San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-17
CUT OUT AND CUT DOWN.

Wichita, Kansas, has forty-two
women's clubs.
A Denver paper has been fined $500
for criticizing the court.
Utah has a colony composed of ma
tives of the Hawaiian islands.
Southern California is figuring Oh a
honey crop of 1000, 900 pounds this
season.
A woman at Trenton, Kan, seized
and held four of her hbor's chill
dren for debt.
1t is reported that foreign scien fists
have discovered minute diamonds in
meteorites found in Siberia.
A Reading, Pa, youth has an I'M
surpassed record as a rejected sutton.
He has been rejected seventeen times
by the same girl.
Under the new Scheffer law in
Minneapolis, which makes drunken
ness a crime, woman was the first
to be sentenced to jail
The Hutchinson News says that
the new ship "Kansas City" was so
named because she takes but little
water and is considered fast.
A trumpet producing its musical
note by the vibration of a circular
steel membrane by means of electri-
city has been invented.
The Newport cottagers, in their
fight against the street railway there,
set up the claim in their bill in equity
that they own to the middle of the
street.
Emery Allen, of Hartland, Mich,
has had a cherry-s tone taken from his
ear. 1t was put there fifty years ago
by some of Aliens mischievous play
mates
A man named Pefiey, a delegate to
the constitutional convention ofIdaho.
refused to sign the document adopted
by that body because the name of God
was used therein.
David Campbell, puddler OF Ian
caster, Pa, has ferret farm and sells
good many of the animals to per-
sons who want them to kill rats.
Mrs. Slater, of Siverlyville, Pa. had
rooster killed the other day, and
was pleased and surprised to find a
$ gold piece in its craw.
Newton Byers, Jasper, Mo-, youth
of nineteen years, committed suicide
because his father refused to let him
have horse and buggy.
Henry Wilson, of Jefferson county,
o., has a COW that is seven years old
and weighs less than 200 pounds. The
animal is about 3 l2 feet high.
1t is proposed to introduce the cult
walton of the sugar beet on large
scale in Pennsylvania. Probably the
experiment will be tried in Berks
county.
The largest county in any part of
the United States is Custer county,
Montana, which contains Is 500 800
acres Of land and covers $50 by l2O
miles.
Samuel Riggs, while hunting in
Greene county, Pa, fired at a rabbit.
and missed it, but the shot struck and
killed a pheasant just beyond, which
the hunter had not seen.
At Sea Cliff, l.. l., the village ceme-
terry has been closed because there
were only fifteen burials in four years,
and the receipts were not sufficient to
meet the expenditures.
n portrait OF Une IaCe JOnn Gilbert
in his.rOle of. Anthony bsolute.has
been painted by William Edgar Mar
shall. He is seated on the veranda of
an old fashioned English house.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward has
esta blished at Gloucester Mass, a fish
erman's reading room with newspa-
bers and games. She has also found
ed several coffee rooms at ira; point.
Bondin, the well known rope
walker, has wagered so, coo that he
can walk cable from the top of Elf
fel tower to the central dome of the
exhibition building in less than five
minutes.
California fruit growers, who used
to throw away their peach pits, are
now getting So a ton for them. They
are worth this for fuel. They make a
hot and aromatic fire.
She-"Jchn, if you don't do some
thing to keep those hens out of the
garden, | really believe I shall lose
my mind" He-"DOn't do that love.
1t would be such hard work to find it,
you know. Like looking for a needle
in a haystack. "-[ Boston Transcript.