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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-07
Laying Out a Temperance Village.
L,vnhonc

Clark Whittier, brother of the poet,
mas secured $4,000 acres of timber land in
Swain county, North Carolina and is
LAYING out town founded upon the saw
mill, the plow, the Bible and prohibition
All real estate reverts to the town when
the owner thereof sells or buys intoxicat-
ing liquors
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-07
--7.Ez 49,. 49,
Thought L Was Her Voice.


Featheriy making an evening calI)-So
your mother has returned from the coun-
try, Miss Clara?
Miss Clara-O, no; she wont be back
until next week
Featherly (surprised)-Strange! Is not
that her voice hear upstairs
Miss Clara lin a constrained tOne)-No;
that's Bobby at work with his new scroll
saw
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-07
Not Much Danger.
Exchange.

From statistics collected in the abattoirs
of Munich and Augsburg, Strauss has
found that not more than one calf in 100
900 is consumptive. The danger of con
veying consumption with vaccine OBJ
tanned from these animals is therefore
Slight
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-07
Anatomical.
lChicago LEDGER

The bones of the average man only
weigh about twenty four pounds, and
yet some people put on airs and step
around as though they weighed ton.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-07
HIS Compliment.
[Puncn.l

She <encouragingly)-Your step suits
mine exactly.
He nervously)-So glad to hear you
say so; know I'm such bad Walter.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-07

Inc Prater, in Vienna, Austria, is the
largest public park in the world.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-07

The cost of repairing the Cologne
cathedral, begun in 1898, was about
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17
Known by Their Walk.

An Italian physician has been study
ing the difference between the manner
of walking of honest men and crimi-
nails. He finds that in honest people
the right pace is longer than the left,
the lateral separation of the right foot
from the median line is less than that
of the left, and the angle of deviation
of the axis of the foot from a straight
line is greater on the right side than
the left. In thieves, he declares, there
is pronounced widening of the basis
of support, together with very long
step, while in assassins the base of
support is not as wide as it is in
thieves, since the angle formed by the
axis of the foot with the median line is
less obtuse. 1t would be interesting
to know something about the widening
of the basis of support of a drunkard,
and, undoubtedly, the angle formed by
the axis of the foot with the median
line would be very acute indeed in
his case.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17
A Trick Of Oriental Servants.

A lady in Brooklyn has had singu-
lar experience. Sac engaged Japan
ese servant to do upstairs work. He
appeared in the afternoon, was all
bows and smiles, and at dinner that
evening waited on the table in excel
lent style. The lady thought she had
a jewel of a servant. After dinner he
requested to be allowed to go to New
York to see about some clothes. He
went, and that was the last seen of
Jap No. /. She tried another, with
the same result. A third was tried.
He staid two days, and then left early
one morning before breakfast. The
lady was nonplused over the matter.
She told friend who had been in San
Francisco the circumstances. This
friend said that the housekeepers there
had found that when a Chinese SER
want left place he didn't like he
would put some mark, usually of a
character so slight as not to be no.
ticed, on the kitchen wall. The next
one, of course, would see it, and thus
learn what his predecessor thought of
the place, and act accordingly. The
first servant she employed didn't like
the situation for some reason, and so
left the place and probably his mark.
The others saw it and left on account
of it. The lady says she is through
with oriental servants.-NeU York
sun.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17
Browns Wild Ride.

No man loved an alibi better than
Jim Brown, known in Ohio's past his
tory as ..Chief of the Counterfeiter's
of Cuyahoga." This band of outlaws
dealt principally in bogas money, and
their favorite way of escaping justice
was by proving an alibi. The band
was so numerous, so scattered, and,
withal, so loyal, that any sort of evil
dence to show that a defendant was
somewhere else than at the place of
the alleged crime at the time of its
commission was always forthcoming
from the mouths of witnesses who
often stood high in the community
for veracity. To prove an alibi Jim
Brown once rode horseback from Pitts
burg, Pa, to Boston, Summit county,
O., distance of about 100 miles, in
one night. The officers arrived at
Boston, Browns home, few hours
after his own arrival. They arrested
him. On his trial several witnesses
swore that they saw him at shutdown
the day previous to his arrest at Pitts
burg. These witnesses also identified
his horse. On the defense, Brown
proved by score of good witnesses
that he was at home at sunrise the
morning of his arrest, and that his
horse was sleek and fresh that day as
though it had not been ridden for a
month. The court held that Brown
could not have ridden the distance in
that time, and discharged him. But
he did ride it, and afterward told how
1t was done. Finding himself certain
to be arrested if he stayed in Pittsburg
a certain night, he saddled his horse
a splendid animal-and as soon as it
was dark started out on his wild ride
of 100 miles. For the first thirty miles
his horse kept bravely and steadily to
his work. Then Brown noticed by the
irregular reach and labored breath
that the terrible strain was telling
upon his faithful brute. At the next
tavern Brown procured a pint OF
whisky, and, putting half of it into a
small quantity of water, gave it to his
horse. Then on the road again, his
willing animal working more steadily.
At every hill he would dismount and
run beside his horse till it was passed,
then on and away, to stop at the next
tavern to give his horse more whisky
and water. In this way-galloping
furiously along levels running on foot
up and down hills, and stimulating his
steed with all the caution skillful
physician would bestow upon pa
tient critically sick-he reached his
home before daybreak, where a con-
federate was found to devote his en-
tire attention to the jaded horse, while
Brown purposely showed himself to
as many neighbors as possible, who
testified as before stated.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17
Origin of old Phrases.

Dido, Queen of Tyre about seven
centuries before Christ, after her hus-
band had been put to death by her
brother, fled from tIat city and estab-
lished colony on the north coast of
Africa. Having bargained with the
natives for as much land as could be
| surrounded with bulls hide, she cut
the hide into narrow strips, tied them
together, and claimed the land that
could be surrounded with the line thus
made. She was allowed to have her
way, and now, when one plays a sharp
trick he is said to "cut a dido"
A tailor of Samarcand, Asia, who
lived on a street leading to the bury
ing ground, kept near his shop an
earthen pot, in which he was accus-
toned to deposit pebble whenever a
body was carried to its final resting
place. Finally the tailor died; and,
seeing the shop deserted, person in
CURED what had become of its former
occupant. He had gone to pot HIM
self. was the reply of one of the de-
ceased's neighbors.
During a battle between the Rus
slams and Tartars private soldier Of
the former cried out: Captain. I've
caught Tartar" Bring him along"
said the officer. He won't let me"
was the response. Investigation
proved that the captive had the captor
by the arm and would not allow him
to move. So catching Tartar" is
applicable to one who has found an
antagonist too powerful for him.
While lying on the ground over
slow fire st. Lawrence-in whose
honor the escurial was built by Philip
III. said to the Emperor who was
watching his sufferings: "Assatus ess;
jam versa ct manduca;" which one
translator, not quite literally, but APP
preciatively of the same grim humor
characterizing the original, rendered:
"This side enough is toasted,
Then turn me, tyrant. and eat;
And see whether raw or roasted
lam the better meat"
Hence, dome to a turn"
Formerly in London when a small
dealer bought bread of the baker, for
every dozen loaves purchased he was
given an extra loaf as his profit, from
which circumstance "a bakers dozen"
signifies thirteen. Various origins
have been assigned the phrase, but the
above is the only one that is based on
sure foundation.
In a work, Essays from the Desk
of Poor Robert the Scribe" published
in 1915, the author, c. Miner, tells the
story of boy who, by the offer of
liberal compensation, was induced to
turn the grind-stone for a man who
desired to sharpen his AK. The prom
Used compensation was never paid.
and of one who DISCUSSES his own sell
fish aims under an appearance of gen.
erosity or disinterestedness it is re-
marked: He has an ak to grind
Christian Union.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17
The Cold Wave.

His cheeks were pale, his eyes were
wan, he walked with hating tread;
his voice was dismal as the dawn, and
bowed his humble head. He asked no
intercourse with men, but sought some
place alone; where none could inter-
rupt him then, where he might sit ana
moan. Yet there was one who sought
his lair, who dragged him from his
den; who said to him Gas he knelt
there,) "Why shun your fellow menP
Speak to me, hermit, speak as though
you loved your fellows still; and be
your word of veal or woe, shall not
take it ill.," He stood aloft. with
Druid's head, though stern his voice,
and rough; and to the gaping crowd
he said: Say, is this cold ensughP'
NEBRASKA State Journal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17
The Worlds Way.

He passed away from us in gray March
weather,
When all the land was strewn with signs Of
dearth.
While Winter and young Spring strove hard
together
To win dominion o er the sterile earth.
Soft April came, believed his grave with
showers
And left him-we, his friends, were fain to
weep
And leave him TO the keeping of the hours
That pass, alas, and may not sleep nor weep
Came jccund May and filed the birds with
gladncss,
June followed after, fun of shy selight;
And we his friends, we quite forgot our sad
ness,
And gathered dewy rosebuds while we
might
Thomas Parker Sanborn.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17
Business Chances.

A nice business with good will and fixtures
business suitable for lady or invalid, one OF
the best locations in the CITY. The rent of
house only $50 per month. Price $500. (I2)
The best business of the kind in the state of
Tea as can be bought for $4,000. $4,000 cash.
with good security. Do not ask about this un.
less you mean business. (42)
A good paying, neat little business, good
well, stock and fixtures; for 500.
For Rent-A beer saloon, with fixtures and
furniture-new room house and good loca-
ton. Only Sl3 per month. As
Grocery and Sundries store, on railroad, n
miles from city doing good bushes; post
Office and express can be had IL desired; for
sale cheap; owner going to Europe. Ask FOR
particu 20
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17

Postofiee saloon and pavilion; also store
room adjoining. l0i
Frame house of rooms, on blackberry
street. los
Furnished rooms with or without board,
I nISe locality blocks from avenue c ga car
Two store rooms, near West Commerce
street. 1881
One of the most desirable stores on Com.
merce street, two stories and good dry cellar.
Five room neat cottage near High
school. convenient to street car line. (27D
Frame house of rooms, servants's room
and stable, lots, city water; located on san
Pedro avenue. II
A beautiful rock house of rooms, neatly
furnished, five minutes walk from Main
plaza. (53)
Finely furnished rooms. first and second
story, delightful location; for man and wife
only; reference required. tI2)
Building, formerly known as Mason Blanch
restaurant on Market street. "a
land room houses, near |. a. G. N. depot,
hydrant water; $40 per month. 20
Two nice frame houses on Hidalgo street,
and rooms, Sll a month. Il
Small rock house, near corner of Commerce
and South Alamo streets. Two good fireplaces,
wood shed or stable. $40. No. 10.
Large two-stOry house of IL rooms, rooms
have tre-places, two cisterns, stables and
acres euClOSeu, Two miles from the Catle0ral,
Sj5 per month. CS2)
"A nice rock house on Garden St, 5to8
| rooms, nice yard, good location. Rent $500
per month. liz
We have some delightful furnished rooms
| on ST. Mary's street; best in the city. SO
3beautiful rooms, on Commerce street, suit
| abie for offices or sleeping rooms; modern i'm
| prOvements. 81
| Nice brick house, 6 rooms and wash house,
| one block from pOstoifice; $500 per
| month. l09
Beer saloon snd fixtures tables, chairs, etc,
/ Nice location. 4S
! $40 acres of good pasture land, fine water,
| good fence, etc, $50 per month. 40
1 Five rOomed cottage, near San Pedro
| Springs; SIS per month So
Frame house of 4 rooms and kitchen, near
| San Pedro avenue, in good repair; SIS per
| month. 50
Two room rock house on s. Alamo street
| near Commerce street; good fire places and
| out-buidings. 10
Good frame house of IL rooms, on Av-
enue d, suitable for boarding house. Rent
| only S35 per month. Ill
Rock house, four rooms, large lot, good
| stable, four blocks from opera house, SIS. III
| Frame house of three rooms and a kitchen,
| wash house, large yard, house in good repair;
| S2. lI6
| New four roomed house, nicely furnished
! desirable location. Must bring reference.
Rock house of four rooms, large lot good
stable, hydrant water; four blocks from opera
| house; $500.
| A nicely furnished house, suitable for small
family; house new, and location good. lis
Hambleton. Hadley & Co
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17

An author, whose name is withheld,
offers $1,000 reward for the return of
the manuscript of novel lost in the
streets yesterday. That author evil
IDENTIFY has great deaf of confidence
in the novel, but perhaps if he had
shown it to publisher before losing
it he would not offer so large a reward
for its return Ne10 York ConlasrCiGi
Advertiser,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17

A police court at Vienna, Australia,
had case Of unusual atrocity to deal
with. A porter and waiter at the
Hotel Victoria had pushed a cat into a
pipe. The tube was so narrow that
the body of the poor beast nearly filed
it and the cat could not move. In
that position, the two men poured
boiling water into the pipe, slowly
boiling the poor creature to death.
The fearful cries of the tortured animal
at last attracted attention, and the
two scoundrels we're taken before the
magistrate.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17

An undertaken at Jacksonville made
an assignment last week, and the pa
pers there have used this as fresh
argument in favor of the healthfulness
of Florida's metropolis.-HoteL MatL.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17

For Sale.
! OTIS on Government HILL
Lots on Dignowity Hill.
Lots on Prospect Hill
Lots on Tobln Hill.
Lots near Arkansas Pass depot.
Lots near Sunset depot.
Lots near International depot. cleft
HAMBLEToN HApLEY & co.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17

During this cold spell everything
contracts-excepting your coal BILL
Ohio State Journal
re b. Continued
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17

ION PRIN1TNG-Of every description, done
~ at the LIGHT Office. Satisfaction giver
every time, or money refunded.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17

If you want TO buy or sell PROPERTY
call on HRmbleton, Hadley & Co., No.
ksst Commerce street. 97tI
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17
For Rent.

-Hambeton, Hadley & Co. advertise houses
stores, rooms or farms to rent free :of charge.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17
2 acres on North Flores street beautifully
situated. Can be bought cheap. l0G

80 acres of sandy loan land miles south OF
the town of Gonzales on Cuero road, fenced
has been cultivated; about one mile
from Guadalupe river. This land is very
rich and is one of the best farms in Texas,
Price $500 90. lOl
800 acres of the finest land in Uvalde county
q miles north of Uvalde never failing water.
Black sandy live oak loan soil can all be cul-
tivated, fine grass adapted for all kind of
stock. Will trade for San Antonio city prop.
crty or sell for cash, I02
Two beautiful blocks of IL lots each, 10
minutes walk from Main plaza, Will be soti at
bargain. Owner non resident. 1903
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-05

A new edible dcicacv Of marine orr
gin, and surprising, in the opinion Of
many Southern oourmands, the finest
oysters, is about to be Introduced into
this country. 4 supply Of the true Med
itcrranean sea -urchins, in good condj-
ton. is to be consigned 10 our market,
and English epicures VII be asked to
try he eggs Of the ochiuldcan after the
fashion Of Marse.llcs that is, by eating
them of the shells, raw and uncookcd.
The sea-urchin, which scientific men,
with the playful simplicity characteristic
Of the kind, have agreed to designate
tie Observation-Disclosures is an article Of
food in many parts Of the world. as most
people are probably aware. Hence one
of the common names it bears among
tishcrf0lk who have no reputation fol
learning to keep up, and who call it the
"sea EGG" But all along the shores OF
the Mediterranean the five cc.Iod rosette
forming the inside Of the prickly Crea-
ture is esteemed one Of the fastest NOR
sells yielded by the sea. Strangers visit
ing the Marscil!es fish market will see
basket after basket there filled with
these browny green and violet cOlored
"hedgchogs of the deep" They are
deity opened by the fishwivcs, the left
hand being protected against the sharp
prickIes by stout cloth wrapped around
it, the stOmach-sack is cut out, and the
fine orange cOlorcd eggs in the centre
exposed and handed upon the shell to
the customers ever ready for the dainty.
These eggs are only to he found in the
''urchin" between the months of October
and May, that IS about the same time az
the oyster is in season. At other times the
eggs are missing, and many worthy people
have pronounced the creature good for
nothing be a1se they happened to cap
ture and open it at the wrong season of
the year. The urchin fishery, owing to
the great demand for the crustacean in
Southern Europe, is one of the most I'M
portant in tn e,Nediterranean. The Great
ures frequent rocky ground, and in the
form of round, prickiy balls, they are
found, hundreds together, a few feet
below high-water mark in the shoals of
the Spanish, French and Italian coast.
They are captured by means Of a cleft
stick, with which the fisher pokes about
in their haunts, and often, too, by divers
In the Bay of Naples nothing is more
amusing than to watch the urchin-fshers
at work in search of their prey. Rowing
to the spot where they are carrying on
operations, one may see some scores Of
heads bobblng about in the water, and
probably an equal number Of pairs of
legs, all belonging to bodies that are
invisible. Suddenly a head will go
down and a pair Of legs come up; then,
as Unexpectedly, one Of the pairs of legs
will go down and head bob up. "a
Duzzlinn spectacle" saws Mr.. r. Jones,
a constant vicissitude from heels to head
and from head to hecls.-L2n31a Post.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-05
Remarkable Ignorance.

Speaking of the Italian colony in New
York. Viola ROseboro says in the Co.'S
noyo{ttuH: The remarkable ignorance
Of America that they are enabled to main
tain under such circumstances is illus -
trated by 4 fact that | have from Mr..
Alright. lie says that the indifference
of his c0untrymcn to the privileges Of
naturalization arises chiefly from an idea
they have that if they become citizens
they arc liable to be drafted into the
army, that prospect being the bette noir
Of the pcasantry throughout Europe.
Here is one Of the methods (of which he
has knowledge all too Widel by which
the wilicr and more experienced Italians
impose on their c0untrymen. They elect
to act as middle-men between the chart
table institutions, particularly those that
care for children, and Their Genefciaries.
For instance, woman having several
children, more than she can care for
while earning their living, will be told
by some man Of her acquaintance that for
a certain sum- say dollar and a half a
week, she can place one Of the children
in an institution where it will be well
provided Tor. She grasps eagerly at the
prospect. He then goes to the establish
ment, say the Five Points House of In
dustry, or the New York Juvenile Asy-
lum, represents the woman as helplessIy
poor and himself as acting in her behalf,
and gets the child received free; there
after he, of course, goes on pocketing his
dollar and a half a week indefinitely,
So much of this has been done that most
of the institutions now refer all italian
applicants to Mr. Alright, who person
ally investigates the cases.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-05
The Iron Egg.

OF an iron egg IN the Berlin Museum
the following story i told. Many years
ago a prince became affiauced to lovely
princess, to whom he promised t. send
a magnificent gift as a testimonial # his
affection. In due time the messenger
arrived, bringing the promised gItt.
which proved u he An iron egg. The
princess was 50 angry 10 think that tie
prince should send her SO yaluele-s a
present that she threw it upon the tio,..,
when the iron egg opened. disclosing "a
silver lining. Surprised ut such a dis
covery she took the egg in her hand,
and. while examining it closely dlscov-
cred a secret spring, which she touched.
and the silver lining opened. disclosing
a golden volk Examining it closely,
she found another spring, Viii b, when
opened, disclosed within the golden
y0lk a ruby crown. Subjecting that 10
an examination she touched spring
and forth came the diamond ring with
which lie affianced her TO himself.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-05
Tic MONKEYS Rrnhn Ranks

Though not believer in evolution, it
is said the Rev, Robert Coliyer tells an
amusing story Of trained troupe of
monkeys he once saw in London on a
stage. They had been drilled carefully
to so through a series of military exer-
cises in uniform, and were making a
fine display Of their attainments, when
man in the gallery threw handful of
nuts on the stage, and the simian sol
diery at once broke ranks, threw down
their guns, and scrambled for the hard
sheIIcd dainties. "That moment" says
DR.. ColIyer "the hand on the dial of
time was turned back a thousand
years p New York Sun.