El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-18
Personal and General News.


the oldest daughter of American par
| ents born in that territory. She ia but
| SO years old.
Justice Shiras, of the United States
| supreme court, always uses Shorthand
in making notes of the cases on trial
before him.
w. H 81. Hart, the colored philan-
thrOpist whose experiment with q
negro boys farm in Washington ts at
tracing attention, was born q slave in
1857.
Wisconsin boasts of q state board of
immigration, engaged in the laudable
work of persuading people to move
from one part OF the state into another
part.
Fewer pensions were granted to SOL
diers In the Spanish war than was ex-
pected, the number being 295. There
are now 991 $40 names of pensioners on
the rolls.
Since the foundation of the Legal
Aid association in New York, 10000
people, victimized by their fellows,
have sought and found justice through
it's efforts.
A Franco Russian syndicate has been
formed, with $50, 600, 900 capital, to
raise hogs in Siberia and sell pork to
Europe in competition with the Anne
rican farmer.
President Steyn, of the Orange Free
State, is described as suave, cultured,
and, unlike his neighbor and ally,
President Kruger, is careful of his per-
sonal appearance.
Prof. Harry B. Hirst, of the Uni
versity of California, has been asked
by the agricultural department. at
| Washington to conduct series of ir-
rigation Investigations in California.
Admiral Dewey barely got through
the naval academy at the foot of the
class, and Captain Carter, in prison for
embezzlement, passed West Point with
the highest Donors ever given to q
cadet.
Among the returning Colorado vol
unteers Ia the tallest man in the Am
erican army. He is color sergeant.
Richard G. Holmes stands feet in
ches in bis stockings, and weight ZIG
pounds.
MIR. Suchsland, a German scientist,
has discovered that the aroma of to-
bacco is due to microbes, and it Ia said
he will patent, if he can, process for
making cheap cigars smell like expen-
sive ones.
Herbert Paul says Emperor William
is the greatest journalist, because the
emperor always expresses an opinion
on all subjects by telegraph, or other
wise, and he generally expresses it ex-
ceedingly we'll.
| A wife who is being sued for divorce
in Cleveland, Ohio, has been ordered
by the common pleas court to pay 81 a
week alimony to her husband pending
| the decision of the case, and $40 attOr-
neys' fees.
After some improvements had been
made in North Capitol street, Wash
ington, D. c., it was discovered tt q.
the workmen had thoughtlessly made
away with q historic stone set in place
by George Washington.
T. M.sHudson, of Philadelphia, who
recently made it point to Investigate
the effect of female suffrage In Color
ado, found many bright and intelligent
women who thought it had done the
sex more harm than good.
To demonstrate the comparative
harmlessness .of beer, statistics have
been gathered in thirteen large cities
of Sweden. 1t was found that brandy
was responsible for 81 per cent of all
cases of intoxication, and beer for only
6.5 per cent.
Governor Stanley, of Kansas, is now
in San Francisco to meet the Twentieth
Kansas Regiment upon it's return from
Manila. The citizens of OFT wa, Kan,
have meanwhile erected a $1,000 memo.
rial gate at tie entrance of their park
in honor of Company K, of the Twen-
tieth.
A druggist in Cambride, Mass, ba:
petitioned the mayor to have free ice
water drinking fountain in front of his
store removed, on the plea that it is
ming his soda water trade. He says
it is mot fair" and many of bis towns
men are actively supporting him il
this contention.
Jean Baptiste Lspierre and wife az
big family around them when the!
celebrated their golden wedding q
South bridge, Mass. They have hat
sixteen children, and ten of them ar
living. And there are sixtyfour liv
ing grandchildren out of seventy-five
and ten great grand children.
Ships in Europe are being fitted witt
a new pattern of rudder, which is form
ed of several circular plates arranged
80 that the supporting shaft passe
through their center, thus forming
) balanced rudder which extends equal
, ly on both sides of the ship and re
lieves the pressure of the water i
turning.
: People who wear false hair will b
t interested in the announcement of
! strange discovery made at ANTWERP
/. In that CITY q bale of human hail
3 weighing 172 pounds, was stolen frol
railroad station. 1t was sfterwar
learned that the hair had been clippe
from the heads of luuatics and convic
in the public asylums and prisons.
= Mike Barbire is barber OF Newarl