San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-01
Straight Goods.

ordered by the doctor.
At the Berks county, Pa, fair, John
c.. Hepler had 124 cases containing
"a, 900 buttons, no two of which are
alike.
Seventy-eight Indians are attend
ing the industrial school in Tucson,
Arizona.
Tyomies, the new Finnish paper at
Ishpeming, Mich, has commenced
publication.
For three days last week the coast
of Maine was enveloped in an unus-
ually thick fog. Accidents occurred
to several vessels.
In Switzerland seventy per cent of
the young men are said to be untitled,
by the use of alcohol and tobacco, for
military service.
A writer who has made the search
asserts that our language. contains no
less than S27 different terms, all of
which express the state of being in
love.
A fishermen at Doylestown, Pa,
saw suntish swallow a bee, and a
few minutes later saw the fish on the
water dead. He cut it open and the
bee flew Oft.
The government dry dock, just
opened at the navy yard in Norfolk,
Va, is $50 feet over all, and will hold
S,000,0 gallons of water. 1T has cost
over 100000.
The Turkish soldiers were unable to
use their muskets during the recent
disturbance in Crete because the cart
ridges sent from Constantinople would
not fit.
Battle Creek Mich doctors are
puzzled over the case of Mrs. w. A.
Dennison, who has been in trance
ever since her husband was killed by
the cars ten days ago.
Charles Lambezeden, Milwaukee
laborer, kept his little fortune of ST.
600 in stocking. The other day when
he went to look for it both stocking
and money were gone.
Bagdad, on the Arizona & Pacific
road, is said to be the hottest station
on the road. The thermometer has
stood at 14O degrees in the dining
rom and 12S degrees at midnight on
the coolest side of the depot.
Canada buys more goods of this
country than of England. Last year
the imports from the United States
amounted oS4S, 900, 900, while $42, O00,-
900 covered the amount from the old
country.
While a girl was playing with rope
about her neck in LakeVillage, Nh,
the building was struck by lightning,
and the rope was destroyed by the
electric current, but the child escaped
uninjured.
An old book on the gunpowder
plot, published in London, soon after
it was discovered, speaks of the lead
ers in that attempt as the "darned
conspirators.n The word darn
used in this way has always been sup
posed to be vulgar Americanism.
The smallest circular saw in prac-
tical use is tiny disc about the size
of a shilling, which is employed for
cutting the Sits in gold pens. These
saws are about as thick as ordinary
paper, and revolve some 1000 times
per minute. Their high velocity keeps
them rigid, Notwithstanding their eX-
IRENE thinness.
The John Bright university at
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Quakers, promises to become one of
the leading educational institutions
in Kansas. Negotiations have been
completed by which the college comes
into possession of 100000 in money,
with which the construction of the
principal buildings will be carried
on.
A letter from North Carolina gives
an account OF the recent eXtraordina-
ry growth of the Farmers alliance in
that state. The state alliance was
organized in 1887, and already it has
membership of s., 900 in the various
counties of the state. The national
convention of the National Farmers
alliance will be held in st. Louis next
December.
Ferdinand Schlesinger, of Milwau-
kee, who represents the German syn
dictate which is putting millions in
the Michigan iron mines, was poor
clerk in a mining office two years
ago. His company has already put
So, 100000 into American mines, and
| it now seems to be its idea to buy up
all the nOn-Bessemer mines in the
| country. The chief stakeholder of
the syndicate is a Berliner named
BleichtOder, and they say he has so
much money he has to blaze it.
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