San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-09
so WE HEARD.
Crystalized figs are a new tidbit.

Crystalized figs are new tidbit.
A man named Romance runs q drsy
cart at Wichita.
Fifty cents buys q nice little cucum-
Dor In the eastern markets.
The Niagara Falls hasn't had such q
snowy ice bridge since 1881.
Hot house tomatoes cost seventy-five
cents a pound In New York.
They are weighing coal in candy
scales In some Nebraska groceries.
A wood famine is reported from Min
nesota as the result OF railroad block
AIDES.
Cssadian Masons will hereafter black
ball all candidates who sell Intoxicating
beverages.
North Carolina is state without cities.
Wilmington, Its largest town, has only
10. 900 people.
Patterson, N. j., is at present excited
over strike OF editors and competitors
against the proprietor OF daily paper.
In California green peas are picked,
and OF excellent quality and Of full mar
ket supply In quantity, every day In the
year.
Barry, the English hsngman, has exc.
cuted 1l3 persons up to the present time,
sixteen Of them having been In Ireland
and two In Scotland.
A man In Rocks county, Kas has been
arrested for stealing school house. He
had removed the building to his own
residence and converted 1t into kitchen.
New York City has an Indian colony.
They are all the Iroquois tribe, and came
from Canada. They live In Blocker
street, and the women make bead work
which the men sell.
Lorenz Hummel, OF Adrian, Mich, was
switching one of his children the other
day, when the switch broke and q
| splinter struck him In the eye, piercing
the pupil and destroying the sight.
England has begun the erection OF q
monument over the resting place of q
number OF officers and men who died at
the battle Of Waterloo. Lord Rothohild
has contributed El05 toward the fund.
A ten-year- old boy at jamestown, N.
Y, swallowed nail, two and one-half
inches long, last July, and IL has feared
It would be one In his coffin, as he stead
lily declined In health until last week,
when he coughed 1t up.
A flock OF wild turkeys alighted In the
corn field Of John Walker, near Cowdon,
Ind. The ground was muddy, and the
weather turning cold, suddenly their
feet were frozen into the earth, and they
were all captured.
Two big footpads held up q newsboy
| In San Francisco the other night, and
when he would not give up his money,
even In the face Of a pistol pounded him
until he was unconscious and then
robbed him OF his hoard, twenty five
cents.
At Mt. Pleasant, Tex, a hog appeared
as witness In court the other day. A
case Of hog theft was being tried before
a jury, and the court decided that the
marks on the SOW under dispute were
not made plain to the jury and ordered
the hog brought into court.
Matthias Berger commonly known as
| the blue Mountain Hermit" has con-
cluded to give up living the life OF re-
| cluse, and take up his residence In
Reading, Pa. Berger, who Is now man
| OF seventy-five years, has lived alone for
thirty-eight years on top Of the Blue
Mountains, several miles above Port
| Clinton.
Niels Morgan, q young farmer living
near jamestown, Dsk., WAS overtaken
by the blizzard while driving across the
prairie In an open wagon. He threw
the wagon box on the ground upside
| down, crawled under 1t and remained
there In comparative comfort for two
days and a night, until the storm had
spent its force.
Two men who were lost in the storm
10 Holt county, Neb., were saved by the
thoughtful act OF q woman. She had
seen them pass her house and surmising
that they might have trouble she heated
q iat-iron and placed it close to the pane
OF glass TO keep of the frost and set q
lamp by the window. They saw the
light and we're saved.