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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-09
AGENTS For THE LIGHT.
THURSDAY. MAY. 9. | 80.

THE latest objection to electricity as
a means of infiicting the death penalty
comes from psychologist, whoargues
that life is in some mysterious degree
the result of electric forces and soul
but form of electric life, and there
fore there is danger of destroying both
soul and body by the electric shock.
If a mans hold on Immortality is SUI
ject to disruption by a stroke of light
ming it will hardly answer the pur-
pose.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-09
a Pleasing Sense

OF health and strength renewed and
of ease and comfort follows the use OF
Syrup of Figs. as it acts in harmony
with nature to efectually cleanse the
system when cOstive or bilious. For
sale in SOC and Sl0O bottles b! all
leading druggists. 3-ll-lm
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-09

THE Parnell examination closes and
Mr.. Parnell retires from the witness
stand, having made most favorable
iG4Fession upon the great world jury
WITCH has carefully followed the evil
dence he has given, both upon his
direct examination and upon his cross
examination. The facts most fully
set forth by Mr.. Parnell have been:
that the Irish parliamentary party
have had nothing to do with the
Fenians; that the land league has
always discoun tenanced violence; that
in all of his American speeches he had
declared that not one dollar of the
contributed funds would 90 towards
organizing rebellion in Ireland; that
the receptions given him IN America
were not by the vicious and revolu-
tionary classes, and were not in any
sense represent ative of the physical
force party. He offered his letter file
in evidence of the truth of his state
ments, and said that the court was
welcome to see every letter he had
ever written. ParnelI's testimony has
made profound impression through
out all England and throughout that
greater Britain which embraces all
English speaking peoples.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-09

FORT WORTH municipality is not in
very satisfactory condition financi-
ally. At this weeks council meeting
the finance committee presented re-
port which was an eye opener to the
citizens. This report does not mince
matters in the least and shows that
Fort Worth councilmen have both
courage and straightforwardness.
This report shows that:
The city's scrip sold at % per cent or more
discount, and that she city paid from 3 to 50
per cent more for all WORK done than it sh uld
do If 1t could pay casa, it stated that with a
depleted treasury there was over $4,000 OF
debt, with current experS for this year Of
100000, and all ii could expect 10 raise to pay
this with was 100000. The only way ont of the
dilemma was TO issue $4,000 of bonds for
street improvement and current expenses, so
as to pay cash for everything bought; $40 900
for a high school and Sl50,OOO TOR sewers and
extensions"
This report provoked sharp debate
in the course of which the condition
of the city water works was over
hauled and the facts elected that the
water works were unequal to supply
the city's demand and give sewer SER
vice if the sewer mains were extended,
and also that the water works were a
yearly source of expense to the city.
Fort Worth can congratulate, haSseIf
in the midst of this FINANCIAL dTsabil-
it's that her monies have been judici-
ously expended, her street work has
been substantially performed and she
has the best paved streets though
more miles of them than any city in
the state. Would not San Antonio
stare if she was faced with the neces-
sity Of issuing bonds to the tune of
1902, 900 for current yearly expenses
and high school buildings and sewer
extensions?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-09

THE Laredo Times man has his eye
on that sensational correspondent
who dished up the La Luz horror in a
San Antonio spoon and ladled it out
for the delectation of the Island City
News. The Times says:
"A correspondent from San Antonio to the
Galveston News would seem 10 possess, ali 10
himself, an underground telephone service
with all parts of Mexico and keeps posted as
to Mexican affairs that ordinary people hear
nothing of. Doubtless the aforesaid CORE
spondent Is doing land office business in his
corner on sensational matter. The tFlegran
which made the Baltimore paper sell like hot
cakes, was sent from san Antonio and tod
all about deep and dark plot among the bri
gandS OF Mexico TO capture President Garrett,
of the Baltimore and Ohio, and to hold him
for ransom, ard doubtless the enterprisin2
CORRESPONDENT in the Alamo Guy tapped the
suhterenean connections wit his magic wand
and heard every word that those teri ole roo.
berS said as they sat around Il dim fire in their
mountain fastness away out in the wilds OF
the Sierra Madres."
Mexico is coming into more init
mate relations with this state and the
American republic year by year.
There is no sense in disappearing
matters across the border and stirring
up sectional race feeling. Passen-
gers arrived from the City of Mexico
deny the sensational reports tele-
graphed from this city concerning the
La Luz trouble, and pronou nee the
whole sensational detail bare fabri-
cation. This is by no means the first
time that the press correspondents
from this city have abused their privi-
leges and wired as facts transactions
along and over the border which have
little more foundation than the base
less fabric of dream.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-09
CAUTION TO MOTHERS

Every mother is cautioned against giving
her child lauGanum or paregOric; it creates an
uni atural craving for sGimulantS which kills
the mind or the child. Acker's Baby SOother
is specially prepared to benefit children and
cure their pains. 1t is harmless and contains
no Opium or Morphine, Sold cy RagLand y
(b)
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-09
$1,000 WIN Buy

A fine block of IL lots on Prospect Hill,
near street car, and has water works
mines laid to same. 2-25-tf
T. B. JOHNSON,
2-25-tf At the LIGHT office.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-09

Announcements for State and County officers
Ten Dollars in advance
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-09
Ali -44.

Policy at Hewitt's, No. 3 and > Yves
Commerce street. Two drawings pc
day. 5-9-tt
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-09

rs-An contracts or bills must be approved by
the Secretary and Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-09
THB LHADI4G HOTEL IN The
SOUTHWEST.
ALAMO PLAZA, SAN ANTONIO.

Having been thoroughly Ovashauled and
renovated throughout, 3 now the largest and
mOsc complete Hotel in the Sdtth-west. Fine
billiard and bar rooms ATTACKED. Hot and
cold baths. Large. sample rooms for COM
merciaI men. aStr0nage of the travelling
public solicitedS -1O-56m
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-09

2-25tf
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
Little Batter Puddings,

When company arrives Unexpectedly to
dinner, little batter buildings will be con-
venient dessert. 1t can be made at the last
minute and baked while the dinner is being
eaten.
Three eggs, one pint of milk, twelve table,
spoonfuls of sifted -four, a little salt. Bake
in small earthen cups. Pudding sauce: One
cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of butter,
beaten to cream, add the yolk of one egg
well beaten, then one-haf pint of boiling
water, and set it on the fire about ten min
utes, add two tablespoonful of wine, or
flavor with lemon peel, beat the white of the
egg to froth and pour over the top after
having poured the sauce in the sauce dish.
This recipe makes twelve little buildings.
Bake in hot oven, but not so hot as to burn
them on top before baking the bottom. They
will fall if taken out too soon.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
Rich Ounce Preserves,

Pare, core and quarter your fruit, using a
pound Of white sugar to every pound of fruit.
Take the Feelings and cores and put them
into kettle; cover them with water and boil
for half an hour; then strain through fine
sieve or jelly bag and put the juice back into
the kettle and boil the ounces in it, a few at
time, until they are tender. Lift out, as
they are done, with drainer and lay on a
dish. When ell are cooked, pat in the sugar
and allow it to boil about ten minutes before
putting in the ounces. Let them boil slowly
till they change color. While boiling slip q
silver spoon under them occasionally to see
that they do not burn, but do not stir them.
This makes rich and handsome preserve
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06

A physician advances the theory that the
distressing sensation of nausea has its seat in
the brain and not in the stomach, and that
relief may be obtained by cooling the base of
the brain. He claims to have tested this
often and thoroughly in the case of sick
headache, bilious collie, cholera morbus and
other ills in which the nausea is dis
tressing symptom, without a single failure;
also, that he once relieved the nausea result
ing from cancer of the stomach by the appli-
cation of ice to the back of the neck and
occipital bone. The ice IS to be broken and
the bits placed between the folds of a towel.
Relief may be obtained by holding the head
over sink, or tub, and pouring small
stream of water on the back of the neck.
This is worth remembering as relief for
sick headache, to which so many are snbiac-
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
What Doctors Saw.

NJ. Didier, of Lyons, finds that faradi,
current of moderate intensity is decidedly
the most efficient treatment of hysteria
hitherto employed. It not only checks the
paroxysms, but has a curative effect. In
every case of hysterical commissions in which
he employed it the seizure promptly abated.
According to DR.. LIE Tort, microbes are
never conveyed in the air, but only by con-
tact with the fingers, instruments, etc.
A French dentist asserts that antipyrin, q
popular new remedy, shows tendency to
blacken teeth, especially when they have lost
the enamel
DR.. A. A. Whitfield says that the homeo-
pathic preparation of graphites, given three
times daily, will cure more cases Of eczema
in children than any other known remedy.
An occasional dose of sulphur may be needed
to complete the cure.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06

Take Time and Be Happy at Meals.
ut cannot be disputed that in the art Of
feeding the human animals they do these
things better in France" So says the Lon
don Hospital and proceeds to draw the fol-
lowing comparisons between the eating hab-
its of Englishmen and Frenchmen, which are
not without some application to Americans
as well: The middle-class Englishman eats
hunks of beef and wedges of mutton, fol-
lowed by pudding as solid as lead, and
washed down with strong Burton ale, or still
stronger Dublin stout. That is very good
fare for plowmen and fox hunters To the
town man it is simply ruin. The Frenchman
knows better. Neither in town nor in country
will he feed like carnivore. He believes in
variety; he likes little bit Of many dishes,
not vast mountain Of one. He likes it made
pleasant to the TASTE He takes time over it,
1t is quite the rule on the continent to see all
the busy men in the town spend at least an
hour at the restaurant over the midday meal.
The eating done, a smoke, game of draughts
or dominoes and cup of coffee are invoked
as aids to digestion.
The natural result is that Frenchman or
Belgian looks happy at meals, and still hap
pier at his coffee and dominoes. Is any man
unscientifc enough to say that the French
man is wrong and the Englishman is right
Eating is undoubtedly one Of the chief func-
lions Of life, and if it be right to make all
life bright and happy, then eating should be
one of its chief pleasures. We English have
a great deal to learn from many countries.
We cannot do better than begin by learning
how to prepare food so that it shall be pleas
ant and tempting to the senses, and how to
eat it without looking like mutes at a funeral
or lions at an i'll managed 800"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
A Daily Paper
lCent a Day..

A daily newspaper now
costs but little more than
the old-time weekly. The
CHICAGO DAILY
NEWS is an impartial, in
dependent newspaper. 1t
is a member of the Asso-
>ciated Press. 1t prints all
the news and sells it for
cent a day. Mailed, post
paid, for $500 per year. or
IS cents per month. This
is $500 per year less than
the price of any other
Chicago morning paper.
The CHICAGO DAILY
NEWS is not a blanket
sheet. 1t is a condensed
paper. You can read it
and still have time left for
an honest days work. 1t
is a daily paper for busy
people. No one who has
the advantage of a daily
mail service need longer
be content with a weekly
newspaper. The circula-
ton OF the CHICAGO
DAILY NEWS is, with a
single exception, the larg-
est in the United States
it exceeds that of all other
Chicago dailies combined.
You ought to read a daily
paper. Why not try the
CHICAGO DAILY
NEWS? M q
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
Tropical Rains.

Rain within the tropics is not Of the dria-
cling character of rain in the temperate zone,
but generally falls in such torrents as in
other zones would be called waterspouts
They produce great floods in a single day.
Winter is distinguished from summer chiefly
by the quantity of rain, which is often con-
slant for many days together, and lasts a
certain number of hours per day through six
months. The rivers, in consequence, over
flow, and on drying off make the atmosphere
unwholesOme
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
Attributes of Different Lenses.

The principle of magnifying power, effect
ed by convex and concave crystal surfaces
arise from the indefinite multiplication of
images by surfaces at different angles. A
lens with three surfaces Of sixty degrees
gives three images, one with $50 Of one de-
gree each, $50 figures, scarcely separable:
but one with lO,SOO surfaces, of one minute
each, gives 10, 500 images, still less separable
When, however, the curved form is given,
and the sides become infinite, the images are
infinite; and. being no longer separable, are
seen as one image under one enlarged angle
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
Canned Squash.

A housekeeper says: have canned squash
very nicely after the following recipe, and
we find it very good and fresh when kept the
same as canned fruit. Boil the squash and
strain through colander. If very dry add
little water: Fill glass jars with it, screw
covers lightly on and set into boiler of cold
water with straw or a perforated board in
the bottom of the boiler. Bring the water to
boiling and cook an hour or more in all.
Then take out the cans, and if the contents
have shrunk fill up with hot water and seal
at once,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.

How Ladies' Have Made Stained Glass
Windows and Japanese Bead Curtains.
How to cut of the unsightly outlook from
q window without shutting out the supply of
light at the same time is rather a pulling
matter. As the best remedy that admits Of
still utilizing the window to certain extent.
Decorator and Furnisher advises replacing
the clear glass with ground or stained glass.
and says: Many ladies are now experiment.
ing in making stained glass windows and
frequently with much success, the result be-
ing somewhat after the order Of crazy patch
work.
For a window Of stained glass, you can
buy for trifle any quantity Of pieces from
manufacturers of stained glass Then hay
ing your plate glass window, sash and all, re-
moved from the casing, lay your window in
side upward on table, and with cement of
shellac (which is transparency attach the
pieces of stained glass to the clear glass, fill
ing in the seams with putty. Should you
wish design of somewhat more artistic ar
rangement, you can dot your window with
the faceted jewels and bulls eyes which are
made for the purpose; and calling in the as
sistance of a glazier with his diamond, you
can have your pieces Of glass cut in better
shapes, with much improved effect for the
work. By taking notice of stained glass win
dows you will observe that they are gener
ally in some wise bordered, and thus you can
gain an idea as to the composition of the de-
sign for your window. Paint the putty used
in joining the pieces black; or you can make
the work richer by painting the putty with
gold.
Another remedy, and one more simple Of
accomplishment, would be to draw closely
over the window curtain of white spotted
cottage drapery muslin, attaching the curtain
by small rods run in casing Of the muslin
to both the upper and lower sashes, and then
hang over a curtain of japanese reed and
colored glass beads. In the bizarre orderings
now affected in house furnishings, it is not
unusual to see difference in the treatment
of windows in the same room, if the purpose
be obvious, and it does not seem homogeneous
As the better quality Of cane curtains are
expensive, the authority already quoted sug-
gests that the cane and beads can be bought
and strung on strong fax thread, and with
some degree of taste exercised in arrange
ment it would be no difficult task to make
curtain-hanging it on a rod furnished with
small metal eyes. With the white muslin
curtain for a background, the bead curtain
would be very effective, there would be a
mellow light and one would scarcely be an
noyed by unwelcome views from neighbours
premises
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
A Metallic Meteorite.

The heaviest purely metallic meteorite
known is the "thunderbolt" of the Arab
Sheik Kalaph Ben Assah. It fell in Central
Arabia, and is one of the ten known meteor
ties that have been seen when falling. It
was bought by English authorities, who have
since caused it to be chemically analysed
1t contains 91.O4 per cent. of iron, T. 40 nickel,
066 cobalt, traces of copper, phosphorus, and
O39 Of amorphous carbon. Its weight is 120
pounds. Much larger stony meteorites are
known, including one of twenty-five tons
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
A Convenient Life Preserver.

1t is not a Yankee invention, for it origi-
mated in the brain of Frenchman. Coats
and trousers are hereafter to be made with
large waterproof pockets, which will contain
a small amount of carbonic acid. Ii the
wearer falls into the water, a small outlet
will let in just enough water to create gas,
which will float the man for number of
hours
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
AN EMBROIDERED sACHET

The embroidery on the front side of the
sachet is worked on bronze plush, the larger
flowers with white silk in satin stitch shaded
off with copper colored silk, the center star
with gold thread. The leaves are carried out
in olive chenille and the smaller blossoms
formed of gold chenille, the embroidered
stripe being edged with gimp and two bronze
ribbon bows placed at the corners
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
Tnlins for Winter Forcing.

OF early kinds the single Due Won Thol
tulips are the earliest, and are therefore most
valuable for forcing in pots or vases for in
door decoration. With proper treatment
these can be had in bloom by Christmas or
earlier. They are of different colors-bril-
liant scarlet, vermilion, crimson, pure white,
purple, orange, violet, etc. Planted in pots
or vases they prove very beautiful at season
when blooming plants are generally scarce
Single early tulips can also be grown in water,
like a hvacinth
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
First Cotton In ENGLAND.

In 1900 cotton was first brought to England
from Cyprus and Smyrna, and made into
fustians, dimities. etc. In 1897 1900, 600
pounds were imported for welt, to work with
linen warp as domestic manufacture, the
carding and spinning being performed by
children and women for rural weavers.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
Perfume Does Not Diminish WEIGHT.

A grain of musk has been kept freely ex-
posed to the air of room, of which the door
and window were constantly open for
ten years, during all which time the air,
though constantly changed, was completely
impregnated with the odor of musk, and yet
at the end of that time the particle was
found not to have sensibly diminished in
weight.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
Minute living Beings.

Minute Living Beings.
Mites are found not only in cheeses. but In
preserves, meal, dried flesh and other articles
of domestic consumption. They have as reg
ular figure and perform all the functions Of
ifelike creatures that exceed them many
times in bulk. They have sharp snout and
mouth that opens and shuts like mole's.
The various parts of the body are covered
with long hairs, and even these hairs are
bristly. From the eggs Of the females the
young are Matched in twelve to fourteen
days. and are so small that 80, OOO, 900 are not
equal to pigeons egg.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
Blue STOCKINGS.

The term Blue Stocking, applied to liter
ary ladies, was conferred on society which
was called the Blue Stocking club, in which
females were admitted, and so called owing
to Mr. Benjamin Stillingfeet, one of its
active members, wearing blue stockings.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
Restoring q Japanned Surface.

A capital black varnish suitable for COW
ering broken places in metal, such as sewing
machines, furniture, etc., where the japanned
surface has been scratched or otherwise dam
aged, can be made, according togood author
ity, by taking fine lamp black or ivory black
and thoroughly mixing with copal varnish,
the black being in very fine powder. To
mix the more readily it might be made into
pasty mass with turpentine.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
Height of Sea Waves.

Careful experiments made by an expert
enced English navigator at Santander, on
the north coast of Spain showed that the
crest of sea waves in long and heavy gale
were forty-two feet high, and allowing the
same for the depth between the waves would
make height of eighty-four feet from crest
to base.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
Thin Iron.

Iron is rolled so thin at the Pittsburg iron
mills that 1900 sheets are required to make
single inch in thickness. Light shines
through one of these sheets as readily as it
does through CREASED tissue paper.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
At q Great Height.

The greatest elevation ever attained by a
balloonist was 81 900 feet, about seven miles.
The aeronauts were James Glaisher, F. R. s.,
and Mr.. Coxwell. The ascent was made
Sept. 5. 1862, at Wolverhampton, England.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
THE CURIOSITY SHOP.

4 Custom Of Planting Trees for . Brides
D0wry.
There is beautiful custom In some Of tho
northern parts Of Europe. There the white
poplar, in good soil, increases shilling in
value every year. The trees are generally
cut down at the age of 20 years, as they are
then supposed to have attained their full
growth. When q daughter is born in the
family of a respectable farmer the father, as
soon as the season win permit, plants a thou
sand young trees, which are to constitute the
dowry of the maiden, (which grow as she
grows and increase in height and value as
her virtues and beauty increase"