San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-15

An American dentist has been fined
! in Berlin for putting the title doctor"
! Oh his cards. The Judge said the law
/ applied to all foreigners; he would fine
! even the crown princes doctor, DR..
Mackenzie, II he attempted TO use the
title doctor" in Prussia.
Peter Haldemau Burnett, the first
American Governor of California.
| lives in San Francisco. He is eighty
years old and in excellent health.
| Senior Pho Pico, the last Of the Spanish
Governors, is almost ninety years old,
and lives near Los Angeles.
A tree that was cut down in the
Little Shookum Valley, near Whatcom,
w. T., yielded 80, 900 feet of lumber,
which, at $3.50 per thousand, makes
the tree worth 1862. The Whatcom
ReUeiiie says that the timber lands in
that country will average ten such trees
to an acre.
A curious character known as the
king of the Foothunters" has just
died in Sussex. England. For the last
twenty years Constantine OnslOw
had attended every meeting of fox.
hunters or barriers on foot, and meet
ings were rarely started before this old
tramp appeared.
While using stove backing on her
kitchen range the other day, Mrs.
Margaret Twibell, of Montpelier, Ind. i,
got a small quantity of the polish in a
cut on her hand. Blood poisoning
ensued, the hand swelled to great size,
and it is thought that it will be
necessary to amputate it.
Ninety-two years ago a girl and
baby were born on the same day in
South Hanover, Mass. They grew and
thrived there and in time married.
That was sixty-two years ago. To
day they live right there in the same
town where they have lived. They
are Mr.. and Mrs. Hira Bates.
The city of Lecompton, Kan. which
thirty years ago was one of the most
promising towns in the west, is to-day
striking example of a "busted
BOOM" Town lots that sold for 81, 900
each in 1854 cannot now be disposed
of at $50, and the half million dollar
State House then under way is now
mass of ruins.
The French Academy, by its recent
annual distribution of "prizes of
merit has proclaimed Jean Adolphe
Delannoy, Calais pilot, the most
heroic of Frenchmen. He has risked
his life twenty-one times in saving
shipwrecked crews and is loaded with
medals. He also wears the cross of
the Legion of Honor.
The Times of India says that gen.
eral order is about to be issued by the
commander-in-chi directing that
cavalry, like infantry, shall hence
forth cheer when charging. 1t is sug-
gested that when colonies give out
their commands on other matters,
soldiers might also be permitted to
express their approval by a "hear!
heart
A Boston Highlands Sunday-school
class was told by the teacher to find
out all they could about Solomon and
relate it on the next Sunday. When
the Sunday came the teacher said to
the brightest boy in the class: ''Well,
Andrew, of whom did l ask you to
give succinct account to-dayp"
"Sullivan," answered Andrew with
great interest.
1t is proper to warn art collectors
against purchasing any Rem
mebrandts, Durers, or Raphaels which
may stray into the market at present.
A new scientific process of copying is
said to have been applied to the
pictures in the Esterhazy gallery at
Pesth with startling results, and the
fact has become a subject of inyestiga-
ton by the Hungarian Congress.
Washington is the great book-buy-
ing center. In book store one after
noon recently the following we'll
known persons were gathered at the
same moment: Mr. and Mrs. Cleve-
land, Justices Gray, Matthews and
Harlan, several members Of the
Chinese Legation, Secretarys Bayard
and Whitney, Congressman French
and West, and Senators Stockbridge
and EdmuLds.
The following is told of Lord Sails
bury's recent Grafton at Oxford: He
is in the habit when speaking of oc-
casionally wetting his lips with little
whisky and water, and, happening to
pour out supply of whisky, he for
got the water, and drank the spirits
alone. Itnearly strangled him at first,
but when he recovered he proceeded
to deliver the most extraordinary
grafton Of his career,
A benevolent Philadelphia con-
ceived the idea OF selling chickens by
the quarter, in order that poor per-
sons who were directed by physicians
to use chicken broth in case of illness
might be able to buy chickens. A GER
tain dealer sells them that way,
charging Is cents for fore quarter
and 10 for hind quarter. 1t is not a
profitable business, and the loss ON
sales for year has been $500, but the
benevolent man makes up the loss.
Big Lake, near Osceola, Ark, is
usually large body of water, forty
miles long and eleven wide, but the
long-continued dry weather of the
past summer restricted the limits of
the lake to less than two miles, and the
water became so shallow that man
might wade from shore to shore
This water was fairly alive with
fish, which were taken in quanti-
ties by men who armed with clubs,
beat them to death. A party from
Nashville recently returned from the
lake with 175 trout and twenty drum
fish which weighed $40 pounds.