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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-10

The next attraction at Myar's opera
house will be Primrose & VESTS min
strefs, which comes the latter part of
this month. Primrose & West have
two troupes of minstrels on the road, .
white and colored one, but II 10 not
known which.is booked for here,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-10
LOCAL AND GENEkAL.

Hot cakes at Smiths Creamery.
Ell Faso Steam Laundry, Telephone
No. Al.
O'Brien Coal Co., sell pitch, paper,
lime, cement, plaster, etc.
Pitch, paper, plaster and lime. Ell
Paso Fuel Co. Phone Ito.
Ask for "EL PASO TRANSFER"
the best Cent CIGAR on the market
the best Mexican and Havana cigars
are made by the Ell Paso Cigar Mig.
Co.
Stoves of all kinds for hard and
soft coal.
MOMSEN & THORNE.
Payne-Badger Coal company, Nc
Alester, Cerrillos and anthracite coal,
cord And stove wood, yard Secoud and
chihuahua streets. Telephone No. IL.
Scrofula is the advertisement of foul
blood. 1t may be entirely driven from
the system by the faithful use of Hooi s
Ssrsaparilla, which thoroughly purifies
the blood.
Hoods Pills are easy to take, easy
to operate. Cure indigestion, bilious
ness. 25c.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-10

The Optic and Examiner. the two
evening papers Of Las Vegas have con
solidated, the surviving paper will re.
tain the Optic name. It is believed
that the consolidation will better sub.
serve the business interests of Las
Vegas.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-10

The railway from Las Vegas up to
Taos Is DOW an assured fact, accnrd n g
to F. A. Manzanares of Las Vegas
This road will tap the coal and cop
per fields
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-10

To Cure a Cold d One Day.
Take Laxative Brom0 Quinine Tab
lets. All druRRists refund the money
If IT fails to cure.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
suBuRBANITE MEMORY
Devices Employed by Wives To Remind
Husbands Of Errands.

Devices Employed by Wives To Remind
Husbands Of Errands.
Talking of memory systems said
re suburbanite ON the accommodation
Gin, f"I can't for the life Of me see
how q man who is unable to remember
one thing is helped by having to re-
member two. II ! tie a string around
my finger, / must recall the purpose of
wearing it, which never can do. If
must always think Of rain when want
to carry an umbrella, / have double
work. Now, my wife wanted me to re-
member something today, and she gave
me a word to say over to myself, and
I've forgotten the word.
"Pooh! It's easy enough to remem-
Der things if you give your mind to
It," said another suburbanite. my
wife told me to be sure to order some
now what the mischief was it? Soap?
Bluing? Well, that's funny. ! thought
would be sure to ep,Anber."
He plunged his ham, into his over
coat pockets to cover his chagrin and
pulled out of one rough bit Of scant-
ling with a memorandum in lead pen
Gil attached.
"Well, vow! My wife must have
stuck that thing in there. oh, yes,
see. 1t was load of kindling she want
ed me to order. But one could hardly
be expected to remember thing like
that"
81 wish l could find a reminder of
| what l am to get as easy as you did,
but my wife doesn't believe in giving a
sample to help out poor memory.
Hello, old fellow, how's that?"
He had pulled little rubber shoe
out of his pocket and was regarding it
with loving eyes.
"Sammy's overshoe, by all that's
queerl And here's something inside.
Length, five inches. Bless his little
heart. I'd have forgot all about them if
it hadn't been for this memory lesson.
There's something in the system after
all. Chicago Times Herald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
THE LITTLE TlTMOUSE.
One Free Bird That Attracts Attention
Among Hundreds Of Captives.

One Free Bird That Attracts Attention
Among Hundreds of Captives.
In big bird store where there are
hundreds of birds of many kinds inces-
sanity squawking, chirping and singing
there is one that is free-a tiny tit
mouse. The window is full of cages
containing birds of various sorts, and
one side of the store is lined with bird
cages stacked up high all along. But
there is none that attracts SO much at
tention as the little titmouse fitting
about the store at will. At night it
perches on gas figure in the window,
and to that it comes back from its yari-
Gus excursions by day.
Customers, that come in to buy birds
and birdcages and bird seed and one
thing and another never fail to notice
the titmouse They may not notice an
other bird there individually, but their
attention is sure to be attracted by this
one as it darts about, free among so
many captives, and they are likely to
smile at it, they are so pleased with it.
And sometimes children, looking in at
the windows of the bird store, come in
to tell the clerk that one of the birds
has got loose.
When it has nothing else to do. the
titmouse sits OH its gas pipe perch and
perks its head this way and that and
looks about. Sometimes it whets its
beak ON the gas pipe. Every now and
then it dashes off somewhere. If it
wants a drink, it perches on the rim Of
a goldfish globe-for home aquariums
and stock for them are sold here as we'll
as birds-no doubt to the great surprise
of the goldfishes and certainly to that
of the human beholders, who wonder
that it doesn't fall in, it has to bend
over SO far to reach the water. But it
gets it, and when it has taken its fill it
flashes back to its perch on the pipe in
the window.
The titmouse catches spiders and 9TH
er insects, and it feeds in the larger
cages when it will. 1t goes in and out
of them between the bars with perfect
ease. 1t is a very little bird, even with
its plumage in its natural form. With
its feathers pressed against its sides 1t
can get through very narrow space
between the bars of parrots cage, for
example-with ease. There are in the
window a number Of parrots cages in a
row. The titmouse almost flies through
these cages, stopping in each perhaps to
eat of the parrots food, but they never
modest it. Parrots that would bite at
the finger of a man who should put his
hand near enough to the outside OF their
cage stand back In fright or sheer
amazement when the little titmouse
dashes in and perches on their feed cup.
New York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
N FIRENEN KILLED.
r;,. at Boston Proves a Terri
8s'"' BILE Holocaust.
:, az 4 BUILDING coLLAPsEs.

HE. rnroush to the Fourth s floor
. o' anr,e. Its victims In the wreck
and 's..,k on the Iron Mountain Road
fs'a '...,r,-Engineer and Fireman
~u,.d-rhree People fer''" ~
colorado.
Feb. THE Bodies Of six
bos among them that OF District
fremer' uor have just been taken from
che, Inns Mv Of the Bent building which
inc ' Gre at 4 o'clock in the morning.
TOOK 49, are: John F. Egan, district
the 1oues Victory, captain engines
ehei, %. George ]. Gotwald. lieutenant
" anu %. Patrick H. Disken. hoseman;
ensN, Mplhern, fireman; w. j. Walsh
'0n" Four other firemen were
n'',,ad in the ruins, but they escaped
Os ~ ,,ore or less serious injuries. They
WIN Iosenh NJ. Garritty, captain en-
are . Tbomas f. Conway, hoseman;
TSsward Shea, hoseman.
nov the Disaster Occurred.
n,. ,rilding was a five-story struct-
Inv Nerrimac street. occupied by G..
VIZ Rent Do g Co., manufacturers OF beds
". The fire is supposed to have start
e1 the rear of the fourth story. The
su - had entered a window and
N.Y. at work on the fourth floor when
S VS. roof collapsed tearing away the
,o0 0oor and the one on which the fire.
wy were engaged, burying them be-
reath the wreck.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
Colonel Kit Chiun.

A st. Louis footpad attempted to hold
up Colonel Kit Chinn of Kentucky one
night recently, and the aforesaid foot
pad hash t done anything since. If there
is man on earth whom footpads should
shun as a temperate man shuns blind
tiger, that man is Kit Chinn. He is a
born fighter, and his favorite weapons
are the ones which the Creator endowed
him with at his birth. He is one of the
few men in Kentucky who hold the use
of pistol or knife in contempt and is to-
tally devoid of fear. He has fought a
wildcat in the open with nothing but
his bare knuckles and come out winner,
and it is said that upon one occasion he
offered to fight rattlesnake and give
him the first bite. Glasgow (Ky.)
News. 81 ~"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
THE SANCY DIAMOND.
This Magnificent Jewel Will BE Owned by
Pauline Aston.

This Magnificent Jewel Will BE Owned by
Pauline Aston.
In the ordinary course Of events Miss
Pauline Aston will some day become
possessor of the most famous and mag
nificent diamond owned outside Of a
crown treasure. The gem in question is
the world famous Sancy diamond, owned
by her father, and were it to appear
among the jewels worn at any court
function or royal drawing room it would
entirely throw into the shade every 9th
er gem there except the Kohinoor,
which the queen always wears on state
occasions as brooch.
The Sancy is stone which is pos
sessed of remarkable history. Weigh
ing about "a carats, it at one time
formed part of the crown jewels of
Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
and ON his death in battle III Switzer-
land was found set either in his helmet
or sword hilt. The Swiss sold it to the
French king of the day, and from that
time forth it became one of the crown
jewels of France.
Tt disappeared at the time of the revo-
luton, reappeared at the restoration
and at the time of the second revolu-
ton in 1880 passed by purchase into
the possession of Anatole Demidoff, the
Muscovite millionaire. 1t was worn for
time by Demidoff's wife, Princess
Mathilde Bonaparte. but he took it
from her before their separation and
then bequeathed it to his nephew, Paul
Demidoff. The latter sold it in the six
ties for the sum of $200,0 600, ridicu-
lousy small price, to the late Sir
Jamsetjee Jejeehobhoy, the Parsee mil
licnaire and philanthropist of Bombay.
After his demise his heirs put it once
more in the market, and it was pur-
chased by William Waldorf Astor by
private contract, no mention being made
of the price paid. Times.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
Examination Stories.

Isis of Oxford tells two good exami-
nation stories. The first is candidate
who in the divinity viva voce was asked
to translate a portion of the gospels.
AS he did not stop at the end of that
portion the examiner said to him
"Thank you, Mr.. -, that will do.
We are quite satisfied with your pa
per-" 'Oh, please" was the answer.
"do let me 60 on. I should SO like to
find out how this story ends" Modern
history furnishes the other. One candi-
dates paper in the Oxford local exami-
nation contained the following luminous
and surprising passage, General Wolfe
boldly attacked the Arabian knights
without waiting for the other three
corpses to come up"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
SENT TO SWEAR AGAINST PA.
Because His Ma Didn't Dare to Leave Her
Living Seat.

Because His Ma Didn't Dare to Leave Her
Living Seat.
He was mere stripping of lad. He
might have been z years of age or he
might have been 8. Nobody could tell
by looking at his face. The only mark
of certainty about the youthful counte-
nance was the sure sign that some OF
his ancestors had come from old Ire
land. The little fellow walked hastily
into the Office of the warrant clerk Of
Recorder Finnegan' s court He did not
notice the four persons standing in line
waiting to get affidavits made out
against some bothersome relatives, but
the y,uth pushed through the crowd
and d:sengaged the attention of the
clerk with this odd demand:
II want to make an affidavit against
my pa, said he and pushed his little
red head around the side of the desk.
"You want WHAT" queried the clerk.
II want to swear against pa, said
the boy again.
what has your pa done?"
"He has just been. in q prizefght
with ma.
well, why don e your ma swear out
the warrant against pa? My boy, you
are too young; you won't fill the bill. "
my ma can't come, and she wanted
me to fix it up for her. F"
"Why could she not conner" asked
the clerk, getting interested in the
youngster's story. He'could not imag-
inc why the wife would not be only too
willing to swear out the warrant.
my pa and ma they got in the fight
in the kitchen. That is how it hap
pened. My pa made drive for her,
but didn't land, and then my ma she
grabbed up the rolling pin and foored
the old man. She is now setting on
him, holding him down, and that is
why she couldn't come to swear against
him. She sent me. New Orleans
Times Democrat.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
THE HOUSE OF WISDOM.

lind not thought-ah, God. had hut kngvni--
That this sad hour should ever me befan
When thou judged the hottest of all
Should come 70 be the thing must disown.
Was II not true that April morn. thy blown
Gold hair around my hair for coronal.
Or Is this truer-tlou at the outer wall.
Unroyal and with unrepentant moanf
Yet prize now this wisdom have won
Who must always reInember-nay. my tear
Must close mine eyes, as thou wouldst hide thy
face
II some great meteor. kindred to the gun.
Should haunt the undying stars ten million
years
To fall, some noon, dead in thy market place
Francis Sherman in Bookman.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
German Education.

The Germans are the most thoroughly
educated people in the world. What
they know they know well.
A fellow traveller had taken his de-
gree of b. A. in the University of Penn
sylvania and gone to that of Berlin,
where he spent three years. Suisse
quently travelling in Switzerland, he
met young German whose range and
accuracy of knowledge weee simply be-
yond that of any man of the same age
he had ever met. In many walks and
talks the German had absolutely pumped
the American dry, while his own store
of knowledge had only been touched.
"Ach," said the German student one
day, II shall never get my degree. it is
SO difficult, it is so much, SO hard, SC
long! must have patience. used to
see you at the University of Berlin.
and, forgive me the question, how did
you get into the university"
"Why, l was admitted on my B. A.
from the University of Pennsylvania. .
replied the American.
"Mein Gottp' gasped the German
scholar. ~ knew it must be some way
like that"
No better comment on the relative
standards of knowledge and the thor
oughness of the method by which it IL
pursued could be asked. philadelphia
Times
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
THE NEWS IN GRIEF.

James Hughes OF Terre Haute. IND.
being refused $3.50 by William Farmer.
his employer, procured knife. re-
turned to Farmers house and fatally
stabbed him.
M. O. Parks, dealer in dry goods at
Sullivan, Ind. has made an assign
ment for the benefit of his creditors.
A great sensation was caused at Ef-
fingham, Ills. by the arrest of Mer-
chant Policeman f. h. Mccormick.
charged by Elbow Bros. with tapping
their till.
Frank Bellew was arrested on a ranch
near Elmira, Cal. and loGsSed in e
county jail here. charged with murder
ing his brother and sister with poison.
A census of the city gives the popu-
lation OF Youngstown, o., sc, 1873, a gain
OF 80 per cent. In seven years.
The facu, V Of the medical depart
ment of the Gniversity of Michigan has
advanced the requirements for entrance
to the department, the change to take
place in 1901.
II. f. Todd, trainmaster of the Gales
burg division of the Chicago, Burlington
e. Quincy railroad from 1881 to 1888, is
NNes0 ~ OaiNoP0A AAo.S VI lDil6nl .
disease. aged GO years.
Michael Hayes. who owns property
north of Waukegan, Ills. supposed to
contain free iron ore. has been offered
$4,000 for his holdings.
Dora Dejanes. aged ii years, daugh-
ter of William Dejanes of Augusta, Ills,
was burned to death. Her clothing
caught fire from a stove.
Louis ii. Hyde, one of the best-known
millers in northern Illinois, has retired
from business and turned over his inter-
ests at Joliet to Colonel Fred Bennitt.
A new bank is to be organized at Car
thage, Ills.
The Jackson mine, at Negaunee,
Mich, has closed down, throwing 100
men out OF employment.
The Voge mines at Stanton. Ills, en-
bracing over 600 acres of coal lands,
have been sold to j. d. Pratt of st.
Louis for $4,000. They employ 125
men.
Mary Miles Is being tried at Thorpe,
Wis, for alleged completely in the Wis
consin Central train wrecking near
Withee.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
oRUMMER's QUEER STORY.
Made Them Drink to His EARLY Grave and
Survived Them All.

Made Them Drink to His EARLY Grave and
Survived Them All.
A hale and hearty travelling man with
pink skin and white hair--a condition
II complexion which. by the way. not
Gery travelling man lives to reach--was
ssnewing his youth with party of
young and festive drummers. Drinks
were going round freely, and when one
of the "boys" turned down his glass
there was considerable remonstrance ON
the part of his companions at his refus-
al to have lust one more. T"
The white haired man quietly cut the
discussion short by saying, "That re-
minds me-"
The old drummer fiicked the ashes
from his cigar and settled back in his
chair. "It was long time ago." said
he, "and it was in the old American
House in this city. There were five
young men seated in a room, just as we
are here tonight, only they were all feel
ing pretty good, and there WASH t any
old man around to bore them with a
story. But along about midnight one OF
the party turned down his glass just as
my young friend here has done. He said
he had had enough, and goodness knows
he had. His determination was greeted
most hilariously as good joke. He
steadily declined, however, though the
wine was brought and set before him,
but the taunts and innuendoes of his
comrades finally exasperated him so that
he exclaimed rather petulantly, but half
in fun, We'll, boys, I'll join you once
more if you will drink to an early grave
for me. The toast was proposed uproar-
iously and drank standing. But some.
how after that the fun was not so furi.
Gus. Things quieted down. The men
seemed to half realize that TO drink to q
mans death wasn't such good joke
after all, and one by one they made ex
cuses and went off to bed"
Here the old man paused.
"Did the man die?" queried he who
had refused to "have another" with
some interest.
NO." was the reply. "He is the only
one of the five now alive to tell the tale. ,
Buffalo News
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
LOOK LIKE lONG-USED BILLS.
Many Bogus "windom' Certificates Badly
Worn in Circulation.

New York. Feb. 6.-The sub-treasury
authorities report the temperance
here of specimens of a dangerous coun-
terfeit Of the old style, or Window"
silver certificate, which was first dis
covered more than year ago. For a
long time none of the counterfeits was
received, but lately several have been
detected among the bills that have
reached the sub-treasury. Two were
found this week. Dispatches from va
rious points in the country have in the
past few days reported a flood Of bad
"Windom" bills at various western cit
les. A popularity of the bad bills is
that they always appear to have been a
long time in circulation. and are badly
worn, but the secret service agents
have never been able to get any trace of
the plates The worn appearance of the
notes is believed to be given to them
purposely by the counterfeiter.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
Text Didn't Apply.

Mrs. Northside was telling about the
trouble Mrs. Manchester was having
with her maids and was apparently TAX
ing much pleasure out Of her difficulties.
lyon should not be glad because Mrs.
Manchester is in trouble" said Mr..
Northside "You should remember that
the Bible says, Rejoice not when thine
enemy falleth. '"
"Oh, that's all rightp' replied Mrs.
Northside triskly. MRS. Manchester
isn't an enemy at all; she is my dearest
friend. = Pittsburg Chronicle Tele-
graph.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
Lake shore Now New York Central.

New York, Feb. THE lake Shore
has become the property of the New
York Central & Hudson River Railroad
company The final arrangements for
the transfer of the Lake Shore system
to the control of the Central were made
Saturday morning, when the directors
Of the Central met here to consider the
proposition for the union of the two
roads into one system, to be operated
hereafter as one road, stretching from
New York to Chicago
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
Appeal to rre.raent MCKINLEY.

us o. Louis, Feb. 5.--Mrs. Mary Jones,
m"v mas been in the city for several
weeks in reference to a new and mo-
moo, 'ous labor movement, sent an APP
Sal. 70 PRESIDENT Mckinley in behalf OF
NH. ~. Worden, the train wrecker,
roas participated in the American Rail-
~ union strike troubles at Sacrament
nn,. MRS Jones says that the local
nsaI .s nave urged her to repeat her ap-
hail. ~ .he president. because 1t is their
v,o,,l uat Worden is innocent and the
sst ~ Oh conspiracy on the part of
cu,.s detectives. Worden Is to be ex-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-07
THE MARKETS.
Chicago Grain and Produce.

Chicago, Feb. 8.
Following were the quotations on the
Board Of Trade today: Wheat-Feb-
ruary, opened nominal, closed CSC; May,
opened and closed csc; July, opened
size, closed Sac September. opened
opened nominal closed 27hc; May.
opened and closed 29hc July, opened
and closed 30Ac. Oats-February,
opened nominal, closed 24c; May, opened
24Kc. closed 25tsc; July, opened &c.
closed 23Isc. Pork-May, opened $l026,
closed s10.27h; July, opened nominal,
closed s1035. Lard-May. opened $4.s5,
closed A.s2A; July, opened $780, closed
s5.021ac.
Produce: Butter = Extra creamery,
19c per 10; extra dairy, lie; fresh
hacking stock. 10i1c. Eggs-Fresh stock,
Ice per doz. Dressed Poultry-Iur-
keys, 9@12c per 10; chickens, $40
71ac; ducks, 5@71ac. Potatoes-Commoh
TO choice, 50@62c per blu. sweet Pota-
toes-Illinois, $200@275 per Dbl.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago, Feb. s.
Hogs-Estimated receipts for the day,
% 600: sales ranged at $S.2OQ3S5 for
pigs. SO. 7O@390 for light, $3.70Q3.75 for
rough packing, s3.75@3.97h for mixed,
and s3.S0G4O0 for heavy packing and
shipping lots. Cattle-Estimated re-
ceipts for the day. 200; quotations
ranged at $5.15@5.55 for choice to extra
steers. s4.s5@5.o5 god to choice % DO, s4, 20
4.sO fair to good, $3.90Q4.35 common TO
medium do, Ss.sOQ4.25 butchers steers.
S2.sO03.S5 stockers, $3.S0@4.40 feeders,
~. 256D3.90 cows, $2.60@4.5O heifers, $2.4o
AS bulls, oxen and stays. SneeP anu
Lambs-Estimated receipts for the day,
1000: quotations ranged at $3.50q4;oO
westerns, S3.60@4.75 natives, and S4VoV
$50 lambs.
East Buffalo Live stock.
East Buffalo, N. Y, Feb. 5.
Dunning & stevens, Live Stock Conn
mission Merchants East Buffalo, N. T.,
ouote as follows: Cattle-Receipts, q
cars. market firm. Hogs-Recelpts, ~
cars. market easier bulk best grades,
"a. 12ih@415: light Workers. A.lO; pigs
dull. s275m3.50. Sheep and LAMBS
Receipts, 90 cars: lambs l5@2oc lower.
sheep steady; top lambs. SosoQo'sV'
sheep. sl.s0@4.c5.
1T. Louis Grain.
st. Louis, Feb s.
wheat-Lower; No. 2 red cash eleva-
tor Csc: track, s6@97c: February, s6c;
Nav. y5N @96c; July, S0%c; No. hard
oasb sqisG9Oc. Corn-Lower; No.
cash. 261sc; February, 26%c asked; May,
26h 626esc; July, 267sc. Oats-Higner'
No. 2 cash, 241sc: track. Zoe; Fepruary,
PAGE May, 25ssc asked; July, IoSc p,u.
No. 2 white, 26@261ac. Rye-Steady;
Milwaukee Grain.
Milwaukee, Feb. s.
wbeat-Firm: No. northern, s6Qs7c;
No spring. 91@92c; May, 94lac. Rye
Hieer: No. /, 4Sc. Barley-Steady; NO.
:. llc; sample, 29Q41c.
Detroit Grain.
Detroit, Feb 3
Wheat--Cash white, 93%c; cash REQ
saH g: May. 94hc asked; July, MO.
Corn-Cash, soc. Oats-White. &c. hye
400 bid '~