San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-09
HERE AND THERE

saiu 10 DO giving way unuor ner GA
haustive feats of pedestrianism but she
is growing rich. "rI . ;"7'hoL v'l
AN Iowa school-mistress has been dis
charged because, for the amusement of
the children during recess, she stood on
her head. One of the Trustees CHANGED
to see the feat. ,..,,.. " y l lEd NO
SINCE the burning of the Brooklyn
Theater, SO fire-escapes have been in
vented. Eleven of these proved worth
less, and at the testing of each of the
others somebody was either killed or
hurt. ''' ?. ..'.'-'''' " ''hep i'
THERE was tragic wedding-recep-
ton at Long Prairie, Minn,, a few
nights ago. A number Of boys, who had
been engaged in charivari, had re-
turned, and were standing about the
house quietly, when Joseph Reiger, the
proprietor, made rush for them with
a spade, and was struck on the head
with a club and mortally wounded. ola
A HUGE skull of some animal, sup
posed to be an elephant, was found i'm
bedded in the sand near Santa Barbara,
Cal, recently, It measures across the
forehead feet 2 inches; in ,height,2
feet inch; in depth, i foot2 inches.
The brain cavity is 16 by 10 by 8 inches.
The holes for eyes, ears, tpsks and trunk
are in proper position, ) .bosJs nos
-. THE term of "sick mani, was origi
nally used with reference to Turkey by
the Emperor Nicholas, the predecess or
Of Alexander, the present monarch of
Russia. In ., conversation; Of Nicholas
with the. British. Minister, Sir George
Seymour, in 1854, the Emperor said.
awe have on our hands a sick man, a
very sick man. 1t will BE great mis-
fortune,,I tell you frankly, if one of
| those daysshe should happen to die be-
fore the necessary arrangements are all
made. But this is not the time to speak
to you of that ''"'.'''',,,....., "o@iy, 70
The Government is distributing tea
plants in Georgia. Gen. Toombs said..to
reporter of the Atlanta Constitution:
"If the people would only learn the
process of curing the leaf, as good tea
can be produced in Georgia as in
China. Why added he, :" tea has been
planted and grown in this State for the
last 40 years, nearly. Right here, in
few miles of you, are trees, if somebody
hasn't cut them down since l saw them
last, that are 80 feet high, tea trees,
that were planted away back Ionder in
1927" ."; ......l ,.a ,uG o,5
MASSACHUSETTS, has established a
new reformatory prison for women in
Sherborn, and put thunder the imnle-
diate control of women. The expert
ment is hotly discussed by Boston phil
anthropists, many of whom regard it as
unwise. One Of the writers favoring it
mentions the success Of the great prison
for women in Working, 4 near
London, the Superintendent of
which is /. Mrs. Gibson ga
lady of education and good family, quie
and unpretending in manner, but with
power of wise control that had been
exercised with so much success in SINH
lar institutions, where she had worked
from motives Of charity, that this great
prison was built on condition that she
would take charge of it, WV W.
IT is proposed in England to divert q
portion of the. flood water of the Nile
into the deserts of Lydia, Nubia and
Soodan. The yearly Nile floods, are
caused by the influx Of water laden with
soil from the Abyssinian plateau. This
silt is now principally deposited in the
Mediterranean, where it is forming a
new delta. The protector of this gigan-
tic scheme is Sir Samuel Baker, who
suggests the construction of sluices and
dams at different points of the Nile, in
Guiding the cataracts, and asserts that
these latter would. then be navigable,
and enable craft to sail from the |
Mediterranean to Gohdokoro. Sir Sam
uel thinks that, by means of an irriga-
ton of the deserts, range of cotton
fields could be created which would rem
der England independent of America
for the great staple. ....q ,nI
BAYARD TAYLOR says in his remi-
niscences of his early visits to Spain:
:. There was one custom, indeed, preva-
lent among the better class, which had
an opportunity of learning in Seville
and Granada-but should be doubtful
whether it still exists. 1t is one of