San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-06-05
PASSING PARAGRAPHS.

East Norwich, L. l., has little red
haired darby.
A Kansas bride received a barrel
of salt as one of her wedding presents.
A slop gatherer at Salina, Kan,
recently drew $1,000 in the Louisiana
lottery.
Pickles is the name Of the inspector
stationed at Oklahoma by the Interior
department.
Coal in Philadelphia was reduced
on June l to 81 so, the lowest price
reached since 1860.
The Henry irrigating ditch is the
largest in Colorado, being "A miles
long, feet deep and 20 feet wide.
Clockmaker Charles Fasoldt, just
dead at Albany, ruled microscopic
lenses 100000 lines to the inch.
A magnificent specimen of the
white swan, shot not long since i'll
Alaska, had wings 8 feet s inches
long when extended.
Albert Bartlett, of Americas, Ga,
recently killed Henry Hiklen with a
4-pound rock. The men quarreled
over a 5-cent nickel.
Punch has perpetrated something
old enough to have feathers on it.
1t says Great Britain is like hen
because her sun never sets,
A tree indigenous to some portions
of Alabama sends out peculiarly
fetid odor. CuriOusly enough, it is
known as the Paradise Tree"
A concert tour that will extend to
the Pacific coast is to be made the
coming summer by the Princeton Col
lege Glee and Banjo clubs.
A miscellaneous boy at Ashly, Pa,
wrote on the bulletin board of a mine
office: "No work tomorrow The
mine was idle in consequence.
A little boy named James Tilton,
in Mount Carmel, ILL.,, died recently
from a wound inflicted by a slate
pencil by one of his school mates.
"Iam suffering from dropsy," writes
an indianapolis lady, land what do
you think my wicked brother says?
He says [ ought to eat heaps of blot
ting paper"
A fine herbarium, of about 10000
specimens, collected by Rev. Joseph
Blake, of Andover, Mass, has been
presented to the Maine State college
by J. G. Clarke, of Bangor.
A dispatch reports that the largest
salmon trout ever caught in the wat
ers of the Adirondacks was taken a
day or two ago in Lake Meacham,
Franklin county, y. Y. 1t weighed
25pOunds.
1t is claimed that the largest pine
I
recently near Hobart. It measured
at the butt feet in diameter and
scaled 1881 feet of mercantile Ium-
Der.
Fort Keogh, Montana, has the
widest range of temperature of any
place on earth. Last summer the
thermometer ranged from 12O to $50
degrees above, while recently 1T mark
ed 60 degrees below ZerO-a total range
of 1876 degrees.
The greater part of the alleged new
potatoes that the people of New York
are buying and eating nowadays are
not new at all, and have not been
since a year ago. Some fellow has
discovered way of making old pota-
toes look new by soaking them in
preparation that makes the rough
outer skin peel off, and leaves only
the smooth inner skin, like that of a
new potato.
John Mayo, of DOoIy county, Ga,
is a splendid shot. He is an invalid,
and sits in the door of his house and
shoots lizards from his fences with
rifle. He shoots crows on the wings
with pistol. When he has hogs
killed negro man jumps astride of
a hog, catches hold of both ears of
the animal and turns it's head toward
Mr.. Mayo, who will shoot it in the
head with his rifle.
A curious suit is being tried in New
Bedford, and all the boys who ride
bicycles are watching itclosely. A
bicycle rider, James G. Bradford,
took a header while bowling along a
road, and this so upset the equilibrium
of Mr.. J. a. Beauvis pair of spirited
horses that they ran away and smash
ed up Mr.. Beauvis turnout. Mr. Beau
Wis thinks the BICYCLE rider ought to
pay the damages, hence the suit.