San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-29
HERE AND THERE.


A MOTHER and child at St. Antoine,
Can, died of hydrophobia.
THE careless use of Paris green is
poisoning many persons and cattle.
DESPITE the hard times, there are 60
leading styles of wedding stationery.
THE State Auditor of Virginia reports
satisfactory returns from the Mofiett
register.
A SCHEME is on foot for the introduce
ton of reindeer into Manitoba as beasts
of draught. A herd of six has been Or
dered.
The hair of New Orleans belle will
be bright purple until it RECEIVERS from
her attempt to bleach it from black to
yellow.
REV. MIR. WooD, of Arlington, Ky,
was sick on Sunday, and his wife aston
ished the congregation by delivering a
half-hour sermon from the pulpit.
KHEDIv, not Khedive, is the correct
way Of spelling Ismail Pasha's title.
Authority-Capt. Burton, tho traveller,
who is intimate with his Highness.
"MARRIAGE Ceremonies Performed
Free" is the sign displayed by an Ohio
Justice. He keeps tavern, and is sat
isfied with the profit on what the bridal
parties eat and drink.
In the Island of Guernsey, one Of the
Channel Islands, is tree of camellias
So feet broad by IA feet high. 1t is said
to be the largest in Great Britain,
possibly in the world.
A PRETTY schoolmistress in Maiden,
Mass, kept boy Is minutes after
school as a punishment, and when the
time was up he asked her if she couldn't
make it half an hour.
The game of bluff costs something
even if it is successful. The expense to
Britain of taking the Indian forces to
Malta amounts to $3,740,0OO. Quite a
nice little sum for an excursion trip.
A LONDON paper says that Sir Charles
Nugent, who inherited a baronetcy and
$50, 900 year when II, owed $4,000
by the time he was 81. Money-lenders
try to get mere boys who are heirs to
property to borrow of them.
AcAMEL ranch is owned by D. Mather
of Bastrop, Texas. He claims that
camels are no more trouble to raise
than horses or cattle. The colts for
three or four days are rather tender and
require close attention, but after that
they take their chances with the herd.
They are extremely docile, and as the
females give birth to a colt every year
they are profitable, the animals selling
when reared at from 5000 to $500 each.
Mr.. Mather says a well broken camel
will travel more than one hundred miles
a day.
SAYS the Atlanta Sunny South: "We
know daughters, whose snuff-bottles are
concealed in their rooms, where they
use the contents constantly, without the
knowledge of their parents. We have
seen, at neutrality-suspicious., girls go into
Mysteries when deprived for a day or
two of their snuff, and borrow tobacco
from the servants as substitute until
they could obtain their usual stimulant
of Scotch or Macaboy; and we are well
acquainted with three sisters-beautiful
young girls, were it not for the sallow
hue furnishing of their complications
who are at present under medical treat
ment for arrangement of the nervous
system and digestive organs arising from
their constant use of snuff"
THE probability that colliery explo-
sions are promoted if not caused by the
presence of fine particles of coal-dust in
the atmosphere of the mines is increased
by fact which Mr.. w. Galloway has
ascertained. This is, that air contain
ing such dust is rendered highly explo-
sive by the addition of a very small pro-
portion of fire-damp (carburetted n.y.
drogen). In an atmosphere of this kind,
a blasting shot or naked light may oc-
casion q terrible explosion. The dam