The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-08-10
BREVlTY BASKET.
Filled with Mention of Minor Events and
Funny Items.

Filled with Mention of Minor Events and
Funny Items.
ITO think that he should strike and be
earning no money and right in the ice-cream
season, too Oh, its too bad - Tele-
grapher's Best.
The recent irregularities Of the telegraph
service has kept more than one man from CO.
ing in among the sharks and getting ruiaed by
futures; but there is no gratitude in this world.
The man who signs an application for pardon
deserves to be robbed, have his house burned,
and he knocked down when the criminal hood
lum he helps release is restored to citizenship.
A Chicago man dropped dead in a saloon
after drinking a glass Of soda water This
shows that the fumes Of Chicago whisky will
kill a man, even il he doesn't drink 1.-THE
Dairy.
Cucumber and root beer are al the rage
among the colored people of the south, and
colored people who want to be in the fashion
are having a terrible time OF it Oil City Biz
zard.
John Kelly is said to be worth S., ooo, ooo. :"
A II an who has 10000 votes to sell, and
chance to sell them over again every year.
ught TO accumulate a little something
Buffalo Express.
The oldest piano in North Carolina is at
Raleigh. 1t was made in 1880 by Muzio,
Clement CO., Cheapside, London, and is
about ripe for being placed in a summer resort
hotel parlor.-Boston Post.
Some workmen while putting up a sign at a
Newport store dropped two OF the big letters,
both HIS on the pavement. dozen New
porters Immediately exclaimed, GLOW delight
fully English. "-Philadelphia News.
French women are employed in the harvest
fields OF New Hampshire as reapers. They
are required to do the same work as men, get
the same wages, So a day, and their work is
fully as satisfactory, II not more so.
Detroit Free Press: Woman is naturally a
timid, shrinking creature, but it is the bathing
suit that reveals the shrinkage the most The
bathing suit will make an apparently plump
woman shrink until she is lean and scTawny."
An Exchange says that the newspaper edi-
tors never Strike" but the assertion is not
borne out by the facts. An editor once struck
so hard that a wild eyed man. with long hair
and a long poem, went down stairs seven steps
at a time and landed on his spinal column at
the bottom.-Nouistown Herald.
at is said that Miss Maggie Mitchell re-
lreshes herself between the acts, when play.
ing, by sponge bath with rum" A great
many young men in the audience refresh them
elves between the acts in pretty much the
same manner--with the difference that the
bath is applied internally. --Norristown Herald.
The other day iend in human shape went
into the hat room at the Palace during dinner
hour and folded strips of Newspaper inside
the bands Of every hat on the rack. Every
guest insis ed that somebody had stolen his hat
and the exercise wound upwith az scrappipp
matches. San francisco Post.
A lady being asked why plain girls otter
get married sooner than handsome ones, re.
piled that it was lowing mainly to the tact o.
the girls and the vanity and want of tact or
the part Of the men," " How do you max,
that outW asked a gentleman. ''In thi.
way" answered the lady 1.-THE plain girl,
iiatter the men and so please their vanity
while the handsome ones wait to be hatteret
by the men, who has not the tact to do it."
A young lady in the rural districts, says tn,
Boston Post, wrote to us asking advice abou
having dress made. Now, we didn't know
what to say. But we wanted to accommodate
her, so we got fashion magazine, copied I
description Of dress, and sent il to her. Yes
terday the queerest creature you ever saw
bounced into our Office. "Do you see thi
dress 2" she demanded. "This is the thin,
you advised me TO make. I've worn i here 4
let you see it; look at it," Then she went on
She had caused the dress to be made up
worn 1t to the city, expected to be right il
style, and found II to be terror. Inyesuga
ton showed that the magazine was Of IS47,