San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-27
THE PASSING SHOW.

France has had Gwenty-four Cabi-
nets since 1870.
The national convention of musicians
opens in st. Louis March l3.
A horseshoe factory is building in
Chicago which will turn out million
shoes a day.
The Saturday half-holiday bill that
has been before the Legislature of
Pennsylvania was defea ted i'll the
State Senate.
The Michigan Republican State
convention meets in Detroit tomorrow
to nominate a justice of the Supreme
court and two regents of the univer-
sity.
An Arkansas man who bears the
name of Jerusalem John Johnson
wants it changed to John the Baptist
Smith in order that he may inherit
| ten acres of land.
A case in replevin for poor sheep
was ground out in two days by the
| Circuit court at Mt. Pleasant, Mich,
last week, the cost to the litigants
| being about 5000.
Rev. Father Labelle has recon-
mended Col. Rhodes, the new minister
of agriculture of Quebec province, to
grant to the twelfth child of any
family lot of land of 800 acres.
| The Richmond Locomotive and
Machine works are rapidly develop
ing their already extensive works
with view to placing themselves in
a position to build at least 100 loco
motives year.
Nearly all the idols now worshipped
in India are of English manufacture.
John Bulls principle seems to be,
"Let me but make the idols of a
country and care not who makes its
religion.
The Bessemer branch of the Bethle-
hem Pa, Iron Company has
closed it's rail and steel bloom
mills, and is about beginning
on making eight-inch and ten-inch
guns for the government.
On one of the Vandalia freights
wrecked Saturday was a carload of
mules. Adjoining it was a car of hogs
and car of cattle. The collision
killed and wounded many of these,
but not a mule was harmed.
The new natural gas factories about
to be erected in Muncie Ind, will
give employment to nearly 5000 men.
That number of employees are now at
work in the seventeen factories in
operation at MuncIe.
A citizen of Brooklyn heard his
poultry making a fuss the other night
and went out to ascertain the cause.
A chicken thief hit him with a hen
which he had "lifted," and the blow
was so violent that the man may die.
A gentleman in jumping off a
| Philadelphia street car the other day
fell aud rolled into the gutter. While
| brushing the dirt from his clothes a
little girl ran up to him and said:
"Mister, please do it again. Mamma
didn't see you that time"
| A wretched One-cent valentin sent
to Mrs. Anna Marley, of Battle Creek,
led her to accuse Mrs. Margaret
Abbott, of sending it. and fight en-
| sued, followed by an arrest and trial
on charge of assault and battery,
and Mrs. Abbott was fined SO and
| costs.
1t is estimated that the expenses of
| the election in Boston next November
will be nearly 100000 instead of 49,
900 or $4,000, which has been about
| the highest cost in any past years.
The increase is mainly due to the new
law:which goes into OBJECT NOvem-
| Der /.
The finest botanical gardens in the
world are said to be those of Peredinja,
near Kanda, Ceylon. They comprise
$50 acres. Among the curosities are
Bamboos 100 feet high, which in the
month of July grow between one and
two feet day. India rubber trees
with immense roots three and four
feet above ground; when cut with a
knife milky substance comes forth.
Ginger, cloves and jack fruit are
passed in sucession: mOsu orchids,
such as would command fabulous
prices in Europe are seen in profusion,
with flowers of every shade and color.