San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-10
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Five colored men have been elected
to the Texas Legislature.
Pink parties for infants are said to
be the latest novelty in Chicago.
An Englishman has invented ma
chine for making illuminated theater
posters.
A cheap thing you have no use for
is the most expensive purchase you
can make.
The other day two doctors 5000
miles apart consulted as to the condi-
ton of a patient.
The longest towboat in the world is
in Bath Maine. 1t Is $50 feet long,
with 112 horsepower.
The population of Japan, at the end
of last year, according to the Official
Gazette, was 39,O69,OO7.
Charles Mitchell, of Indiana, has
gone crazy over trying to find peach
tree which would bear fruit in the
winter.
1t costs Maryland $50, 900 per year
to maintain her oyster navy and pre-
vent other states from owning her
oysters. ..... .. ....
Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb, her hus-
band, the Count Primo Magri, and his
brother, Baron Ernest Magri, will APP
pear in an elfin comedy, entitled 1.-TWO
Strings to Her Bow" at a New York
theatre next Saturday.
An Australian paper seriously dis
cusses the mugwump, under the
impression that it is Rocky Noun
tain ass recently discovered.
A Kansas paper predicts that in
five years Kansas will make her own
sugar, and in ten years will have
millions of pounds to sell.
A London author has written thirty
novels in three years. This beats the
record of any living man, but the
writer's enormous labor has brought
him only 1000.
A newspaper in the little town of
Boden bach, in Bohemia, which has
been confiscated by the government
for the three hundredth time, has
just celebrated the event.
The government has discovered
shortage of eight cents in the ac-
counts of paymaster who died in
1868, and his bondsmen must fork
over if it sends them to the poor
house.
When the doctors can't save a ma
tive of China, the Ling Hoop, or prayer
man, is called in. For one-fourth of
a cent he will pray half an hour, and
if the victim doesn't rally with that
he is left to go on with his dying.
The Maine Pathological society is
making collection of choice apples
for exhibition at the worlds eXposi-
ton, which opens in Paris next May.
The apples are to be placed in pre-
serving liquid before being shipped.
Three twelve-pound cannon balls
and one four-pounder were found in
Rutland, VT, by workman engaged
in eXcavating for the foundation of a
new mill. They are supposed to be
relics of the Burgoyne campaign, in
1777.
The boy who used to black Goal
Oil Johnny'su shoes in the days of
that oil millionaire's prosperity is now
the owner of his former patrons farm |
Several new wells have been drilled |
on it, and the owner values it at $780,
600.
Sir John Lester Kaye has eleven |
farms in Manitoba, all supplied with |
buildings and machinery. He raises |
better flax than the Irish, which is
worth $3.50 ton. Next summer 49,
900 sheep, now in Oregon, will be
transferred to his farms.
A weather plant capable of predict
ing earthquakes exists in Vienna. On |
several occasions these predictions as
to earthquakes have been useful in en-
abling mine owners to take precau-
tions for preventing loss of life in col
liery explosions.
Not long ago a mercantile firm in
Boston. wishing to ascertain the f. |
nancial standing OF customer in New
Hampshire, addressed a letter to the
Town Clerk asking for a rating. 1t so
happened the country merchant and
the Town Clerk were the same person,
and the reply returned was interest
ing reading.
Austin Texas Statesman: There
is class of people in the South who
never will learn any sense. This
mornings dispatches report band of
regulators in certain counties in Ten