San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-07-29

on Locust street, lie provided for q
large room to be used exclusively by
women studying or reading. In
Europe that Is done. but there is no
library on this side of the water where
1T Is considered necessary to pay this
] attention to the woman students All
women who have to go much TO librar,
les >ay that they cannot work at ease
while they are stared at by the meu
who come in, and many Of them com
plain that they are often annoyed by
people who walk up behind them and
look over their shoulder.
There are two big camp meetings that
every year attract large numbers Of
people from st Louis. One is the camp
meeting at Piasa Bluffs, and the other
is Camp Marvin. The bluffs are q
score Of miles away, and are reached
by boats. Hundreds of men from here
take their families mp there. and leave
them in the cottages while the camp
meeting lasts, running up from the
city every day or so 10 see them. The
Marvin camp-ground IS only a short
distance away from the city, and Is
reached by vehicles. There are no
houses on the grounds, and those who
70 out there live in tents till the meet
ing IS over. The grounds, with their
lines Of tents, and their religious ser.
/ wees unuer plne-toppcd sheds are =
unique sight. and the road between
here and The busy cts is covered every
day with buggies and carriages full Of
people going out to look on. Camp Mar
win is to be opened about the last Of
I this month, and the meeting at Piasa
al.
meeting ends.
/ One million passengers have to ride
on q street-car before the company
. takes in $4,000. perhaps more, for some
! of the people ride on passes, and some
of them are children and pay only hale
} fare. Yet. some Of the lines here have
not only received that much money in
F the past year. bat have increased their
receipts by that much, since they gave
up their horse power and adopted cleo
tricity TO propel the cars. II is no
wonder thatgAeR the reports of the
/ City register snow such results from
! the change TO electricity that all the
| lines are grasping at the trolley. So
many have given up the cable and the
horses that the electrical magazines
| say st. LoUis is ahead of every city in
| the United States on its fast transit
mileage Only four Of the twenty-five
lines in the city are now using horses
Two Of these have GeadY bought their
material for putting up the overhead
wires, and by the time the crowds
begin to pour into the city to see the
fall festivities only two slow lines will
e left. These are short, and the Wis
itors Will be more Interested in them
( as n curiosity than Inconvenience.
Curious Chinese Medicines.
The Chinese medical writers recon.
mend such remedies as tiger bones,
bears gall, ground blood. tree bugs,
fossil crabs, fowls gizzards, elephant
blood, insects of nine smells" dew
falling in the dark Of the moon, COW
hair, ground bones Of cows knee,
Jobs tears, snake skins, ground rhin-
oceros horn, hedgehog SKIN and claws.
dried silk worms, and many other
remedies equally as absurd and foolish
Unlnese stree1s are NOT often more
than eight feet wide.
Two men, aged - and 5, years. We're
arrested at Tarboro. y. c., for stealing
hog.
The British museum has a Chinese
note printed about 1865, the oldest on
record.
The bicycle was invented by Ger
man baron sixty years ago, and was
first called tresina
Sing Sing prison in New York has
five lawyers among its tenants. They
were all sent there recently.
The United States department of
labor has begun taking a census of the
building and loan associations of the
country.
The skeleton of an Indian chief was
unearthed near Trenton, y J.. re-
Gently. \ huge earthen pot covered
his head
"Good-by" is contra ton of God
be with YOU" The French adieu means
"to-God, an authorization Of Il com
mend you to God"
DR.. Mole of Berlin syriuged the
spirits that appeared at a seance he at
tended with corrosive subiimate. and
ELECTED from them remarks that are
not suitable for publication.
Officers and soldiers of the French
army viii henceforward have a num-
bered metallic plate fastened on their
collar for identifi .ation A similar
scheme is being considered for the
benefit Of miners
A shad p inches long, 81 inches
thick AID weighing pounds 81
ounces, was caught in the Hudson riv-
er recently at Esopus, y. Y. It is con
sidered to be the largest shad ever
taken from the river.
\ young man in Newcastle, Del
having inherited s, 600 or $4,000. as
tonished his neignbors by spending
s, 100 in three weeks and starting off
with another 81, 900 in lis pocket. He
bought among other things two BIZ
cycles at $50 each, a diamond ring for
s275. eight suits OF clothes and several
1 9o-miIe tickets on various railway
lines.
1t is said that a wet silk handker-
chief tied without folding over the
flIr Is Il tOAAA bAEAF nf--ulA@N tx dlI~h
suffocatiou " smoke; it permits free
breathing and At the same time ex-
cludes the smoke from the face
Few are aware that the human body
falls asleep by degrees. a French
conceives that the sense
of sight sleeps first, then the sense OF
taste, next the sense OF smell. next
that Of hearing and lastly that Of
touch.
People who like to have a good long
voyage to Europe, in order to get the
benefit of the sea air, can always find
sailing ships upon which they can take
passage. Some of these ships are not
in hurry to cross the Atlantic, so that
the vOysger can enjoy several weeks
aboard.