San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-11-02
NEWS BREVITIES.

Frank SiddalI, the Philadelphia soap
man, SAYS: II have confined my adver'
Using entirely to newspapers. The man
who does not read newspaper does not
use soap"
RED Top" the new residence of the
president, is nearly ready for OcCupan.
CIV. On the 18th OF November the servi-
ces of installation will be concluded by
mailing horseshoe over the front door
Ex-senator Lyman Trumbull, who
looks rs young as he did thirty years
ago, lives in a little frame cottage, near
the Douglas monument, In Chicago. His
habits and manners are admirably sim
pie.
On the occasion Of her semi. centennial
Jubilee as monarch, June 20, 1887
Queen Victoria will be surrounded in
Westminster Abbey by 800 princes.
dukes, earls, archbishops. peeresses and
ladies af high nobility.
Among the presents at the wedding
of Miss Angelo Seligman, daughter OF
Mr.. James Seligman, the banker, Tues
day night, to Mr.. Gross. OF New York,
were four checks-One for S5O.OOO. an
other for $4,000 and Two for $1,000.
A search of the effects of Hannah
Sands, who lived alone near Rye, Win
chester county, and who WAS supposed
to be very poor, has revealed 500, 900 In
money and bonds sewed up in an old
skirt. The only relatives are four
nephews, who will get 100000 each.
The soil of Nevada, which was
thought to be, as general thing, arid
and incapable of cultivation, IS found to
be remarkably well adapted, with the
assistance OF irrigatiOn-and in some in
stances without it-fOr the raising OF
all sorts of crops that are produced else.
where under the same climatical cOndi-
| ton.
Less than 100 years ago S65 were
raised among the Baptists of Noting
ham, England. for missions to the
heather. That is recorded as one of the
earliest collections with that distinct OBJ
ject in view; but last year SlO,75O,OOC
were given by the Protestant churches
in Europe and America for the same
purpose.
A swarm of bees made its home in hOl.
low iron column of the Illinois Central
railway bridge near LaSalle five years
ago. The column is one foot in diameter
and twenty feet long. The bees have
filled it with hon9y, and possess their
sweets In safety, as no one can get at
them without breaking the column and
thus destroying the bridge.
Lighting the Parsees' sacred fire il
an expensive and elaborate process on
the institution of a new temple. Sixteen
different kinds Of wood, in 1909 pieces OF
fuel, are required to obtain the sacred
flame, which is afterward fed with san.
dial wood. and the cost of the process
averages $l2,5O0. There are still three
large and thirty-three small fire temples
at Bombay.
A new cure for consumption has been
| originated by "a Teutonic doctor. lie
makes phthisical patients pass the night
in the open air of the Thuringian forest
well wrapped up, and sleeping in light
hammocks, SO as to avoid all damp from
the ground. A Waterman keeps oil any
intruder, who might disturb the nights
rest, and hitherto the experiment has
proved wonderfully successful.
A firm Of Berlin jewellers have just
finished diamond diadem and necklace
worth several hundred thousand marks
for the Empress of Japan. 1t has not
hitherto been the custom Of Japanese
ladies to wear diamonds, but the Em.
press in sanctioning the adoption of
European dress has also awaited herself
of the opportunity to introduce the use
Of diamond ornaments and Jewels.
The Western Railway company, Of
Bogota, South America, has been
granted by President Nunes, an extern
Brown, of Greensboro, KY, Is one OF the
hn RI lnau
South America soon to look after his In.
terests. The government has given q
concession of 81, 000, 900 to the company
and Mr.. Brown expects to complete the
road. He is prominent civil engineer
and has been in Kentucky for two years
past.
One Of Names many cranks is Elias
Cove, Of Lewiston, who thinks that he
| is the Savior. He is over 90, has long
white hair and beard, wears long coat
and cape of bright red, tall white hat
with broad white band and flowing
ends, white trousers and moccasins. He
also carries white umbrella and very
gorgeous horse blanket for cold weather
He makes an occasional dime by selling
his photograph, on the back OF which ID
the inscription: ELIAS Cove, Emanuel
the ETlHCt VI ItaCe, jesus OnTlsb, WIN
baptized himself with the aid Of the
Holy Ghost, and Is the son Of Dorothy
Jane Cove, who translated his spirit
from God"
Great speed has been attained in the
manufacture Of rifles. One hundred and
| twenty barrels can be rolled in an hour
by one machine; they are Strengthened
cold and bored with corresponding
speed, and even the rifling ia now done
automatically, so that one man tending
six machines can turn out sixty or sew
enty barrels per day. With the old RI
fling machine twenty barrels was about
the limit OF days work, but the i'm
proved machines attend to everything
after they are once started, and when
the rihing is completed ring bell to
call the attention Of the workman. He IL
thus enabled to attend as many as six
! machines Mt n tima