The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-13

Post has shown. draw money from the
private savings banks. which ia now loaned
out and In business. and lock II Up In the
government vaults to the INJURY OF the
General circulation. when the scheme was
nrst suggested many who did not under
stand its scope and purpose jumped to the
conclusion that II was good thing. but
discussion has changed public sentiment
and the popular demand to a great extent.
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JOAQUIN Miller "thc poet Of the Sierrss."
viii get back from the Kiopdikc, II at ali,
With piece OF his car gone. broken cheeks.
shrtvelied nose and a toe or two on. A
man might as we'll be rfiso fighter as a
poet In contact with Klondise ciimate--a
solar plexus blow is play by comparison.
The clippcrton island incident is Officially
shown to be as insignificant as the guano
bed itself
II appears from tho debate. as reported.
over Hawaiian annexation that tho promoters
of annexation are willing that tho islands
shall not become a state until the whites
are In the majority. They can afford To
WAtt Ati AntNtN GtatcS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Is
plenty OF money Ia annexation itself.
f5.s. i;
The civil service debate only resulted in
showing hcw strong the svowcd spoilsmcn
are In the lower house OF congress.
Whether money has been used or not or at
tempted to be used with the Ohio icgisla-
ture, the public will be slow 20 believe that
Hanna has one code Of morality for popular
elections and another for a senatorial strug-
Gle In which he happens 70 be personally
and deeply interested
When Hangman's day is moro generally
and appropriately celebrated In this country.
we shall all feel that society is taking bet
ter care of itself
The Mississippi legislature discovers that
1t has been illegally eleettng senators for
some years past other legislatures have
made worse mistakes than Mississippi how
ever in eiecting senators and without violat-
ing any law 1t is dead easy to make mis-
takes in that direction.
Old Gomez has only a few years OF life
remaining, but he proposes to devote them
all II necessary 10 the fight for Cuba. May
his days be lcngthenedl
The Boston Herald thinks that the use Of
the bicycle is largely to be credited with
the lower death rate and improved health
reported for last year in many cities, II this
be fact 1t is an additional reason for I'M
proved streets and public roads.
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A negrop reacher has again been nominated
as minister to fcyer-breeding Liberia. This
urH far ~ IA
colored brother in this country.
The house committee on rivers aud harbors
has commenced giving hearings to the advo~
Gates of various projects Arc the citizens of
this city preparing TO appear before tho com
mitteo any time soon in advocacy OF the
Buffalo bayou Improvement
The New York sun calls eS-Chairman
Kurts the whitclaw Reid OF Ohio, meaning
to be particularly abusive. This would imply
that Hanna is the Buckeye Sun.
The jewels of the wife of the American
ambassador at Rome are said to lay those
OF the queen of Italy completely in the
shade. Who says that American diplomacy
does not shine abroad
is probably not as black or bad as he is
painted. He need not be half so bad to
properly arouse the opposition of well-wish-
ers OF the country.
Count Esterhazy, retired officer OF the
French army, has just received nice new
coat Of thick whitcwash. while poor Dreyfus
Is slowly dying in his cage off the coast of
Guiana.
SOME PosTsCaIPTs.
There are women car conductors in Chile.
Dining cars have not yet appeared IN
Russia.
The death rate in Glasgow at present is
about 81 in 100.
Maine factories sold s25oOoo worth o,
shoe pegs in 1897.
There are 500 birds on one ostrich farm
in California.
Eighty cooks are employed in the
kitchen of the Hotel Cecil. London,
The curfew law is read in the public
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