El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-24

With the Mayhower's log he's coming,
And the punkin' loving cup:
In his bandbox Mr.. Bayard
Has nicely put them up;
But he doesn't care penny,
AS he moves his stomach jug,
If the log is on the puukin',
Or the punkin' on the log.
General Weyler has decided to take
the field once more. Betting is ten to
one in favor of the field.
Ex-Ambassador Bayard has arrived
with 200 "boxes' of luggage" and
four dogs. His bark is no longer on the
sea.
Announcements are made that a
famous man-killing elephant ''still
lives" How about the keeper?
A successful bicycle tournament has
just been held at Wheeling. The sue
cess was to be expected. All bicyc les
are good at wheeling.
Bob Fitzsimmon's blacksmith play
is said to be very realistic. 1t is to be
hoped that the realism will not prove
GuO duthOI W W d
Two women in Dallas, Texas, fought
over woman suffrage. The suffragist
swelled to twice its normal size, and
thus enlarged her ''sphere of
thought"
There is new disease, peculiar to
r bcf aSh iop 10 INV i
crobe that bores its way through the
stomach. This seems to Indicate that
some microbes like to move in good
society,"
The Atlanta Constitution contributes
the following gem to the caskes of OBJ
ituary poetry:
Aaron has crossed the river,
And climbed the stairs so high;
He is warm, but we're left to SILVER
Good-by, Aaron, good-by.
The princess of Wales is not receiv-
ing kind treatment from British Of
ficials. 1t is stated that Lord Sails
bury has objected to her subscription
to care for the Greek wounded, and an
American nurse writing from Volo to
the Philadelphia Pre- IS says that Brit
ish Consul Merlin had disD Used four
English nurses sent there by the priu-
cess of Wales. These English nurses
were given mean quarters in the Brit
ish consulate the night after arrival.
and were hustled away on the morrow.
Consul Merlin was one of the party
that afterward went to Edhem Pashas
camp to invite him to occupy Nolo.
The half drowned man will have
plenty of sand in his craw when he re-
covers.
This is the season when the sweet
girl graduate comes to the front.
Several dudes were standing on the
bridge yesterday expanding their ideas
on the swiftneSS of the current. One
thought that the river was running at
the rate of fifty miles an hour: another
thought it was not faster than twenty
five miles. One civil engineer thought
it was running from eight to ten miles,
but the closest calculator put the
speed down to five miles. The latter
was correct. according to one of the
best civil engineers in the city.
The flood is stiff business and hard
to handle, especially when it strikes
soft places.
'Dobes are falling. Strenuous efforts
have been made 10 hold them up but a
stiff undercurrent has been too strong
for the fnanciers to fight.
Over in Juarez some OF the houses
forty years old have succumbed to the
high water. Like all things earthly
they have returned to mother earth.
The Mexicans along the canal are
making large number of sun dried
brick. If the river keeps rising there
is going to be big demand for this
class of building material. They are
taking time blythe forelock and making
brick while the sun shines.
The G.. H and T. & p. railroads are
now using their high water tracks ex-
clusively.
John Crosson's high water guage has
caused Ben Jenkins 50 much trouble at
the Stanton street bridge that jenkins |
has put up sign over the guage which |
reads: 'Cross-on.
Gum Taylor, who owns the house
just south of the canal and east of Stan
ton street, is making strenuous efforts |
to save his property. He is working on |
the policy that he would soouer see it
buried than ruined
The street commissioner is fighting |
water with his sleeves rolled up. The |
commissioner long experience in |
fighting wafer should enable him to
win out in the present instance.
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