San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-24
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Feather fur-lined muffs, that origi-
mated with celebrated Paris actress,
have made their appearance i'll this
country.
A dry goods clerk, at PitUsburg
who ate three mince pies on a wager
the other night, was found dead in
| bed the next morning.
4 western fakir is selling an adj
| Unstable engagement ring that can be
made to fit any finger. This is some
thing that young men have been
wanting for long time.
A Brooklyn fireman who was buried
under falling wall says that his only
thought was of his landlady. He
owed her for two weeks board, and
he was afraid she'd lose it.
Last year our imports from Japan,
including raw silk, teas, fans, hand
kerchiefs, bamboo and the like,
amounted to nearly Sl6,O00,000. More
than was bought by any other ma
ton.
Maj. b. A. Cook, of Atlanta, sold 2O2
acres of Georgia land to neighbor
last week for 250 opossums, the Opos-
sums to be delivered in installments
of fifty annually for the next five
years.
A Swedish scientist claims to have
discovered the secret of petrifying
wood by artificial process. He thinks
it will be possible ere long to con-
struct editices of wood and convert
them into stone.
A clothes wringer was the rather
odd present which a Jersey City
young man made his best girl. The
pair afterwards squabbled, and he de-
handed the return of the wringer and
two other presents, bat the girl re-
uses to give them up.
There is bronze group of lioness
and her cubs in Paramount park,
Philadelphia, that is an object of ter
rOr to every horse driven near it, so
realistic is the sculptor's work. Last
week it caused six runaways, and the
park commissioners have, therefore,
ordered its removal.
Sarah Z. ROLAND sued the Boston
& Providence Railroad for $50, 900. that
being the amount that she thought
might compensate her for injuries to
her spine in the famous Busy bridge
accident. The Supreme Court of Mas
sachusetts has returned a verdict of
S23, 900 in her favor.
A St. Louis suicide wrote: 81 am
siXty-two years old. In eight years /
would have been seventy. an old, di-
lapidated, lettering fossil | have
played the world out and it don't owe
me cent. I've had more fun than
mule in a cOrntield and I've got
enough. Therefore l will cheat the
course of nature and jump the time to
Gomez
A bill has passed the South Caro-
lima senate, making it amisdemeanor.
punishable by dismissal, for any
member of the legislature to accept
free pass from any railroad.
An eagle on exhibition in a Bridge
port Conn store window escaped,
and flying around the room, struck
the cushion of a striking machine
and was killed. The machine regis
tered the blow at $50 pounds.
Nine. Marie Roze has given up her
projected tour to America and Aus
tralia.
The queen Of Portugal is known
among her subjects by the title Of
Angel OF Pity"
Mrs. Amelia f. Barr has written a
new novel which she will print in an
English periodical. 1t is entitled
"Woven of Love and Glory"
The discovery has been made that
Levi =. Morton is not an adept at
Misunderstanding. He goes about it with
spirit, but his execution is not ar
tistic.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards is finish
ing tour of 20 lectures in northern
England and Scotland.
Neil Burgess has made a success in
Philadelphia with his new play of
England life, called "a County
Fair"
The condition of Emperor William,
of Germany, is far from satisfactory to
his friends, The trouble with his ear
| defies treatment.