San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-10
HERE AND THERE.

ALEXANDER BELL, Of Troy, Ala, Is
10 years old, and weighs $50 pounds.
EVERY visitor to the Exposition can
get free a testament In his own lam
guage.
The letters r. A. are valuable when
they follow mans name In England.
The Royal Academy pays, " forty r.
AS $1,000 year. s>.,'y
AN application has been made at the
Indian Office for permission 10 take some
Indians to Paris for exhibition at the
Exposition.
MRS. MoCsRMIox, Of ,Salesville, O.,
is declared to have given birth, recently
to five healthy children, four boys and
one girl--aA doing we'll ~
A PEsssYLvAMA tree that bore apples
at the time Of the massacre at Wyoming
is still full Of business, and is still load
ed with the sturdy fruit ~ g.
THE cornerstone of a Marion IN. W
grist mill was laid with religious oere-
monies last week, Rev. DR.. Easton, Of
Palmyra, delivering the principal adj
dress on the occasion.
Two robins in Westchester, Penn
sylvania, recently fed their offspring on
poison vine because the children had
Gagged them. It is characteristic of
these birds to poison their Gagged young
when no hope Of their liberty is Of
fered. udUo9 s,gp- 10
MoNrELLER Urz, once as wealthy
a maj, as lived in Page county, Va, was
recently taken to the County Poor-house
as pauper. Before the war he owned
1850 acres Of land and forty-three
slaves, besides much other valuable
property. ,a'' . 8 'ls.N
A GREENoAsrLE Qnd.) farmer lost
one Of bis horses in singular manner
while moving the Other day, one Of the
pair sinking into the earth twenty feet
and being covered up out Of sight in an
upland hole wherethe sound Of running
water was heard. ~ i 'MRf7l
DURING violent thunderstorm at
Troy, N. ", recently, a bolt was seen
to strike in the center of Richardson's
pond, raising volume Of water twenty
or thirty feet; next morning great num-
bers of dead fish were found along the
shores Of the pond.
THERE has been such an increase in
the number of bald-heads in all the
American cities that the business Of wig
making has been reduced to very small
proportions in the last 10 or ID years.
Formerly wigs were worn that men
might not appear old, but now SO many
are bald that little is cared about it.
THEY don't take photographs in Per-
STA, because the Mohammedan religion
forbids the reproduction of living crea-
lures, but the Shah had his taken in
France, and is going to have the like
ness stamped on some coins when he
goes home. Meantime. he has given
away some copies to distinguished " in
fidel dogs'' of Europe, whose character
can not be damaged by photographs.
A REMARKABLE case of endurance in
insanity shamming recently occurred in
Boston Jail, where Reuben W. Clapp,
of Northboro, aged 80, was awaiting
trial for passing counterfeit money. For
10 days he carried on his antics, danced
war-dances, whooped, yelled, prayed,
sang, tore off his clothes, impersonated
Sitting Bull leading his troops to battle,
and filthy soiled his cell. He was
placed in the insane department in a
padded cell, but as his body continued
in a healthy condition the doctors said
that he was shamming. Finally he was
starved into admitting his deceit, and
now after trial he has gone to State
prison for five years. He successfully
tried the insanity dodge at Worcester
last January, where he was confined
for horse stealing, got sent to the lunat-
ic hospital and finally discharged, but
he rather overdid the business in Bos-
ton. fIH |f. '''.
REV. DIR. s. I. PRIME, the veteran
/" Iren@us d" of the New York Observer,
offers some valuable testimony on the
subject of intoxication in wine-drinking
He is veteran traveller,
and has recently spent 10 months on the
Continent, in which he has supplement-
ed the cursory observations of the or
binary tourist by special investigation of
the drinking habits through visiting