The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-01-11
GOSSIP.

A Frenchman has invented system of
arithmetic in which 8 and make g. Evident
ly designed for plumbers.
This is the time ofthe year when the astute
miner thaws out frozen dynamite cartridges
and creates boom for the coroner.
A baby carriage manufacturer down East
has failed in business for want of patronage.
The married men of this country should be
ashamed of themselves.
A mania for new medicines is said to he pre-
vail in Germany, Leading to the indiscriminate
employment Of them in diseases of the most
opposite character.
Governor Hoyt was an exemplar of repub-
lican simplicity as to his Inauguration, and
everybody expected an administration OF
brains. But, alas his message fills nine col
umns. That settles it.
at is expected" says the Philadelphia
Press, ''that Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and a
lot of other fellows, after reading Logans
speech will admit that they don't know much
about the war after all.
The inmates of New York insane asylum
have started a new journal called the
Moon. Hints are already thrown out that the
capital is furnished from Greystone and that
it will advocate the claims of Mr.. Tilden to
the presidency.
A Muscatine lady named her canary Jim
Blaine. He did not sing much, but she loved
him tenderly, until the other day, when she
learned that Jim had laid an egg. This
teaches the lesson that no dependence can be
placed on politician. Fl
St. Louis Chronicle: A physician of this
city has begun to attend families at four dol
Iarc fnr IH
SEES for this sum to cure them as far as ply
stefan can, and to charge no more, though he
may have to make frequent calls.
Since the astronomers who originally pre-
dicted terrible things from the falling of the
great comet into the sun few months hence
have found out that the comet is not coming
back in nearly 500 years, popular interest in
the celestial visitor has rapidly waned.
Female children are sold from the estab-
lishment for foundlings at Canton at
seyeny-ive cents each. Their future may
be imagined This commerce is not APP
proved of by the government, it is said
but no means have been taken to crush it
out.
The bullion product of the Leadvlle dis
trict for the best quarter was as follows
Pounds of lead, 1900, 22S; ounces of silver,
I,396,2i2 ounces Of gold, 2.92I,; total cur
rency value, $S,7S3,I27. The total value OF
the output for the last four years is Sis, 22o,
S9S.
Globe Democrat: We are in pursuit OF
historical information as to the antiquity OF
draw poker. Jeff Davis lays he had never
heard of it up to 1894, and was in the army
them where, il anywhere, it ought to have
made its appearance. Can it be that the De-
claration OF Independence preceded the game
of draw poker nearly sixty years?
1t has been twenty-one years since Tom
Warrington pumped water for the soldiers
at Camp Dennison. The pumps have long
since gone to decay, and the soldiers have
forgotten what the water tasted like, but poor
old Tom has not got his money yet, although
a bill appropriating a sum tor this purpose
passed the house on the Sth of the present
month.
Missouri Republican: mo wonder poor
Gambetta died. He had "pepityphilite pes
icalite" There is a crushing awfulness in
that alliterative malady we couldn't expect
any man to hold up under. No wonder the
doctors were careful to conceal the nature of
his trouble from him. He couldn't have
survived five minutes after the naming OF this
disease.
Charles Kead told correspondent OF the
Philadelphia Times that the favorite character
of all his novels was Margaret. in ''Cloister
and Hearth" ITO me my characters have
an existence" he said, "not always pleasant,
it is true, but always fully indiyiduaized, thor
oughly human, and with possibilities of an
intimacy and an acquaintance. He thought
that his weakest story was "White Lies"
which he described as splendid conception
spoiled in the carrying out.
Mrs. George w. Melville, wife of one of
the Jeanette expedition survivors, according
to a writer in the Philadelphia Press, has
changed greatly since she was released from
the Norriston Insane Asylum. She has lost
great deal of flesh, and her eyes are now
sunk far back into their sockets, while her
face, pale and haggard, plainly shows the
mental suffering she has endured. At present
she is almost entirely destitute of food and
money. He servants have been discharged,
and the Homework is done by her daughter
Maud. The money allowed her by her hus-
band has all been spent, and she has now less
than dollar in the house, and barely food
enough to last three days.