THE IRRTGATION AGE. 



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SHE PARALYZED 'EM. 



Counsel What is your age, madam ? 



Witness Forty -seven, sir. 



Counsel Married or single? 



Witness Single. I never had an offer 

 of marriage in my life, and if it is of any 

 interest to the court, I don't mind saying 

 that I have worn false hair for 30 years. 



Counsel Hem ! That is all, Madam. 

 There is no use trying to shake the direct 

 testimony of so truthful a woman as you 

 are. London Tit-Bits. 



. AN EDITOR'S OPINION. 



The editor of the Murfreesboro (Tenn.) 

 News thus accounts for hard times: "We 

 let our timber rot and buy fencing. We 

 throw away our ashes and grease, and buy 

 soap ; we raise weeds and buy vegetables ; we 

 catch 5-cent fish with four-dollar rods; we 

 build school houses and send our children 

 off to be educated, and, lastly, we send 

 our boys out .with a forty-dollar gun and a 

 ten-dollar dog to hunt ten-cent birds." 



STATE NEWS. 



CALIFORNIA. 



The work of tunneling for water is being 

 vigorously prosecuted in Mill Creek Can- 

 yon, above Mentone. 



According to the San Diego papers the 

 new steamship line to connect San Diego 

 with Japan and Honolulu will be in oper- 

 ation by October 1. 



Another stage in the development of 

 Randsbiirg is marked by the establishment 

 of water works. Two years ago a team 

 and a tub constituted the entire system 

 and the fluid sold at $2 a barrel. 



A new corporation has been organized 

 at Los Angeles under the name of the 

 Ivanpah Smelting Company, with a cap- 

 ital stock of $50,000. The company's 

 purpose is the reduction of ores and min- 

 erals and to build and buy machinery, 

 melters, mills and to carry on a general 

 mining business. 



A fierce fire at Fresno, Aug. 13, de- 

 stroyed about $500,000 worth of propert y. 



No lives were lost, but as some of the 

 property destroyed was raisin packing 

 plants, nearly 500 people were thrown out 

 of employment. The fire is a great calam- 

 ity to Fresno, as it is too late in the season 

 to rebuild the packing plants in time to 

 handle this year's crop of raisins, and thus 

 a large market will be closed to the 

 growers. 



NORTH DAKOTA. 



The Larimore Pioneer of Aug. 12, an- 

 nounced the death of Governor F. A. 

 Briggs, from consumption. Lieut. Gov- 

 ernor Devine will succeed to the office of 

 chief executive of North Dakota and Sen- 

 ator H. F. Arnold, of Larimore will become 

 lieutenant governor. 



The greater part of the business portion 

 of Bismark, was destroyed by fire recently, 

 the loss being estimated high in the thous- 

 ands, perhaps reaching the millions. 



IOWA. 



A great autumnal festival is to be held 

 at Sioux City, the week beginning Oct. 3. 

 The proclamation issued by the "Princes 

 of Prosperity and Good Fellowship" com- 

 mand ' 'all in the northwest who have joy 

 and fun in their souls, to get together 

 to accumulate as it were at Sioux City" 

 on the above date. 



IDAHO. 



The early part of August a special train 

 of fifteen carloads of wool left Boise for 

 Chicago. Banners were tacked on all the 

 cars and the train was an advertisement 

 for the wool interests of the state. 



NEBRASKA. 



All users of city water in Lincoln are to 

 be required to put in meters. It is be- 

 lieved this will not only add to the city 

 revenue from this source, but will effect a 

 saving in the amount of water used. And 

 then think what a satisfaction it will be 

 to the householder' to "kick about the 

 meter. " 



