San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-12
FRIDAY, JULY 12,1889,
IN SMALL PARCELS.

Diamond scales weigh even a hair.
Ireland has 100000 women lace
makers.
John Christie, a Marion Kan. man
has field of oats six feet tall.
Crows in Lewistown, Pa. are feeding
on locusts and letting the corn alone.
Seaside hotel men say they have
barely sixty days in which to make
money.
Artificial iceis cheaper in Southern
cities than the natural article in the
North.
The worlds output of tobacco is in
creasing more rapidly than either
wheat or corn.
There has not been an execution of a
white man in South Carolina for twen-
ty five years.
Mrs. H. Hoffman, of Alloway, N, J.
set trap TO catch rat, but instead
caught big rattlesnake.
1t is said that Americans are being
swindled in Paris rate that makes
Niagara ha ckmen envious.
There are three brothers in Terrell
county, Ga. whose aggregate height
is nineteen feet. They weigh 600
pounds.
Russian military authorities state
that they can in twenty four hours
put 10000 soldiers in the field pre-
pared for war.
About weeks association with q
threshing machine will pitch a farm
er's voice fully an octave higher, as
all town folks know.
An ex-alderman of Fort Dodge. Ia.
has been arrested aud fined on the
charge of forcibly removing his COW
from the city pound.
st Louis raised the money to for
ward ten stranded chorus girlsto Chi
cago rather than support them at the
Home for Aged Women.
Australian papers announce the fin
ding of a large nugget, weighing 1856
ounces and valued at el.360, 1t was
found near Wedderburn, Victoria.
1t has been found that a nickle-
plated bullet will 60 through a man,
where one without will stop short and
England will hearafter nickel-plate
all her bullets.
A Morgantown PA. man bought a
lot of old tinware atauction, for which
he paid fifteen cents. A coffee pot in
Guided in the purchase contained 12S
buZZard dollars.
One more important vote will be had
this year upon the question of consti-
tutiOnal prohibition when South Da-
kota adopts State constitution next
October.
A man with artificial cheek, eye and
palate has been attracting attention
at an English watering place. 1t is
said that he eats without difficulty
and speaks distinctly.
An enterprising merchant in Chi
cago displays in front of his store a
lamp, to which is attached card
reading. This lamp will be reduced
in price ten cents per day until it is
sold.
In the Paris circus trained lion is
al present. being exhibited who rides
on horseback, jumps through hoops
and over bars, fires off pistols and
performs number of similar tricks.
According to the society editor of a
Clinton (Mo.) paper the maid of honor
at a recent wedding at that place
wore cream surah silk dress with an
empire sash and ''surplus" waist.
The warm weather last Tuesday
made Amos Wallace, of Column ia
county, o., seek an ice house to keep
cool. He fell asleep, and when found
six hours afterward was nealy frozen
to death.
The Arab believes in fate, and fate
is whatever happens. If he finds a
traveller whom he can rob, that is fate
if the traveller puts bullet into him
that's more fate, and he must be sat-
isfied with 1T.
The duck is to China what the cod
fish IS to the rest of the world. They
eat duck raw, cooked, boiled, fried,
baked and every other way, and they
worry over the duck crop the same as
we do over wheat.
Brooklyn has a German resident
who plays on $50 silver cornet, a $3S
French horn, an SIS, flute So
piccoloS 25 drum, SO pair of cymbals
and $40 violin.