San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-17

| -fOT sanitary WOrh ring up Uclo-
phone No. II. Good work guaran-
teed. 9-19-1m
Experiment is by Partisan scientist
have proved that daylight entirely
ceases in the waters of the Meditter-
ranean at depth of | ,51S feet.
DIR. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadel-
phia, has been elected president of
the Congress of American Physicians
and Surgeons, which meets in Wash
ington in September, 1891.
A pamphlet has been published in
Paris in which il is attempted to
show that the first inventor of the
monograph was not Mr.. Edison but a
Frenchman, the late M. Charles Cros.
| 1t is always the same way. Some
body Is forever coming OUT to claim
the credit for something that some
body else has done.
A breach of promise case, in which
the plaintiff was man, has been de-
cided in his favor by a Sandhurst
australia jury. The fair defendant
who had refused to marry the plain tiff
was ordered to pay one shilling dam
ages and costs.
The Chinese pupils of the New York
Sunday schools have opened club
house for their mutual entertainment.
J All the Chinese newspapers will be
found there, and the services of law
yer have been retained to give free le-
gal advice to the the members.
A jury at Tampa, Fla, the other
day, in the case of man charged
with carrying concealed weapons,
found a verdict of guilty, but recon-
mended the prisoner to the mercy of
the court, on the ground that so many
persons, eminently his superior in
every respect, 60 UNPUBLISHED for the
same offense. The verdict was
| thrown out.
In the last two years 10000 volumes
were added to the free library con-
nected with the LehIgh university.
The library was only founded in 1877
and the building alone cost 500, 900.
| 1t has already nearly $4,000 volumes
on its shelves, and has capacity for
$50, 900. The library is self support
ing, having an endowment Of $500, 600
The bishop of North Dakota is hav-
ing car built in which to make his
episcopal vlsitations. Spare beds
and accommodations for strangers
| are so scarce in his district that he
finds it necessary thus to imi-
| tate the actors and find himself in
| bed and shelter. The bishops travel.
ing car is to be chapel on wheels
as well as an itinerant Louise.
New York churches have a not I'M
usual feature OF table placed near
the platform for the purpose of steno-
| graphers. The young men are not
reporting for the papers, but are
mostly clerks in law offices who have
studied shorthand and 60 to church
for practicing purposes. Some OF
them reduce the sermon to typewrit-
ing and sell copies to members of the
congregation.
The value of service can be Justly
estimated only by it's results. Judg-
ing, by this standard, comparing the
work and influence of the patent bu-
reau with the doings and effects OF
other departments and branches we
find that the patent system stands al
the head in that it is the producer OF
progress and prosperity in far great
er degree than any other part of our
governmental mechanism.
The Russians have recently i'm
proved on the sleeping coaches of the
railway and the perambulating
schoolmaster of the rural regions.
They have provided a school wagon,
which is furnished with a room for
the teacher, a classroom or study,
and library, all suitably supplied
with the necessary material. This
wagon will be on the line of the Trans
caspian railway all the year round,
remaining as long as may be deemed
necessary at districts which are not
provided with a school.
The saying that "there is nothing
new under the sun" receives fresh
confirmation in the recent discovery
that "nickel and slot" machine was
in use in the ancient Egyptian tenn
Piles. The holy water was not free to
all, but was kept in closed vessel.
When the sum of. five drachmae was
dropped into the top, valve opened
and allowed a small quantity of the
sacred liquid to flow out, after which
it automatically closed to await the
arrival of the next customer.
Opera House Restaurant.
| The finest oyster house and restau.