San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-03
HERE AND THERE.

FASTING pictures on curtains O
Japanese silk is late pastime.
BASEBALL doesn't take in Germany
and there are no clubs in the country
CYPRUS, just transferred to England
is about as large as Connecticut.
NEXT in point of meanness to doing
an injury is to do man favor and ev.
cry now and then remind him of it.
THE precious metals of the world fol-
coinage and art amount to S13,OOO,.
100000.
The once famous Mormon temple at
Eauvoo, ILL.,, has utterly disappeared,
not a stone of it remaining on the site.
The recent earthquake that destroyed
Loreto, Lower California, continued
without interruption for seven days.
The head of a Boston man is wider
than it is long. He wears a silk hat,
with one of the sides in front, and the
effect is comical.
AMONG the mechanical toys at the
Paris Exposition are dolls that swim,
dive and tread water after the most ap-
proved human style.
EXTREME cold produces the same per-
seption on the skin as great heat. When
Mercury is frozen at 40 degrees below
zero, the sensation is the same as that
of touching red-hot iron.
In Paris certain Monsieur Kenard
announces himself as ga public scribe,
who digests accounts, explains the Ian
guage Of flowers, and sells fried pota-
toes"
A "sTEEPLE-CHAsE" is announced to
take place at Cohoes, N. Y. Several
contestants are to climb a church steeple
which is 800 feet high. The victor re-
eeives $3.50, which is half a dollar foot.
A BINeHAMToN On. W wife the
other day found letter in her hus-
bands old clothes given him to mail II
years ago, the non-receipt of which has
estranged two families ever since.
WASHINGTON will is kept in glass
case in the office of the Clerk of Fair
fax County, Va. The writing is almost
all faded away and the paper is so frail
that it will not bear handling.
In a recent divorce case at Norwich,
Conn, it was shown that the young
wife got drunk day or two after the
and remained so for three
months. The divorce was granted.
FoRTY-EIGHT thousand pineapples,
u tons, were thrown into the bay at
New York the other day. They were
slightly decayed. Pineapples cost
cent apiece in the West Indies, and are
sold to dealers in New York at from ~
to 16 cents.
M. DE LEssEPs is giving Saturday lee
lures in the Egyptian House at the Ex-
position, erected by the Suez Canal
Company and the Egyptian Govern
ment. This house is supposed to rep
resent the house of an Egyptian swell
before Abraham was born.
A FAT Newcastle Und.) prisoner
stuck fast in the hole be and two others
had been several weeks cutting through
the Jail wall with a pair of scissors.
One of his partners got safely through
before him, but didn't stop to pull the
big man through.
A CURIOUS case of hydrophobia is re-
ported from Norfolk, Va, where a
man has died, in all its terrible agonies,
from the bite of pet owl. A Manches-
Yer (England) boy of five died of hydro- !:
phobia last month, caused by the bite of ,
cat two months before.
THE veritable tomahawk of Tecum-
'eh, found on the battlefield at the
hiver Thames, near the body of the dead
chief, ide ltified by Indian braves as the Q
property of their chief, and presented to
Iol. X. NJ. johnson, is now in the pos I
'ession of NJ. V. Sinclair of Scott County,
Ky. C
NOT long since young man had an
'rm torn off in some machinery in :,
darysville (Cal.) foundry. After the :, ),
'rm was buried the boy complained to
Us mother of pain in his lost arm, and :.
AID that its cramped position in the =
'ox in which it was buried added to his IL
ANS and aches. The mother, who has y :,
aoored night and day for the relief of u
er son since the accident, informed II
eter, an elder son, of what Ed. CON- n
iained, and advised him to go to the D
dig up the box in which the a.