The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-08-28
CURRENT EVENTS.

Pigeons In Oregon arc destroying the eh''r'
or.
Piracy has become common along the coast
bombay.
There is pretty good sIeighins yet in soma
,rts Of Montana.
In a rev comic opera is topical song Illus
atcd By 4 stereopticon.
The phosphate beds Of Florida are said to
~nass those of any other country
iere are 4e5 music halls in London with a
seating capacity of two hundred thou
Mrs. PHYLLIS Johnson, a eolored woman who
eeently died in Lower Oxford, Pa was sA'u
be 100 years old.
It's estimated that there are more than MY
,oNsapd families in London with only one
,om each to live in.
English publishers, recognizing the superior /
.fy Of American printing paper arc using L /
IN preference to the home article
The catch OF shad along the Hudson river
he Fast spring was 100000 over last year
lshlle the herring catch was enormous
Itisan interesting fact that both Stage
she famous Yale pitcher, and Caldwell, slIok .
81 the winning varsity crew, Will devote tHe'
fiyes 10 the ministry.
The strikes OF American workmcn during
lie past three years have resulted in bringing
hns millio. workmen to this country to fill
lhe!r places and earn their wages
Since the discovery CT gold in Victoria Aus
aralia. in 1851. the production OF that metal up
: 10 the end OF 1883 amounted to slOIi'559 -
! he production has diminished Of late years
The English are said to be recovering their
Il influence in Japan, and may be soon ex-
sted to take tie reins from the Germans,
we had everything ifeizi Gso@ nc years back
= see, 74as just beat the worlds record IA
5ieh kicking having succeeded In hitting a
), ark at the unprecedented height Of feet
NJ inches.
I s-ndisputable POOR is said to show that
nUnele Blly'' Whitley, of Norwood, Stanley
y county. n. e, is liz years old. He attended
The Fourth of July celebration there, and at
Q traefed much notice.
a The Montreal police raided house in that
: elty on Tuesday, and captured two hundred
q eats that had been making the ueighbOrhood
a miserable Their owner, who is wealthy
d Soman, will fight the case in the courts.
Several loaded vessels have been unable to
4 leave San Francisco lately on account OF the
u scarcity Of deep-water scanen. The Bulletin
reports that offers OF 50 a month so bonus,
/, and $40 in advance fluid few sailors ready 10
accept.
! a Georgia cotton planter, who Is noted as
''first bale man." says he gets the first bale lJ
planting his cotton very early In the season
and then picking the first bolls that open
going over 4 large area and taking boil here
. and boil there, as they mature.
Recent experiments are said 10 have showr
thst snail Weighing quarter OF an ounce
/ when crawling upon 4 window was able =
lit vertically two and quarter ounces, O
nine times It's own weight Another snaler
weighing one-thirI of an ounce, drew hori
Eontally on a table seventeen ounces, o.
dfty times its own weight
j. s. st:riey, 4 wholesale dealer in frult
and vegetables, at Springfield, o., created !
: corner in blackbcrries By purchasing almos
: the entire crop in central Ohio He los
! heavily, and then transferred his store 20
! preferred creditor. Friday lie was arrested
and taken to Ross county charged with obtain
ing goods under false preterscs.
Tie negroes in the Bahamas have until re
\ ceatly been forced to enter the churches il
Nassau b. different doors from the whites
aud this Is sill true OF the other Islands Ever
in Nassau negroes and white men alt in difIer
rnt sections Of the church. At Harbor ISLAM
three blacks were fined b. Z magistrate for in
sisting on their right to enter q Methods
/ church BIZ the white mems door.
The village Improvement society OF West
borough, Mass, has put in practice 2n idei
g. which may yield rich results in the develop
5 mont Of neatness. Large baskets haze beer
) placed in the corridor OF the postoGice, an,
, there are consplc.ousiy displayed Fr
& quests that people, instead OF th'
e relopes and newspapers on the 30. -
IS walks viii drop them In tie baskets
= Tha.,,,si7IUn offered By one Of the Concort
2 yhilosphers that the modern novel which Offer.
: 10 solution to its problem is inartistlc, "lame
, md impotent," will be appreciated by many
! readers. The novels chat don't turn out 4;
sip belong TO fashion which is already dis
appearing. They have never been applied 70
the stage, because an audience wouli feel iu-
: suited with drama without an ending.