San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-01-12
HERE AND THERE.

MANY Minnesota farmers were plow-
ing on the LIST of December.
TWENTY families in Burlington, w.,
have lately been made childless through
diphtheria.
THE proprietor and manager of the
Newark baby-show absconded, and the
foolish fathers and mothers got no
prizes.
CONNECTICUT tramps, on receiving
bread and butter, stick it to the window
panes of their beHefactors. They want
pie.
A WHITE man who came to San NAN
cisco nine years ago with Japanese
wife is dying by inches from leprosy.
His wife died of the disease. "r
DONALD MCKAY, who won fame by
capturing the Modoc Chief Captain
Jack, was himself captured by the Phila-
delphia police for being drunk in the
gutter.
THE latest Geographic enterprise Is
the formation of a company that will
transmit messages in the handwriting
of the sender. The first portion of the
line will be between Philadelphia and
New York.
Two Dubuque rivals for Sunday
night without molestation with their
girl, agreed to run race to her house,
the first there not to be interfered with
by the other. They both broke down
before they got to the house.
DRAGON, moss, olive, lizard, myrtle,
sea-foam, Nile, salad, bottle, bronze and
hunters green, are the various shades OF
this one color, now the favorite of fash
ion. The pea green and apple green,
known to the last generation, are never
mentioned.
THINGS are looking up in Arizona.
The soil and the mines can now be
worked without fear of Indians; the
rough food of the old days has given
place to better fare; stage, telegraph,
and mail lines begin to traverse the Ter
ritory in every direction; the mines
yield handsomely, and the future is full
of promise.
THE Georgia farmer who has carried
off the palm this year is Mr.. James ID.
Booker. He raised 60 bales of cotton,
1000 bushels of corn, 500 of potatoes,
thousand of oats and wheat, and rs
hogs. The newspapers chronicle this
as the greatest harvest by any one man
since the war.
Ina communication to the London
Times, Sir Samuel Baker suggests a
plan for diverting portion of the river
Nile into Nubian deserts. Its rich sed-
iment would be deposited on the sands,
Transforming them into lands suitable
for cotton culture, which he claims
would render England independent Of
America.
The Queen of Madagascar, accord
ing to statement made by the Rev.
Mr.. Price, of the Betsiloe Province,
supports - native preachers in that
province, and has ordered Government
laborers to assist in the erection of some
churches that have been built. The
people are compelled to attend public
worship by the police and Government
overseers.
A SAN FRANCISCO correspondent
thinks that the restaurants in that city
beat the world. In some Of them,
he says, that are handsomely furnished,
a meal of soup, turkey, ham and celery
may be had for Is cents. You have
what you ask for and no charge is
made. Over the bar is placard,
d" Drinks Is cents" The drinks carry
the place. For % cents fine dinner is
given.
WHILE family in Springfield, Mass,
were at tea the other evening, they were
constantly disturbed by the ringing OF
the street door-bell. They looked out
of the window and, seeing no one, sup
posed it was done by mischievous boys.
When at length the exasperated house
wife went to the door she found poor
little, half-starved dog, with the bell,
pull in his mouth, ringing to be let in
out OF the cold.
A STRANGE scene was witnessed by an
English visitor at Odessa on the first
day of the present Jewish year. Late
in the afternoon q large number of the
$4,000 or 10000 Jews inhabiting Odessa
wended their way toward the sea, with
.Lo ,.,,rrn-n nf throwing their last Year's