San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-04
The Daily Eight.
Office No. 4 East Commerce Street
JOCOSE AND JUVENILE.
LIES full of tribulaton;
The schoolms' am drops tear;
The end of her vacation
Alas, is drawing near!

The schO0ms am drops tear
The end of her vacation
Boston Courier.
A wire fence with an arc light
current will keep out tramps-Detrolt
Free Press.
The man who hates the cornet
player mas been rootered in the school
of Observation-Disclosures Critic.
There is time when the LATEST man
can hurry. 1t is when the train
\ stops ten minutes for refreshments
Puck.
A lady visiting Bar Harbor, says
that the only thing you can buy there
at a reasonable price is a postage
stamp Lewiston Journal.
Angelica-"Why, mamma, is this
Rev. Mr.. Whitechoker's church?
How very small it is" Mamma
'FWell, it may be small, my dear, but
it is very high."-Life.
If tree planting goes on much
longer at its present rate in Kansas Ii
won't be many years until the farmers
will have to go to clearing land.-Em-
4 poria (Kan.) Republican.
J. at is not proper for you to play
school, my dear. today, for it is Sun
day" Il know it, mother" replied
the little girl; "but it is Sunday
School I'm playing:-EXchange.
I asked boy one day, just as the
hens were roosting, why do hens
like to roost on one leg? 81 s'pose
they have one more chance not to be
stolen" he said sprofoundly.-Raby-
hood.
Toto, you seen unhappy; will you
90 to the park add feed the ducks, and
see the pretty boats?" No, thank
YOU, aunty; I'd rather go on the bal
coly aud squirt water on the people
who go by."-Exchange.
A boys ambition is to go back to
school in the fall all tanned up. The
'schoolmaster's ambition is to tan
him I'D some more.-BOstOn Tran
script.
The boy who had no apple-"Gim
me de core o. dat apple when you're
done" The boy eating the apple
'.Dey amt goin' to be no core. ''-Ex-
change.
We pity the young fellow who
1 wants to vote but will lack a day of
being twenty-one on election day.
He must feel lack-a-day-sical.-
springfield RepG blican.
Coroner-"You seem very sure that
the deceased was killed by some acct
dent. Could he not have committed
suicide ?' Witness-"No sir; no man
ever committed suicide with a full
bottle of old Crow in his inside
pocket. "-Cartoon.
Little Girl-"Mamma / want you to
do me favor" Mother-"What is it,
Fanny?r Little Girl-"I want you to
make me present of nice new baby
brother, but papa isn't to know any
tn ing about it until he sees it."-EX-
ch ange.
CJountryman docking over copy
of Esop's Fables( -"What's the price
\ of this book, Mister?u Dealer-"Fifty
! cents. Do you want copy?" Coun-
\ tryman-"No; the fellar what wrote
1t has stole most of his ideas from the
newspapers.-EpOch.
n Gubbins, in one of the rare moments
4 he devotes to the cultiva lion of his
intellect, was reading aloud from a
| work on natural history. '"The camel
is an animal that can work week
without drinking" "And l." re-
,sl marked Gubbins, commenting on the
teXt, 81 am an animal that can drink
week without working. "-Judge.
n A man who subscribed to the News
or three months writes: II want to
\ pay for my subscription, but I'm a
title short of money; so / send you
half dozen eggs. If you'll put 'em
Inder settin' hen they'll hatch out
enough chickens to pay for a years
81 subscription" Now, this is new
way to pay debts; but if somebody
will give us hen we will try the ex-
oeriment.-Smithville (Ga.) News.