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The samaria of To-day.

From an illustrated article on Some
Wayside Places in Palestine" in the
Century, we quote the following: II am
free to confess that did not meet the
proverbial good Samaritan as I jour
neyed through this much favored coun-
try. If one meets tiller of the soil he
will side off as far as the narrow path
will allow, and scowlingly watch the
travellers approach. The offer of a
piastre will bring him to a standstill
allow far is it to Nain?'
"'God knows comes the fervent an
swer.
"'How long will it take to 60 thereY
"'As long as God pleases, he answers,
with shrug of his shoulders and pull
at his pipe.
"'Shall reach there by noonY
"If God permit
"'But may hope to make the distance
IN an hour?
"'As God may direct, he answers,
walking away.
ais Main distant, or is it very near?
"'There, he answers, moving his fin
ger through wide arc. If one extracts
a more neighborly spirit than this from
a Samaritan he must have the mysteri-
Gus power of dervish "
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The Queens partially for Viennese
and French bread runs into all sorts OF
shapes There are long French loaves
and twists and rolls, and the Vienness
bread is shaped into all sorts of curves
and twists. There is one roll made like
little mannikin. This is supplied for
the edification and amusement of the
Queens small grandchildren when they
sit at her majesty's table. The Queen is
always supplied with this bread when at
Buckingham Palace. Her baker is Mr..
S. Petrozywalski, a Polish refugee, in
whom the Prince Consort took great
interest. This fancy bread is only sup
piled for the Queens table; for the rest
of the household the potato baker bakes.
Some of the larger loaves supplied to the
Queen cost ten pence each. She did
have this bread from London sent down
to Windsor. but owing to the late arri-
val of the train that. conveyed it, or
something Of that sort, this was given up.
When the Empress Frederick was stay
ing with the Queen, rye bread, of which
the Empress is fond, was sent to tho
palace The Queens bakers have al
ways been able to satisfy the Queen.
She pays regularly once month, and
does not demand Sunday bakings. Il Pail
Mall Gazette.
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The boundary line between the
United States and Canada is not
Imaginary" as most people-suppose.
The fact is the line is distinctly
marked from Lake Michigan to
Alaska by cairns, iron pillars, earth
mounds and timber clearings. There
are 1886 of these marks between the
Lake of the Woods and the base of
the Rocky Mountains. The British
placed one post every two miles and
the United States one between each
British post. The posts are of cast
iron, and cast on their faces are the
words "Convention of London, Oct.
90, 1878" Where the line crosses
lakes, mountains of stones have been
built projecting eight feet above
high-water mark. In forests the line
is defined by telling trees for a space
a rod wide.-St Louis Globe Dem.
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Getzein, the "pretzel" pitcher. has
joined the Boston League team.
A proposition is on foot to build a
mile track at Middletown, N. Y.
j. p Hutchinson, of Philadelphia, has
been appointed captain Of the Harvard
College Varsity crew.
BillyMyer is training near Buffalo
for his fight with Andy Bowen, which
viii take place at New Orleans.
A sculling match ON the Parametta
river between Mclean and Matterson
resulted in victory for Mclean.
Judge Wallace denied the petition Of
the New York League managers for an
injunction against I" Buck" Ewing.
Jake Kilrain writes that he is ready to
meet anybody as soon as his sentence ex-
pires in Mississippi, Corbett preferred.
May King, the celebrated stallion. has
been sold by w. E Spier, of Glens
Falls, to Sibley s. Miller, of Frankfort,
Pa, for $4,000
John L. Sullivan has received word
from his lawyers to say nothing more
about the proposed fight between him
self and jackson.
Phil Jacoby, the crack shot of the Pa
cific coast, will visit Germany next sum-
mer to compete In the shooting contest
for the championship of the world.
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working Up tho wild Hemp Fibre.

Mr.. Nayemura Sakusaburo, drug
gist of Hikone, in Omi, after many
years of experiment and patient re-
search, has succeeded in converting wild
hemp (yachyo) into substance possess
ing all the essential qualities of silk.
Nothing is said about the process, but il
is asserted that trial of the thread has
been made at the First Silk Weaving
Establishment in Kyoto, and at other
factories with excellent results in every
case. The highest encomiums have been
bestowed ON the inventor. and complete
success appears to be within his reach.
The plant in question grows wild on
moors and hillsides. Its fibre is strong
and glossy, in no wise inferior to silk
when properly prepared. Cultivation on
an extended scale would present no diff
ficulties. The present Ideals to form
company for working it, and to estab-
lish factory in Kyoto, where land is
cheap, water exceptionally good, and
facilities of transport are provided. The
capital of the company will be 10000
yen, and the name of the factory
@Yachyo-ith Seizo-sho.
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Professor Brooks. director Of Smith

Professor Brooks, director Of Smith
Observatory at Geneva, N. Y, has veri-
fed his discovery of new comet in the
Eastern sky. 1t is bright telescope
object with tail, and is the first comet
of the year
A Philadelphia syndicate has pur-
chased 1900 acres of land and three
miles of water front, Immediately south
of the navy yard, on the Portsmouth
side of the river, at Norfolk, Va, for
$500, 900, to lay off and build town.
The suit OF the managers of the New
York League club against John NJ. Ward,
the noted shortstop, resulted in Judge
Lawrence reaffirming the decision of
Judge OBrien, that Ward could not be
held under the reserve clause of his last
years contract
The hearts of 5000 miners in Nanti-
coke, Pa, were gladdened when the
Susquehanna coal company posted a
notice at their collieries that on and after
April the mines of the company would
work full time during the whole season.
The inquiry into the charges Of cru
city against Commander McCalla, at the
Brooklyn navy yard, are now proceeding
behind closed doors. Tho charges of
frequent and extreme punishment in
flicted on the seamen of the Enterprise
have been fully sustained by the evil
dence.
New Foundland has been swept with
o scourge of diphtheria- A telegraphic
dispatch says that at Bruin, where there
is no doctor in tho district, the sufferers
were attended by Rev. Father Walsh,
who. with his own hands. cleaned out
the throats Of the victims. OF forty
cases that tho priest attended only one
proved fatal. The priest took the disease
himself and died after a few days ILL.,
ness
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sBootb,s Advice 60 Two SHY Girls.


The other morning Edwin Booth was
very much startled when waiter at the
Mount Vernon Hotel, Baltimore, brought
two cards to his room bearing the names
of two ladies unknown to him. The
waiter said the ladies were pretty, and
were waiting in the parlor. In few
minutes Booth made his appearance in
the parlor, and much to his surprise he
found two young and very pretty society
girls, one of whom was debutante last
season. They informed him they had
attended every performance since his
arrival in Baltimore, and had become SO
fascinated with him that they had de-
cided to call They hoped he would
pardon them for doing so. For few
minutes Booth said nothing. First he
looked at their cards, which he still held
in his hand, and then at the girls, who
blushed and became very much confused.
AT last the silence was broken.
"Young ladies, said Booth, II happen
to know the names on these cards to be
assumed, and if only knew your real
names / should most certainly inform
your parents what you have done. Now,
take my advice, go home, and don't ever
run to see an actor again, for the next
interview might not be so pleasant
The young ladies departed, and have
been very alarmed ever since lest their
parents should find them out
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The text of the extradition treaty with

The text of the extradition treaty with
Great Britain was promulgated Wednes-
day. The list of crimes made extra
ditable are manslaughter, counterfeit
ing, embezzlement, fraud by bailee,
banker or agent, perjury, rape, bur-
glary, piracy, revolt or conspiracy on
board ship and crimes against the laws
of both countries for the suppression of
slavery and trading. The con-
vention further provides that fugitive
criminal shall not be surrendered if the
oifense in repect of which his surrender
is demanded be one of political char
acter, or if he proves that the requisition
for his surrender has in fact been made
with a view to try or punish him for an
Cffense of n political character
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A Thousand Acres Of Lllles.

A traveller tells of the gorgeous beauty
of some of the lagoons along the Amazon
when the famous water-lily of that re-
gion-the Victoria regia-is in blossom.
He describes one sheet of water, COM
prising possibly one thousand acres,
completely covered by huge and gor-
geous blossoms, the fragrance of which
could not possibly be excelled by the cell
ebrated odors Of "Araby the Blest. As
seen in our dollhouse the white flowers
are splashed with crimson but our
author says they vary much on the Anna
zon, some of them being purple, and
they have erect as well as floating fiow-
erS.
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The doctor pulled out drawer from
under the counter and exhibited hum
dreds of mummy grasshoppers.
"These are good for little children, he
said. 'In China every spring millions Of
these bugs come in the fields. Pretty
soon the grasshopper dies and the meat
turns into fly. The hind legs and little
tail drops off and the little fly goes away.
Then there is nothing but the shell left.
The laborers in the field gather these and
dry them in the sun. They make good
medicine in powders
"Chinese babies never die from convul-
sions when teething like white babies.
This powder acts on the stomach when
the stomach teeth are coming through
and makes them good and strong, ~
[San Francisco Examiner.
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Foreign.

Ealfour is said to be looking haggard
ana careworn.
Lord Salisbury is In poor health, and
has gone to Nice for rest
Mr. Henry N. Stanley will start from
Cairo for England on April Z
The sultan is much annoyed at the
criticisms of English newspapers.
Forty thousand employees in the fac
tories in Catalonia, Spain, have gone on
q strike.
Queen Victoria has gone to AK les
Bains to take sulphur baths for her
rheumatism.
The Spanish chamber of deputies has
adopted bill providing for universal
suffrage in Cuba
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70 GEoRGE NEWMAN

Unfinohing Dante Of later day,
Thou who hast wandered through the realms
OF pain,
And seen with aching breast and whirling
brain
Woes which thou vert unable to aflay,
What frightful visions hast thou
brought away;
OF torments. passions agonies, struggles vain
To break the prison walls, to rend the chain
OF hopeless hearts too desperate TO pray7
Men are the devils of that.pitiless he'll
Men guard the labyrinth of that nine-fold
curse
Marvel Of marvel Thou hast lived to tell,
In prose more sorrowful than Dante's
verse,
OF pangs more grievous, sufferings more fell
Than Dante or his master dared rehearsal
Nathan Haskell Dole, in the Century.
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Lemon Soap and Orange Blacking.

Lemons are used for soap in many coun-
tries where they grow. When, for in-
stance, the men and women of West Indies
want to wash their hands they squeeze
the juice of lemon over them and rub
them briskly in water until they are
clean. There is an acid in the lemon
similar to that used in soap And in
countries where oranges grow in great
plenty country gentlemen use the cheap
est kind FOR backing their boots. The
orange is cut in two and the juicy side
of one-half is rubbed on the SCOT of an
iron pot and then on the boot. Then
the boot is rubbed with soft brush and
bright polish at once appear. IPopu-
lar Science.
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Readily Named.

All Indians name man from his habits
or peculiarities. At certain trading
post, youth who preferred his left hand
in working, was Immediately christened
Astinclaw-the left-handed. Another,
who when first appearing there happened
~ DO wearing shirt with lacing in
front, with small bells on the end of the
cords, Is known by the Indians TO this
day as Tupabeo--the Bell Sheep
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National Capital Notes.

Eight Republicans voted against the
Blair bill in the final ballot in the Senate.
The House foreign affairs committee is
unit in favor of authorizing the Presi-
dent to appoint a commission to confer
with Canadian authorities whenever the
latter indicate a desire for commercial
reciprocity.
The State Department learns that 49,
600 tons of American steel rails have
been recently imported into Mexico for
use in the construction of the Monterey
and Mexican Gulf Railway because the
rails cost less in this country than in
England.
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EXHIBITING 4 PROFESSOR.
An Oxford Guides vfIlainous Means OF
Showing the Master of BalIioL

An Oxford Guides vfIlalnous Means OF
Showing the Master Of BaIuoL
A good story is told of Professor Jow-
EFT at Oxford. A oredom to which that
famous town is SUI jected is the constant
crowds of tourists which infest the place
day and night, and every day and every
night of the year. For these individuals
numerous guides have been appointed,
but one imaginative man hit upon tho
following plan by which he could at
least always be sure of showing to the
crowd one Of the live lions of the place.
1t so happened that Jowett was very
busily engaged on his famous translation
of Plato at the time, and unfortunately
for him, the guide we are speaking OF
learnt that the learned professors study
window looked into the broad street.
Coming with his menagerie under these
windows the guide would begin.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is Balliol
College, one of the very holdest in the
university, and famous for the herudi-
ton of its scholars The cad of Balliol
College is called the Master the pres
ent master of Balliol is the celebrated
Professor Benjamin Jowett, Regius Pro-
fessor of Greek. Those are Professor
Benjamin Jowett's study windows, and
there here the ruffiian would stoop
down, take up handful of gravel and
throw it up against the panes, bringing
poor Jowett, hvid with fury, to the win
dow-"ladies and gentlemen, is Profess
sor Ben amin Jowett himself !"-l Shelf
field Telegraph.
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wit ExemnIifefI.

Tompkins-Pshaw ! Browns no wit.
There must be an element of surprise in
what man says to make it wit. Don't
you agree with me2
Wilson-Perfectly. That was clever
witticism you got off the other day.
Tompkins-I forget What did Isay 2
Wilson-You said, "Here's that five I
borrowed from you ~
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Killcd in rlattIe in the Last a5 Years

did you ever think how few people
are killed during war;" asked Thomas
Sloane Of Boston as no sat in the Colon
made one evening. "Well here is a mem.
orandum made recently regarding deaths
since 1856 The entire number killed
during these thirty-four years-exclu-
sive of those who died from diseases
about 1858 900. In the Crimean war
some $50, 900 were killed; the Italian war
of 1859 resulted in the slaughter of 49,
600; in the American war 800, 900; in the
Danish war (1S64), 5000; in the Austro-
Prussian war, $4,000; in the Franco
German war-France 1856, 900, Germany
10000; in the Turco- Russian war, 1885,
600; in the South African wars, 30, 200;
the Afghan war, $4,000; the Mexican and
Cochin Chinese expedition, $4,000, and
the Bulgarian-Servian instruction, 25,-
600. Philadelphia Press.
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Fortress Monroe is the largest single
fertilization in the world. 1t has already
cost the American Government over 49,
600, 900. The water-battery is considered
one of the finest military works in the
world.
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Above the Vanity OF Dress.

sNo, said she, with the complacency
born of knowing that she had the pref
test and most striking costume in the
ballroom, II don't care much for dress.
like to feel that i, for one, am above
such vanity, you know"
"You are, indeed, said her admiring
companion, "head and shoulders above
1t, as everybody here will say"
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Through Tickets and Baggage Checked
to all points.
For rates and other information, address
FRED. HUsEMAN, Il. +. A., Wheeling.
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TIME TABLE.
nHIO RIVER RAlLR0DAD
~ TIME TABLE -

Taking effect Feb. 10, 1899. Passenger
trains will run as follows, Central Time.
All trains daily except those marked thus
I which do not run on Sunday.
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Chicago has thirty miles of boulevard
100 feet wide.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-22

perfecting the appeal had expired. Tbs
motion will be granted. Appeal dis
missed. Per curi;.m.
Sampson Clitus VS.. J. W. Lankiord;
from Navarro Motion to DISMISS ap-
peal. l. A plea III fOrma pauprrs.
which correctly describes the judgment
in all respects, save two days difference
in the date of its condition, will be held
good. Motion refused Per cnriam.
A. H. Co per VS.. T. Il. Lee: from
Harrison. Motion to give precedence.
l. The motion herein will not be con-
sldered as motion now, but will be
passed upon in connection with the case.
Motion passed. Per curtain.
0. L. Allen vs.. J T. Whitaker; from
Smith. Motion TO strike ont assign
ments of error. /. In appeals 10 this
court assignments of error can be made
though no motion for a new trial was
made, or special instructions asked.
Motion refused. Per curtain.
L. s. Stringer VS.. FANNIE Singleton
Motion to dismiss appeal. /. Lock
ler' and "Locket are not Hem
sonans. The appeal bond misdecriDs'
the judgment. Appeal dismissed. FER
curism.
Missouri Pacific Railway ~. w Scott
from Tarrant. Motion TO reinstate. l.
On former day of the term the cause
was dismissed because no final IudRmen'
was shown bY the record. A motion |"
reinstate and bring up record by GER
tiorari cannot be granted. Notion over
ruled. Per curtain.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-22
MINEoLA AS A COTTON TOWN.

Annual Recafpts-Why Cotton Produced Ada
cpntis Of superior Quality Prices Paid.
The annual receipts of cotton at Mine
ola have varied between 10, 900 and
IA 200 bales for several years past. The
quality OF the fieeoy staple produced and
marketed at this point is superior in
color, staple and grade to almost every
point in Eastern Texas, for the reason
that it is grown on bottom lands, about
the numerous beautiful lakes that, ,snl6I
rounds the town for a distance n lily
miles, and has always beead l9t Tor by
Eastern spinuers in sthd56hufacture of
fine fabrics. Ihl4 leSunts for the very
high prices WAS been paid at Min
cola. c6ave had three very large
.dea1efS IN spot cotton for foreign and do
mestic account selling direct to manufac-
lures. These parties also buy at all sur
rounding towns il the aggregate proba-
bly 100 900 bales annually.
The lands lying adjacent to this place
produce from three-fourihs to one bale
to the acre, aud with favorable seasons
sometimes more. This being the princi-
pal product Of the country our farmers
are generally very successful, as most of
them are able to show by their bank
accounts.
here all the season from nine to ten
cents per pound. according to grade and
staple. Notwithstanding the heavy de-
cline our farmers are still getting these
prices. BUCK.
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A HOG A MINUTE.
The Death Rate at the Great Fort
Worth Packery.
The Beginning of Operations Yesterday
ternoon-HundrPdS OF People
Witness 1t.
Everything IN Perfect Working crter-The
Biggest Thing In the Southwest-Ihs
Hog Market

The hog packing business made Pitts
burg great, il made Cincinnati famous
the world over, it gave Chicago prestige
over all other American cities, it has
been great factor in the growth and
development OF st. Louis, Kansas City
and Omaha.
The signs of the time indicate tina.
Fort Worth, Tex. is next In line TO be
the beneficiary OF the great industry.
For yesterday afternoon the North
Side packery began active and perma-
nent operations, observed, commented
upon ana admired by hundreds of Fort
Worth people, who, delighted TO know
that TINS latest aud greatest acquisition
to Fort Worth would begin work, were
ON hand 10 see.
superintendent George ". Barnum
was every whore TO see that the machin-
cry, &c elaborate and extensive, was in
smooth running order, and it was not
until after o'clock that the killers,
scTaPers, cleaners and cutters were at
their posts ready TO take care of all the
porkers ;hat came their way
The slaughter room is on the sixth
story OF the southernmoet building.
The live hogs are driven up long and
steep driveway un;il they get into a
small room. They never go out alive.
First the hog is caught BY the leg. an
easy operation in such n small room A
chain attached 10 pulley is attached to
& hind leg. and before the victim is
aware he is yanked up head downward,
screaming ana struggling. The pulley
is attached 20 grove, and IL q j.ffy the
porker is run along 10 where the sticker,
with q sharp knife, stands awaiting him.
The praeticsd hand shoves the knife
straight 10 the heart, and when il is
Withdrawn the blood gushes out IN
torrent. Only moment does the stuck
hog writhe. A vat of boiling
water is beneath, and by the
simple jerk of lever the carcass is ioos-
ened from the pulley aud drops INTO the
vat, there TO remain only long enough TO
have the hair saturated with the seethIng
water which is kept hot BY means of
pipes connecting directly with the boil
els. The carcass Is lifted from the vat
by means of a rack also operated by ma
chinery. Your porker is then lying on
table on each side of which stands
darkey ready TO scrape the hair of, al
operation performed in less time than ii
takes 10 tell it, the implement used be-
ing cup-shaped article, not sharp but
sufficiently so to perform its functions
The table being smooth the carcass is
pushed along a few feet into the hands of
other men, who by a swift slash of the
knife cuts the neck around so the head
hangs only By elm piece of flesh, and
80 all the blood in the carcass runs out.
The hog is then fastened by each of it's
hind legs to hooks which run on