El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-17
Items of Interest.

covers 4200 acres.
Berlin expended over 5000, 600 on
Its public schools last year.
to expend S15, ZOO, 900 on harbor i'm
provements at Montevideo.
London policemen have been for
hidden to wear tan shoes, on the
ground that they are "too stylish"
In France advertising posters must
bear revenue stamps, varying in value
according to the size of the poster.
Renceforth no one will be permitted
to vote in Delaware who cannot read
the constitution of the state and write
his name.
The opponents of vivisection have
arranged for q special exhibit of instru-
ments of torture during the Paris ex-
position.
The original of Hall Gaines cherac-
ter, John Storm, of ''The Christian"
is the Hon. and Rev. James Granville
Adderly, of London.
A Boston man advises that the nam 20
of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford be changed to the Northern
New England and the New England.
just been filed at Plymouth, Mass,
leaves the famous portrait of her faith
er as "Benedick" to her brother Ed
gar.
Miss Floretta Vining, of Hull, Mass,
owns, among other Valuable proper
ties. nine newspapers that are publish
ed on the south coast of her native
state.
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tended the services in the Methodist
church in Bloomingsburg, Ohio, on q
recent Sunday. They we're all In the
female line.
It has just been judicially decided in
Oregon that in an Emergency case q
physician may drive across q bridge at
8 greater speed than that permitted to
ordinary traffic.
Major Marchand has turned
musician, and has written q song whic b
has become popular, mostly because OF
its composers name, on the vOulevards
and in the music halls.
John Livingstone, who died in
Tislowle, Ont, last week, was the
brother of the African explorer, was
two years his senior, and was the last
survivor of the family.
"A
total production of brandy in France
last year Was only about 1000, 900 gal
Ions, whereas the exports aggregated
over 5000, 900 gallons.
The Rev. Father john P. Chadwick,
late chaplain of the Maine, has accept
ed:the post of chaplain general OF the
Spanish War Veteran Volunteers as
ISOLATION, to which he was lately lect-
ed.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
company has presented $50 to one OF it's
brakemen as slight token In recOgni-
ton of the fact that he 'used his
brains'' in q recent emergency, there
by sverting q wreck.
According to the report of the Mis-
souri, commissioner of agriculture the
shipments of poultry and eggs from
that state last year we're worth more
than her mbined shipments of wheat,
corn, hay, oats and lumber.
Judge T. r. B. Wright, of Virginia
has been engaged for some years in OBJ
tanning portraits of prominent men,
ministers as we'll IS statesmen. of bis
state for permanent preservation in the
courthouses of his district.
The Ocesnic's passengers consumed
beef, mutton, lamb and veal, 1000
spring chickens, 500 fowls and various
other things in corresponding Quanti-
ties, including 200 barrels of -four.
A century ago Adam Smith noted as
remarkable accomplishment the
manufacture of As, 900 pins by ten men
in day. In these times 1t is consider
ed An ordinary achievement for three
men to make $500, 900 pins in the same
time.
After an existence of thirty years,
the German Association of Authors as
ceased to exist, but it is believed that
q similar society with more modern
tenets will soon be formed as pro-
tective alliance of authors against
publishers and others.
On account of the feeling which has
been aroused by the Dreyfus verdict,
Henri Merou, French consul in Chica-
GO, has withdrawn the appointment,
made at the request of the Chicago
fall festival committee, of 3 president
for the French part of the parade on
All Nations day.
A pet monkey, untimely deceased,
had a very formal burial in satin.
lined white casket in Baltimore.
There we're six pallbearers, an eulog'
istic address, four carriages for the
mourners, and several flower designs,
including an ''empty chair'' and a
ate sjar."
A correspondent of the Charleston
News and Courier sends the following
information, based on personal ex
perience, to the farmers of South Car.
olina: eff you put among a flock o.
sheep from three to four male goats
the dogs will rarely attack them
Sheep alwaps run to the goats for
protection
An English chemist recently ex
amined 3165 samples of beer, of which