San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-13
I. H. JULIAN, Editor.
HERE AND THERE.

egg within an egg, each having hard
shells and containing regular yelks and
whites.
GEN. WILLIAMS, of Grand Island,
CAL, owns farm of II 900 acres, 5000
of which are planted with wheat and
1900 with barley.
A RATTLEsNAKE, feet inches in
length and measuring Is inches around
the body, was killed in Emanuel Coun-
ty, Georgia, recently.
PHILADELPHIA ladies are thinking
of uniting against the high wages and
extraordinary privileges demanded by
female servants. They will shortly
form o "Housekeepers' Protective
League for the purpose. ....
THE celebrated Eddystone Light
house in the British Channel, which has
buffetted the waves of century, will
probably soon disappear, owing to the
undermining of the reef below it by the
waters. .'t'''
A GAINESVILLE (Ga.) father dream
ed the other night that his baby was
dead, and the mother that she saw a
we'll full of water and running over;
the next day the baby was drowned in a
tub of water. Co.,. u
THE absence of many tall trees in
European countries has been the subject
of frequent remark by travellers. There
are not more than 40 kinds growing
there that attain height of 40 feet,
while we have about 140.
THE Lewiston (Me.) Journal says
that the practice of snutf-dipping, which
isusually thought to be confined to the
South, is so much in vogue in that city
that the amount usually used is from
5000 to $4,000 pounds, which is worth
from 1000 to $4,000.
UNDER the direction of the Paris OBJ
servatory the system of agricultural
weather-warnings continues to be rap
idly developed and extended to all parts
of the country. The warnings are now
sent to 1852 communes, spread over
all departments of France except that
of Lozere.
AGREATER man than Daniel Lambert
has appeared in England. He keeps a
public house at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and
is not yet 90. He stands 6 feet inches
in height and weighs $50 pounds. He
measures feet around the shoulders, Z
feet around the waist, and 3 feet around
the calf of his leg.
FATHER WALSH, pastor of the Cath
ole Church at Long Branch, N. j., has
caused the arrest of two liquor-dealers
there for selling whisky to woman
who went to--his church drunk and
danced the whole length of the aisle to
the tune of Patrick's Day, which was
being played by the organ.
THE wife of Joseph Brown, of Ala
bama, has presented him with twins
twice within 10 months. And the paper
that records this pleasing fact says that
Mr.. Joseph Bryan, gentleman OF the
same State, in his 10Th year, is the father
of four healthy children, born within the
past two years-two boys first and then
two girls.
A.A.SHER1DAN, keeper of the Manitou
(Mich.) lighthouse, and his wife and
baby were drowned last week by the up
setting OF their boat. They chung to the
keel for over an hour and then dropped
off, and sank, the baby first dying in the
mothers arms. Richard Kitchen, who
was with them, and survives to tell the
story, was picked up after clinglng to
the boat for four hours.
DANIEL z. CHURCH, for many years
steward of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind
Institution at Flint, Mich, began she'd
ding his hair and whiskers short time
since, and, despite preventives, which
were used freely, lost every hair on his
head and face, so that now he is obliged
TO wear wig. 1t is puzzler for med
ical men, as his health has been good for
years, sickness not being the cause.
THE Canadian legislators are making
progress. When the Hon. Peter Mitchell
was delivering dreadfully dry speech a
few DAYS ago, and the Commons tried
to dry up the stream of his eloquence
by interrupting him, the honorable
member got mad and said with sublime
disdain: "Who was that who brayed?"
"Itwas only an echo," was the reply OF a
witty opponent.