The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-08-19
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A Subscriber VIII you please tell In
your valuable paper II there IL any unoc-
cupled school land In the Panhandle OF
Texas; n so. In what countlesl
A. There is Ngreat deal Of unoccupied
school land In the Panhandle and western
counties. II you wish list OF the coun-
ties containing such lands you should write
the laud commissioner at Austin. You can
then write the county clerk of the county
in which the land is situated and under
an act of the Hast legislature he is re-
qulred to furnish for small fee de
scrlption Of and location OF the school land
tina. is on the market.
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G. and E.--Q What is meant by codes"
such as Robison's Revised Edition and A.
r.. C.. and explain how used7
A. It Is the means Of n shorter method OF
communication than would be required II
an the words ordinarily used for express
sion should he employed. The code CON
sists Of n list OF words, one OF which may
mean several and can only be Understood
by those who know the code,
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a rattlesnake has only two fangs and that
when these are extracted the snake is
harmless u says the teeth OF rattesnake
are an hollow ana that when the two fonga
arc extracted the snake can bite and inject
through these hollow teeth polsop in sum.
client quantities TO KIN. who is rightY
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seconds
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bound ~ 10 a ~, ~ i'V'' II ~
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p ,rea 80 confused cue GAYS that IN the year
1'o "pg H'eeoFS Nil Ordained that ten
u"SS "e p'uue'eu from the calendar witch
W"u'u as near as could be reekoned offset
''irss tnut huu Deon accustomed up
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,"'s l, no, We 'epeAteo ther ordained that
t,,,'.,.. Iunu'euIu year except the fourth
49,. '',." H,i'ulu u"t oe counted leap
a., ',' ,u's way tne oi'lerehce between
-. 1"1 t'ie ae.u"l year VIII not
wv ~ ''' 49, f'''N YEARS.