El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-18
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There are PIG Indian day schools II
Canada, besides thirty-two boarding
schools and twenty-nine industrial
schools, with 1856 pupils on the roll
and an average daily attendance OF
$3.50.
valuable greyhound, and later the
owner came upon them and the dog
He attempted to recover his property
but was faring badly until the dog
himself took a hand and attacked the
thieves with such good effect that
when a policeman came up the three
were glad to be taken into custody.
Thirty-five men of Peoria, Ill, have
formed a club, and each member Is
| pledged to marry widow. Fines,
penalties and explosions are provided
for a violation Of the rules. There is
no age limit on the widow, and where
a member marries a widow with chill
dren he receives portion Of the fund
accumulated through fines.
| The Cologne Gazette announces that
the German governor of Kiao-Chou in
tends to try to raise body of native
| troops. At first only a company OF
100 men will be enrolled, and If this
proves a success the company will be
enlarged to a battalion. The success
which German instructors have al
ready had in training the Chinese In
very unfavorable circumstances leads
to the belief that they will not fall
on this occasion.
A member OF the school board in a
western village was visiting the school
one day, and the teacher politely in
vited him to question the pupils. II
reckon I'll try ye on spellin'," said the
man. John, spell egg-wiped." But
John failed, and so did all the others.
Great was the establishment of the
scholars and the amusement of the
teacher when the committeeman
spelled the word himself-E-g-y-p-t-
Judge.
One hot summers day gentleman
who was waiting for his train at one
OF our country stations asked porter
who was lying on one of the seats
where the station master lived, and the
porter 1azily pointed to the house with
his foot. The gentleman, much struck
at the mans laziness, said: 'f you can
show me a 1azier action than that. my
good man, I'll give you two and six
pence" The porter, not moving an
inch, replied: "Put it in my pocket,
guv-nor."-London Tit-Bits.
The razorback hog was the chief is
sue in the recent municipal election at
Marion, N. c., and the hog was tri-
umphant. w. B. Ratliff, "hog," was
elected mayor over J. A. Mcdonald,
"anti-hog,'' by 80 majority. Some time
ago Mayor McDonald's board Of alder
men passed an ordinance excluding
hogs and hog pens from the town. The
friends of the hog rallied and put
him out and elected their full ticket,
and the hog is once more supreme in
Marion, and his friends are jubilant.
A story is told of a London curate's
attempt to escape from a converse
tional difficulty. One day a carpenter
arrived in the curate's room, and, pro-
ducing a photograph, said: I've
brought you my boys likeness, as you
said you'd like to have it, Citrate
(rapturously) awful good of
you to remember! What a capital
likeness! How is he?" Carpenter
'Why, sir, don't you remember? He's
dead!" Curate-"Oh, yes, of course.
I know that. 1 mean, how's the man
who took the Photograph"
We are all aware that some phen-
omenal bicycle speed has been record
ed, but there are probably few who
appreciate the fact that a mile has
been ridden on the track at the rate of
thirty-nine and forty miles an hour,
or that a rider has covered thirty-four
and one-quarter miles in single hour
or that yet another has rolled off GIG
miles in a single day, or that-perhaps
the most wonderful of ala fourth
rider has ridden over 2, 100 miles in the
space of six days, while a fifth has
travelled ESQ centuries on as many con-
secutive days, thus covering $4,000
miles IN a little over eight months of
the year.-Scientific American
A mill owner not long ago issued
the order that the girls in his employ
should not wear laced shoes. The rea-
son he gave was that each ones boot
became united at least five times a
day, and took at least five seconds to
retie. When these twenty-five sec
Der OF girls in his employ-the loss of |
time was he said, too serious to SUBJ
nit to. Another mill owner, talking
over this case, said that he had forbid |
den visitors, because each of his
hands" turned her head to look at
them. Computing twenty visitors a