El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-30
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A paragraph Is being much handed
around to the effect that -four mill at
Warrensburg, Mo-, ships it's product to
Kansas City in barrels. has it repacked
In sacks, and employs a stranger to
come to Warrensburg and sell it as
hard wheat flour made in Kansas. It
''goes like hot cakes.' and has almost
run the home product out of the mar
ket.
North and South are Joined in the
material Of the national capitol. The
central building is constructed Of Vir-
ginia sandstone, painted white. The
extensions are Of Massachusetts, mar
BILE, and twenty-four columns Of the
grand central portico are monoliths of
Virginia sandstone thirty feet high,
and one hundred columns of the ex-
tension porticos are of Maryland mar
BILE.
Wichita is typical boom" town.
Twelve years ago it had a population
OF $4,000. Today it has perhaps rs 900,
which is q considerable recovery from
low tide in 1895, when It had less than
Is, 900, according to estimates based
upon the number Of names in the d.
rectory. In 1868, before the boom
broke, Wichita real estate was selling
at New York prices, and they point out
lots on the main street that sold for
$4,000 front foot for which the own
ers would now be glad to get $500 or
$500. The real estate exchanges in
New York in good times will reach
about $32.000,000 a year; in chicago.
in 1891, just before the worlds fair,
the transfers, as shown by the record
er's books, were about $50, 00O, 900. but
at Wichita during the five months pre-
ceding the collapse in 1888, more than
$S5, O0O, 900 in town lots changed hands.
Correspondence Chicago Record.
The sons and daughters OF the
princely families of Rome are said to
have pretty hard lot. They are gen.
orally very poor, yet they have to live
in enormous houses and keep up a ira
dition of magnifcence. The young men
drive in dog carts which, according to
rumor, are owned Jointly by a dozen
of them. The young women are to
be seen driving on the Pincio, arrayed
in stylish hats and coats, wearing good
gloves and carrying pretty parasols.
'And yet" says the English corre-
spondent who is responsible for this
gossip, their distract expression shows
that they are uneasy in their minds
The particular form Of guilt which
burdens their souls is a dread that
some one will invite them to descend
and stroll about the bandstand, reveal
ing the fact that their skirts are by
no means so smart as their coats or
waists, and their boots more open to
York Sun.
Two hustling advertising agents are
trying their utmost to buy all the
available space on each side of the
Reading railway, from Philadelphia to
Norristown, in order to display the
merits Of their numerous wares. Be-
ing backed by plenty of capital, they
are enabled to offer tempting sums for
the spaces desired. Farmers owning
ground along the line are only too glad
% get their old fences torn down and
have high ones erected in their stead.
They also receive a handsome sum per
foot from the agents for the privilege
OF the advertisement. The agent makes
up the cost in width by the height Of
the fence, which is sometimes twenty
feet. 1t is apparently the purpose Of
the advertisers to have all the pretty
landscape shut from the view of the
passengers and instead to offer them
a continuous panorama OF patent med
icines, pills, bicycles, biscuits. etc
Philadelphia Record.