San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06
HERE AND THERE.

! EVERY BODY has heard of Glauber's
salts, but how many know whether
Glauber is the name Of q place or .
manp He was in fact famous chemist
of Amsterdam in the sixteenth century,
who invented the peculiar preparation
bearing his name.
CITIZENS Of New Jersey are largely
petitioning the Governor to enforce the
laws that forbid the running Of more
than one passenger train on any railroad
on the Sabbath, and to prevent a great
and grievous amount of Sabbath desc
Grafton.
The greatest benefactor Of the female
sex on this continent, according to the
Chicago Times, is Judge Grant, of
Davenport, Iowa. He has adopted II
girls, ERASED them, and married most
of them offwith generous endowments. !"
Mrs. COLEMAN and Mrs. McDoon aid
are, by the will of their brother, the
late William s. O'Brien, made the rich
est women on the Pacific coast. Their
share of the estate from the Nevada
Bank alone Is valued at nearly $780,.
600, and from the remainder Of the es-
tate it will be at least $40, 100000 more.
The British Council of the Society Of
Arts offers its gold medal for the best
means of saving life at sea, when ves-
sci has to be abandoned suddenly, say
with only five minutes warning, the
shore or other vessels being in sight.
Appliances for the competition are to be
sent in not later than the S1st Of Octo-
Der. .lI ...
Mr.. HOLLIsTER, San Francisco
botanist, has introduced the Japanese
pishamin into California, fruit he de-
scribes as the most beautiful he has ever
seen, and most delicious to the taste;
four specimens which ripened in Cali
fornia weighed three-quarters of apound
each, were of rich color, and looked
like balls of wax. 4
THE largest cask in the world is that
at Konigstein, which was finished in
1925, after three years. work. This
cask, as soon as finished, was filled with
5000 quintals of good Nielsen wine,
which cost $4,000 sterling. 1t contains
649 hogsheads more that the famous tun
of Heidelberg. The top is rallied in and
affords room sufficient for Is or 20 per-
sons to stand while drinking to the
health Of its builder.
A FREpoNIA IN. W elopement had
a sensational ending and reconciliation
at Philadelphia. The irate papa founa
the happy couple in parlor-car at the
depot there and knocked his new SON.
in-law senseless with his cane, VIXEN the
young woman put her injured lord into
carriage and drove off to surgeons,
leaving remorseful papa to plod on alone
and sue for peace in the doctor's Office.
SMALLPOX and diphtheria have been
very prevalent and fatal lately in Lon
don. Since New Years there have been
1,l34 fatal cases of smallpox within ID
miles of Charing Cross, while there
were but eight deaths of that disease, in
the same period, in 10 provincial towns
of England having an aggregate popu-
lation about equal to that of the me-
tropolis.
A VESSEL recently arrived at Liver
pool with the extraordinary freight of
three living whales, brought from the
coast of Labrador and intended for pub
lie aquariums. They were each about
IA feet long, feet girth and weighinga
half ton. On the voyage they were
placed in long wooden boxes, reposing
upon bed of sea weed, and being flush
ed with water from bucket every few
minutes. The flushing had the curious
effect of peeling off strips of their skin,
so that the coat will be entirely shed by
the time they get into their permanent
tanks. No food was given them on the
voyage. When they were being removed
ashore two of them, it is said, emitted q
very peculiar kind of scream.