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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-07
Probate Court Matters.

The last will and testament of George
Ludemann, deceased, was admitted to
probate, to-day.
Mrs. M. J. Boardman has been granted
letters Of administration on the estate of
her dead husband, the locomotive engineer.
Jesus Ma. Tafoya and Jose M. Baca, ad-
ministrators OF the estate Of Antonio Baca,
filed a final report, on the same, with the
probate clerk, to-day.
The estate of the late Richard Burchill,
the plasterer, was finally acted upon, in
the probate court, to-day, the remaining
property being left to the widow.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-07
A. r. and A. M.

Special communication of Chapman
lodge, No. 2, A. F. and A. NJ, wfll be held
in the Masonic temple, at s O'Clock, on next
Wednesday evening. for work intae MN.
degree. Members are notified to atten !;
visitors are fraternally welcome.
A. r. BENEDICT,
Acting w. NJ.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-07

Band practice, tonight, at city hall.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-07

News reaches The Optic sanctum that
the ancient and interesting town Of Taos,
across the range, will soon be lighted with
electricity. Thus does the march Of pro.
gress reach the out-of-way places In New
Mexp, - $3.50
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-07
METROPOLIS MISCELLANY.

). Biehl, lending undertaken. bStf
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-07
BICYCLES for Rent.

New, standard make, '96 Model bicycles
to rent, by the hour. to both ladies and
gentlemen.
TnEo SoHuERxANN,
212-tf Gunsmitb, Center st.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-07

These Bargains for Cash, Only.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-07
SPECIAL NOTICES

M ONEY TO LOAN-on jewelry at the
Lvl Mexican Filigree Jewelry Co.'S. store,
st. Nicholas block. 20s-6t
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-07

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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-29
LONGEVITY OF ANIMALS.
Interesting InformOtiOn Upon Their
Ages. from SOuirrels to EleDhauts.


The life Of man is proverbially un-
certain in it's span, but in the animal
kingdom, on the contrary, the duration
Of life is almost equal for all individuals
of the same species, observes "HOuse-
hold Words" But we can know with eX-
actness the real duration of life only for
animals in servitude; we do not know
whether it is the same in the savage
state. Rabbits and guinea-pigs live
seven years; squirrels and hares, eight;
cats, nine or ten; dogs, ten or twelve;
foxes, fourteen to sixteen: cattle, fifteen
to eighteen; bears and wolves, twenty;
the rhinoceros, twenty-five; the ass and
the horse, twenty-five to thirty; the
lion thirty to forty-a lion in the Lon
don Geological gardens reached the age
of seventy years; the camel, forty. The
length Of life of the elephant IL uncer-
tain. According to Aristotle, Button and
Cuvier it lives two centuries; some au-
thors say even four or five. After his
victory over Porus, Alexander conse-
Grated to the sun an elephant that had
fought for the Indian monarch, and
gave it the name of Ajax; then, hav-
ing attached an inscription to 1t. he set
it at liberty. The animal was found $50
years later. The ancient attributed to
the stag fabulous length of life, but
Aristotle observes that what is reported
on this subject has no good foundation.
Button says that the stag takes five or
six years to attain full growth, and
should live seven times this period; that
is, thirty-tive or forty years.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-29

ent. King John was an amateur brew
er; and he was not content until he had
produced improvement upon improve.
| ment In the art Of beermaking. then lit
tie known among his subjects.
Before the eleventh century nearly
| all beer was made from barley. Hops
We're first employed about the year 1865
A. u.
The Germans. who Were among the
| first to make beer wholesale, began to
cultivate hops In great quantities.
The hop plant came originally from
| Russia: but 1t Is more than probable
that nature intended 1t to fiuorish In
Bohemia. Bavaria and Kent: hence the
reason why 1t has acquired in those
soils and at the hands o, careful cul-
| tivators such exceptional qualities as 1t
has attained.
In the fourteenth century the Ger
man breweries began to export beer
made from hops. They sent beer to
England in large quantities, and 1t
soon became the court drink. But these
German brewers had the misfortune
(for them only of adding to each bar
rel of beer a little ball containing, as a
sort of trade-sign, hops. and this in
production was fatal to the German
| monopoly. Our Kent farmers got hold
of the hops and put themselves to cul-
tivate the plant with such assiduity
that our breweries soon began to make
| and export for themselves.
Beer, heretofore. has been normally
| 4 characteristic of certain races. While
the Latin people drink wine at their
he
and Scandinavian races take beer-as
in the case of the English. the Ger
mans, the Norwegians and Swedes,
and the North Americans. Among
these people wine is luxury. Yet,
strange to say, beer seems slowly but
| surely forcing its way among the mass
cs of France. Spain and Italy, like
river whose tide will brook no barrier.
II all the beer brewed now in the
world daily We're TO flow in q single
stream it would equal in volume the
River Thames. We call the one Faith
or Thames''-we would term the other
Mother Beer
In this country we call beer by three
names. 'ale," porter" and "stout." In
Belgium there is "lambrlc" and faro"
and in Germany the "biere de garde."
the "bock bier and "salvator bier"
But the different types Of beer are real
ly to be divided into two types-called
high fermentation" as with us and
"low fermentation" as with German,
French and Austrian beers.
The method of high fermentation Is
| the primitive manner Of making beer.
Low fermentation was first employed
in Munich in the fifteenth century. Its
chief recommendation is its lightness,
coldness and ease with which large
quantities may be drunk.
But there is no danger of British beer
losing its prestige. That immortal pro-
duction which has earned so many mil
lions and created so many peers still
holds its place in the heart--or stom-
| ach--of the the average Briton, wheth-
er he be at home, or in India, Africa or
| the colonies. We brew within a mil
| lion or so of Germany's output, but
bottle of Bass has twice the strength
of Pilsener-so perhaps we are yet the
greatest beer makers and drinkers on
| earth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-29

gaining possession OF the bones for
science. At last. in the summer of
1895, Mr.. and Mrs. Drushell consented
to the transfer Of their rights to the
university. They received a fair price
for the bones, but it Is only justice to
them to say that it was the public in
terest Of the transaction that COM
manded their assent ut last.
They would not have parted with
the wonderful remains Of which they
had come into possession except to
place them where they could interest
and instruct a larger number and be
preserved for the years to come
The bones were shipped in September
last to Wards National Science estab-
lishment in Rochester. N. Y. to be
mounted. While the Holmes county
find contained larger number Of
bones than any other single discovery
on record. the skeleton was still in
complete.
To complete the restoration the re-
sources of the museums of the country
wer put under requisition and the skel-
eton was completed and now stands
in the museum of the state university
in this city, the size being by II feet.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-29

DRINK OF ALL NATIONS.
Beer the Worlds Universal Cheer
and Inebriant.


and Inebriant.
From the London Mail.
What is the drink which at this time
of the year, at all events, reigns over
all others? Ask a Frenchman, a Ger
man. an American. a Russian or an
Englishmar, and he will respond:
Beer
In France it has supplanted wine in
general consumption-wine the French
drank for so many centuries. but
which, as a French writer has just
pointed out, is more apt to "begay than
to refresh Probably to none of the
readers is the fabrication of beer a Sc
cret-that is to say, they know the
constituent elements of the drink,
which, according to Sir Walter Besant,
made Britain great; but they will
perhaps be entertained by the follow
ing facts:
We cannot go back to the epoch of
the deluge in order to find the first
mention Of beer. Wine alone, accord
ing to the Bible. can boast so remote
an antiquity. We must leave to the
pedants plunged into the night of time
the pretension of placing the birth of
beer at the ero of Osiris, twenty CEN
turtles before the Christian era. Yet
we may mention that the famous his
torian, Tacitus, speaks of 1t as the or
dinary drink Of the northern tribes.
whose climate does not foster the grape.
At the commencement of the thir-
teenth century an English monk
brought to John l.. King of Flanders
and Brabant. a keg of brown October
such as Friar Tuck was want to extol
land from that moment beer began to
assume an importance on the contin-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-29
Coal CONSUMPTION.

Westminster Gazette.
An Industrious trifer, writing In a
Frenh review, has been at the pains to
ascertain what is the annual consumption
OF coal on railways and steam conpa-
MES Of the country, and he has worked
out a total of S,7S2,S5 tons. This, he tells
us, would make pyramid SIG feet high
and S94 feet at the base, or nearly 20 feet
above the height of the Great Pyramid.
Then he goes OH to calculate that If all this
coal were loaded in trucks the train would
be 1.G25 miles, or-as with a nice feeling
for the Franco Russian alliance he put it
the distance between Paris and st.
Petersburg. If this train had 10 travel
at the rate Of 1SI. miles an hour, 1t would
take between three or four days to pass a
given point. The railways of the whole
world consume, he asserts on the faith of
statistics which are doubtless fairly ac-
curate, nearly 63,000.000 tons of coal, which
does not draw any moral from these iig-
ures except that a great deal of carbonic
acid is thus precipitated into the atmos-
phere.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-29
WE'RE DISHED," SAID GLEASON.
"BCT HOW?"

7 knew when my eye first lighted on his
face that he was n confidence man."
"Well, suppose there's nothing to do
but skip" growled Harris.
The others muttered assent. and un-
mooring the boat they sailed across the
river, and vanished into the wilds of
New Jersey.
Newcombe endured q captivity of
about ten days, at the end of which time
the mystery of the whole affair was eX-
planned and Newcombe was vindicated.
But he had lost a pound of flesh day
and was really far from well.
The mystery of the transference of
the money from one safe to the, other
was black and deep for many days, but
at last it was elucidated. The safe had
been robbed by dishonest express
agent in the depot in New York. Fear
ing to keep his plunder with him he had
concealed it in the other safe. which
was being shipped to an express agent
in Albany, friend whom the thief
could trust. and with whom he had Of
ten divided the proceeds of robberies.
The scheme would undoubtedly have
succeeded but for the strange chance
by which the three crooks and the GRIM
inologlst acted as the agents of provi-
dence in returning the $S00O0 to its
rightful custodians.
(The End)
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-29
A MINES COST.
II Depends Upon the Way the Prec.
iOus Metal Is Hidden.


iOus Metal Is Hidden.
There are no hard and fast rules in
regard to making a mine from the time
1t passes into the prospector's hands un-
til it becomes a dividend payer. Many
mines are such, as the miners say,
from the grass roots" and turn out
large quantities of ore from the be-
ginning.
J. B. Haggin, the millionaire mine
owner. took $3,000,O0O from the Custer
mine. in Lemhi county, Idaho. before
1t became necessary to use a candle,
says the Spokane Spokesman-Review.
This mine was known as the Mineral
Mountain. A man came along one day,
and after looking at it remarked: why
the hanging wall is gone" This was
true. Nature had assisted the miner in
this case: the mountain side had been
eroded, leaving the mineral standing
there. Mr.. Haggin also spent $4,000, 900
in developing the Anaconda mine be-
fore it was on paying basis.
Mines have been discovered contain
ing fabulous wealth, although a pros
pector would starve to death in trying
to work them. This was true in regard
to the Homestake mine, in the Black
Hills. The prospectors who made the
discovery could do nothing with it, and
1t passed into the hands of Senator
Hearst, and other California capitalists.
They concluded that unless it was
worked on large scale it could not be
made profitable. An 80-cent stamp mill
was ordered and shipped in from Chey-
enne at a cost of $l35,OOO as an expert
ment. The mine has paid in dividends
$37, 500 a month for II years.
1t requires a large amount of money
usually to put a mine on q dividend
paying basis, and. as rule, this the
prospector cannot do, although pros
pectors have made fortunes with their
properties.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-29

''1TIERE'S $4,000 LYING THERE"
nonball. Undoubtedly it lay in the
mud Of the river bottom, and the task
of finding it would not be easy.
They'll have to send for diver"
said Gleason. "By the Lord Harry, I
wonder IL could do it,"
do what?" queried Newcombe.
Gleason did not Immediately reply.
He seemed to be engaged in some such
mental effort as one makes in trying
to remember name that is en- the tip
of the tongue at one moment and far
away the next. So absorbed was he
that when Harris touched him On the
shoulder he jumped as if he had been
wakened suddenly from sleep.
BILL" he said. dreamily,'I want that
safe"
You can't get IT," replied the bur-
glar; "but there are O. number of arti-
cles down the track that you can get.
There are two or three baggage cars all
smashed to smithereens. and the con-
tents isn't being half looked after.
They're just beginning to cart some of
1t to the station just above here"
Never mind that" said Gleason.
"rhere's atbetter game going. Listen to
fNe. You know that I'm a diver. Well,
II know another one. and he's as big a
fiscal as I am. He has an outfit right
mere in Yonkers. and in two hours can
lhave It. He won't refuse me anything
A-he can't. Then I'm going to offer
myself to the railroad company to dive
for that safe" :
"But you can't open It under water"
Harris objected.
Probably not" said Gleason. ''but
well get the money out of it some way.
Now. then, Woodbury., I will go and see
my diver. You and Pinney stay here
and keep eyes and ears open. In about
an hour and half you join US at the
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-24

Win be hale and hearty and WON'T look
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years of practice, il has proved that the
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h flashes with the digestive system II
searches out disease germs wherever they
ray be and forces them out Of the body.
II promotes she eopious seeresios Of the
digestive HuidA and assists In throwing OF
refuse matter II makes the appetite good
and the digestion strong. II isnt violent
medicine. II isn't strong medicine. lt
does nothing but good to every portion OF
IRE BODY. Il doesn't do harm In ons place
while II L. helping another place II 10
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anvfhinS else In the world. IL viii give him
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IN Pfaia language, tells all sbout de
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-24
The Work OF an Artist.

Lovers Of art have for several dav. an
toyed real treat In looking at .he china
paintings by Mrs. Nettie A. HaysIlp a.
Chicago. shown In the windows Of the
Siohe art store. Among the larger sns
more admired pieces were the "Sacr,re.
TO Cupid" ard Cupid and Psyche" Ths
latter Is after Girard and Is done on a
handsome slab which shows the work to
nne advantage. In many OF the smaller
pieces the artists merits are tust a,
truly brought out. In fact Mrs Havsl,p's
specially is In miniature work. and soma
OK her miniatures show perhaps her
strongest touches. All the pieces she has
shown here exhibit remarkable accuracy
OF drawing and excellent taste In color
ing. Competent critics pronounce hep
collection the finest yet shown In Seattle.
MIRA Esysiip received her special train
ing for this work under Prof. Jahn. OF
Dresden. In whose Chicago studio al.
worked for two years. Most pupils wers
content with a course OF few weeks
but Mrs Hsysiip aspired to q thoroush
mastery or the art She enjoyed the
privilege not only OF studying bus Of
teaching In Jshn's studio. thus enforcing
and illustrating day by day the principles
she was rcceiying from the master.
Mrs Haysiip Is the guest Of Mrs. Frsd
J. Harry at SO Fourth avenue.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-24
Concert At Le.chi Park To-day.

This afternoon weather permitting, the
city's favorites. the First Regiment band,
win give one Of their celebrated open air
concerts at Leschi park. The one last
Sunday was an unqualified success, thou
sands being in attendance. and the pro-
gramme WAS encorsd again and again T.
H. Wagner. the leader. may well be proud
or his boys. The park 10 In the best Of con-
difion now. and there are seats enough to
accommodate every one: In addition there
are many swings and coy hooks scattered
all over tho lawns. 1t 10 q treat to every
citizen Of Seattle: . visit to the park ana
the concert. ride OF over 1--WE miles In
ciuded. and all for the small Gum Of 10
cents for car fare.
On and after June 7th the management
mas decided to charge s cents admission to
the park on Sunday afternoon and Wed.
nesday evenings, when the band plays.
They have TO pay large sum to the band,
and In order 10 partially reimburse them.
selves have to look to the increased car
traffic. When hundreds walk both to ana
from the lake. as they did last Sunday.
they must Of necessity suffer great LOGS.
Now. a. each person enters the gate.
whether they have walked or come on
the cars. they viii pay cents. N return
Tor which they viii be given . ticket en-.
uuing them 10 a return ride on the cars
TO the city. Surely there can b No one
who VIII object TO such an arranremey,e
when they reflect that they are really nav
Ing nothing for adm.ssson-just securtne
their return ride. The programme for IN.
DAY - an especially f1ne one: II win com.
mence at D. m. and continue until G
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-24
ANOTHER THE THIEF.
- sAys Terry Chambers, Convicted q
&tQa1eu~ xanEss Ma

- sAys Terry Chambers, Convicted or
Stealing Yank's Mare.
With the ponitsntiary open before him.
Terry Chambers. convicted OF having sto,.
en- George Yank's blooded mare. does not
entirely despair OF regatning his liberty.
Yesterday he filed an affidavit In court in
euTport OF his motion for q new trial. stat
ING that " ne had been given more time
before the trial he believes no could have
found witnesses who would have estab-
Lshed his innocence. One OF them II James
Burt who. May D. wrote tho following
htter from Tacoma to Chambers.
Il have Just learned that you have been
sonnd guilty OF stealing horse here. and
nave been told that you claimed TO get the
morse at tho old road house. between here
and Edison. ] am sorry I didn't know
Shout II. because I might have did you
some good. saw big bay mare the lat
yer part OF last January. The fellow tried
70 seli her TO me for si2s. and 1 guess I
would buy her. only she had a bad hind
kT- She would way about 1900 pounds, 1
guess. His name was Frank Parker. so
- sasd, and he was going 10 the Yack!ma
country. There was another man with
ne. and we could both swear TO this. I
~ sorry didn't let you know In tins.
J am going east Of the mountains. but
VIZ be back again. Yours truly.
JAMES BURT"
"A affidavit sworn TO by Amos West was
also Bed. He claims to have been 1t the
Old roadho1ss January 30. and to have
seen a man with large bay mare. The
animal had blemish on one OF her hind
sest. supposed by deponent TO be bog
spawn. The man "a charge OF her ex-
lsn
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-24
KIPLISG's NEW NOVEL.
The Scenes OF the Story Laid Amons
the Gloucester Fishermen.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
AT present the interest OF literary circles
Is centersd In the fact tina, Rudyari Kip
ling has written and completed his frst
American story OF any length. II is, for
that matter. q novel. and he has laid the
scenes OF the story among the fishermen
OF Gloucester. on the Massachusetts, coast.
This knowledge interests a friend Of Ynirs
N Boston who spends a great Deal of his
time AZ Gloucester. Ia fact has his gum
mer home there. 7 am blessed n can
see what hiplins knows about GIouces-
ter or the natives" said this man. II
know he has been there lust tw,ea and
then only for three DAYS al a time ina.
seems rather u short tine for a man 70
get his facts and local color. even for a
man Of kipiings genius" Be thse as IA
NAY. Eipisrr's friends know that he IL
not man 20 write - things with which
he IL not thoroughly converSznt, II he
has written OF the Gloucester folk the fact
may Re accepted that he knows then, and
has s.nt.ed them OF courSs whether ha
can truly charzcters.e them - another
question. ana Il - this In which literary
people md go much interest and saecul.-
ton The manuscript has been s--. 70
England 20 Kipi'ng's agent. and the nego-
usfsons for its final repository VIII be
conducted from that end
kipiing was n this city recently for a
DE 20 all but newspaper reporters Thesa
he avoided absolutely. He sosn.a q party
Ter DAYS treat rshsag on Long Island.
a,tend@d some luncheon every day, ana
Jumped into his dress scit nearly every
evening during h.s visit TO the metropolis
II cannot b said that Ki5,.ax likes this
sort OF thing or takes TO II very kindly.
But Ars- kipaizS does, and Ike thu good
husband that the "Jungte MAJ. ia hs
accompanies his wife wherever abs
chooses 70 70. she makes the engage
mea,s" be SAID TO friend. "and I keep
thernl 50 we share our social drtses- Kip
Ing cane hero fer . breath Of the city
ar ard 20 see his rev volume Of poems
through the presA This book viii Se cut
very ssnrtiy. In August he goes 70 Eng
sre with h;a family. and expects to make
eaits q stay es-oAA But the sceA OF Per-
naa7nntiy re<sdtrg away from America
hAs 10; catered into his boa 'TAAk 70.