The herald., 1897-08-07
NOTES OF THE DAY

German papers comment on the enter
prise and business sense of the city gov
ernment of Lahr. The gas works being
the property of the town, the authorities
have decorated all the gas lamps with
large signs in red letters reading: Cook
your meals with gas"
A brand new thing in a concealed
weapon case turned up in Louisville
when Minnie Brown, colored, was ar
rested for carrying concealed weapons.
She was carrying a razor in her hair
and when the officer took her hat off he
discovered the razor nesting in her
curly locks.
The Indians do a large trade in buffa-
10 bones, which they collect on the plains
and dispose of to sugar refiners, who find
that these bones are superior for their
purpose. On the route of the Canadian
Pacific railway there are piles of white
bones to be seen awaiting transporta-
ton.
The meanest people on earth live in
Marinet, Wis. The charitable ladies' of
that city took charge of the street cars
the other day in the interest of the poor
and needy, and when they counted the
proceeds at night they found that $50
in counterfeit money had been passed
on them.
At Mooresville, Ind, carpenter
working on an old building once used as
the postofice found seventy-six letters
and postal cards that had been dropped
down under the letter box and failed to
reach their destination. Most Of them
bore dates of 1874, 1875 and 1876, and some
as far back as 1871.
The Boston museum of fine arts has
come into possession of the wedding gift
of George II of England to his bride,
Queen Charlotte, presented by him at
their marriage in 1851 This relic is a
chatelaine watch. with belt clasp, band
and pendants, all of the finest gold and
thickly encrusted with jewels 1t has an
interesting history.
Reports on the Indian wheat crop are
beginning to come in. From the central
provinces we learn. that the area Of
wheat Is only 1,S9S,022 acres, as COM
pared with 2714,454 acres for 1896, and
ten years average area exceeding 4,000.-
900 acres. The estimated out-turn IL
324, ,755 tons, against 1868, 1888 for 1896 and
7S4, 1902 as the ten years average.
When the poor law was first introduced
Dublin beggar woman whom gentle
man referred to the poorhouse said:
This poor laws grand thing for the
sowls Of the gintlemen." why so?"
"Bekaise now when we axes for aims
they only say 60 to the poorhouse; but
before there was poorhouse they used
to say Go to the divil!"
Plumage of song birds will still be
worn in Boston, because the police COM
missioners have decided that the ordi-
nance prohibiting it applies only to men.
This is bad for the song birds, but it
throws a peculiar light on the methods
of constructing laws followed by Boston
aldermen, who appear to believe that
only the men of the Hub stick feathers
in their hats.
The picnic conscience does not COM
mand absolute confidence in Florida.
even when the picnickers are white, in
the neighborhood of watermelon patch
es. When a st. Augustine organization
at San Mateo on an outing came upon
a melon patch, they found the owner, a
woman, on guard with gun, which she
allowed might go off if any stranger got
among the vines.
The segregation of the races was at
tempted in earnest, and with indications
of success, in. the survey ard sale of lots
at West Palm Beach, Fla, but influence
of the almighty dollar was left out Of
reckoning. A thrifty colored merchant,
who made money in the dark combines,
has rented store in the precinct Of the
white people, and all that West Palm
Beach (white) can do is to talk. and talk.
and talk