San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-17

printed by Gutenberg In 1855, being the
first book ever printed, was sold by
auction, at Paris, Oh the LIST, for the
sum of $4,000. 1t was printed on vel
lum, but is not quite perfect, having one
leaf and several portions restored in
fac smile. At the celebrated Perkins
sale in 1873, a copy OF the same work
realized the enormous sum of Sl7 900.
On the recent arrival in Paris of the
Shah of Persia, his suite comprised tif-
teen officials and ten servants. Includ-
ed in the Shah's baggage were thirty-six
boxes of gold coins, each containing
S24,000. Eighteen men were detailed
by the hotel proprietor to watch the bag
gage, and in addition the Chief of Police
sent twelve men for the purpose.
The Empress Queen of Great Bri-
tain and India takes several prizes at
the Paris cattle show as q stock-raiser.
Her Hereford bull carried off a first
prize, as did her DevonAcow, but her
two Durham short-horn COWS had to be
content with second prize. The Prince
of Wales takes several prizes for South
down sheep. .ralgia
Prince Bismarck is not an early
riser, and is fond of sitting up late at
night, chatting, over bottle of wine or
a glass of beer. It is said that nearly
all his diplomatic negotiations, begin
ming with Gen. Govonne's confidential
overtures,l in 1866, tor an alliance be-
tween Italy and Prussia, until the most
recent pourparlers on the Eastern ques-
ton, have been transacted by him in q
convivial way in the nocturnal hour.
q.-Disraeli will be made q Duke, and
probably receive the vacant Garter,
when he returns from Berlin. A very
delicate compliment was paid him on
his arrival at the Prussian Capital, when
the Crown-P Princess of Germany, a
daughter Of Queen Victoria, and but
newly returned from England, sent to
his, hotel q bouquet with strawberry
leaf, the emblem of the ,Ducal coronet,
in the center. ~ l... ..,I
| i'.u,wnCa Odds and Ends. .l.y'|
"A school-mistress is said to be. a
&C strapping woman ? in the eyes Of her
pupils. ..i,' nj.
The fate of recent religious news
paper enterprise in Chicago induces its
protector to remark, with some lacerbi-
ty: SNOW let the devil foreclose his
mortgage on this town as soon as he
wants to-" III
Coarse clothes and humble fare hon.
estly earned are not inconsistent with
the manhood of men. 1t is wearing a
linen buster all winter and leaning over
free lunch-table that brushes humani-
ty.-Picayu,,e.
in one of the freedmen's schools a
lad was to receive prize banner for re-
citing the Ten Commandments. He adj
vanced to the platform, and the Super
intendent asked him his name. His re-
ply was, "Well, sab, mas'r calls me
Cap'n, but my maiden names Moses"
The school smiled. l.,...... o..
Did the prophet Isaiah ever eat at a
railroad station; 1t certainly looks so,
for how could he have describe il so liter
ally if he had notP "And he shall snatch
on the right hand and be hungry; and
he shall eat on the left hand and they
shall not be satisfied" 20 SIS"
"A young lady of six summers rush
ed into her mothers presence on Sun
day last, with the remark, Mother,
wonders never will cease" "Why,
my dearp" "Why, Mr.. and Mrs. W..
are sitting on the porch talking just as
sweet as though they weren't married"
When camping out stuff your ears
with cotton before taking your snooze:
Also keep your mouth shut. This will
leave the nostrils as the only orifices for
insects to enter. Thence you can readi-
ly expel them. In fact, you need not
worry about them at all. They will be
likely to irritate the inner membrane
sufficiently to produce the involuntary
convulsive force vulgarly called sneez-
ing. 1t has been practically demon
strated that nothing will so suddenly
change the mind and Illustrate the pur-
poses of designing insect as healthy
sneeze.-Ronae Sentinel. ..,
Farmer Jones painted his barbed
wire fence blue, plain blue. Farmer
Smiths wife swore she wasn't going to
be outdone, and the fence around the
Smith farm soon blossomed out red,
picked with white. Mrs. Jones wasn't
going to have any of the Smith family
putting on airs over her and their blue
fence was soon trimmed with gold leaf
stripes. Smith trumped over by putting
gilt ball on every barb, and Jones
when last heard from was planting
weather vanes, gilt horses, peacocks and
lightning rod tips all over his fence, and
swearing he'd beat the Smith family if
be had tn mt a cupOla and bay-win-