San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-11-01
PRoMIsCUoUs POINTS.
has $50, 900 beggars.

Eight colleges have been built in
Kansas during the past year.
Jay Gould holds 500, 400, 900 of the
$50, 90 1000 of capital stock of the Wes-
tern Union.
The widow of the late King Luis of
Portugal will receive a yearly allow
ance of S64, 900.
The efforts which are making to in
luce Oliver Wendell Holmes to write
an auto biography are not likely to
meet with success.
James Atkinson, of + ,st Liverpool,
has raised a beet that weighs nine
pounds.
A figure of speech: His words are
like pie-crust, made to be broken ana
eaten.
Hungarian red wine is used as a
hair wash to make blond tresses cop
per brown.
The latest thing in purses Is long
narrow bag of crocodile leather, fin
ished with silver lid.
The policemen of England and
Wales, If brought together, would
form a great army. They number
81, 1896.
Ninety-two and sixty-eight were
the respective ages of a couple married
in Marlborough, N. H., last week.
A class of boys in a Massachusetts
Sunday school withdrew because it's
appointed teacher was "scab" work.
man.
A groan in time saved an Ottawa
man from burial alive. He uttered 1T
just as the casket was being lowered
to the grave.
1t Is proposed to bring In bill at
the next session of the British pa-lia-
ment to put a restraint Oh imprOvident
marriages.
A Scotch religious paper gives the
names of half dozen clergyman VINO
are to engaged in approaching match"
for d vacant pulpit.
Joseph York, of Meadville, Pa, for
fifty-twO years railroad conductor,
has just resigned from active service
on the Nypano.
Among other useful citizens, Mo-
berly, Mo-, has "a blind phrenOlogist
who interprets dreams, tells fortunes
and removes warts"
According to the Jersey Shore Ga
zette you can use a postage stamp
twice. The first time it will cost you
two cents, the second time $50.
In many of the leading crOckery
shops the customer may have his
initial etched in all the wine and
water glasses and punch cups pur-
chased.
The wine list on the bill of fare used
in dining cars OH railroads crossing la.
has this notice at the bottom: mo
liquors sold in the State of Iowa"
Hawtholne-Andt then came au-
tumn, with his immense burthen of
apples, dropping them continually
| from his Overladen shoulders as he
trudged along.
A Willow Springs girl has the pop
ular heart of that city just now. she
cowhided both the men who insulted
her and the justice who arrested her
for it.
The debating socieCy of Fredericks-
burg, Pa, has come to the conclusion
that "a cross and clean woman does
not make better wife han dirty
and good natured one
The cost of the British government
for the carriage of mails TO America
now amounts to S500,0C0 per annum.
The receipts for postage exceed S925,-
00) per annum.
The grave of a woman buried in
Co Oes, n. Y, eighteen years ago,
. - opened recently aud the body
cd Look ,l1
| az natural as if the woman had just
| died.
There has been a marked decadence
| in the use of the French Gtng iage at
| Montreal during the last ten years.
| Formerly it was the preyaIenG tongue,
but now the English predominates.
The crown now being made for the
| emperor of Germany vii weigh three
pounds, have a large sapphire al the
top and g!isten with l,9 diamonds.
| His wife's crown is 20 contain 200
diamonds and eleven large pearls.
"This safe is not Ipck ed-try the
handle" is the label hudson, Mich,
man leaves upon his strong COX every
night The safe is worth more THAI
anything ever LETT in IL, and for thai
reason the owner dGe4n't want II
blown to pieces.
| Frederick Be.z, Of Detroit, tried five
separate suicide routes Tuesday
uIgut-uangiu" yui<orjug, shooting
throat-cuttimg aud g.Iss eating-anC
as he made rdI"u!"us failure OF al
five, court fined him -, which his
wife paid