San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-11-27
THESE LOOK NEW.

Mt. Motifs, MICH, mas one-leggeu
letter carrier.
Corn is cheaper in Kansas than it
ever has been before.
"Lightheart against Lightheart" is
the title in a Chicago divorce case.
A farmer fell asleep on roadway in
Union county, 3. e., the other night,
and was frozen to death.
A lively minister in Saco, Me-, says
there is less hope for lazy man than
for any other living creature.
A Smith county (Kas.) girl won $50
| the other day by husking and cribbing
sixty bushels of corn in five hours.
An Albino coon, without gray
hair on it, has been captured by John
Barkley, of Monroe county, o. The
animal has pink eyes.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat is
authority tor the statement that figs
can be and are cultivated in South
east Missouri equal to any fruit OF the
kind found in the South.
at always return from Europe more
in love with my own country than
ever" says Senator Washburn, Of
Minnesota. Europe is nothing but
an armed camp"
A wounded Providence man tried
hard to die, when his doctors said he
must, but decided to recover when
his wife found in the bed the bullet
the Doctors couldn't find in him.
A democrat in Monana county, Ia,
was elected to the legislature by a
majority of one vote. If he had re-
NAMED at home on the day of the
election the result would have been a
tie.
From the Russo-Polish frontier dis
tricts it is reported that the different
railway stations are being connected
by telephone, which spreads to all
the military garrisOns near the 'front.'
Ter.
, Upward of S2O,OO0, it is said, was
spent for amusement is New York
city last Monday night; yet it rained
between 7:30 and $50 p. M, and the
weather gave promise of a most I'M
pleasant evening.
A school for the thorough instruc-
ton of nurses in the care Of babies is
to be established in New York, in
connection with the Babies hospital
there The only other school of the
kind in existence is in Germany.
a mistake or one WORD recently cost
S. o. Fisher, of West Bay City, the
price of fifty bushels of potatoes. He
told his clerk to write to Grayling
man for twenty-five or thirty-five
bushels, and the clerk wrote for bar
rels.
OF the seven weeds which the "weed
law" of Wisconsin requires farmers
under penalty, to destroy, only one is
a native of the United States, all the
rest being naturaliZed importations
from Europe, where they are common
wild plants.
A cork tree at Vistalia, CAL, was
transplanted to the courthouse yard
last Friday. 1t was planted from an
acorn in 1857 in vacant lot, and has
grown to be thirty feet high and
twenty inches through the butt. The
bark is one inch thick.
A dog left in saloon at Carlton,
Pa, one night, while'prowling around,
opened the spigot of barrel of whis-
( key, allowing the cont tents to run
out and thoroughly saturate the floor.
In the morning the propr ietor found
| enough on the floor to scrub out the
saloon. but it was very expensive
"wash.n
| For compelling a cadet to chew pa
| p er while standing on his head, two
naval academy cadets have been
found guilty of hazing and sentenced
to dismissal.
At the Dial Verne Theater, in NAL
an, a new play is soon to be brought
out entitled 1.-THE retreat from Mos
cow" in which the leading character
will be Napoleon.
| There is a movement to make q
German academy, like the French
academy, of forty immortals, whose
mission it shall be to preserve the
purity of the German language.
The gallery of Madrid, one of the
greatest in existence, has received a
new windfall in the gift of the pic
lures belonging to the dOwager duch-
ess of Pastrano, 225 In all.
IF the kettle boiling be, seven
minutes makes the tea, =" is one of the
many pertinent couplets read on the
cozies of nIetal-worked yelvets that
go to table with the tea service.
By depositing their pennies for the
last three years the scholars in the
public schools in Long Island City
have at present to their credit the
sum of SIC, 403.6S.
There is woman near Astoria
Ore, who has to hold up her hand
and get permission from her hus,
band before she can go out. She is
going to school to him.
A strange animal is roaming around