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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1888-12-02

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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29
Chopped or Cigar Ends.

In large cigar stores the cigar clippers, the
little knives which chop off the ends of Ha-
vanas, make quite an income for the pro-
prietors of the places in which they do duty.
A prominent Broadway cigar dealer said to
a reporter recently:
"You have no idea how rapidly these cigar
ends accumulate What do we do with
themi Well, we dispose of them in many
ways Some firms pack them up in pound
packages and sell them to smokers for pipes;
Tut it is against the law to sell them without
internal revenue stamps.
Quite recently the cigarette manufactur-
FRS have been experimenting with these ends,
and now they are quite extensively used in
The goods known as all tobacco cigarettes.
There Is one manufacturer who sends out
men to collect the chopped off ends and in
return allows us a discount on the cigarettes
we may buy of him"
How much do you suppose you realize a
year from the cigar endS.'
"Wel, about $500 think would cover it,
and that is a pretty good sum for pin money.
It's just like finding it. Oh, tell you moth
ing is wasted nowadays New York Even
ing Sun.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29

th0.gl neglected for years, has never lost its
place as a factor among the ironclads of the
world. The question arises, Why has the
monitor been neglected. Is it because there
is an unwarranted doubt of her seagoing
qualities with which the misiortunes of the
first monitor enshrouded it2 The loss of that
vessel could not reasonably be a reflection
upon the safety Of those that followed, for it
was designed for service in the inland waters.
Her construction, not unlike that of q New
York geTTyboat, showed that she was mani
festly never intended by her designer to be
sent to sea. The structural weakness was in
tho overhaRg; the deck being so arranged
that the beams rested on the hull proper, pro
jecting some feet beyond, upon which the
plating was fastened. The sea striking under
this extension started the deck from the hull
and caused her loss.
Subsequent monitors have no overhang
The iron huilS are built up to where the out
side plating goes on, then recede inboard to
the thickness Of the plating, the latter resting
on this shoulder, flush with the outside hull,
which, being bent in to form the shoulder,
continues up inside the plating to the height
of the deck. }. Brioe, lieutenant com
rnander u s N, in New York Times
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29
More Discrimination in Art.

Is the long established love for painting
and statuary doomed to extinctionG If not,
why are pictures no longer bringing the high
prices that they didf And why are the houses
of the better sort so chary of such decora-
tons! 1t is getting to be the custom to con-
ine pictures to the halls and stairways and
library. Those who can afford picture CALLER
les are a small proportion of tho population,
and extravagant OUTLAWS by the wealthy in
that direction are less than fifty years ago.
Old line engravings have had rage, followed
by the greatest popularity of etchings The
taste of the educated public still leans in this
direction. The change in fashion has fol-
lowed, doubtless, an increased aesthetic edu-
cation Of the people, leading to more discrim-
nation in art. At all events, it is no longer
the fashion to swing all over the walls of a
house pictures of only moderate merit or no
merit at all. Embellishments
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29
Chinese immigration to Russia.

The paragraph from The Nord telegraphed
by your Brussels correspondent and pub
lished in The Times recently can hardly be
officially inspired, for Russian officials who
are in a position to inspire The Nord usually
know perfectly what they write about, while
the paragraphist In The Nord is clearly not !
acquainted with the conditions of Chinese
immigration either into Siberia or to Aus
tralia He thinks that in consequence of the
cessation of Chinese immigration to America
and Australia it will so increase to Siberia as
to ''overwhelm the scattered Siberian popu-
lation and denationalize the Asiatic frontiers
of the empire" The fact Is the two immi-
grations have and, owing to the vast dis
tances which separate their sources, can have,
no effect whatever upon each other. The
labor immigration which troubles America
and Australia has its source in Hong Kong,
which draws its supply from the fertile and
populous plains Of the two most southern
provinces. Kwangtmg, and, In a smaller de-
gree, Fukhien.
The immigration to Russia really origi-
mates in Mancduria, perhaps 1900 to 5000
miles away from Canton The Manchurian
immigrants go originally from, the northern
provinces of Chilli and Shantung, and settle
over the wide plains OF Manohuria and Mon
goha, whence come Of them straggle across
the frontier into the valley Of the Amour,
where they settle down to agriculture. If
all emigration from the southern provinces
were stopped tomorrow, it is doubtful
whether a single Chinese the more would
cross the Russian border. The story that
Chinese agents were studying the ground in
Siberia in order to direct a current Of emil
grafton there Is absurd on the face of it.
Aanchuria and Mongolia, which are Chinese
possessions, ore capable Of holding as many
emigrants as China Is likely to send, and if
Chinese officials wanted to direct emigration
anywhere it would be to these regions, not to
Siberia. But, in truth, Chinese officials Of
all grades are profoundly Indifferent to emf
grafton of any kind, and to suspect them Of
directing it toward Siberia for political pur-
poses is to give them credit for far seeing
and ambitious designs which they are quite
incapable of harboring.-Cor. London Times.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29
Courtesy Toward Dumb Creatures.

1t is really pitiful to see how eagerly these
little captives respond to a word or an atten-
ton. fla stranger speak to them or notice
them, they will remember him, and the next
time he comes will call to him, try in every
way 10 attract his attention, and be madly
happy if he gives il. A certain house where
visit has placed in delightful spot g large
cage with great pink cockntoo in it. Now,
am never greatly attracted by parrots and
cockatoos, but can no more go into room
and not speak to the bird, or the dog, or the
cat, than can ignore the child. Although
have never petted that bird, never done more
than to speak to him kindly, yet the moment
come in he begins to bow, 10 wriggle his
body, 10 elevate and lower his crest, and
to cry "Cock+a-tooi cock-a-tooT If l do
not notice him be will In q few moments
scream to make me do 50.
At another house on my List Of visiting
places a dignifed Old cat, she pet of the house
hold, will at once leave his comfortable cush-
ion, though be is well on in years and likes
bis comfort, and come to me for a word and
little patting. Instances hike these might
be multiplied almost without end to show
how other creatures, as we'll as dogs, remem-
Der their friends and like 10 be spoken to.
Therefore, l say, give them that pleasure;
talk to your pets; observe when they are
happy and when uneasy; take personal in
terest in them.-Olive Thorne Miller in The
Home-Naker.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29

ITO Occasions in -7hich ~ SC-SGu Openly he
was simply playing, and all the smart fei
lows thought he was breaking his neck.
They had about fifty "toSts" at the track
watching him, ana every one Of them tele-
graphed back that he wasn't worth IS.
When he won the Junior Champion every
body who knew anything thought he had
"cinch" on the Futurity, and Mclaughlin,
Murphy, Garrison and the rest, who had all
refused to ride him before, wanted to ride
without pay. | knew it was the world
against Bryant and Ihad to watch my points.
There never was treasury vault guarded
Like that colt was. Every night two men
slept in the stall with him, and one OF them
bad pistol and the other Ratchet gave
them instructions to knock the first mans
head off that stuck his nose in the stall, and
they would have done it.-Owuer Bryant "
To.Iriar-.In urnal
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29
CITATION FOR NONRESIDENT.
lanes RaIey VS., Parker Doe and
Geo. A. Millikin.
THE STATE OF TEXAS,

THE STATE OF TEXAS,
To the Sheriff or any Constable of Bexar
County Greeting:
You are hereby commanded TO summon
Parker Doe and Geo. A. Mlikin nOn-res-
dents by making publication or THIS CITATION
once in each week. for four successive weeks,
preyious to the return day hereof, IN some
newspaper published in your county 10 APP
near at the next regular term OF the district
court of Bexar county, to be holden at the
courthouse thereof i'll San Antonio, OH the
first Monday (the third day. OF December, 1855,
then and there; TO- answer petiiion n Ises in in
q suit numbered on the docket of said court,
No 1892, wherein James Haley is plalntlH ana
Parker Doe and Geo. A. Mllllkn are ueIe9 at
ants; said petition alleging that on the otn
day of May, 1884, said defcndeut, Doe, eX-
ecuted to Geo. A. Milk seventeen prom
isory notes for $4,000 each, which were gwen
for The purchase price of 1856 feet and three
inches off the south end of !ot 10, of the south
west subdivision of original city lot 70, range
4. district !, in the City of San Antonio, BeXar
county, Texas, which notes are long since due
and unpaid, and have been assigned TO
plaintiff. r. .,,,-,,,. -, +h,
notes and that the vendors lien he tOreclosed,
and the said real estate oe sou anu lor seh
Herein fail not, but have you before said
court at its aforesaid next regular term; thls
writ with your return thereon, showing no"
YOU executed the same
Witness. Geo r. Dashiell clerk of the dis
trict court of Bexsr county, Texas. .Lo
Given under my hand and the
IL. ST seal of said court, al ONCE IN
San Antonio This 3lst day of October 1888.
Issued October 3lst, lSSS. ~
GEO. r. DASHlELL,
Clerk District COurt,I BeXar County
By NJ. YTURRI, Jr.,
Deputy. ~
This writ came to hand October 3lst, 1898,
and publication is ordered in the SAN ANTO,
MO DAILY LIGHT. rrr,1S
o - Sheriff Bexaro County
DRCSE
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29
Low LIFE.

Let your sod put on rags tonight; we are going
where life Is low;
Not, mean, where murder VIII smfte, not to
slums that with thieves oerfow;
Not to haunts that shall shock. distress, but to
low life, nevertheiesei
For caste hath lairs pacssed with pride, not Of
righteous deeds, but of race.
And avarice dens where abide misanthropies that
debase-
Though in either the rich light falls between
grandeurs Of gikded walls
Nay, the outcasts not an may be found among
alleyways noisome with dirt;
There are paupcrs, unclean and unsound, whom
penury's harms may not hurt;
There are lives wealth defended from Ill, yet
whose days are one poverty still
Edgar Fawcett In Youths Companion.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29

coat or jacket. Then she has nothing In b.
hand but parasol and book, and certainly she
can manage these without awkwardness or
mishap.
Still she is pretty sure to leave the book on
some counter, and both time and temper are
lost in recovering it, all which could be
avoided if she could only contrive to have
some one nice fiat place in her dress, where
she could have just one large, wide mouthed
pocket where book or anything of that size
could slip ms. s. E NJ" in Chicago
Herald
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29

When Mrs Langtry was in Paris recently
the presence also of one of Englands most
famous beauties Lady de Grey, formerly
Lady Lonsdale, gave rise to little COMPARE
son between them. The Parisians seemed to
think that Mrs Langtry was not so beautiful
as when she was trife more slight, and they
were inclined to give the apple to Lady de
Grey. The probability is though that, with
the world for judges, Mrs Langtry would be
considered the more beautiful woman. New
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29
Don't Bandage Sore Ewes.

The custom, prevalent among physicians
as well as the laity, of tightly bandaging or
tying up the eye as soon as it becomes in
famed or sore is a bad one. The effect upon
the eyeis bad. 1t precludes the free access
and beneficial effects of the cool air, and at
the same time prevents or greatly retards the
free egreSS of the hot tears and morbid secre-
lions Of the infiamed conjunctiva or cornea,
or both. In those cases too, where foreign
FubStance has got into the eye, the bandage
which is usually clapped on the first thing
presses the lids more closely against the ball
md thus increases the pain and discomfort
by augmenting the decorations caused by til
'oreign body. This cannot fail to be harm
sul. lp t=ose cases where the light is painful
ADJUST over the organ a neatly fitting shaus,
which, whils it excludes the light, allows the
rec access of air.-New Orleans Times Demo-
rat.
r p = - - q q.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29

The greatest national debt among the ma
items of the globe is borne by France. 1t is
about 1926, 100000 Russia comes next,
with $4,000. Co., 900; then England, with
So, 56O, 900, 900; Austro- Hungary with s., 49,.
OO0, goo, Italy, with s2,225 ,OO0, 900; Spain
with 81. aO7 SOC. 600; Prussia. with s.. 100000,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29

wires not oily multiplication -dnd division
are ratified over, but the longer processes Of
square root and cube root click out the exac.
results with less probability of errors than
when done by ciphering. The japanese may
lay aside his dress and his domestic customs,
his iinrikshas, and even his alphabet, but his
soroban neyerl-Baltimore American.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29

81 say, Brown, you know Shorty pretty
we'll, don't your
"Oh, yes"
"What kind of fellow Is her
"Well-Shorty is a man who generally
carries his money in his inside pocket
The Epoch.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29
DEATHS POWER.

Death, the Alexander bold,
With his sword he cIeaves asunder
Tangled cord and mystic fold,
Lies vexation and its wonder.
Ida A Ahlborn in America
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29
Monitor Class Of War vesseIs.

Hundreds of others of different types have
sprung up and disappeared, the designers oil
each claiming in the last that the true system
had been found. But It's Slsa4--s. asessv A.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29

coOLTON, JNO. H..
= Auctioneer and Commission Merchant
Houston street, next to the bridge Consign-
inents solicited.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29

y AA In all its Branches,
A, the LIGHT Job Office, No E. Commerce st.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1888-06-01
A ZULU BABY'S TREATMENT.
The Mistake of Being Born Among tho
Zulus Demonstrated.

The Mistake of Being Born Among tho
Zulus Demonstrated.
When a Zulu child is first born it is of
O light hue, and does not get the darker
tint of the parents for some years
AS soon as it enters the world the
medicine man" is sent for, and contrary
TO the custom of the civilized medical
man." he takes no notice whatever OF
the mother, but devoting himself entirely
to the child makes q number OF small
Rashes in various parts of the poor in
fant's body, into which he rubs medicine
and goes on his way rejoicing, returning
next day to make the missions deeper and
rub more medicine into them. This second
operation being performed the child is
washed and dried by being moved around
in the smoke of wood fire, eventually
being daubed all over with red paint,
which is renewed as fast as it wears off
for period of several months.
The child is not allowed any natural
food until the visits of the medicine
man" are ended (this formality often
causing serious consequences to the off
spring., and few days afterwards the
mother will be seen about her work as
usual, with the little one strapped to her.
brakes Magazine
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1888-06-01
How the Economists Live,

In the quaint Pennsylvania community
of Economy every inhabitant is compelled
to rigidly conform to somewhat eXacting
rules.
Every one is required to attend church
twice every Sunday and hear two sermons
from Father Heinrich.
ANY one found out of bed after o'clock
at night is Immediately banished from
the town, and all are required to rise at
that poetic and lyric hour, ''5 o'clock in
the morning."
In addition to three of the squarest pos
siblc of square meals daily, a free lunch
is served to the whole community at 8
o'clock every morning and at 2 o'clock
every afternoon, and at each Of those
hours u pint of wine is melted out to
every man, woman and child.-Boston
Journal.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1888-06-01
Unique JeWelry.

A seal ring with a watch set in room OF
the seal is the latest thing out in jewelry.
The timekeeper is a marvel of delicate
workmanship, and really triumph of the
jewelers. art. 1t is a tritle larger than the
ordinary cameo or signet for ladies' wear,
but not large enough to be clumsy or to
look out of place on delicate hand.
The first watch of this description worn
in America is credited to Miss Anna SEQ
Vile, grand daughter of Mrs. Henry
Ward Beecher, to whom it was lately sent
from Paris, and it is said to be reliable
guide to the hours
A niece of Secretary Bayard has watch
daintily set as a brooch, and watches on
the flaps of the big pocket-books now used
by women are not uncommon. Fanny
Davenport has one of this description
which is thickly set with emeralds and
rubies, making probably the costliest
pocketbook in existence Watches set in
the sticks of umbrellas and parasols are an
English fad, and perhaps half dozen
of them have been seen here.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1888-06-01
"A ranKee-s strange adventures.

A leading druggist in Lynn. Mass, tells
a curious story OF his fathers adventures
The fathers name was John Colcord, of
SANFORD, Me-, and he was a sailorman
Years ago he was wrecked on one of the
Sandwich Islands, and being true son Of
Maine, set up as a manufacturer OF gods
for the natives, making the idols from the
iron cast ashore from, wrecked vessels.
These indestructible deities became very
popular, and SO did Colcord, who married
native girl.
One day, in Honolulu, he met Maine
sailor, who had also been wrecked. The
man proved to be an old school-mate OF
Colcord. He brought Colcord four child
rem to this country to be educated, and
they all afterwards went back. Colcord.
after the death of his wife, came home to
Maine and married again, and the drug
gist is one OF the children by the last mac
rage.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1888-06-01

What is blonde and what Is bru-
nette, and what is she who Is neither Of
these' Definitions of the words l can
find in n dictionary-they do not cover
the ground.
A woman with black or dark brown
hair and eyes and dark complexion is a
brunette. But here is one with those
eyes and hair and very light complex
ion; she is not IL pure brunette--what is
she? A girl with light hair and eyes and
a dark complexion is not n blonde--what
is the name for herr What is she whose
hair is almost black, complexion dark,
but light gray eyes?
By complexion" is meant the color Of
the skin Of the face. Correspondent Of
Science.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1888-06-01
Doing tho Square Thing.

He was rising young lawyer and had
been given the authority to perform the
marriage ceremony.
The first couple that came to be married
arrived after he had left his office for the
evening. Nothing deferred, the would be
bridegroom hunted him out and brought
him back, and the ceremony was per-
formed
The young conple EXPRESSED the desire
for nice marriage certificate. Feeling
confident that the newly made bride
groom would be delighted to squander his
last farthing on so propitious an occasion
the young disciple of Blackstone sailed
forth to book store and there bought a
gilt-edged certificate, paying 81 therefor.
The bridegroom beamed with gratitude
and remarked as he drew forth his pock-
etbook and handed him ST.:
'Tll do the square thing by We, boss"
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1888-06-01
HER SILK STOCKINGS.
Whit Two Good Old Conservative Moors
Thought of Them.


Whit Two Good Old Conservative Moors
Thought of Them.
We were much amused at watching a
couple of eminenty respectable old Moor
ish gentlemen, who stood III picturesque
attitudes, rs If waiting for some painter
to commit them to canvas, at busy cor
ner near the Archbishop's palace in
Algiers.
AS they chatted and attitudinized a
Mohammedan lady of the better class
went tripping saucily by, clad at first
sight to all outward seeming as the fol-
lowers of the Prophet ought overt clothc
themselves. But the good old Moors,
shifting innovation in the very sweep of
her walk, gazed down with mingled
amusement and contempt at the huzzy'S
feet.
My eyes followed their glance instinct
lively, and in moment l saw what had
attracted their attention. That wretched
innovator's neither extremities were pos
itively incased in neat Partisan high
heeled bottines, above whose bronzed top,
between the shoe itself and the baggy
Turkish trousers that cncased her limbs,
one could just catch " glimpse of an ex-
ceedingly Frankish- looking crimson silk
stocking.
don't understand colloquial Arabic, at
least when rapidly and holly delivered,
but know exactly what those two good
conservative old Moors were saying that
moment.
One of them looked up at the other and
remarked:
well, l declare, did you ever see any
thing like that in your life nowl"
And his neighbor answered him, in very
choice Arabic
"You may say so, indeed. with their
heels and their hairpins wonder what
on earth the women are coming to ~
Cornhill Magazine.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1888-06-01
THEsAHCAsTIC YOUNG MAN.
An Incident of Life in a Flat--Nocturnal
RaYelrY.

Reyelry.
The occupants of fiat on the second
floor had given party. All the evening
and late into the night there was a tramp
ing about with singing and laughter and
noise that made the occupants of the flats
all the way up to the skylights roll around
in their beds and pound vainly on the
walls for peace.
About 2 a. m. the departures began, and
the noise redoubled with the farewells OF
the guests, while over the stairway on the
fourth floor leaned sleepless, wild-eyed
young man in a Powered bath-robe and
little else, listening to the good-byes
below.
At length one guest alone remained and
he was in the hall.
II want to thank you, Mrs Damper,"
he said effusively, "for the delightful eve-
ming have had, and now really must
Co."
Don't do it, don't do it," came loudly
down from the fourth-story landing. cts
nonsense to go so early as this. Come
upstairs and take breakfast with me. 1t
you will keep your mouth shut for two
hours I'll give you square meal and an
OyercOato