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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-17
THE kNPOsI1ION.
mother Successful Day-The Tournament,
Closing Day.

notb'T
Closing Day.
Yesterday was another beautiful day,
and another large crowd was present al
the Exposition. There was nothing
specially attractive offered during the
morning. Still large number of strsn.
gtIs were in the city, and, of course,
everybody vented to see ViTginia's grand
display.
THE TOURNAMENT.
The tournament was the feature OF the
evening, and attracted considerable in
terest. The successful knight was Sir X.
f. Garnett. knight OF New Market, who
took eight rings. The second on the list
was Sir r. f. Morris, knight of Rich
mOnd the third was Sir j. ii. Parrish,
Knight Of the Black Horse, and the
fourth was Sir II. l.. Watkins, knight OF
Red Wing. Mr. Thomas Nelson Page
made the address 20 the knights a. they
entered the lists, urging them on to deeds
Of chigalry and galiantry.
About 6 O'Clock last evening there was
banquet at Beyidere Hall, where The
address Of welcome was made by Mr.
Roosevelt Page. Mr Garnett, the Ivan
hoe Of the day, was absent. MI Par
rsh crowned Miss Inez Brown, Mr. Wat.
kins crowned Miss X Evelyn Watkins and
Mr.. Morris crowned Miss Bessie Nashon.
Socially and "chiyalrously" the entire
entertainment was a grand success.
TnELAsr DAYS OF PoNPEL
The performance Of the Last Days OF
Pomueii" was witnessed by the usual
large audience. and the fireworks con.
cluded with an excellent portrait oil
Nayo, rlyson. Tonight the entertain,
mcnt viii con,, ,,ude with a portrait OF
Charles stewart Parnell, ,~e great if'sn
leader.
BOYS DAY.
To-day will be another Boys Day, ard
the juvenile sports which have created
so much merriment on the two previous
Saturdays will be repeated. Children
will be admitted to-day for ten cents.
CLOSING DAY.
The management have decided to close
the Exposition next Wednesday, the
day originally determined on. After
careful deliheration and discussion II was
determined as best not to put cff the
close until Saturday, the oath instant.
The most successful and creditable OF
any State Exposition ever seen in the
United States will therefore close next
Wednesday.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-17

has decItssed since the lnl'CuuS'ioH
Dr. Dayids Cough Syrup. IL Is 1he very
best cough cure known.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-17

Mr. Joseph Chamberlain took unto
himself Yesterday an American bride
thus concluding one treaty, at least,
which commands the cordial approval
and good will Of the United States With
ia few weeks the gentleman who will
be at the head Of the British Legation In
Washington until new Minister Is ap-
pointed vii follow Dir Chamberlain's
example, and so make sure os being a
"persona grata" 10 our Government
There are signs that this westward, not
to say wayward, tendency on the part OF
Englishmen in search OF wives excises
some alarm AZ home Exchange.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-17
r,,ue Grocer, Around the Corner

W Jones, No A South First stree
ms IN tbe meats and vegetables, hsh an'
Nsme ~s always in prime condition Ais'
fresh butter and eggs
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-17
Il Won want 10 live quite happy anC

never know regrets, ,o
Don't le, your stock run down 100 10"
In "My Sweetheart" Cigarettes, -,
For nothing in this market into iaVo'
has so crown .s Cor
roll X Ggeeust0ne.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-17

Millers and the Flour and Grain Trade
are invited TO examine the Showcase
Of Goods for Testing Grain and Flour on
exhibition in ihe Gallego Minis space
They are just from The Cincinnati Expo
sition and from the H. J. Deal Specially
Company, Bucyrus, Ohio Mr.. W. Il.
Lee will receive all orders for the above
goods. W. X. LEE,
Flour Inspector, Office No. l02 Shockoe
Sin. (ItY
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-17

Better for coughs, colds, bronchitis, etc,
than DR.. David's Cough Syrup, we have
never heard OF IT, /, cures and leaves no
had after effects.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-17

Smoke nv wEETHEART Cigarettes
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
A Relic of Barbarism.

1t is many years since the traveller who
was advised to go and see India remarked
that he did not care to do so, as the gov
eminent had abolished hook swinging and
widow burning. But some of the inhabi-
tants of that vast peninsula are still given
to a strange custom, of which little or
nothing is known to Europeans. 1t seems
that in the niZam's dominions there is a
caste in which this practice prevails.
When any of its members die flag is at
tached to a bamboo and the bamboo is
given to a man to hold over the corpse of
the deceased. Then, having retired to
convenient distance, the men of the caste
open fire on the flag, probably by way of
showing their distress and of helping the
soul of the deceased on its journey to some
other world. But not everybody is q
William Tell, and sometimes it happens
that the man holding the flag is shot.
This actually occurred on a recent occa-
sion, and notice was taken of it by the
nizam's government. In The Tarida, or
government gazette, it is made known to
all concerned that no flag held over q
corpse is to be fired at in the future.-St.
James Budget.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
Remarkable Showing for Mormondom

The great bulk of the people of Utah
are agriculturists. Their possessions are
in lands and herds. The statistics show
that 80 per cent. of Mormon families own
their own homes. There is no other COM
munity on earth which will make a like
showing. There is not an aImshouse, or
the necessity for one, in any of the ex-
clusively Mormon settlements With the
exception of the mines, every other in
dustry in Utah is kept alive by Mormon
labor and Mormon patronage. The Nor
mons supply the most reliable non-strik-
ing class of labOrers in the whole inter-
mountain region.
The agricultural and pastoral products
of Utah for 1887, according to the esti-
mates furnished by the governor of the
territory, were sufficient to produce total
OF more than $4,000, OOO.-Delegate John
Il. Caine.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
Something About Walnuts.

The walnut is indigenous to Upper
Asia and in the mountainous regions of
Persia is found growing wild. 1t was
known to the Romans as Juglans Regia
or royal tree - Jupiter. 1t was intro
duced into Italy at r-ie beginning of the
Christian era and gradually spread over
western Europe. 1t was introduced into
England many centuries ago from France,
which country was then called Gaul, and
some authorities say the word walnut"
is corruption of "Gaul-nut webster
gives the derivation, however, from an
Anglo-Saxon word, "wealh-hnut, from
''wealh" foreigner, a stranger, and
"hnut," nut. In Europe it is called
simply walnut" and the name English
walnut used in this country was bestowed
by the cOlOnists of Virginia to distinguish
it from the native American black wal
nut The tree seems to flourish every
where. 1t thrives in rich and poor land,
on mountain and in valley, in rock and
barren soil where hardly anything else
can be grown. But in deep soil with a
moist bottom the English walnut grows
luxuriantly and yields large crops at q
comparatively young age. - American
Grocer,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
AniliDe Treatment of Phthisis.

Two of the strongest cases quoted by Dr..
Kremianski, the Russian physician, in be-
half of his new treatment of phthisis, have
been described in the foreign journals
In one of these, that of lad of 1S
who had undOubted phthisis, there was
ordered a four days dose of aniline-but
by mistake three times the proper quanti-
ty was taken-combined with nuX vOmica,
mint water and antifibrin, his diet being
good, including dried meat, kvas and Or
anges; he was also given inhalations of
atOmized aniline. 4 remarkable change
took place almost Immediately, all the
rales disappearing, and his temperature,
respiration and pulse becoming normal.
The second case was complicated one,
there being tubercular peritonitis, and
meningitis, together with typhoid fever,
present at the same time as pulmonary
phthisis; aniline inhalations, washing out
the pulmonary cavities and corrosive sub
Innate and antifibrin, were employed, to-
gether with a special acid diet as in the
other case. Here, too, the results are
said to have been remarkably good, the
bacilli disappearing from the sputum and
the patient regaining his health entirely.
New York Tribune.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20

,ne reputable physician. It Is purely their
own. They not only do not try to learn,
but they actually resist enlightenment.
But we have wandered from our subject.
1t was our purpose to point out some Of
the valuable remedial effects which result
from notifications Of diet, and the judi
cious increase or diminution in the
quantity of food, in not a few affections
special forms of diet are all that Is re-
quired to effect cure. Take, for in
stance, a disorder of the organs Of diges-
ton, such as dyspepsia. II a person suf
fering from that has fortitude, and can
practice self-denial, he may, in nearly all
instances, cure himself If he properly Sc
lects and restricts his diet. But few care
TO make the effort, or at least to persist
in it long enough. 1t Is easier and far
more agreeable for them to take medi-
cine, and so they go on eating and dosing
until the disease becomes chronic, for
rarely can it be cured by drugs alone.
Diabetes Is disease which only can be
controlled by restriction to special form
of diet. A cure is even possible, but the
remedy lies with the patient No medical
agent has yet been discovered which can
stay the disease There are some which
assist recovery when the diet Is properly
restricted but they are comparatively
valueless unless that Is done. While in
some diseases the treatment demands q
modification in diet and a diminution in
quantity, there are many in which judi
ciOus increase is necessary. In infiamma-
tory conditions of all kinds in which the
starvation treatment was formerly en-
ployed, the general principle now recog-
niZed is to encourage and maintain q
healthy condition of the blood by nourish-
ment. If sufficient food is given, the
blood soon becomes unfit in its vital and
physical properties for the healing process
of nature.
&c. since all diseases tend to weaken
and wear out the system, to feed the pa
tient is one of the first Importance. While
they exist, what is needed is to "restore
the life that is being drained, build up the
tissues that are being wasted" AS q
sign of medical progress, physicians at
the present time largely substitute food
for medicine in the treatment Of disease,
and without doubt upon the valuable
therapeutic effects of food they will in the
future more than ever depend. As has
been said, twenty-five years ago our old
fashioned drugs were counted by thou
sands, our elegant pharmaceutical pro-
ducts by tens, dietetic preparations by
units. If the change goes on in the next
two decades as rapidly as it has in the
last two the coming century practice will
see this order reversed. The calomel, the
jalap, the EPSON salts, the tinCture Of
iron - these classics and venerables,
though still in use doubtlesS-will find
very little favor. Even now their regu-
lar employment seems to be kind of re-
proach, excusable only on the ground of
the great age of the physician or the pow
erty of the patient.-Boston Herald
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
ROMANCE FROM THE SPANISH.

Verdant fields bloom fresh and sweet
Where the waves Of Tonnes flow;
For she comes with tripping feet,
Culling flowers which round her grow.
On the fertile -meads around,
And the forests cool green gloom,
Where her footsteps touch the ground,
May each bud break forth in bloom.
Lilies white and Glove pinks sweet
Now in brightest colors blow;
For she comes with tripping feet,
Culling flowers which round her grow.
Dewy pearls the rosy dawn
Casts down from its portals height,
And upon the verdant lawn
Crystal drops are cleaning bright.
While the sun with fiery heat
Like ruby gem doth glow;
For she comes with tripping feet,
Culling flowers which round her grow.
Now gentle perfumed breeze
Ger the waving heritage plays;
While betwixt the leafy trees
Nightingales intone soft lays,
The bright naSCent morn to greet,
With sweet voices twittering low;
For she comes with tripping feet,
Culling flowers which round her grow.
Translated by Baroness Swift.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
Italian Restaurants in New York.

A young New Yorker need not be very
old to remember when the reputable res
taurants OF the city bearing Italian names
and serving an Italian table d'hote might
have been counted upon the fingers Of
one hand. French cooking was then the
proper thing, and to express a positive
fondness for Italian cooking was regarded
as eccentric or to be as one among many.
But gradually fair Italy's cuisine became
an acquired taSte-or a pretended one.
which meant the same to the proprietor's
pocket-until now there are enough Ital-
ian restaurants in New York to supply
half the population of Florence. -New
York Cor. Chicago Herald.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
Rural Scene in India,

For the last 100 miles much of the
country was pretty. The mango and
other orchards are abundant and every
plain had its many scattered trees. Bar
ley was added as growth, and was well
headed and green. Fences, where there
were any, were of cactus and prickly
pear. The spider webs over them well
clouded with dust looked like great Cos
samer wells spread over the spiky hedges.
Rows of aloes or century plants lined the
road. Now and then vision would pene-
trate as far as the eye could reach, through
openings in the trees, and the prospect
was that of perfectly fiat plain, relieved
only by trees and villages. One odd
thing is frequently seen-small round cir
cles or mud well topped by cactus, three
to five feet high, and say four to six in
diameter. have since found these to be
projections for young trees. They pro-
tect against intrusion and against hot sun
rays.-Carter Harrisons Letter
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20

the tide or saxon, or, as the new lights
prefer to call it, English" invasion, and
turned aside into Wales. What the round
skulled Gael had done to the short skulled
people who had preceded him the Saxon
did to the Gael. He took his titled land
from him; in those days it was not much,
nine tenths Of the island being forest and
marsh, and he gave him no chance of set
ting near him and bringing in some Of
the wild country. ........
That was not done till later, when the
monasteries true agricultural colonies)
set the example of making the desert
smile. The conquered had nothing for it
but to submit to slavery or to "move on"
If he moved on with q lot of friends he
might settle down somewhere in Wales, or
on the Cornish moors, or in the wild dis
trict called Cumbria (Cymri's Land, from
Chester to the Solway. But there would
generally be somebody to turn out, so, il
he was alone or with few, begging or
robbing (the two were Interchangeable
was his only resource.-All the Year
Round
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
Noticeable Meteorological Phenomena

The meteorological phenomena accom-
panying the building of railroads in
Mexico are receiving the attention of
scientific men in that country. Recent
serious damage done by washouts on the
northern section of the Mexican Central
road was due to waterspouts bursting on
the track, and it is a curious fact that
waterspouts seem to be attracted by the
iron track and telegraph wires. Engi-
neers on the line of the Guadalajara
branch Of the Mexican Central railway
have noted that as fast as the construc-
ton advances rain follows, and they hold
that this is due to the large lot of steel
rails on fiat cars which are carried for
ward as fast as the work of construction
permits. The most noticeable fact is that
the country is dry in advance of the con-
struction trains, and also behind them
for many miles. Rains beat down, as de-
scribed, in bucketfuls just where the steel
rails are, but only in circles few miles
in diameter.-Frank Leslie's.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20

Said State street physician: 1.-THE in
crease of the death rate, wherein heart
trouble figures as the cause, is positively
alarming. In Chicago, especially where
men and women live at race horse speed
business with one and society with the
other, keeping the body in a continual
feyer-I make the assertion and can sup
port it from figures, that there are more
deaths, ten to one, from heart disease
than there were score of years ago.
And it is likely that the rate will increase
instead of diminish. "-Chicago Tribune.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
Some Entries Found in Parish Books
800 Years Old.

Some Entries Found in Parish Books
800 Years Old.
In many parish books, about 800 years
ago, we find such entries as these: "Payd
for whippin tow pore folk, lid" "Payd
and given to pore man and his wifi that
was Wiped, ibid" This was double the
usual tariff, which is represented by
"Gave the tow when they went, lid" In
Saxon times the beggar, unless he found
refuge in one of the then thinly scattered
monasteries, was in evil case. He be-
longed to the dangerous tribe of master
less men, people for whom no one was
answerable, and those who sheltered him
were fain to do it by stealth, for if man
stayed with you more than a couple of
days you were accountable, not only for
anything he might then do, but also for
his antecedents.
Mr.. Ribton Turner thinks race had a
good deal to do with beggary. When you
take away a mans means of life he must
either starve or rob or beg. The oldest
natives of Great Britain were short, dark
people-Basques, say some, Esquimaux
say others; the TALL light haired Gael beat
them out from almost everywhere, except
part of South Wales. Then the Cymri,
another Celtic people, came across from
the Cimbric Chersonese Denmark, landed
in Aberdeen, spread over Scotland as
"scts. and coming southwark were INST -
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
A Cheating Fish Dealer.

They were standing in the old market
house back of the Central station, watch
ing the dealer sell out his last fish.
Good heavensn' said A to B, ''what a
cheat that fish dealer is. l have been
watching him for half an hour"
'How's that9 didn't notice anything
peculiar"
Don't you see that this man is charg-
ing for the scale every time he weighs
fish?'
The coroner is holding an inquest on B
this morning.-Kansas City News.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20

"Do you have trouble in getting female
criminals photographers was asked of
Inspector Byrnes.
Every little. When told they must
have their pictures taken they usually cry
and make fuss, but when the operation
is about to be performed it is funny to see
how quickly they dry their eyes and
smooth down their hair, and prink up
with manifest desire to look as pretty as
possible. This applies to nine cases out
of ten. New York Sun Interview.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
He Told the Truth.

Spilkins came home the other day with
a new coat On.
Where did you buy that coat?' asked
his wife.
cat a second hand clothing store on
Austin avenue"
"Why, that coat is your old coat 1 sold
a peddler last week. He has fixed it up
and palmed it off on you for new"
by thunder! Now I know what the
hyena meant when he said it fitted like it
had been made for me. thought at the
time he was lying, but see 1 was de-
ceived in him. Texas Siftings.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20

To All Whom it May Concern.
SAN ANTONIO, March 80, 1888.
This is to certify that after having suf-
fered from sore leg for eight years,
and having been treated by several ply
sicians, at great expense without obtain
ng relief, l applied to Mr.. A. Sohiers-
man at No. 6O4 West Commerce street.
Mr.. Schiersman undertook the treatment
and after two weeks treatment cured
me completely, and 1t gives me the ut
most pleasure to attest this fact.
GEORGE ZwALLY,
Saledo. Bexar County, Tex.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20

Oliver Wendell Holmes has recently
coined two happy phrases The fellows
who bore authors for their ideas on things
in general he calls "brain tappers;" and
the little words which an author when
thus irritated will let drop care the
monosyllables of his unsanctlfed vocabu-
lary.-Chicago Tribune.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
Not in Chicago.

During the recent reign of Boreas the
sidewalks of certain village were COW
cred with a coating of ice which made
very good skating. Kittie took advantage
Of this, and called on skates at the house
of little friend. A fresh importation
from the ould country opened the door,
and seeing who it was cried out to her
mistress: ''Oh, Miss Edith, oh, Miss
Edith, here's Miss Kittie wants to see you
with sleds on her feetr'-Harper' Bazaar.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20

Senator Palmer has lake on his Mich
igan farm stocked with carp, and wishes
he hadn't He calls them the "hog of the
sea-" because they wallow and burrow in
the mud and keep the water continually
dirty He has tried to seine them out,
but cannot do so.-Chicago Herald.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20

ing the hoops forces the edges of the hard
slaves into the soft ones until the cracks
are closed, and the extra thickness of the
latter causes the inner edges to lap over
those of the hard wood slaves, thus max
ing the joint doubly secure. Chicago
Times
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
REALITY AND DREAMS.
I may work all day at my easel,
With Datience and skill. as Won see

may work all day at my easel, =
With patience and skill, as you see,
But my picture is always imperfect,
1t is not what wished it to be
close my eyes on my pillow,
Such visions! how lovely they SCENT
What fame would be mine if but able
To paint the pictures l dream!
The muse | may ardently worship,
Anil WOO wherever go,
But my notes are weak and discordant,
My thoughts are rough, as you know.
sleep, and my verses are perfect,
Delightful and proper their theme;
What joy would know if but able
To pen the poems dream!
Arthur C. GrissOm in The Journalist.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
Mars Appropriation Bill.

Astronomers have discovered that there
are a number of canals in the planet Mars,
some of them being nearly 1000 miles
long. 1t is fair to presume that the gov
eminent up there is enough like ours to
know what an appropriation and a river
and harbor bill is.-Chicago News.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
New Method of Making Barrels.

Barrels are now being made of hard
and soft wood, each alternate stave being
of the soft variety and slightly thicker
than the hard wood stave. The edges of
the slaves are cut square, and when placed
together to form the barrel the Outsides
are even, and there is a V shaped crack
between each stave from top to bottom.
In this arrangement the operation of fv;
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-20
Greenhouse Strawberries.

Greenhouse strawberries take about six
weeks to fully ripen. A popularity of
dollhouse ripening is that instead of ripen-
ing first at the stem, gradually extending
to the point, as is the case in the field
berry, the greenhouse berry ripens at the
point first.-Boston Budget.