El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-20

To make the sad discovery;
Bicycle skirts are higher.
There was an overflow session OF the
police court last evening and the
gathering proved to be so large that
the chiefs office was abandoned and
court was opened upstairs with Charley
Patterson on the throne. Seated In
the bull ring around the recorder were
twenty soiled doves of various com
plexions, different grades of character
and many stages of beauty. Some
chewed gum, some smoked cigarettes,
while others looked sullen, but each
answered promptly to their names and
plead guilty to the charge against
them. The recorder tried to be very
severe in his look and after each fine
he made pretty little speech to each
LADY, in VIII CHI be read them SER
mon on the evils of their way and the
bad example they were setting in get
ting drunk and squandering money
that rightfully they should have given
to their lovers. After each frazzled
damsel had appeared at the bar of jus
tee it was found that the total receipts
for the evenings show amounted to S3S.
The court then admOnished each con-
vict to walk down to the chiefs office
and settle with the mOgul. After this
last act had been performed the twenty
odd sOied damsalS wendell their way to
Utah street and put on their dancing
clothes for the night.
For the benefit of any one who may
have the Alaska gold fever it would be
well'to state that tough beef is. worth
- per pound and wairus lard is worth
teespoonfull of gold dust: hard tack
ie,, n ifc i,,h oil Hos
are unknown luxuries in that region
beer is worth SIS bottle and hard tC
get at that price, while hitting Che
pipe is unknown. In fact there are
none of the Injuries there that are
known best to a civilized country.
The seashore offers some advantages
to Ell Pasosns. Those WAC have moth
ing to wear can enjoy them selves
there.
A Boston paper prints the following
advertisements: For sale-Bulldog
will eat anything; fond of children
That dog would be useful in large
family.
While a New Jersey congregation
were in church last Sunday d bolt o1
lightning killed the preachers dog
The people fled, for they saw the light
ming had beens tried on the dog"
When Robert Taylor of Tennessee
gets into the senate with his fiddle he
will find Deboe already there.
The Nashville Appeal remarks: "It
best take this hOi
weather" Some editors have a wa
of taking things easy"
John L. Sullivan is said to be fond OF
the bicycle. Perhaps the fact that
each wheel has bar may account for
this fact.
AS precautlon against accidental
poisoning, the German government has
passed law requiring all drugs in-
tended tor internal use to be put in
found bottles, and those which are
only used externally to be placed in
hexagonal bottles.
Dick Bell, known to nearly every Ell
Pasoan who has visited Mexico City,
is the clown in Orrin . cir Gus that will
be in Juarez next Thursday. Dick is
not only one OF The funniest Glow Ms
that ever put foot in the ring, but he
is perfect gentleman and hae most of
friends among the best people in Mex
leo.
Wonder how it was that Joe Ham p
son passed through Ell PasO and re-
celved no extended write up from the
Ell PasO pr s.? la former times Joseph
was very liberal with the press and
the press maze J oe many miles Of rail
road-on paper. Joe has grea:
scheme on fooG by which rOa1 is to
oe bull to the highest cliffs in the
sIerras, but there are tunnels and fills
and long bridges and many miles of
mountainous country between the
City of Mexico and the Pacific
ocean.
The Police are on the trail of the
female GROWER rusher aud it Is about
time that small girls Were pro III blted
from catering the b tc4 doors of bar
rooms with u can that when illeJ they
can hard y carry. A girl comesln cOntac,
with all Glasses of people IN the back
room of saloon and 1t is rather d dan
gerOus place for mothers to send young
girls.
ROUND ABOUT,