El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-17

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Several tourists we're sitting in the
plaza yesterday talking one thlHg ana
another and telling experiences O,
their travels. One Of the tourists toId
of the experience OF d party VINO was
being driven through the osemlte-
One of the party asked the old stage
driver if he knew how old some OF the
big trees were. ~ ep,l jest de" kho",
he answered. How old are they:
ssThree thousand and six years. ana
COIN on three thousand ana seven.
How do you know the num- er so eA-
actlv?'' "Wal. there were a smart
young woman out yere from bosl''ii;
and She said they was three thousand
Years old, and as that was little over
six years ago, they must De @otn 'h
three thousand and seven now.
The dumping beam causes a good
deal of amusement to tourists VINO
travel through Mexico. ana SOM OF
them can now be found in the Ell Pa5o
curio stores. The Jumping oean Is
three POD bean with live gfuo III Uhe
center of each pod: each pod DeIhg d.
will lie dormant when cold but by neat
in it by holding it tightly pressed IN
the hand it Will begin to throb ana II
laid on a fiat surface will jump. People
visiting Mexico send these Jumping
beans to friends in the north, I)r Ihe
mv-tI ficatiOn obligation or amusement
| as the case may be, OF people 10 Wh"Ln
| these eccentric com blnatlons OF aul
and vegetable life are not familiar: ~
! 10 IF n. Goods reached
don recently, aud they have attracted
| considerable attention. Conrad Cooke,
an electrician, made careful study OF
| Them. and one of mis- discoveries Is IN
terestino. The beans" (thev grow on
"a species of euphorbium) seem able;
when laid on fiat surface to traVei
| horizontally in given direction, but
" hen suspended in the air they are alb
solutelv devoid of lateral movement.
a bean hung by fibre viii jump some
| times half an inch upward. puI Will
never acquire a pendulum movement
5 milarly, a bean mounted at TIRE END
of a quill, and fitted with mirror, llke
| a galvaDOmcter needle, VIII cause
spot of light to move up and down a
vertical scale, but never off of it. The
movements are caused by the conVul-
~ive actien OF a grub, which chooses
this seed for its habitat.
81 think your estimate was little
low in We st rday's HERALD In regard TO
the rate TO the fight at Carson,
said a prominent railroad man to
Round A bout this morning; The
| lowest rate [ can figure is 500 or stu
round trip ticket with stop over on re-
| urn at San Francis and Los Ange-
lies. The = southern Pacific has COM
plete monopoly of the rate to Carson
and that will be the main route travel
ID by people going to the hght from
the south aud far east. The route will
be from Ell Paso to Lathrop, and from
| there TO Sacramento and 1Iom the lat
ter place to R=no. The =. +. Will
proba bly, run all its special trains into
| Carson. One fare from Ell Paso to r.
20 is $500 and the fare from K mo
to Carson The round trip Is s. Inc
sleeping car fare from Ell Paso Will be
from 50 to 80. 80 The ). z. however,
| will hardly make a o, e fare rate as
| that line never does anything that the
| ticket scalpers can take advantage o.
A one aud one-third fare may be oo-
tanned, but Commercial Agent Hunt
is doing his best to get a better rate
| from this section ana he will get 1t II
| possible,
| "Everything depends OF the action f
| III. Southern Pacific" s4iI ii Santa te
official TO Round About this morning
" hen asked about the rate 10 carson
City for the Corbe5t- Fltz N mons
hgh BIT. The Southern Pacific controls
hat territory and The SANTA te cannot
make a rate unless the ). Z. agrees TO
il. The route from Ell Paso via
the Santa Fe would be Via La
.Junta. Pueola and from there to
Ogden. From Oig-n ths Central Pacific
runs to Reno aau that road is cOnlrOled
by the Southern Pacific and The fare
| from Ogden t. Reno aud return IS now
| $50. 50 that unless tue Ceutral Paclhc
stood the cut the Sauta'Fa would not get
much out of the haul # 1t met the >.
+. rate. Rates may b arr"rg ed la TER
ana [ hope they will, as ina route
would carry the eXcursi0nlst5 through
some very pretty country
1T is a toss up as to who will win
the fight" saia Howard Hachett to
Round About last night when asked
| about the outcome OF the Corbett-
| FILzslmmons mill. Il think the ad-
vantage IL shade in Corbetts favor,
but | am not gong against tllz7Im-
mons unless l get even money. nave
ALWAYS opposed FItz and always lost
nv money and | shall be more careful
this time HOPE TO see several Ell
| Pasoans at Carson he yelled, as be
boa rded the limited for the west.
|
| THAT X. of p. ball next Friday
night Is gong TO b. the most brilliant
IF the season. SAID d PyLhlas knig hit
| to Round About this morning. The
| K. of p's know how to get up AN enter
laInment when they want to and they
want to do it this time.
The court room was crowded with
lawyers this morning who were there TO
listen to tne'arguments OF the demurrer
for the SUB, tute pla ntiff in the SUIT OF
) ,m Goodman VS.. 7 Il t. Ky, ct al on
account of he death of the Pl tlntlH.
The case was pecul lar one III tuaS
there were few precedents of the kind
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