The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-02-26


tiaers. with the idea that he can do for
oranges what the Frcnchmon have done
for pears and what the grape growcrh
have done for grapes.
When Japanese audience wish TO eX-
nress dlsApproyal 81 play. they silently |
mrn around and sit with thelr backs TO
the stage. II this be done by considern-
BE number the curtain promptly descende
The metropolitan and city police dis
trlcts OF L0ndon, according to 'Nhitta-
ker's Almanac" for 1895, cover an area
Of 1881 acres with a population Of s.
eaeo6 rhe to,al loHgtn patrolled by
the police reaches S7GQ miles.
some OF the members OF the Eureka club.
n Jewish institution OF Rochester, arc de-
sifous that christiana should be eligible
for membership, IN order that breach
may thus be made IN the social wall by
which Christians and Jews ure kept apart
A new kind OF fuel made from solidifed
petroleum and other materials Is now be-
ms extensively Manufactured In France.
II Is STATED that It's heat producing prop
critics are very great and that experiments
10 use Il IN engine furnaces have been OF
most satisfactory nature.
Nernuut and New Aampaiisre grow
more slowly than any other States OF the
Union, and the former seems as nearly as
may be Fenced 10 and ilfiishcd commust-
~ Old as the State iy one county has less
than 1000 inhabitants, and anouw less
than 1900, villages In both Stairs are
drained OF their young men, who go 10
Boston or New York In search OF ca
rcefs not TO be found at home.
! The decline Of drinking NJ, London din
( ner parties is attributed 70 the fact that
] Champagne is now usually the only Wine
served, Il having hanished claret and re-
placed the old port that used 20 appear
with the desert. As result guest is
4 now ccntsnted with few glasses Of cham-.
payne where his grandfather used always
I To consume one and sometimes. MS plul
al, even three bottles Of port az dinner.
James Robinson, who COR a long nmc
/ held the tile OF champion bareback rider
OF the world, % spending his declining
: years ON hts farm IA Missouri He ~ by
no means an old man, but has retired
! nom the circus arena. lie Etill has many
/ OF the valuable gifts that he received in
( many paris OF the world, Including those
from Queen Victoria and tho old Emper-
or William OF Germany. Mr. Robinson
il the same little wlry man that he al.
waSs WIS aud, except Tor his hair, has
( not the appearance Of being more than
20 years Old.
In Brnsseils there Is now restaurant
entitled the Cafe dc Ia Mort the walls Of
I the Bnhtelganean chamber being hung
With paintings OF aNulls skeletons and
Z crosshones, the chairs and stools, the
I tables ccffns and uhc beverage which
/ costs cents n glaas, Is onMed 'micrebes.r
4 4 performances takes place niwhuy In an
I ai5olntng vault. On the back curtain
( rising a man Is disclosed standing up-
/ right IN d coffin. AS the nsaemhlage
watches hss white bones are gradually
seen % shine forth Through hs clothes
unia he becomes grizzly sls=.esen. a
death certificate "a then presented 10 the
4 principal actor IN this optical Illusion and
the performances closes.
Entsrpgieang men have way oe grow
Z Ing lind along the mnrshy shores OF Del-
fware Bag. The plan is TO cut the bikes
! ana let the ode rise and IAN for course
81 years over considerable area in
GLIDING uplena II Is found after awiiia
that the bikes may be removed consid-
erably out toward the low tide hue and
/ That many acres Of arabic land have beer
ga-ned at small cost Marsh companies
usually exist for tie purpose Of co-opera-
ton In such work, and there are many
qaarrels over the land Of men that re-
fuse TO join the company IN making a
temporary sacrifice OF upland for The pnr-
pose 81 rec,aimlrIg submerged marsh
The land thus reclaimed IS extremely
Il fertile, but It usually y4etis n crop OF
! m1;arial fevers when FIRST brought nndel.
K cultivation.
4 shoemaker, Kavol Kowates, who in
gary smoked the hrst meersc1aum iNpe
besidea being a shoemaker. however, he
was ono OF nRtires a15iersiftsynen being
gifted Nlth ah intrusive genius for carving
wood and othar material This BROUGHT
him in contact wjth Count Andrassy,
with whom he became great favorl;e
The count ON bis return from mission
70 Turkey, brought With BIN pieae Al
Whtlsh clay which had been prssented
10 him as a curiosity on account Of its
extraordinary LIGHT specific gravity Il
struck the shoemaker That being porous
4 must be well adapted FOR pipes. as II
would absorb the nicotine The experl-
nept was tried, and. kavol cut q pipe
far the couni and one for himself rhe
li.t fnohrsthaum PIPE. made and smoked
by hayol Kowatcs has heon pres5ryed
IN the museum ut Pesth.
$ S. Turner who has been elected to
the house ~ Representatives In the Sew
erin conversational district OF Virginia
g succeed Governor o'Ferrail, had once
an escape from death little short Of
I the naaryeieus. He was a Gonfelerate
colder and after the evacuation OF Rich
ufqnl wtih four other men, climbed in9a
. box oar 10 sleep. The car had been
used t. transport rowder and every
cfeylra ~ the floor waa filed with the
/ poNdsr dust. III the mpgssng ona oE the
men after lghtsris hls Pipe threw the
burning ord OF the match he had used on.
4 the ii0or, Instantly there was An OK
4 ploSlqa wlsleh lsiled all mt Mf TURNER.
lie was tcrTtl5y injured and lay Tor weelss
~ almesf mortal agcnx. Tor opium or
J other narcotics We're not n be Rad. He
1 recovered finally bpi bears Etsil tse marks
Of the accident OF abe torture rs an
aAred he cannot even n this day be IN
duerd 70 speak
DISTINGUISHED SICK MEN