San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-08
HERE AND THERE.

PROF. H. II. PALMER and wife sailed
for America, May 18th, in the Scythia.
PRoF. Core, the Philadelphia geolo-
gist, writes that he has found in Northern
Texas specimens Of vertebrates hereto
fore unknown.
A CoLoRED woman and her grown
daughter, in Paris, Kentucky, have not
now and never did possess the sense of
smell. They are both healthy, and have
all the other senses unimpaired.
A STYLISH, handsome pickpocket,
who "does" London, is accompanied
in his rambles by four charming, inno-
cent-looking young girls, whose pres
ence gives him an opportunity to get
near ladies' pocket-books.
A NEWSPAPER in Eureka, New, de-
clares that silk hat draws attention to
the wearer in that rude town, cane
gives rise to ominous mutterings, eye
classes cause the gathering of mob,
and kid gloves lead at once to lynch
ing.
THE effort of the managers to induce
women not to wear bonnets in the Gin
cinnati musical festival was generally
successful; but it excited anger in an
unexpected quarter. The dealers in
millinery regarded the move as blow
to their business, and refused to illum-
mate their stores on the night when all
other stores in the main streets were
blazing with light.
A sHOPLIFTER was lately arrested in
Paris who bore under his arm very in
nocent-looking box, seemingly done up
in paper and tied with cord; but this
box had false bottom, opening and
closing with spring. Its owner would
set it down on two or three small arti-
cles while pretending to examine some
thing else, and when he took up the box
again, the articles that had been under
it were inside it.
PERHAPS the most contemplate of all
human habits is that of borrowing.
Every time man or woman borrows,
they drop a degree lower. Mr.. Gowith-
out may be gentleman. Mr.. Bor-
rowall can never be one, though his an
cestor were Duke with forty-nine IT,
ties. Don't borrow. Borrowing q
thing is almost as bad as waiting until
dark and taking it by main strength
Courier-Jour,aal.
AN exhibition of the photograph was
advertised as part of a benefit perform
ance in the Grand Opera House, San
Francisco. Sol Smith Russell made an
address explanatory Of Edison's inven-
ton, and then a box was placed on q
table. Russell turned crank, and from
the box came talk in tones like those of
various public men well known in the
city. The audience soon discovered
that an actor, concealed. under the table,
was giving limitations. Almost riot
ensued, the people refusing to view the
deception as good joke.
MR.. STAB, corresponding member of
the Society of Arts at Smyrna, reports
that the plague of field-mice, or rats, has
again broken loose, and that they are
wasting the fields far and wide, digging
up the seed-corn, and devouring all they
can. This is the plague from which
Homer records that Apollo Smynthius
delivered the Greeks. As the Smynthian
Apollo no longer has believers, Mr..
Stab wishes to know what remedy can
be recommended. The Western States
of America suffer much from this pest.
In his charge before the Grand Jury
at Macon,a few days ago, Judge Arnold
made the following statement in refer
ence to whisky drinking Mississippi
annually consumes 100000 gallons of
wine, 100000 of beer and 100000
gallons of other liquors, principally
whisky. Mississippi has population
of nearly one million, which would give
to every man, woman and child in the
State 81 gallons of whisky, or to every
voter SO gallons, or, say every hard
drinker consumes on an average 20 gal
Ions of whisky per annum.
LUCIUs A. HARDEE asks Congress to
S25,000to enablehim to jolt
disease out of the community. He be-
lieves that the principle of conclusion
can be utilized to destroy all insects and
as well as animalcule or spores,
the cause of pestilent air, thus stopping
and removing epidemics. Prominent
of Florida, who have witnessed
his practical tests with gunpowder at