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The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-03-04

The city council met last night
with the full board of aldermen pres.
ent, Mayor McOullOch presiding. The
minutes of last meeting were read by
che city secretary aud adopted.
Upon motion Alderman Herbert
was excused for being absent at The
last meeting of the council.
A petition OF ]. Davis asking the
privilege of organizing boot blacks
union was read, and upon motion Of
Alderman Lacy laid on the table.
A petition signed by forty eight
inmates of the reservation stating that
no person infected with contagious or
infectious diseases are admitted as
patients to the city hospital, they
therefore ask that some provision be
made for such persons in the reserva
tion so infected. Referred to the
sanitary committee.
A petition signed by fifty citizens
of Edgefeld asking that the ordinance
requiring the several railway compa-
MES in the city of Waco to light up
the streets on which they run be
strickly enforced; that immediate steps
be taken to prevent the threatened
chasing Of Second street from Waco
creek south by Judge J. l.. Henry,
the reputed owner, and that a single
track wooden bridge be constructed
across Waco creek on the north side of
the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
railway: that the Bell Water company
be requested to extend their mains
into Edgefeld and put in two more fire
dydrants there.
Referred to the city attorney and
city engineey for investigation with
orders to report to the street commit
tee for further consideration.
The monthly report of Il M. Pal
mer, public weigher for February was
read and ordered filed.
The report of Street Commissioner
John McGhee showing the weekly pay
roll of employees in his department to
be $l72, was read and ordered filed.
Alderman Herbert reported for the
fire committee as to insufficient fire
protection in the neighborhood of the
Waco Wooden Mills and recommend
ed that the report be referred to the
tre committee with instructions to
place two additional fire by drants, one
at the corner of Thirteenth and
Jackson and thu other at the corner of
Fourteenth and Jackson streets. Re.
port received and recommendation of
committee adopted.
Upon motion of Alderman West
charge of So was fixed TO be paid by
all outside parties for the use of the
Blue Room, to cover the expense o.
lights,
Alderman lacy at this point
stated that he had to leave the city on
the midnight train and that it was
necessary for him to make prepare
tions to leave and therefore asked to
be excused. Request granted.
A number of bills approved by the
finance committee were ordered paid.
Alderman Hawkins reported several
un approved bills upon which he de.
sired Immediate action of the coun Gil.
Alderman Herbert thought all bills
should take their regular course and
be reported upon in writing.
The mayors report for February of
6 urrent expenses, including the semi
annual interest on the second series,
street. improvement bonds, street work
aAd prisoners, second series funding
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-03-04
Lots.

These lots have the finest soil. a
rich sandy loan, admirable for gar
dens, and are underlaid with pure
water in inexhaustible quantities at a
depth of fifteen and sixteen feet,
which can be used for irrigation.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-03-04
La0ts.

The only cheap lots offered in Waco
for the last five years are those now
on the market in the Kirkpatrick AID.
dition, East Waco. These lots are
being sold for one-half their real val
ne, making chance to secure de-
sirable home such as will never occur
again.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-03-04
Lots.

These lots lie high and dry. They
overlook large portion of the city
and have perfect drainage. They lie
in the healthiest part of the city, catch
ing the pure breezes from the prairie
untainted by passage over any part of
the city.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-03-04
THE CITY COUNCIL.
The Bond Business ,Spiritedly Dis
eusSed.
RESIGNATION OF JAMES BAKER.

The Recorder Ordinance Again
Laid Aside-RePOrts of Officers
{ The Mayors New York Expense
Account ADMINISTRATION for
Light and Water at Edgefisld.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
He Rcckoned He would Run.

One of the most interesting characters
in American history is General Zachary
Taylor, ...Old Rough and Ready" hero Of
Buena Vista, father-in-law of Jefferson
Davis and twelfth president of the United
States. We all recollect how Daniel
Webster sneered at him, before he 4gas
nominated, as 'sbackwoods colonel, !"
and refused to let his friends put him on
the ticket for vice president with Taylor
for first place, thereby missing his last
and, as the sequel showed, best chance
of becoming president. Millard Fill
more, of New York, took the despised
second place and thereby had nearly
three years in the White House.
General Sherman used to tell an anus
ing little story of Taylor anent his nomi-
nation for the presidency. At that time
General Taylor was stationed at New Or
leans. He was Kentnckian and the
Kentuckians were very properly proud of
him. One day shortly before the conven-
ton met at Baltimore he was approached
at New Orleans by an old Kentucky
friend, who said:
General, we want you to run for presi-
dent
'.Who wants me to run?' asked Gener-
al Taylor seriously
''Why. we do-all your old neigh
bors''
''Well, then. if that's the case,'' replied
the old hero, without changing the ex-
preston of his face, Il reckon I'll have
to run. Detroit Free Press. -
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
Area of the Canadian Dom,n,on.

In the last issue of the Statisti-
cal Year Book of Canada, COM
piled by Mr.. Sydney c. D. Roper
of the statistics branch of the de-
partment of. agriculture, we find that
the total area of the dominion is com
puted to be 3.456, 1888 square miles. In
this estimate 140,736 square miles are
assigned to water and 3,S15, ,647 to land
surface. The table which yields this
total is said to be an entirely new one,
having been specially prepared at the
request of the compiler of the Year
Book by the Typographical Survey
branch of the department of the in
terror
''The measures have all, we are told,
''been made anew and checked, and
may be depended on, in SO far as war
ranted by the present geographical
knowledge of the country. No change
will be made in these figures unless
based upon new information. AS this
is question on which there has been a
good deal of discussion and much differ
ence of opinion, it is satisfactory to
receive this assurance from what we
may regard as the highest official and
professional authority Montreal Ga
zette. =
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
Ending His Bride.

In one part of the Canton of Ticino a
very quaint marriage ceremony prevails
The bridegroom dresses in his ssSunday
BEST" and accompanied by as many
friends and relatives as he can muster
for the fete goes to claim his bride.
Finding the door locked he demands
ad1nittance; the inmates ask him his
business, and in reply he solicits the
hand of his chosen maiden.
If his answer be deemed satisfactory
he is successfully introduced to a num-
Der of matrons and maids, some perhaps
deforn,ed and others old and ugly Then
he is presented to some large dolls. all
of which he rejects with scorn, amid
general merriment. The bewildered
bridegroom, whose impetuosity and
temper are now sorely tried, is then in
formed that his lady love is absent and
invited in to see for himself
He rushes into the house and searches
from room to room until he finds her in
her bridal dress, ready to go to church.
Then are his troubles over and his state
as benedict assured, ,-Swiss.Re
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18

Soon after Fitz- Greene Halleck had
published his stirring rMarco Bozzaris,"
he repeated the poem to lady, an init
mate friend of his. She expressed great
admiration of the beautiful lines, but
when he was in full enjoyment of what
he considered her perfect appreciation
she surprised him by the innocent query:
"Who was Marco Bozzaris.'
"Well," said Mr. Halleck, Respondent
ly, whats the use of becoming martyrs
for liberty or of poets celebrating heroes
if ladies won't even inform themselves
about the events of the dayr"
The remembrance of another incident
connected with the poem never failed to
elicit groan from its author.
A a certain dinner party at which he
was present, it was expected that each
man should sing song or make a speech.
Among the guests was a Dutch Jew,
whose English was execrable, and he
had been previously persuaded by joker
to commit the whole of Marco Bozzaris
to memory that he might recite it for the
qualification of the poet and the poets
friends. f
The day came and the Dutchman was
called upon to speak
''Shentlenans," said he rising, 81 can
neither make de speech nor sing de song,
but l will deliver Won grand poem"
This he proceeded relentlessly to do,
and Halleck, when he heard his harmo-
NOUS measures delivered in a mixture
of English and Dutch, was divided be-
tween the temptation to laugh and cry.
Youths Companion.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
Something THAT Has Been Needed.

For some time past the public have
been looking for an adjustable grille,
with shelf attachment, upon which to
place bric-a-brac, the whole to be ar
ranged over windows or doorways to re-
heve this portion of room, which is
usually dependent upon a curtain pole
The great trouble has always been that
they had to be made to order, as win
dSws and doors vary in width. Now,
however, device is made narrow enough
to go into the narrowest doorway. 1t is
in two sections, running upon a sliding
top bar. By drawing these pieces apart
they can be extended to the width of
the door, and the open place left in the
center of them is furnished with short
drapery.-P Philadelphia Upholsterer.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
The BOYS Did the Job.

An East Dover (NIe.) farmer had a
mare something over 20 years old, and
not thinking it advisable to winter
her, spoke to some boys to take her out,
shoot her and bury her for money con-
sideration. Boys No. 1 and 2 did the
job all right. but No. 3, not knowing the
mare had been killed, went the follow
ing day to the farmers barn, and find
ing an animal in the stable, took him
out and led him down to piece of
woods, shot and buried him. Imagine
the farmers surprise on coming home to
find that boy No. 3 had shot and buried
a nice 5-year-old. worth in the neighbor-
hood of $200.-Boston Transcript.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18

$ Teaehers of, the French conservatoire.
The piano playing Of the French ma
ton has been ably educated by that
noble institution the Conservatoires of
Paris, which was founded during the
great revolution The first teacher was
Adam, father of the composer of the
Position de Lonjumeau;" his pupil,
Zimmerman, long occupied the leading
place in Paris musical circles; it was at
his salons at-Moscheles and Tha1berg
first made their bow to Psrisian audi
ence. Kalkbrenner continued the great
traditions of the past; his contemporaries
speak of him in the most glowing terms,
and his favorite pupil, Stamaty, had tie
good fortune of guiding the musical
genius of Gottschalk. Music
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
DIR. raImage.s New Years aIaxims.

Make it the best year of all your life
the brightest, the happiest and the best
Imbue your heart with the freshness of
the morning, your soul with the sparkle
of the dawn. Resolve by good deeds
and thoughts to make this the most tri-
umphant yeal of your life. AS series
of short na91i1ns to carry with you
through this year. let me give you these:
Make every day begin and end with
God.
Be content with what you have.
Have hearty, joyful family altar in
your domestic circle.
Fill your home with as much good
reading and bright music as your means
will allow
Think i'll of none, but well of all.
If fortune favors you. think of Others
Don't sham; be real
Keep busy and you will keep healthy
Respect all sacred things.
Love God.-Dr. Talmage in Ladies'
Home Journal
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
manafaeture Of otbpieks.

Toothpicks are made of the wood of
the spindle tree (Enonyinus Eurep@us)
in Germany. This manufacture is said
to employ large mum bers of the peasants
in the Grand Duchy of Hesse during the
winter evenings. There are four kinds
,made-No. 6 selling at IS. per thousand,
No. ~ at 3s., No 10 at As. and No. Is at
T. ooa ea of iee IL s0osnpae5s Gt wf,ow
called Flor du Parletos- ARE sold in Por-
tngal atiprices ranging from cd. to As.
per thousand. Journal
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18

How to- Ascertain the State of the Lungs.
Persons who wish to ascertain the true
state of their lungs are directed to draw
in as much breath as they conveniently
can. They are then TO count as far as
they are able, i'll IL slow and audible voice,
without drawing in more breath The
number of seconds they can continue
counting must be carefully observed. A
person with consumption cannot count
more than ten seconds and frequently
after six is exhausted. In pleurisy and
pneumonia it ranges from nine to four
seconds. When the lungs are in sound
condition the time will vary from twenty
TO thirty-five seconds.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
Trying to Buy Back His own Body.

This queer story comes from Massa-
chusetts: A man who lives in a suburb
of Lowell is seeking to have deed given
by him twenty years ago recovered. The
deed conveyed his body to surgeon now
pIacticing in Great Falls, N. H., for the
sum of ten dollars and other considera-
tions, possession to be taken on his death.
Since the deed was made the giver has
made a fortune in South America and
has decided that he would like Chris
tian burial The deed provides that the
body shall be dissected and the skeleton
articulated and presented to medical
university. The lauyers have decided
that the deed holds good and that the
only alternative is to buy off the doctor.
The giver of the deed has made a big
offer, but it has been refused Hartford
Courant.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
How and When to Wear a scarfpin.


A scarfpin should never be worn
merely as an ornament. When it does
not serve useful purpose it should be
left in the pin cushion at home. For
instance, a properly made sailors knot
stays in place by itself, and a scarfpin
should never be worn with it. With the
made up scarfs in imitation of the
sailors knot pin should never be used.
Indeed, made up scarfs are not consid-
cred good form by men who are particu-
lar as to dress. There is only one cravat
in which scarfpin. should be worn
This cravat is called by various names,
but is probably better known now as
the four-in-hand. 1t is really a scarf.
1t should be tied in one hard knot and
then the ends folded over in front and
fastened together with the scarfpin,
which should be run through the cravat
twice so that half an inch or so of the
pin itself will show in the cravat. Its
purpose is thus made manifest A man
should never wear anything which does
not serve useful purpose.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
Instinct of tho Messeneer pireon.

Upon what the messenger pigeons
wonderful faculty of finding its way
homeward over great distances depends,
opinions differ. Some ascribe it to an
exercise of highly developed intelligence,
others to an almost inconeeivable per-
fection of sight, and yet others to in
stinct or intuition. The fact of the
matter is, it is one of those mysteries of
nature that perhaps will never be reveal
ed, and stands side by side with the ac-
tom of the grilseor young salmon, which
finds itsowsy back unerrngly to the
same stream that it left nearly three
years before as tiny par.-Denver Re-
publican
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18

The largest cigar actually smoked is
by the better class of the Philippine Is
landers, especially at aLozon-a place not
ed Tor the universal habit Of smoking,
practiced by all classes, ages and sexes.
1t is no uncommon thing to meet re-
spectacle islanders putting away at Gig
ars foot In length and thick in proper
hon.-Boston Globe.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
Tn. Progrss. Of vol.pun.


It is q very interesting fact that the
world language, Voiapuk, is not only
coming to be spoken cenversatienally by
its enthusiastic votaries, but is to be
made medium of interlingual commu-
nication at the Worlds Columbian fair.
A complete record of progress made in
spreading Volapuk since that delightful
national convention of its yotaries was
held in Boston, considerably more than
a year ago, would astonish all but the
few who keep closest watch on the move
ment. "A significant circumstance is
that recently the Young Peoples Society
of Christian Endeavor of the Peoples
church, Boston, formally adopted Vola-
puk as a study for that organization
and a class of forty members Expected
to double shortly was formed, to meet
each Monday evening in the church,s
reading room for instruction.
Other noteworthy instances are as fol.
lows: The people of Newton, quite at
their own request, are to have a lecture
on Volapuk under the auspices of a
ladies' association there. Salem and
Gloucester are to have lectures in Janu-
ary, and the interest all over the coun-
try is similarly manifested Newspaper
lessons, published simultaneously all
over the maritime provinces, Canada
and the United States, have been given
weekly since Oct. 10. Thl students
write out the exercises of the lessons and
send them to convenient points, as desig-
mated, for annexation, and immense
numbers of young and old of both sexes
! are following the lessons. Boston Ad-
vertiser.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
Am Aristocratic Grain.

Could plants lay claim to aristocratic
position, as representing an old family,
rice might safely claim to be of the most
ancient pedigree. It lis the earliest cereal
known. Originally a native of India, it
has crossed the ocean and make a home
for itself where heat and moist soil
could be found. 1t grows in all warm
portions of the globe, and furnishes the
principal food of nearly one third of the
human race.-Good housekeeping
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
How to Treat for AN Overdose of Opium
Laudanum.

Give amy quick emetic you have at
hand. If there is none, tickle the roof of
the tongue and throat with finger or
feather till the patient vomits Then
pour in hot strong coffee as long as the
patient can be made to swallow it. This
should be done from the first, without
waiting for the vomiting. if the latter be
delayed more than two or three minutes.
Keep the patient moving and sweating
If necessary to the latter, place the feet
in hot water or hot cloths. OF course
physician should be sent for while all
this is going on. Opiates are not taken
mp by the stomach as rapidly as is gem
orally supposed, and life may often be
saved long after the poison is swallowed
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
Big Coon. Big Tree, small Man.

A party consisting of D. NJ Rawlins,
h. q. Brown and others, of Browns
Mill, went out coon hunting the. other
night and caught the largest coon and
cut down the largest tree yet on record.
The coon weighed twenty-seven pounds
and the tree was nearly fifteen feet
across the stump. The tree wasvery
hollow, and Mr.. Nathan Singletary, who
is not very large man, went into the
hollow of the tree and came out at a
knot hole vCor. Atlanta Constitution.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
Doing Penance.

An old woman has taken up her abode
ina wood ON Lord Annaly's estate at
Kildysart. She has made bed of fern
leaves between the trunks of trees, sticks
and ferns forming a rude thatch. The
only article of furniture is a crucifx
She subsists on bread and water, and
says she has resorted to this wretched
mode Of existence as a penance.-Lon-
don Letter
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
How to Make a Feather Brush.

Boil the wing feathers of a turkey or
chicken for five or ten minutes, then
rinse them in tepid water, dry and tie
up in bunch suitable to use in greas-
ing pans or brushing egg over tarts or
pastry
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
How to Prevent bleeding.

Put a little sugar in the linen cloth
used for bandage. moisten sugar with
saliva and lay directly over the cut,
binding as tightly as possible. The
sugar will quickly stanch the flow of
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
How to Make n wainscot for the Hall OF
Country House,.

A striking and beautiful wainscotsfor
any hall where it can be suitably placed
is made by fastening dry cornstalks side
by side in an upright position against
the wall. They should be cut off slant
ingly at about the height Of wainscot
from the floor. and when all is in place
vanished.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
How to Pronounce Words with Certain
TerminaIs.


TerminaIs.u
Full value should be given to most of
the terminals of words in the English
Careless speakers who would speak more
correctly may find the following rules of
value:
Pronounce words terminating in
ace-as spelled, not iss, furnace, not furniss.
age-as spelled, not idge, as cabbage. courage,
POSTAGE Village, etc.
ain-ane in. as certain, certane, not certia.
ate.ss spelled not it, as moderate, not mod
crit. IA
tect, not sdbjec.
ed-as spelled, not id ud, as wicked, not
wickid or wickud.
elias spelled, not l. as novel, not uovl, model,
not modi.
en-as spelled. not %, as suddenS not suddH.
Burden, burthen, garden, lengthen, seven,
strengthen, often and few other words
have the silent.
ence-as spelled, not unce. as influence, not
infu-URcc.
es-as spelled not Is, as pleaseS, not pleasts.
ne-should be pronounced Il, as fertH. not
fertile. in all words except camomile
exile, gentle, infantile, reconcile and
senile, in which the full value should be
given To the ue.-
an-as spelled, not n, as Latin, not Latin.
nd-with full value, as husband, not husban:
Thousand, not thousdIi.
ness-as spelled, not Miss, carefulness, not
carefulnis-
ng-not n. as singing, not singin; speaking. not
speakin.
ngth-not nth, as strength, not strenth.
son-the o should be silent, as in treason; tre-zI,
not tre-S0H.
tal-not tie, as capiiai, not capitle: metal. not
mettle: mortal, not nIortic; periodical, not
Tf-nOt n neff not
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
How to Save a Broom.

Dip in boiling suds once week. The
straws will becolhe at once tough and
more pliable, lasting longer and not cut
ting the carpet SO much.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-18
one Thing That Ki,,..

The thing that really killsa great many
people is laziness, though the doctors
generally manage to find more respect
able name for it.-R Rams Horn.
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How to Reduce English Pounds to Their
Exact Equivalent in American Dollars.
Multiply by 1906 and point off four
places for cents and fractions thereof.
Thus e13-13x4. s665, that is $63.26 and
$500 of cent. But for sterling ex-
rhange multiply by $4.s4 in an ordinary
New York market