San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22
HERE AND THERE.

uEN. dRANT mas gained 40 POUNDS
since he commenced dining abroad.
"A CAMEL race Is to be ruhlin Sutro,
New, which will be followedty . FIVE
mile race against horses.
A'YouNa lady, Miss Lille Cunning
ham, ut the risk of her own life, rescued
three little children from q burning
house at Columbus, Ind, last week.
EDITORS amount to something in
Germany. For instance, the editor of
the General Post-oflice journal is called
Observation-Disclosures.
Two maiden sisters, who have for so
years lived and slept together in the Old
Ladies' Home in Portsmouth, N. H.,
died there last week within four days of
each other, and were buried together.
STANLEY's African expedition cost
the New York Herald and London Isle-
graph about 100000. That is noble
private contribution to geographical
science. Il tr
AMMrNoE 5UOiCo VI WIN uOuoy Woio
recently found in the assures of the
rocks in the mountain region In Cali
fornia by the workmen engaged in blast
ing roadway for the Southern Pacific
Railway.
The Chief of the Cherokees, in his re-
cent message, shows clearly that the
Nation is q civilized one. The public
debt is $12 ,316.S3, and the treasury con-
tains but $500.
NEWPORT, II. L., boasts rarity in
the person of q man who recently went
to his employer and asked him to dock
his wages 80 per cent, as he thought he
was receiving more than he earned.
DETRoITITEs are justly indignant con-
corning 3O-pound package of dynam-
lite which was recently discovered in an
express Office of that city. Its true
character had been unknown, and it
had been tossed about like other pack
ages, with every risk of explosion.
A YoUNa man at rifle match in Port
land, Oregon, when his turn came at
the target, shot bystander through the
heart. The killing may have been acci-
dental, but the two men were bitter en-
emies, and there is doubt on the subject.
THE department for registering let
ters in the Post-office does large. bust
ness. During the past year nearly four
and one half million letters were regis
tered. Only an average of one in 5000
was lost, and of those large proper
ton were finally recovered.
A CHARLESTON Is. CO. paper speaks
of sale of farm lands in that vicinity,
only two miles from the Northeast, Rail
road and Webdin River, and of excel
lent soil. Six hundred and twenty-eight
acres were sold for $2O5, 800 acres for
1920, 100 acres for $S8, all half cash,
and the rest in one year.
WILLIAM SwAINCorT, of Montgom-
cry County, New York, recently served
on Coroner's jury at the inquest over
the body Of man who was SO severely
burned in lime-kiln that it could not
be recognized. Mr.. Swaincott has since
learned that the body was that of his
father.
NOTHING like being able to raise
your own frogs. A citizen of Newbury-
port, Mass, is fattening 500 frogs upon
which he expects to feast. He
keeps them in barrel and feeds them
with Indian meal and takes as much
pride in them as if they were coop of
prize chickens.
Mrs. REBECCA GUIsHARD, who died
in Baltimore few days ago, at the age
of SO, was one of the actors at the Rich
mond Theater on the fatal night of its
burning in 1911. When the fire broke
out she managed to reach theupper gal
lery, where her father, sister and child
were seated, only to see them sink amid
the ruins. She then jumped from the
window and reached the ground unhurt
by falling upon the dense mass of peo-
pie outside. MT
IT is now said that Sitting Bulls
name is Ton-ton-qua-na, which means
the neutrality-suspicious.. The
setting sun seems to have strange at
traction to bufialoes on the plains. The
whole herd stop and gaze at it, while
the old bulls sit upon their launches
like dogs, and watch it until it sinks
from sight. When a young brave, Sit