San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-12
ghe Daily Eight.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER. IL. 1883.
NOTES AND NOVELTIES.

Findlay, o., is shipping articles OF
glass ware to Europe.
| A pretty novelty is butterfly hair
pin with garnet wings.
A bed of six daisies with diamond
| in the centre of each, makes a pretty
brooch.
| A letter clip in the form of ducks
| head with enameled feathers in ma
tural colors, is unique.
Decidedly novel is card receiver
| representing a toadstool, the base be-
| ing of bronze and the table part of
coral.
A talking piano operated by numer.
Gus keys and producing words OF all
| kinds is one of the curiOsities at a
New York museum.
A prairie dog eXterminator has been
patented by Buffalo county KAN
man, and he is busy cleaning out dog
| towns for so much an acre.
Il North Carolina justice of the
peace fined citizen s. for contempt
of court in not bringing out pail Of
water for his horse while he was
travelling.
When E. G. Rowe, who had been
| fishing from boat in Pushaw Lake,
near Bangor, Maine, pulled up his an
chor, he found valuable gold ring on
the end of it.
The exports of diamonds from South
Africa for 1887 were 1888, $50 carats,
worth G4,24O.000, against 3,l35, 600
carats, worth &c, 800, 900 for the previous
year.
Kentucky has raised tomato this
year which just fits into four quart
measure, while Missouri produces a
pumpkin which wouldn't go into a
washtub.
| A Decatur physician says that some
persons are so sensitive that they are
in danger of taking yellow fever from
reading Geographic reports OF the dis
ease in the papers.
ga clerical mummy rose up from
his sarcophagus and opposed the re-
vival," is the pungent and pertinent
way Methodist preacher in Nash
Vile delivered himself about it.
The building fever continues in
Jerusalem, a correspondent says, and
many stately churches and other
buildings have gone up on Mount
Zion, on the Mount Of Olives and in
| GethSemane.
A stick of timber 15l feet long and
| twenty inches square, belleVed TO De
| the largest piece ever turned out from
any saw mill has been sent from Pu-
get Sound to an exhibition in San
| Francisco.
"Sewing machines repaired" reads
a sign on a house in Tennessee, which
is nine miles from any other cabin
and 81 from the nearest machine. The
owner wants things to look like bust
ness around him.
| Daniel D. Magnum, of Dan bury,
| Conn.,, is a blacksmith, who has made
a bid for fame and fortune. He has
| invented a wagon reach so construct
ed that the wagon can be turned
around anywhere without the back
ing process.
| After the labors and expenditures
of eighteen years the French War
| Minister announces that to put the
| frontier in a proper state of defense
AGAINST Germany will require one bill
lion of francs more. All the forts that
have been built are useless against the
new explosives.
An Albany On. " teacher, on an
swering a knock at the school door,
found one of her pupils well wrapped
up to protect her from rain. Teacher,
mother says 1 needn't come to school
today, cause it rains and down
stairs the little maid fed like fright
end deer.
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