San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-05-11
HERE AND THERE.

CONTRIBUTORS will take notice that
we have already more spring poetry
than we need. What we want is a lini-
ment that is dead certainty on rheu-
matism.-Rone Sentinel.
Mrs. MARY CUMMINGS is 10 years of
age. She live at Beloit, Wis, and re-
Gently Joined in reel at a country
dance. She rides horseback, smokes,
and knits and sews without the aid of
spectacles. ...
THEY have passed an act in British
Guiana by which any one killing or SELL
ing birds with fine plumage will be
heavily fined. There would soon have
been no handsome birds left at the rate
they were going. .,.
The original seal with which Presi-
dent Washington authenticated his pri-
vate and state papers is owned by Mr..
Bushrod D. Washington, of Watseka,
Ill. 1t is supposed to be the seal i'm
pressed upon the death-warrant of Maj.
Andre. at aa uHa q. l..t ...i f"
In Sweden, 1,5OO,OO persons about
one-half the population-annually con-
sumo lao to ITO pints of spirits each.
By their indulgence in strong drink the
Swedes have deteriorated in stature and
physical strength; new diseases have
appeared, and old ones have increased
fearfully. f.....-,.f,,.... ..., IN. .,....
CINCINNATI is proud of her big organ.
The papers had immense pictures of it
and long articles descriptive thereof.
Boston used to have the champion mu-
sic-box, but it must give place to the
West hereafter. The Cincinnati organ
is 80 feet deep, 80 feet wide, 60 feet high,
and has 6,2S7 pipes. % 10 ",.
PUTTING out fire is queer job to
let out on contract, but it has been done
in the case of the burning coal mine
near Pittsburgh. The fire has been
raging for two months, and the con-
tractor is to get $4,000 if he extin-
guishes it before it does certain
amount of damage. His plan is to dig
deep trench and fill it with stones,
thus making barrier. m Iqal n
JUAN GONZALES, a Mexican near Fl.
Concho, Texas, is said to be the cham
pion lassoer of the world. He throws
lasso 225 feet in length with the pre-
cision of skilled marksman firing a
rifle ball. He recently lassoed wild
bull and was dragged by the animal q
distance of four miles, and, strange to
say, escaped with only few bruises.
PROF. BUTLER, of the Female College
of Pittsburg, kissed one of the pupils,
was reported to the trustees, and dis
missed. The Board finally thought bet
ter of it, and were about to restore him,
when the girls marched before them in
body and quietly informed them that
they would leave the college if Butler
was reinstated. That settled the case.
THE beautiful orange groves of Los
Angeles, California, are in danger.
The Erpress Of that place says that
destructive red bug has made its ap-
pearance on the trees, eating the leaves
away, to their damage, and it may be,
unless the ravages are stayed, to their
ultimate destruction. The piratical in
sect must have been introduced into
Los Angeles from Florida, as it was
never known there before.
REV. DIR. JOSEPH WILD, pastor of the
Elm Place Congregational Church of
Brooklyn, has been preaching sermons
Sunday nights for several weeks past to
show that the war just over in Europe
and the war to come, in which England
is to trounce Russia and drive the Turk
into Asia, are the working out of Old
Testament prophecies, and that the end
is to be the finding of the Ark of the
Covenant and the lost standards which
were hidden by Jeremiah, and the
triumph and glory of the children of
Israel, Gods chosen people. DIR. Wild
has the reputation of being scholar,
and declares that he has spent fifteen
years in studying Hebrew, Greek, and
Irish history bearing upon this mat
ter.
IT has long been known that well
burnt brick is the only really fire-proof
material. Captain Shaw, head of the
London Fire Brigade, writes: "No
fireman has ever seen stone stair es-
cape when subjected to much heat, and
no internal wall, supported on iron, can