San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-03-29
EDITORIAL FRAGMENTS.

SEVERAL Of our exchanges evidence a
healthy hunger for that press aliment
called a "tax sale"
SENATOR JONES, of Florida, still pur-
sues his ceaseless quest for that unwill-
ing Detroit damsel.
THE old adage, "many men OF many
minds" illustrates the situation on GU
bernatorial candidates to nicely.
The telephone raises its voice and
lengthens its ears. Houston and Bren-
ham were "helloing" each other last
week.
The beauty and harmony of Demo-
cratic action are never so cOnspicuouslv
displayed as in firing Republicans out of
office.
THERE is a birthstone smell in Fort
Worths "hell's half acre" judging from
Mail reports of female naughteness in
that corral Of satan.
The Paris Tribune calls the pocket
book argument poor one. Correct,
when that pOcket-book is us lean as
Pharaoh's ill-favored rine; but with fat
pocket-bOok, o, my
PULITZER, of the New York World, has
done generous deed in donating his
first years salary as congressman to the
establishment of free ward in the
New York hospital for sick and disabled
members of the press.
"GIBBERYGosH" is the latest "inocuous
desuetude" of the Laredo Times, and is
editorially applied to the current num-
Der of the Fortnightly Review. There
is classical smack about the word that
savors strongly of Carlylean criticism,
SCOTT RAY, of Indiana, says: "A Re
publican has no more right in office I'M
der a Democratic administration than
the devil has to take sacrament with the
disciples Of Jesus Christ" Who has
been excluding Ray from the communion
table?
AMERICANS profess to have the great
est contempt for flunkyism, but the es.
tablishment of a private barber shop for
senators comes about as near it as it is
possible to get. How will it LOOK. when
the political party changes, to have the
democratic barber, who has been
obliged to make room for his republican
successor, to open up private estab-
lishment and hang out sign in glazing
letters, Formerly Private Barber TO the
Democratic Senator" No English
flunkey puts on more agony than this
important parsonage, who scrapes sena-
torial mugs" He has a lackey who
fawns over him as he fawns over the
great and mighty senators of the land.
This is democratic simplicity with Il
vengeance.
If the statement of NJ. NJ. Hawkins,
County Attorney of Hardeman county,
is true, the County Judge of said cOun-
ty, w. l.. Gordon, should receive free
pass over the railroad to Huntsville. He
is charged with selling the school lands
of his county for $1,000, when they would
have brought So, ZOO at SIPS per acre.
When it is brought to mind that the
minimum price for high and dry state
lands is $200, the fraud is patent. How
ever, 1t is fortunate that at l. asst there
was one officer in said county who had
some care for the interests of the peo-
pie, and who wrote to the Land Commits
sioner and Attorney General, and at
present the game of the grabbers is
blocked. J. r. Williams threatens to
20 to the United States Court to enforce
a contract that he claims to have with
Gordon as County Judge. 1t will proba-
bly, be best for at least the morals OF
Texas when there will be no more land
left to steal.
WHAT a spectacle! Two women, and
1t is supposed that they are at least in
telligent, as they are doctors, are re-
ported to have fought duel with
swords on the historic field of Waterloo.
One of these was an American, Miss
Shelby, and the other French woman,
Mime. Volsayre. The quarrel grew out
of a discussion of the relative merits Of
female doctors Of their respective
countries, and like hot-headed young
students they must insult each other
and then fight it out according to the
code Of honor. Miss Shelby was slight
ly scratched and all points of wounded
honor were healed. What nonsense,
and by women, too, who usually dis play
more common-sense in such matters
than do the so-called sterner sex. 1t is
now about time for men to give up that
senseless way Of patching up quarrels.
But woman-like they needs must be ro-
mantle and tight on the Waterloo battle
field where thousands Of heroic men had
laid down their lives, for cause as far
as they individually were concerned
fully as trivial as this petty woman's