El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-07
NEWS AND
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Written For the HERALD.

Written For the HERALD.

Laurels For Little eobs.
tits likely it will be duke, when he
gets home.
Ca1ifor MIA S pruneS.
Over Ito, OOO,O 600 pounds last year,
125, OCO,O coo this year-these are
the estimate. of Csllfornia's prune
crop.
England Uneasy Over Africa Now,
There are uncomfortable rumors a.
float in London, low that the French,
now the Germans are on toe eve or
grabbing some part OF North Africa.
Automobiles on Trial.
Fifty two out of the seventy five au-
tomobiles that started the run from
London to Ediu burgh end return, fiu
ished II. The distance was ,060 miles
and the time nineteen days. The
trial was not one of speed but was to
test the strength and endurance OF the
horseless carriages.
Uprising of Russian Peasants.
The peasants in the provinces OF
Kief, Pondolein and Gharko, rose in
rebellion and were quickly suppressed.
The trouble Is thought to have bad
origin with the nihilists. That Russia
will some day witness revolution OF
terror like Frances is the opinion of
many who watch the worlds happen
ings. The extremes are there, the
dullest ssrfs and the most reckless,
abandoned, law breakers.
Colorado Wants the Roers.
No less a scheme than to give the
defea ted Beers q million acres OF land
in the valley of the Platte and OF tran
sporting them hither at small expense
Is being considered in Colorado. Gov
ernor Thomas has endorsed the theme
and the Union Pacific proposes to give
the land and help to Garry the Beers.
The Beers cannot feel that their good
citizenship is unappreciased here or
that we are lacking In sympathy.
practical as we'll as sentimental.
A Splendid Strategem.
A Missouri editor Is said to have hit
upon plan to keep subscriptions paid
up that takes the cake. Every time
that q delinquent subscriber Is men
toned in his PAPER bis name is in
verted. For example: 'ssmsr
uqor and wife are spending a few
days in Chicago" Every subscriber
und erstands what it means and there
IL grand rush to get right side up
again. We tried that few years age
and the Tribune read tie best upside
down. They were all behind No,
over three fourths of them would get
behind now-Britt ia Tribune.
Omnipresence Of the Camera
There 10 10 occasion, 1t seems, too |
momentous, too sorrowful, TOO holy for |
photography record. 1t surprised |
the many that the pope should have
eraciously allowed himself and his
pontifical state and ceremony of par
ade be photographed and to actually |
pose for the biograph, but the other |
day when the Philadelphia messenger |
boy arrived in Pretoria, at the very |
moment OF Kruger's overthrow he was |
welcomed with bis sympathy from |
Philadelphia boys, and before he left, |
the group was photographed. Now |
the news is whisked to US from Spain |
that in Placencia the eclipse was pho |
tographed for the moving picture |
shows, particularly the solar corona, |
that rare and splendid light. Wedding |
professions, priests, men and maids !
and choristers all parade before the |
hooded eye of the camera, and probab- |
ly the aurora borealis and north pole |
will yield their sple ndor and aloofness |
and become known to men through |
moving pictures.