The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-04-05
NEWS AND CURRENT COMMENT.
variety IL the spice of Life and Here
1t L. 10 Your Hearts Content.
Humorous and Serious.


During the decade from 1881 to 1896
the total immigration TO the United States
was 5, 23s, 72S, and Of these Germany fur.
nished l,452, 1852; Irelsn d, 655, $751; En-
gland, 649,052; Norway and Sweden
560, 4ss; Canada, 392 500; Italy. 307, 095
Austria, 226,020; Poland, 205, 064.
oh, wad some power the giftie gle us
To see our credito.s before they sec us.
Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. West Field-'I saw your husband
flirting with a girl coming over on the
ferry the other day."
Mrs. Greenfield Lake, know it, and
he's got to keep it up; it NAV be tough,
but it beats going without help"
Goldendale is to have city election
and the only convention held was avow.
eddy opposed to licensing saloons, and
the only ticket in the field is the anti.
license ticket. The drug store business
is tho most flourishing industry OF Col
dendale and politics are largely dominat.
ed by the proprietors.
A large hop ranch is to be started this
spring at Alma, Pard Cummins' ranch
on the Okanogan river, in Okanogan
county. Capital stock is said to be $25,-
900. The incorporators are Barton Rob.
inson and A. E. Bailey, Of Alma, and
Dan Drumheller, of Spokane
"what bait do you use7" said saint to the devil
when you fish where the souls OF men
abound7"
well, for special tastes, said the king OF evil
"Gold and fame are the best I've found"
but for general use?" asked the saint "Ah
then"
Said the demon, al angle for man, not men;
And thing hate
Is to change my bait,
SO fish with woman the whole year round -
Il don't know whether I like those
pictures or not" said the young woman
"They seem rather indistinct."
"But you must remember, madam, -
said the willy photographer, that your
face is not at all plain"
The Washington Mercantile company
the leading dry goods house Of Ellens
burgh of which Messrs. Hogan and
O'Connor are the principal owners, ID
about to retire from business.
A bill granting to the society for the
prevention Of cruelty to animals the care
and disposition of lost or strayed cats and
dogs has been passed by the New York
legislature and become law. 1t is said
to be the first legislation OF this character
in the United States.
1t would seem as IL the sun never sets
on the pensioners of the United States
There are 1000 of them in Canada, draw
ing annually the pretty sum OF $345 900
600 in Germany receive $9S 900 year,
and $50 in Great Britain take $l26, 800
One pensioner is in the Fiji island, ano
four are in Africa.
Down at Goldendale they have a society
known as the Willing Workers where
bachelors, for a small consideration, can
have buttons replsced, stockings darned
and new seats inserted in their bifurcated
garments. The funds thus realized are
devoted to charitable purposes. In North
Yakima the bachelors have to do the best
they can or go without.
The corpse OF an unknown man recently
found in the outskirts of Kansas town
was searched and 500 in cash and re-
volver was found upon the person. The
coroner held an inquest and it took $75 tc
defray the expenses and bury the body
The police judge fined the corpse s25 70,
carrying concealed weapons and confis.
Gated the gun. All OF which 20 to show
that cyclones are not the worst evils in
Kansas.