San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-27
HERE AND THERE.


the left hand.
AN Englishman named David STAN
ton rode 1000 miles on velocipede in
six days recently.
In Savannah, Georgia, the sender of
telegram pays to the city 10 cents tax
on every message.
MISSIONARIES are already following
up the trail made by Livingstone and
Stanley along the Congo.
A COW of prolific propensities is re-
ported in Garrett County, Maryland.
' She recently gave birth to nine calves.
WILL LISTER, young man in Cedar
County, Nebraska, was while ago en-
gagged to half dozen young ladies, and
would have been yet if they hadn't be-
gun inviting each other to be brides
maids.
A PHILADELPHIA jeweler rugged up
q continuance by which he could lock
the door Of his store by simply touching
a spring under the counter. In a couple
of days he succeeded in caging pair of
shop-lifters, who, while examining his
goods, managed to slip two or three
gold chains into their pockets.
THE German War Department is ex-
perimenting largely with the electric
light, with view of testing its adapta-
bility to military purposes. 1t has been
discovered that the light will distinguish
small detachments as far as the rifle
can shoot them, and also when out of
rifle range show them with sufficient
plainness to direct cannonade on them.
ACCORDING to a new law in Con-
necticut, divorces can henceforth only
be granted by reason of adultery, fraud
ulent contract, willful desertion for three
years, seven. years. absence and not
heard from, habitual intemperance, in
tolerable cruelty and imprisonment for
infamous crime in the State Prison.
THE Smithsonian Institute at Wash
ington has just received some Indian
relics from the Florida mounds, among
which is piece of gold rudely beaten
into representation of the head of a
woodpecker, which is said to be the
first specimen of gold found among the
remains of the aboriginal tribes in
America.
EDWARD DIXON, of Brookfeld, Mass,
for several years overseer in an African
diamond mine, has returned home be-
cause of malarial fevers. He says the
negroes hare skins an eighth of an inch
thick, and their holiday attire consists
of shirt or pants. The diamonds are
taken. from clay, which often requires
blasting, and, after drying in the sun,
is wet down and worked over to find
gems.
Two young men, twins, OF Hart
County, Ca, worked out their fathers
debts, in compliance with his death-bed
request. They were Is years OF age
when they began, and attained their
majority before finishing. Although
frequently told that they were neither
legally nor morally bound to do so,
they persisted until the last cent was
paid.
THE Philadelphia Press has compiled
and published comparative statement
of prices from 1860 to the present. The
list, which is an elaborate one, contains
all the main staples which enter into
food, clothing and the leading indus
tries of the country, and the result
shows that the cost of living to-day has
not only reached the hard-pan rates be-
fore the war, but is, in fact, 20 to 3Oper
cent. cheaper than in 1860.
OF discoveries about the telephone
there is no end. The London (Eng.) |
Medical Journal says that a physician
has been enabled to hear the sounds of
the chest by telephone. The time is
probably not far distant when cele-
brated London physician will have con-
sulting rooms in the principal cities OF
England connected with his residence
by telephone, and then patients a hun
dreds miles away can be examined as
accurately as at personal visit.
ENGLISH explorers have stumbled
upon rare animal, or the negro-mon-
key of Java. This amoosing little /
cuss" is of an intensely black color,
except underneath and at the root of the .
tail, where is gray tint; the paws are