San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
STATE NEWS.

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too small for the increased growth OF
the city.
Wayne is having fine weather; log
rollings are now in order.
Snow fell in Dawson county last
week to the depth of Il inches.
The Texas Land and Cattle COM
pany is running large numbers of
cows to market.
Mr.. Griffin, of Whites boro, cut his
foot so badly with an AK that it had
to be amputated.
Measures are being taken to or
ganize fire company at Vernon.
The absorbing question at Vernon
is to incorporate or not to incorporate.
The handsome iron bridge over the
Sulphur, at Lampasas, is finished and
open to the pnblic.
Floresville is having glorious
weather just now, and farmers are
getting ready for business.
Work on the artesian well at Corpus
Christi has been completed to a depth
of 365 feet.
A cooking main will begin tonight
In Galveston.
Seven million feet of spool wood was
lately shipped from Bangor, Me-, to
firm of Scotch thread makers.
Sheriff Williams, of Wise county,
arrived in Waco and carried off Dan
and Bob Campbell, indicted for muir
der of deputy sherltfin Wise county.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas
will sell tickets to Harrison's inaugu-
ration for one fare the round trip.
After a four days test the Texas &
Pacific has accepted the great artesian
well at the round house at Fort
Worth. The supply is abundant for
all purposes.
The city council of Reynosa COM
plain to the federal government of the
jetty works being constructed in the
Rio Grande, at Edin burg, Oh the
Texas side, which they think will
damage the Reynosa side of the
river.
Work will commence on Monday on
the federal customs house and post
office at Ell Paso.
A negro woman at Kildare left two |
children alone in the house. They |
caught fire from the fireplace and one |
was burned to death and the other |
badly burned.
Fort Worth is working energeticaI-
ly to make the Texas Spring Palace a
success and to raise the necessary |
funds.
Mrs. NJ Perry the aged mother of
eX-State Senator J S. Perry, at Rock
dale, fell in front of her gate and |
broke her deg.
Prof. J. T. McLeary, principal of the
Calvert free school died very sudden |
ly of congestion of the brain.
Miss Olivia Baldwin, NJ. D., daught-
er of DR.. J. Baldwin, president of the |
Sam. Houston Normal School, who !
left Hun tsville for Bilaspur, India,
last October, reached there in safety. |
She will act as missionary physi-
clan.
Prof Richards, of Yale, has made a |
study of the records of 2,425 students
in order to determine the relation Of |
athletics to scholarship, and finds |
that athletes fall little below the |
nOn-athletes in the averages.
Hook has left on record what he
considered his own best pun. 1t was
made on seeing defaced wall-chalk- |
err, bearing the inscription, "Warren's |
b" "What ought to follow"
Hook remarked, "is lacking"
Quaritch, the London bibliophile,
wants 1920 for a psalter of the fif-
tenth century he has in stock, and
which he calls "the grandest work
ever produced by typography, and one
of the rarest of the earl y monuments
of printing"
There is a considerable difference
between a key on the seabOard and a
C on the keyboard.-Ocean.
When there is a commotiOn in
school the wise teacher pOurs oil on
the troubled waters-whale OIL
Puck.
Bismarck has been drinking beer so
long that he found it difficult to take
water in SamOa.-WashingtOn Critic.
The great apprehension now is that
there will not be winter enough to
tell when spring comes.-Kansas City
Star.
The young man knows all about
his sweetheart's disposition, we sup
pose, when he calls upon her and
finds her Out.-BOston Courier.
A new novel has lately been pub
lished in raised letters for the use of
the blind. 1t is said to evoke a great
deal of feeling.-Terre Haute Ex-
press.
"What is a man-of-war?" said a
teacher to his class. "a cruiser" was
the prompt reply. What makes it
| pO?v "Its screw. sir.U "WhO 90 with