El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-21
The Spectator.

A great deal of human nature is to
be seen at hotels. The pressure of
mutual KIN owledge and social obliga-
tions is ia en- off, and manners are in a
certain sense more unrestrained, while
at the same time more formal, than
when everyone knows everyone else,
do what they can to appear at their
beet. And watching the tricks and
the manners of newcomers, one thing
especially strikes the onlooker-the
predominance of victorious woman.
Several evenings ago q number of
guests at one of our hotels were playing
cards in the parlor. Several women
presumably guests OF the house,
we're sitting around chatting
about the weather, Christm as
etc., when the conversation turn
ed to books, One young woman who
had been more animated than the rest
and to q great extent affected I'm her,
manner, who was leader in the con-
versation, was asked by one of the
members of the party if she had ever
read Shakespeare She Immediately
assumed q look of establishment, and
haughtily re oiled: "Read Shakespeare?
OF course 1 have; L read it when it first
came out!" Such display of knowledge
was too much for the card party and
one by one they arose from their seats
and silently lett the room.
The dispute as to- the youngest SOL
di err in the war with Spain has already
begun, says the Buffalo Express. The
latest claiment of the honor is one Cato
Young of YOakum, Tex, q member of
Com pany B,Second Texas volunteer in
fantry regiment. Young was born on
June %, 1888, and was thus less than
old fho h4 to-
ed. This youth is more than four
months younger than Henry w. Nc
Cory, Jr., private of Company F.,
Second Tennessee volunteer Infantry
regiment, who heretofore has claimed
to be the youngest man in the army.
This is interesting, but profitless, dis
cussion. The question cannot possibi
be settled in this generation, Judging
from the dispute over the youngest
soldier of the civil war.
Since Dr. Yandell became assistant
city physician he has procured horse
and in making his daily tours through
the Mexican settlement he goes horse
back. He got horse from George
Harold and says that the little animal
is one of the best saddlers in town. Its
usual gait Isl the fox trot or running
walk and the doctor has devoted his
leisure moments to training the horse
since 1t has been in his possession. In
speaking of the horse Yesterday DR..
Yandell said: ~ in Kentucky they
call that gait a fox trot but down in
Tennessee it is called running walk
when 1 want him 30 strike that parti-
cular gait all have to do is to catch
him by the name"
The city is still burdened with
numerous tramps. and they do not con-
fine their attention to asking pedes-
trians for aims entirely. but also beg
at private residences. Pedestrians are
asked for money. generally, while
private residences are besieged for
food. A few days ago tramp called
at residence on North Kansas street
and asked for meal. He said he was
starving. The lady told him that she
had nothing but beefsteak and biscuits
and handed him out plate of that.
When she opened the door few
moments later she found the plate of
food sitting on the door step untouch-
ed. The tramp was not hungry
enough to eat steak and biscuit.
The fourteenth annual report of the
Association of Jewish Immigration of
Philadelphia shows that for the year
ended on October 31st the Jewish i'm
migration to this country was $4,000
as against ~, 900 sof the preceding
year, while the total Immigration
of the year WAS 229, 229, which is
1,5OO sless than that of 1897.
About all the Jewish emigration takes
place from Slavic countries and the
statistics show that more than two
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