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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-11
ALL's WELL AT THE OPERA HOUSE.

The Opera House is getting rapidly
into ship-shape, the scenery is complete
and all Is laid out for the reception of
the gas fittings and chairs. The ele-
CANT gas fitting are here and being
placed, and the opera chairs will arrive
In the city today. There remains con-
siderable to be done but all who are
concerned in .the matter are quite sure
that the building will be ready for OPEN
ing on the night Of the s0th, and will
present a grand and most finished ap-
pearance. While the eye will be de-
lighted with the surrounding beauty,
there will be admirable ventilation, an
agreeable heat when the norther Is
raging outside, and in all parts comfort
able seats can be secured that command
a good view ofthe stage.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-11
Recorders Court,
Willie Squeeler, drunk, S..

Willie Squeeler, drunk, S..
Julia Brown, vagrant, SIS.
Louisiana Risher, vagrant, S. or 10
days.
Minnie johnson, vagrsnt, S. or 10
days.
Mandy Shepard, insulting language,
continued.
Major Herbertson, drunk, dismissed.
Manuel Ramirez, striking, continued.
Juan Arasola, drunk SIS.
Charles Engelman, drunk and disor-
derby, So.
Aurelto Martinez, drunk, SIS.
Miguel Gonzales, drunk and disorerly,
fined IS.
Rubin Bolton, vagrant, continued.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-11
SHARP CUES.
Wallick's COMMUNICATIVE New Opera
House-Emma Abbott-The
Fashion Theatre.


THE CATTLE KING.
Wsllick's powerful combination APP
pears at Turner opera house for one
night, and will play the new melo-
drama. "The Cattle King" in which
thoroughly trained horses and mules
will be introduced, adding considerably
to the interest OF the play. 1.-The Cattle
King" is perhaps one OF the most ro-
mantle and exciting plays upon the
stage, and especially in accordance with
popular taste. There is romance in all
its aspect, and blood and thunder, pis-
tolls, guns, ETC., enough to excite the
whole community. The play has been
great success in all other places, and
the LIGHT expects to see crowded
house tonight.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-11
Deaths.

Dec. 9-Nicolo Noreoi, second ward.
stillborn. Mrs. Kruger, nurse.
Dec. 10-Ygnaoio Mindiola, aged AZ
years, heart disease. DR.. Menger.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-11
Paint Your Roofs.

By having your roofs painted well they will
Ast three times as lobg, and stops up all the
laws and small holes, thereby preventing
leaks during the storm and rains of the com.
Ing winter months. Orders left with me at
the corner Of Avenue 4 and Houston street
will be promptly and satisfactorily done Also
all kinds of house, sign and carriage painting
Best material used. Charges reasonable.
J. -2m +. PAsCHE.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-11
EMMA's MOVEMENTS.

Miss Emma Abbott and her company,
conducted by Signor Tomasi, consisting
OF the following: Soprano, Emma Abb
bot; Aida Vsrena, Maria Hindle; con-
traltos, Lizzie Annandale and Bertha
Fricke; tenors, Fernando Michelena,
Agostino Montegrifio and Robert Beau
mont; baritones, William Pruette and
Robert Maurel; bsssos. William BrOder-
lex, Walter Allen and r. Ward; ChOruses,
orchestra, etc., are now playing sue
cessful engagement in Kansas city. On
Monday the company go 10 Omaha, play
there for a week, take special train to
catch the NJ. X. q L. railroad connec-
ton for San Antonio, arriving here on
Monday morning in due time for the
performance. Emma means to open
the new house at even loss to herself TO
keep her promise.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-11
Miss AT THE FASHION.

Notwithstanding the great success OF
Louis X. Warwick in "My Partner" at
the Fashion, it must be withdrawn on
Monday to make room for the De For
rest and Sheldon combination who are
booked to appear in the great play
"M'liss," that night. Harry c. Sheldon
will then give his great impersonation
of "Yuba Bill" and the charming Sou
brette, Miss Grace Gordon, will appear
in her famous character Of IN Hiss. d"
Another new popular serio comique,
Miss Jessie Lee, will then make her de-
but, and Ada Florence, Anna Earle, Liz
zie Shelton, Vic Lewis, Den Howe, John
J. Burke, McNeice, j. Kherns, will sus-
tain their parts Of the programme with
novelties. The habitats OF this popular
theatre have good time in store.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-11
Don't Catch Gold

Ladies', misses and children. mafnc
and worsted underwear. Gents under
wear. Gents underwear In merino and
worsted. The best so cents undershirss
l2-s-tf JOSIE BROTHERS
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18
CHIMES.
Notes Produce With a Silver OF
Plated Spoon and a String.

Sweet Notes Produced With a Silver or
Plated Spoon and a String.
Would you care to listen to the
chimes of a cathedral in your own
room? Tic a silver or plated spoon to
a string or light cord, take an end of
the cord in each hand and place one
end in each ear. Then swing the
spoon so that it strikes against some
object-as for example a tab!e-and
every conclusion will transmit a sound
so intense that it will seem as if some
gigantic clock were striking in the
neighborhood. The effect is a very sim
gular one and the illusion complete.
Solid bodies are excellent conductors
of sound. 1t is this principle that ia
used in the construction OF the toy
telephone sold on the streets. The
cord that upitcs the two ear-pieces,
when stretched out, will easily carry
the voice considerably owe: one hundred
and fifty yards. Telephones with cords,
called mechanical telephones, are now
made that carry both simple sounds
and conversation several kilometers.
Indeed, so we'll do solid bodies trans
NIT sound that by plunging a stick into
the Rhone, and applying the ear to the
end out of the water, one can hear
the noise made by the stones as they
are carried by the current along n
bottom of the river.-P0r1S JournU.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18
Christian name without the prefix 81

n uisssuan name without the prefix Of
miss or Mr.. The French thee and tl,o,,
are reserved for after MARRIAGE and
howIrequently are used as az endear;no
way 1or husband and wife to sneak to
each other only in the privacy Of a,
~tete-a-tcte. Presents are %eScb,urod
only the day before the marriaoa nsra.
.lony. ~ IS the future husbands duty
10 furnish his house. He Of course
cons9,ts the taste of his bride, and es-
Peclally that of her mother, who has
more experience, and who thoroughly
Knows the wishes of her daughter.
Inc tfousseau and all the house linen
are provided by the bride. The SIM
expended on the trousseau is often
mentioned in the contract WIFI
the amount of the dover A
girl who will bring twenty thousand
dollars into the new househoid generally
mas a trousseau worth two thousand
dollars. 1t is customary for the BRIDE
groom to offer presents in proportion
to his wealth-jewels, laces and car
riages are expected of the man who can
afford them. If his mother has no GIRLS
she presents her future daughter with a
portion OF the diamonds and laces which
She would have reserved for her own
daughters. Laces and jewels are thus
handed down and kept from generation
to generation. Relatives on both sides
are expected to offer something more
precious than a long array of nickel
plated cake-baskets, cruet-stands and
napkin-rings. AS you see, to maintain
these expensive traditions it is impossi-
bic for the French to have large families,
for it is a national and family pride for
parents to give as large a dover as their
fortunes will allow, with the proviso,
however, of keeping the larger portion
for themselves, for it does not enter into
the customs to lessen the Importance of
their W establishments for the
marriage settlement of their chill
dren. This custom of dover exists in all
classes of people who have any thing to
give. Small tr%adespeople will set up a
shop for their children; peasants and
farmers will give so many herd of cat
tie or a portion of their land. Others,
whose Incomes can not be divided, draw
up papers to pay a certain amount of it
yearly to their children, and lawsuits,
which force parents to the terms stipu-
lated in marriage contracts, are often
The subject of court discussions.
The ceremony of signing the contract
opens the wedding festivities. 1t usually
takes place the day before the civil and
religious marriages, at the house of the
bride. The contract is signed in the
presence OF the family lawyers, by the
bride, bridegroom, parents and wit
nesses, just before guests arrive, who
have been invited to a reception, a mus
ical soiree, or a ball. The bride for this
entertainment wear her last girlish
party-dress, a light pink or blue gauze,
simply made a la Verge, adorned with
no jewels but those she has been allowed
to wear in her girlhood-coral, small
pearls and turquoise. Con. Brooklyn
E,aQLe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18
AN EXPENSIVE ARMY.
Army, Press and Prisons of the U%ruguayan
Republic.

Army, Press and Prisons of the Uruguayan
Republic.
The Uruguayan army has some popu-
lar features. One is found in the fact
that not long ago it had one thousand
officers and one thousand privates.
Now, when it is recruited for active
operations, it has six thousand men and
eighteen Generals. 1t is no wonder that
the army costs the country more than
five hundred dollars per man. Prisons
are needed for political offenders. 1t is
not always convenient to have them
killed o the way to headquarters be-
cause they are said to be thinking about
escape. Then more than one prison is
convenient. If the obnoxious party does
not think of escape, or is not supposed
to think of it, on his way to the head
quarters, and so survives that trip, it
sometimes become necessary to remove
him from one prison to another. This
is nearly always fatal. He is SURF to be
reported killed in attempting to escape.
A man connected with one of the
newspapers not long ago offended a po-
litical chief. He was arrested and sent
to a certain prison quite out of the ordi-
nary center for imprisoning. 1t was
back of the house of the offended polit-
ical chief. There was a gateway be-
tween his yard and the prison yard.
The chief came into the prison yard
and with his own hands whipped
the man till he was tired out
and then told him that Montevideo air
would not be healthy for him. The man
fled to Buenos Ayres. This is q little
rugged. One wonders how such a
Chief could survive a month. 1t is
proper to remark here that the press of
these South American cit os is as free
as the air. The Government is criti-
cised with the greatest freedom and
fierceness. 1t is a part of the status
quo. Thus the scourge and the pen
carry on the old-time strife. The ages
are rolled together. The tenth and the
nineteenth centuries stand face to face.
&C. II. Fowler, IN Chicago News.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18
ODD STORIES.

Facts and Fancies of an Entertaining and
Interesting Character.
A BABY born in Now York during q ter
rible storm has been called Cyolonia.
THE scissors grinder, who sued a man in
Napa, Cal, for twenty-five cents for serv-
ices, won his suit. The costs were seven
teen dollars.
A MAN and his wife eat about q ton and
a quarter Of food per annum, including
such trifes as two barrels of flour and q
good-sized OK.
SEVERAL prisoners in the Jail at Atlanta,
Ca, astonished their keeper by appearing
with freshly shaved faces. On inquiry he
found that they shaved regularly with a
piece of broken bottle.
EDWARD GARvIN, of Carthage, received
a severe electric shock while drawing a
pail of rain-water from a spout during a
thunder storm. The tin spouting had be-
come charged with electricity.
In the National Museum at Washington
there is a pipe that belonged to John
Brown and the rife taken from Jefferson
Davis when he was captured. They are
labeled THE beginning and the end of the
war"
A DEAF man riding a bicycle and wear
ing a l~ong-tailed coat the extremities Of
which were on fire was q somewhat strik-
ing figure on one of the principal streets of
New Haven; Conn, recently.
CAPTAIN SAWYER of the bark Vidette says
that during q recent voyage between
%Cienfuegos and New York a meteor fell
out of a clear sky and set the maintop on
fire. The meteor looked like u fire-rocket
and lighted up the whole ship. The blaze
was extinguished with some difficulty.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18
HOME N r

Never use water from a stone res
.rvoir for cooking purposes.-.EG-
change.
Cook oatmeal in q double boiler, or
in a covered pail set in a kettle of water.
BE sure to salt little Caterer.
BE sure and sprinkle a little p%ulver-
lied charcoal about the poultry quar-
tiers. The fact thatit soon disappears is
evidence that more is required.-11oy
Times.
1t is an error to always choose the
largest fowls for sitters. Those of me-
dunn size are generally better for this
purpose, provided they are not deficient
in feathers Cincinnati Times.
TO can tomatoes: Scald to remove
the skins; boil in their own juice twen-
ty minutes. Heat your jars by pouring
hot water into them, then empty and
wipe dry. Put the tomatoes in
scalding hot and seal at once. These
tomatoes keep perfectly.-7oledo Blade.
Professor Cook, OF the Michigan
Agricultural College, says most of the
failures to destroy potato bugs by paris
green comes from waiting until eggs
have been laid on the vines before APP
plying it. Make the first application
just as the plants come up.
"A nice and cheap pickle: Chop fine
one large head of cabbage, three large
green and three large red bell peppers.
Add two ounces of yellow mustard seed,
one ounce of celery seed and three
tablespoonful of salt. Boil three pints
of vinegar, and pour on the mixture
hot. Stir we'll and put in a large Jar.
Fit to eat in a few days.-1Ae Housc-
hold.
To cook c%aulifower take off the out
err leaves and separate the %caulifowei
into little branches. Put into a sauce.
pan with a little salt and cover with
cold water. Boil until soft. then drain
off the water, put in a gill of milk thick
ened with a little flour, a piece of butter
as large as a walnut, and q sprinkfine
of pepper. Boil up again and serve hot.
Household.
A swine-brceder says that in wean.
ing pigs there is something more to be
considered than SIMPLY taking them
away from Their mother. They should
be weaned gradually, so as not to gel
any stunt or setback. 10 take pigs
away before they have been taught t.
eat gives them a check for at least two
weeks. Feeding them in a separate place
to which they have access will accustom
them to eating.-F'rdirie Farmer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18
IN PARIS.

opportunities Tor the Lovers to Be-
pme Acquainted Before Marriage.
French families are unprotected
be state in respect to keeping men
distance, they themselves have
the matter in hand in allowing
fivacy before marriage. Under no
Instances is an engaged person al
to remain alone; the mother or
SISTER is ever present at the inter-
But, notwithstanding the pres
OF the third person, the young en-
1 couple talk freely of their future
poets, and frequently indulge. in
s %quarrels. The tiance is daily in
to dine with his future wife's fam
sitting side by side, many a word
hdness and love is whispered in the
Z iady's al out of the hearing of
fhlent papa and mamma. Going
nj out Of the dining-room, they
manage to be the last couple, and
Ee been told that it is wonderful
much can be whispered in the short
Flns space lying between the parlor
the dining-room. Parents SIM
lgnore these innocent pri-
p they remember when, in years
ny they trespassed in the
way. Mutual acquaintance is
at the house of mutual friends.
Young people may dance with each
us much as they like. At q party
Gamma generally carries on an ami
y conversation wit. friends of her
aSe, and does not | stem to the les
81 love which her future son-in-law
~ TO give her daughter while sit
Ess lar as it is possible from the
lnal ears and authority. Taking
,partlal view of such a courtship,
'"t perhaps as fruitful in results of
ai.anc2ship as those of longer du-
anu extended permission of pri-
assoclations. But. however long
nn'p may last, who is the man or
;" n does not persist in putting
sunday manners as well as his
a sy F Hiothes as long as it lasts?
q Eliot ably puts the quest on in
'leharch'' when she says: ..Inf.--
may seem large, but really life
liver nave gone on at any period
VI inc liberal allowance of conclu-
"llch have facilitated marriage
the difficulties of civilization. Has
he s pInched into its pilulous small
nc cobweb of prematrimonial ac-
tanceship?"
rule, during courtship the young
uoes not call nor visit at the house
netrothed; no dinners or festivi-
"e pace there until after the mar
All the members of his family,
ner, are frequently invited by the
u.s. Of the young lady to meet all
relations and form a circle of
They are all expected to
call on each ether at least
'r twice asycar, if closer ties
n,ollity are not maintained. 1t
,onsldered bon ton for the en-
'ouple to call each other by their
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18

Many splendid fortunes lie in the English
Court Of ChanceBy, which belong to Amer
can citizens. The court has held possession
and fifty years. Cox & Co, London, En-
gland, have with great care and diligence
compiled a book containing the names Of
fifty Thousand heirs and their descendants
who have been advertised for to claim
these fortunes. The book gives Christian
coed for the recovery of money and estates.
Sent free to all parts of the world D O
receipt Of one dollar. Remittance may be
made by registered letter or money order.
Address cox & CO., Al Southampton
refer by permission t the Kellogg News.
paper Company, New York.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18
AN opponent of Darwinism calls it "sci.
entific m~onkeyism."
Bargain in Corner Lots

A Bargain In Corner Lots
is what most mon desire, but to keep from
filing a grave in a cemetery lot ere half
your days are numbered, always keep a
supply Of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery by you. When the first symp-
toms of consumption appear lose no time in
putting yourself under the treatment Of
this Invaluable medicine. It cures when
nothing else will. Possessing, as it does,
ten times the virtue Of the best cod liver
pleasaptest to take. 1t p%urifes and en-
riches the blood, strengthens the system,
cures blotches, pimples, eruptions and 9TH
er humors. By druggists.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

rronch have taken the Ameri-
IL, $50 interview into their lam
..+ooinc in Japan is practised to
extent that a law prohibiting
an,ice has Just been passed.
rrench bonnet is named the
mote. and is trimmed with two
c.,rs of unequal length and size.
FLo Tower of London has been re-
i to visitors, alter having been
for more than a year on account
dynamite explosion.
No Sultan of Turkey is said to
~ German apothecaries 5000 a
Zach, with board and rooms in the
and the services of several at
Snt'.
[ixtv-nine of her British Maiesty's
Ems are sad to be ''shams, an
! and %curios, whose proper place is
laval museum Oh colossal marine
a.bl ac shop"
An extraordinary fact in connec-
Eith the Russian conscripts drafted
the ranks in 1885 is shown by some
Ties inst published. The total num-
h conscripts accepted was S47, 5S7,
,om no fewer than 43, $50 were
i Great number of important am
c.ting docum hts have lately been
yercd in q stable lot at Belvoir
by an inspector who was sent
olook over the Duke of Rut-
( family papers by the Historical
1script Commissioners. Many of
! old documents are of great his
value. and among them isadiary
by the Earl of Rutland when he
In attendance on Charles I.
the ways of the japanese post-ofice
beculiar. In most countries, if the
hcc on a letter is inadequate, the
Ecncv is recovered from the adj
Fee. and if he objects to be mulcted,
letter is retained and there is an end
Il matter. 1t is not so in Japan.
|cthcr day an unfortunate Japanese
ned to pay the extra postage,
keupon he was dragged before a
F@s.rate and fined five dollars for
me the taxes.
|The silver tree of South Africa
kmacmRron nryentcum), "whose
Is shine like FURNISHED metal" has
supposed to occur nowhere in the
ID except on the slopes of Table
ntain, near Cape Town; but a cor
pndcnt of the Gardeners Chronicle
he once saw q specimen of this
Eclous plant in a garden in the dis
of Madura, in Southern India. and
ealing twenty inches high is now
ishng in an English conservatory.
silver tree would seem to be quite
Eell worthy the attention of col
rs as many of the orchids for which
prices are paid.
According to a French paper the
BIT de Lcsseps was foretold by an
Fnt Egyptian oracle. 1t says:
Fodotus relates that when Neco,
Of Egypt, undertook the work of
NJ the waters of the Mediterranean
Red Seas, by means of a canal,
% men persisted in the work. He
caused the work to be stopped and
|Acd an oracle, receiving the re-
a Earbar an will finish thy work.
Gentleman who alighted upon that
history copied upon a sheet of pa
he paragraph from Herodotus and
led it to de Lcsscps, who, having
it, took his pen and appended,
barbarian prophesied by the oracle
de Lesscps.'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18

How many ONE there are working to-
day in various branches Of industry-to
say nothing of the thousands of patient
housewives whose lives are an unceasing
round Of toil-who are martyrs to those
complaints to which the weaker sex is liza
bic. Their tasks are rendered doubly hard
and irksome and their lives shortened, vet
IA hard ~, necessity Ds sompe.i.sE them nn to keep on.
tom offers a sure e of rslief. For all
female weaknesses it is certain cure. All
druggists.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18

Twas laid up for a long time with rheu-
matism in both my legs. l began taking
Athlophoros, soon had relief, and in a very
short time was entirely well. / have not
boon troubled since. Jacob Manus, 1896
South Halsted St, Chicago, III.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18

PIXIES OoTHACEED DROPS in minute, -
Glcnn's Sulphur Soap heals and bcautifies. &c.
4 CORN REMOVER kills Corns s BuniOns.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18
IT is the 'duck of a bonnet, that makes
ayoung girls head swim.

You've and middle-aged men suffering
from debility, premature old age,
loss Of memory, n kindred symptoms,
should send 10 cents in stamps for large il
cure. Worlds D~ispensary Medical Associ-
alton, Buffalo, N. Y.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18

The beneficial results produced by tho
use or Halls Hair Remover are wonderful.
Ayers Ague Cure is warranted a sure
cure for ell Malarial disorders.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18

SIZE aint everything. A watch ticking
can be heard farther than a bed ticking.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18

BEST, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 50c.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18

EYES are not eyes when cigar-smoke
makes them water.-N. y. Ledger.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18

"ABoUT the greatest tail-bearer I know"
said the farmers boy, 'is our peacock"