The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-01-31
GENERAL AND Personal.

| Divorce court reports are about as in
| teresting as French novel.
Congress will not go to sleep this week.
Susan B. Anthony is in Washington.
OF the 44oo burials during November last
in Paris 1927 were without religious cere-
mony.
1t costs the Chinese SI54752, 900 every
year for ceremonies to quiet the spirits OF their
ancestors.
Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1851, was writing
stories at So apiece for Peter Farley, of
| New Haven.
Tom Thumb tried to knock down a Chica-
go hackman, and was mad because the man
didn't know it. ...
For alternating from her her husbands affec-
tons New York woman has sued her father
in-law for SEQ, 900.
Boston Transcript: Hartford is having a
series of 5 cent concerts. The managers
should engage Nickelini.
The Houston Age thinks the bureau of
statistics and history is simply an immigra-
ton bureau, and ought to be abolished.
"Why is young man like kernel of
corn?" asked a young lady. Because"
said mother, ''he turns white when he pops"
| q
years piccaninny laudanum in order that she
might attend fancy ball. He passed away
gently.
| Memphis Christian ladies unsuccessfully at
| tempted to attract a crowd at a dinner for the
benefit of a church by inviting Mrs. Langtry
| to be present.
Methodical man going through the form
alities of an introduction: "Let me present
you, si,rto my wife and daughter. The elder
lady is my wife, ...
Norristown Herald: A most economical
woman lives in this town. Alter the death of
her infant she used the remainder of the
soothing syrup to poison rats.
Some of the English railway companies
have adopted the American system of selling
| tickets at offices away from the stations, and
| advertise the fact as an extraordinary facility.
Noting Jay Gould's purchase of a cemetery
lot at big Inquire, the Chicago Times is fear
full lest this is, the beginning of an attempt
! to get control of the route to the shining
shore.
Members of the Manhattan club, New
York, have declared that Gebhardt proved
himsely to be coward by not fighting when
challenged by the ST. Louis reporter, Cum
bingham.
Philadelphia News: SIS it crime to be
woman?" asks Lille Devereux Blake. 1t is
not crime, Lille, but being woman when
you don't want to be is certainly great mis-
| fortune.
considering all the fun the Lily is having
out West" says the Philadelphia Times, sit
| is plain that her friend Henrietta Pigeon re-
turned to England too soon to secure her due
and proper share"
In Ohio married women retain all property
acquired before or after marriage as their
separate property. They can not sell or mort
gage real estate except by the husband join
| ing in the conveyance.
Miss Pike, living near Talladega, Alabama,
and Mr.. Thomas Hays were married at 7: 30
same night she eloped with a young man
named Rucks, one of the guests.
Because he was prevented from continuing
| his studies, reading novels and making for
himself brilliant career St. Petersburg boy
of Is ''resoved to get rid of such a rough, un-
cultured father" and killed him.
1t is said that Mrs. Da Ponte, of New Or
| leans, has gone to Washington for the pur-
pose of selling to the United States the origin
al parchment draft of the Confederate States
constitution for $50, ooo-if she can.
A young iran borrowed money from a
woman to pay for a license to marry her
daughter and then used the license to marry
another girl. And yet some people say Con-
gressional timber is becoming scarce in this
country.
Detroit Free Press: Baptist clergymen
have succeeded in living in the State OF Ten
nessee on an annual salary of 500, but slip
perry elm and sassafras have become so scarce
that the good men must have an increase or
go under.
A jury consisting of one man sat in judg-
nent on the suit of William Pelham, against
the city of New York. for SI342 back pay for
services as a policeman, in that city last. Fri
day. The one man jury found in favor of
plaintiff for $1,000.
Mobile Register: Ben Butler wants to be
President. If Butler runs as the candidate of
one party and Sheridan of the other, the
voters of the country won't care about travel
ing either road pointed out to them, but will
feel like taking to the woods.
At a church fair in Nebraska, several Young
ladies added largely to the proceeds at the
rate of 10 cents hug. An editor who had
left his purse in his other trousers got EN-.
braces all around without paying, as he de-
clared himself vehemently in favor of free
press.
Oh, see the girl Is the girl pretty? Oh,
yes, indeed, the girl is pretty. She is very
pretty, and she knows it, too. Do all pretty
girls know they are pretty &? Oh, no, they do