El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-08
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Current News.
:. Bicycle experts estimate the actua
cost of an up-tO-date 500 wheel a
S3O.3l.
e A report from the Office of the regis
u trar general of England, shows tina
y out of | 900, 900 people 225 women am
Il only So IL en- live to be a hundred year
old.
= A number of Min nesOta Indians wen
=, on spree the other day and, beins
4 unable to procure whisky, substituted
Y hair oil and pain killer. The result il
that there are now five good indians
2 in Minnesota.
The Peoria Herald is doubtful of the
: permanent success OF the Bourbon
whiskey trust in Kentucky, as Ameri
can ingenuity will devise some way OF
making an eight year old article in less
than q week, about the time now re
quired
An eastern Oregon editor says that
the proper and only way to get rid of a
pin in it at the point Offering least
resistance, and then to heat the pin,
which, he says, will cause the tick to
pull out his cOrkscrew and close his
accounts.
A man in Meredin, Conn, bought a
candy store and put his young son in
charge of it. The lad found he had a
good thing and at once determined to
push it along. He att so much candy
that his weight jumped from 100 to 200
pounds in few months and he entire
| ly lost his sig ht.
A plan to bring the farmer and the
consumer directly together has been
adopted by some of the railroads CEN
! Job q,
boxes weighing not more than sixty
pounds on fast passenger trains and de-
liver them at the buyers house in Lon
don at the rate of eight cen is for tweu-
ty pounds and two cents for every adj
ditiOnal five pounds.
The New York Journal of Commerce
has recently shown from the reports of
the nited States mint that between
1873 and 1896 t ere has been an increase
in the worlds supply of monev, as fol-
lows: Silver coin. s., $50, 900, 900: gold
coin, 81 $50 600. 600 and the Journal al
leges that this is 1.-THE most stupendOus
imitation of metallic money in the his
tory of CURRENCY"
An AtchisOn Photographer of little
faith but much confidence announces
his ability to tell where bicycle girl
comes from, who visits Atchison, by
the length of her skirt. ga stern girls
don't mind,'' he says. ''showing an inch
or two of their hosiery Manifestly
he Gistrusts the pictorial represen Ia
ton of eastern cycle women, or holds
that there are other places besides the
end OF ones nose where an inch is g |
long way. He appends the startling
Information that the local girls, who
wear long skirts, scream if a man looks
at their feet.
The little town of Burlington. N. j..
seems to be in the throes of an anti-
kissing crusade. The Presbyterian
Sunday school officials have prohibited |
any prOmlscuou5 OSCILLATION at their an
nual picnic, and weeping and walling
is heard throughout the length and !
breadth of the dIstr ct. The prohi BIZ |
tion is mainly leveled at the game cali |
ed 'COpeuhagen,' in which. it is said |
there is an abundant opportunity for
the dissemination of the bacillus oscu-
latuS.
Thirty steers have been shipped from
Chehalis county, Wash. to Circle City, |
Alaska, where it is expected they will |
arrive some time in August. The cost |
of getting them there will be about |
$4,000, QUO, but a profit is expected, as |
the steers weigh on the average 1900 |
pounds each, and the meat will sell a, |
80 cents a pound. The steers are old |
d l.
journey. They viii go by steamer to
Juneau, and there be driven to their
destina ion, where they will have a
months grazing before being sold.
The disposition of man to lapse back
into barbarism has often been COM
mented upon. To Judge from an &C
count by the Cincinnati Enquirer of the
trouble the inhabitants of the Pan
Handle are being put to by wild horses,
this disposition to return to wild
state also prevails among the equine
race. The wild animals entce Off the
domestic ones and it is said. that when |
the --LATEST old crow bait alive. or the
gentlest family hack has associated for
a day or two with the mustangs he be-
comes frisky as colt and will not per-
NIT man to get within half mile of
him. About the only way to recover
the prOdigal is to run the bunch down
and corral them, or rope him.
The initiative Chinaman is still the
wonder OF the world. On certain
man-of-war on the Pacific station. a
few years ago, the officers had Chinese
servants, and, although they couId
speak word of English, they
were quick to learn what was shown to
hem, and soon did like clockwork the
fir drill with buckets, says the St.
Mich Olas Magazine. One dav there
was real fire. Volumes of smoke
poure d up from the forehold, and it
took several streams of water nearly
al hour to put out the flames When
the fire was under control, some one
thought OF the Cinnamon, and behold.
there they were. ranged In line and in
plain sight OF the smoking hatchway,
rapidly passing their buckets alone. but
empty NC them over the ships side as
they had been taught to do.
G. G. Davis former proprietor of |
the Leadville Herald-Democrat aud |
Chronicle, who was compelled to sell |
those papers and retire from active |
business ON account of poor health |