San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-02
HERE AND THERE.

SERVANTS receive the highest prices
in the world in St. Petersburg
On an average throughout the year
one railroad train minute leaves Lon
don.
BY some unaccountable mistake at a
recen: wedding at Williamsport, Pa,
The bridesmaid was married instead of
the intended bride. i"'nt n16 ssgs9.
THE city of Montgomery" Ala"., pays
tramps 25 cents a day for working on
the streets. The discovery has been
made that some who are not; tralnps
we're willing to work for that sum.
CAPT. MALcoM, K. NJ lately sent by
the British Government To assist Egypt
in the suppression of the slave trade in
the Red Sea, has been made a Pasha,
the fourth English Pasha the Egyptian
service. ,.' .'"'ihi'
THE skeleton of woman, lately sold
to satisfy claim for rehtagainst the
estate of country physician, had in
scribed upon it: psMiss Ida Montague,
aged 22 years. Died of grief, May %,
1856. Her death-bed request, Honor
YOUR sactum with my bones.'p 863
GOSPEL disturbers have more than
their match in the Rev. S. Dunbar of
Adair, KY, who is also Constable.
Whenever the services Of his sanctuary
are interrupted, he closes his Bible,
marches down from the pulpit, collars
the disturber, and leads him to prison.
THE following, says an exchange,
is the measurement of over half a mil
lion of men as regards height and na-
tivity: The mean height Of the Ameri-
can Indian is 67, 1884 inches; the sAmeri-
can white man, 67.G72; Scotch, G7.O66;'
English, 6O.515; Russian, 66.393;
French, 66.277; Mexican, 65.11o. M
Mr.. PHILIP G.. GARRETT, an Ameri-
can residing in Antwerp, Belgium, has
offered prize of 1920 francs for the
best essay upon the means of establish-
inc international arbitration in regard,
to war. His address is care of M
Kohler, y Rue Ommegauch, in that
city, " ,',,....t II
THE English army has long enjoyed
the reputation of being the most exxpen-
sively dressed in Europe. The most
costly uniform is that of staff sergeant
in the Foot Guards, to clothe whom en-
tails upon the country about $40 per
man per annum, and the cheapest man
to equip is the negro private of the
West India regiments, whose pictur-
esoue zouave uniform costs about $12
per anuum. tps.. ,1s IA
THE Galveston Nea0s says that Eula-
liza Perez, living in Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, is the Oldest woman in the
world. She is now $40, and still uses
her needle, having sent a piece OF en-
broidery to church fair about two
years ago. Her age is well authenti-
Gated, as it is on record that when the
church of the Mission of St. Gabriel was
built in 1771, she was married woman
and the mother of several children.
THE medical men of Havre, France,
have formed union for the establish
ment of fixed grade of fees. All re-
quests for immediate attendance, or for
o.+o n
double the amount of visits at the con-
venience of the physician. Night visits
are charged 81, So, or 81, according to
the social grade of the patient. The
Havre public are excited on the ques-
ton, and consider the rates eXorbitant.
APApER was recently read before the
Philosophical Society of Washington
City by Colonel Mallory in reference to
certain prevalent fallacies concerning
the North American Indians. Among !
the more important of these, Colonel /,
Mallory referred to the idea that the In
=, dian population is dying out and des- (
tined ultimately to extinction. He pre-
sented an elaborate argument to show
that the early estimates in regard to the
number belonging to the Indian race in
different parts of North America were
extremely exaggerated, that two or three |
hundred thousand souls were credited Z
In regions that could not by any posi- .
olity have contained more than ten /
thousand, and that the later and more [
accurate enumeration always reduced (
The figures very materially. He also !
read ample testimony to prove that, ex-