two
years serenely discussing whether It win
adopt the four million plan or the six
million plan for the new library building.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13
"Electron, the wizard.n

What ancient tale OF sorcery or magic
ever equaled the simple scientific witch.
craft of today2 II, six hundred years ago,
q man had invented small cylinder into
which one could talk, and then sent the
cylinder thousand miles away to repeat
his words, in the very tones of his voice,
that man would have been dealt with
very quickly. he would have been burnt
at the stake for operating in black magic,
and served him right for being ahead OF
his time
It needs no one to tell us that the age
Of steam is being superseded by the age
Of electricity as fast as time can move.
In Cleveland, O.. giant electro-mag-
net is used to pick up scrap iron and bars
and convey them from one place to an
other at the steel works there.
The wizard Is just now lending him
self kindly to domestic affairs. An cleo.
trical stove has been invented which will
do ordinary family cooking. A receptacle
stored with materials for generating
electricity will be brought by wagon to
household daily. It will work twenty.
four hours. Machinery and wires con
be placed throughout the house, so that
by connecting with the battery the cur.
rent can be started. The little battery
will give out heat to do the family cook
ing, power to run the sewing machine,
and open the doors and windows. 1t
will be great day when the finger of q
child, ut one touch, can open the front
door from the top story, or throw open
all the windows and air the house.
Whatever steam or water motors can
do, electricity can do. Therefore 1t is
being applied to turning grindstones,
running elevators and washing machines.
A company has been Incorporated which
expects to transmit mail and packages
by electricity from Buffalo to New York
In an hour. They are extracting alumni
mum from clay by electricity.
The problem now is that Of rapid tran
sit by the electric motor. Two methods
are being tried. One stores the materials
for generating electricity in the car it.
self. The other conducts the car by
means Of electricity carried by wires
from central station. There are diff
culties to te overcome In both methods,
but they will be overcome.
Dynamos will at once be placed in the
three state prisonsof New York for the
execution Of criminals by electricity.
The alternating current will be used.
The electricity will be produced by the
system in use for lighting cities. Con-
elusive experiments have been made
with animals that were to be slaughtered.
The two ends Of the electric wire were
applied at different points Of the body.
In fifteen seconds calf Weighing al
much as an average man met painless
death. The pressure applied was 800
volts. A volt Is the standard measure OF
electric force. It Is nearly equal to the
strength Of the electric current from one
sulphate Of copper cell in a Daniels bat
terry. The next murderer to be executed
in New York state will 80 out Of LIE by
the electric road
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

The first act done by the republic
cans when they came into power in
1850 was to take all the government
lands out Of the market and hold
them for actual settles. Among the
first acts of their second accession to
power has been to open up Oklaho.
ma. The party makes a republican
voter on every quarter section 1t
opens to the man with a hoe, and re-
publican voters out Of his sons aud his
sons sons. That is sort Of practical
politics in which the republican party
is strong.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

Nine more days and tens Of thous
ands of men will pour with rush and
. roar into Oklahoma, heller SHELTER
pell NELL, and the devil take the hind
most. They are men lured by a
greatprize and maddened with the ex-
element of delay and uncertainty
and the result will be lncalculabie.
The president made mistake in the
manner of opening up tho land.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has imported an English locomotive en-
CINE for trial. II has driving wheels
stx and hall feet In diameter. It Il
built on the compound system, having
two high pressure and one low pressure
cylinder. The claim made for It IL that
It can be run with nearly 10 per cent.
less fuel than American engines can.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

The Free School Of Mechanical Trades
was the monument the late Isaiah VIII
hanson, OF Philadelphia, LEFT Of himself
A. J. Drexel = founding similar insti-
tuition for girls. These trade schools an
becoming very numerous. They prom,
he 70 revolutieniss the old systsm Of ap
pxonticeehjn
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

Ladies', don't wear osprey plumes in
your hats. The plume grows only on
the parent birds at nesting time. Abird
must be killed for each little plume, and
its young are left to perish. At this rats
the graceful Florida osprey win soon b
extinct
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

AS the mild winter was general
over the north and southwest. so also
has been q spring drought, and fortu-
nately, equally general are tho rains
now falling ana breaking up the
drought.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

Tomorrow Will be Sunday. See
church directory and be governed &C.
cordinRly.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

General and heavy, anil much
much needed rains are reported by
telegraph in northern Iowa and south.
ern Dakota.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

And 50 the women have begun to
administer the whitecap medicine to
wife heaters. This is one species of
outlawry that the general public will
regard with q generous degree Of al
loWance.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

The woods are full of them. On
hundreds of miles of Kansas and
Texas frontier, ten thousand boomers
look over into the promised land.
They are not content with looking,
but hundreds and thousands already
are hid in the woods and crawling
towards Oklahoma.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

Go to W. Il. Meers, corner 9Th and
Mary streets for best cut stove wood
at lowest prices and full measure guar
anteed.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

The old boomers and real settlers
are on the Kansas borders in wagons,
three days drive from Okalahoma,
while the fioaters can rush in on the
trains in q few hours. The govern
ment is now being urged to let the
men in the wagons move to the bor-
ders of Oklahoma so as to have an
equal show,
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

Our exports Of breadstuf{s from July
to March this year fell below last year
by $10. zoo, 900.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

Now let the Waco nine wallop the
Island city boys and Waco will swear
by them.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

If the engagement of Justice Hor-
ace Gray to Miss Matthews is consum-
mated, IL will be the only instance on
record of Justice of the supreme
court being married.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

Two immense RATS are being built
up on the Arkansas on which . Colony
will be fioated down to Oklahoma.
But lion the 22nd Of April that raft
should stick on q sand bar what q
rage the men would be in.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

Mr.. Joe Ratcliff, one of the best
BARRIERS in the city has opened q shop
at 1922 South Fifth street.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

Marbles and tops, in biggest and
finest varieties, cheap at Ambold's. I
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

Women may now vote FOR and hold
the Office Of school inspector In Michigan.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

The Waco team doubles them up Us
they come.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-13

WANTED
TO EXCHANGE Furni-
ture, Stoves or Household
Goods of every description for
a good horse.
TO RENT--Good seven-room
house on Dutton street, also
two-room house.
ALL kinds Of Household arti-
les to buy,sell, Exchange or rent
TO SELL--Good seven-room
House, or exchange it for
Fort Worth property.
EVERYBODY to call on G.
L. GoocH at Curiosity Shop
and buy goods on the Install
me mt Plan.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-03
The Age of Paper.

The Paper World: The world has seen
its iron age. its golden age and its brazen
age. This is the age of paper. We are
making SO many things of paper that ii
will loon be true that without paper
there is nothing made that is made. We
live in paper houses, wear paper cloth,
ing, and sit on paper cushions in paper
cars, rolling on paper wheels. We do a
paper business over paper counters, buy
ing paper goods, paying for them with
paper money or charging them mp in
paper books, and deal in paper stocks on
paper margins We row races in paper
boats for paper prizes. We go to paper
theaters where paper actors play to paper
audiences. We elect paper men with
paper votes on a paper issue to represent
a paper constituency in a paper congress
and make paper laws. AS the
age develops, the coming man will
become more deeply enmeshed in
the paper net. He will awake in
the morning and creep from under the
paper clothing on his paper bed and put
on his paper dressing gown and paper
slippers. He will walk over paper car
pets down paper stairs. and seating him
self in a paper chair will read the paper
news in the morning paper. A paper
bell will call him to his breakfast, cooked
in a paper oven, served On paper dishes,
laid On a paper cloth on a paper table.
He will wipe his lips with a paper nap
kin, ard having put on his paper shoes,
paper hat and paper coat and taken his
paper cane he will walk on a paper pave
ment or ride in a paper carriage 10 his
paper office. He will organize paper en-
terprises and make paper profits. He
will go to Europe on paper steamships
and navigate the air in paper balloons.
He will smoke paper tobacco in 4 paper
will write with a paper pencil, white
ing with a paper rod, a paper line and a
basket. He will go shooting
with g. paper gun loaded
with paper cartridges, and will defend
his country in paper forts with paper
cannon and paper bombs. Having lived
his paper life and achieved a paper fame
and paper wealth, he will retire to paper
leisure and die in psper peace. There
will be q paper funeral, at which the
mournere. dressed in paper Grape, will
wipe their eyes with paper handkerchiefs,
and a paper preacher will preach a paper
sermon in a paper pulpit from q paper
text. He will lie in Il paper coffin,
wrapped in a paper shroua, his name
will be engraved on 81 paper plate, and a
paper bcarse adorned with paper plumes
will carry him to a paper-iined grave.
over which will be raised a paper mopu.
ment. The papers will record his paper
virtues, while paper angels with paper
wings will clothe him in 8 paper robe
and watt his paper spirit from this paper
world tic the paper gates of a paper para
disc. where all is paper and tlre-proof at
that.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-03
'EIap!oLuruM Yooa
Living on Meal ana Water.


DIR. 7. r. Allinson," says the Lon
don Hospital, has been trying the ex-
pertinent of living on meal and water
for Il month. His daily allowance is
one pound of whole meal. made into a
cake with distilled water, aud one
quart of water. His account of his
condition after Il week is cheering. In
the first few days he felt hungry, but
about the fourth day this disappeared,
and he had 10 longer any craving for
other food. His brain was clear. his
lung capacity hadincreascd five inches,
and both his sight and his hearing had
improved. He had lost seven pounds
weight, but seems to regard this as
rather an advantage. Altogether he
feels thoroughly satisfied with his OK.
pertinent. IL is a very economical one,
The wheat for seven days having cost
only eight pence. This. he says. is
living on almost a penny aday aud Ell.
loving it,"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-03
Ga,vanizing wrought Iron

The American Machinist gives the fol-
lowing method for ~galvanizing wrought
Iron: The wrought iron is first immersed
in a cleansing bath Of equal parts of sui,
phurlc or muriatic acid and water, used
warm. 1t is then scrubbed with emery
or sand, to clean it thoroughly and de-.
tach all scales. il any are left, after which
it is immersed in a preparing bath Of
equal parts Of saturated solutions of
chloride of zinc aud chloride Of amu.onia.
from which bath it is directly transferred
10 the fluid metal bath, consisting of
tsenty chemical equivalents Of zinc 10
o lie of mercury: or, by weight, $40 pounds
OF zinc to 100 of mercury, 10 which are
sdded from five 10 six ounces OF sodium.
As soon az the iron has attained the tenn
p nature of this hot fluid bath. which is
only $50 degrees Fahrenheit, it may be
removed, and will then be found thor
oughly coated witt zinc. Care must be
taken not 10 leave the iron too long i'm
mersed in this bath, as its affinity foriron
is such that it may become dissolved.
This is the cese with thin plates Of
wrought iron; ever when one-eighth inch
thick they may be dissolved in q few sec
onds. II is safe. therefore, to let the
bath previously act on some wrought
iron. 30 that it dissolves a portion OF IT.,
in order to satisfy its lnconvenisntly great
affinity for this metal.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-03
EpIsoN's
IL Full Of all scrts Of Bewilderins
TktuGs.

AhIuBBs
Among the materials stored in Edison's
laboratory (as appears in an article upon
Edison in the April Cosmopolitan, are
of every substances in the world; the
thousands of pigeon holes and drawers
contain skins and feathers, and furs of
the whole animal creation, minerals,
barks, grasses, drugs. fruits and gums, in
bewilderimg completeness. Some of the
species are so rare that they are kept like
diamonds, in the little folded papers. The
grotesqus nature OF some Of the materials
there collected prompted the inquiry:
How can you ever want such things
as sharks teeth or rhinoceros hornP"
THAT shows that you don't know
what queer things electricians use," re-
piled GU modern Virgil. During the
progress Of the experiments with the in
candescent electric light, for instance,
nearly everything n can think Of was
tried as a primary material from which
to form the delicate carbon tilament
whose incandescence is the source of
light. Finally, as perhaps you know,
shreds of particular variety of bamboo
were found to give the most gratifying
results; and there, by the way, you can
see a few bales of the very reeds from
which these strips are cut. Again, the
delicate needle which, affixed to the
under side of the vibrating diaphragm Of
the photograph, indents the smooth, re
volving surface of the waxen cylinder,
had to be formed of some material pos
sessing peculiar properties Of elasticity
and rigidity. Scores of the most unlikely
substances, both organic and inorganic,
natural and artificial, were tried before
the right one was hit upon. And 80 il
goes with all the little details of electric
apnliances."
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-03
Setting the Table.

With cheeks like the rose that in summer
time flows
In the old fashioned garden at home,
"lth eyes Ike twin wells and with black hair
Curly treason to halr-pln and comb.
With footsteps as light and with apron IS
AS the foam on a wave o. the sea,
Benny sweet Mabel was setting the table,
Was setting the table for tea.
While John by the window was talking with
About witch grass and staples and rings.
dreams
A fond dream OF for different things. ss
For John had come over to ask n~eighbor
For the loan of a pillow, hut his hat
And his Sunday coat took q brash far re-
mote
From an everyday GRAND like that.
And still on the subject of lumber and teams
With dads views he is fam to agree,
But he wonders meanwhile If Mabel's sweet
smile
Presages n bidding to tea.
:, With the table, the tea and the cat,
10 settle his doubt it was quickly found out
What this amorous swain would be at.
With flsh-rod and hook from the neighboripg
brook
And its wild piscatorial joys,
ina moment more to the half-open door
Came tho farmers two tow-headed boys.
The foremost looked in, then he turned With
a grin
And he whispered "As sure as the fates,
Look Bill, by hooky, III bet you Il cookie
That the great spoon Is counting the
plates"
Last night twas my fate to be walking quite
late
Past Johns modesthouse in the lane,
The Kitchen was near and the story quite
clear.
That the lamplight had told on the pane.
From the stove and the cat TO the rocker and
mat
All things looked suspiciously new.
And being sweet Mabel was setting the table
was setting the table for two.
Good housekeeping.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-03
WELCOME IN HIS OLD AGE
Lorenzo Sieb.rt Draws So 900 IL
the Loutaiana State Lottery.

Lorenzo Sic Draws $5,o 900 in
the Louisiana State Lottery.
Toledo (Ohio) Blade, April 0: Lorenzo
siebert who keeps a clothes repairing and
cleaning shop at s1S Summit street, is
one of the two persons who drew one.
twentieth of the ticket No. 10,420 in the
March drawing Of The Louisiana State
Lottery. A reporter for the Blade called
on him and asked him to tell shout il.
well" he said, Il had drawn scvera,
times before end never got more than SIC
or $40. and | was not expecting anything
this time. l sold a quarter of my tickel
TO my partner, William Parde, and an
other quarter to Mr.. Haas, a friend OF
mine. We are all poor men, and l tell
you there were three happy old mer
when we learned that we had IS, 900 "a
divide up. We got the money in a few
days, through the United States Express
company, and ! have put mine out at in
%tcrest, to have something in my old
age"
Mr.. Siebert is about go years old, hi,
partner, q middle, aged man, and Mr.,
Haas is 81.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-03
Miscalculation.

john" said II wife who WAS sup
posed to be on her ieath-bed, lin case
of my death think Il man of your
temperament and domestic nature,
aside from the good of the children.
ought to marry again
..Do you think SO, my dear
II certainly do, after a reasonable
length of time"
We'll. now. do you know. my dear,
that relieves my mind Of u Great bur
den. Tine little widow Jenkins lia.
acted rather demure toward me ever
since you were taken sick. She is not
the I'M you are, OF course, !:
s.rong-minded, Intelligent oil
character, but she is plump and pretty.
aud | am sure she would maze Il very
desirable wife
The next day Mrs. JOHN was able to
sit up, tie following day she went
downstairs, and on the third day she
was planning for n new dress.
o.