San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-18
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1899.
PASSES FOR FACT,

There will be no interchangeable,
season" after the Goth of Septem Der
Michigan's new $500 liquor tax Law
begins to operate on October /.
Mrs. Grundy: IT is never we'll t.
look q professional politician tot
closely in the morals.
In Paris something new are silk and
linen handkerchief made in the form
of a leaf with stem.
p. Myett, accompanied by a dog,
has driven In buggy from Califor-
mia to Pennsylvania.
Nearly 1000 men have obtained
employment through the resumption
of business by the Reading Iron
works.
Life size pigeons of plated silver are
| something new in the inkstand line.
Under the wings is the place for the
pens.
A family of four, father, mother
and two children, has just arrived in
Elmira, n. Y, from Kansas, having
made the entire journey on foot.
Workmen taking out sawed lumber
on Ransom's island, near Williams
port, Pa, came upon a petrified log
sixty feet long which they could not
lift.
w. X. Vanderbilt's steam yacht
Alva, the handsomest and most per-
fectly appointed pleasure boat in the
world, cost $500, 900, and the expense
Of running her is said to be about
$15O,O00 year.
AS soon as the horse cars from Cairo
to the Pyramids are completed, and
the work is nearly done, an elevator
will be made to the top of the vener-
able piles, so that ascent may be made
quickly and comfortably by the mod
ern traveller.
The elm tree that shelters the Shell
den homestead at Deerfield, Mass, is
one of the oldest in the State, and its
history can be traced back authentic
ally for 200 years. 1t is twenty-one
feet in circumference at the base, and
nearly 100 feet high.
A careless female resorter, who was
aroused in her room at the Arlington
Hotel in Petoskey, Mich, the other
night by an alarm of fire, took time to
dress and pack her trunk before she
ran down stairs, but forgot to wake
her husband.
The English people, according to a
late classification of the London Globe,
prefer pictures about death, after
which comes their choice of pictures
about the passions of love (unrequited
for preference,) and. failing that,
cats.
NJ. COurtOn, chemist, produced
recently at the sitting of the French
Academy of Sciences a sealed en-
velope containing description of an
apparatus by means of which objects
may be seen at vast distances, the
vibrations of light being transmitted
through wire.
One of the fastest runs ever made on
the New York Central railroad was
that of last Saturday, by engine No.
23S, in charge of Engineer Edward
Stern berger, of Bath. She started !
from Albany thirty-two minutes late,
and reached Syracuse, 14S miles, in
three hours and three minutes.
L. F. Starks, farmer, residing in
Harper county, kas., recently made
oath to the statement that che is run
ing the past six weeks he has thresh-
ed 900 bushels of wheat and that
the lowest yield was twenty-four and
the largest thirty-eight bushels per
acre."
The purifying department of the
Erie Gas works is an efficient whoop-
ing cough hospital. The fumes of
the spent lime give immediate relief
The superintendent says: Erie doc
tors now send whooping cough pa
tients down here every day. Last
Saturday we had nineteen callers. |
They all returned home WE'LL
Visitors at the Pixies Peak observa-
tory have for years been RECALLED with
the statement that this is the high
est point on the globe which is inhab-
tied the year round" 1t now appears
that regular meteorological Observa-
tons are made on the Andes, in Peru,
at a height OF 14,3O0 feet, which is
about 200 feet higher than the Pixies
Peak station. In Europe there are
but two stations of any considerable
height, these being about 10000 and
II 900 feet, respectively.
Last Friday, the day OH which the
New York executions took place, the
policy dealers in that city were hit
heavily and frequently, aud they say
that their misfortune is due to the
hanging. 1t appears that the super
stitious policy players, and they are
in the majority, on that day played
the "dead gig" the numbers of which
are O 10 and 30 which was suggested