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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23
An Apima,ed Storage Reservoir.


The Australian hmprey has its prin-
cipal habitat in the Murray river, ana
consequently in the dry seasons it Is apt
to be imbedded beneath the hardened
clay, where no water is. As the stream
recedes, the animal fills its pouch and
disappears into the soft mud below,
there to remain until the drought has
passed away, subsisting on the moisture
which II has learned to store in special
izrd receptacle at the side of the head.
As u matter of fact. the fish has mas
tered the difficult question of water stor-
age on its own account before the race
of homo sapiens has been able 10 solve
the same problem in the island conti-
nent.
1t Is an interesting question whether
this Australian lamprey is not linger-
ing example of the fish of Miocene ages,
and as such may be considered as an an
cestral type Of European lampreys. A
sea lamprey that ! examined alive,
caught in the salmon nets of the tidal
estuary, had dintinct tendency TO
swell at either side of the head, as If the
pouch might be forthcoming in time OF
actual necessity. II the Australian type
il not the absolute ancestor of the British
| genera. 1t is at least reasonable to sup
pose that it is an older form, and that
the divergent genera and species have
descended along different lines in the
great life struggle. That the pouch Of
the antipodean lamprey is intended fol
the storage of water is fact that car
hardly be doubted by any one who has
seen the species amid its peculiar sur
roundings.-Cornhill Magazine.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23
who Did what,

In the days when our grandmothers
were girls there came occasionally into
the family of good deacon with nine
children a village dressmaker. She had
an absorbing interest in other peoples
affairs, and always looked forward with
particular pleasure TO the week during
which she cut and fitted for the deacon's
girls, knowing that his house was in
some sort q social center, where she was
likely 10 hear plenty of fresh news and
entertaining anecdotes.
One day she arrived late for her work,
and as she entered the house caught u
glimpse of the six daughters already AS
sembled in the family sitting room with
their gowns and patterns. their work
boxes and their new roll Of "Injy mus
lin"
But none of them were at work, for
one was telling the other story of such
absorbing interest that they sat breath
less and spellbound, with hands fallen
in their laps or needles suspended in the
air.
The sight was too much for the new
conner. With one mitt on and one off,
her unfastened pelisse dragging from
her shoulders, her bonnet askew and its
loosened strings streaming, she ap-
peared suddenly among the astonished
girls. crying as she came:
What? What? What is ii? Who did
what"
She was answered, although giving a
full answer involved the retelling of the
whole story, but her comprehensive in
quiry became thereafter a family by
word.
Among the deacon's descendants to
this day if one shows signs of too great
inquisitiveness, it is sufficient for any
other member of the family to ask. with
lift of the eyebrow:
"Who did what" Youths Compan-
| ion,
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23
Johnson.s peeuIIar,,,...

johnson was a eulogist of the metropo-
his, and it was down Fleet street that he
took his daily walk. which, owing to the
series of tasks he made compulsory on
himself, was a really curious perform
ance. First, every post required to be
touched as he passed IL; next it was a
point Of honor to step exactly in the
middle of each paving slab, and lastly.
as he approached his destination, series
Of graduated strides had TO be employed
in order TO reach the door with one par
ticular foot. Hygiene.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23

Joseph Haworth. the actor, tells a
story of little girl who was very cur
ious TO know all about thunderstorms
and was told by her mother that they
were the voice Of God. A few days
later the cliild was caught ont in thun-
derstorm and called by her mother to
come in. Her little legs came toddling
mp to the piazza as fast as they could.
but as she reached the steps there came
a terrific clap Of thunder, and the little
one, looking up, said, with a panied ex-
precision on her face: ''Oh, bod. 90
needn't holler so loud; Use hurryin dest
as fast as tan. Buffalo Express
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23
VOL. v.
A SAFE VEHICLE.

i have travelled round the world,
Northward eighty-one degrees;
j have seen ice mountains hurled
Into stormy, surgfng seas.
To the summit I've ascended
OF the highest Alpine peak;
And one day my way wended
From Ceylon to Mozambique.
I've explored with learned sages
Parthenons and temples Doric;
And seen relics OF the ages
That we call the prehistoric.
I'm at home in Rome and Venice.
Paris. London, Aberdeen;
And I've danced and played lawn tenn,s
With the daughter of queen.
have seen the Arab manly
Entertaining In his tent:
Travelled at The way with Stanley
Through the darkest Continent:
Scaled those wondrous. storied cellars
In our own New Mexico.
Where the people called cliff dwellers
Lived so many years ago.
Yet In all my Journeys never
Have ] suffered harms attack:
Never coach or car whatever
That boarded left the track.
Never was ! vexed or daunted
At hotel or foreign station.
For the sar In which iaunted
Was my own imagination.
u. Ellis Joy In St. Nicholas.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23

Mr.. Charles Richon, of Paris, has
adopted quite a novel method of earning
living. His cards are worded: 'sCharles
Richon, Imitator of Nightingaies for
Gardens aud Restaurants" Our pro-
fessional appears 10 be fully occupied
during the summer season. Every time
wealthy bourgeois. owning a plot Of
land twelve meters in extent. invites his
friends TO garden party, Charles Richon
conceals himself behind the flower
pots and oleander tubs and charms the
company by initiating the glorious trills
Of thu most melodious of our feathered
songsters.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23

Sunshine is recorded at the meteoro-
logical Office in England by means Of
the Stokes-Campbell instrument, the es-
sential feature of which is a spherical
lens. which acts as a burning glass. As
the sun accomplishes its apparent jour
ney from east TO west it burns its auto
graph into strip of card placed beneath
the lens. but can only do so when it is
easy to calculate the amount of actual
sunshine with which each day is favored,
Chambers journal.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23
Never runI.h when Angry.

There are no unfailing rules which
can be given to the incipient teacher,
and no patent methods will avail.
All depends upon the circumstances
at the very time when she has to act,
and those her instructors cannot by
any possibility know. The only rule
without exception that occurs to me
is that she should never punish when
she Is angry; but this would be a
very slender stock 10 go into bnsi.
ness with. and the imparting of it
would hardly justify Legislature in
building normal schools. Anna c.
Bracket in Harper's.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23

The incapable. who neither know nor
care how food ought to be prepared. are
hardly conscious that they are reaponsi-
bio sor the health of those they cater to.
The senses of taste and smell appear to
be interdependent. and everything that
tastes pleasantly or smells agreeably ex-
cites flow Of the gastric juices, and
then. with digestion. there is better
chance TO assimilate food.--New York
Times.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23
IT WORKED.
The Young Men Knew Human Nature
aud They Concocted - scheme.

Tue NounE wen hnrw Human Nature
aud They Concoetcd u scheme.
The delegation of young men had
been shown into the reception room
ut their employers residence, and
when his wife entered. all rose awk-
wartlly and seemed i'll at ease.
I'VE are employed at your hus-
bands office, explained one of them
at length.
Indeed" she said in some sur
prise. II am very glad to see you;
but to what am l indebted for this
ralli"
We'll, said the spokesman, pluck
ing up little courage. you see, it's
just this way We've been getting off
Mt O'Clock Saturdays and now we
want to make it IL or o'clock if we
can"
The ball grounds are quite a dis
tance away put i'll one of thc dele
CATION.
And we have to start early to get
to the races, added another.
Really, you must excuse me, :"
said the mistress of the house courte-
ously, but firmly. Il never inter
fere in my husbands business
affairs
"Oh, we don't want you to" pro
tested two or three together.
You see" said the spokesman,
getting down 70 business again, ''it's
just this way: We want you to be
kind of nice and pleasant to him for
a few days, and then Wen go to him
and ask him to-
Gentlemen" she haughtily ex
claimed.
Might ask him to take you to the
ball game, suggested one of the
young men without noticing her
manner
"Or the races, added another.
There is an inference, gentle
men, she began, but the spokesman
interrupted.
"Oh, ! know all about it," he said.
I'm married myself. Things go
wrong in the house, and you're tired
and cross at breakfast Then we suf-
fer at the office. You stay up late to
chaperon your daughter at ball,
and we have more trouble at the
Office. You're bit cross three morn
ings III succession, for one reason or
another, and we have a-a-t terrible
time at the office"
Il was discharged from an Office
once because my wife was cross the
same morning that the boss was, y
exclaimed one young man. II sup
pose our wives would have chatted
pleasantly if they had met, but there
was an explosion when we met. He
was ugly about something, and fired
back, and he fired me. That's the
way it goes now; if you make it q
point to be particularly agreeable
and pleasant to him for-say foul
days
Yes. four days will do nicely,
broke in the spokesman. "TheI
well go TO him, and everything vii
be all right. The fourth day yor
give him the best breakfast you car
everything that he likes best-ant
Wen get what we want in thre,
minutes. Talk about woman hav
ing no influence in business Why
the humor she's in has more effect
than a bank failure or a boom in
trade
She thought she ought to be an
CRY, but instead she laughed, agreed
| A Il.
later when they waited on the head
of the firm he made the closing hour
l2 o'clock, and said that never in the
history of the firm had things run as
satisfactorily as they had during the
last four days. New York Sun.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23

The common snake is found through
out Europe (ssve in Ireland, the Ork.
nsys, Hebrides, Shetland islands and
Iceland), extending northward in Scan
dinayia to So degs. 1t abounds in Sic
lily, Sardinia and Corsica. and occurs,
though rarely. in Algiers. but not thence
eastward in Africa. II is found In Per
sia and western Siberia, and Asia as far
Lake Baikal, and is the Alps At an alti-
tude Of 1000 feet-Quarterly Review.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23
Making sure.

He tearnestly)-Are you sure, alb
solutely sure, that you will love me
till death do us partl
She lsolemnlyl 4 am sure, abso-
lutely sure, that l shall love YOU till
death do MS part BY the way, is
your life insuredi = New York
Weekly.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23

A Novel Watch.

One Of the most ingenious and mex
pensive novelties of the day is q gun
metal watch, keyless, and showing upon
its face, through small apertures, the
day. date, month and state of the moon.
The watch requires only to be wound in
the usual way, and when the hour Of IL
o'clock midnight-arrives. with slight
click the day and date change in magic,
although automatic, manner. = New
York journal.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23

The English four posted bedstead was
q huge AFFAIR. There is one at one Of
the inns at Ware. small market town
near Hertford. which is large enough to
hold dozen people, and it Is one OF the
curiosities Of England. It Is referred TO
in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. TIA
bic Talk.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23

The measles bacillus, discovered in
Berlin by DIR. Canon, varies in length
from one three-thousandth TO one one
thousandth OF an inch. Ii possesses
characteristics said TO be different from
those Of any other bacillus known.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23
A n.rs colIeetIsn Of r.brIr..

The collection of fabrics in the Drexel
institute, Philadelphia, promises to be-
come one OF the finest in the country and
Of the highest Importance to students.
The series of Indian prints is remarka-
ble and tbe Chinese emhroideries COM
prise several notable specimens.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23
nsa. In Oh England.

In olden times il, England a pile Of
straw or rushes or a tick filled with
chaff or a lot of hemlock boughs was
thrown down in corner of the iv.
ing room TO sleep on.-TAble Talk
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23

A boy of three and half years, on
hearing about a man who strained his
back by lifting barrel. said: II should
have thought he would have rolled it,
Cor. Bahyhood.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23

New Investigations have compelled the
reduction Of the estimated population Of
China from something over 400, ,000, 900
to abont 950, ,0OO, 900.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23

The grain crop for one year of the
states west Of the Mississippi, including
oats, barley. rye, etc. at the lowest esti-
mate viii reach $500. .000. 900.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-23
A Chsnr.n Girl. Fnil.

On Nov. %, 1880. schoolgirl named
Ng a 500 fell from the roof of four
storied house, distance of sixty or sew
enty feet. Her skull was fractured in
several places aud the right parietal en-
inence was deeply impressed. Enough
to kill anybody, one would say, or at the
best, to induce lifelong idiocyl Not a
bit of il, In exactly six weeks Ng A 500
left the hospital, seemingly says the
clinical report. lin no way the worse for
her fractured skull. London Hospital
Occasionally the English viper will
attempt to engulf too large an. animal,
and Mr.. Bell found one on Poole heath
the skin Of whose neck had thus been
bursted in several places.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

The government of the country
can be no stronger than its law. The
law of the country can be no stronger
than the moral sentiment of the PEG.
pie. For the law to outrun moral
sentiment is to pave the way for it's
present disregard with the certainty
of its finally sinking into contempt.
Few laws, these laws representing
the accepted moral sentiment of the
people and well enforced, will con-
serve the public peace and security.
A voluminous code, outrunning the
accepted moral sense, attempting
impossible regulations and interior
ing unnecessarily with the freedom OF
the people, will never be respected or
obeyed. Texas today stands in need
of similar code on broad basis of
personal freedom, and a strict en-.
forcemsnt of that code at the hands
of her cur is.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

TRAVIS county has four candidates
for state officers, Powers and Rogers
as candidates for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
and Workman and Mccall for reelec.
ton TO their present positions. Cap
tain Rhodes Fisher, who might 9th
erwise be candidate for land commits
sioner, will not make the race, very
wisely conclu ding that Austin is in it
for all that she is entitled to and 3
large margin over.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

WACO News says that the state 81
being organized against Mills. Wait
until after congress adjourns and
Mills returns to the stale to take a
hand in the organization. Those who
have taken advantage of his absence
TO attempt to array the state against
him will find that the man who
snatched Hogg's little senator bald
headed is power with the demo-
cracy of the state and that his in
fluence will count for large contin-
gent In making up the sum total of
anti.Hogg following in this state.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

THE New Jersey legislature having
passed. bill requiring the pu blication
of the names of all applicants for
liquor license in the state and the
same being Objectionable to some of
the liquor men, who thought that the
might interfere with their applica-
tions for renewal, the Jersey City
board of aldermen whipped the devil
round the stump by directing the
publication made in the official Ger
man newspapers of the city. This
action suits the saloon men, is a COM
pliance with the letter of the law and
everybody seems well satisfied.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

The charity that sees in the suffer
ing of the far.off peasants OF Russia
the need of helping hand from our
city, must surely see in the equally
pressing though not so wide spread
needs of our fellow Texans in Starr,
Hidalgo and Zapata counties, neces-
sity to which their charity cannot
turn an unhearing ear. Again the
LIGHT commends to the city of San
Antonio the imperative need of an
immediate supply for the wants OF
those people.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

THE Thomas Jefferson democrats.
So many of them as still stand with
Thomas Jefferson. must remember
that this reputed father of democracy
by whom all swear, was a bi-mstal-
list, pure and simple, declaring that
"the mint must stand on both
metals" This is the position of the
repub lican party, and it is not the
only position taken by Mr.. Jefferson
of which the repu olicsns of this coun-
try are today the opponents and the
democrats the opponents.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28
A LITTLE GIRLS sx7E7lENc=I
LIGHTHOUSES

Mr.. and Mrs. Loren Prescott are keep
ers of the Gov. Lighthouse at Sand Beach.
Mich, and are blessed with daughter
four years old. Last April she was taken
down with Measles, followed with a
dreadful Cough and turning into Fever.
Doctors at home and at Detroit treated
her, but in vain she grew worse rapidly,
until she was mere handful of bones.''
Then she tried DR.. Kings New Discovery
and after he use of two and half bot
ties, was completely cured. They say DR..
Kings New Discovery is worth its weight
in gold, yet you may get a trial bottle
free at Adolph DreiSS and Dreiss, Thomp-
son & Co. Der 6
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28
congress

The "silver senators" OF the So
called republican persuasion who
threaten to take their several states
out of the republican column If a sill
yer bill passes only to be struck in
the head by presidential veto, are
threatening what they cannot ac-
complish. The influence of these
men in their own states is not suffi-
cient to negative the majority that
was given to Mr.. Harrison in 1888,
when met by the splendid record of
the past four years. w..
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

THE Kansas democrats have seen
enough of fusion. with the alliance
men and the level headed journals of
that party in that state are demand
ing an instruction of a state ticket
this year. The third party organ of
Kansas speaks OF their democratic
allies as those for whom they have
no affection and to whom no respect
is due.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

TIMOTHY HOPKINS was paid the
sum of "a ,5)0, 900 for settling the will
case in his controversy with Series.
Had the case been pressed some of
the most sensational testimony would
have been presented that was ever
delivered in court room. The reve-
Iation would not have been particu-
larly to the credit of either Series or
Hopkins aud so the compromise was
made.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

NORTHWEST TEXAS Is not torn up
over the quarrel OF the happy family
of the democracy as the rest of the
state is. The principle reason for
this condition of affairs Is that north
west Texas is essentially republican
The democracy of thesstate will wake
up one of these fine mornings and
find the party solidly split into rib
bons by no end of republican counties
in the Panhandle.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

If 1t be true, as reported, that Tom
Platt says he will keep the vote of
the New York delegation away from
Harrison at Minneapolis, Tom has
simply DIVERSIFIED his ability to thwart
the wishes of the republicans of the
empire state. New York's vote will
go solidly for the only man in the
United States who can today abso-
lutely prevent the mischievous silver
legislation proposed by democrats in
congress.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

THE democracy of the twelfth con.
gressional district have their thirteen
candidates for congressional honors
in the field, with the woods full of an
inumerable multitude who are maxi
Ing break for the clearing. UI der
these circumstances it is hardly pos
sible that a first.class man can be
elected.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

UNCLE DAN'L OF the Houston Age
is anti. Hogg and anti-commission; so
strongly anti.commission that he
cannot follow Clark into the elective
commission camp Clark has entered
that camp solely because it was the
expressed will of the Texas people
that such camp should be establish
ed. and not because he has changed
his personal views as to the injurious
effects of such regulations.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

THE FL Paso Tribune is one of the
few papers in south west Texas that is
hot for Hill; it will have ample time
to cool it's ardor before Hill captures
the national convent ton. Antagonism
to repu blicanism pure and simple Is
the only platform on which Hill
stands, and, fooihardy as the demo
Gratis are, they dare not go before
the country with that sole issue.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

HoGG was building wiser for him
self than his enemies knew when he
insisted on making the railway com.
mission sppointive. In the light of
the fact that the commission is an
important part of Hogg's campaign
machinery his reason for insisting up
on an appointivs commission with the
appointive power in his own hands is
better understood.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

II the third party leaders are not
way off in their calculations, that
they can poll 10000 votes in the
state, then is the salvation of the
state nearer than is generally be-
lieved. Nearer, not by virtue of a
third party supremacy, but through
Uncertainty of the victory of the re-
publican party over the democratic
remnant.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

THERE will he nine hundred and
forty votes in the state convention al
Austin and Hogg must get six hun
dred and thirty-two of these in order
to a nomination; it were easier for a
double bumped camel to go through
the eye of a number ten needle than
for Hogg to corral those six hundred
and thirty-two votes after Clark has
rounded up the state.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-28

CHAIRMAN FINLEY in turning the
alliance men out of the democratic
prim aries has not turned up trumps
for Hogg. On the contrary he has
turned out OF the democratic party
the very men through whom Hogg was
elected two years ago and without
whom he can not be renominated,
much less reelected,