San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-27
CURIOUS CLIPPINGS.

A Maine man has raised blue pig,
which he will exhi bit at the State fair.
A stone mansion built in 1850 on a
farm near Greenbush, n. Y, still
stands.
Backing the nose as a preventive
of snow blindness seems to have be-
come recognized as successful.
An Elmira man, who says he can
smoke fifty cigars a day, is anxious
for a match with somebody.
A Paoli, Pa, calf with five legs,
has harder time to get along than a
Doylestown pig with only three.
The tourists season in Switzerland
is officially estimated to bring in an
annual profit of e52S, 900 to the hotel
keepers alone.
A weather prophet that Consho-
hocken, Pa, people swear by is a
tree frog imprisoned in a jar of water
at the railroad station.
The Russian minister of war has
ordered that military races shall be
INDUCED in from time to time as a
means of improving the cavalry.
An Austrian railway official has in
speaking from a railway train at any
point stopping to the nearest station.
There are ruins near Gallup, Cal,
the foundation walls of which can
be traced for two miles, indicating
the existence of large town in the
locality in bygone times.
The Presbyterian church in Phila-
delphia which the Rev. Mao ison c.
Peters left, will try thirty clergymen
and then take a vote to see which
one of the thirty shall be called.
Probably the longest word in the
German language is in the last edi-
ton of the official journal of commits
siops. Here it is: "Mettamidometh-
Observation-Disclosures
arhinOl.n
VIM. Shreeves, a West Goshen, Pa,
farmhand, was in the top of tree
when he was attacked by a swarm of
bees. He was unable to fight them,
and the insects stung him until his
eyes were closed. He was taken down
with derrick.
Chas. Dudrow, of Boliver, w. Va.
has quite a curiosity in the shape of a
hen egg, OH the side of the shell of
which appears, in relief and clearly
defined, sunfower about an inch
and half in diameter. The large
heart, the petals and the stem can all
be seen plainly.
In Dublin, small town in Laurens
county, Ga, there lives blue man.
He is a Caucasian, but instead of be-
ing white is a greenish blue, and is
known as Blue Billy" HIS whole
skin is blue, his tongue and the roof
of his mouth are blue, and where his
eyes should be white is seen the same
blue color.
During some maneuvres OF the Ger
man cavalry at Breig a woman and
her little boy got in front of a regi-
ment of cuirassiers charging in full
gallOp. The leading officer shouted
to her to lie down, and she did, lying
upon her boy. The whole regiment |
passed over without iniuring her.
every horse in whose track she lay |
having been made,to jump over her. |
OF the 1860 men in the Eastern pen
itentiary of Pennsylvania only nine
teen were bred mechanics, fact
which shows that men who are train
ed to work seldom become criminals.
The Mexico Mo. Ledger offers the
following as a sure cure for hydro
phOpia: Every dog bitten by a
mad dog should be killed to-day.
The rest of the dogs in town should |
be killed Tomorrow"
Says Philadelphia jeweler: II
had man in here lately whose watch
would not run properly just because
he wore it over his heart. It's odd, |
but if man is OF active temperament
t makes his watch run slow"
There is a real estate agent living
1t Kingston, y. Y, who takes a
gloomy view of life, aud especially of
house painters, these days \ few
lays ago he hired an artistic house
painter to paint house which he has
IN his list. But unfortunately he
rave the painter the wrong number,
70 that it was a neighbours house
which received a beautiful and be-
coming new coat.
Among the wealthy but somewhat
patrons of certain Ohio
ollege is liberal minded Cleveland
merchant, who was recently invited
O an alumni dinner and was called r
Ipon for speech. With much con-
usion he rose to respond, and began
~ saying: MY friends, you know
I'M not a college man, and can't make
speech don't even know whether
he refreshment class comes previ-
usly before or previously after the
ycamore class, but -" The eonclus-
on of the sentence was lost in APP
lause.