San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-23
HERE AND THERE.

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Britain.-Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.
THE Papal palace of Castel Gandolfo,
the summer residence of the Popes, near
Albano, village 10 miles outside OF
Rome, is to be restored for the recep-
ton of the new Pope.
A Mr.. ROBERT, of Dougherty, Ga,
lit his pipe in his carriage the other day,
and shortly after found the vehicle on
fire. The whole concern was burned
except the man, the iron, and the run
ming gear.
Four well known bon wants of Bos-
ton had dinner at Young's the other
night that cost $3.50. There were 13
courses and six kinds of wine, and it
took the chef two days to prepare the
banquet. -.
A SON of Senator Withers of Virginia
is the first victim of baseball this year,
having been struck on the head with a
bat slung by player who was in a
hurry to make first, receiving serious
and probably fatal injuries.
A BIoGRApHER says of the late Pope
that he was great billiard-player. He
had French table (without pockets) at
the Vatican, and, when his health al
lowed it, used to play two or three
games every evening before going to
bed. ........ ..t.
For guileless innocence the following
advertisement clipped from the Paris
Figaro ought to take the palm: I" A
young married couple desire to know a
lady or gentleman without heirs who
would give fortune to some young
married couple" .." ....
Two Augusta (Ga.) boys, aged IA
and 70, stole nearly $500 from their
uncle few days ago, and each provid-
ing himself with q revolver and a bottle
of whisky, started out to seek their for
tunes. They were soon caught, how
ever, and all but about 500 recovered.
THEY have the plague of wild geese
in some of the California wheat-produc-
ing counties. 1t cost one Colusa rancher
this year $3, 900 to keep the geese Oft his
grain, and it costs the county in the ag-
gregate more to fight the geese than it
does to run the county Govern ment.
The spire of St. Bernard's Church, at
Cohoes, N. Y, is to be surmounted by
a cross nine feet in length and five feet
in width. 1t will be composed of 1,5OO
glass prisms, and in its interior are to
be numerous gas-jets, which will be
lighted by the agency of an electric bat
terry. .... ....
BEN GHRvIN, an engineer on the
Fond du Lac narrow gauge, is one OF
the Oldest railway engineers in the coun-
try. He ran the first train into Mont
pelier, VT, in 1913. In 1859 he hauled
the first train out of Oshkosh into Chi
cago. He boarded his first train in the
Green Mountain State, and in this con-
tinuous service has never killed man,
woman, or child. ...
The North German GazeHe states
that the famous standard of Moham-
med is at the Museum of Artillery at
Turin, Italy. 1t was formerly in the
Mosque of Abou Ayoub, Constantinople,
but Baron Tecco, the Sandman Am
bassador, purchased it in 1889, of the
guardian of the mosque, and sent it to
King Charles Albert. 1t is of red silk,
with several verses from the Koran en-
broidered upon it in yellow letters. The
height is slightly over six feet, and the
width about six and a quarter feet.
A DUEL was fought the other day near
Athens, Ga, between prominent young
newspaper man and countryman. 1t
was sham duel to the quill man, but
stern reality to the countryman. The
order was given to fire. The country
man fired promptly, and to his untutor-
ed eye his opponent fell dead. "Foul
playl" cried one. "Police!" shouted
another. "Let me kill the scoundrel!"
shouted the dead mans second, and
seizing a double-barreled shotgun he
fired both barrels at the victor. AT this
demonstration the countryman took to
his heels.
Ten years ago Michael O'Donncll
was well-to-do market-gardener in q
Massachusetts village. One night he
heard some one in his garden, and, sup
posing it to be a thief, fired his revolver
at random in the dark for the purpose