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The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-15

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FUN IN CONGRESS.

The determination of Hon. S. s. Cox, Of
New York, to be funny in all situations is a
national infrmity characteristic. 1t contrasts
happily with the vicious animus that drove his
colleague, Van Voorhees,, TO the verge Of ex-
pulsion and leaves US to wonder that New York
talent comes TO Congress so judiciously
assorted. On the sd instant Mr.. Cox had
four minutes for speech, into which he pro-
posed to crowd some sharp things. "There
has not BEEN" he said, "for 20 years such a
failure as this Congress. You will be known
as the great American Congressional failure. "
But Mr. Cox should be aware that the emf
uence will be lacking in a succession Of Con
orsssional failures. But it was funny and
supplemented With " laughter " in the printed
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-15
A DIPLOMATIC CHRISTENING

The christening of General Trevino's child
has political significance which has thus far
escaped the argus.eyed press correspondents
who furnish us with the latest news of the
International Infant. Ii is that the Mexican
Government is DESTROYS of conciliating the
Church party, the sole remaining potent fac
ton of all the number which brought about
Mexico's internal disturbances; and of thus
harmonizing interests hitherto supposed to be
conflicting. This conciliatory spirit is evinced
by the selection of the most rigid of church
disciplinarians, his grace Monies de Oca,
Bishop Of Monterey, to conduct the baptis-
NAL ceremony and of some of the most de-
vout eccleSiastics as honored attendants. But
if anything more is necessary to show the
policy Of the Government it may be seen in
the intimate relations of Bishop Oca with ex-
Presidant Diaz, the recognized leader Of the
Government party. Until recently, though
each gave just recognition to the others
merits, their lines of conduct, mapped out in
conformity with their ideas for the advanc.
ment of the intesests of their supporters,
would not permit them to sustain the intimacy
which at present SubSists between them.
But now, apparently, the church
is cognizant of the ambition of
Generals Diaz, Trevino, Naranjo, and the
other promoters of Mexican progress, to per-
petuate, if possible, the peace and prosperity
they brought by force of arms to their coun-
try; and, after suffering the destruction of lis
monasteries, the closing of its schools, the de-
privaton of its powers and privileges, con-
WINGED OF the futilty of waging war on the
mighty combination resulting from its own
oppressive system, it will adopt every means
available to strengthen the ties in process OF
formation. Incident effects of the execution
Of the plan will probably be the restoring 10
the church the control of the properties of
which it was despoiled, and of those prvl-
eyes it formerly enjoyed which were the least
menacing to the welfare of the republic.
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THURSDAY. MARCH Is. 1888.

THE Democratic press throughout the
country, and particularly in the South, seems
to be soured; to run down the country, abuse
Government, belttle our greatness as a
Nation, is their chief occupation. lisa bad
sign and ought to warn every patriotic Amer
lean to steer clear of a political party that
thinks so little of the Republic.
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IL. T.. MOFFITT.
LAND SALE.

The executors of the estate of A. Nette, de-
ceased. will sell nj public auction, on Tuesday
Ing Ia said e tlte. Lot 10 and half of II front
ing on GOnz; lie street, between Sycamore and
walnut street. One lot on east side of Losnya
premises now occupied by the Evening Light
Printing Company, Commerce Street Also
other property belonging to the estate. 2-2O-tf
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PRO LA NATION !
SPECIAL ELECTION.

Whereas, a vacancy exists in the office of City
Councilman, from the Second ward, caused by
the death OF Alderman George w. Caldwell,
and said vacancy occurring more than nine
months prior To an election now, therefore |.
James n. French, Mayor of the city of San An
tonic, in accordance with section y of the city
charter, and by virtue Of the power conferred
an election be held, in the Second ward of this
CITY on
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J. c. BREEDING & SON,
ARCHIT ECTS.
Room No. 8, upstairs, i'm Telephone building,
southwest corner of SOlcdad and
Houston streets.
PATENT TIN ROOFING PLATES.

The best in use. Manufactured by the Ma
tiOnal Sheet Metal Roofing company, Nash
yilc Tennessee. 1t makes the best roof and
is very ornamental. The plates are Of differ
ent sizes and may be of any grade of tin de-
sired. Expansion and contraction from heat
and cold does not effect this roofing. Farmers
can use il rs readily rs shingles 1t is fire proof
and ornamental. 1t is very popular where il
the agent in the Telephone building, southwest
corner of SOledad and Houston streets, room
No. ). upstairs. j. &. BREEDING & SON,
BIB I'm Architects.
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SATURDAY, March n, PrOXimo,

for the election of an Aldermen to an the un-
expired term Of George W. Caldwell: deceased.
The polls will he opened from 3 u. m 10 q
y. M, corner Of Neramcndi and Sulcdad streets.
Presiding officer, Max NeuCndOrif
In testimony whereof ! hercuntO
--'- sign my name and have caused the
: LIS. seal of the city 10 be affixed this LIST
- day of March A. ID. 1882.
L, p. CaudOn, J. H. FRENCH,
City Clerk. Mayor.
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Fine Draining.

and tirst-Class work in all branches Of painting
speciality 10y those reliable painters AT "a east
Houston street. Page i HerwiCk are fiTst-cass
Workmen of long standing in this community
and will do justice 10 customers, l-l-s3-3m
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Miscellaneous.

A great variety of fancy and practical house
hold goods on exhibition. Rallies of beautiful
and valuable articles, amusements of all kinds,
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berger. Manager.
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TO BUILDERS !

The firm of Martin Schryver, of San An
tonic, Texas, one of the largest lumber dealers
in the state have recently opened II yard in
Eagle Pass, the present terminus OF the Meyi-
can Pacific railroad extension, and have now
on the grounds, and are daily receiving the
largest assortment of lumber in West Texas
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and Chicago, consisting of rough and dressed
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hnTs, shingles, doors, sash, blinds, mUuldings
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On the ground will he found the manager,
} IL i'm IL. T.. MOFEITT.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-15

The iron and steel men have got them
selves, or propose to get the Secretary of the
Treasury, in a dilemma that denotes some
talent for bungling. They have applied to
the Secretary to protect the new law from
violation by the special appointment of an
agent to watch the importation of crop ends
of steel blooms for fear they will be snug
eled under duty, which is IS per cent. ad
yaIorem. A law which is not, with ordinary
customs officials, able to protect itself ought
to be broken, and we tender our clsndestine
request to the Secretary to leave the iron and
steel men to their fate. The country is get
ting tariff on the brain more than ever.
SAM LEE, the colored contestant from South
Carolina, whom Chairman of the Election
Committee Calkins is responsible for denud-
ing of the two sessions pay of a Congress-
man, was slouching around the Interior
Department few days ago for employment,
wiling to engineer a scrubbing brush, or ap.
DIV his talents as a chief OF division. Sans
election device was embanassingly thin and
lust how he hung himself on that South Caro-
lima question is little obscure, but his whole
purpose was to shove out with the pay. Sam
has been Waterman in the capitol building
before and knows the bearings of place and
nav all through it.
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THE itinerant Governor of Louisiana has
run himself sick. His excellency is always
in pursuit of something that refuses to be
oyertaken. If the Government gets into a
knot he hastens to relieve it, and drops off,
himself, for relief in perspective repose. But
there is one thing about the Governor by
which he is to be distinguished from his illus
trious brother and predecessor, and that is
that as a convvalist he is never known to
blink an eye but keep steadily at fourth proof.
The Governor has recently let down in nest
of his relatives, and is rehearsing State
matters.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-11-14
The Hot Water Cnre.

Just at the moment when cold water
cures, milk cures, whey cures, grape
cures and starvation cures occupy in Eu-
rope the attention of those who, perhaps,
are in great measure personally response
BILE for wanting any cure at all, a new
one has sprung up in this country and
has already found followers in England.
The drinking of hot water was an old
fashioned practice among persons with
impaired digestive organs. Hot water as
cosmetic has greatly advanced in favor
during the present London season, while
the practice of drinking water as near to
boiling point as is possible has taken to
itself supplementary treatment in the
United States. The probably apocryphal
saying attributed TO Diane de Poictiers
that she owed the preservation of her
beauty to the use of cold water is grad
ually becoming discredited, and Phyllis
no longer laves her lovely features in the
cool translucent wave, but in the same
made almost boiling hot. AS, a few
years ago, people were enthusiastic about
cold Tubing, most meritorious when the
ice on the top required to be broken with
a bootjack, so is a kind of scalding propa-
ganda In progress at the present mo-
ment, and those who clung most desper-
ately to the geld tub are now quietly
pushed into lukewarm if not hot water.
The matter of external application
seems thus to be settled for the present,
but the swallowing of scalding water is
recommended at various times and sea-
sons. Many excellent people begin the
day with it, and declare its effect excel
lent; while others "never drink any
thing else after dinner, insisting that it
is sovereign remedy against dyspepsia.
The quantity taken as a dose from one
to two tumblers, is a little amazing at
first for there is a maist series deal o.
drinking" in pint eff very hot water.
Two tumblers are generally prescribed,
to be taken an hour and a half before
eating, the Complementary part of the
cure meal of chopped beefsteak.-NeaO
Y0rb Hour.
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The WISH-RING.

A young farmer who was very unlucky
sat on his plow n moment to rest, and
Just then an old woman crept past and
cried: "Why do you go on drudging
day and night without reward Walk
two days till you come to fir tree that
stands all alone in the forest and over
tops all other trees. If you can hew it
down you will make your fortune"
Not waiting to have the advice re-
peated the farmer shouldered his AK
and started on his journey, Sure enough,
after tramping two days, he came to the
fir tree, which he instantly prepared to
cut down. Just as the tree swayed, and
before it fell with crash there dropped
out of its branches a nest containing two
eggs. The eggs rolled to the ground and
broke, and there darted out of one a
young eagle and out of the other rolled a
gold ring. The eagle grew larger, as if
by enchantment, and when it reached the
size of a man it spread its wings as if to
try their strength, then, soaring upward,
it cried: "You have rescued me take
as a reward the ring that lay in the other
egg; it is a wish-ring. Turn it on your
finger twice, and whatever your wish is
it shall be fulfilled. But remember there
is but single wish in the ring No
sooner is that granted than it loses its
power, and is only an ordinary ring.
Therefore, consider well what you desire,
so that you may never have reason to re-
pent your choice So speaking, the
eagle scared high in the air, circled over
the farmers head a few times, then
darted, like an arrow, toward the east.
The farmer took the ring placed it on
his finger, and turned on his way home
ward. Toward evening he reached a
town where jeweler sat in his shop be-
hind counter ON which lay many costly
rings for sale. The farmer showed his
own, and asked the merchant its value
at isn't worth a straw" the jeweler
answered.
Upon that the farmer laughed heart
lily, and told the man that it was wish
ring, and of greater value than all the
rings in the shop together.
The ieweler was a wicked, designing
man, so he invited the farmer TO remain
as his guest over night. "For," he ex-
planned, "only to shelter a man who
owns wish-ring must bring luckn
So he treated his guest to wine and
fair words; and that night, as the farmer
lay sound asleep, the wicked man stole
the magic ring from his finger and slipped
on, in its place, common one which he
had made TO resemble the wish-rinR.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-11-14
Triumph of Surgery.

Modern surgery is able to provide a
man with new nose, new lips, new eye
lids, and an artificial throat 1t can do
more it can, by the process known as
skingrafting, provide him with new
skin. The following description of the
process isreported by an English surgeon
The patient, pretty little girl of eight,
was admitted into st. Georges hospital.
Two years previously her dress had
caught fire, burning both legs from the
hips to the knees severely. After years
treatment the left thigh had healed up;
but the right had never got better, and
presented a terrible ulcer, extending all
down the outer side For four months
she lay there without any signs of i'm
provement. On May the child was
brought into the operating theatre and
placed under the influence of chloroform.
Two small pieces of skin were then
shipped from the back with a pair of sharp
pointed scissors, and imbedded-planted,
in fact-in the granulations or "proud-
flesh" of the wound-two tiny atoms,
scarcely bigger than a pins head, and
consisting of little more than the cuticle
or outer skin which we raise in blisters
by rowing or exposure to the hot sun.
Five days later no change was visible,
and by-and-bye the operation was con
sidered to have failed, since the pieces OF
skin had disappeared, instead of grow
ing, as had been expected. But twelve
days after the operation two little white
cicatrices appeared where the seed had
been sown; and in my notes find that
week later these were big enough to be
dignifed as islands of new tissue.
The most wonderful part of it was that
not only did these islands grow and in
crease rapidly in circumference, but the
fact of their presence seemed to stimulate
the ulcer itself, which forthwith took on
a healing action around its margin Sew
eral more gratis were implanted subse-
quently, including morsels from Mr., Pol
locks arm, from my own, and from the
shoulder Of a negro; the last producing
a white scar-tissue like the rest In two
months the wound was healed, and the
little patient was discharged cured
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The oldest Woman in the World.

At Auberine-en-Royans, village in
the Dauphine, situated between Valence
and Grenoble, may be seen an old woman
living in a hut in narrow street who
has reached the extraordinary age of 1873
years She has no infirmity except
slight deafness, being in full possession of
her mental faculties,
According to her marriage certificate
she completed in January last her Tooth
year since marriage. She was "canti-
Mere under the First Empire, and had
two sons killed at the battle Of Friedland
and in Spain. She is supported entirely
on the aims given her by visitors, who 90
from great distances to see her as an OBJ
ject of curiosity, and her neighbors help
her to do her household work
She lives almost exclusively on soup
made with bread, TO which is added a
little wine and sometimes a little brandy.
DR.. Bonnie, who practices in the neigh
borhood, states that she is never i'll. Her
skin is like parchment, but she is com
paratively upright, and is Of scrupulously
clean habits. London Lancet.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-11-14
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

One of the naturalists gives the com
forting assurance as he calls it, that a
bee can sting only once. Once is enough.
A muff is defined as ga thing which
holds a girls hands and don't squeeze it."
Correct; and any fellows ga muff who
will hold girls hand without squeezing
it.
Emory Storrs is said to pf sess 800
neckties. What advantage to lin if he
gain a thousand neckties and loses his own
collar-button under the bureau 2-Neso
York Graphic.
A scientist asks: elbow was man dis
tributed on the earth2" Well, brother,
Judging from a painful experience, we
would say it was by means of an insid-
ious banana peel
Almost any man will forget thisten-dollar
umbrella when he leaves a restaurant;
but give a woman parasol worth 81 and
take her into fifty restaurants, and she
will not forget it once.-Plck.
1t is one of the unexplainable things
of moral ethics how people decide so
prom tly as to how little rain and bad
weather it takes to keep them away from
prayer-meeting; and how much is re-
quired TO keep them away from good
show.
"No, SIR" said the young lawyer who
was paying attention to a fair maiden,
"no, sir, l don't like circuit court.
There's no fun in being chased around
the house by cross dog before getting
a chance to dive in the front door. y
Ne'o York. journal.
"Do you know why you and George
remind me of two shades of one colorp
asked a young lady of a companion who
had been engaged for good many years.
NO." was the reply, "pll tell you,
then; it's because you don't match. y
PHILADELPHIA CaH
Mrs Langtry says that Oscar Wilde is
destined to do great deeds in the near
future. This probably means that he in
tends to destroy the manuscript of the
new play on which he has been engaged
for some time, and embark inthe respect
able and ennobling occupation of saw
ing wood. .-No7iStOlOn Herald.
A gentleman visiting a school had
book put into his hand for the purpose of
examining class. The word "inherit-
ancen occurring in verse, the querist
interrogated one Of the youngsters as
follows "What is patrimony2" " Some
thing left by father" What would
you call it if left by Il mother4" Matri-
mony."
A Norristown married man can heavily
discount Vennor as prognostieator
When the former starts for home at
o'clock in the morning he always pre-
diets storm within an hour, and
never made miss but once, and then he
found his wife sound asleep when he
reached home. Next morning she de-
clared that she had been drugged.--
NoyriStOCR Herald.
What are you doing thereY" de-
manded policeman of man who sat
on a fence howling. "That feller in the
house shot my dog because he howled,
and I'm carrying out the dogs contract.
I'm going to howl here until think the
dogs death has been sufficiently avenged.
If he shoots me my son viii howl out my
contract, and if further harm should be-
fall my family my wife will come out and
howl till he can't rest. Oh, but we are
howlers p'-ArkaHsa0 Irar6ter.