San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-29
EDITORIAL BREyITiEs.

ppoF. YOUNG, Oh frihceeoh ooiiege'
aTake a railroad from the earth
: S't ne sun, with train running forty
v n. an hour without stops, and it
p sla take about 205 years and little
WIZ 20 make the journey" He esti-
wv Wv. the fare, at l cent per mile, to
w. nssssO,oOO. The figures kill the pro-
Jet ,u,n,r incident oc-
..od the other day on the banks OF
yarioundland. A Goldfish was capt
.1 in the stomach of which were
,,s0d five cards--four diamonds and q
a.de No event of recent years
.,. produced more excitement in scien-
20. circles than has this discovery that
mo goldfish is addicted to poker.
TaE Railway Age estimates the num-
,or If railroad employees in this country
%A75 men per mile of railroad. The
..osus returns give the following CLASH
s..tion of tho employees: General Off
osrs, 1876; general office clerks, 1855;
,tat;on men, 63,3S0; engineers, 1887;
.0Dductors, -, 419; all other train men,
a 954: machinists, 22,766; carpenters,
% 900: all other shopmen, 43, TAG; track
men. 1879, 4s9; all other employees, 81
col. aggregate, 41s,957. The general
oaicers number only 1876, or one to
sverv 124 employees. The aggregate
amount of the pay-rolls Of this army
during the year was 1896, 35O,O13. 1t is
stated that the total mileage of railroads
IN this country Jan. 1, 1888, was 49,
900 miles.
King HUMBERT, of Italy, drives him
self about in T cart, like any other
uuiet gentleman in Rome. When his
carriage gets blocked, as it frequently
does in the narrower streets, he takes it
more patiently than the foreigners do,
who admire the way in which he sits
and mods and laughs to acquaintance
in the crowd. Both the King and
Queen of Italy are extremely simple in
their appearance in public. When
the now Gear of Russia and his wife
we're last in Rome they were always
surrounded by guards. Humbert and
Marguerite went to call upon the Rus
sian royalties, driven in simple Vic
toria, and such was the modesty of their
equipage that they could scarcely get
through the guards.
The Virginia City Enterprise tells
ola fight that recently occurred in that
city between cat and hive of bees,
in which the bees got decidedly the
best Of it. The cats attention was at
tracted by the bees, and, thinking they
we're some new kind of game, dabbed
viciously at them as they passed in and
out of the hive. At last one day the
bees got angry and poured out of the
hive by the hundreds and darted for
the fur of tabby. The cat rolled herself
into ball and bit, spluttered and
clawed with all her might, but with no
effect, as the bees kept singing as
diligently as ever. After time she
was taken away, and was week re-
covering from the effect of the stings.
She cannot be persuaded to go near
the hive any more.
ABooK upon beer has lately been
published by, Mr.. Ferdinand Reiber,
native of Strasbourg, under the title OF
4Etudes Gambrinales; beer having
been invented, as the story goes, by
Gambrinus, legendary King. Though
the popularity of that beverage on the
Continent dates from but century
back, it seems destined to conquer
Europe, and to drive out wine event
ually. Mr.. Reiber proves, by coplous
statistics, that it has already invaded
the South of France, and that 1t Is
rapidly making its way in Italy. The
reason which he assigns for this uni
versal success is not little curious.
Beer, it seems, is the only liquor which
one can drink and enjoy while smoking;
50 that it may be said to follow In the
voto &c Is1.-