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“Cnstom IM«” War Belica.
r 'A story going the rounds tells of
• relic factory hidden away in a,
slump of trees near Gettosburg. The
value of this year’s production will
be about $20,000, and it consists of
old bullets, old cannon balls, soldier
buttons, buckles, swords, pieces of
bone and ssbrctasches, all, of
course, of a very ancient and worn
appearance. These are tho cheaper
product There are, besides, in the
finer and more costly lines, Testa
ments bored through by bullets, lovo
letters burned by powder and stained
dark with blood, skulls with big
leaden balls locked neatly in the eye
sockets or the jaw, and the fuirSni-
forms, properly punctured and
bloodstained, of all the officers slain
upon the battlefield. The factory
makes nothing in advance, thus
avoiding overstocking! It only rune
on orders, and by night the custom-
ers call for their goods. They are
the innkeepers, the grocers, the sa-
loonkeepers, bankers and real estate
men of Lhc town, and whenever it
ia moonlight they may be seen dis-
tributing the rare relics cautiously
and judiciously over tho field.
He Knows His Customer.
“When de Heer Toscn takes Mrs.
Tosen, young Master -Tosen and
Missie Toscn into the store at
‘nachtmnal’ time, their predatory
habits come into full swing,” writes
a Transvaal correspondent of a
Chicago paper. “But long experi-
ence has given the storekeeper his
cue. So when missio quietly annexes
a silk handkerchief and ‘young hope-
ful’ conceals a sjambok under his
coat the merchant —makes no com-
ment, but merely adds the articles
into his bill at about four times the
ordinary pricoi ‘What’s this hand-
kerchief you have put down at 7s.
0<L? I hive had no handkerchief!’
exclaims tho Boer. ‘Oh, missie has
the handkerchief.’ ‘And this
sjambok at a soverign?’ ‘Oh, Mas-
ter Tosen has that’ The bill is paid
-without demur. The storekeeper
known only too well that to hint at
‘such a thing as shoplifting would
cause him to be boycotted by the
Boers around. The Boers and tbs
Ontlander storekeeper are, on the
pretty well matched, for, if
Boer annexes from the store-
plays it pret-
ty low down on the Boer.”
MIMnwsy Was Mors Appropriate.
Father Mackin, who married Mrs
Haaen to Admiral Dewey at his rec-
tory in Washington, tells * a good
jstosy on himself, says the Buffalo
'Commercial. Seme time ago, and it
,wao not weeks, either, he wrote a
little note to Mrs. Hazen when her
quarterly pew rent was due. Father
Mackin is a good deal of a wag, and
his hon-mots are well known contri-
butions to the ecclesiastical pleas-
antries. In his note he said that
pew No. 16 in his church was get-
ting moldy, and he feared that she
might be going to some other church
than hia On the wedding morning
she reminded hint of it and said:
“Now, Father Mackidi, could you not
say my pew is ‘Mildewey,’ instead
of that ^ugly word ?” The father
owned 'up that she had the
ihast of him in the play of words, and
‘these was a great laugh all around
jot tho incident
Horseless Plows.
'A report is current that Dr. Rich-
ard J. Gatling, inventor of the raa-
.ohiso gun of that name, will hence-
tooth devote himself to the improve-
jBMSt of agricultural implements.
,Ha is just now at work upon an “an-
rtmsobile” plow which may so the
jstooy goes revolutionise present
tooethods of breaking ground for
Jews to America.
Tho American Jewish year book,
t hawed, gives the Jewish popula-
i of the country as 1,043,800. It
that of these there art 400,-
i ha New York, 95,000 in Illionis,
in Pennsylvania, 50,000 in
15,000 in California, 35,000
35,000 in Missouri.
low Hey Have Increased la the
- fast Few Years. -- -i—
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.
Mmt firstlfylss Growth la the Os ward
March sf tho Lane Mar Stats
Tswart Wealth.
tu
ohs too Boors Like.
entry tastes of the Boers
disparaged, and Justice
i of Oriqualand points out
that whilo the
read nothing but tho
authors in Capo
i and the author of
New York.”
The following figures are giv-
en to show how Texas has grown
within the last ten years in taxa-
ble values:
Total values in 1889, #729,175,-
564.
Total values in 1890, #782,111,-
883; increase, #52,936,319.
Total values in 1891, #856,200,
283; increase, #74,088,400.
Total values in 1892, #8f>G,526,-
(•00; increase, #320,317.
Total values in 1893, #886,175,-
395; increase, #29,648,795.
Total values in 1894, #865,120,-
989; decrease, #21,054,405.
Total values in 1895, #860,910,-
567; decrease, #4,210,422. ,
Total values in 1896, #850,309,-
246; decrease, #10,601,321.
Total values in 1897, #851,894,-
775; increase, #4,585,529.
Total values in 1898, #854,619,-
365; decrease, #2X5,410.
Total values in 1899, #887,847,-
U>0; incregne, #33,227,735,
From the above it will be seen,
that Texas is assessed higher this
ypar than ever before, and that
1893 was the year in which values
were nearest the mark of to-day.
Au analysis of the above state-
ment will also show that Texas
was growing steady up to 1894,
when a series of decreases or re»
verses set in, which were checked
in 1897, and although a small de-
crease resulted in ,1898, this year
makes up for it and forges ahead.
The large increase is remark-
able, and although the tux rolls
are inaccessible as yet, it is the
the United Sens of Confederate
Veterans, concluded to apply to
the government for permission to
enlist young Texans who desire
to enter the service of the United
Kates as volunteers to take part
in quelling the insurrection on
the island of Luzon and to act us
garrisons in the new possession*
ceded to this country by Hpain.
Mr. Kirk was besieged with let-
ters from all ports of the sate ask-
ing that he get permission to or-
ganize a rgimnet to be composed
of Texans exclusively,to go to the
war mounted and to scrye as
rangers. Accordingly he address
ed a letter to President McKinley
and received a polite response.
The president expressed gratifies
tion that tie Texas boys feel well
disposed toward military service,
and said the government would
be pleased to avail itself of their
courage aud patriotism in case
there was need of more soldiers.
The letter Mr. Kirk wrote to Pres-
dent McKinley was referred to
the war depurtment.and he has re
ccived a letter from the adjutant
general saying that all the troops
authorized^ have been recruited
and that for the present volun-
teers cannot be accepted.
The adjutant general also con-
gratulated Mr. Kirk upon the pa
triotism of young Texans. Mr.
Kirk says the military fever is
very high iu the state and that
10,000 young men are ready to go
to the front to battle for their na-
tive land. The boys are so eager,
he says, to get a taste of war that
they are forming companies in all
parts of the state and are putting
in their leisure time drilling and
making ready.
There is an impression abroad
in the stace, Mr. Kirk says, that
the operations of the Boers in
South Africa will cause a disturb-
ance in Europe, and that next
year soldicis will be needed more
than ever. He says whenever Un-
cle Sam wants good, -available
cavalrymen he can send many
sons of the Confederate veterans,
who are eager to follow, the star
vance in the price of cattle, and,
moat important, the almost uni-
versal raise in values of railroad
property throughout the state.
Thin last is the result of the in-
junction suit by the railroads
against the railroad commission,
wherein it was set forth by the
tepreaentstives of the roads that
the property is worth from #50,-
000 to #60,000 per mile, and this
same property is rendered tor tax-
ation at only about #7500 per
mile, and there has been a healthy
raise from this figure over the en-
tire state, and which, as stated be-
fore, ,contributed to the increase.
. Letter to Sheriffs.
The adjutant general's depart
ment sent n circular letter to the
sheriffs of the several counties of
the state several weeks ago re-
questing that the latter furnish
that department with a complete
list of the fugitives from justice
from their respective counties, to-
gether with a description and
other information concerning the
criminals. This list was wanted
iu order that the state rangers
might have it for their use in per
forming their services in different
partfl of the state. Many of the
An innovation in county va ui s sheriffs complied with the request
if the assessment of franeb scs of a large number did not do so,
corporations. ThiB was doue in aDd a second circular letter was
four counties. The values shown sent to these delinquents asking
in thjgse four counties does not in- that the desired information be
cluAe the franchise assessments, furnished- the department,
as follows: In Dallas county the
franchises of corporations were
valued at 12.273, 00 ibis year and
#39,582,420 for 1897 nnd 1898, a
total of #04,855,520. In Tarrant
Parson Mnlkey’s Next Stand.
Parson Abe Mulke.v, ilie can-
nonball evangelist of Texas,
left Corsicana for Grape-
county fr.inchises this year were jnnj) where he will conduct u two
assessed at #9,90.!,-188 and for week’s revival meeting. He was
1897 and 1898 #11,539,236, a total fuj| feather when he left, and
of #21,442,624. Victoria county that he was in fine fix to
assessed approximately #1,225,- make it about as warm for the
230 of franchises this year and 'devil as the devil made it for those
#2,450,460 for beck tax for 1H97 vvhom he inveigled into the infer-
and 1898, making a total of #3,,* aaj reg.ons.
675,690. Travis county was the | “t\'e had a jim-dandy time down
fourth to assess franchises, and in at McDadc,” he said. “Just root-
this county this year's were the old devil lock, stock and
valued approximately at #1,415,- barrel—in fact, he weren’t nowhar
510, while #2,831,020 was fixed as when I got through with him.
covering 1897 and 1898. The tax 0f conversions, lots of new
ob franchises will not be paid by chw-ch members, and the eolhgc-
the corporations assessed until tion waa good.’- '
the constitutionality of the qnes- ‘
tion has been finally determined
by the courts, action look.ng
thereto having been commenced
nt Fort Worth several days ago.
As before stated, if these values
were placed in the total it would
be considerably augmented. This
year’s assessments alone totaled
$37,817,228, which is more than
the legitimate increase. While
the assessments for 1897-98 can
Will be Ciabitri.' .
Mrs. Mary Wilsos, widow of
Capt. A. M. Wilson, deceased, a
wealthy citizen of Corsicana, who
died about a month ago, leaving a
will proposing certain distribu
t;on of his estate, filed her petition
in the county court protesting
against the will being admitted to
probate, alleging that by its pro-
visions tho testator attempts to
not be included as values because (Hapoeo of property that belongs
of'repetitiun, taxes will be com t„tirely lu the community estate
pelled to be fori homing on tame herself end him without her
in the event the courts should de-
clare the law conatituional nnd
the values not too high. This lat-
ter poipt will also be raised—that
the values placed on the fran
chises are exobltbant.
Aszlsss to fisht.
consent. The petition or notice
of contest sets out property val-
ued at nearly $60,000 that is
claimed to be community prop
«rty. The will beqtteaths to Mrs.
Wilssn $10,000 in cash, the home-
stead absolutely, and a brick
storehouse in Corsicana for tlx
Interesting and Significant.
The advance shoot of a portion of
the annual report which Cdmtroller
Dawes is putting out contain facts of
interest not only to bunkers, but to
the public as weih Tho tables re-
lating to the accounts and business
of the several classes of hanks arc es-
pecially instructive. By them it is
shown that during the last ten years
the national banks havo increased
in number from 3,329 to 3,585 and
depositors from 1,650,044 to 2,744,-
459; savings banks from 849 to 942
and depositors from 3,811,059 to
5,207,653; state and private hanks
from 2,995 to 4,947, and depositors
;from 1,071,260 to 2,838,326; loan
and trust companies from 120 to
260 and depositors from 177,601 to
621,189. The totul number of banks
of all kinds increased 2,429, or 34
per cent, while the increase in de-
positors was 70 per cent. Loan and
trust companies show the largest in-
crease in point of percentage, and
also in percentage of busiqpss se-
cured. It is in deposits, however,
that the full extant’of thadinaneial
.growth of the country is best reflect-
ed. Deposits in national banks in-
creaed from $1,422,137,979 to $2,-
522,157,509 in ten yeurs; in savings
banks from $1,444,391,325 to
;$2,182,006,424 ; state and private
'banks from $590,268,199 to $1,228,-
995,364; loan ami trust companies
from $299,612,899 to $835,499,064 :
'total increase from $3,776,410,402 to
$0,768,658,361, or $2,992,237,059.
The total percentage of increase in
deposits in the ton years was 89..
National biyjks increased 82 per
cent, savings banks 51 per cent, state
and private banks 109 per cent, nnd
trust companies 178 per cent,
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Tile Wheat Problem.
r William Crookes, in (he
•course of his presidential address
last year to the British association
at Bristol, spoke gloomily of a period
•when the wheat supply of the world
prove insufficient for the population.
"He has just published a book in-
which he gives in grealty fullness the
data upon wlpch his conclusions arc
based. He also replies to his critics,
chief among whom is Mr. Atkinson,
of Boston, who told the royal com-
mission that “cheap bread is assured
for all time to come.” The Hun-
garian minister of agriculture has
also just published his estimate of
the harvests, of-the-world, based on
the report of Austro-Hungarian con-
suls. The outlook is said to be far
from satisfactory, pointing, as it
does, to a considerable and general
deficiency.
Slash Inf at the Sirdar.
Igeptenant Winston Clirurchill,
now in South Africa with General
Buler, lias -published a book on the
Omderman campaign, in which he
says Kitchener was directly respon-
sible for the killing of the wounded
dervishes. Churchill’s picture of the
conquering general is, indeed, most
unflattering, describing him as a
man without feeling and one who
looked upon a wounded man even
among his own soldiers, as an in-
cumbrance.
On the Bench at 81.
Judge Isaac Story, of Summer-
ville, Mass., a relative of tho famous
commentator of the constitution, is
the second oldest judge in his state.
The other day he celebrated his 81st
birthday in vigorous health. He has
been on the bench twenty-six years
and rarely missed a session of court.
The Indispensable Birds.
A French naturalist asserts that
if the world should become birdless
man would not inhabit it after nine
years, in spite of all the Sprays and
poisons that could be manufactured
for the destruction of insects. The
bugs and slugs would simply eat up
orchards and crops,
Dewey’s “Bob” Dead.
Admiral Dewey’s dog Bob, the mas-
cot of the Olympia, is dead. Bob
was already ill when the (hip reached
this oountry and the kindness heaped
upon him, including rake and candy,
appears to have done the rest. 'The
body was buried on Staten Island.
They Have laeaffh.
C. Oliver Isclin is credited with
declaring that he will no longer un-
dertake to build or manage a yacht
to defend the America's cup and his
retirement will probably be followed
by that of Nat llcrreshoff, designer
of three defenders.
Mellve Pewer la Capsalei.
Electricity capsules are to be used
for automobiles. One of these cap-
sules, it is asserted, will propel an
automobile 100 miles without ro=
They Saw Themselves Played.
James A. Herne whs given a pleas-
ant surprise last week at the Park
theater in Boston, where his latest
success, “Sag Harbor,” is having a
run. Captain Nathun 1’. Hand, a
veteran whaling captain of Sag Har-
bor, Long Island, -headed a delega-
tion of citizens of that town who
went to Boston especially to see
themselves as Mr. Heurne saw them
when ho put them into his play. Mr.
llearne admits that Captain Hand
was liis principal modpl for his.
character of Captain Dan Marble,
consequently he was rather nervous;
at having the original in front.
Great was his surprise and pleasure,
therefore, when tho veteran wlialin;-
captain called him nut after the
performance nnd in n neat speech
full of nautical epigiams presented
him with a handsome enne made of
whale’s ivory and “hand carved,” as
he quaintly expressed it. Captain
Hand returned to Sag Ilarbor to tell
all the inhabitants how they havo
been liniided uowfe to fame in dra-
matic form, and to extend to them
Mr. Heanro’s invitation to como and
sec his play free any time.
An Explicit Will.
By tho will of Seth Raynor, his
widow, Charlotto E. Raynor, of
Manorville, N. Y., gets $100 in cash,
$100 of Ins life insurance, the in-
terest qn $1000, and the use of part
of a dwelling house ns long ns sho
remains a widow. She is also to vc-
(£ive the milk from oue cow, ten
bushels of potatoes, ten bushels of
wheat, ton bushels of corn, and
wood enough for oue fire, all of
which are to be delivered at her door
every year by her grandson, Frank
A. Moger. Sho also gets a plot, of
ground for u vegetable garden. If
the grandson' carries out,, the pro-
visions of tho will tor live years and
pays all tho debts and funeral ex-
penses ho is to have a bed and bed-
ding, household goods, $100 insur-
ance money, ter,.acres of Kind, and
the residue of the testator’s real and
personal property. Tho estate is
•piTued at about $7000. The will
jwas written by Raynor himself, who
Vvns station agent on the Long Is-
land railway at Manorville for more
than forty years.
Most Money in Cheap Wines.
“Tho champagne industry is de-
cidedly on the wane in California,”
said a man from tlmt Suite, now an
an Eastern tour, the other day.
“There arc several reasons for this,
but the chief one is (bat ‘there is
less profit on»champagne than on the
plain red wine. The plain red wine
is assessed in California nt about
5 cents a gallon, and taxes are paid
on that basis, but the wine sells for
about 14 or 15 cents a gallon, and
nt that figure there is a comfortable
profit. The past season has been an
excel lout one for California fruits
of all kinds. September was a dry
month, and the rain in October'came
in just the right time. The only
drawback was that it did a little
damage to grapes. It is no product
of the imagination,” continued tlic
Cal/i fonyan, “that our wines and
fruits arc often shipped abroad to bo
put in new bottles and sent back lu re
as produced in Europe.”
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Paid Is Lliclit Coin. ~
Rome of the employes of the New
York custom house think that they
have not bean treated just right by
Uncle Sam. They got their half
monthly pay, amounting in the ag-
gregate for all tho employes to
about $50,000, at the subtrcasuvv
last week, Gold coin was paid or
the cheeks. Three of the clerks took
their gold peices to Cashier Wood,
of the custom house, and asked him
for bills. He Refused the gold, tell-
ing them that it was light weight.
The clerks hurried over to the sub-
treasury, where they were again met
with the announcement : “Light
weight,” and were told to get rid of
tho coin at the United States assay
office at discount Now the clerks
are wondering what to do with their
light weight coins, some of which
bear the date of 1817.
SaiiM-.r Improvised Ilie Music.
Trn 1>. Ranker, the singing evan-
gelist who was M.oily's co-worker
during the hitter’s previous- visit to
Kansas ( ity, said tlm other dftv that
he firsl sang “the Ninety and Nine”
in Edinburgh twenty-six years ago.
The verses he had seen in a news-
paper, and never had lime to put
to music. It was a ease of emer-
gency; lie didn’t know what, to singy
but seemed ins]!}red to attempt “The
Niaely and Nine” without music.
He started to play, then to sing,
each note coining lo him until the
song was finished. The music, lie
added, has not. been altered to this
day...
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A t ('em Dujf Verdict.
The Orcensburg ( indj• Review
tells of a local suit in which one
farmer sued another for damages
for killing his dog. The defendant
proved that the doe w«« a roving,
sheep-killing animal, nnd being on
his farm ns a trespasser, .two miles
from home, he killed him. The
’squire bp fore whom the suit Was
brought found for 'the defendant.
Then the plaintiff brought replevin
suit for the body of his dog. This
case was tried by n jury. Defend-
ant's attorneys claimed that, replevin
would not lie because tho object
sought, to bo rcirtevined was dead,
hut the jury, under instructions
from tho court, thought differently,
and found for the plaintiff, assessing
his damages at 1 cent. They proba-
bly'thought as the dog was dead and
buried 1 cent would ho enough.-
Tale, Jr.
Two women upon the New Haven
streets the other day met a pretty
little boy-—the kind that bigger hoys
coll “ a kid with curls.” “Wliat a
beautiful child!” cried the women.
They passed on, hut, looking back,
cried again, “Wliut a beautiful
child!” lK]e “kid with curls,” who
happened to be the son of Yale's new
president, was equal to the occasion.
“Rubbernecks,” he cried scornfully
—“Rubbernecks.”
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Doctor Diaz.
It has been practically decided that
the degree of LL. D. ' ill lie con-
ferred upon General Diaz, the presi-
dent of Mexico, by the^ University of
Pennsylvania. The Mexican minis-
ter has been communicated with hy
the university authorities, and a re-
ply has been received to the effect
that the head of tlic republic of Mex-
ico would be happy to receive such
an honor.
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A Precedent.
Mrs. Bowers—“Here’s an outrage-
ous thing! A eoloahd poker club
that always opens its mooting* with
prayer!”
Mr. Bowers—“It may be outrage-
ous, but not unusual. Tho state
legislature always opens its meetings
with prayer, too.”
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Brother Charles Want* No Office.
Charles Dewey, of Montpelior„Vt.,
brother of the admiral, has positively
declined to be a candidate on the re-
publican ticket or auy other for gov-
ernor of Vermont next year. Every-
body was willing to support him
heartily, but his ‘ambition does uoi
An Annoying Resemblance.
Charles T. Rowe, n Boston man of
means bears a striking resemblance
to Admiral Dewey and'just at pres-
ent is not particularly grateful
therefor. To make matters' worse,
Mrs. llowe is not unlike the admi-
ral's wife. The Boston couple were
in New York the other day and were
much embarrassed hy the enthusias-
tic cheers which greeted them while
walking on Broadway. Tn vain Mr.
Rowe screame d t ha I lie was pot the
admiral, and as the only meaus of
evading further annoyance he and
his spouse left town hurriedly. ,
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Orders Nearly a Year Ahead.
The steel rail factories of the Uni-
ted States have sold enough rails for
next, year’s delivery to keep them
running full time for about nine
months. There are large advance
orders in most other branches of the
iron and steel industry, and prices
instead of showing any tendency to
react are still advancing.
HeVcral Military.Fata*.
Jolm H. Page, Jr., who was re-
cently commissioned as a second lieu-
tenant in the Third, infantry, is the
third of the name to serve in the
army of the United States. His
father, John H. Page, is colonel of
the Third infantry. His grandfath-
er, John H. Page, was killed at the
battle of Palo Alto during the Mexi-
can wan
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fumed Over to \
TTie erection of a monument to
Jefferson Davis has now been taken
in hand by the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, and. tho Jefferson
Davis Moniiinixnit association and
the United Confederate Veterans
havo given the matter Into the wo-
men’s hands, and"' wtM BPtoperato
under their direction. J. Taylor El-
lison, president of the Monument as-
sociation, confesses failure with a
bit of chivalric flattery, saying:
“We recognize that woman has fac-
ulties to touch the hearts of men
that we do not possess, and that
what would take us vears to accom-
plish you can do in a short time.
All the greut memorials of the South
ure in the most part results of the
efforts of the women of the South.”
It is not that way in any other part.
of the country.
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Pockets In Htocklngs*
Stocking pockets are. the latest
fad, i!ry goods men say. They an:
made to hold a roll of bills, jewelry
and valuables that can be stored
away in a small space. The pockets
are worked into the top of the hose,
above the knee, ijnd are made with
a fastening so that there is no dan-
ger of their contents falling out.
There arc so ifiany snfiak thieves
who Deal from bed rooms whilo the
family is at dinner, from carriages
reel from other places where women
hiv obliged to leave their money and
jewelry when they are not in use
t!vit some safe receptacle about the
< iothing of the owner is necessary.
Pockets are not generally found in
wnr.w n’s dresses, and the stocking
pocket has suggested itself to sgmc
inventive genius.
Has Lived Them Down.
Rev. Mr. W. H. Briggs, of Stock-
ton, Cal., who was expelled from the
Christian church six years ago after
trial on the charge of immorality,
and who then and ever alter pro-
tested his innocence, and announced
his determination to “live the
charges down,” has lately been, re-
wived buck into the church-in good
fellowship, ito has engaged in
many occupations, having been a
dentist, a coal heaver, and finally a
street ear conductor. Rome of the
elders who voted to convict him
signed a statement testifying to hia
Christianity and commending his
actions The preacher says he may
again .enter tho pastorate, but not
in Stockton,
,—.----»« *
Kulalitliood “In Flower.”
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria
conferred knighthood upon his chi-
ropodist. and likewise upon the boni- .
face of a restaurant. The king of
Scrvia has decorated call drivers and
Turkish hath attendants at Vienna.
The emperor of Germany has grant-
ed sdnici of his most distinguished
orders-®! chivalry to the black and
white eunuchs of the sultan’s harem
at Constantinople, and now the good
old emperor of Austria has decor-
ated a wet nurse in recognition of
her services to royalty in the niq^
wry.
-------y
American* in Paris Opera.
The eornjHiny engaged for the sea-
son at the Opera Comique in Paris
lias three Americans among iter racm-
hers: Miss Rose Reida of California
nnd Clarence Whitehead of Chi-
cago, who made their debut there
last week, and Miss Fanch-vn
Thompson; of Chicago, who has been
engaged to sing Mignon. This is
the first time thal so marty Ameri-
cans have appeared at one time on
the same stage in Paris.
Red Cross society.
Ex-Senalor Dawes BlrlMsr.
Ex-Senator Henry P. Dawes of
HtnssRchusetts, celebrated his 83rd
birthday last week by entertaining
tho Monday J'ivoning club, n literary
society, at his homo in Pittsfield. Mr.
Dawes rend a paper on “The Duties
and Functions of tho United States
Kuna to.”
Paying Well tor Popularity.
William Waldorf Astor drew his
check {or $20,000 last week and sent
the bit of paper to tho mayor of
Widsor, England, requesting tho sum
should bo used for thq benefit of the
Enroiirniring CnMomer*.
In a recent bankruptcy ease, in
speaking of justices of the pdaee,
they arc said to lie “officers by no
means infallible, frequently innocent
of law, and ncfiinHy sotnc ttmoe
known to construe the abbreviation
affix designating their office, *J. P.’
to mean ‘Judgment for plaintiff/*
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Ns Mors Fare* Than Heats. .
It is said that thq new electric
vehicles of the Fifth avenue, stage
line in New York wiH adopt the
Paris custom and permit "no 'mors
passengers to ride than can bo ac-
commodated with sent*.
————
Defining the Word. •
“What is a trust, father.?-” ,
“A trust, my boy,” .[qfllicd the
astute business man, “is a huHiosaa
combination that you arc not in.*—
Chicago Post.
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Yantis, R. E. The Van Zandter. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, December 15, 1899, newspaper, December 15, 1899; Wills Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1118919/m1/2/: accessed May 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.