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GALVESTON.
Houston Post.
The wedding of Miss Eva Juanita
Johnson of Galveston and Mr.
Edward Patrick Comer of Mexico
took place Wednesday January 4,
at 6 o’clock, at the First Baptist
church, Rev. W. M. Harris officia
ting. The church was very artis
tically decorated in palms and
ferns. The Young Ladies’ guild,
of which Miss Johnson was an
active member, were seated in the
front, with pink and white ribbons
gracefully looped across the aisle,
these being the guild colors. As
the first sweet strains of the march
from “Lohengrin” pealed forth the
bridal party entered. First came
the ushers, Messrs. F. B. Walker,
Minor Stuart, G. Fred Evans and
Felton Grantham. They were
followed by the two little flower
girls, Wendola Trimble of Hous
ton and Helen Kahn, in dainty
dresses of white liberty silk, and
the ring bearer, Master Raymond
Ingle, nephew of the bride, who
wore a “Buster Brown” suit. Then
the maid of honor, Miss Marie
Buhmann, and lastly the bride on
the arm of her father, Mr. C. A.
Johnson. They were met at the
altar by the groom and his best
man, Mr. Clint Walden of Hous
ton. After the ceremony the bridal
party left the church to the strains
of Mendelssohn’s wedding march.
The bride looked charming in a
traveling suit of green Lansdowne
over silk, and hat to match. She
carried a shower boquet of Bride
roses. The maid of honor was be
comingly gowned in cream Parisian
crepe and carried pink roses. The
little flower girls carried baskets of
white hyacinths. Miss Johnson is
a very popular young lady and is
loved and honored by all who
know her. Mr. Comer is well
known in Texas, having lived here,
but now residing in Tampico, Mex
ico. Mr. and Mrs. Comer left ,on
the 7:05 train, mid showers of rice
and good wishes, for a trip through
Mexico. Quite a number of friends
gathered at the depot. They will
be at home after January 15 at
Tampico, Mexico.
The Trinitonian, Waxahachie,
Texas, says: “Baseball is being
talked by athletic enthusiasts. The
outlook for a strong team is favor
able. The possibility of Trinity em
ploying a baseball coach is not with
out foundation. We will have our
star catcher, Steele, and pitcher
Templeton, as battery—as well as
several other players of last year’s
team. The new material is promis
ing so that in all, Trinity expects to
hold the enviable place in baseball
this spring that she has held the
past two years.”
FOUGHT UKE DEMONS.
Mutas Ran Away, but Their Owner
Badly Cut Highwayman.
Waco, Dec. 10.-—While a man named
Green was driving along in his wagon
from Waco to West he was attacked
by a highwayman about half way be
tween the places. The robber unob
served got into the wagon and demand
ed Green’s money. The men clinched
and fought like demons. The mules
ran away and threw the parties out,
but they continued to fight. Green got
his knife, opened it with his teeth and
plunged It repeatedly into the robber’s
back. The robber also cut Green’s
clothes and the men fought till ex
hausted. The highwayman, although
badly_ wounded, managed to get away.
Green went on to West and the matter
was r&nnrtea to the sheriff's office here.
COLOR IN FIREWORKS
HOW THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAZZLING
HUES ARE PRODUCED.
It la All a Matter of Chemistry, the
It e mu It of the Combustion of the
Salts of Certain Metals — The Me
chanics of Rotating Fireworks.
The chief beauty of fireworks is
their range of resplendent colors—ru
by, sapphire, emerald, topaz, amethyst,
aquamarine and scores of tints and
shades between. How is all this evan
escent glory of color obtained? The se
cret lies in directed chemical combus
tion by means of cases and composi
tions, the results of marvelous calcula
tion and skill.
The matter is simple enough to those
who know. It is attained by the com
bustion of the salts of certain metals.
In other words, the burning metals
have each their characteristic color.
Sodium gives off yellow flame; cal
cium, orange; barium, green; stronti
um, red; copper, green or blue, accord
ing to circumstances, and so on. Other
familiar metals, iron, steel and zinc,
give their tribute of colors. Iron filings
give bright red and white sparks; cop
per filings, a green tint; zinc, a fine
blue; steel filings and cast iron borings,
a brilliant fire with wavy radiations.
Every one is familiar with the color
ed fires, but who would suppose that
lycopodium, the delicate pollen of cer
tain mosses, so fine that it is used to
powder baby’s skin, furnishes a rose
colored fire with a magnificent flame?
These colored fires are called in tech
nical language “fixed fires” and con
sist of slow compositions that may be
piled in little cones on a flagstone and
lighted at the top. They burn slowly
and thei’e is no explosion. These com
positions are made in many colors.
Roman candles belong to the fixed
fire class and are also called fusees.
We all know the straight, slender cyl
inder or cartridge of the ordinary ro
man candle. It is packed as follows:
First there is put in it a charge of fine
gunpowder, and above this is placed a
“star.” These are simply balls of some
special composition containing metallic
filings, according to the color desired,
made up with gum and spirits of wine.
Stars and charges alternate until the
cylinder is full. Each star ball is dried
and dusted with gunpowder before
packing. The first charge of gunpow
der in exploding starts the stellar pro
cession until one after another they
blaze individually find vanish like fall
ing stars. Next in order to the fixed
fires come rotating fireworks—namely,
wheels, fire wheels, bisecting wheels,
plural wheels, caprice wheels and
spiral wheels, all more or less com
plex.
The colors of fireworks are a matter
of chemistry; the no less important mo
tions that display the beauty of these
colors to the best advantage are a mat
ter of mechanics. The man who is a
first class pyrotechnist is versed in both
sciences.
The ordinary pinwheel is a simple ex
ample of rotating fireworks. It is a
. long case packed with a fire composi
tion and wound round a disk of wood.
The outer end of the spiral is primed
with an explosive material. When it
is lighted it “kicks,” just as a gun does
when the powder explodes in the car
tridge, and round and round flies the
wheel, sending out flashes and showers
of colored or golden fire.
Some of the most dazzling and, glori
ous effects in pyrotechnical displays
are produced by rotating fireworks, for
there seems to be no limit to the va
riety of arrangement of cases and com
positions to produce multiple motions
and transformation scenes in color in
this class of fireworks.
A third class comprises the ascending
fireworks. Skyrockets belohg to this
class and may be simple or very elab
orate, according to their garniture of
stars, sparks, spirals, serpents or show
ers of gold or silver rain.
A skyrocket consists of two parts—a
body and a bead made separately and
afterward attached to the body. The
body is a straight cylinder of heavy
pasted paper closed at the lower end
so as to leave only a very narrow open
ing for the escape of the fire. A cen
tral hollow bore extends three-quarters
of the way up the-body, and all about
this is packed the special explosive
composition, the downward recoil of
which sends the rocket rushing swift
ly upward, guided and balanced by the
light stick of willow wood. The head,
a paper cylinder with a conical top,
holds the special composition which is
to form stars, serpents, spix*als or what
not. A fuse in the top of the body ex-
plodes wnen we rocaet reacnes its ut
most height and sets off this composi
tion, the varying color, form and mo
tion of which excite the “Ohs!” and
“Ahs!” of the admiring crowds.
The great spectacular displays com
bine the several classes—fixed, rotat
ing and ascending fireworks.
Temples, trees, ships, portraits, fig
ures of men, beasts and birds, flowers,
shields, and so forth, are represented
by suitable frameworks of wood either
wound with coarse cotton rovings
about two inches in diameter, impreg
nated with certain compositions and
wet with spirits, or else they have at
tached to them lances or cases of car
tridge paper filled with various com
positions, the whole placed in commu
nication by conduits or small paper
cartridges.—Youth’s Companion.
A WilllnK Victim.
“A burnt chile dreads de fire,” said
Uncle Eben, “but de man dat done los*
his money on a ho#s race goes aroun’
lookin’ foh another tip.”—Washington
Star.
“De easiness wif which some peo
ple is fooled,” said Uncle Eben, “is
what tempts many a man dat might
be honest to go astray.”—Washington
Star.
SAW AWFUL SIGHT.
Finds Husband Dead Seated In Chair
With Hole In Head.
Cleburne, Tex., Dec. 10.—When Mrs.
W. H. Myres returned home from a re
ception she saw her husband seated in
a chair dead. In a temple was a hole
made by a bail from a pistol, the weap
on still clutched in his hand. Deceased
had bought cotton here for several
years and stood high in business and
social circles. He is said to have left
a note to his wife and another to his
bankers.
URGED TO HOLD.
President or Farmers’ Union of America
Advises That Cotton Be Not Sold.
Greenville, Tex., Dec. 10.—In an ad
dress to the members Presid'ent Murray
of the Farmers’ Union of America ad
vises that cotton be held. He asks
that farmers, bankers and merchants
co-operate and says that 12,000,000
bales are not too much. All are en
treated to attend the meetings on the
17th to consider the situation.
Granted Bail.
Houston, Dec. 10.—On habeas corpus
proceedings Will Williams, charged
with the murder of T. D. Lee of Boston
recently, was granted bail in the sum
of $2000. Williams is alleged to have
caused the death of Lee by striking
him a blow which caused his head to
be fractured by contact with concrete
floor of a saloon.
Receivership Asked,
Georgetown, Tex., Dec. 10.—Account
of holding 1000 bales of cotton the
Hobbs-Lindsey company, merchants of
Florence, asked a voluntary receiver
ship before Judge Brooks. C. C. Ham
ilton was appointed receiver. Estimat
ed assets, $5000; liabilities, $25,000.
Switchman Killed.
Sheiman, Tex., Dec. 10.—Ben Oram,
for seven years a switchman in the
Central yards here, was instantly kill
ed Saturday. He was running along
between moving cars trying to uncouple
them when a foot caught in a frog and
the trucks passed over his body.
An Original Maker.
New York, Dec. 10.—Abner Clark
Seamans, one of the original makers of
typewriters in this country, is dead at
his home in Brooklyn. He was fifty
years old and retired from active busi
ness fifteen years ago.
Bank Officers Held Up.
Peoria, 111., Dec. 10.—Two men held
up officers of the Peoria National bank
within the heart of the downtowrt dis
trict. They made their escape in a
buggy.
Tig-lit I.ncinfi' ana. unreal men.
A correspondent says that the tight
lacing periods of history have always
been productive of the greatest genius
es, the loose dressing periods the re
verse. Bacon, Shakespeare, Drake,
Marlborough, Thackeray, Dickens,
Scott—to mention only a few names—
were born when chroniclers and fash
ion artists reveal to us the fact that
“women were never satisfied till they
could span their waists,” and “while
eighteen inches was the fashionable
standard, many fashionable girls and
women possessed waists fully two or
three inches smaller.”
But Thackeray said he would as lief
marry a girl with a humped back as
one with an eighteen inch waist.
Perishaiyie Pearls.
Pearls are perishable. They cannot
be considered a first rate investment
like diamonds. After a time they de
cay. Sometimes a fine specimen will
lose its luster and beauty within a few
months, so that the possessor of such
treasures does well to keep them put
away in a sealed place. They consist
of thin films overlaid one upon another,
with more or less animal matter be
tween the layers, and it is no wonder
that they deteriorate.
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WE SOLICIT YOUR BANKING BUSINESS
EDWARD HALL, President
A. W. WILKERSON. Cashier
G. S. PARKER, Vice-President
R. T. BOYLE, Asst. Cashier
Qualified. His Statement.
She—To think that you once declared
that you would love me as long as you
lived! And now, although we have not
been married a year, you care nothing
at all about me! He—But, you see,
when I told you I would love you as
long as I lived I wasn’t feeling very
well, and I really didn’t think I should
live long!
Plenty ot Advice.
“His trouble was just due to a neg
lected cold.”
“A neglected cold? I don’t believe
there ever was such a thing. No man
ever had a cold without having at
least a dozen friends attending to it
for him.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
A Rinsing? Speech.
Grayce—In a ringing speech last
night George declared that he could
not live without me, and asked me to
be his wife. Gladys—In a ringing
speech, eh? Grayce—Yes; and if you
don’t believe it, there’s the ring!—Pitts
burg Post.
Pnlde.
"Why did you tip that waiter? You
can’t afford to give away money.”
“I know it, but I didn’t want him to
find it out.”—Detroit Free Press.
Vldons.
First Girl—Did you hear that Mr.
Williams got a dreadful fright on his
wedding day? Second Girl—Yes. I
was in the church and saw her.
Opponents think that they refute us
when they repeat their own opinions
and take no notice of ours.—Goethe.
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F. LICHTE
College Agent.
McDou^ald’s
DRUG STORE
Fresh Drugs
STATIONERY
TOILET ARTICLES
HUYLER’S
CANDY
Headquarters for A. and M.
Boys.
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W. A. WATKINS.
INSURANCE
BRYAN, TEXAS.
I sell Life, Accident and health Insurance
and Accident Tickets.
Office: Howell Building.
Exclusively for White Patronage.
TERMS STRICTLY CASH.
BRYAN, TEXAS.
G. D. Tucker
LIVERY AND FEED STABLE
SOLICITS PATRONAGE
Df Students and Professors
JAHETTA
Only Stable in town that has
A Rubber Tire Carriage
Shoemaker.
MAIN STREET
Near James’ Drug Store.
YOU® BUSINESS WANTED
City Shaving Parlor
FOUR FIRST CiaSS WORKMEN.
Hot, Cold, Tub and Shower Baths.
Massageing a Specialty.
Next door to Charlie, the Tailor.
Headquarters for A. & M. students.
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