San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-05
A JOB LOT.

quart of oysters.
Deer are unusually plentiful this
year in the AdirOndacks.
A steamer trunk that will do for a
life preserver costs Sl25.
A Italian savant has invented ma
chine to weigh thought"
Armour's Chicago butchery is to be
heated with petroleum.
Council Bluffs has discarded gas for
electricity in street lighting.
A $1,000 Confederate monument is
! to he reared in Alexandria, Va.
The dress button is becoming a work
of art, almost bit ofjewelry.
Ladies' maids can now be hired in
New York by the hour or evening.
A ballad of home with stereoptican
illustra lions is being sung in New
York.
Baltimore boys, while playing
"Wild West" hanged one of their
number.
A large black bass getting into the
turbine wheel stopped mill at Phil
lipsburg, n. j.
The population of Ireland is declin-
ing at the rate of nearly 10000 per
annum. So reports the registrar
general.
James Depew, a brother of Chaun-
cey, is prominent business man of
Detroit.
Men who know about such things
say that the policemen of New York
are among the poorest pistol shots in
the world.
Miss Clam, of Bad Mans Gulch,
Ariz, recently married Mr.. Fritter.
And now she has her cards printed
Mrs. Clam-Fritter."
The class of 1872 at Yale has adopted
for the class cry: 'Bric-a keX-keX,
coax, coax, bric-a-keX-keX, coax, coax,
whu-op, whu-op, whu-op parabloo-
'92.n
Jane Shaw, of Portland, Me-, Sc
cured divorce from her HUSBAND by
proving that he went to a temperance
church twice on sundays.
The Ficus elastica, from the milk of
which the India rubber of commerce
is made, grows we'll in Southern Cali
fornia. and preparations are being
made to cultivate the trees.
For several days the church clock at
Harpenden, England. refused to work.
On an inspection being made it was
found that a swarm of bees had taken
up their abode in the machinery.
Blood poisoning, following the
scratch of a cat, caused the death of a
woman in Fulton county, Pa. She re-
ceived the scratch about two weeks |
ago, and it was SO slight as not to
draw blood.
4 syndicate is being formed in
London at present for the purpose of
perimenting in beet growing in Ire
land with a view to the eventual es-
adjustment there of an extensive |
sugar industry.
A "Thirteen Club" out in Tekamah,
Nebraska, has gone to smash. but not |
through the death of its members. 1t |
was composed entirely of bachelors,
and they nearly all got married.
In digging we'll near Cherokee,
last week. the digger dropped on
something about thirty feet below the
surface that is white as chalk, free
from grit and about the consistency of
dough. 1t is thought to be a chewing
gum vein.
An addition has just been made to
the library Of the Kansas University
in the shape of a complete set of Nor
mon publications, the gift of Hon.
George Q. Cannon, of Salt Lake City.
The prince of Wales owes at present
over S50O,0O0, and is thinking serious
ly of applying to parliament for an
allowance for Prince Albert Victor,
who now keeps up household of his
own.
Charles King is the name of a man
living at Middleton, Mass, who is 107
years old. He has over 600 descend
ants living. He was born near Quebec
January Is, 1871. He fought on the
British side in 1872.