El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 130, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 1892 Page: 5 of 8
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“The chappies of New York used to
roll up their trousers when tlio cable an-
nounced that it was raining in Loudon,
but they can soon discard their custom/’
aaid John M. Hughey, of New York. ‘‘I
saw something on Broadway the other
day that induced this belief.- The rain
was coining down in torrents, and the
flood of humanity always surging on
that street night and day had iieen
driven into doorways and under awnings
for protection. For a half hour not a
pedestrian was seen on the street.
“My attention was attracted by yells
and I looked out a big plate glass win-
dow to see what was causing the excite-
ment. My curiosity was soon satisfied.
In the middle of Broadway one of the
slim necked and consumptive legged
chappies was striding along under a curi-
ous looking umbrella, as if not a drop of
rain was falling. I noticed that the
umbrella had an unusually long handle,
with a prodigious hook on the end that
almost scraped the ground as the dude
proudly cantered along. ‘Through this
hook a stream of water was gushing out
and left a rivulet in the dude’s wake.
“The chappie was so overwhelmed by
the flattering remarks that were show-
ered upon him by the rain frightened
pedestrians, who had lost confidence in
their umbrellas and had taken refuge in
the stores, that he condescended to step
into the room where I was standing.
This gave me an opportunity to examine
his funny looking umbrella. I found
that it was so constructed as to curl up
around the rim when opened, forming a
complete gutter, like those around the
eaves of houses. This gutter, of course,
caught the rain as it ran down the man-
sard roof of the umbrella, and kept it
from dripping down to the ground and
splashing the chappie’s ice cream trou-
sers. By a slight tilt of the umbrella
the water thus caught was thrown to a
common center, which was the entrance
to the sewer that runs down through the
umbrella’s handle and out to the ground.
“There, you'see, is the riddance of the
umbrella’s defect as a protection from
rain. The dude proudly told me that it
was the latest thing in‘Lunnun;’ that
all tho ‘fellahs’ over there were using
them; that ho had just come from ‘Lun-
nun,’ and had brought the umbrella over
in the ship with him. He hadn’t said
anything to the chappies about it, be-
cause he wanted to knock ’em all out by
being the first seen on Broadway with
the newest English invention. He knew
they would all go wild about it and he
was glad of it. Well, when I get back
to New York I don’t expect to see any
other kind of umbrella earned by the
chappies.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
copwer cormensors. ine latest pattern
of furnace produces daily about 150
pounds of very poor phosphorus, with a
loss of about 14 per cent, of total quan-
tity of the raw material.
Tho effect of this new development
will be that a single building which has
been erected for the purpose in England
will soon be turning out half as much as
the world’s present consumption.—New
York Telegram.
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The Bills Still on Top.
The gatemen at the elevated railroad
stations watch the receptacles for Grant
monument fund donations with much
interest. Tho glass jars on some of the
down town stations have filled rapidly
during the last week. The gatemen at
the Park place up town station noted
one curious fact. When there was but
a single layer of coins on the bottom of
the jar two one dollar bills, loosely
folded, were dropped through the slot.
The jar is now nearly one-third full of
coin, and those two bills are still on top.
As the nickels, dimes and quarters have
fallen into the jar they have worked
their way under the loosely folded paper
money instead of packing it down and
covering it. np, as the watchful gatemen
think ought to have been the case.—Now
York Times.
Mukhin Phosphorus by Electricity.
Tho application of electricity to the
manufacture of phosphorus is expected
to revolut ionize the” industry. The phos-
phorus is extracted from the usual ma-
terials by being intensely heated with
carbon in an electric furnace. It is thus
vaporized and is afterward collected in
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The Fai rly Man’* Supreme Teat.
There i. no middle course for tho
average man during housecleaning
time. U< must be either a poltroon or
a hero.—V.Hhington Star.
A -Devil Fish with 2,560 Hackers.
Mr. Edwards, the taxidermist, hag
just received a large octopus, or devil
fish, which was captured off Old Town
by Borne fishermen. The creature
weighed over sixty pounds and had
arms three feet eight inches in length.
On each of its eight tentacles or arms
there were 320 suckers, making u grand
total of 2,560. The octopus had attached
itself to a fish hooked on a trawl and
was drawn up with it. The same firm
has also received a young albino deer, a
buck, shot on Windby island, ft lias
two-pronged horns and is supposed to be
about two years old.
The natural color for a fawn is brown,
with white spots, but the color of this
one is white, with brown spots. A doe
was shot on the island some time ago,
so that it is thought there must be al-
bino blood in the doer on the island.
The doe was secured by Mr. Edwards
some time ago, and now the pair are to
be exhibited in some of the shop win-
dows down town. The deerskins are
comparatively easy to preserve, but no
better means of preserving the devil lisli
has been found as yet than keeping
them in alcohol. This is on account, of
their having no bones, and because of
their shrinking and shriveling, as most
forms of deep water marine life do.—
Tacoma Ledger.
HE KNEW MA’S WEAK POINT.
She Could Have Told Him. ,
“I wish 1 knew,” said the boarder,
looking at tho bunch of asparagus on his
plate and handling his knife and fork
with some degree of hesitation and un-
certainty, “just liow asparagus ought tc
be eaten.”
“It ought to be eaten sparingly,’
grumbled the landlady under her breath.
“It cost me fifteen cents a bunch.”—Chi-
cago Tribune.
A Good Definition.
The Brooklyn boy who defined “con-
science” ns “something wot makes you
soriy wen you get found out” didn’t
strike a high ethical standard, but he
came pretty close to the view of a good
many people on the subject.—New York
Tribune.
Moving for Position.
Gentleman—Why are yon running so
fast, my little man?
Little Man—I wanter git far ’nongli
awny from Jimmy McGouge to tell him
I ain’t ’frail of him,—-Good News.
IIoh1 Ho Looked nt It.
She—What is love, daring?
He—It is sacrificing all my bachelor
blessings, dear, for your sake.—Detroit
A SAFE VEHICLE.
I have traveled round the world,
Northward eightj-ono degrees;
I have seen foe mountains hurled
into stormy, surging seas.
To the summit I’ve ascended
Of the highest Alpine peak;
And one day my way I wended
From Ceylon to Mozambique.
'I’ve explored with learned ssges
, Parthenon*) and temples Doric:
And seen relics of the ages
That wo call tho prehistoric.
I’m at home in Rome and Venice,
Paris, London, Aberdeen:
And I’ve danced aud played lawn teunii
htef of a <
With tho daughter of a queen.
She Was Hound lin’d Go to School, but
He Didn’t.
“Ma, kin 1 stay home from school this
afternoon?”
“Willie, no.”
“Ma, kin I stay, ma? I’ll carry up coal
from the cellar, ina, an I’ll tend the
baby, an I’ll look after the clothes on the
roof, an 111”-
“I said no."
Silence one minute.
“Ma, kin I stay home from school, ma?’
“I said no, Willi*.”
“Ma, kin I stay, ma? I’ll mop the
floor; run errawjs, ma; wash winders,
ma; help beat the carpets, ma; clean
dishes, ma; polish the”—
“You heard me say no.”
Silence one minute.
“Ma, if you let mo stay home”-
“Willie, must I spank you?”
“If you let me stay home, ma, I’ll”—
“Willie, I’ll”-—
“Ma, if you let me stay home, ma, I’ll
tell you wliat I’ll do, ma, I’ll”-
“Willie!”
“I’ll sit in the winder all afternoon,
ma, an watch the furniture waggin as it
drives up to that cross eyed Mrs. Skrews’
across the street, ma, an tell yon, honest,
everything she has bought for her new
house, so you kin tell,ma, whether she’s
beatin yon, ma, or you’re beatiu her.”
“Come to my aims, my dear son; you
will bo president someday.”—New York
Recorder.
I have seen the Arab manly
Entertaining lu Ills tent:
Traveled all tho way with Stanley
Through the darkest Continent;
Sealed those wondrous, storied cellars
In our own New Mexico,
Where t lio people called cliff dwellers
Lived so many years ago.
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•Yet in nil my journeys never
Have I suffered harm’s attack:
Never coach or car whatever
That I boarded left tho track.
Never was I vexed or daunted
At hotel or foreign station.
For tho ear in which I jaunted
Was my own imagination.
—J. Ellis Joy in St. Nicholas.
NEXT DRAWING
June 1, 18Q2
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ORDINARY DRAWING.
WHOLE TICKETS $1; HALF TICKETS $60; QUARTERS 2r»«t«.
MONTHLY DRAWING
Aii Untold Story.
“Now, gentlemen,” said the man who
was wearing a bear’s claw on his watch
chain, “I’ve got a mighty good bear
story to tell unless some one raises an
objection. I want it unanimous or I
don’t talk.'’
“Why should any one object?” was
asked.
“Wall, you see, the story starts out
this way : I was in a pork barrel in a
lumber camp in Montana when a grizzly
bear appeared. As I was headed np in
tho barrel, and as the barrel was new
and stout lie couldn't get at me. In re-
veugo ho rolled me down the side of
the mountain. It’s a mighty interesting
story, but as I said before I don’t want
to tell it if anybody raises an objection.”
“I don't see what any one can object
to.”
“Well, they often do. I get along
about tho middle of the story and then
some one objects to my getting into the
barrel and heading it up after me—
makes it embarrassing for me to go back
and explain, you know. Is anyone here
going to object?”
“I think 1 object," replied the man
who had refused to take a hand in a
game of pedro with us.
“Ah. just so! Very well, sir; very
well! You have saved,mo much ember
rassment. and 1 thank you. The story
will not be told.”
And it was not.—New York Herald.
Climatic Changes.
The changes of terrestrial climate
have been many and various. Myrtles
and tree ferns once flourished in Green-
land; coral insects built on the shores oi
Melville island; nautiluses sailed over
what must then have been the tepid seas
abont Spitzbergen. But with the lapse
of ages the scene changed, and worse
than arctic rigors spread into regions
now enjoying temperate dimate. Pos-
sibly not for the first time. The Per-
mian was certainly an inclement age,
and its inclemency seems even to have
reached the point of glaciation in the
west of England and Ireland, yet it was
preceded and succeeded by a long prev-
alence of tropical conditions.
These assuredly reigned without in-
terruption, in north temperate and polai
regions throughout the vast expanse ol
Tertiary time. Palms and cycads then
sprang np in the room of oaks and
beeches in England; turtles and croco-
diles haunted English rivers aud estu
aries; lions, elephants and hyenas
roamed at large over English dry land.
—Edinburgh Review.
$20,000.
For one Dollar.
The undersigned will at his counter pay any prize drawn in this lottery.
AGENTS WAfe-Wa
^—— — ----rates or any other information write
to toeundersigned, stating your address clearly, with state, county, street and
COMPANY.
C. JUAREZ, MEXICO, VIA EL PASO, TEXAS.
Faying a Debt.
The celebrated French poet, Saint-
Foix, who, in spite of his large income,
was always in debt, sat one day in a
barber’s shop waiting to be shaved. He
was lathered, when the door opened and
a tradesman entered who happened tc
bo one of the poet's largest creditors.
No sooner did this man see Saint-Foix
than he angrily demanded his money.
The poet composedly begged him not tc
make a scene.
“Won’t yon wait for the money until
I am shaved?”
“Certainly," said the other, pleased ai
the prospect.
Saint-Foix then made the barber a
witness of the agreement and imme- j
diately took a towel, wiped tho iathei
from his face and left the shop. He
wore a beard to the end of his days.—
London Tit-Bits.
Santa Fe
Route.
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Nearer Tliun That.
It may be news to many people that
there can be a nearer family relation
than that of brother and sister, but a lit-
tle miss gave this information to the
world on the first day of her attendance
at the public school:
Accompanied by a rmail boy she ap-
peared in the sc hoot room, and the
teacher proceeded to t ako down the new
pupils’ names, which were given as
Ralph and Edith Johnson.
“Brother and sister, I suppose,” said
tho teacher pleasantly
“Oh, ho, ma’am, wore twins!” was
the little girl’s reply.—Youth’s Com-
panion.
CourtRhip in China.
A curious custom prevails at Hnay
ning-hsien, in Kwangsi. On the fif-
teenth day of tho first month in each
year all the young ladies and gentlemen
take a walk to the Yen-yen mountain.
Each damsel carries a little box, which
sho deposits at the foot of the hill. Any
young gentleman desirous of entering
the bonds of matrimony may select one
of the boxes and take it away with him,
whereupon the fair owner of the bos
makes herself known and an acquaint
anceship is thus formed. Ill assorted
matches are not likely to occur, as this
custom is observed only among the well
to do classes of society.—Schnitzel und
Spane,
Tho Child’s Proto Hi.
Joseph Haworth, the actor, tells a
story of a little girl wlio was very enr
ions to know all about thunderstorms,
and was told by her mother that they
were the voice of God. A few days
later the child was caught out in a thun-
derstorm and called by her mother tc
come in. Her little legs came toddling
np to the piazza as fast as they could
but as she reached the steps there came
a terrific clap of thunder, and tho little
one, looking np, said, with a pained ex
nression on her face: “Oh, Dod, ’oc
needn’t holler so loud; I’se liurryin dest
as fast as I tan.”—Buffalo Express.
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Chicago, St. Louis aud Kansas City, from the Southwest
Without Change.
ELEGANT PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING CARS.
Run Dailv
See that your tickets rend via the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway.
For any information regarding rates, connections, etc., call on or address
GEO. T. NICHOLSON, C. P. & T. A.,
Topeka, Kansas..
Or C. H. MOREHOUSE, D. F. & P. A.
El Paso, Texas.
W. Gr. WALZ CO.
Tlio Sim Uccortl,
Sunshine is recorded at the meteoro-
logical office in England by means o( i
the Stokes-Cumpbcll instrument, the os
sential feature of which is a spherics'
lens, which acts as a burning glass. At
the sun accomplishes its apparent jour
ney from east to west it burns its auto
graph into a strip of card placed beneath
the lens, but can only do so when it is
easy to calculate the amount of actual
sunshine with which each day is favored.
—Chambers’ Journal.
Senses of Tnsto and Smell.
The incapable, who neither know noi
care how food ought to be prepared, arc
hardly conscious that they are responsi-
ble for the health of those they cater to.
Tho senses of taste and smell appear to
be interdependent, and everything that
tastes pleasantly or smells agreeably ox-
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all Kinds.
EL PASO, TEXAS. SAN DIEGO, CAL.,
Fifth and F. Streets.
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then, with digestion, there is a bettoi
chance to assimilate food.—New York
Timer,.
Formerly Paso del Norte.
A cordial invitation extended to all to visit us.
obligations to buy.
CITY OF MEXICO, MEX
45 Avenida 1 Oriente.
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