San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-01-03
A JOB LOT.

A bough OF English mistIetoe is 81 to
In Burlington, VT, the street cara
have been put on runners.
The ST. Paul ice carnival will begin
January % aud end February 4.
There are said to be 5000 houses In
Washington that the owners are yainly
trying to rent.
A Wellesley college girl pays her way
by sewing on shoe buttons for the whole
college.
A Georgia undertaken advertises that
he has Two brand new elegant hearses
-one for the white and one for the col
ored people,"
A Lisbon IN. H. shoe peg msnufac-
turer found sale In Germany for the en-
tire production last year OF his factory
1000 bushels.
Rafael Luna and Petra Negrete were
lately married In Guansjustto, Mexico.
The bride 10 twenty five and the groom
ninety nine years old.
A petriHed snake, three inches In d.
ameter and several feet In length, was
thrown out by q blast In the qusrries ut
Dead wood, Dakota, recently.
The Grub Stake (Texas) Prospector
says: IL the gentlemen who tarred and
feathered us last Saturday night will
kindly return our clothes they will con-
fer q lasting favor.
Another walking phenomenon is re-
ported from Pierson county. 5. G. A
dispatch credits him with being perfect
ly sane, and says he would like to stop
walking, but can not.
Mrs. Lydia Strope, who recently died
at Green Bay, Wis, was l02 years old.
On the same day Mrs. Jane w. Edge
comb died 10 Damariscotts, Me-, at the
age Of l02 years 4 months and IL days.
A backbone shillelah, which is said
to have been welded by an Irish king,
and is known to be 1856 years old. lie one
Of the proud possessions Of John Thomp-
SOD, Of RondOut, N. Y.
A monument erected to his dead wife
by st. Louis husband bears upon It's
face In deeply engraved letters the
words: ~ did not have to rob my en-
ployers to keed you 10 extravaganza"
A traveller recently returned from q
trip to New Mexico says that In little
valley In the south of the territory he
saw ripe apples, green apples and apple
blossoms all growing in the same
orchard.
The daughter OF Gen. Logan married a
Mr.. Tucker. EX-Congressman fuckers
daughter married q Mr.. Logan. A son
has been the fruit Of marriage In each
instance, and the boys bear respectively
the names, Logan Tucker and Tucker
Logan.
Some Of the young people OF Cairo
ILL.,, had candy pulling the other even
ing, and everybody was having jolly
time until suddenly the house cat slipped
from a shelf above the stove and fell
into the boiling molasses. He put such
dsmper on the entertainment that the
party soon broke up.
The ohildless duke OF Athol encOuT-
aged one OF his oOttOrs, whose wife had
just presented him with twins, by say
ing, "Weel, Donald, ye ken the Al
mighty never sends BARNS without the
meat" Donald responded, doubtfully:
That may be, your grace, but whiles
think Providence makes a mistak In
thae matters and sends the BARNS to ae
hoose and the meat to anither."
While Ida Gephart was being married
at Mount Pleasant, N. Y, her mother,
with scream, fell to the floor of the
church unconscious. Then Ida Topped
into the arms Of the groom. The min
lister wasn't to be deferred by little
thing like that, and kept on with the
service until 1t was finished. The lds's
mother was picked up and restored to
consciousness, and Ida herseif came
around all right.