The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1899-11-04
Echoes of the World.
A Batch of Items s' Scissored" for the
General Reader.

0SHSTat keaueT.
Officials of the Brooklyn Rapid,
Transit Company say they have
been robbed of nearly $50, 900 in
the last six weeks bv the new
conductors who have taken the
place of the strikers of last July.
The new men are said 10 have
been "knocking down" fares IN
dustriouSly, but the leakage has at
last been stopped.
A Manila correspondent of the
Chicago Record, speaking of the
departure of the Kansas Twea-
tieth Regiment, notes the curious
thing that when the men turned
in their arms most of them turned
in Mausers when they were charg-
ed with Springfield rifles on the
books of the regiment. They had
captured the MauserS froI. the
Fillpinos.
Emporia and Topeka, which
will get w. d. Howells in lecture
course entertainments during the
coming winter, are claiming that
they are the only towns in Kansas
with money and brains enough 10
get the DISTINGUISHED literary man.
Now, if be happens to stop in
Atkinson. we suppose il viii be
on account of our brewery. At
chInson Globe.
Alabama has a history commits
sion, appointed by legislative au-
thority, whose mission it is to As
certain and report to the Govern
or all accessible materials, with
out as we'll as within the States
border, for a history of the State.
The commission has issued CIR
cular appealing for information
and, if possible, gifts of such ma
terials in the form of private let
ters, records, diaries, surveyors
field books, etc.
"The sock social epidemic.
says the Kansas City journal, sis
spreading throughout Missouri.
aesthetic Carthage being one of
the most recently infected local.
ties. Despite its name there is
nothing Simpsonian, SO to speak,
IN the style of entertainment pro-
vided, the characteristic feature
being 81 requirement that each one
who attends shall contribute in
pennies a sum at least equal to the
figure represented III the size of
the hosiery worn.
A telegram from Washington
saws Admiral Dewey has announc-
ed the fact of his engagement TO
marry Mrs. w. b. Hazcn of that
city. The lady is the widow of
Gen. Hazen, formerly chief sig
nal officer of the army, who died
about ten years age, and is a sis
ter of John r. Mclean, Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of
OHIO. Mrs. Hazen has no chill
dren and since her husbands
death has made her home with
her mother. She is a woman of
large means, about forty years of
age and popular in the best social
circles of Washington. The date
for the wedding has not been an
nounced.
The origin Of the cigar business
in Florida is not generally known.
The Venerable Frederick DeBary,
who owned the enterprise and
several steamboats, on the St.
John river, spent three weeks
in Havana, and made the acqua;n-
tance of Cuban Of the name of
Tbor, who presented to him some
| ls3lendid cigars. 81 can sell 30
600 of these a month in the Unit
ed States" he said. Come over
to Florida and start a factory, I'll
put up the money" The Cuban
came and established Yb0r City.
In the first month $1,000 cigars
were sold, and in the second So
600. The business prospored a
mazingly.
4 new compound t,.' is now
being tested in Ersu1 with
/ claimed satisfactory ,.-.. 1t
j. composed Of 90 per .... # coal
| dn-t and 7 per cent Of a xtwe
Of pine and caustic line. These
three substances are wikaI and
rtt into moIds, where ..- hard
'. to- such degree til they DO
- enarate in burnin and are
ts".j "a the shape of .lforated
bricks weighing about . pounds
. each, for big furnace, nd for
! domestic use in cakes 0. op, Of
ienticular form, Of v..u l40
weigh 100 pounds. The new fuel
is sold in London for So . per
ton retail. 1t gives out 8. fl tense
heat art only traces 0. Doke,
while the residue of asaes does
not exceed 3 per cent. ] oan be
burned in an ordinary el tte and
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