The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 152, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 27, 1892 Page: 4 of 4
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Tho Result of a Dream
Before Watts the discoverer of tho
present mode of making shot hal liia
notable dream induced by overiadul
gence in stimulants the manufacture in
question was a slow laborious and con
frequently costly process Great bars of
lead had to be pounded into sheets of
a thickness nearly equal to the diameter
of the shots desired These sheets had
then to be cut into little cubes placed
in a revolving barrel and there rolled
until by tho constant friction the edgei
wore off from the little cubes and they
became spheroids
Watts had often racked his brain try-
ing to discover some better and lesi
costly scheme but in vain Finally
after spending an evening with some
boon companions at an alehouse he
went home went to bed and soon fel
asleep His slumbers however vert
disturbed by unwelcome dreams in one
of which he was out with the boys
and as they were stumbling home it be-
gan to rain shot beautiful globules ol
polished shining lead in such number
that ho and his companions had to seel
shelter
In tho morning Watts remombored hii
curious dream and it obtruded itsolf ol
his mind all day He began to wondei
what shape moltoa lead would assume
in falling through the air and finally
to sot his mind at refit ho ascendeJ
to the top of the Bteeplo of tho churcll
o St Mary at RadclifZe and dropped
slowly and regularly a ludleful ol
molten lead into the moat below Do
acendingfhe took from the bottom ol
the shallow pool several handfuls of the
most perfect shot ha had ever seen
Watts fortune was made for from this
exploit emanated th idea of the shot
tower which ever tinea has been the
only weans employed in the manufac-
ture of the little missiles so important iu
war and sport Boston Commonwealth
A lgB from Hearon
A queer story was related to me
many years ago by Rev William Simp-
son then one of the leading lights of th <
Methodist church in eastern Iowa and
western Illinois said Harvey Good
enough a Hawkeje pioneer at the La
clede While the Mormona were car-
rying things with a High hand in west-
ern Illinois they converted a young
svonian a member of Elder Simpson
fiock A few months spent at Nauvoc
sufficed to disenchant her and she re-
turned home a confirmed skeptic Tlif
church people labored with her long and
faithfully but without overcoming hei
unbelief Before her bedroom wiudovi
stood a largo oak tree She announce
that she was going to pray the Lord foi
a sign that she would ask him if he
really had an existence to manifest it bj
causing the great oak tree to wither tf
Christ in said to have blasted tho un-
fruitful fig tree She was to prefer he
request for a sign upon which togrouuc
hex fidth at 10 oclock Sunday morning
Her resolution at once became tbt
talk of the town and many visited tht
tree and carefully exnmined it It wai
perfectly sound full of sap aud covered
with a profusion of bright green leaves
At sunset every lea was as brown and
withored a g in the depths of winter Thi
elder stated that with a party of men in
cut the tree down and dug up tho stump
irad that it was dead from tho topmasi
branch to the smallest root The young
womans preyer had boon answered Sh
at once reentered the church aud do
voted her life to missionary work spend-
ing several years in China and Japan
St Louis GlobeDemocrat
Flouuru Minos of Russia
The platinum beds of the Ural moun-
tains are the onty ones in the world it
which thie metal is found iu grains
Platinumis found in Brazil and in tin
Cordilleras in the hard serpentine rocks
but never in tho form of grains The
platinum beds of the Ural mountain
are found in various districts in the
north at Besserski in thegovernment ol
Term iu the district of Knotourski and
in the state properties of Goroblagodat
ski wbeio sixtysix mining concessions
have been granted All the beds of tin
northern region are situated in the bask
of tho river Touri in that of the tribu-
tary stream of Taghil and in other trib-
utaries higher up-
On the western declivity of the Ural
mountains there is another platinum
bed neat the riverOutka a tributary oJ
theTchoussova and the basins of thc
bigher tributaries of the Outka near the
Ural river The platinum fouud is
these places is inthe form of grains 1b
Band frequently containing gold The
weight of these grains is from seventeel
to twentyone grams to every 1040 kilo-
grams of sand Exchange
Repairing an Old Honso
The ancienb blockhouse in Edgecomb
at the entrance of Wiscasset harbor
Maine which was built in 1808 has
fallen into such dilapidation that exten
Eive repairs have been found necessary
To replace the timbers which s ported
the walls and floors of the second story
beams fifteen inches square have been
TCqnired Summer residents of the vi-
cinity have undertaken the task of re-
storing and preserving tJie old landmark
Hew York Tribune
WIT J1ZS H VJE R
There was one loverones who
told the truth Reference is made
to Adam When lie tuldc Eve
You are the first woman I ever
loved lie was not dissembling
Boston Transcript
At the Southurn WinterResort
When did you first discover
that yqn loved int When I
fouud out that you were the only
unmarried man in tho place
Boston Courier
Mini8ter So you jj < to school do
yon Bobby Bobby Yes sir Miu
ister Let me hear you Gpell kitten
Bobby Im getting too big a boy
to spell kitten sir Try me ou est
Tit Bits
Petted Wife Thia old fnBhioned
chair is delightfully antique but
very uncomfortable I dont see
how your mether could like it Hub
band mildly I presume she was usn
ally tired when eio aut down
Isarr York Weekly
How are you getting along
asked the mother who had Bent
Tommy out to wash Lam losing
ground rapidly replied tho lad
who had beenplaying in the dirt
Washington Star
The TwiceTWeek St Louis
Republic has held the fight for
Tariff Reform and Frauds without
a rival as the leading ami repre
fientatzvo democratic newspaper of
the country Ever body should
subscribe for it now and get all the
news during the closing months of
the republican administration as
well as after the inauguration of
Cleveland and Stevenson when
the dcMiocratic party will lie in full
control of the national government
It ib a Great Semi Weekly Paper
issued each Tuesday and Friday
fourteen to sixteen pages every
week for Only One Dollar A
Week the price of a weekly An
extra copy free to the sunder of
each club of four new subscribers
with four dollars Write for fiec
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ARCHITECT
AND BUILDER
Agent tor The Ja6 L Haven Cos
Patent Safety Elevator Com-
pany Cincinnati Ohio
OFFICE Corner of Jefferson
and 13th Street
Brownsville
Texas
Subscribe forTjiE IIeeald
The Ivnights of Honor Lodge
No 3730 meets the 2nd and 4th
Tuesday of each month
HERBERT SHERWOOD
Reporter
J F HANSEN Dictator
Caveats and TradeM rs obtained and ell Pat1
> ent business conducted for Mode ait Fcis 5
bun OFHCEI3 Opposite U S patent Or cr
5 and vccan secure patent ji less lime thanthuacj
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Send model crawinjr or photo vrith deicrip
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i charge Our fee not due till patent is swircd i
WPamphlet Horr to Obtain Patents with
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OPK PflTCKT OrFICE VA3ftJCTOH D C J
THE CIT43tARKET
The Prices of Yiirious Articles
Sold at That Place
ISelow we giye prices of various arti-
cles on sale uaily in the Brownsville
Ciiy Market The articles mentioned
are all homo products raised by the
people of thti surrounding country The
prices given are iu ilex ican coin which
at the present time is very low one
dollar in Mexican coin being worth
about 65 cents in icurrency Prices are
authoritative
VEGETAJiEES
Carrots 4 cents per pound
Beets 24 ceuts per pound
Cabbage 5 to 15 cents per head
Kaddishes 1 cent per dozen
Presh tomatoes 75 cent per bucket
Lettuce 12 cents per dozen heads
Okra 52 cents per bucket
Snap beans 02 cents per bucket
Turnips cents per pound
Pumpkins 1 cent per pound
Green peppers 12 cents per dozen
iarsley 3 cents per bunch
Sweet potatoes new 3 cents a pound
Peas 75 cent u bucket
Butter beans 37 cents per bucket
Squash 25 cents per dozen
Egg phinfc 25 cunts per dozen
FKU1TS
Bananas 25 cents a dozen
Lemons snull 25 cents a dozen
Sugar cane 150 per 100 stalks
Eggs 25 cents a dozen
Butter countr 50 cents per pound
j Western 50 cents per pound
Cheeae Mexican 8 cents per pound
Amencau 25 cents por pound
MEATS
Bough cuts 4 cents per pound
Beef roast 7 cents per pound
Jleef round steak 0 cents per pund
Beef surloin steak 7 cents per pumL
Beef porterhouse teak 7 cents a
pound
Beef tenderloin steak 8 ceats per
pound
Pork roast 10 cents per pound
Poik chops 10 cents per pound
Miitton 8 cents per pound
Hogs hwul cheese 12 cfnts a pound
Tripe 12 cents a pound
Po rk sausage 18 cents a pound
Fresh leaf lard 127cents per pound
Beef tongue 18 to 25 cents each
Calf tongue 12 cents each
Liver 0 cents a pound
risn
Trout 5 cents a pound
Cat fish 3 cents a pound
Sheephiiid 5 cents a pouud
Crabs 12 cents per dozen
Oysters 100 per hundred
UAME
Venison 5 oetis per pound
Cli ic tcn tivu 25 cents each
Buck wilil 0 to 8 cents e ch
oeesii Wild 12 cents each
Jack snipe 75 cnts per dozen
Small birds 12 cents jor dozen
Papabots 75 oiiits per dozen
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DETbmiTNED
to sell regardless ol
cost vrlceV
The following named articled
1J Italian chair and Iiockerm
white and gofil blue and gold
cherry qnd antique finish
10 Jioclccrsfii Wilton rugs
28 liockcrs in Antique and 16th
Century finish on oak
All colors silk plash
See SCOTT
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Rio Grande Oil
Texas
emesn
Xt trill commence about Jan 93
UMBEB BLINDS AND DOOR
Silas
And all kinds Building Material
g Agent for theceIebratod Madison Indiana Beer for sal by
cask or car load Will pay highest price for country produce
STORE One block from Rio Grande raijtoad depot
J B WELLS
Brownavillo
WELLS STAYTON KLEBERG
TOIHEYSAIUF
And General Land Agents
1849 ESTABLISHED 184
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Wheeler, Jesse O. The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 152, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 27, 1892, newspaper, December 27, 1892; Brownsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth61266/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .