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San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28
FASHION NOTES.

Ribbons are very extensively used on
house and street costumes.
Some of the new evening dresses are
deluged with lace.
In stripes the Bayadere is the hori-
zontaI stripe, the Pekin is perpendicu-
lar or ''lengthways" one
Turquoises enhance the whiteness of
the hand, good reason for their being
such popular gems for finger rings.
Quite a number of old perfumes under
new names are out, and the probabilities
are they will in nowise be affected.
For stout people, the riding habit is
made with a round waist without the
customary tiny coat tails at the back.
Many new designs and styles are seen
in bonnet and lace pins. Imitation ar
ticles are altogether out of fashion now.
Things that proclaim their cost, like
diamonds, stiff silks, velvets and passe-
mspteriv-urr not conducive TO gcnteei
A fashionable limp is involuntarily
produced bywearing shoes too small. And
how many women there are who seem to
be lamel
Watch bracelets hold their own re-
markably well. This is probably owing
to the fact that they are SO useful and
convenient.
1t is the fashion to have as a breast
pin set in precious stones a miniature
portrait of your own or somebody else's
grandmother.
A display of jewelry of any kind with
dress suit is "bad FORM" and what
is worse is sticking the handkerchief in
the waistcoat.
Louis XIV. and XIV. fashions and
styles are on the bulletin for the coming
season. French histories ought to be in
e-ery household.
The tea-gown is rapidly giving place
TO the house dress, close-titting robe,
long, cut la princesse, and draped per
haps little in front.
The shades of gray will be found IN
all parts of the costume; it is the color
chosen above all others for the most eie-
giant and refined dresses.
Sentiment is against trained skirts for
the street. There is everything TO be Saiu
against and nothing in favor of-shail II
be said-the slovenly fashion
Some of the new necklaces are largo
gold beads, almost the size OF robins
eggs, and strung on fine gold wire They
sIc more valuable Than beautiful.
The Old full pink is coming IN for
evening, and the red tints of some OF the
brightest and pre:tiest rhododendron
blooms, combined with Hhite and black
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28
PITH AND POINT.
A growing trOuble-A baby.

The glazier is always giving people
pane.-St. Joseph Ne'cs-
"Is she beautifull" 'Most girls say
not" Then she must be. Puck
The flying thief may not be popular
man, but he generally has a large follow
ing.-St. Joseph Ne'es-
A woman will forgive anything sooner
than being told that she has nothing to
forgive Chicago Nelcs.
"Strike when the iron is hot" said
the servant girl who made her demand
for more wages on ironing day.-Pitts-
burg Post.
a girl stands before a mirror whea
getting dressed because she is anxious
to see everything that is going on
Statesman.
"Medicine,n said a little girl to her
playmate, ISIS something that makes YOU
careful not to catch cold again. Ns-s--
ington Post.
Man takes with his right hand and
gives with his left until he considers it
more profitable to taSe with both
Dallas Neirs.
When you see a girl wearing precious
stones you naturally jump at the conclu-
sion that she has the crooks. Bling
daDit0n Leader
He-''Here come the new countess
and her husband She bought him at
the Wooley matrimonial bureau. She
dear me! he's evidently job LOT"
Judge.
'You say your husband is both econ
omical and extravaganza. In what wayln
'Well, he is economical in bestowing
praise and extravagant in giving advice. "
-NeT York Journal.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. paid the debt
of nature yesterday" Mrs. Dinwiddie
cit seems to me that is debt re-
quiring frequent payment. Only last
week you said Smith paid it. Chieag1
Inter Ocean.
Don't you think it is time for Miriam
da to learn to play on some musical in
strument, Edwardln asked Mrs. Sharp
of her husband, as the notes of their
daughters voice fioated in from an ad-
joining room. Eyes," replied Edward,
with conviction, 81 do; but it should be
some loud instrument, to drown her
voice. "-LOuisoile Journal.
Jeweler Ito maiden lady who has
made liberal purchases -" Madam, I'd
like to give you a neat ring" Maiden
Lady-"Rin sir, should have a sig
nifcance. They should represent some
sentiment. Pray, what sentiment would
be appropriate to one like met" Jeweler-
"Hope, madam, hopel Here is a ring
with an intaglio anchor-just the thing!"
-Jereelers' Weekly.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28
THE HAIR.

A woman's crown of beauty is her soft
and silky hair, and since conventionality
requires that even the most beautiful
tresses must be braided, looped and
pinned against the head instead of flow
ing, as nature evidently intended they
should, it is, indeed, essential that one
should be skilful in their arrangement.
There was never a time when the
fashionable couture was at once so
natural, so artistic, so beautiful, as at
the present time, and, one might add so
hygienic. The fashionable fuffiness and
rightness of the mode depend entirely
upon absolute cleanliness and frequent
washing. That accomplished, the
couture is placed high, low, or midway,
Just as is most becoming to the face
The aim of the hairdresser is to preserve
as perfectly as possible the contour of the
head if it be shapely, adding no absurd
knobs or excrescences, but looping the
soft, wavY locks, fold on fold, as close
to the head as possible. Young ladies
part the hair through the centre, and,
waving it on either side, braid it closely
and fat against the head in the back.
A very pretty French fashion consists
in twisting the curly mass of hair into
soft knot at the back of the head, and
placing wreath of YioIets from the bang
around the head.
Women with beautiful features and
classic heads affect an extremely simple
style of halrdressing, and bind the head
about with the Grecian fllet of ribbon.
The ribbon is placed over fiat kind of
wire, which bends to the shape of the
head and holds it in place. A rather
fantastic Spanish couture is very becom-
ing to dark beauties, and has chain of
pearls twisted among its coils.
The catogan style of hairdressing
promises to be well worn as the season
advances. The couture will not fall so
far down on the neck when high dresses
are worn, out the soft loops and curled
ends of hair will droop toward the nape
of the neck and covered with an invisi-
BILE net Jeweled nets, SO popular when
the nations of to-day were maidens, and
other curious ornaments of the same date
are being revived for the bellies Of to-
day.
The use of a moderately hot curling
iron is not deprecated by hairdressers,
but, on the contrary, IS beneficial to the
growth of the hair A small amount of
hair lightly waved and pinned in place
with she'll or gold pins makes much
more attractive arrangement than the
quantities of false hair appropriated from
some other head that was formerly used.
The pretty daintiness of women is dis
played in their fastidious care of their
locks, which are perfumed and scented
with with faint but fascinating fra
GRANGE. The perfume should be care
fully used at some distance from the
roots of the hair, or disastrous results
may follow. Still there never was
sweet, right-minded woman who didn't
put perfume on her hair whenever she
liked, and where are the baldheaded wo-
men to prove the assertion?-NetO York
Sun.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28
Silk Thread in a Bad Bill.

The Preston National Bank has q
counterfeit two dollar bill which is said
to be the most clverly executed counter
felt ever ever issued. 1t has passed
through the hands of several persons be-
fore it was finally detected by the pay
ing teller.
Many who have examined it cannot be
convinced that it is not genuine, for,
like the genuine bill with the small red
seal, it has a silk thread running through
the paper lengthwise.
This is the first known instance where
a counterfeit bill has had the actual silk
thread. Some counterfeits have an imi-
tation of the thread made by faint ink
line or by very sharp fold in the paper.
Few points can be described where
this bill differs from the genuine. The
blue ink numbers at the upper right and
lower left corners are n + t..,-,-
type as in the genuine, and IN tile por-
trait of General Hancock the forehead
is not so WIDE nor as broad as it should
be.
The ruling and lathe work are excel
lent, and the bill could easily pass with
the majority of people without even ex-
citing suspicion.-Detroit Free Press.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28
KOch's Consumption Cure.

1t cannot yet be said that the exact
status of Koch's remedy is fixed; nor
can we even yet say with certainty that,
this much-heralded cure is destined "a
survive among established methods at all.t
The most that is claimed for it by its
most ardent advocates is that it seems
capable of depriving the bacillus of the
material in which it thrives best. e.,
Of disintegrating and destroying tuber-
,ulous tissue. There has been no claim
hat it has any direct effect upon the ex-
istence of the bacillus, nor that it, hav-
ing deprived the bacillus of its food,
tends in any way to remove that parasitic
from the body, and thus TO eliminate the
possible source of danger of subsequent
or more general infection. Under its in-
fuence il some forms of local tuberculo-
sis-especially of the skin-it has been
shown that tissue which was of the very
lowly organized variety characteristic Of
the disease has been at first in part and
then wholly replaced by a tissue of higher
organization, and one that is likely to be
permanent.
In regard to tuberculosis of the lungs,
there can be no question that improve
ment in the patients general condition
and also evidence of improvement at the
seat of the disease have followed the use
of this remedy. The general improve
ment manifests itself By gain in weight,
lessening of fever, increased appetite,
better sleep. The local improvement is
surmised from certain changes to be OBJ
served by auscultation and percussion.
together with diminutIon in the severity
of the cough and in the amount of the
expectoration, and also a diminution in
the number of the bacilli in the expec-
toration or their complete disappearance
from it. This has not always been the
case. In not a few instances no improve
ment has resulted, and in other cases di-
rect and most damaging results, includ-
ing hemorrhage and even death, have
been brought about by it. In the treat
ment of tuberculosis of the bones and
joints results seem to have been widely
different. 1t is certain that some cases
have been benefited, and equally certain
that others have not.-Popuiar Science
Monthly.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28
WORDS OF WISDOM.

True honor despises evasions.
Beware of the man who has no petty
vices.
Dig, sow and reap; but the harvest is
Deaths.
Money made by chance will go with
certainty.
Waste of money and time usually go
hand in hand.
Friendship at the highest height is
stronger than love.
Be quick. You can use a minute but
once-make the most of it.
To make close connections with eter
nifty Death has to be run On time.
Life is a long course of mutual educa-
ton which ends but with the grave.
The first snow flake of winter, how
signifcant-and the first white hairl
Lying is the basis of all evil. After
one year of absolute truth crime would
disappear.
Some people spend their vacations in
worrying over the business they left BE-
hind them.
Justice is a little short sighted, pr
haps, but it frequently has an eye to tie
main chance.
You just bring couple of little a,lss,
rels into your family and they'HA5feess
like sparrows.
1t is so easy to fancy ones self right
that self-condemnation is about as scare
as G0dO's eggs.
Doubt is brain fog, and it sometimes
takes all the rays of the sun of expert
ence to dispense it.
Every incomplete work is a monument
to human folly. Whatever is worth be-
ginning is worth completing.
God sets the stars in the windows of
the night TO cheer the belated world as
it rolls through the darkness.
She was regal, she was naughty, she
was hghborn and distinguished; and,
like the rest of US, she was clay.
Grief is not to be measured by the tears
shed, nor does the loudest mourners al
ways deserve the largest bequest.
The happiest man is he who, being
above the trouble which money brings,
has his hands the fullest of work.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28
First Martyr to Electricity.

The first death in the world, so far as
we know, from artifcially conducted
electricity was that of Professor Rich
man, of St. Petersburg. He devised
what was practically the first lightning
rod and was killed by it. He ran an
iron to the top of his house in present
liehtning-rod manner and waited for a
thunder storm. 1t came. There was 4
terrific fash of lightning. The profes-
sor's appliance worked well and he was
found dead by the SIDE of it. An Eng
lishman put on a pair of wooden stockings
over his silk ones on cold winter day
At night he pulled the stockings oil
without separating them and was aston
ished by the cracking noise and even
the sparks of electricity which followed.
When he drew the silk stockings out OF
the wooden ones the electrical attraction
was so manifest that the stockings would
incline toward one another when held
some distance apart. 1t happened that
the silk stockings were black and the
wooden ones of light color, but when he
tried the experiment with both stockings
OF the same color there was no electrical
manifestation. -:BostOH Transcript.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28
Best Way to Study Birds.

Olive Thorne Miller, in a paper i
Atlantic, called "From Ny WING
tells about her 'Bird Study" She
The best place 1 have found for 81
upon the habits of birds is beh
blind. If one can command 4 w
with outside blinds, looking upon
attractive to the feathered world, /
be sure, sooner or later, to see ever
of the vicinity. If he will kee
blinds closed and look only throu
opened Stats, he will witness m
their unconstrained free ways tt
possibly be seen by a person with.
sight, though he assume the attitu
the stolidity of a wooden figure.
our nature-poet, Emerson:
.fYou often thread the woods In va
To see what singer piped the strain
Seek not, and the little eremite
Flies forth and gayly sings in sigh
And the bird student can testify
truth of the verse.
Many times, alter having spt
morning in wandering about in t
haunts of q neighborhood, l h
turned to my room to write up m.
book, and l have seen more Of BIZ
bird life in an hour from my
than during the whole mornings
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28
Are Men Growing smnIIsri

A French statistician, who has been
studying the military and other records
with a view OF determining the height of
men at different periods, has reached
some wonderful results.
The recorded facts extend over nearly
three centuries. 1t is found that in 1910
the average height of man in Europe was
LIS metres, or say five feet nine inches.
In 1920 it was five feet five inches and
fraction.
At the present time it is five feet three
inches aud three-quarters. 1t is easy
to deduce from these figures a rate of
regular and gradual decline in human
stature, aud then to apply this, working
backward and forward to the past and
to the future.
By this calculation it appears that
the stature of the first man attained the
surprising average of six zen feet nine
inches.
The race had already deteriorated in
the days of og, and Goliath was quite
a degenerate offspring of the giants
Coming down to the latter times, We
find that ut the i,-grunitrEy OF ,,,.t-sr--s
average height of man was nine feet,
and in the time of Charlemagne it was.
eight feet eight inches. fact quite sufi-
Gent to account fol the heroic deeds of
the Paladins.
But the most astonishing result of this
scientific study comes from the applica-
ton of the same memorable law of dim
mutton to the future. The calculation
shows that by the year 1000 A. D., the
stature of the average man will be re-
duced to fifteen inches. And the con-
clusion of the learned statistician is that
''the end of the world will certainly ar
rive, for the inhabitants will become so
small that they will finally disappes "
''inish by Disappearing" as the Fl
idiom puts it-I'from the terre
globe. London Tit Bits.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28

colors not only Influence cattle, but
humsn beings also. On tais point some
curious experiences are reported from
Italy. es to The effect Of colors on the
nerves Of The sick and insane. In the
hospital for the insane at Alessandria
special rooms arranged with red or blue
rsass istbewindors. and also red and blue
f,sint or she walls. A violent patient IS
brought suddenly into q blue room, and
jeff 80 the effects Of that color on bis
nerves. One manlae was cured IN an
hour; another was st peace in his mind
after passing day IN a room all violet.
The red room is used for the oommonest
form Of demeutia-meiancholy, usually
accompanied By a relassl 70 take food.
After three hours IN the red room a pa
tient afflicted IN this way began to be
cheerful and asked for food.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28
The Hawaiian Queen.

Lydia Hamakacha Lilinokala
new Queen of Hawaii, who has a
the throne in succession to the lat
is not wholly inexperienced, as
on several occasions acted as RI
absence of the King. Indeed,
so acting when he died. Her
ship to the Kamehamehas, Il
Kings of the united Hawaiian
is through her mother. 1t is
native law that the right to be
derived from the female, and
the male, as in European countriG
Queen, who was proclaimed heir
to the throne on April II,
morganatically married, her |
Lieutenant General John Owen
being a Governor of one of the
The new ruler is tall in sta
digniied in manner. The new
n woman of much strength of
is intellectual, well read, and
clever. She speaks English fl
Yankee Blade.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28

'rhe stasistics sor 1883 shows that IN
fhss year $3.50 marriages were contract
Cd In St. Petersburg. Men between the
age Of trsutg-siz and thirty years marry
ing Eomen of fweniy-0ne and twenty
I've formed the iarges; proportion Of the
zbose nunber; next in proportion came
men q ihirty-one and thirty-ave marry
ing women Of tEeatg-one and twenty
Ere; least ia proportion were men over
sixty gesrs old maTyiag women Of the
ages Of fsty-one and ffty-hre yesu.
Most Of the marriages took place in the
month q January; May was the next
month propitioas for marriage; in June
tie least number Of marriages was cor
tracted.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28

Among the laws enacted during the
closing days Of the Fifty-frst Congress
was one b. which the Secretary Of Agri-
culture, through his inspectors at the
ports Of export, is authorized TO exam
inc ali vessels which are to carry the
cattle TO foreign countries, and to pre-
scribe rules and regulations as TO accom-
nodations to be provided for the cattle
as 70 space, ventilation, fittings. food
end water supply, and such other re-
quiremeats as be may deem necessary for
the safe and proper transportation aad
humane treatment Of such animals. The
violation on ang vessel Of the regulations
made By INN may be punished by the
prohibition Of such vessel from again
earring cattle from any port ia the
United States for such length Of time
not exceeding one year as the ssesstary
e kerierltarr W. aiHsA
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28

o weird was the wildly wind-swept wall
OF the hum-strum sad and lone,
As the swing-swang sung to the nightingale
From the heart of cold, white stone;
And maiden fair poised on star
And twanked tune on her light guitar.
The il jib hummed to the hoilyhock.
And the stars zach wept a wall,
As they saw the ghost on a sea-swept rock,
OF the bloody single nail
And the wish-wash winked wiseful wunk
a the moon plunged into the sea "kHr-
PUNK"
And what do they mean, these wild, weird
tales?
Oh, what are they all about?
Why are these sad and soulful wailsf
No one can find that out.
And yet about such lines as these
In the magazine one sometimes sees.
Chicago Herald.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28

Some one sbo wished to tIy expert
nenfs with the United States mail ser
wee recently succeeded in sending note
through the mails on the back Of two
cent stamp. This encouraged others to
try the same experiment, and tEo-ceHt
stamps. with q snort note on the back Of
each, were recently taken out Of the
baskst St the Hartford Coma Postoffice.
Pos,masaer Kinney thought it q good
time 10 see whether tins little fun could
be lsgitmately encouraged, and wrote to
the Washington authorities. The reply
Was thar stamps treated in this fashion
we're Dot nailabie natter. The Govern
meat evidently did not intend them 70
usurp tie place Of the postal cards.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28

The Dropers' Journal says: Govern
ment figures are necessary, and the sys-
ten Of gathering statistics should be en-
larged and Improved They are worse
than misleading. however, when their
collection is extended over long period.
For i1stsnee, with the machinery at the
disposal Of the department FOR computing
the aunbsr Of live animals at any given
tine, il is possible Tor crop Of pigs to
be born. fat1sned aud marketed before
the report can be made
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28
TRAINING FOR THE 4

TRAINING FOR THE HANDS AND JAWS.
II never felt myself f1oored but once
in my life," said the drummer, with the
air of man who thinks he has something
worth the telling. at was down in
Maine, hecontinued, after waiting long
enough to set curiosity on edge. "Td
been living on railway sandwiches for a
week, and just longed for a square
meal. Well, we had to stop at way
station for a couple of hours, on account
of hot box or something o. that sort,
and one of the brakemen put me on to
what he said was a first-class restaurant.
l looked it up and ordered steak. The
steak came, but it was a disappointment
l sawed away on it till my arms ached
1t was out of the question to chew the
small bits tore off from it, though l
tried hard. gave it up finally, and as
l paid my score l said incidentally,
That's about the toughest eating I
ever experienced. He took the money,
swept it into the drawer, and without a
culver he coolly remarked, you don't
seem to consider how much good it IL
do you in the way of exercised "-Boston
Transcript.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28
Indigestion in the Falkland Islands.

1t is popularity considered that that
frightful enemy, indigestion, is a malady,
TO a great extent, consequent upon our
high state OF civilization.
In the medical report on the health OF
the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands,
the Assistant Colonial Surgeon observes
that the bane of this remote territory IS
chronic indigestion.
He attributes this fact to two reasons.
In the first place, to the enormous amount
of tea and coffee consumed by the IN
habitants; and, secondly, to the lgnor-
ance of the majority Of the women oil the
most rudimentary laws OF cooking--As's
York Continent.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-10-28

The new Reading Clerk of the Colo
rade State Senate is Miss Anna W.
KEEL, young and, according to the New
York ladPendeat, very pretty woman.
She reads rapidly, clearly and with cor
rectuess Of accent and pronunciation.
shs is the frsf woman to hold such q
nosifion