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Some Good in "McGintx.m

Although the McGinty song has be
come chestnut the publishers say thet
over $50, 900 copies have been sold.
The song has served both author and
publishers well. Flynn, who wrote the
song, is a variety comedian. At the
time the song was written he and his
partner, Sheridan, were earning $50 a
week. When the musical news arrived
that McGinty had gone to the bottom
of the sea the salary of the comedians
rose to $500 week. The publishers,
too, came in for a material share of the
profits.
AT the time the song was published
these two young Germans were drag
ging out a precarious existence in Brook
Ign trying to sell pianos on the install
ment plan and dealing in cheap music.
Their store was poorly furnished, and
the money taken in every day was con-
sumed each night in the attempt to pay
current expenses. Along came Flynn
with his manuscript of McGinty. It
swept the town. Orders came in from
orchestra leaders for orchestral arrange.
ments. The press was kept busy night
and day to supply the demand. The
young Germans smiled. They painted
the store, put out big golden sign and
filed the reiuvenated place with pianos.
New York Sun.
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An Electric Lawn Party.

An electric lawn party was given a
few days ago by one of the leading cleo
ticians of the country at his residence
In Connecticut As the visitor was
ushered into the oaken hall he was
greeted with music from an electric or
gan. An open box of cigars lay on the
center table, and overhanging it was an
electric cigar lighter. On the sideboard
in an electric teapot, the fragrant BoheS
was brewing, and novel and almost
weird effects of electric lighting were
visible all around, while the air was
cooled with electric fans. Two objects
of unique interest, taken side BY side,
were one of the first monographs and
the very last perfected instrument made.
In the evening there was a grand dis
play of fireworks, ignited by electricity
direct from the lighting circuit, a thing
never before attempted. The fireworks,
which were shown about 150 yards from
the house, were lighted from the piazza
by the turning of a small electric switch
in the hands of lady.-Exchange.
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June 20 Frederick Miller and David
Heller. two employees at the furnace at
the rolling mills, were killed by pre-.
mature explosion of Hercules powder
while blasting out salamander from the
bottom Of the furnace. Miller was
standing directly over the drilled hole
at the time of the explosion, and was
terribly torn and dishgured. Both arms
were blown off. But one was found.
Every effort to find the other arm proved
fruitless until yesterday.
The workmen saw an object clinging
to one of the stay rods that help to sup
port and keep in position the stacks on
the top of the furnace. Through curl
osity they climbed up to the top, and
they saw sight that not only filed
them with horror but with wonder
There in full sight of all was a mans
hand with only the stub of an arm at
tached tightly clasping the rod above
mentioned.
There can be no doubt but that the
hand is that of the unfortunate Miller.
The only theory known for the strange
freak of the bodyless hand is that the
hand was blown out of the top of the
high stack, and in coming down the
muscles, still active, contracted when
the hand struck the rod and fastened to
it with deadly grip. From the position
in which Miller was standing the hand
could not have reached the position it
occupied other than in the above man
ner. The muscles could not have re-
Taxed much after first contracting, else
the hand would have fallen.-Brazil
Times.
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A Modern Prodiral.

A short time ago Mr.. Crimp, farmer
of Milton, Devon, advertised for a la
borer. A wretched, half starved youns
man in rags and tatters applied for tn,
situation, and by pleading hard OBJ
tanned it. Some time after he told hi.
master that he owned an estate in Wilt
shire, and that his father was a yer,
wealthy man. He had left home. he
said, through an unpleasantness, and had
been wandering about for years, barely
earning subsistence. The farmer made
inquiries, and visited Wiltshire to find
the extraordinary story true. His Ia
borers father resided in an elegant man.
sion, beautifully sitnated. He had long
since given up his son for dead, but i'm
mediately accompanied the farmer back
to Dsvonshire and there found the prod
lgal, who would not leave his master
until the latter had procured some one
to take his place on the farm.-London
Tit Eits.
Singular Feature in Lead Manipulation.
Investigations recently made appear
to show that the lead miner does not
really suffer in health more than any
other worker under ground, as the ore
is not in a condition to be absorbed by
the body, but that lead slnelters and
all engaged in the manufacture of lead.
particularly white lead, run a very
great risk of being contaminated sooner
or later. 1t also appears that at Tyne
side, the chief center of the English
lead trade, there is one type of ailment
which is rarely seen elsewhere. attack
ing those who have been en- aged in
the work only a few months. or even
weeks-a fatal disease, the principal
victims being girls of from seventeen
to twenty-three years of age.
They rapidly display symptoms Of
this form of to1emia in the way of Sc
we're headache, followed by collie, blind
ness, and, unless they speedily leave
work for considerable time and un-
dergo most careful treatment, the fatal
result is rapidly ushered in, usually
with epileptiform commissions and
coma. 1t is remarkable, however, that
but little trace of lead is found in THAI
bodies after death, perhaps not MT
than few grains in the internal Or
gans after they have been subjected to
the most complete and exhaustive ex.
animation. New York Tribune
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Signals from a Police Club.

A police officer of Chicago has de.
vised an ingenious mode of signaling
for the patrol wagon. He hos a brass
plate fixed in the end of his club, hav.
ing an opening Of suitable shape to cor
respond with and act as key or wrench
to turn the lever that sends in the
alarm. This opening also serves as a
mouthpiece to a whistle set in the base
Of the club. This is most practical
device, for the subjects of arrest are,
as rule, neither very obliging nor
aIniable, and certainly not prone to re-
main peaceful and inactive while an
officer is extracting bis keys from bis
pocket to send in an alarm. York
Telegram.
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Young Den Scarce.

Tho cry which comes up from the
watering places is as regularly associat-
ed with this season in the public mind
as cucumbers, ice cream and russell
leather shoes. 1t is worth noting, how
ever, that the wall this year is more deep
and heartfelt than it has been for many
seasons past. If things go on at the
present rate before long the government
will be importuned to take a hand in
supplying the summer resorts with
young men. Their scarcity bids fair to
rank as public grievance. Some of the
published lists of the entertainments
given at the watering places are curious
" suggestive.
In one dispatch from Narragansett,
for instance, on Sunday the details of a
delightful impromptu picnic" were
given. A list of the guests was append
ed. There were four young men and
twenty-seven young women. At an Sin
formal dance in Newport on the same
day it was said that for the first time in
the history of that famous watering
place girls danced with one another since
there were not enough men to go around
Such condition of things as this at
Newport is absolutely unprecedented. 1t
is not difficult to find out where the
young men are by the way. They are
grinding away in New York, and can
did and unprecedented survey of the field
gives the impression that in view of all
the circumstances they are doing pretty
well.-Newport Letter.
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A rather affecting sight was seen OF
Main street lately. A small boy was
leading blind dog down the street,
stopping every few moments to pat the
dog, which wagged its tail affection.
ately. On approaching a hydrant the
boy lifted the dog up to let him drink.
As they passed down the street again
the dog wandered in front of a passer-
by, who promptly kicked him, but he
made no move to get out of the way.
The small boy lost no time in yelling
after him: "Get out, you ugly brute
What yer kicking a poor. blind dog
for.'-Buffalo Express.
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why Gloves Are Worn by the Clergy.


Gloves are worn by the clergy tc
indicate that their hands are clean and
rot open to brides Dry Goods Chron
icle.
W. reuPon the Youngsters Uttered.
TIE Ar5,Inder is authoritatively in
formed ti.at the following was an actual
occurrence at the gospel tent meeting
on Niagara street, near Hudson. A
ne:Iaer had just ceased speaking about
- v,ie of asthma effected by prayer
when lank individual arose and asked
for the privilege of the floor.
IF you have had experience you
may speak, brother, said the presiding
officer.
81 have had experience. My father
was sick with the asthma for fifteen
years, and he was finally brought to
pray for his recovery. Qntense interest
manifested among the hearers.) He
prayed fifty years and (emphatically)
he died of the asthma"
Historical laughter among urchins
on rear seats and CONSERVATION among
the leaders. Courier.
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wbs5 t,,e Rzfisb ,oo;;;,;s7 st;7,,o,

When the British occupied Philadel-
phia during the Revolutionary war
with an army numbering nearly 20, 900
men, there was bitter enmity between
the British drummer boys and the boys
of the city. What aggravated this
feud was the fact that there were sew
eral conspicuous Tory families in the
place, the boys ofwhich made common
cause with the English drummers. Be
sides this there were numbers of cabin
boys from the great English fleet of
transports and merchant vessels in the
river who often came on shore and
gave aid and comfort to their drum
ming friends.
As great many of the patriotic fam
lies were absent, and as Quaker boys
are not allowed to fight, there was
something like an equality of numbers
between the two parties The fights
between them were of almost daily oc-
currence. The town boys had their
headquarters in an old brewery little
way out of the city, the entrances and
approaches to which they fortified as
strongly as they could
In those fighting days scarcely any
one had any serious objection to the
fiercest conflicts between boys, provided
they fought only with the weapons that
nature had given them and conformed
to the rules of the ring. But one day
an English drummer boy was so badly
hurt in an encounter between the Amer
lean boys and those adhering to the
king that he died soon after. This led
to the suppression of the fights by the
provost marshal-Youth's Companion.
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A Bug VITA Two Green Lanterns,


Mr.. a. W. Habersham found on Es
change place "a beetle about one inc
long that has back of his eyes two spot
that give out a dazzling phosphorescen
green light sufficient to illuminate hi
surroundings for a distance of severa
inches. When placed on his back h
rights himself with spring and snap
ping sound tits hence inferred that h,
belongs to the family ''Elater." Al
such beetle with lantern is not known
to be a resident of this country it is sup
posed that Mr.. Understands find is al
immigrant from Brazil or some tropica
country where bugs that carry lanterns
are not uncommon. Baltimore Sun.
The accounts Of q pin maker who has
just died in England show that he has
been spending 5000, 900 year for adver.
Using. His heirs, however, are finding
no particular fault with this extrava-
gsnce, as he leaves an estate valued at
$4,000, 000-aQ due to pills and adver-
Using.
A Few Table ~Don'ts."
Don't smack your lips.
Don't take large mouthfuIs.
Don't blow your food in order D
cool it.
Don't use yonr knife instead of you,
fork.
Don't find fault and pick about your
food
Don't talk with your mouth filled
with food.
Don't soil the table cloth with bones
parings, etc.
Don't commence eating as soon as
you are seated.
Don't laugh loudly or talk bolster.
'ously at the table
Don't retail all the ISLANDERS you can
think of at the table.
Don't take bones up In -FOUR fingers
10 eat the meat from them.
Don't call attention to any little mis-,
take which may have occurred.
Don't make yourself and your own
affairs the chief topic of conversation.
Don't take another mouthful while
any 'of the previous one remains in the
mouth.
Don't reach across the table for any
thing; but wait until it is passed to you,
or ask for it.
DON'T put your elbows on the table,
nor lounge about; if not able to sit
erect ask to be excused.
Don't frown or look cross at the table;
1t hurts Four own digestion. as well as
that of those eating with you.
Don't pick your teeth. unless some
thing has become wedged between
them; then put your napkin up to your
mouth while extracting it. Good
II Housekeeping.
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FEARS are expressed that the meas
ures SO far taken by the secretary of
the treasury are not sufficient to re-
ieve the demand for money from
commercial centers and to pay duties
in anticipation of the increased tariff
rates. At least, such is the impress
sion among some of the leading f.
nanciers, and until more substantial
assurances are given that money is
going to remain easy beyond per-
adventure, the great leaders are not
expected to influence the market one
way or the other.
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Many More Like 1t.

A dispatch from Chicago says that a
young inventor of that city has AL but
accomplished" his ambition in devising
an electric propeller to run steamers of
any size by means of storage battery,
and also a device for the economical
development of the electricity. The
highway Of progress is strewn with the
bones Of dead hopes and ruined fort
unes accounted for by AL but accom-
olished" inventions. - Detroit Free
Press.
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Court Etiouokte.

American Br;de-Isnt it grand? And
60 we are to attend a supper at the
royal castlel
Titled Husband-Yes, our presence
has been commanded.
NOh, won't the girls at home Just die
of envy when they hear of it. Viii
we sit near the queen?"
Il will; and perhaps they'll allow
you to wait on me, Good News.
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On the Ocaan

Lord Noodles-Aw, say, captain.
what is that land we see oyah there2
Captain-That is America, wy lord.
Lord Noodles - Ye don't say! I
thought America was a larger country
than hat-Harper's Bazaar.
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About the most surprised man on
this mundane sphere will be Frank
Baker, an English mechanic, who
disappeared from New York last
Tuesday, leaving his wife and child.
Mrs. Baker learned that he had
sailed for England on a ten-day
boat, so she borrowed money and
left on six-day steamship, and will
be on the Liverpool dock awaiting
her truant husband when his ship
arrives. The ocean racer is great
institution.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

The Courier Journal says Presi-
dent Harrison has been censured
for putting SO many of his relatives
in office. Public Office is a public
trust and men are supposed to be
elected because of their fitness for
the position and not for the pur-
pose of giving his poor kin soft
places. Nepotism In public matters
should be decried and condemned
by every patriot.
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Prettx Good Exssieht.

The clerk of a well known New York
motel proved day or two ugo that be
possesses a sharp, quick eye. A young
business man from the west handed
him 300 bill in payment of small
amount. II cannot accept this, re-
piled the clerk to the astonished young
man, who had taken the note from a
large roll of bills received from bank
in his native town. ''It is not signed
by the president of the bank" Inves.
tigation proved his statement true. The
note was issued by one of the national
banks of Stockton, Cal 1t was signed
by the cashier of the bank, but the
space reserved for the signature of the
president was blank. The note bore
evidences of use, and perhaps had been
In circulation fos number of years.
Philadelphia Ledger.
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A DESERTED wife in Milwaukee has
been placed in jail because she was
unable to pay $24 fee on six-cent
judgment. If woman's suffrage pre-
vailed in Wisconsin,it would be, not
the plaintiff, but the shyster who
would go in Jail in a case of that
kind, and public sentiment the coun-
try over would say 'served HIM
right"
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THERE is good deal OF talk just
now about articles on Texas in Har-
per's Magazine signed Lee C. Hm-
by. The general impression is that
Lee G. Hardy is man, but it is a
wrong one. The writer in question
is Charleston, S. c., woman, the
wife of ]. c. Hardy, who was an Of
ficer in the Confederate Army. Her
masuline forename is really a con-
traction of the feminine name of
Leah.
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The tricky Monaghan continues to
break into the promised land. The
other night small Canadian sloop
came into Seattle harbor and landed
thirty Cinnamon. Seven were ar
rested. On five were found Canadian
certificates of return, but the money
carried by all was American. Their
opium was concealed in wax balls.
The sloop was fitted cut for general
smuggling business.
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II ayeGGe moore, cOlOred, la
been arrested at Mineola for forger,
3 Vernon county has shipped Is
carloads of wheat already this ses
son.
The streams in all direction
from Del Rio are reported yer
high.
w. H. Hubert, of Waco, die,
Friday from an overdose of MOI
| phine.
Mexican capitalists project
line from mouth of the Colorado t.
Ell Paso.
AT local option election a
Seymour recently the town went we
four to one.
Twenty stone business house.
have recently been completed al
Granbury.
Sherman claims an increase
over last year in scholastic popula
ton by 500.
Wild ducks are coming in near
Dallas. This is said to portend an
early winter.
Mrs. Jacobs little boy at Luling
was thrown from horse and had
his arm broken.
"A man by the name of W. H.
Doughetee was suffocated in a well
at Gainesville.
Abe Lyons, well known ame-
teur actor of Waco, died at the age
of 22,Sunday.
"A young man at Creedmoor lost
his arm in a gin Friday. His name
is Jas. Shepard.
&C. NJ. Hall, the freight conduc-
tor shot at Galveston recently by a
woman, is still alive.
George Byrne has assumed the
editorial management of the Evening
Mail at Fort Worth.
"A National bank has been organ
lied in Corpus Christi with a capital
stock of 100000.
John Hawkins, a 12-year-old lad
was run over by heavy wagon near
Sherman and killed.
R. ". Andrews has been ap-
painted general manager of the
Arkansas Pass railway.
No complaint of drouth are
heard from any section of Texas.
Winter range is assured.
There is a prospect for $780,
900 plant for the Shippers Com
press Co., at Hillsboro.
The Mexia Ledger prints half
double column advertisement for an
enterprising firm in red ink.
DIR. Mitchell the insane preach
er at Fit. Worth is still in jail with
sour indictments against him.
I. NJ. Peeler, struck a vein of
coal, and a fine flow of gas, while
iigging a well near Pleasanton.
The insane asylums of Harris
county are over crowded, and sever
i patients are confined in Jail.
Marion county tax rolls show
n increase of value of $4,000;
Jooke county increase SIT, 235.
Judge J. F. Leisering died at !
iarienfeld recently. He was a
eading lawyer of Southern Texas. ,
The Presbyterian synod of the |
iouth will hold its sessions in San I
.utonio from October Is to the 20. !
CONTRACTS are soon to be let t
Corsicans for the erection of an C
ntire block of two-story buildings. C
Hon. h. NJ. Garwood, of Bas- g
cop, county judge and candidate
Or state senator, has married him a
life. d
AT the ratification barbecue to a
e held at Gainesville, 100 cattle t
i'll be served up to the hungry pub I
C. . u
The summer girl at Arkansas .,
ass has given way to the capitalist A
Id investor who have oYerrun the :,
,wl. q
The Victoria base ball nine are n
to play at Corpus Christi b
ctober 1st. Pretty late in the 2
'asoD for base ball. IL
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Donald G. Mitchell, elk Marvel" is
now IS years of age. He lives quietly
az ''Edgewood," which mas been his
home since 1856, and which he has
rendered SO well known by bis writ,
ings. Notwithstanding his advanced
age he is still engaged in literary work
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The ministers OF Dallas have petit
toned the directors of the fair to
close the exposition on the Sabbath,
but the directors decline to do so on
the ground that this the only day on
which clerks and day iaborers can
attend.
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Now Anna Dickinson comes out
and claims that she was the first to
suggest that the present Congress
should pass Force bill. If she
can only prove it great load will
be taken off the mind of Henry
Cabot Lodge, who is staggering un-
der the burden. We are sure that
he would even be ungallart enough
to let a woman relieve him.
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IT is understood that the Mexican
Railway subvention loan, which was
sanctioned by law in May last and
was recently negotiated with Euro
pean houses, will be offered for sub
scription in London and on this con-
tinent this month. The loan is for
S6,O0O,OO0 and bears interest at 6
per cent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-05-11
Real estate 10 gtrhanqc.

PARTY having if-t-class property.
"A on the shore. valued at go Vop' &C.
sirrs o. exchange IL for stock fam ~ cuItl
Natiou and healthy location farming inp.'-
mcnt- and stock ~ b. included ln tArhehL''
Write II BUSINESS, Box 10, Tribune
Once.
NINE HUDSON RIVER country scat.
l. value 50 coo. 10 cNchang" Tor v, LILO
Gated New-NorK or BROOKLYN rr-4d nee.
ARMOUR = FLDREDGE. ~ Temple court
Two INCHANGI.-Iou '.-'of- -.
i tencmcnt-. only = years huilt, near u
ave. ~ station, trade f'i commit It.t.
orty with some cash OF city lots. STARR
: AUERN 900 3d-aNe.
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a .oREAT RNnGAINn for rcr.ons in

.GREAT BARGAINS for persons In
"A. want Of first-clas~ HORSES anu CAR.
KIAGES at private stable. last Zth--t.;
a gentleman selling the entire contents %
stable Team Of Morgan bay cohs -iN and
seven years Old. l5a, hands high can road
- miles an hour safe for ladies u dflV" %
ytde. One beautiful chestnut SORE horse
10 hands high a perfect gentlemsn's road
horse perfect pole horse can trot Ia . 80
or better; warranted sound and KIND sired
ty MambrinO Chic. his dam The Walton
mar, she by george Wilkes. one Ethan
Allen bay horse. l5L, hands trot 10. car.
fiaces consist Of one landaulct top pony
phaeton sidc-bar toy wagon. NON"lt' buck
poIn and shafts one Tilbufy Bfcwst'r
m,-rs; all IN hrst-clas, condition. Al>o
ladies' and gentlemen's saddles. Inquire
private stable,
II East 27th-st,