San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-01
CRUMBS OF THE NEWS LOAF.

Donovan, the English race horse,
has won more than 100000 this year.
1.-THE Kansas University of Embalm-
| ing" Is holding its annual session at
Topeka.
The State fair at Shreveport offers a
premium for the ugliest man in LOU
isiana.
The newest Paris bangle bracelets
of silver are ornamented with small
filigree men.
Uncle Sam pays only SO for the ar
rest of truant soldier boys from the
regular army.
The largest collection of coins, 1885,
600 in number, is in the cabinet of an
tiquities, Vienna.
The total corn crop this year will be
2,26S, 49,, 0S3 bushels against 1887
$50, 900 for last year.
A Quincy, Ill, paper says there is
den of wild foxes within the cor
porate limits of that city.
The London police are now ordered
to wear India-rubber or noiseless
boots at night, always.
Fifteen potatoes that weighed TWEEN
ty-one pounds were raised by farmer
in Wetzel county, w. Va.
It'll thought that Colorado's wool
clip this year will beat the best pre-
vious record by over 100000 pounds.
At this time the whole world is at
peace-Europe, Asia, Africa, the
seas.
"Oyster color" is tint intended for
brocades in which women will be pre-
sented to the queen at the next sea-
son.
David Alexander Hogshead, of San
Francisco, has petitiOned to have his
name changed to David Alexander
Hodghead.
The people of Mexico, Mo-, are so
used to walking wherever they go
that the street railway at that place
has been abandoned.
William Lusk fell down 13O-foot
shaft at Joplin Mo. and exploded a
blast at the BUTTON. There is not
much left of him, but the doctors say
he will live.
George 3. Hickman, of West Ches-
ter, Pa, has received an order for
forty head of hogs from Frank James,
of Mexico, the famous eX-outlaw of
Missouri, new settled down.
Few people know that the Govern
ment issues a stamp OF the denOmina-
ton of $50. Such stamps are used Oh
second class mail matter and are
rarely seen by the general public.
An Alabama boy, George Peacock,
was bitten by snake, and his father,
in sucking the poison out of the
wound got some OF it in a cut on his
lips. Both died, the father about an
hour after the son.
Lady Guinness is said to have given
an order for a diamond necklace
which it will take several years to
make owing to the present scarcity Of
stones of the first water. The design
is superb and the cost will be about
$l25, 900.
The price of rubies and emeralds is
yearly increasing. Diamonds and
white pearls are not getting dearer.
Black pearls have been increasing
steadily in price for the last four years
in fact it is almost impossible to
SuDDlS
The late Capt. John Tobin, of Kan
sas City, was the last of the pioneers
who found pathway for the Union
Pacific railroad. He was u member
of Lieut.. Gunnison' expedition, and
it is said that during his career on the
plains he has saved not fewer than
100 lives.
A pair of horses were stolen from
an Iowa City woman and taken to a
town eighty miles distant. The men
who took them there were arrested
on suspicion, and to find the horses
owner the animals were turned loose
by the officers and followed back to
the lady's barn.
One Township in New Hampshirs
| NHillsbOrO) reports tWenty-seyen
abandoned farms. In another Jack
SON thirty farms have been forsaken
within twenty-five or thirty years,
and most of the buildings upon them
have disappeared. All cultivation,
even the cutting of the hay where it
| still grows. has in most instances
wholly ceased.
The old engine house at Harper's
Ferry, used by the great anti-slavery
leader and his followers as q place OF
refuge from the soldiers and citizens
surrounding them, is to be demolish-
ed, and will disappear forever, unless
the as yet unsubstantial rumOr that it
has been purchased by an association
of eastern gentlemen for removal to
Philadelphia should be true.
Two Italians and performing bear