Daily British Columbian
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issued: 2017-03-07
issued: 1887-02-26
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note: Hon A B B Davit VOLUME 2 NEW WISTMINSTBB, a 0., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1887. NUMBER *8 3-tUiJ *f) ritiolt (tolniitbisn Haiarft-r arralH. r.brawry It. ism. A Montana man who recently arrived in the oity with five carloads of oattle, for whioh he pocketed several thousands of dollars, was dragged into a justice court yesterday with' 75 cents surplus in his pooket. "Fainting the town red" is extravagant. — Chicago Inter-Ocean. Niemann, the illustrious tenor, whose season with the Metropolitan Opera Oompany haa just closed, prefers to expose hia throat to the cold air and to promenade in the streets, after singing a laborious role, rather than to muffle his neck and go home in a close carriage. The cold air serves his larynx as a tonic, and the prime donne who are afraid of it make a mistake, he thinks, The city .oounoil of Toronto, by a majority of two, has resolved to reduce tlit im«*ht»'»«l tavern, saloon and tecr li*-e*«es,AoB- 80S to 150, aud to raise the license fee from $300 to WW, and the shop licenses, of which there'i*e 61, to 40. Some member* oppoid the reduction on the groundthat for every lionised: Iiouse dosed an unlicensed, honse would spring up.,, The mayor puts the numbar.oi unlicensed places at twenty; but one alderman tuid it would not bo difficult to find, a hundred. At th* tnd of the year, some indications of tho result of the experiment may bo found; but it will be nearly impossible to gauge the relative quantity of liquor consumed. The reduction will cut off some, if not many, opportunities of drinking.— Monetary Times. Some papers were recently published showing that the breaking effect of a strain upon iron was enormously increased by the frequency to which it was subjected thereto. It is' a well known fact that a bridge which supported, with the utmost ease, a service of twenty trains a day, will break down in a very short spaoe of time under a service of twenty trains an hour. The principlt is tbat just as bending back and forth a piec…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: Robson Brothers (1882-1883) ; D. Robson & Co. (1883-1886) ; British Columbia Stationery and Printing Co. (1886-1887) ; British Columbian Printing Company (Limited) (1887-1888) ; Kennedy Brothers (1888-1890).
has type: Newspapers
spatial: New Westminster (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0345691
language: English
lat: 49.206667
long: -122.910556
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: New Westminster : British Columbian Printing Company (Limited)
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text