The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-10
SOME PosTscRlPTs.

Philadelphia claims that raising the retail license tax
from $500 TO Sroo has reduced the number OF city saloons
from s73 to 1913 1887 and has knocked 1000 arrests
for drunkenness from years record.
Ireland is astonishing crminoogss by the remarkable
decrease in the Of its criminals The statistics for
1000 just published show decrease of o2 cent as
compared with the figures for 1899.
Railroad officials Salt Lake City Utah that not less
than 10000 tourists visited that city during the FIVE months
ending October 81 last and they estimate that at least $500
900 was spent there by them during their stay.
The house in Williamsburg, Va, where Patrick;
Henry famous speech the stamp is still in
existence 1t is used for judicial purposes and every Sat
urday morning petty offenders tried there.
An ideal yachting life that lived by Russell Gardner,
wealthy Missssippan He stays his uxuriously fitted
boat the Alice Mary, almost all the year In he
goes North In the winter he cruises the Gulf of Mexico
named Ferris, employed at pumping station near
Barstow the Santa Fe railroad is the latest victim of
desert loneliness For years he hardly anything
except passing trains and finally he became insane
According the Missouri Valley farmer the oldest hen
the United States died recently at the of years.
She had raised thirty boods OF chickens and the
property Of Aaron Brewer Of South Painfeld No
The Ancient and Honorable Artillery company of Boston
will dispor itself monthly Smoke talks" in the armory
in Fancu hall during the coming winter, and will make
long trips abroad, except to Charleston S c., Feb
ruary
The valuable collection of portraits of the fanny in
GLIDING the portraits of the Washington Gusts and Lee
families has been lent Washington and Lee university by
General G. W. Gusts Lee, and they will be hung in the
university gallery.
New Zealand paper reports that Robert Louis Steven
sons grave Samoa overgrown with weeds and in some
danger of being lost altogether Many persons used TO visit
but it said that the yearly average now something
like six.
The Omaha council is considering an ordinance imposing
fine of $40 who after being notified permits
his dog bark the annoyance of the neghbors Of
Tenders either send their dogs to the country kill them
shut them up.
The of Boston manifesting disposition this
avail themselves of the opportunity for school
officers generally than heretofore 5000 having already
registered for the purpose This gain of 5osA over
years complete list.
1t is computed that the directly concerned in the
Northwestern Securities which with its $500
capital the second largest corporation ever formed
represent than miles of railway and more than
S. 900 capital.
One OF the profitable products of Bulgaria is the M
or altar OF roses which amounts to than $oooooo an
nualy The town Of Shpka where fought the dcisiv.
battle OF the Turko Russian war on the 9TH Of Iulv &c.
is the center Of the gardens. 80
The secretary OF has directed that the order
free admission Of Christmas presents to the Phippine and
Cuba shall extend only to the officers men and cyia
/ employees of the civil governments.
The Welsh language appears TO be approaching extinction
At estedefod Dolgely one Of the prncinaI i
stated that in 1871 many 1906 90 persons n
Welsh but in 1891 the number had fallen to OF $50 H.
crease of os,sr, though the population had meanwbs -;
creased.
Douby glazed windows for cold weather have b.sr 49,
permented with by II. Schoentje OF Client Using gls, -
twelfth of inch thick he has found that the heat i h
less when the sheets separated IA to Ia inches
when the separation is less Wetting m. o,,;a
glass increases the loss about 10 per cent
p II. Anderson, because he could not obtain c.rso.
TO teach school in Kansas to Chicago graduated 60
training school for missionaries, Alaska found =
mine containing millions came back married a easn' .
gave fortune to his alma mater and is on his ua 80
Sweden to visit relatives he has never seem 80 !"
Dentistry is accepted and often hour;sb;
tesson Of women in France In country town Of S.is
Marine qualified young lady dentist enjoys the
tooth drawing dentists business e provincial Fras =.
sistins Of little else French country folk even - r
Weather SORT rarely if indulge in set Of ,,,ae
teeth '-'ss