El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-05

river and tell just how long it would
take to fill a lake sixty feet deep, three
miles wide and fifteen miles long.
When citizen dips his pen in gall
and begins to score the pewspa-
pers he thinks that every body
will jump to his assistance and
the paper he attacks will close
up shop and move to the next
town. An experienced newspaper man
knows batter than this. Ii is only by
continued and untiripg efforts that the
public are made TO understand. The
continual dripping of water on a stone
wears IL out, so does the continual ef-
fort of newspaper. Public opinion
cannot be moulded with one effort
nor in one day-except "a lynching case
is on.
Lou Gasser is going to look after
the orphans. He has one hundred
eggs in his newly invented incubator
anu the cnlcKs will hatch out by the
end of next week. Lou says he is go
ing to be the only rooster in that poul-
try yard.
The boxes in which strawberries are
sod by the quart cost about thirty-tivo
hunoredths of ID cent each. This large
price probably accounts for the small
ness OF the boxes.
A Nebraska paper complains that the
local market Is so OversJocked with
heI's eggs That the price naS gone down
to almost nothing. Simply case of
ova prCd NC lion.
There is said to be a balance of one
cent In the United STATES treasury due
to eX-PresldrnJ Cleveland. Thai ISu'l
oil this government owes him, by any
means.
A Lexington, Mo-, thief stole
twenty tive gallon Kettle OF soft soap
the other night. Simply little pre-
paration for the fall Political cam
palgn.
Spain is so hard pushed for cash that
she Is going 10 sell monopoly privileges.
This is an infringement on the sugar
trust senator's patent.
if the senate is circus. 1t certainly
mas rings enough to make ii the great
est snow on earth.
Members of parliament and members
The United States is already Eng laad 5
pawn.
| The kinetescOpe pictures that shows
| where FItZSImmODS hit COrOett after
| the latter Was down has been proven to
| be counterfeit of The original varlas-
cope pictures. They We're faxed up by
| some live Yankee who Is making d
Dushel of moley showing them IN the
| west.
| The census of the flood sufferers at
old FOrJ Bliss has been taken aud
SHOWS that there are "a families there.
Each family is com posed OF five mem
| berS and four or five visitors. These
| visitors are Very anxious to be en- er-
| tanned at the United STATES expense.
the best policy would be to weed the
| visitors out, put the men to work at
| good wages and then no one would sui
fer. Let the city furnish the shelter
and the men The food.
Many of those located at old Fort
Bliss are as well off now as they ever
| We're anu eat ofJener. 1t Is those
MeXlcans who lost their houses and
|
| families that are the real sufferers.
If it takes three years for the river
| to fill reservoir nfGeed miles long,
three miles wide and sixty feet deep
with water, how loug will it take TO
fill beer keg?
Now that school is out the boys have
| taken to swimming IN the Water work :
reservoir. IL is only the u1ce, pretty
little buys who swim in the reservoir,
| where tue water Is clean, clear, Tree
from silt and useful for drinking waLef.
1t is only The really Dad boy who swlms
in the river anu comes home with his
| back full of RIO Grande muu. Last
evening ABOUT fifteen toys We're caught
bathing in the reservoir, but only tVC
| were arrested, the balance Escaping. In
vestlgatlOn SHOWS that these boys have
been swimming in tue Reservoir for d
week and during this time the Ell Paso
people have been drlnAiug tue Water
There are few offense5 that deserve
severer punls hment than the roy zoe;
who will battle in the city reservoir
To make bathing pond OF Inc wat
that 10, 900 people have 10 drink Il
about as low piece OF meanne55 al
flesh is heir TO. We are sorry to have
to say this, for some good people boy:
have been guilty of tue act, but 1t mat
tiers not who the guilty parties are
they should be severely punlshed-tnt
rich and the poor alike.
|
The seep water is causing seriou:
trouble in different pal is of town along
, the levees. AT Gaennie's place the
/ water is seeping in so fast That three
pumps have been kept at work steadil.
for TIE past for ty-eight hours aud stll
the water is gaining on tie Workers
Mr.. Gaennie has given up ali hope anC
! is preparing TO move out. The seepagt
between Santa Fe street and the Cen