San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-25
NEW OR NOVEL.
Patti loves fly-fishing for trout.

last week at ten cents bushel.
Chicago proposes to have q crema-
tory running within six months.
There's cake of soap warranted to
start luxuriant mustache in week.
The swordfish catch has been so
plentiful that the coast markets are
glutted.
The Paris census shows 6,915
Americans, 1904 English and 35,7
Germans.
Electric light in cakes of ice is
novelty for the illumination of ball
rooms abroad.
A man was arrested at Sedalia the
other day charged with the "crime of
late hours"
A West Chester pa photographer
is in peril of lock jaw from poisoned
musquito bite.
1t costs the wholesale houses of this
country Sl3O,OOO,OOO per year to send
out travellers.
A meeting of ex-Union and Confed-
crate soldiers will be held in San An
tonic, Texas, next month.
Miss Delphine Baker, an American
lady, is about to establish a Christian
newspaper in Jerusalem.
A good deal of genealogy is said to
go with the recently announced An
glo-American engagement.
J. ID. Slater, while freezing ice
cream at Wayne, Neb., was overcome
by heat. The attack will probably
prove fatal.
John Walruff has sold his brewery
and other property at Lawrence Kan,
for $4,000. The original cost was
S95, 200.
Phyllis Broughton, the London &C
tress whom Viscount Dangan refuses
to marry, has brought suit for $780,
600 damages.
1t is easy to believe that the Choc-
taw Nation is the most civilized of all
Indians. The ChOctaws owe a law
yer's fee of S7S7 900.
Signor Son Zoquo, an italian news
paper owner, has begun the plan Of
publishing chapter of the Bible with
every issue of his paper.
Sunday schools are increasing rap
idly IN this country. Last year the
American Sunday School Union Or
ganized SOP, with 6,326 teachers and
"a, 129 scholars.
The scarcity of halibut in the Allan
tic fishing grounds has directed the
atten ton of fishermen to the North
Pacific ocean, along the shores of
which this kind of fish is understood
to be very plentiful.
A couple who were divorced by
HavaS anI1rf thrna hnUn hnnn
remarked in San Francisco. The
same wedding ring which did service
at the first ceremony was used for the
second tying of the nuptial knot.
A Burslem (Eng.) photographer re-
ceived back proof from customer
with the instructions that he was to
do half dozen with the coat but
toned and half a dozen with the gar
ment unbottoned, the same as the
proof.
Garden City (Kas.) Herald Lee
Doty, whose farm is one mile east of
town, thrashed a ten-acre field of oats
yesterday and got 703 bushels, an
average of 20 and IL bushels per acre.
This proves the benefits of irrigation.
Another foolhardy fellow, willing to
risk his life at Niagara, has doomed
up. His scheme is to go over the Falls
holding a parachute. Should he I'M
dertake the feat, he proposes to float
to the Falls wearing suit of cork and
rubber.
A. J. Drake, of Palatka, Fla, has
vest of homespun that was worn by
his grandfather during the Revolu-
tionary war. 1t is in an excellent
state of preservation, and Mr.. Drake
frequently wears it on state occasions.
A summer home at Toms River,
where the cash girls in the large
stores can enjoy their vacation with
out any cost to themselves, is the
latest charity devised by some of
the philanthropic merchants of New
York.
Huge mirrors noun ted as screens
in the dining room of the Clifton
house, Niagara, reflect the falls in
the most graphic and realistic manner,
so that one may dine and view one of
the greatest of natural wonders SIM
ultaneourly.
A Maine deacon ON his return from
quarterly meeting, one Sunday not
long ago, saw string of trout lying
on a bridge. He sprang from his
wagon, seized the trout and drove on,
so furnishing the Sunday angler for
his wickedness.
A woman in Chicago objected to her
husband carrying revolver for fear
of an accident; so she took it out of his
pocket and put it in a hand satchel
for safe keeping. That afternoon she
went shopping, and took the satchel