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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28
A Village Of Chess PLAYERS.

A correspondent of The Kolnische Zeitung
has discovered in the neighborhood of Hal
berstadt q village named Strobeck, of which
all the inhabitants are chess players. Chess
is regularly taught in, the schools, and every
year there is a public examination in the
game a Distribution Of prizes in the shape q.
chess boards, and kind of chess tournaheIt
and festival, at which the six best players il
the locality are publicly feted and carrie,
home in triumph. Instead of pothoeks i..Id
hangers, young children are initiated at 81, i.
mothers knees in the mysteries Of Giuu,'
Piano and Muzio Gambit, while the ambition
of the adult peasants life is TO be able to pLa!
a larger number of blindfold games than hi,
neighbor. The hottest shrine for miles arOune
is a tumble down tower, which, ACCORDING t.
local tradition, was the home of an unfrock2C.
priest who, some four or five centuries e.
first introduced the honest yeomen of ST.
beck to the Game Of Kings" The gree
elector once passed through the village anu
played with one of the farmers He pre-
sented the Stobeckers with an elaborate.y
painted chess board and set of silver pawns.
which ave to this day preserved under glass
i'll the courthouse. 1t is also said that Fred
erick the Great played chess at Strobeck, but
this legend is not authenticated. James
Gazette
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28
A Clean Home Run,

The boys of San Antonio are inform
ed that my base ball outfits have fl
nally arrived. Every boy who has
bought a suit and has not received
his ball, bat and cap, should call on
me at once. He will find me on deck,
ready to receive him at the home
plate, and if he does not secure one it
will be his own fault. L have enough
on hand now to supply the town so
you can call "gamen as soon as you
like. One base-ball outfit free for
every suit of boys clothes sold.
L. WOLFSON.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28
Sensation of Color.

Professor S. P. Langley, it is said, has re-
Gently succeeded in measuring the amount of
energy which is used in impressing upon the
retina the sensation of certain kinds of hight
His results give a good idea of the minute
measurements which physicists can make
The standard or unit of measurement in these
minute matters is the amount of work done
in raising a gramme, which is about fifteen
and One-half grains, to- height of one cent?
meter, or less than two-fifths of an inch. In
significant as this seems to be, Professor Lang.
ley estimates that the same expenditure of
energy would suffice to give us the sensation
of crimson 1000 times and the sensation Of
green light lOO,O0O,OO0 times.
1t is curious to note that the sensation of
red is 100000 times as difficult to produce as
that of its complementary color, green.
Here is at once a most beautiful explanation
of the reason why green gives the eye repese
and red dsturbs it. Red strikes the sensitive
nerve with all this additional force. Anna
teur photographers well know how fatiguing
it is to work many hours in deep red light,
and they may see from these measurements
that it is really the most wearying to the OPP
tic nerve. Moreover, when we reflect that
the commonest form of color blindness is an
inability to see red, we are impelled to ask
whether this may not also have some con-
nection with the comparatively large amount
of energy needed to impress that sensation on
an ordinary eye. The sensation of red is the
most difficult for nature to produce, and
many eyes are not sufficiently sensitive for it
ever to be produced at ADHESION Herald.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28
OF MAINE, FORMERLY Mr.. BLAINE's
PRIVATE SECRETARY, MADE
CONSUL TO LIVERPOOL.

S.When:Mr. Blaine was United States
Senator, Thomas A. Sherman was his
private secretary. and when Mr..
Blaine became Secretary of State
under Garfield he appointed Mr.. Sher-
man to clerkship in the department,
on July /, 1881. Secretaries Freling-
huysen and Bayard retained him in
the service, as he is a man of superior
capacity. He has latterly been at the
head of division Of the Consular
Bureau. Mr.. Sherman's salary has
been eighteen hundred dollars year.
That of the Consul to Liverpool is six
thousand dollars with fees, making in
all probably about twenty thousand
dollars a year. The appointment of
Mr.. Sherman is from the District Of
Columbia; that to the Office he now
vacates was from Maine, where he
was born. He is confidential friend
of Mr.. Blaine, and accompanied him
on leave of absence without pay dur
ing the campaign Of 1854.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28
CITATION BY PUBLICATION,
In the District Court of Bexar Coun-
ty, No. ALAS.
JOHN RUSSELL VS.. JANE RUSSELL.

JOHN RUSSELL vs.. JANE RUSSELL.
The State of Texas to the Sheriff or any Con-
stable of Bexar County, greeting:
You are hereby commanded that by making
publication of this citation in some newspaper
published in the c. unity of BeXar once in
each week for four successive weeks preVi-
Gus to the return day hereof you summon
Jane Russell, whose residence is unknown, to
be and appear at the next regular term of the
District Court of BeXar County, to be holden
Antonio on the LIST Monday in June next, the
same being the Sd day of June, A. ID. 1889, then
and there to answer petition filed in said
Court on the 18th day Of April, A. ID. 1889, in
suit numbered Alas on the docket OF said
Court wherein John Russell is plaintiff and
said Jane Russell is defendant. Plaintiff in
his petition alleges that he and defendant
were married in the month of August, 1884,
aud lived together until June, 1880, when
defendant abandoned him with intention of
abandonment. That there is no issue of said
marriage and no community property.
Wherefore plaintiff prays for judgment dis
solving the marriage between him and defend
ant and for such other and further relief as to
the Court may seem proper to grant.
Herein fail not, but have you before said
Court on the said first day of the next term
thereof this writ with your return thereon,
showing how you have executed the same.
Witness Geo x. DaShiell, Clerk of the Dis
trict Court of BeXar County.
Given under my hand and seal of
Isl said Court at office in San Antonio
this 4th day of May. A. ID. 1889.
GEO. X. DASHIELL,
tCerk District Court BeXar County.
ByFM. YTURRI. JR., Deputy.
Issued May 4, 1889.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28
Exciting incidents in a Chair Car.

One OF the chair car passengers of Wa
bash train suddenly jumped from the seat
when the train was about forty miles out,
and, after yelling at the top of his voice that
the car was full Of train robbers, dove head
first through window Of the car A fellow
passenger grabbed him by the legs and held
on until the conductor came to his assistance.
The man was all out of the car except his
feet, and it was with considerable difficulty
that he was drawn in again. To the con-
ductor lie said that he was preacher living
at MOberly. He had fallen asleep about forty
miles this side of St. Louis, and dreamed
that train robbers had taken possession of the
train. His wounds were not serious, and he
was able to leave the train at Moberly with
out assistance. In the same car was farmer
and his grown son, bound for Kansas After
leaving the little station east of Moberly the
train began to run forty miles an hour The
boy got up in his sleep, walked out to the
rear platform and stepped of the train. He
was not even scratched-Kansas City Cor
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28

Scott & Bovine, manufacturers of the
well-known ScOtt's Emulsion of Cod
Liver Oil, offer most beautiful Easter
gift-composed of eightartistic studies
of Birds and Flowers, put up in port
fOlio-wOrth at least S2. 90, for % cents.
On receipt OF above in stamps, it will
be mailed at once.
SCOTT & BOVINE,
4-6-2m 132 South Fifth Ave-, NY,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28
PEOPLE EVERYWHERE

Confirm our statement when we say that Ack.
ers English Remedy is in every way superior
to any and all other preparations for the
Throat and Lungs. In WhOoping Cough and
Group it is magic and relieves at once. We Of
fer you a sample bottle free. Remember this
Remedy is sold by
al RAGLASD & Co
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28
225-H
Notice to the Public.

This is to notify the public that we
have entire control Of the city sani-
tary works and John Cavanaugh has
no connection with the same. All
work properly attended. Office 606
West Commerce street. Telephone IL
5-10-lm SIMMANG BROS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28
WE CAN AND DO

Guarantee Acker's Blood Elixir for it has
been fully demonstrated to the people of this
country that it is superior to all other prepar
atoms for blood diseases. 1t is a positive cure
for syphilltic poisoning, ulcers, eruptions and
pimpl s. 1t purfcs the whole system and
thoroughly builds up the constitution. Sold
nv Rapland N Co, C2)
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28

Came to band May 4, A. D. 1889, at II o'clock
a. M, and publication of the within citation
ordered same day in the SAN ANTONIO DAILY
LIGHT, for four consecutive weeks previous to
the return day hereof.
THOS. p. MCCALL,
Sheriff BeXar County.
BY W. D. DRUsE. Deputy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28
Opera House Confectionery.

Harnisch and Baer have opened
their Opera House Confectionery. 1t is
the handsomest and most complete in
the south. They cordially invite their
friends and patrons to call. 4-23-tf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28
Notice,

The annual meeting of the Lone
Star Brewing company for the cleo
ton of board of directors, will be held
at the office of the company, Oh We'd
nesday, June5, 1889. 5-23-tf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28

Uudertakers should be happy as the
berry season approaches.-Washing-
ton Critic.
Justice-What's the charge? Com
CLAIMANT amt dead, sure; but from
tn feelin' I reckon he must r used
buckshot, y'r honOr.-Puck.
The man who thinks the world is
growing better never heard the OBJ
servatiOns of two teamSters who came
into collision in q crowded thorough
fare.-Boston Courier.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28
80 900 WIN RnM

A fine block f12 lots on Prospect Hill,
near street car, and has water works
pipes laid to same. 2-25-tf
II. B. JOHNSON,
2-25-tf At the LIGHT office.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28
At a Bargain.

Two fine building lots near West
End on Alazan creek. Size 10 X 10
feet. Price S400 for the two.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-28
FISHING FOR FUN.

IAN old cross pa'ch," the neigbhOrs said;
Hes gIummcrthan drOmedary.
He'll feel at home. when he il dead.
In that old cross patch where they bury"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15
He Cometh Not, She Said.

She is waiting in the darkness, she
is waiting by the door, and she hears
the sad sea moaning as it beats the
sandy shore; and she hears the night.
bird crying, and the wailing OF the
trees, and upon her fevered forehead
gently blows the Southern breeze; but
in vain she stands and listens for the
coming of the one who to her is prince
and hero, who is brighter than the sun.
Close the door, o, weeping lady, close
the door and weep alone, to the sigh
ing of the branches to the oceans sui
len moan; to the screaming of the night
bird, to the sobbing of the rain, as
it falls like tears from Heaven
pushing on the window pane. Let
your eyes this night be rivers and your
hair a morning veil, let your soul float
out to Heaven in wild, despairing
wall; for the footsteps of your hero do
not echo on the shore, and tonight
you'll never see him though you re
waiting by the door; and you will not
hear the music of the voice you love so
well, you will only hear the moaning
of the oceans restless swell. Close the
door, o weeping lady. look no more
for him you love, better look for hope
and comfort to the somber sky above;.
to your side your love and hero all
your watching can not win, for he tried
to paint the city and the peelers ran
him in.-Nebraska State journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15
Inventions of Our Age.

Those of us not yet fifty years of age
have probably lived in the most import
ant and progressive period of human
history. Within this half century the
following inventions aAd discoveries
have been among the number: Ocean
steamships, street railways, elevated
railways, telegraph lines, ocean cables,
telephones, photograph, photography,
and score of new methods of PICTURE
making, aniline colors, kerosene oil,
electric lights, steam fire engines.
chemical fire extinguishers, anesthet-
les and painless surgery, gun cotton,
nitro-glycerine, dynamite, giant pow
der. aluminium, magnesium and other
new metals, electro-plating, spectrum
analysis and spectroscope, audiphone.
pneumatic tubes, electric moter, cleo
trio railway, electric bells, typewriter,
cheap postal system, steam heating,
steam and hydraulic elevators, vesti-
bule cars, cantalever bridges. These are
only part. All positive knowledge
of the physical constitution of planeta-
ry and stellar worlds has been attained
within this period.--Homiletic Review,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15

II you inhale EN- you may be took wild
almost any complaint from ear-ache to
gwine crazy. A dead cat left along
side de front gate, or a load of ole
potatoes and bones left around de back
doah, will throw off bactaria at de rate
of 1000 pounds to de squar' inch. You
may dodge 'em and continer yer wild
career, but you may be Token down
like a flash, and not even hev time to
make will. shoulders all along the
back rows.
"My frens. you can't be to keerful
to keep well. Obey de laws of Natur'
an you may live a hundred Vars.
Transgress 'em an de grave yawns
fur you. l feel honored by de prfvi-
lege of appearin' befo' you. If hadn' t
muffin else to do should sartinly move
to Detroit an jine dis club. [Cheers.
Wild thanks fur yer clus attenshun, an
hopin' de seed has fell on specific sile,
l now bid you goodbye"
When the honorable orator had re-
tired Giveadam Jones offered resolu-
ton to the effect that the Lime-Kiln
Club accept and adopt his theories on
the health question. A vote was taken,
and the resolution was carried by a
majority of one, and the motion to
make it unalimous was lost in the
swamp beyond rescue.
The meeting then adjourned. De
troit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15
On the Promenade Deck,

Mrs. LIE Grand Tower-What would
you do, Tom, if l should fall overheard?
Mr.. LIE Grand Tower-I should first
note the time, then inform the captain,
and he would order the vessel stopped.
They would then lower boat and we
would row back to where you sank,
which we could easily do. knowing the
time that had passed and the speed and
direction of our course. If you were
still floating, it would be all right. il
not, we would watch for bubbles.
and
Mrs. Tower-O. you horrid thing.
I'm not going to do it, anyhow. (But
she told her mother afterward that
Tom was man of splendid judgment,
and would make his fortune without q
doubt. PUCK.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15

The writer cheerfully admits th,ss
Buck engine is more perfect in h
tails than the Iowa wonder, bw NJ
fact that its base plate is a gold 81, II
forever kills its claim to beirs 4
smallest, as the Iowa engine, az XII ~
toned above, uses a twenty-fy.ozr
gold piece for the purpose. h1.L,s
engine has 14S distinct pieces d IN
chinery, held together by five ses,.s
Three drops of water fills the boIer I
Overlooking. The diameter of h "A
inder is one-twenty-eighth of an jn.h
The length of stroke three-thirh.A.c
onds of an inch. Its entire weight io,,r
and half grains.
In the year 1882 a mechanic i, tba
name of Goldie, living at Jamesa,vn
N. Y, constructed a miniature lon,,o.
tive, perfect in all its parts, shidh
weighed but one pound and hall ! A
circular track ten feet in diameter was
also built by the inventor, whosstime
must have hung heavily on his hands.
and hour after hour he amused himself
in watching this pocket edition d the
most useful piece of mechanism spin
round and round in its endless lieht.
Golden claims to have worked upon
his model during all his spare tine for
over eight years. As it stood finished
ready for the track, it was comprised
OF 266 pieces. held together By City
screws. One ounce of water fillA the
boiler, and the pumps threw onsdrop
each Observation-Disclosures item.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15
MY NEIGHBOURS CHICKENS.

OF all the nuisances that make
A rural life accursed,
My neighbors chickens take the cake
For being just the worst.
Irise betimes to plant bed;
AS soon as I'm away
Those hens, by the big rooster led.
March in and spend the day.
And when hasten home at night
To sec my labors crowned,
Those chickens, with q cyclones might,
Have scratched my pretty ground.
My wife the baby leaves alone
To shoe tho SC hens away,
But as she can not throw a stone,
They laugh az her and stay.
Around my house is little seen
But dusty holes and dirt;
They eat the grass before it's green
And all my flowers hurt.
My Ieighbor has garden, too,
And keeps it looking fine,
For he has trained his pirate crew
To Fly right into mine.
In case I shoot the feathered plaques
i go to jail. alack;
II in my yard they drop some eggs
Ny neighbor wants them back.
Beneath my window ere the dawn
His rooster comes TO crow,
Till I. half crazy, seek the lawn
And chase it with hoe.
live in strife and misery,
Because my neighbor tries
To handle chickens that should DO
Upon u farm OF size.
H. C. Dodge, in N. Y. World
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15
PUNGENT PARAGRAPH.

Patti says plenty of sleep is the
secret of preserving ones beauty. The
hired girl believes this.-Boston Cour-
Ter.
The good men do live after them,
but the good some men do doesn't take
UP much room.-Somerville journal.
Long engagements are good
thing if they do not terminate in mar
riage, and thus shatter ideas that have
been taking root for years. go
Some old dinner customs still pre-
vail. The Romans used to recline at
their banquets, and the habit of lying
at public dinners is common still
London Tid-Bits
-Thinskyn-"What rare endow-
ment is originality! l wish 1 could
do something out of the ordinary
Friend-"You might pay your board
ill."-Time.
mo, | don't want the thing" said
man when importuned to buy pigs
in clover" puzzle. 1T is not novelty
to me. I've been a passenger-car
conductor for twenty-five years. Nor
ristown Herald.
-Deacon-"Were you at church yes
terday, Mr.. Topper" Toper-'I was
not" Deacon-"Sorry We had splen-
did sermon on the constitutional amend
ment. You missed it." Topper (sadly)
IL guess not. got it all from my
wife last night before l went to sleep"
Lowell Citizen -
1t is the subject for an Ola joke
that the father walks the floor nights
with the cross baby, but almost any
woman will tell you that there is no
truth in it. 1t is safe to assert that not
enc man in ten ever did such thing
in his life, and that not two men in ten
ever wake up when tho baby cries.
Atchison Globe.
20, DEAR" said Mrs. Shuttle, with
deep sigh, II felt as old as the century,
but I've got all the carpets up. any
how" You ought to feel DID," said
Job. 'Any woman who will get all
the carpets in the house up at one time
ought to feel as old as you look" This,
however, did not appear to make the
evening any more peaceable.
-Wibble -''It is never-ending
source of wonder to me the way the
city of Chicago has sprung up. 1t is
one of the marvels of the century,
Wabble - Nothing very wonderful
about it to my mind. They simply got
up reputation as the wickedest town
in the United States, and of course
every body went there. "-Terre Haute
Express.
AS class, so-called literary peo-
pie are egregious bores-at least we
have always found them so. We would
walk mile out of our way any time
for the honor and the pleasure of avoid
ing the conventional literary man; to
avoid meeting the conventional liter
airy woman we would cheerfnlly walk
two miles. The one we can snub; the
other we would not. Chicago News.
Where have you been keeping
yourself. Mr.. Delay" asked Mrs.
Belle Pepperton of that young gentle
man. "You haven't been going into
society?" mot pwecisely; that is, you
know, have been devoting my own
time to myself. Indulging in my own
society as it were. Pwetty clevah.
don't you think?" Eyes; but how
lonely you must have been. "-Mer-
chant Traveller.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
The Rudest Machinery.

have pursued my studies of labor in
Canton largely in company with Consul
Seymour, and I went yesterday to see the
Touring mills which here compete with our
Minneapolis millers. They consisted of a
series of mill stones, one lying above
another and two constituting a mill; the
motive power was water buffalo, the ugliest
species of COW that God ever made and the
driver was halfnaked coolie. A dozen of
these buffaloes and coolies and two dozen
stones made up the big establishment we
visited. and it is in this way that greater
part of Canton's -four is ground. The rudest
of machinery only, is permitted in China.
The people will not allow steamboats, to go
on the rivers in the interior except in those
places laid down in the treaties and the
small cargo boats which do the trade OF the
canals have paddle wheels which are turned
by gangs of men, and the other boats are
moved by oars and sails.
Anyone in travelling through China can
perceive the Ignorance of the people as to
labor-saving appliances, and the learned
Doctor Macgowan, who has lived in China
for nearly halt century and to whom am
indebted for many OF the figures and facts of
this letter, tells me that free press would
do more than anything else to bring the
country to an acceptance of the best things
in our western civilization.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER,