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The biologist, Bichat, whose munitions
30 m~arvelously anticipated the conclu-
sions OF O later science, held that the
normal longevity of our race should
be an average of 90 years, bearing his
Inference on the fact hat the life term
of all known mammals exceeds at least
six times the period OF their growth. A
dog, growing for three years, may live
to 1s or 20. A horse, growing for four
or five, a~ttains, and often exceeds, an age
of 80 years. A camel, growing twice as
slowly, may live to 40 years and upward.
An elephant, even in captivity, does not
attain its full growth before its 10Th
year, and In India often o~utlives two
masters, Some of the larger quadru-
mana likewise grow very slowly; several
varieties of balloons, for instance, do not
acquire the characteristics Of maturity
before the beginning of their teens; and
h naturalist, Brehm, mentions q male
chacma, who, after becoming the patri-
arch of his tribe, raided the durra fields
of the Zulu villages for nearly thirty
years before he met his Waterloo in q
fight with the outraged natives. The
males Of our own species grow for at
least sixteen years, but less than one
third reach ever the threefold multiple
Of that age, and hardly one in 800 the
normal sixfold.-Dr. Felix L. Oswald In
The Forum.
, 1888-08-21
Underwear of Pure Wool.

Talking of the Jaeger system, DR.. R.
@. Rutherford said: 1.-The spread of DR..
Jaeger's sanitary ideas in this country
has been little short of miraculous. OF
course, years ago, the theory had been
advanced by others that the most health
full raiment was that woven from animal
fiber, but Jaeger was the first to enthusi-
astically work out this theory in its practi-
cal details. myself, for two years, have
worn nothing, save collars and cuffs, that
is not of pure wooden material, and /
have derived ~appreciable benefit from it.
The main reliance of the system is on
the indisputable fact that it is the prop
erty of animal fbers to exhale and diff
fuse nll excretions of the body with
which they may become im~pregnated,
while cotton, linen OF silken fabrics re-
tain them for an indefinite period. IN
derwear Of absolutely unadulterated wool
needs to be washed but seldom. Simply
hanging it in an air current ~sufflces to
render it pure and sweet. On the other
hand, II you leave clean and newly
washed linen o cotton garments in n
drawer they will absorb the almost i'm
p%erceptiblo odors of the atmosphere, and
in o short time need what the house
keepers call q good airing before they
car be sed."-The Epoch.
, 1888-08-21

Five or six years ago that woman
was a great belle, " said my neighbor, as
the door closed on the shocking example
of ~resurfacing.
''She came here for the first time the
morning after the great - ball. She
looked tired, and i didn't wonder. My
brother, who was put late the night be-
fore, told me that he heard n gentleman
call her by name as he handed her into n
carriage after a little supper at the close
of an evening at the theatre. 1t was
midnight and she was just going homo
TO dress for the ball. You can guess the
pace she was keeping. She bought moth
ing but q little violet powder to whiten
the great dark circles under her eyes.
Next season she was n regular customer
for rose leaf waters of one kind and an
other to rub q little bloom on her cheeks.
After that it was paint, and now look at
her. Sometimes her face breaks out in
blotches and she has terrible work to
cure them. Eliza Putnam Heaton.
, 1888-08-21

1 visited az eating house in Berlin
which for primitiveness is rather ahead
OF anything else l have seen in the world.
The dining table consisted of a log in
which eighteen cavities appeared at regu-
lar intervals. Each cavity was of about
b size of a large soup bowl, and fast
ened near every n was a big iron spoon
attached to the log by an iron chain.
The method Of dining was neither COM
plicated nor prolonged. A table d,hote
dinner, consisting of one course, which,
by the way, was the only dinner served
in the house, cost five pfennigs-about
one cent and a quarter of our coin. The
diner enters and planks down his money
before taking his seat. Then he chooses
one of the broad cavities, seizes the iron
spoon and waits for the waiter. That
functionary is usually a sort of a Pooh
Bah, combining in himself the duties of
cashier, proprietor, head waiter and
bouncer in chief.
After the guest is seated the waiter
walks up to him bearing two steaming
cans and asks, shortly: ''Thick or clear
soup9" The diner usually, after shifting
the fumes of the cans and giving the
matter weighty consideration, makes his
decision, and then the factotum fills up
the nearest cavity with soup, turns on
his heel and washes his hands of all fur
ther consideration. 1 did not gain the
impression from a casual inspection that
the waiter had ever washed his hands in
any other than a igurative sense. The
diner scoops the soup out of the hole in
the log with his iron spoon, and, having
thus dined wisely and well, is promptly
ordered out by the bouncer in chief.
There is no lingering over an after din
ner cigar, nuts, ~raisins, fruit or coffee.
The expedition of the meal is its most
striking characteristic, except, perhaps,
it's simplicity. -Blakely Hall in New
York Sun.
, 1888-08-21

The actual practice of military bal
looming is nov being carried on by
Italian forces in the Soudan to a consid-
cradle extent, and this question of OBJ
tanning the gas for the balloons has
caused not a little trouble. The hydro
gen required has been manufactured at
Naples and taken to tho seat Of war in
steel tubes, each Of which Is about 8 90
inches in diameter by 4 feet 7 1-2 inches
long, the walls being about 8 So inches
thick. The hydrogen is produced by ac-
ton on iron turnings with dilute sulphur
rio acid, and is pumped into these tubes
at u pressure of 1.01V pounds per square
inch. Forty Of the tubes are needed in
initiating a single balloon. New Orleans
PicaYune.
, 1888-08-21
At the Picture Dealers.

1t was in a picture dealers. Some peo-
pie arc irreverent enough to call such
plnces art stores. Well, perhaps, most
of them might be called curiosity shops,
but still art store" does not seem to be
n happy combination of names. How
that word f'store" has risen in dignity of
late yearsi 1t Is the gradual spead of
democratic ideas, which unfortunately
seem to lower the highest as well as ele-
vate the lowest. Perhaps it would be
more accurate to say they made q COM
mon level between high and low. High
art as it was known is disappearing any
way. The only high art nowadays is
making money, and that is why picture
dealing is a higher artistic profession
of the establishment was making himself
useful around the place. Several ladies
had strolled in to look at the pictures,
without any intention of buying, which
perhaps Disguised the errand boy. A
picture of the Magdalen stood on an
easel.
"Ah!" said one of the ladies, going up
to 1t and viewing it critically, THAT is
Mary Magdalen, isn't it2''
81 don't know if it is Mary Magdalen,'
said the boy.
The proprietor happened to be standing
close by.
Don't you know that is Mary Mag
dalen?''
well, Magdalen's 'nough, amt it2 It
don't matter whether it's Susie OF Jennie
or Imogene Magdalen, does it? How
should l know all those women's first
names2'-San Francisco Chronicle.
, 1888-08-21

Every old East Indian officer knows
that when a musk rat runs over the bot
ties in your cellar you might as well
throw the contents away. They will
have the smell and the taste of the musk,
and nothing that you can do will cure it.
l know it is a story that you won't be-
lieve, because you haven't seen 1t your
self, but you can cork a bottle Of ale,
say, as securely as you like, seal It and
put 1t away, and If the rats get a chance
to play about it you will find it wholly
u~ndrinkable. l don't know how the
smell gets into the liquor, but there it is.
l have seen bottles washed and scrubbed
and rubbed with sand, then opened and
found to be ruined. There is no animal
that the old school Indian will kill with
such a thorough consciousness Of doing a
good work as the rat. Chicago News.
, 1888-08-21

There are 20, 900 Cherokees, 5000
Choctaws, 5000 Chickasaws, and from
1000 to 5000 Seminoles in the territory.
The Greeks number s. 900 tt 10, 600 souls,
but it is thought about half of these are
negroes. Owing to prejudice among the
Cherokees and Choctaws there are fewer
negroes in those nations. The territory
has more railroads than any who have
not studied the subject would believe.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe route
run a line from Arkansas City to
Gainesville straight through the middle
of the territory. The Missouri, Kansas
and Texas, part of Gould's Missouri Pa
cific line, runs through the northeast cor
ner, through the Cherokee, Creek, Choc-
taw, and part of the Chickasaw nations.
There is a fifty mile bit of road from
Fort Smith, Ark, to Moskogee, in the
Greek nation, entirely traversing the
Cherokee country. The Atlantic and
Pacific road has got the right of way,
and has made its survey straight across
the territory. A branch of the Rock
Island system crosses the territory, and
q branch of the Southern Kansas route
runs across the northeast corner. dag
onally across the state is projected the
Dennisou and Wachita Valley road, part
of the Frisco system.-New York Sun.
, 1888-08-21
rrOpertles Of Nitro-Glyeerlne.

So sensitive is nitro-glycerine to con-
cussion and percussion, that if 1t be
dropped only a few feet or struck ever a
slight blow 1t will explode. An example
of this wonderful property of the stuff
occurred a few years ago in Panama,
when the sudden ignition Of q quantity
of it converted q wharf and a warehouse
into a mass of unrecognizable fragments,
inflicted damage to the extent of about q
million dollars and suddenly ended a
number of lives.
Careful Investigations soon demon
strated that the change which converts a
harmless substance like glycerine into
such n tremendous explosive is made by
the substitution of molecules of nitrogen
and oxygen for atoms of hydrogen in the
original compound. When this is done
with great care and the process is carried
through the last stage, the resultant liq-
uid is nothing more than a vast mass of
gas held together by the weakest and
most unstable bonds.-New York Mail
and Express.
, 1888-08-21

A new and peculiar class of timepieces
has lately been brought out which illus
trates the steady progress that is being
made in the arts Of skill and precision.
This is a watch of ordinary size, of which
the case and plates are made of Brazilian
pebble or rock crystal, thus rendering
the watch transparent, and exposing to
plain view the wheels and all other parts
of tho interior mechanism. Scientific
American.
, 1888-08-21
rrscts of Mental Idlensss.

Mental idleness is sure to lead to men
tai ruin. He who will not exert his
thoughts, who lets them positively receive
whatever influence may chance to fall
upon them, will soon lose the chief power
which makes them valuable. 1t is an
easy habit to fall into, and one. which
each person needs to guard against-that
of listessly reading, or listening, or
dreaming instead of actively thinking and
working up these influences into ideas
and convictions that are worth holding,
because they have been justly earned. 1t
is the vacant mind, where no good seed
is struggling upward into life, which will
soonest be covered with weeds.-Once a
Week.
, 1888-08-21

The proprietors of Santa Able have
authorized W. N. Hunt TO refund your
money il, after giving this California king
Of cough cures a fair trial as directed, il
fails 10 give satisfaction for the cure Of
coughs. Group, whooping cough and lung
troubles. When the disease affects the
head, and assumes the form of catarrh,
nothing is 50 effective as Cat-R. Cure.
These preparations are without equals as
household remedies. Sold at 81 90 a
package. Three for 81 SO.
, 1888-08-21

This is the latest credited to w. s. Gil
bert. A friend was bewailing in his COM
pany that his wife had just presented him
with triplets, all girls. ""What am / to
do with them2" asked the poor man. 81
don't even know what to name them. I"
''Oh," said Mr.. Gilbert, ''call the first
Kate, the second Duplicate, and the third
Triplicate. The Argonaut.
, 1888-08-21

About a seventh-15.7 per cent.-of
the working population of England is
engaged in domestic service. In Amer
lea only 0 per cent. of the same popula-
ton earn their living in this way. AT
least ten families are competing for one
domestic in the United States where only
four are bidding against each other In
England. -Once q Week.
, 1888-08-21
"HEALTHI o v WORK."

Were ever such beautiful triplets bornf
Rosy and sweet and glad as the morn;
Never 4 hearthstone far and wide
So happy as where these three abide.
If the angels sent but one to me,
Which wou l choose of the lovely threei
o, of the trio, Love is best;
Love immortal, is loveliest.
Mrs. George w. Swift In Woman.
, 1888-08-21
A FRlGHTFUL SKIN DISEASE.
SufferInss Intense. Head Nearly Raw.
BODY Covered with sores. Cured
by the Cutfcura Remedies.

MEssRs. STEVEN & BRUNEI: Monroe, N. G.
Dear SirS;-Aboutt two months ago, on read
ing your recommendation, l bought a bottle
Cuticura Resolvent, one box Cuticura iSalve,
ana one cake Cuticura Soap, for my son, aged
ID years, who has been afflicted with eczema
for a long time, and l am pleased to say that l
believe the remedies have cured him. His
sufferings were intense, his head being nearly
raw, his ears being gone exceptthe gristle, and
ton was frightful to behold. The sores have
now all disappeared, his skin is healthy, eyes
bright, cheerful disposition and working every
day. My neighbors are witnesses to this re-
markable cure, and the doubling ones are re-
quested to call or write me or any of my neigh
bors- WIN S.
Winchester z. o., Union Co, N. G.
, 1888-08-21

III we could see ourselves as others see
US, some Of us would see ourselves n
great deal better than we really are.
This thought is suggested by Boxer in
Francesca Da Rimini: (" "This life is
one continual struggle to hide our base
ness from the world. Detroit Free
Press.
, 1888-08-21

A masseuse who has practiced her
profession largely among families Of
wealth makes the statement that in many
years she has administered massage to
only n woman whose ribs had not been
displaced by corset wearing New York
World.
, 1888-08-21
An Associate cure:

The ORIGINAL ABIETTNE ONT
MENT is only put up in large two ounce
tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old
sores, burns. wounds, chapped hands and
all skin eruptions. VIII positively cure all
kinds OF piles: Ask for the ORIGINAL
ABlETlNE OINTMENT. Sold by DR..
w. N. Hunt, at IS cents per box by mail
80, cents.
, 1888-08-21

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. II
soothes the child, softens the gums. allaYs
the pain, cures wind collie and is the best
remedy for diarrh@a. Twenty FIVE cents
a hottie
, 1888-08-21

Tie largest stock of fine brandies, old
WHISTLES, choice Hq1te1irs and superine
cigars at George Masters well known
Mousse, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets.
, 1888-08-21
MONROE, N. G., Oct. %, 1887.

hoNhphf ~. ~, Otl. 81, loo1s
GenHemen:-Mr. WINS. Stephenson of this
county brought his son to town to-day to let
us see him and to show us what Cuticura
Remedies had done for him. This is the case
referred to in our letter to you some time ago
To look at the boy now one would suppose
that there had never been anything the mat
ter with him-seems to be in perfect health.
We have written and herewith incloSe what
the father has to say about the matter,-wrote
it Just as he dictated.
We are selling quite a quantity of Cuticura
Remedies and hear nothing but praises for
them. We regard the Cuticura Remedies the
best in the market, and shall do all we can to
promote their sale. Yours truly,
& BRUNER,
Druggists and Pharmacists
, 1888-08-21

Waste silk has been shown to be the
most effective nonconductive covering for
steam pipes. The price is high. but the
demand Is very great.
, 1888-08-21

Cuticura, the great skin cure, and Cuticurn
cura Resolvent, the new blood purifier, inter.
nally, are n positive cure for every form OF
skin and blood disease, from pimples to scrof
, 1888-08-21

Sold everywhere. Price, Cuticura, soc; Soap
25c; REsolyent, 81 Prepared by the Pottel
p9- Send for "How to Cure Skin Diseases. !,
o. pages, 50 Illustrations and 100 testimonials.
, 1888-08-21

The Paris census shows 6,015 Ameri-
cans, 14,701 English and 80, 709 Ger
mans.
, 1888-08-21
DR.. Wagner &Cs.
sPACIAEIsTs

S
We offer no apology for deyoting 50 much tim
diseases, believing that no condition of human
ity is too wretched to merit the ympathy and
long, as many are innocent sufferers, and that
ttnne rI Iihysielan who deyotes himself
philnnthrophist and a benefactor to his race
than The surgeon or physician who by close APP
pncation eXcels IN any other b anch of his pro-
fession. And, fortunately for humanity thu day
is downing when the false philanthrophy that
the lepers under the Jewish law, to die uncared
Tor, has passed away.
YOUNG M Ell
Who may besuffering from the effects OF youth
ful follies or indiscretions, will do well TO avail
at the alter of suffering humanity. DIR. VAC
NEH VIII guarantee to forfeit five hundred dol
yate diisease oS Sa aSv y ti se1h nr Az r ea nsa IS or Pr III
undertakes and fails to cure.
MIDDLE-AGHD MEN.
are troubled with too frequent excavations of
the bladder often by a slight
snarting or burning sensation and a weaken
ing OF the system in a manner the patient can
not account for. On examining the urinary de
posts a ropy sediment will often be found, and
sometimes small particles of albumen will ap-
pear, or the color win be OF akin or milkish
hue, again changing to a dark and turbid APP
this difficulty ignorant of the cause, which is
the second stage of seminal weakness. DIR
wagner win guarantee a cure in all such
cases and a healthy restoration of the genito-
urinary organ. Consultation free. Thorough
examination and advice. $500.
See the Doctors additional advertisement in
the Daily Denver News and Tribune-Republi-
can.
All Communication should be addressed
DIR. AGN & co,
l4l4 Larimere street. Address, Box 27s8, Den
yer, Colorado.
Cut this out and take along
, 1888-08-21

job printing neatly executed at the
Leader Job Printing Rooms.
, 1888-08-21

Bouquet throwing has been abolished
in the London theatres.
, 1888-08-21

For fine watch repairing,
David Miller, Idelman block
, 1888-08-21

pTMPLES, blackheads, red, rough, chapped
l LII and oily kin prevented by Cuticura
Soap.
, 1888-08-21

Courtesy of Hyo. Archives &
, 1888-08-21

STEVENS Il BRUNER,
Druggists and Pharmacists.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-06
Real KStatD,
BOUGHT, SOLD OR EXCHANGED.

Have BUYERS for small or large Ranches.
Have buyers for 20 room houses, suitable Tor
bOarderS,
Have renters for furnished and unturnlshed
houses.
Have vendors lien notes for sale.
Have ranches and property in other cities
and towns to exchange for city property:
Want small houses with , to lots Tor
garden.
Want 100 to 200 acres irrigable land.
Want buyer for 2 houses and lots on Gov
eminent Hill.
Want buyer for2 houses and lots on Ever
green street.
Want to rent small farms near city:
Want buyer for Madison and King william
lots.
Want > lots near Belknaps residence.
Want ) to 800 acre tracts in city limits.
NAYLOR & CO.,
Land, Loan and Investment Agents.
"a W. Commerce ST., San Antonio, lex.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-06

president Cleveland's message to
congress will not fail to attract the
attention which it deserves. 1t marks
the beginning of serious movement
in the direction of free trade.
The doctrines of free trade have been
preached to the Americans in vain
hitherto. We seem at length about
to witness a new departure. MAN
chester Examiner and Times.
The democracy will find it impossi-
BILE to escape from the free trade tolls
which they have thus woven around
themselves. The issue is fairly made
up and cannot be lodged. The demo-
cracy committed to the English policy
of free trade and the consequent pau
perization of American labor; the re-
publican party committed to the
American idea of protection to Ameri-
can industry, and the consequent i'm
provement in the condition and wages
of American workingmen. Between
these two policies the voter OF next
November must make his choice, and
vote for one or the other; he cannot
vote for both. 1t is the old conflict be-
tween England and America trans
ferred to the soil of the United States,
with ballots instead of bullets for
missiles of destruction or salvation.
To ITS critics, the Day, of Waco
pays its compliments in the following
style:
ITO our esteemed democratic and
republican contemporaries in Texas:
The Day is so far democratic that 1t
subordinates its views as to certain
policies to the platform declarations
of the party in national and state con-
ventions. This is always essential to
unity in any political campaign, and
the Day does not aspire to be bolter
or kicker"
This is satisfactory as far as it goes,
and had the Day been anything but
a protectionist heretofore would not
have provoked comment. After all 1t
is only question of how much? viz
Should a mans personal views ON so
vital question as free trade or pro-
lection be dominated by the party
platform? The Day thinks it should
and, as party paper, it is perhaps
right. After all it is question for
the individual editor and manage
ment to determine. No one questions
their right to surrender personal views
to party views and platforms. 1t
simply seems to the LIGHT that it is
carrying the personal surrender
good way, and kinder knocks inde'
pendence in political views and the
work of education through the press
into a cooked hat.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-06
PERSONAL PICkINGS.

Pauline Lucca is to sing fifty nights
in concerts in this country.
Lord LOndsdale, who set out for the
North Pole, has not been heard from
for a long time.
The tallest man in congress is Stew
art, of Texas, while Bowers, of GeOr-
gia, is the leanest.
Anne Boleyn used to sing a song
composed by herself called 80, Death,
Rock Me to Sleep"
Henry w. Slocum, tennis champion
of America, is engaged to be married
to Miss Edsall, of Staten Island.
The forthcoming number in the
"Great Writers" series will be a
monograph on Crabbe, by Mr.. L. r.
Kebbel.
Andrew Lang will soon publish, in
connection with Paul Sylvester, a VOL
ume of stories translated from the
German.
Rev. George Nee. Fiske, of Provi-
dence, r. l., declines to accept the
bishopric of Fond du Lac, to which he
was recently elected.
The ancient custom of ringing the
curfew bell has been resumed at
Stratford-on-Avon, the same bell
being used as that which was tolled at
Shakspeare's funeral
J. E. Hughes, secretary of the
Jockey club, st. Louis, has requested
to have sixty more stables built at the
Dallas fair, as all the race horses al
thn St. Louis fair will be brought to
Dallas.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-06

rAn contracts or bills must be approved by
the Secretary and Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-06
CARELESS MOTHERS.

Many mothers have permitted their
children to die before their eyes when
they might have been saved. Any
mother who keeps house without a
rottle of Arcker's English Baby
Sootner at hand, runs risk which
she may sometime regret. 1t has
saved the lives of thousands of child
rem. and is doing so every year.
For Sale by RAGLAND q Co
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-06

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