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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

Here is a puzzle for the kids, reproduc-
ed from an exchange by the Town Talk
Tie a string about a yard long to a
door key and take the string in the right
hand: hold it so'the key Will clear the
floor four or five inches. If you will
hold the key 1t eady enough the key will
begin to swing back and forth in q
straight line. Let another person take
your left hand in his and the motion
OF the key will change from the pend
ulum like swing TO circular swing. Ii
a third person will place his hand on
the shoulder of the second person the
key will STOP
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

THE medical directors of several of
the leading life insurance companies in
a recent conference concurred in the
opinion that excessive Indulgence 10
the bicycle and beer were both serious
ly detrimental to longevity.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

THE National Eouc ational associa-
tion of America will meet in Milwau-
kee on the 9th of next month, and IN
this connection the Arizona Republi-
can remarks that 'the large grow III of
breweries throughout the Unlted States
now enables d reputable association to
meet in Milwaukee without being SUBJ
iected to undue suspicion"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

MCNALL the Iopulist insuran ce
commissioner of Kansas, recently bar
red all tornado and wind storm insur-
ance from the state. A few days after
ward q storm swept over the state des-
troying thousands of acres of uninsured
wheat, and now .populist farmer de-
clare they will hereafter vote the re-
publican ticket 10 avoid the risk of get
ling such officers as McNall
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

New York window 0ressers have an
idea that they can compe. e successfully
with any one in the wOI Id in their
business, but an enterprising Nevada
man thinks he can go them one better.
He offers for sale TO enhance the a trs c.
tiveness of store windows horned toads,
tarantulas, horned lizards or cent?
pedes, " arranted to draw trade and
live for years. 1t is suggested that a
general adoption of MS NETT DDS would
probably prove much more effective
in supressing the excessive liquor
habit then the Raines law.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

Two years ago Sonora shipped So
carloads of oranges to the eastern
states. The year just passed l66 carloads
we're shipped from the same Mex can
state, and next year the authorities
say the shipment will reach nearly 300
carloads. This returned hundreds of
thousands of dollars to the producers.
Gazette
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

Pre- sident A. A. Robinson, of the
Mexican Central, has designed a metal,
diamond frame truck, for 60, OOO-lbs.
capacity freight cars, which has been
ad p Ell as standard by that road Two
of ID csc trucks were'built in Novemb Der,
1896 and ten since January, of the
present year, which are being used
under locomotive tenders. These have
given good service ard similar trucks
are now building for the tenders of the
new Mexican Central engines which
the BROOKS Locomotive works are
furnishing, and also they will be used
under 600, 10000 lbs. capacity box cars
which the Michigan-Peninsular Car
Co., is building for the same road.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21
ADvERr,sINC RATES.

Rates of advertising in the Daily or Weekly
edition made known on application at the
publication office. Or ring up telephone num-
per 115, and a representative of the business
department viii call and quote prices and
Contract for space.
Locals 10 cents per line in every instance
for first insertion, and cents per line for each
additional insertion.
Legal notices of every description IL per
nch each insertion.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

THE Louisiana Sugar and Rice Elk
change photographed congratulations to
Senator McEnsry, of that state, for
"the manly stand taken by him in
guarding the interests of the people he
was chosen TO represent" by voting
with the repu blicans on the tariff bill
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

ADVOCATES of of the curfew law,
who have been compiling statistics on
the subject, claim that in cities where
the regulation has been adopted there
has b5en decrease of % per cent in
the arrests of juvenile offenders and in
the number of commitments OF such Of
fende rs to reform schools.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

The Peoples Common Sense Med zeal
Advis er in PLAIN English, or Medicin e
Simplified by r. V. Pierce, M. D.,
Chief Consu ting Physician to the In
valid Hotel and Surgical Instltu e,
Buffalo, N. Y, zoos pages, illustrated.
$50, 900 copies sold at $50. Now sent,
paper-bOund, ABSOLUTELY FREE, on
receipt of q one-cent stamps to pay for
mailing only. Address the author, as
above
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

James Hamilton Lewis, the new rep
resentaJive from the state of Washing
toni, is described as looking like fasn-
ion plate. He wears long frock that
reaches almost to his ankles, brown
trousers, patent leather shoes, extreme
ly high collar, flowing necktie and
bright yellow gloves. His hair is long
and tossed about. w tn careless preci-
sion," and his whiskers spread out as if
parted in the middle. Both hair and
whiskers are Of a yellow shade and
harmonic with his gloves.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

Hundreds of thousands have been in
duced to try Chamberlain Cough Re-
medy, by reading what it has done for
others, and having tested it's merits for
themselves are today its warmest
friends. For sale by all druggists.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

ONE of the Panama steamers recent
ly arriving at San Francisco, bad two
deaths by yellow fever on board during
the voyage.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21
Santa Fee Route,

Low rates 10 the Jubilee Celebration,
TO be held in Salt Lake City in July.
Tickets on sale July 10th ,17th and 18th
Call at Santa F'e ticket office for parti-
culars. E. COPELAND,
Gen1 Agent.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

IT now seems probable that the
Cuban question will rest as it is until a
new American minister is appointed,
confirmed and goes to Spain.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

THE sugar schedule of the tariff bill,
the great bone of contention in the
senate, having been passed, the senate
may now be expected to rush the bill
through and return it to the house.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21
THE WEEKLYHERACD.

A large eight page paper giving the
local events of the week, published
every Saturday. just the paper to
send friends for information regard
ing Fl Faso. Price ST. per year
six months $l.OO.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

The cost of the completed capitol at
Albany, with the central tower left out.
foots up to S23, 900, 600, twice as much as
the national capitol, conjectu rally more
than the golden house of Nero, the Dali
matian palace of Diocletian, or the
white house of Chosroes.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

1 have sold my ice cream wagon and
now do business in the tent, west side
of plaza. Call on me for your ice
cream and cold drinks. j. T. O'HARE.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING.

Tax HERALD is fully prepared to do all
Kinds of plain and fancy Job printing in all
the latest styles. Work perfectly and
promptly done.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21
HoIden,srositive Pile Cure.

Sufferers use it. Belief will be
speedy and cure positive and perma-
nent if directions are strictly fol-
lowed. For sale by Kelly 81 Pollard,
druggists,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

Seventeen stude hts of Harvard sailed
from Boston on a cattle ship the other
day to att nd The jubilee festivities: in
other words, they will work their way
across the Atlantic as amateur "cow-
punchers" tween decks, and all 'just
for the fun of the thing.'
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

For period of forty days and nights,
not single civil case has been filed
in San Miguel county. This has never
been the case before, within the know
ledge of the present court officials
Ootic
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21

Some valua bic statistics relative to
the growth in Germany of the work
ing mems insurance system have been
received at the state department from
the United States consul a. Bamberg.
These societies insure against sickness,
accident and old age and in the opinion
of the consul have had bent lal in
hueuce upon the economical and social
positions of the German working class
es. He says that in country like
Germany, where low wages allow but
small fraction of the la boring classes
TO put by something for a rainy day,
great deal has been accomplished by
this system, which, he hopes, may be
extended to other countries. In ten
years from 1885 to 1895 claims TO the
amount OF 1896, OILS, 1924 have been paid
to 25,06l 500 persons, and $250,0O0 per
day is disbursed in such benefits.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-21
The ,JubiIee Regain.

| LONDON, June I9.-After months of
| active preparation, ana the expendi-
| ture of incalculabIe sums of money by
| the government, and by those who will
participate ia the ceremonies either
officially or as spectators, the Diamond
JuOi,ee celebration, concentrating
the completion of the sixtie5n year of
the reign of Victoria, queea of Great
Britain and Ireland and empress of
India, is at hand. Ii is no flight of
imagination to state that there are
over half-m lion strangers within
the corporate limits of London today,
ana this mum Der promises TO be increa as
ed beyond the million mark before the
great day of the jubilee. which will be
Tuesday next. The streets through
which the Royal Procession will pass
present strange appearance to day.
The buildings along the entire six miles
OF the line of march have been literally
covered with temporary balconies, and
even the National Gallery, tOgt Their
with many other public buildings ami
church edihces, are almost hidden from
view by the pine-bOard structures which
been built around them.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-21
THE HUMAN MAGNETS,

be eficacious in a number of other
maladies. The electric current is at
no time using the human tissues as
conductor. In fact. it does not
contact with them. What is employed is
the presence of the magnetic field created
by the current, and in which the patient
is actually bathed. The treatment is said
to be peculiarly beneficial in all kinds of
neurotic ailments. No evil effects appear
to follow. The patient under treatment
experiences at first a sensation of rapidly
changing temperatures, which soon gives
place to a feeling of delicious warmth. un-
der the effect of which he quickly passes
into dreamless slumber, which usually
continues for some time after the treat
ment ends. He awakes to find his pains
departed and in their place q sense of
buoyancy.
That the human body immersed in one
of Professor Monet's coils becomes an
actual electromagnetic il proven By numer-
Gus tests. The old belief entertained by
some people that sleeping with your head
to the north is the most healthful position
is indorsed by this new discovery. There
are no patent, preventing the application
of Professor Monets method by any one
desiring to do so. +. M. G.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-21

bly, confine the pneumatic type of gun to
permanent works of defense. Its only APP
plication thus far on shipboard has been
on the United States steamer Vesuvius.
To work the guns an elaborate plant of
engines, boilers, air-compressors and stor-
age tanks are required, making the sys-
tenn very vulnerable as we'll as expensive
A well-directed shot would put whole
battery OF guns out of action for an indefi-
mite period. The pneumatic gun is there
fore entirely out OF the question in field
operations, while the inherent defects OF
the system have led to many attempts to
fire the high explosives from ordinary
powder guns, using powder charges.
In tho Sims Dudley gun this problem
seems to have been solved at last, and the
principle is as applicable to the light guns
for field service as to taose of heavy type
for permanent works or use on shipboard.
Curiously enou n the propelling agent is
air, which was found to work SO success
fully before. For the cumbersome plant
of engines and compressors a small charge
of ordinary powder is substituted. It's
ignition produces an air pressure which
starts the projectile and forces it safely
out Of the bore and on its way. The gun
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-21

|HE domain of warfare has ever
AS offered fruitful field to the inven-
,WsS tor. end never more so than at pres
ent when the armies of the world are
equipped never before, and when the
possession of an improved weapon may
decide the future conflict. Now the in
vention of new weapon Of destruction
may bring millions to the lucky origina.
tor.
OF the large mum ber of such inventions
naturally only small part ever get be-
yond the Patent Offics, but occasionally
one is brought forth which commands in
slant attention, and the adoption of which
by the different nations quickly follows:
Such an invention was the Gatling gun.
no less remarkable weapon. the Sims
Dudley powder dynamite gun, has just
been introduced to the word by the war
in Cuba. where its practical utility has
been amply demonstrated. Each war
brings forth some new type of weapon or
new mode of fighting, which is quickly
adopted. The Cuban war is no exception,
and the new gun has come to stay with
the added advantage of large amount of
free advertising.
Those who have followed the accounts
of the Cuban war have been struck by the
frequent mention of the use OF dyna-
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-21

actual effect OF shell filled with q high
explosive there was the moral effect to be
produced by the explosion of a substance
having six or seven times the force of
gunpowder. Even the pravest and best
disciplined troops are apt to sbecome de-
moralized in the presence OF an agent
which nothing can resist.
AS propelling agent in guns the high
explosives, in spite of long-continued ex-
perments, have proved unmanageable.
Efforts were therefore directed toward its
use in some form of shell. For this pur-
pose gunpowder is entirely unsuited, CIV
ing high and irregular pressures and a
dangerous temperature. Some propelling
agent was needed which would start the
proiectile easily and give q continued
pressure during all the time it was in the
bore of the gun. With 500 pounds of ex-
plosive gelatine and a sensitive cap it
would not do to make mistakes. Com
pressed air was found to be in most re-
spects an ideal propeIling agent and a
long series Of exhaustive experiments led
to the perfection OF the pneumatic dyna-
mite gun adopted as part of our coast de-
fenses.
While pressed air serves admirably
there are many serious disadvantages
connected with its use, which will proba-
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-21

reality they do not mean that. The hom
ing pigeon is the carrier pigeon trained to
actual, solid, hard work.
When the pigeon of the medico reaches
his destination, DR.. Lang's residence, he
flies TO the loft, which has been prepared
especially for him and his comrades. In
order to gain this loft, however, he must
pass through what are called bolting wires.
These open inward into an inclcsure about
two feet square. Here the prisoner is held
until the doctor or some one designated to
perform the service removes the message.
The pigeon then is free and flies into the
loft.
In this way DR.. Lang is enabled to keep
thoroughly in touch with his patients at
distance with about one-fiith the amount
of travel he would have to endure under
other circumstances. Not only that, but
be is really much better posted. because it
would often happen that he would alto
gether be unable to pay visits to all the
patients he should, and so, perhaps, miss
seeing sick person at just the time when
he most needed to hear from him, at
least. Under the system he has devised
he can go away from homo to visit pa
tents and feel sure that when he returns
reports will be awaiting him from others.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-21
j FaklP From the Punjaub
]How an Indian Juggler Produces Bicycle
from Beneath His Coat-Mar-
velous Tricks

. kFNI1RRAYED in a gown of snotIess
Ak white, his coal black hair covered
NAV by a snowy turban with MANY
1o!ds, an Indian iuggler, who calls him.
sell the Nawab OF Jellabad. has been
. startling the people OF Paris nightly with
marvellous trick and then poking fun at
tnem win his explanation of how simple
; II Is to DO. Not so simple trick, perhaps
TO the unskillful. for it Is nothing less
than the production of bicycle from be-
meath that flowing CLOAK, where the great
est doubters in all the audience would
nave sworn no bicycle could have been
concealed
Most marvellous OF all the details of this
TRICK Is the undoubted fact that what the
Juggler does he accomplishes unaided. His
assistant companion, who he declares is
the Rainee of Champaran-although the
state ment is contrary to the rite of suttee
as practiced in India, for Rainee is a
queen widow-stands in the wings, if it is
on stage, or at one side, when in a pri-
vate house, merely watching the per-
formance and smiling at the wonder Ct
the astonished auditors.
There is something about this exceed
ingly clever man which makes one re-
spect him instanter. Tall, with that clear
olive complexion which is charterstic of
the high caste Indian, he bows to those
before him IN a fashion that is positively
/ prlncelY and makes one wonder whether
be Is really what he claims to be, Ma
wab. The true Indian Nawab is a prince
3 In all that the word implies, if he is not,
IN fact. more of king. The chances are,
however that CaD le Of ba oIi
skin is iuggler of more than usual brain
who shrewdly believes that the atmos-
phere of former royalty will give him the
entree where the plain Indian juggler
would fail OF an audience.
After the magnificent bow comes the
wonder. If any one who reads this has
ever seen an Indian jug ler arrayed In all
the glory of his paraphernalia ne has an
idea OF how preposterous the assertion
seems when the Decromancer, in very ex-
celient French. states to the audience that
he proposes TO cause to appear before them
by magic bicycle, complete in every de-
tail. Not only, he says, will he cause this
bicycle to appear, but will also ride upon
it, and thus demonstrate the fact that it is
no imaginary or property" machine. 1t
shall be equipped with pneumatic tires,
he declares-in fact. just such wheel as
the ardent cyclist loves 10 own.
lnasIhuch as it is manifestly impossible
to carry a bicycle in ones pocket or under
the arm without being seen, the onlookers
puzzle their brains in vain to disc yer how
on earth this seemingly remarkaD Dle man
is gong 10 carry ont the promise he has
made. They are not long in discovering
that he means to perform exactly what he
has promised. Suddenly there is thrown
to him. by his assistant, large sheet OF
. ordinary muslin, folded. He unfods this
sheet in full view of Them, bowling politely
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-21

mite, and especially of field dynamite
gun, to which, in large measure, the sue
cess of the insurgents Is said to be due
There are indications that in the kaleid-
oscope OF change new era of destructive
warfare has been inaugurated.
In future wars, in addition to smoke!ess
powder and long-range weapons. we may
expect that the air will be filled with
aerial torpedoes-fying missiles of death
any one OF which on striking will anni-
hilate everything within radius of fifty
feet or more The mum ber of men affected
by such an explosion will depend largely
on the number OF flying missiles pro-
duced, and this is necessarily limited.
But against material objects and earth
works the result is bound to be disastrous.
Nothing can stand against welI-directed
shot. The use Of high explosive or tor
peuo shells in the next war has for some
years been recognized abroad, and forts
are now built with special reference to
their ability to Withstand them.
Ever since the practical DEVELOPMENT OF
the modern high explosives, such as dyna-
mite and elatine, it has been the dream
Of enthusiastic inventors to apply these
deadly agents in warfare. Besides the
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-21
The Human ElectPo-M Magnet
Marvellous Cure for Rheumatism and Other
Complaints Of Mortals by Scientific
Methods

and himself. There is not hing in materia
medica, to be sure, which suggests this
method of practice, but it is such 2 nov
city in its way and it proves SO successful
that once generally known 1t is bound to
prove popular.
Every man who is physician and has
practice that takes him about in the
country districts to any great extent
knows how hard 1t is to keep himself
thoroughly posted as 70 the condition of
his far-away patients. The city physi-
clans clientele as a rule is more COM
pactly located. there not being the oppor-
tunity for him to practice in so large a
territory as his country brother. Now the
country physician practices over an i'm
mense extent OF territory, infinitely great
er than nine out of ten of even his own
patients think. He is quite likely to have
two patients critically Ill, the patients be-
ing twelve miles apart and each living
like distance from the doctors own
home. Easily it will be seen that paying
daily calls and keeping posted with sick
persons scattered about like that becomes
almost an impossibility.
These conditions confronted DR.. Lang
for many long year, and he cudgeled his
brain to some purpose in finding way to
help himself and at the same time prove
a benefit to his patients. The homing
pigeon solved the problem. In other
words. the doctor Is the producer. the
pigeon is the middleman and the patient
the consumer-of medicine. In this par
tcular instance, however, the middleman
benefits both producer and consumer.
state of affairs as singular as DR.. Lang's
project.
The doctor has found time to keep up
on medical topics. take good care OF his
patients and cultivate pigeons, all three
very successfully. 1t is the success, or,
rather, the combination of successes, that
has made life easier for him, more tran
gull for his patients and source of amuse-
ment and interest to every stranger who
hears what is going on. The doctor says
his plan is thorough success, and he rec
ommends brother practitioners TO try it.
There is nothing difficult about il at all.
The method OF procedure is this: In the
first place the doctor keeps IN mind con-
stantly the patients whose condition he is
anxious to be thoroughly posted upon.
Then he sends 10 each OF these one or
more OF the carrier pigeons, according to
the severity OF the case and the necessity
of frequent communication. The nurse,
or some mem Der of the family of the per-
son who is i'll, has blanks which the doctor
has left, and these must be filled In with q
detailed record OF time. pulse, tempera-
ture and respiration. A blank filled, ii Is
inclosed in an aluminium capsule made to
clasp on the leg. This done the bird is re-
leased and at once speeds away to the
home of the waiting physician at the rate
of mile minute. In this connection it
is well to remember that while to the un-
initiated the words carrier pigeon" in
clude all pigeons that carry messages, in