San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-11-18
The daily eight.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1889.
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

Intermittent religion 10 like inter
mittent advertising; it only insures
intermittent reward.-Troy Press.
The surest way for a man to have
greatness thrust on him is to get him
selflost in Africa. -Washington Press
"Tommy, don't you want to go sail
ing?" NAV" "Why, we'll have
spanking breeze" "That's wot's the
matter. "-Exchange.
A correspondent asks us about
husking bees; but we'd rather let
some else talk-we never had any
luck trying to musk them ourselves
Detroit Free Press.
"Do you know DR.. Shaw ?" ayes ;
he is member of our church. Near
ly all the members employ him as
their family physician" "Oh, see !;
he is a regular piller of the church."
-Yenowine's News.
Lawyer--"Is that fide state
ment of the case" Illiterate Client
No, sir; you kin bet your bottom
dollar them's the true facts. "-Time.
Three-year old George was with his
papa in the barn. Seeing a pitchfork,
he said: "Papa, is that what horses
eat hay with ?"-San Diego, CAL, Re-
porter.
The unfitness of some women to
make contract has been illustrated
in Harrisburg. or two wives who
agreed to suicide together, one failed
and the other backed out-New York
Evening World.
Mrs. Popinjay-"Angelina, what
are you reading" Angelina" The
Search for Baldeyv ma" Mrs. Pop
injay-"Well, you needn't search any
longer. Your fathers the man."
Burlington Free Press.
Young poetess-"Now, please tell
me exactly what you think of my new
sonnet?" Young editOr-'Ah! Miss
Flora, your sonnet is very nice, very
nice, indeed, but it is not as nice as
you aren'-San Francisco Wasp.
How did the new preacher i'm
press you, Mrs. Fluting?" He seemed
very eloquent and used no notes
whatever" And how did the choir
singw "Well, just as the minister
preached. "-Philadelphia Saturday
Review.
VIII. Henseps wife, of PunXsutaw-
ney Pa, decorated a favorite cat
named Jonathan with a ribbon and a
bell. Jonathan then climbed tree
and hanged himself.
Speaking OF cheap farm products in
Missouri an exchange says: 1t takes
a bushel of oats to buy pound of SUI
gar, cow to buy coat and a load of
potatoes to buy pair of boots.
A contract has been let to the Chat
tanooga City Water company to erect
stand7pipe, and supply historic
Lookout mountain with 100000
gallons of water daily from the Ten
nessee river, 2, 100 feet below.
An intelligent canine that spends
much of it's time around railroad
crossing in Boston, takes q position
approaches, and refuses to allow per-
sons topass until all danger is over.
Tommy-Pa, is it wrong to speak of
a mare as dam? His father-No,
my son, not if she has a sucking colt.
Tomny-Well, it's all right, then
that dam mare kicked me this morn
ng while L was playin' with her
colt.-Ramsey's Weekly.
Gen. Butterfield, who has been
delving among the old parchments at
the Bibliotheque Rationale, in Paris,
has come to the conclusion that Col
umbus did not discover America.
This find" will let our New York
friends down easy.-Norristown Her
aid.
Tom-"How was it, Mildred, dear,
that you came to accept such chap
as ann" Enthusiastically to be per.
fectly frank with you, Tom, darling,
you were my last chance" Tom
''I'Il be frank. too, sweetheart. had
asked all the other girls, but it was
no go."-Epoch.
Officer of court to an old woman
81 have seen you here every day for a
year, now, looking hard at the prison
ers Are you so interested in these
people?" "Well, you see, several
wears ago somebody stole five marks
from me, and L am sure the fellow
must be brought here some time. y
FIiegende BlGtter.