San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-12
AGENTS FOR THE LIGHT.
BRIEF MENTION.

The health OF Lord Tennyson il
now completely restored. The ageC
poet may almost daily be seen fire.
qenting the beautiful drives in the
neighborhood of Haslemore, while il
is not unusual to see him walking.
EX-Gov. Thomas J. Jarvis has de,
clined the Presidency of the North
Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical
College, to which he was recently
elected. He says his sole reason is
that he does not feel qualified for the
position.
A large force of men are now at
work in CoyOcan, south of the City of
Mexico, digging for the treasure sup
posed to have been hidden by Monte
yuma. They are confident of success,
and have already discovered num-
Der of Aztec tools.
Besides the new irOnclad, the
Twelve Apostles, the keel of which
has just been laid at Nicolaieff, the
Russian government intends to in
crease the Black Sea fleet by two
monitors and large torpedo cruiser,
which have been built at the Schis-
chau torpedo works at Elbing.
The bill TO establish an industrial
school for girls has passed the Geor-
gia House of Delegates will probably
pass the Senate. The bill to open the
State University to girls failed to re-
ceive constitutional majority in the
Senate, but the vote was reconsidered
and the bill is still before that body.
The average number of fires in New
York is $500 a year, or about seven a
day. OF these one-half are due to
heating apparatus, chimneys, stoves,
and boilers, and the other half are
due to electric lights, gas, matches,
and the use OF kerosene. The number
of incendiary fires in year in New
York is about fifty.
The Condo d'Eu, husband to the
heir to the Brazilian throne, said In
a recent address that the imperial
family, desiring only the prosperity |
of Brazil, would retire when the peo-
pie signified by their votes that such
step would serve the progress of the |
country. He seems to be as DEM
ocratic royalist as Dom Pedro.
Henry L. Coe, New York iusur-
ance man, received notice that he |
was delinquent in his taxes to the |
amount Of 20 cents. Thereupon Mr.. |
Coe went around to the collectors |
office and raved and swore so vehe-
mently that Chief Clerk Robert w.
McChesney fell in an epileptic fit and
had to be carried home in an am
bulance.
The new dock at Halifax was sudsi-
died by the city of Halifax and the
Canadian and British governments, to
the extent of $500, 900. 1t cost a million,
and being COL feet in length, can dock
the longest steamship afloat. 1t holds
:, 800, 900 gallons of water, and can be
emptied in three and a half hours.
The greater part OF this dock was
blasted out of solid rock,
If Columbus were alive today, says
the New York Sun, and if his contract
Of April II, 1892, with Ferdinand and
Isabella were sustained by the Amer
lean courts, he would be enjoying an
income of about SIC ,OOO, 900 a year from
the bullion product of the Western
hemisphere, to say nothing of his ohC
tenth claim for the pearls, precious
stones, and general merchandise of
America.
Menelik II, the new King of Abys-
sinia, is the son of beggar woman
who took his fathers fancy. He is
almost coal black, short and dumpy.
Unlike his uncle, Ras Darghe, aud
others among his chief advisers, he
is very friendly to Europeans, and
wants to introduce their arts into his
He has remarkable fond
ness for machinery and implements
Of all sorts, and his greatest delight
is to examine their mechanism.
Senorita Ysabel Echequeren is the
sensation at Monterey. Cal.
She is the richest heiress in Mexico,
her father being worth 5000 900
and known as the Vanderbilt of the
Western coast. The senOrita is
of seventeen, tall and
willowy, with fair complexion auu
auburn hair. She will inherit one
third of her fathers wealth, which
makes her one of the richest girls on
this side of the Atlantic.
The European residents in China,
property was destroyed in the
recent revolt IN Chian-King, have re-
ceived as Indemnity 100000 taels, or
$4,000. 1t is rather remarkable that
this sum was paid by neither the gov
eminent nor the province, but by the
officers of the city. The governor was
assessed 100000, the governor of
the same, while the minor
paid the remainder in pro-
portion to their rank. The British
consul, whose house was entirely de-
received $4,000.
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