San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-05
ghe Daily Eight.
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER, 5, 1883.
FACTS GREAT AND SMALL.

newspaper at Washington.
The largest quill toothpick mill In
| the world is near Paris.
Shirts that open both front and
back are now in the market.
An Arkansas City man is trying to
domesticate pair of pole-cats.
Women do the work of ushering
people to their places in most of the
| theaters In Paris.
A man near Smithtown, N. ", has
courted girl over thirty years, and
nothing definite yet.
According to a Christian Science
| teacher, cancer is simply IAN accumu-
latiOn of discordant thought"
The queen incurred expenses in her
| Jubilee as we'll as other people, the
| cost to her having been 100000.
Unmatched gloves are creeping into
| wider fashion in Paris. For example,
for second mourning a black and a
slate-colored glove are worn.
Sir Donald Smith, of Montreal, is
the owner of the costliest piano ever
made in this country. When landed
in Montreal it cost him S27 900.
1t is said that the great oil fields of
| New York and Pennsylvania are rap
idly becoming exhausted. The sup
ply has fallen from 100000 to $4,000
barrels per day.
The lofty monument erected at Ply
mouth, Mass, to commemorate the
landings of the pilgrims, has at last
been completed. 1t was begun in
1859, and has cost something like
100000
late Plymouth preacher, says she
| hopes to see woman president OF the
| United States, and she regards Susan
B. Anthony "the equal of any man
living, as statesman and politician.
The Empress Josephine used to
hold her handkerchief SO as not to
display her colored teeth. She made
handkerchiefs fashionable. Before
that time they were seldom exhibited
and never made use of in public.
A brother of Lord Wolseley, Mr..
Frederick Wolseley, an Australian
squatter, claims attention for having
invented sheep shearing machine,
by which one man can shear 40 sheep
a day, clean as whistle.
A preacher in Creston, Iowa, work.
ed all day at the polls for the third
party ticket and got so interested that
he forgot to vote himself, and the Off
cial count showed that not a single
third party vote was cast in the pre-
cinct.
A unique fair is given this week in
Philadelphia, called Carnival de
Mer. The booths represent ships
and boats, with flags of various
nations, and each deck is laden with
appropriate national products, due for
such and such port.
Gentlemen, | am starving! In
PHYS name, help me enough to buy
a mealv' So said an old chap in New
Orleans just before he tainted. They
look him to hospital, and 10! they
found over $4,000 sewed into the lin
ing of his vest.
A young man who was married at
Burlington, Iowa, the other nj ht
gave the officiating clergyman a S1U
gold piece by mistake for $3.50 coin,
and went to the preachers residence
in the middle of the night and de-
m9nded restitution. He got it.
A republican in Marlborough, Pa,
illuminated his house because of the
recent victory. His wife, however, is
a democrat, so she closed one blind on
each window of the domicile to show
that one-half the firm didn't sympa-
thize with the demonstration.
1t is said that the only herd of
buffalo on this ointment belonged to
Mai. Bedson, of Winnipeg, who has
sold them to a prominent Kansas
cattle dealer for $4,000. The Cana
dian government, it is said, is anxious
to keep the herd in that country and
is trying to induce BedsOn not to ship
the animals to Kansas.
A toothpick factory is one Of the
Furnishing woodworking establish.
ments at HarbOr Springs. Mich, and
it is one of the largest factories of the
kind in the country. White birch is
extensively used in the manufacture
of the toothpicks, and about 7,5OO,O
of the handy little splinters are
turned out daily.
DIR. Schlieman relates that he owes
his study Of the Greek language and
life to the accidental circumstances of
hearing while boy some HOmeric
verses recited in the original by a
youth whom he repaid with glass OF
liquor.
Mrs. J. 7. Fields asked few friends
TO take 5 o'clock tea with her Satur-
day afternoon, to meet Mr.. Lander, a
grandson of Walter Savage Lander,
who is passing few weeks i'll Bos ton.
Mr.. Landor is an artist, and has al
ready received commissions from