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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-30

hereby announce myself as candidate
for reelection for the Office of City Recorder,
at the election to be held in February, A. ID.
1889, promising. if elected, to discharge my
duties in the future as l have done in the
past. Very respectfully,
ANTON ADAM.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-30
For AIderman-a t-LarGe.
FOR RECORDER.

The LIGHT is authorized to announce
JUDGE Nm. CHRYSLER, as a candidate for
the office of City Recorder at the election In
February, 1889.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-30

The LIGHT is authorized to announce Mr..
EDWARD DwYER as a candidate for the
office of City Recorder at the election in
February. He sOlicits the sutfrages of his
friends and all citizens in favor of reform
and good government.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-30
SPECIAL BARGAINS.

80 acres Of miles, south of city, small
house good locality. Price 5000. (5D
A .sAs ~ 800 acres.
with good rock house never
k# failing water, and fine grass
aas situated on the Culebra and
csAs'~<- Helotes creeks, about 10 m
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-30
Louisiana State Lottery Company.

Incorporated by the Legislature in 1888
for Educational and Charitable purposes,
and ts franchise made part Of the present
State Constitution, in 1879, by an oyerwEelm-
ing popular vote.
Its MAMMOTH DRAWINGS take place
Semi-Annualy, June and Decemberg
and its GRAND SINGLE NUN BER
DRAWINGS take place On each of the
other ten months in the year, and are all
drawn in public, at the Academy Of Music,
New Orleans, La.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-30
FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS,

FOR INTEG RlTY OF ITS DRAWINGS, AND
PROMPT PAYMENT OF PRIZES,
Attested as follows:
1--WE do hereby certify that we supervise the
arrangements for all the Monthly and Semi
Annual Drawings of The Louisiana State Lot
terry Company, and In person manage and con-
troll the Drawings themselves, and that the
same are conducted with honesty, fairness,
and 10 good faith toward all parties, and we
authorize the Company to use this certificate,
with fac-similes OF our signatures attached,
in III ad rtisenantsp
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-30
FOR STREET COMMISSION

FOR STREET COMMISSIONER.
The LIGHT is authorized to announced W..
W. CAMPBELL as a candidate for re-elec-
ton to the Office of STREET COMMISSIONER,
at the coming city election in February.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-30

so acres OF sandy loan land 4 miles south OF
the town Of Gonzales on Cuero road, fenced
has been cultivated; about one mile
from Gusdaloupe r1ver. This land 10 very
rich ard is one OF the best farms in Texas
Price $4,000. III
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
A Dissenting Opinion.

There is an immense deal of super
stltion about the intelligence of
horses. | stopped today at the
curbstone to chat with an express
man. | said to him, How much
does your horse know" :'That
horse, sir" knows just exactly as
much as a man." This is the way
everybody talks who owns a horse,
or tends horses, and it seems to me
to be perfect nonsense. | have seen
horses walk around a post until they
had wound the bride all up, and
then stand for hours with their heads
up against the hitching post, simply
because he didn't have sense enough
to walk the other way and unwind
themselves. | have seen them, when
hitchcd to Il ring in the pavement,
get their feet over the bride, and
then go mao fits because they didn't
have sense enough to lift their feet
back over the bridal again.
| have seen them dance around in
n burning barn with their names
and tails on fire, simply because they
dldn have sense enough to run out.
Anybody can steal horse without
any objection from the horse. A
horse will stand still and starve or
freeze to death, with nothing between
him and n comfortabl BILE stall and
plenty of oats except an old door
that he would kick down with one
foot and that could he opened by
removing pin with his teeth. ii
this shows a high degree of intelli-
gence, even for II brute, | cannot see
it. Compared with the dog the ele-
plant, or even the parrot, the horse
seems to be n perfect fool.-Chicago
journal.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
Cost Of Getting the News.
From the Boston Herald

|
Eugene M. Camp, who has collected
the statistics on this point says,
through the American, that the en-
tire cost of all the news in the papers
in this country is $2O,655, 900 per
year. This is curiously divided. The
special bureaus, which are principally
located in New York, with the right
to look over the proofs every night
of some of the morning jourals, cost
$345, 900. Thisis divided up among
100 of the leading provincial papers
The business of the Associated Press
now amounts to $1,25O,OOO yearly,
and that of the United States foots
up to $450,000. These two sums,
with the special outlay for telegraph
tolls outside of the organizations,
place the total to all the papers of
81 100000 for this department. In
addition to this there are to be reck-
oned the special services of profess
sional correspondents in adjacent
towns and important centers, whose
salaries aggregate 81 100000 be-
sides. This makes the total cost OF
all the service about $2.SSO.OOO per
annum. In the larger cities of the I'm
ion it costs all the way from $500 to
81, 200 n week for the working up OF
local districts. Mr. Camp reckons
this yearlyexpense at about 81 3 ,60O,-
600. This is correct analysis OF
the expense in collecting news and
the proportion in which one branch
of the service is related to the other.
there are three lines on which this
work proceeds-the gathering ofnews
by the local reporter, the news of the
telegraph and the special correspond.
ent. Each method is closely related
to the other. The statement shows
that there has been a great develop
ment of journalism in the matter of
news. Every effort is made to get
the news and one combination only
paves the way for another in order
to keep the lead in this department
of a newspaper. The greater the
combination the greater the result,
and the paper that has the news is
the one that the public is most will.
ing to pay for.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
The Gentlemen OF Americo.

There are no class and caste and
rank distinctions and no coat.ofarms
to entitle man to the name of gen
tleman in America. Mr.. Jones. or
MIR. Smith, or Mr.. Dinkinspeil, or Mr..
tlnherty, if successful in business.
IAN put coats-of-arms on their car
rage doors and table service, and
there is nothing to prevent them.
The coat-ofarms means nothing in
this country but snobbery. 1t does
not add to ones standing as a gen
tlemen; it rather detracts. AS there
are no ''noblemen" by birth in this
land, so there are no gentlemen" by
right OF lineage, except as one does
credit in his own person and charac-
Ter and conduct to his ancestry.
In humble homes can be found men
entitled to the name gentleman" in
the best and truest significance ofthe
word, as it enters into the life of the
republic; and in the most sumptuous
can he found cads who
claim the name because their fathers
grew rich in peddling pelts. TO be
sailed n gentleman is the proudest
triumph man can win, and to de-
serve It is to 'act well your part.
There all the honor lies. "-Cincinnnti
commercial.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23

1t is not easy for us to comprehend
the feeling with which savages first
look upon the wonders ofcivilization.
1t is not until the awe with which the
white man is at first regarded has
worn off by familiarity that the saw
age is in a frame of mind to realize
and admit what his thoughts have
been. The author of Coral lands"
was able to get at the sentiments of
the Polynesians, and he reports them
as follows:
A roko told me that at one time
the Fijians considered the whites gods
orimmortals, "but since, he added we
known you die and go there'-point-
ing TO the Levukan cemetery-'now
We know you are Mike ourselves.
Like the aboriginal races of other
countries, they first deemed all white
civilization, arts and sciences were
the result of enchantment, and n
staggering blow to their self conf
dence was the appearance in Levuka
harbor of steamer which entered
without stitch of canvas set, or
any smoke or steam escaping.
A steamship is to them "fire
ship" but their wonder as to the
doings of white men has almost en-
tirely ceased. As n Taviuni friend
once remarked to me, eff you were
to cut off your head and carry it
under your arm the length of Levuka
beach, and then fix it on again, you
would hardly astonish the Fijians."
Youths Companion.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
His Wife as He Saw Her.

Burke was sustained amid thu
anxiety and agitation of public lif,
by domestic felicity. every care
vanishes," he said, "the moment
enter beneath my own roof"
His description of his wife is toe
long to quote, but we must give an
epitome it. OF her beauty, he said
it did not arise from features, from
complexion, from shape. "She has
all three in a high degree, but it is
not by these that she touches
the heart; it is all that sweetness OF
temper, beneyolence, innocence. and
sensibility which n face can express
that forms her.beauty. Hereyes have
a mild light, but they awe you when
she pleases; they command, like a
a good man out of office, not by
authority, but by virtue. Her
stature is not tall, she is not made
to be the admiration OF everybody.
but the happiness of one. She has
oil the tfrmness that does not exclude
delicacy; she has all the sottness
that does not imply weakness.
'Her voice is low, soft music, not
formed to rule public assemblies, but
to charm those who can distinguish
n company from n crowd; it has this
you must come close to
her to hear it. TO describe her body
describes her mind: one is the tran
script of the other She discovers
the right and wrong OF things; not
by reasoning but by sagacity.
Noperson was ever less corruptedby
that knowledge. She has true gen
erosity OF temper, the most extrava-
CANT cannot be more unbounded in
their liberality, the most covetous
not more cautious in their dstribu-
lion. Her politeness seems to flow
rather from natural disposition to
oblige than from any rules on the
subject.
1T is long before she chooses, but
hen it is fixed forever, and the first
lours of romantic friendship are not
warmer than hers after the lapse of
'ears. As she never disgraces her
rood nature by severe reflections on
anybody, so she never degrades her
Judgment by immoderate or ill
placed praises; for everything violent |
$ contrary TO her gentleness of dispo-
ltlon and evenness of her virtue"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
A Primitive Eating-HOuse.
lakely Hal in New York Sun.

Blakely Hat in New York Sun.
visited an eating house in Ber-
lin which for primitiveness is rather
ahead of anything else l have seen in
the world. The dining table con-
sisted of log in which eighteen
cavities appeared at regular inter-
walls. Each cavity was about the
size of large soup bowl, and fastened
near every one was a big iron spoon
attached to the log by an iron
chain. The method of dining was
neither complicated nor prolonged.
A table d'hote dinner consisting of
one course, which by the way. was
the only dinner served in the house
cost five piennigs-about one cent
and quarter of our coin. The
diner enters and planks down his
money before taking his seat. Then
he chooses one of the broad cavities.
seizes the iroE spoon, and waits for
the waiter. That functionarv is
usually sort of Poo-Bah, combin-
ing in himself the duties of cashier.
proprietor, head waiter, and bouncer
in chief. After the guest is seated
the waiter walks up to him bearing
two steaming cans and asks shortly
"Thick or clear soup?" The diner
usually after shifting the fumes of
the cans and giving the matter
wcighty consideration, makes his
decision, and the faclotum fills I'D
the nearest cavity with soup, turns
on his heel, and washes his hands of
all further consideration. | did not
gain the impression from a casual
inspection that the waiter had ever
washed his hands in any other than
q figurative sense. The diner scoops
the soup out of the whole in the log
with his iron spoon, and having
thus dined wisely and well, is prompt.
ly ordered out by the bouncer in
chief. There is no lingering over an
after-dinner cigar, nuts, raisins.
fruit or coffee. The expedition of
the meal is its most striking charac-
teristic, except, perhaps it's simple.
ity.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
Nonsense About the Upas Tree.

All the Year Round
Supernatural, almost diabolical
influences are attributed to all ac.
counts, is so deadly that if a hot
WIND passes over it an odori is carried
along which is fatal to whoever
breathes it. Oldletters, written from
Paris in 1912 by "The Turkish Spy.'
describe a plant cultivated in n gar
den in the city that blasts all that
grows within ten cCbits of its Ioots.
They call it ill neighbor." lie de-
clares that there was II withered cir
Gle around it, while the tree itselfwas
green and thrifty. There is a tradi-
o'on OF poison or upas tree that
grows in the Island of Java. from
which putrid steam rises and kills
whomsoever it touches. Foersch. n
Dutch physician 1888, says: Not
tree or a blade of grass is to be
found in the valley OF surrounding
mountains. Not n beast or bird or
reptile or living thing lives in the
vicinity. On one occasion 1900
refugees encamped within fourteen
miles OF it, and all but 800 died with
in two months" The falsehood of
this story is exposed by Bennett.
who says: ''rhe tree (upas), while
is quite innocuous, though the Juice
may be used for poison; the whole
nelghborhood is most richly covered
with vegetation; men may fearlessly
walk under the tree and birds roost
in its branches" Darwin, IN his Loves
OF the Plants" has perpetuated
Foerschs fable when he says:
"On the blasted heath
Fell Upas sits, the hpdra tree of death"
1t is probable that the fable of the
lblighting influence of the upas tree
has been derived from the fact that
there is in Java a small tract ofland
on which nothing can live. This is
caused, not by the "fell upas." but
by carnations of carbonic acid gas
which are constantly going on. At
the same time it is quite true that
the juice of the upas is deadly
poison.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
Work.

The one sovereign remedy for the
ills OF life is work-work from neces.
sity, or work from choice. The man
or woman compelled to work every
day, either with hands or head, es-
capes many of the morbid worries
and anXieties that besct the man or
woman lett free to follow out morbid
musings on the vanity of human af
fairs, or melancholy analysis of ply
steal ailments which are often the re-
suit OF lack OF constant or definite
occupation. No greater misfortune
can be'all either man or woman than
to he born into this world without
the pressing force of work, pushing
him onto steady endeavor.-Detroit
Free Press.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
Either Melts or Shrinks.

Science tells us that gold melts at
2,4S5 dogs. We have known it to
run away like frost in the summer
sun, if you ever saw such a thing,
out of doors, when the mercury was
down in the cellar, and the racing on
the ice better than at any other time
during the whole winter. Doesn t
require much weather of either kind
to melt gold. In fact the colder the
day is for you, the faster it melts.-
Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
Luck in Oklahoma,

Alocal hack driver purchased two
lots on the day after the opening
from men who decided that there
would never be city, and who we're
going away in disgust. For one he
paid SO and for the other he traded
a well worn six shooter. One OF the
lots he hns since sold for 81, 100, and
he is holding the six shooter lot for
81 300. The luckless boomer who
exhausted his scantily filed treasury
TO get into the hind of promise and
went away empty handed, contribu-
ted by his zeal and earnestness to n
boom which asalready Melted many
neat little fortunes.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
Generating Steam.

1t is said that u new method of
generating steam has met with re-
markable success in England. The
invention is adaptable to any ordin-
airy Cornish, Lancashire, or marine
boiler. The apparatus for perfecting
the combustion consists of an air
tube placed on the floor of the fur.
mace, perforated on each side, in COM
munication at the outer end with n
main air conduit, and at the inner
end with a hot airreceiver, or air diff
iusing pipes, where the air becomes
highly heated, and delivered by n
large number of jets inso the escap-
ing gases from the fuel chamber. The
air is obtained by means OF a ian
driven by a snail engile.-New York
Telegram.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
Told of Stephen Girard.
From the Detroit Free Prees.

from the Detroit rec Frees.
Aman who has just set up in bust
ness and who has been clerk where
the eccentric millionaire, Stephen
Girard, has been in the habit of
trading, applied to him for a share
of his patronage. Girard bought of
him, but when the bill was sent in he
found FAULT and marked down the
prices.
"Cask Of nails" he growled, (which
] was offered for so and so, and you
must take off,"
"Icannot do it, " said the merchant.
"But you must do it," roared
Girard.
81 cannot and will not" was the
final reply.
Girard bolted out, apparently in q
rage, and soon after sent a check for
the whole bill. The young man be-
gan to relent and say to himself:
Perhaps he was offered them at that
price, but it is all over now. ] am
sorry | did not reduce the bill and
get it out OF him on something else.
His trade would be worth a good
deal to me.
By and by Girard came again and
gave him another order. The young
man was covetous, and said he was
almost sorry he did not reduce tho
former bill.
'Reduce bill" exclaimed Girard;
had you done it | would never
trade with YOU again. | merely
meant to see if you cheated me-"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
RObbing the Conductor,

Two men made good wages off
street car conductors in this town
for some weeks by a simple contriv-
ance. One would approach n car
from either side and appear as total
strangers. Both would crowd into
the center of the rear platform, and
the one farthest from the collector
would hand him n half dollar or dol
lar to hand to the conductor. The
latter. in the hurry and crowd would
take little notice of it, but, guided
by the impression conveyed by his
fingers, would return the correct
change. A minute afterward the
other man would look up meeklv and
ask If that wasn't a half dollar or
dollar, always double the true
amount that he had handed. The
conductor could not say positively,
and would appeal to the stranger
who had acted middleman. OF
course, he would agree with the de-
mander, and another quarter or half
dollar, as the case might be. would
be handed him. A few blocks farther
both strangers" would alight and
work the next conductor.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
Dangers at Billingsgate.

1t is pleasing to learn from one of
Mr.. Lawrence Hamilton's recent let.
tiers that, in addition to it's old famil-
lar shortcomings, Billingsgate is ne
culiarly favorable to the develop
ment of bacteria, microbes, and all
the elements of putrefaction in which
dead fish are specially rich. The
walls, floors and stalls of a fish mar
ket ought, by rights, to be faced with
some hard, smooth, non-absorbent
material, such as marble or glazed
tiles, which will afford no harbor for
these microscopic denominations. 1t
seems, however, that at Billingsgate
the stalls are mostly OF rough wood,
the walls of plain brick, and the
floors of porous stone, and all are
worn, honeycombed and rugged with
age. The whole place is consequent.
ly impregnated with putrefying filth,
with not merely its peculiarly ancient
and fish like smell, but also with the
most Objectionable results to such
wholesome fish as are brought into
it. For all this we have to thank
God and Magog, who not only keep
up this outrage on civilization, but
charge rents ranging from Cd. to Cd.
per square foot for such accommo-
datiOns as is to be found there.-Lon-
don Truth.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
At WGrk on tho Nicaragua Canal.
New York Herald. =

New York Herald
Work upon the Nicaragua Canal
continues steadily. The health of the
construction corps is remarkably
good. Out OF 700 men now employed
only seven are in the hospital, and Of
these majority are sufferers from
slight accidents. Most of the work
now being done is to prepare the way
for the steam navies and dredges.
The latter will not be able to set to
work until the protecting breakwater
is finished. The terminus of the con-
struction railroad at Greytown has
been laid out, and office buildings,
warehouse and engineers quarters
are being erected around it. Some
of the engineers have erected pretty
little palm shock huts, planted gar
dens and surrounded them by wire
fences, thus making comfortable
abodes.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
WIetched Rich Men.
the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
A woman writes to The Press from
Long Branch: "One of the saddest
sights in the world next to real pow
ertyo or distress is the sight of rich
man who has acquired boundless
wealth and lost his happiness and
his capacity to enjoy what money Sc
cures. Such cases are by no means
rare. They are very common. /
saw man recently whose income is
believed to be abou ut 81 900 a week.
whose whole day was spoiled because
u cabman overcharged him 81 for a
short ride. Or course the millionaire
knew that he could not possibly
spend his income, but nevertheless
the idea of losing a dollar. of being
deirauded out of it, ofgetting moth
ing In return for it, was almost ago
ny to him. Many u man in making
great fortune completely loses the
power of enjoying it. This is one of
the worlds compensations. The
happiness of sound sleep and a good
digestion is often enjoyed by u man
wlthan empty purse, while the mill
ionalre epicure has neither painless
digestion by day nor healthy rest by
night.
II saw on the ocean drive one of
Phlladelphia's richest men. He is
nj Al
who have spent the best years of
their life getting control of n bank, or
q brewery, or a boom of some sort.
lie is sitting back in corner of his
swell landaunow and wondering what
he did it for. He has q fine old face,
a heavy gray mustache, bushv eve
6rows and gold-rimmed eyeglasses.
lie IS dressed carefully, and his face
is absolutely empty of interest in
anything. He can't even work any
more. Because he has so much mon
'y all motive is gone. His wife? Oh,
wei, he loved his wife long ago and
he bows to her now when he meets
her in the hallway of his house. and
they have never had quarrel. Chill
1ren? Yes, several of them. They
Used to be pretty, and were fond of
nm when they Were babies. Then
boarding school, college, balls, par
lies and-checks, checks. Now he
hardly knows anything about them.
All sympathy is lost between them.
living under the same roof, their
learts are always wide apart. In
act, he doubts whether lie has a
leart at ALL"