San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-23
HERE AND THERE.

A WOMAN IN falrHelu, Me-, nus u
growth of natural hair, eight feet and
one inch long, and has refused, it is
said, $4,000 for it.
IT is stated that a portion of the clois-
tiers of Canterbury Cathedral is rooted
with zinc, which after 80 years expos
ure to the weather has been pronounced
by the architect to be in good condition.
A WRITER on the war credits Gen.
Lee with the assertion that " If l had
been Stonewall Jackson at Gettysburg
should have won that battle, and if l
had won it l should have established
the independence of the South"
LOUIS HENDERSON, jealous young
man, of Pottsville, Pa, threw vitriol
over his sweetheart because she went to
the theater with another party. Her
clothing was badly burned, but she was
not injured.
A YEAR ago school-boy in Cayuga
County, New York, carelessly broke a
pane of glass valued at 10 cents. Three
trials of u suit have resulted, the last de-
cision reversing the other two and CIV
ing judgment of SS3.
In opening bed of mari at Tarboro
S. c., recently, a stream was found
about eight feet below the surface, in
which was an Indian canoe containing
the skeleton of man, with the rem
nant of paddle in the hand.
THE families interested in recent st.
Louis wedding were of mixed and per-
tinacious religious beliefs. AS COM
promise, the ceremony was performed
three times, one each by Baptist, Il
Catholic and an Episcopal clergyman.
THERE is likely to be contest over
Brigham Young's will. One of the
chief Mormons offers to show how the
prophet took from the Church $780,
600, one of which was when he charged
in a lump $4,000 a year for IS years.
services as prophet, seer and revelator.
LONDON advertisement: "a gen,
tleman of high birth having run through
all his money is reduced to extreme in
conveniences. He has never worked
and doesn't know how. Moreover he
does not like it. He will feel obliged to
any lady or gentleman who will under
take to support him.
QUITE q romantic event took place
at WaXahatchie, Tex, the other day in
the marriage of Nicholas Sims, a
wealthy farmer 70 years old, to Mrs.
Dunlap, go years of age. They had
been plighted lovers in their Tennessee
home 40 years ago, but separated, and
Sims has been married once and his
bride twice in the interval.
The latest wrinkle in advertising is
an English institution" The Cont
mental Advertising Refreshment Plate
Company" The dishes, emblazoned
with advertisements, are to be extern
sively distributed among the European
hotels and restaurants, and the average
cost to advertisers will be about A cents
per plate for each advertisement.
THERE is nothing like presence Of
mind. A well known surgeon was per-
forming a difficult operation at one of
the London hospitals the other day,
when the unfortunate patient suddenly
died. After short interval, said the
Doctor to the assembled students: 81
will now show you, gentlemen, how |
should have completed the operation
had the patient not succumbed."
The Staunton (Va.) Nndicator, in an
article on the opium habit, says: One
physician tells us of case in which a
lady, confirmed opium-eater, sent two
horses to neighboring city to sell, the
proceeds of one to be invested in NOR
phine. By some difference in price the
sale UnlSCdtllcu, anu Ill wv VI VIM
days the man returned. When she saw
him coming down the road leading both
horses she fell to the floor in an agony
of disappointment and died in a few
hours.
THE sudden disappearance in Scot
land of DR.. Richard A. Robertson, of
Titusville, Pa, is exciting the attention
of the detectives, and there are many
indications of foul play. About year
ago he met a stranger in New
York, who made him believe
that a legacy of s4S,5OO was
waiting for him in Ireland. He hasten
ed over to Glasgow, and fell in with