San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-13
HERE AND THERE,

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latest novelty in New York, and the
horses like them.
NEw styles In, stationery ARE orna-
mented with grotesque old English
figures in color. N
Or the 1872 men composing the senior
class at Yale this year, So do not use to-
bacco. os sss vynN ta,,,s,lD 81.
DRY BREAD and toast are prescribed
by Miss Corson for fat persons who want
to be lean. 'sie wesH'
,AnoRsE owned BY . Nashville man
swallowed q spider the other day and
died instantly. % bsse lili ,a,ws ,'fss
IT is said that one Indian expert with
a spear can in one month deplete the
best salmon-river in the world o7i
JOHN E. LANeDoN, Of Seneca Falls,
N. Y, shaved off his. beard, and was
next day seized with -lock-jaW, dying
within three days.
oINGRATITUDH is strongest in a coro-
ner. You may do him every Kindness,
and yet you can't tell what moment he
will sit on yous-Oa CITY DERRICK.
A CHICAGO man has invented q kind
of ink specially suitable for lovers. 1t
remains, bright for five, days, after use,
and then fades out, leaving the paper
entirely blank. Thus the most gushing
Of correspondence would be safe against
exposure. -.
WIN. F. .SAYLER, of Pawtucket, r. L.,
has given $4,000 to Brown University
at Providence, R. l., to be used in build
ing a memorial hall where Rotations
and readings may be held. The gift is
in memory Of his son, who died in the
college Q year or two ago. la lHr
i, The German Telegraph Office is en-
ploying the telephone quite extensively;
6s stations are already provided with
this instrument, Al Others will have it
in a few weeks,and Ill more before the
end of the year; thus there will be then
a, total of 22O telephone stations in Ger
many. s3r5s % .uogmi 10 JBlog0il
Il; A BANK-NoTE album has been made
by German inventor, the leaves of
which are composed of asbestos. 1t is
said these albums will protect bank
notes or other valuable documents to
such an extent that if they are laid be-
tween the leaves and the album is closed
firmly, they even remain legible after
being burnt to cinders. Il ,.,,
IT is estimated that $1,000 young
women have been graduated from fe-
male colleges and seminaries this sea-
son. just think of il! $1,000 young
womenwilh their young minds full of
French conversations, mental philoso-
ply, white pekays and deferential cal
culus, and not one of them that can
make a green apple pie or map out
constitutional amendment for the sub
urbs of a--pair Of. pants.-St. Louis
Journal.
A PARROT created some excitement
in a baggage-car on the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy Railroad the other
day. The cage enclosed in paper was
put on a coffin, and was soon forgotten.
As the conductor and other trainmen
were passing through the car they
hearda sepulchral voice issuing from
the coffin, crying, "Lemme out!"
They thought dead man had come to
life until the bird was discovered.
The cruelty Of which a Wisconsin
wife complains, in her suit for divorce,
is that her husband tied her securely and
shaved her head. The defense is that
she bleached her black hair to lemon
color by the use of acid, and that he,
deeming such athing highly scandalous,
took the only means Of undoing what
she had done. He says that he bought
a wig for her, initiating her natural hair,
SO that her bare head might be conceal
ed while nature was remedying the dis
fguration. "a '.ifFa To- l,bl Att'fif
CONCERNING the so-called rain-tree of
Pew, the water does not ooze from the
trunk, and hardly ever falls in such
quantity as to convert the ground into
a swamp. The fact appears to be that
the liquid which falls from the leaves
and branches is produced by multitude
of circades that live on the juices of the
tender leaves. This appears TO be anal
ogous to the production of honey dew
from the lime tree by the agency Of aph-
ides. s' a'
A FEW drylInes in the official diary