San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-21
THE oIsr OF MUCH READING.


them with pepper till they sneeze.
Omaha undertakers are complaining
of the scarcity of deaths at Omaha.
Nebraska crops will be the wonder
of the world this fall, according to
local papers.
Bee owners in Arizona report that
this is the best year for honey ever
known there.
After a courtship of twenty-four
years a couple were married last week
at Hightstown, n. j.
A big snuff factory, the only one
south of the Ohio River, is in course OF
erection at Nashville.
Four comets are at present disport-
| ing themselves in the heavens within
sight of astronomers.
There will be an international horse
show in Paris ne year, where S4o,-
600 will be distributed in prizes.
The wool interest in Australia has
suffered severely from drouth. The
sheep have died by millions.
The population of Rome grows at
the rate of $4,000 to 10000 year. AT
the close of 1887 it was 3S2,973.
The annual wine auctions which
have lately been held in Germany
show that good Rhine wines are UNI
precedentedly scarce, and, therefore,
prices have run very high.
The next session of the Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of Ohio will be held
in Allegheny from the 9Th to the 12Gh
of next month.
A blind guitar player named Man
Jon, from Spain, is creating a stir in
the musical world abroad. He uses
an instrument with eleven strings.
The German government has paid
30O, 900 marks to an Austrian engineer
named Mannlicher for patent cylin-
der stopper for quick-lOading rifles.
A movement has been started in
Nashville, Tenn, for the holding of
an International Metallic and Mineral
Exposition in that city in October,
1890.
Every newspaper in Wisconsin or
Minnesota over one year old received
800 for publishing the general laws
passed at each legislature of their re-
spective states.
The Main Jellico Mountain Coal
company, at Kensee, KY, will prob
ably open new mine and build 100 or
more coke ovens. They are preparing
to operate their cars by electric
power.
A fakir at Coney Island, n. V, was
caught working a lung tester the
other day that innocently registered
the exhalatiOns of his customers, but
responded to suction with measure
of malt whisky.
Nicholas Murphy, Waterman on the
Boston tea wharf, was presented Sat
urday with a gold-headed cane by his
employers for his bravery in having
saved 100 persons from drowning dur
ing the past five years.
In Norway bucket of water is set
down by horses with their allowance
of hay, and they take a sip of one and
a mouthful of the other alternately.
seen in that country.
There is a curiosity at J. J. Buch-
heit's, Sanford, Fla, in the shape of a
potato bug" as it is called. Its
length Is feet, width across the back
IA inches, snout 3 inches long,
height 10 inches, weight IA pounds.
Mirabeau characterized his tickle
countrymen briefly but forcibly when
he exclaimed: "Frenchmen are three
months squabbling about syllables,
and only take single night to over
turn the whole venerable structure of
the monarchy"
An English writer declares that the
custom of pairing off guests at dinner
arose in the middle ages, when there
was only single plate and drinking
cup for each couple and that while
the man cut up the meat the woman
put the pieces in his mouth and they
both drank from the same cup.
Refuting the assertion that meat
diet causes cancer, Surgeon-Major
Hendley reports from India that out
of l02 operations for cancer performed
at Jeypore since 1880, forty-one were
on the persons of meat eaters and
siXty-one on those of strict vegetar-
ians, who had not known the taste of
meat from their births.
B. F. Mills an employee of the Santa
Fe r. r., at Ardmore, I. T., had been
circulating scandalous reports about
Mrs. Henry West. The lady and her
husband, she with a whip, and he
with shotgun. proceeded to look
him up, and the lady administered
sound thrashing.
The burning of Van Reeds paper
mill five miles from Reading, last
night has blOtted out one of the few
revolutionary landmarks in this Sec
ton of the state. The property has
been in possession of the Van Reed
family for 100 wears, and -four was