San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-12
The Daily Eight.
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER. IL. 1888,
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There are white lace stockings fol
brides, with others under them.
A man in Tatnall, Ga, has twenty
seven brothers and sisters living.
A girl of four years in Boyertown
Pennsylvania, has erysipelas from
mosquito bite.
No horse should go hungry al
Nashville, Neb., with oats selling at
15c bushel.
A Franklin county (Neb.) grocer
has on exhibition a cucumber at his
place of business that is six feet in
lenght.
A Nebraska campaign poet has been
tempting Providence by trying to
make democracy rhyme with medl-
ocrity.
Among the new features of the
Tioga county pa fair this year will
be trotting race for steers, each to
be ridden by man or boy.
H. w. Johnson, the Splinter, broke
the record at st. Louis for five stand.
| ing Jumps without weights. He
jumped fifty-five feet and two inches
Chicago boasts of the most econom'
| ic young lady in the west. When
she washes her face she always
laughs, so as not to have so much face
to wash.
Darwin Rasely, an Easton Pa.
drug clerk, has had his nose broken
by foot ball A year ago the same
member was broken by base ball.
The Oregon Alpine club will anchor
a copper box to the very apex OF
Mount Hood. 1t is to be depository
of record to all making the ascent.
The ingenuity of manufacturers has
gone so far that not only is almost
everything now made out OF paper
but paper is now made out of almost
everything.
The Winfield (Kan.) Visitor finds
consolation in the fact that the kind
of faces which the women of thai
pades and crimes.
| The Vermont Jumbo oxen, weigh
ing 7,4SO pounds, are to be exhibited
iree at the New England Fair in Wor'
| cester, and the owners receive 800 fol
the use of the cattle.
Gen. Couch is improving quite rap,
idly at his home in Norwich, Ct, and
his complete recovery is no longer
doubtful.
Walt Whitman is still confined tC
his room and can not walk, but eX
poets to recover his usual health be-
fore long.
Col. MaplesOn says he has organized
an opera company for next year, in
Guiding the tenor Jean de Reske anC
Lasalle, the baritone.
The Kansas City Star says that the
people of jefferson City spend Sc
much time looking at the stand pipe
which is going up at that place tina
they are becoming wry-necked.
A Jumbo bunch Of bananas reached
Boston from Jamaica the other day
1t con ained $40 of the luscious fruit
though originally there were So more,
and weighed 100 pounds.
Mrs. Amelia Barr, the novelist, is
described as an eXceedingl y rapid
writer. Within a period of six weeks
she will begin, finish and send to hel
publishers novel Of 800 pages.
II did not like the Americans, .
says Mr.. Ruskin, until recently
What made me think more Of them
was the character of those I met. /
met and thoroughly enjoyed the So
ciety of DIR. Holmes. But my friend
is Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, charm
ing man. Yes, 1 like the Americans
now better than ever before-such
youth, such energy!'
The "Vinegar Welln which was
struck near Vincennes, Ind, proves
to have been caused by about 100 bar
rels of cider having been spilled some
years ago and the contents sinking
until they struck an improvised STRAIT
UNI of clay.
A man in small New England vii.
lage has just been brought up before
his church for encouraging the use o
profane language. He owns a dog
which he has named Damage" anC
of course all the young people in thu
village call the dog Dam"
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