The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-14
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

When so-called silk burns there's cotton in
it. Real silk shoulders into ash.
Edwin Booth will perform in Cologne
Bremen, Leipzig, Hanover and Vienna.
1t is estimated that it will cost Iowa rail-
roads ST., ooo, 900 to take care of the snow this
year.
1t is said that imported sheep are more
susceptible to the influence of the deadly loco
weed than are native sheep.
The gross receipts of the Cincinnati opera
festival amounted to $Io5 ooo The, College
of Music and Colonel Mapleson will each
clear SEC, 900.
The Duke of Wellington once joined a
famous London gambling house, that he
might be able to blackball his sons if they
ever became candidates.
Kansas City is always blowing about what
it has done, will do and can do. But this
amounts to nothing, as that village is known
as the Bluff City.-[Grip.
Alphonse Daudet's new French novel is
said to ''treat Of a subject never yet handled
by a French novelist" We suspect it treats
of morality.-[ Nonistown Herald.
Sixty Massachusetts, matrons have sent a
petition to the Legislature demonstrating
against the extension of suffrage and incl
dental political duties to women.
1t has been discovered that meerschaum
pipes of excellent quality, susceptible of the
highest polish, and even more readily colora-
BILE than the genuine ''spluma di mare" may
be made of potatoes.
A young lady who has been married over a
year recently wrote to her father in this city,
saying: "We have the dearest little cottage
in the world, ornamented with the most
charming little creepers you ever saw" The
old man read the letter and exclaimed,
"Twins, by thunder"
A peasant comes to a broker to exchange a
Ioo-mark note for silver. The broker gives
him Ioo-mark roll which the peasant opens
o::see if it is all right. He counts up to ~,
and then puts it all in his pocket. ut was all
right so far, SO l suppose the res: is right
too."-[ Fliegende Batter.
The New Orleans theatres are not the only
ones which do not permit kissing. A man
who undertook to express his disapprobatior,
in that way in New York theatre recently
was.warned by an usher to desist. and finally
threatened by policeman in attendance with
being ''took out violent"
The word tariff is derived from an old
Moorish town in the South of Spain, called
Tarifa. 1t is on the Straits of Gibraltar, and
while the Moors had possession of the South
Of Spain, this town was strongly fortified, and
all vessels passing through the Straits were
compelled to pay duty.
The Hebrew College of Cincinnati has for
the first time conferred the title of Doctor OF
Divinity. AS part of the ceremony, the
officiating rabbi said to the candidate, "The
seal of this title shall be the fraternal kiss.
which now place on your laureated brow"
at the same time bestowing the kiss.
A house-painter consumes forty-eight min
utes in lighting his pipe; fifty five minutes in
telling stories; twenty-five minutes in watch
ing kitchen girl; thirty-six minutes in bind
ing up sore finger, and quits work nine
minutes before six. How much time did he
beat his employer out Of and how long will il
take him to work himself to death?
The AIS street railways in this country and
Canada run rs, 900 cars, and more than 100, ooo
horses are in daily use. Calculating that the
average life of horse in street railway service
is four years, it makes the consumption OF
horses $4,000 per year. To feed this vast
number of horses requires annually $50. 600
tons of hay and II 900, 900 bushels of grain.