San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-17
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER II, 1889.
FLASHES OF FUN,

brick-red ones.-L Somerville Journal,
Once more we bivalves-that is II
we have the requisite cash. Pitts
burg Chronicle.
The accounts of a side-door saloon
are kept up by the double entry sys-
tenn Boston Gazette.
Pussy Old Gentleman There's a
fly on your nose, mum. Irascible Old
Lady Well he amt yours, is he?-
Puck.
When you are parting with an ac-
quaintance and he says, "Oh! by the
way" get out your pocketbook.-
Boston Courier.
The way Milwaukee justice does
it: Have him?n eyes "Have herr"
eyes" Married; s." Rochester
Budget.
mo" sobbed the widow, ~ shall
never find Johns equal, but PIPER
haps c-can find h-h-his equivalent"
-Harper's Bazaar.
Judge Lynch is not a real judge,
is he?" asked Mrs. Fangle. NO" re-
piled her husband, "he's usually in
the suspender usiness.-Time.
How Long Girls Should Be Court
ed" is the title of an article in Tex
as paper. Very much the same as
short girls, We should say.-Texas
Siftings.
"How many times have you been
engaged this summer" asked one
seaside girl of another. Seventeen.
How many have you?" ''Twenty-
one" "Well, I didn't get here until
a week after you ."-[Washington
Capital.
Wealthy Old Gent-"What! Marry
my daughter! You are being sup
ported by your father" Suitor-"Yes,
sir, but my father is tired of support
ing me, and 1 thought I'd better get
into another family."-[New York
Weekly.
"Aren't you ashamed to be seen
fighting with that brutal Jenkins boy
on the street," asked Johnnie irate
mother. "Ashamed?" repeated John
ME in surprise. Ashamed? No, why
should I be? licked him. "-Somer-
vile Journal.
Timid Wife Ito husband going to
Europe on business Snow, dear, do
Uo CdTclul duu uOU ldll OfcIOOtEo,
won't you?" Husband-'"To be sure
1 will. Don't worry. I shall be all
right" Timid Wife-"And if you
should get wrecked out in the ocean,
I want you to telegraph me at once"
Boston Journal.
THE Sherman Register is not as
sanguine OF a democratic victory in
Virginia as are some of its Texas con-
temporaries. The Register says:
1--WE notice that many of our ex-
changes seem to think Mahone's
chances in Missouri have improved
since Riddleberger has taken the
stump against him. While even this
far away we would hate to see the
Old Dominion in the hands of the re-
publicans still the democratic con-
ventiou there showed the party to be
weak kneed."
missouri" is evidently mistake
of the proof reader, but it is no mis-
take of the editor to affirm the weak
kneed condition of the Virginia DEM
ocracy.
THE democracy are in awful hurry
to pass judgment upon Harrison's
administration and administer upon
the republican estate because Noble
did not approve of the management of
one of the Interior departments by
his secretary. Tracy was warmly in
favor of retaining Tanner and SO were
other members of the cabinet, but as
he was Mobiles department chief it
was thought best and justly so to de-
fer to his opinion and wishes in the
matter. The whole trouble with Tan
ner was that ne had too much gush
and too little gumption.
THE council did not meet and so no
action was taken upon the petition
of the committee for change of route
to the fair grounds through Quinta
street and Dryer Avenue and so on
to the Fair ground. Could that route
be opened it would be much more
satisfactory than to occupy South
Flores street where the San Antonio
City railway company have their
tracks. 1t would relieve SOuthFlores
street very much and leave that
throughfare opened to carriage travel
as it cannot be if the steam railway
line is laid upon it. The practical
bility of opening the Dwyer Avenue
route, unless it turn into South Flo
res street lower down, is the ques-
ton. How that route could be
opened save through the U. S. Arse
nal grounds does not annear and