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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1893-12-03

~ Sc complace atiende los parroquianoa. Linn
peza, Prontitud, Esmero Elegancia.
En- este acreditado salon. reformado recientemente
admen abonados por meses hay siempre surtido ge
neral de jabones cosmeco aguas de tocador acees po
madas, polvos toda clase de perfumeria extra fna.
- AmabiHdad con los marchantes CON el pdblico Q,
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
Kicking Others, Heols.

He is a fortunate man who can walk half a mile on Broadway on busy day and escape being trodden on by some one behind him. 1t is a curious fact that nearly all of the men who-uncon- sciously, of course-step on women's dresses and wipe their feet on other mems trousers, are victims of the un- fortunate habit of ''toeing in, says the New York Times. ''Show me man who toes in and will show you a man who is eternally stepping on somebody's heels" said a Wall street philosopher the other day. ''There are a great many men who toe in downtown, and as am oblighed to be on the street a good part of the day have to suffer from them. Why, some days it becomes necessary for me to invoke bootblacl1 three or four times in order to keep the bottoms of my trousers clean, and to re- new the polish on the heels of my ShOeSn n
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
HOW WE SLEEP.
Insteod Of Slumhering All Over at Once
 We Go to Sleep by Sections.

Insteod Of Sluulherin: All Over at Once
 We Go to Sleep by Sections.
 According to the best writers on the subject, it has been aScertained that, in beginning to sleep the senses do not unitcdly fall into a state of slumber, but drop off one after the other The sight ceases, in oonSeqence of the pro- lection of the eyelids, to receive i'm pressions first, while all the other senses preserve their sensibility entire.
 The sense of taste is the next which loses it's susceptibility to impressions. and t en the sense of smelling. The hearing is next in order, and last of all comes the sense Of touch Further. more, the senses are thought to sleep with different degrees Of profoundness.
 The sense of touch sleeps the most lightly and is the most easily awakened the next easiest is the hearing; the next is the sight, and the taste and smelling awake last. Another remark. able circumstance deserves notice certain muscles and parts of the body begin to sleep bcfere others.
 Slees commences at the extremities, beginning with the feet and legs and creeping toward the center of the ner- vous action. The necessity for keep ing the feet warm and perfectly still as a preliminary Of sleep, is well known.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
vON MOLTKE's SOLDIERS.
An Incident Showing Their Perfect Dis
 cipIinc.

An Incident ShoCin% Their Perfect Dis-
 ciFIinc.
 The parents of young soldier who was a private in a Prussian cavalry regiment during the Franco-Prussian war became terribly anxious about him. Several battles had been fought and they had received no news of their boy. After some hesitation, the father went to sec Gen. won Moltlle, who was understood to receive visitors at a cer- tain hour in thc early morning.
 Strange to say. the father was admit ted to see the great field marshal
 What is your bpsincss?" said DIoltlle "Usc as few words as possible.''
 The visitor explained that he wished to know the fate Of his son, q private in a certain regiment AIoltlIe smiled, but not unllindiy. and drew from his pocket Q square of cardboard covered with dots. lines and crosses of various colors.
 This line" he said, indicates the line of march of your sons regiment. These dots mark the distances of each forced march. Tomorrow morning ct seven o'clock the rcgiment must be at this point here. Take note of the sit ulticn.'
 He said no more and the interview ended. Long before the hour named the father was at the point indicated on the map. Just before seven o'clock the trumpets of the advance guard were heard in the distance, and precisely at the hour the father saw his son.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
BRITISH CLUSTER.
An Illustration of the Bullying Tendency
 of the English.

of thc English
 When the British press undertakes to show that the Americans engage in buster when dealing with weaker na- tions, and by implication that England does not, it calmly ignores the fact that Great Britain has always acted the bully in dealing with small countries. The San Diego (Cal.) Union recalls the fol- lowing instance to illustrate the truth of this assertion: In 1882 the British vice consul at San Jose. Qua emala, MT. McGee, was challenged to boat race to an incoming Pacific mail steamer by the boarding officer of the port.
 Mir. McGee was successful and was on the gangway ladder of the steamer just as the boarding officer reached the step, but the two went aboard together Mir. McGee's success so incensed the officer that he notified the Guatemalan author ities that Mr. McGee had violated the customs law by preceding him aboard the steamer. Mr. McGee was arrested, convicted and punished with fifty lashes on his bare back. He explained the oc- currence to his home government, and within thirty days a British man of war was in the port and demanded that the vice consul be paid one thousand dollars for each lash, and that the boarding officer be taken out and shot or the city would be bombarded. The demand was complied with.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
A Perfumed Lake.

A rose-colored lake is one of the nov el attractions in the Caspian sea. One lake is covered with salt crystals strong enough to allow man and beast to cross the lake on foot. Another is as round as any circle and of a lovely rose-color. Its banks of salt crystals form settinr. white as the driven snow, to the water, which not only shows all the colors from violet to rosy-red, but from which rises perfume as of violets. Both the perfume and the coloring are the result of the presence of sea weeds, the violet Polycystis violacea and the pink Gath -oeystis roSea perSicina.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
SHAVED WHILE YOU SLEEP.
How tle Native Barber of India Performs
 tsse Operation.

How the Native Barber of India Performs
 tie Operation.
 Talking about barbcrs, now," said an elderly gentleman, whose clean shavea face still bore tEc tan of the Indian sun under which the greater part of his life had been passed, to a New York Sun man, 'I know that the American artist is very s5illful with bis razor and the luxury in and a baTber's chair is any Of the large cities Of the United States is not equaled ia any other part of the world. But, after all. the American barber has all the arrlances of his trade. In India it is dilfc-ent.
 The HiadOo who slaves you while y5ll are il your bed in the morning car rics with him little more than brush, a razor and a pair Of scissors. He ex- pects to find everything else that may be necessary in your bathroom. You pay him, as you do your other servants, by tke month. and he visits you every day CT every alternate day as may be agreed upon. If ie finds you sleeping Le never aropses you. He just studies your position and then slaves only the parts Of your face that are plainly ex- posed to him, and so gently and softly does he do it that unless you are a very light sleeper indeed you do not know that you have been lathered and shaved until you open your eyes and see him sitting on the floor beside the bed.
 Then he makes his salaam and begs you to turn over so that he can finish his work. But if you are lying on your back no delay is necessary. He finishes the operation and goes away without disturbing you and you awake to find yourself shaved without having seen the barber. Your face is, probably, little clammy after it, because, of course, he cannot wash it. But as every man in India takes Q cold bath the mo- ment he arises from his bed in the morn ing that does not greatly matter"
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
Articles Of Incorporation
 OF THE Snowflake and Taylor irrigation Company,

The undersigned, beng desirous of forming corporation under and i'll ac- cordance with the laws of Arizona, do hereby adopt the following Articles of Incorporation:
 First. The names Of the cOrpOrators are: N Smith, " Freeman, W J Flake, $ D Rogers, J fl WIlhs, E NJ Webb, Norman A Brimhall, A Angell and John Hancock, who with their sue cessOrs, shall constitute the Board oi Directors for the first year.
 Second. The name of the corporation
 s the Snowflake and Taylor Irrigation Company. The principal place of busi- ness shall be at Snowflake, County of Apache, Arizona.
 Third. The general nature of the busl- ness 10 be transacted IS the building of canals, reservoirs and irrigation ditches and the controlling. buying, leasing and selling of water, wafer rights and lands owned and acquired by the Company, and do such other things incidental to such business or necessarily connect ed therewlth.
 Fourth. The amount of capital Stock authorized Is seventyfve thousand dol lars in shares of ten dollars each, twen- ty-fve per cent of which is to be paid within one year.
 Fifth. Tie corporation will begin business OH the twenty-third day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and terni- nate i'll twenty-five years.
 Sixth. The affairs of the Company shall be conducted by board of nine directors. The officers to be chosen by the board of directors shall be Presi dent, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer; and at the option of the Board of Directors, an Assistant Secre- tary and Superintendent, and such oth- CT special officers as may be deemed necessary for conducting the business of the Company. Election of Directors shall be held annually on the first Mon- day in January-election of officers at the first meeting of the Board thereaf- ter. The highest amount Of indebted ness or liability to which the corpora tion shall subject itself, shall be fifty thousand dollars.
 Seventh Private property of the stock holders of this Company shall be exempt from corporation debts.
 In testimony whereof we have here unto set our hands and seals, this twen- tV.tirst day of January in thn year 1S13
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
A aREAT ELECTRICIAN.
He Began Experiments with Leyden Jars
 Hz-.,a-, z. rs1,.- I-Io.-oz,

He Began Experiments with Leyden Jars
 When Soy Of Eleven.
 Anybody that has heard much about the work of Prof. Elihu Thompson, the man whose name is in the title of the great electric company and whose brain has worked out all the mechani cal ideas that have made the company tremendously rich and famous in the last decade, is very much surprised usually when ne meets the little pro- lessor, says a Boston letter The man of genius is only five feet four inches high, or perhaps a little taller His figure is even boyishly slight, and his face Is very much younger in appear auce than that of almost any man with a mustache in the senior class at Har- yard university. His no-account brown mustachc gives him an older look, but if it were not for that he would be startlingly youthful looking. As it is, he is few years short of forty. He was always famed for his precOcity, and he had to wait two years before he could enter the high school in Philadel- phia, because he was so young. He was . professor of chemistry before he was twenty-three years old. When he was eleven years old he began expert ments with Leyden jars, and contin- ued experiments in electricity uninter- ruptedly until he was thirteen years of age. He lived in Philadelphia, and when he'd try his prentice hand on his first dynamos he used to travel into the woods away from his home to strip the elder berry bushes and get elderpith to make insulating material with. When he'd be short of this he'd get from his neigh bors the silver foil from tobacco and use that. He ought to be worth hun- dreds of thousands of dollars to-day, but he is comparatively poor, and he devotes his energies to the supervision of the technical electrical works of the company exclusively. Prof. Houston, the man whose name is joined with his in the title of the company. is not di- rectly connected with the concern, but is plodding professor of physics in Philadelphia.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
THE RUTHLESS TURK.
A Striking Pen Picture of the Scenery of
 the BOspiorCs.

A Striking Pen Picture of the Scenery of
 the BOsplorUs.
 The Turk has been for centuries, says Alfred D. r. Hamlin, writing in the De ccmbcr New England Magazine, the most ruthless of Vandals in classic lands, destroying the most precious an- tique monuments to obtain lime and mortar. Much havoc of this sort has been wrought in and about Stamboul, but a wiser use has sometimes been made of ancient ruins. Wherever 9 bit of medieval wall could answer his purpose. he has made of it the base ment of his house, thus subserving at once the interests of his purse and of the picturesque. The frowning machi- colations of the old fortress become the windows of his kitchen and store room, and upon their crest his wooden walls perch in truly triumphant fashion. Part of the walls of old Byzantium are thus crowned with houses, and at Roumcli-iIissar, beneath the windows of the American Robert college, whole village clings to the scarpments and towers of the frowning Castle of Oblivion" No odder or more delightful confusion of bcctling walls and comical houses could be imagined. The tops of the thick walls form lanes and alley ways, leading down from level to level by steep inclincs or crum bling steps. The crows nest houses stand at every possible angle and elevation, ovcrhang- ing the abyss on the further side of their lofty foundations, and gay with all the hues of the spectrum.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
THE SUMMER YOUNG MAN.
4 Word of Advice to the Susceptible
 Young Lady.

word or AdVIce to the susceptible
 Young Lady.
 He is an awfully nice boy. He may wear very gorgeous blazer, and he may talk athletics in the afternoon and sentiment at night, but he is off for a vacation. Won't you just remember, says writer in Ladies Home Journal, that it's vacation with hiIn? At the office or the shop they have let him off for two weeks and he is having a good time. You are a pretty girl, and bright girl, and he likes to laugh and talk with you, take you out rowing, teach you to play tennis, and at night sit on the veranda and tell you how a man really can love. All of this is de- lightful. But you will please be good enough to remember that love worth having does not come in a week or a month, and that in his watch-case there may be the face of a girl whom he loves with all his heart, and whom he thinks about every night before he closes his eyes. You are just part of his vacation, and won't you be wise enough to make him a part of yours? If, when his vacation is over, he should come to your home, what was merely q summer acquaintance may ripen into friendship. Well, that's another thing But just for the sunshiny time don't al- low yourself to think much about what the summer young man says or does.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE.
The Simple -1Iindedness of Mexican Rail-
 way Officials.

The SimpIe-Mindedness of Mexican Rail-
 way Officials.
 An amusing story is told in connection with the building of the tramway be- tween the towns of Zacatecas and Guad alupe in Mexico, which are Q few miles apart. The way from Zacatecas is down grade. The cars go at great speed by their own gravitation: no ami mals are attached, for the descent is as steep as a toboggan slide.
 It requires six mules, however, to draw each car back again. The animals are harnessed three abreast, like the horses in the Paris omnibuses.
 Even the projectors of the tramway had no fixed idea as to how it should be operated, and an American overseer has been in charge from the beginning.
 The cars were ordered from Philadel- phia, and while they were being built, the steel rails, which came from Liver pool by way of Vera Cruz, were laid down from one end of the route to the other.
 When the cars arrived it was found that they would not run on the track, as the rails had been laid on gauge
  three inches narrower than that for which the cars were designed. The Mexicans, in their ignorance, saw but one way out of the difficulty, that was to rebuild the cars, make the bodies narrower and cut off the axletrees to fit the gauge of the rails.
 The present superintendent, practi- cal American engineer, was in Zacate- cas at the time and took in the state of affairs at glance. He offered for five hundred dollars to show the owners how to get over the trouble without hltering an article on the cars. The money was paid, and with twenty men and proper tools the American took Up a few rods of the track, made a gauge for the rest, and in one day had the cars running over the short distance! The managers of the road at once put the American in charge, and he has held the position ever since.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
SHOOTING FOR BEEF.
An Exciting Event Among Western Back
 woOdsmen.

Some years ago popular western amusement was a shOoting-match for beef, in which al the man ksmen of the neighborhood participated. The home ly sport is described by the eccentric Davy Crockett in his Life and Adven- tureS."
 A farmer, wishing to raise money, would advertise that on certain day and at given place, lie would put up first-rate beef to be shot for. After the marksmen had assembled, a subscrip. ton paper was handed round, with the following heading:
 "A. B. offers a beef worth twenty dollars to be shot for, at twenty-five cents a shot,"
 The paper was passed from hand to hand until the number of shots sub scribed for made up the price of the beef. Two persons who had subscribed for shots were then selected to act as judges. Every subscriber furnished his own target-a board with cross in the centre.
 The shot that hit the centre, or came nearest to it, secured the hidt and tall low, which was the first choIce. The next best shot got his choice of the hind quarters; the third received the other hind-quarter; the fourth took his choice of the fore-quarters; the fifth the re- maining quarter; and the sixth was al- lowed the lead in the tree to which the targets were nailed.
 The judges stood near the tree, and when man fired the shouted: ''Who shot?" and the shooter gave his name After all had shot, the judges examined the boards and decided what part of the beef each man had won. Sometimes one man, being good marllsman, and having subscribed for six or eight shots, would get nearly all the beef.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
WILD HORSES.
Why They Are Tougher Than the Do-
 nestic Equine.

Why They Are Tougher Than the Do-
 mestic Equine.
 Rest and fat are the greatest ene- mics of the horse,' is a saying of the Arabs, and, if every horse owner would embody it's truth in his practice, there would be little need to write anything further on the subject, says the Rider and Driver. Its observances would be potent to improve the horse in health, strength, vitality, endurance and lon gevity, and, by ''holding up the glass to nature" correct the irrational treat ment and abnormal condition under which he is often reared.
 Not that the conditions surrounding the horse in state of nature should be wholly initiated, for they do not all tend to his improvement in the quantities adapted to mans use. But it is worthy to note that the wild horse is tough, sound and healthy: and, making due al- lowance for the influence of natural se- lection of the survival of the fittest, when it is observed that he is seldom ia a state of rest, that he lives unconfned in the open air, upon natural food. it may reasonably connect these as cause and effect, and safely consider exercise, pure air and simple diet the funda- mental conditions upon which to build up, by skill in breeding and training, the highest and most perfect equine type,
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
Der Eahr Eanda

Who does not love the tender thought The kind ira9G se the baby taught 4 heavenly smile of brighter lands To wreath our browsY dear baby handsT Where Is the heart so sordfd. cold, So soul-eathraled by quest Of gold So chi.iel with ages silver band, That 1t forsets dear baby hRnds2 Go tel the stoic. firm and proud. Who lives u1-IOT-l il sileccs's shroud Thee Is soft speech iike f-iTy l&nGs, 4 touch ol loy froGl baby handsl Go tell the cE2ic, child Of scorn, That unto miles | child was born nat all his Wi..i n understands No joy like twiniag baby Laadsl Then let the worid be one n thought:> 4 babH was bcT1-salvatioa E-oueht; Tue bsCe our Eu-est love c. .GlU1sILs. I"lHe round our hearts, dear baby hal
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, l
 County of Apache.

COuHIy or ApACne. ]
 Personally appeared before me this 2lst day of January. 1893, \ Smith, J " Freeman, W J Flake, Smith D R0g- CTS. John II Willis, E NJ Webb, N A Brimhall, $ A Angell and John Han cock, and said persons beng known to me as the parties whose names appear above, and do state on their oath, that they each signed the articles to which their names are attached for the pur- poses therein set forth.
 Given under my hand, thls { sEAE. H2lst day of January, 1893. ALLEN FROST,
 Justice of the Peace.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02
MOTICE.

In the Probate Court of the County of Apache, Territory of Arizona.
 Notice for publication of time appoint ed for proving will.
 In the matter of the estate Of Jose An tonic Taiolia, deceased.
 Pursuant to an order of said Probate Court. made on the 14th day oi February 1893, notice is hereby given that Friday, the Sd day of March, 1893, at 10 o'clock a. m of sad day, at the Court Room of said Court at the Court House in Saint Johns, County of Apache, has been ap- poirted as the time and place for prov ing the will of said lose Antonio Tafolla, deceased, and for hearing the applica- ton of Jesus Tafolla for the issuance to him of letters of administration, when and where any person interested may appear and contest the same.
 ART MCDONALD, (sEAL) Clerk Probate Court. Dated February II, 1893.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-03-02

A VERMONT farmer picks the apple seeds from his cider presses and sells them for use in the manufacture of prussic acid. He gets about one bushel of seeds from 40 bushels of apples.
The Delta independent., 1893-12-13

Martin Anderson, cellar clerk OF the
grocery house OF Heimrod & Hanson,
murdered an unknown woman in, the
cellar of the store last Wednesday. and
then cut his own throat fatally. Nothing
is known of the causes for the tragedy.
Anderson was seen leaving the store at
o'clock, when the place was locked up.
He had no key and SO forced his way in
from the rear. About s o'clock passers-
by heard woman scream: Help, help!
My God! he's killing me-"
These sounds came from the cellar. AS
soon as possible the police gained en-
trance. Anderson had used paving
stone and literally pounded the head Of
his victim to jelly. There were signs of
an awful struggle. The dead woman was
apparently about 30 years old, and almost
Anderson's equal physically, so she was
able to make desperate fight for life.
After he had finished his work OF murder,
Anderson took dull pockethnifc and
haggled a ghastly hole in his neck. He
sawed and pried with the dull blade till
he severed both the windpipe and the
carotid artery. He died from the loss OF
blood
The Delta independent., 1893-12-13

The expenses OF session OF the Colo
rado legislature are considerably higher
than many people would imagine. The
Ninth general assembly cost, for the
salary and mileage OF the members and
clerks alone, the big round sum OF SOO,-
0l6.65. Then there is the printing, rent,
light and other incidentals that amount
up. Itwas at the last legislature s2l 3d.
4OSand s24 ,47425 was paid for Highland
other expenses. The rent runs over $50
a day. A state official who has to do with
the expenses OF the legislative body stated
emphatically this morning that the assem-
bly, halls could not be fitted up again for
less than $4,000, and short session would
cost much more in proportion than the
ordinary meeting Of the assembly.