San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-09
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. lsss
ALLEGED FACTS.

! the Atlantic ocean in a small boat.
A thief at Parkersburg, Pa, dug up
a field of potatoes during the night
and carried them off.
The amount spent for all purposes
last year by the pension bureau was
in round numbers SS2,000,000.
The worlds medical periodicals
number about 266, of which no less
than ia are published in the United
States.
Preaching a sermon ito women
only" is the latest sort of sensational
humbugging introduced into the SER
vices OF the camp meeting at Ocean
Grove.
He who comes up to his own idea
Of greatness must have always had a
very low standard of it in his own
mind.-Hazlitt.
Let us have faith that right makes
right, and in that faith let us to the
end dare to do our duty as we under
stand it.-Lincoln.
The whole essence of true gentle
breeding lies in the wish and the art
to be agreeable. Good breeding is
surface-Christianity.-Dr. Holmes.
Conscience should lead each man to
be a silent court of justice in himself.
Himself the judge and jury, and him
self the prisoner at the bar.-Gott-
hold.
Gus" Witherspoon, colored, of
Yorkville, S. c., last week, on
small wager, ate seven dozen fried
in hn
day in great agony.
Prof. Ayrton computes that the
power which runs to waste at Mag
ara Falls exceeds that which could
be produced by the annual consump-
ton of $50, 100000 tons of coal.
A Stony Run Pa COW died from
over indulging herself in lot of pas
try. A bakers wagon was upset IN
a stream, and the COW ate several
pies which tloated down.
Earrings, long out of fashion in
England among aristocratic people,
are TO be worn again, because the
duchess of Fife wears pair which
were presented to her as wedding
gift.
Sarah HOLLAND, a woman evangelist,
preaching among the negroes at
Bruins wick, Ca, distributes a load OF
watermelons free at the meeting. The
crowds that 60 to hear her preach are
enormous.
Observations OF the stars were made
in Babylon from remote antiquity,
and careful records kept of eclipses.
Some OF the Babylonian astronomical
statements refer to period earlier
than 1000 years B. G.
Speaking of Florida" says the
Jacksonville Times-U Union, 1--WE can
say that the relations between the two
races are so amicable that nothing
but lunacy on the one side or the 9TH
er could disturb them.n
A musical clock over 100 years old
twenty-fOur pieces of music
for the entertainment of the guests at
the golden wedding anniversary of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Schneider, of Hell
lertown, Pa, on Sunday.
Some one sent the editor of the
Grand Haven Herald a tract, showing
that 1.-The wages of sin is not eternal
DEATH" He says he has no interest
in the matter, but thinks his reptile |
contemporary may need some such
John Schlappacasse, of Washtenaw,
Mich, Is charged with inducing mis- |
wife to 60 to the almshOuse as a luna |
tic by assuring her it was a place to |
work, and then procuring q divorce |
On the ground of insanity. The wife |
doesn't speak word of English.
Extract from letter from mis-
sionary on the Congo: ave are in
very sore straits in this sad and I'M
country, Famine is rag
ing through the land, and two-thlrds |
Of the population are dying for want |
Of food. Please send out some more
Locomotives in England are not
supplied with headlights or bells. |
are not used beca use |
guards are stationed along the road |
thing is allowed to go upon the track. |
Bells are unnecessary, as there are |
40 crossings at track level.
Henry Bach is the name of hun
ter who recently made a remarkable |
shot ca Beaver river, in the Adiron-
lacks. He saw two deer standing in |
The water no more than ten yards |
apart. He fired and his bullet passed
through the first deer and inflicted a
mortal wound on the second.
If Mrs. Harriet Coe, of Grand Rap
DIS, Mich, lives until January II,
1890, she will be 1O3 years old. She
vas born in Hartford, Conn, in 1857.
Her father, Alexander Mcneil, was a
soldier in the war of 1912. and her |