San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-05-16
NUMBER 20.
CURIOUS THINGS or ufe.

Owing TO cut rates q man recently rodo
from Dayton, Wy. T., to St Louis, 1900
miles, for 81.
It Is alleged that II takes 5000 distributed
us tips In tho police department to get per-
init to open a new club in Paris.
Two negroes have been seized with leprosy
In Elberton, Ga. Ono has turned white,
while the other has broken out In spots
A Rochester man has opened boarding
stable for bicycles" Ho takes charge OF tho
machines whilo their owners arc at business
The Dacca Shakti--an Indian paper-avers
that there Is living at Barudn, near Dacca,
Yogi who Is moro than l50 years old. He
Is strong aud abo bodied. He talks with all.
| A citizen Of Hagerstown, Md, claims that
the inside Of box in his possession was made
Of part Of tho Penn treaty tree, and tho
outside Of part of the original coffin OF
Washington.
A steam yncht, built IN England, lately
made remarkable voyage by sailing across
the channel, up the river Seine, and thence
by canals and rivers to Mnrseilles, on the
Mediterranean sea-
Among some old papers in London recent
| ly a genuine likeness of John Bunyan rs he
appeared In his prison cell at Bedford has
just been discovered, for which tho owner
demands 1000 guineas.
The English courts hold that when a man
writes asking another to 'favor him with
checkn for bill the intent Is that tho check
Is to be sent by post, and the creditor is lin
BILE II the check is lost In the mails.
Some of the ''cures" at n European resort
arc mineral water euro, grape cure, whey
cure, cold water cure, massage cure, pino
needle baths, Russian, Roman, Irish, mud,
steam and electric baths AL ills aro met by
"cures."
| Perhaps no newspaper writer was ever
more disturbed by a trifle than was the So
ciety reporter who, In describing the belle OF
recent fashionable party, intended to say,
"She looked au fait, but found that an uri-
feeling blacksmith had made 1t, "Sho looked
oil feet"
A New York burglar got into genuine
| pickle tho other day. Officers discovered that
some one was fcloniously at work In butch
or shop, but after they had entered could not
| find the man until they looked In pork bar
rel, when they discovered him mp to his neck
In brine
A lot of relics of tho ancient cliff dwellors
| havo been discovered In New Mexico They
| consist Of human remains, mummies and
largo collection of ancient pottery. Somc
turkey bones were found, indicating that the
turkey had been domesticated by these an
cient people.
Two Scotch tramps, man and wife, make
good living or Of the baby. 1--WE just gets
| i'm christened," explains tho man, "in all tho
| towns we passes, and then, you soc, parsou
makes lis all comfortable Wi summit to cat
and money for beds. On days orful bad wo
has to do I'm twice"
A Portland, Ore, man refused n Chinaman
ten cents, due for washing. Tho Mongolian
closed tho door and gave his delinquent GUS
toner severe drubbing, a Ia Kilinin. When
the police arrived all the satisfaction they
| gave the white man was TO advise him topay
his wash bills hereafter. He will probably
do SO.
A lttlo boy who lives at Sparta, Co., met
with singular accident. In running after d
robin he stepped on some object which gave
his foot a sudden twist. This caused tho
bono In his leg to split, from the consequence
Of which he has suffered very much. 1t was
some time before the cause Of his troubles
was found out
A citizen Of Talbotton, Ga, lost $500, and
thought that ho had dropped 1t In tho barber
shop of Alfred Douglass The barber could
not find II there, and, fearing that no would
bo arrested and imprisoned on suspicion He'd
to Alabama. Meanwhile an old negro found
tho money aud returned II to tho owner, and
then the scared barber came home.
a firm Of great genius has offered the Bril-
tish government an immense sum for the use
Of the national postage stamp for advertis-
ing purposes Tho advertisement Is to be
printed on the back OF the stamp before tho
gum Is put on, so that tho purchaser OF every
stamp must SEQ tho announcement before he
moistens tho gum This is an Australian
idea
A New York joweler has sent some wonder
ful brooches TO tho Paris exposition. They are
gold enamoled Orchids of fifteen varieties,
each as perfect In it's way as the product OF
nature. The stems arc made green with en-
eralds Tho coloring Of the leayes Is mar
velous beyond description, tcstifying TO tho
extraordinary skill Of tho designer as well MS
the artistic sense and exquisite taste Of the
enameler.
In the largest jewelry shop In New York,
where 5000 worth Of gold Is uscd day, the
gold is not weighed ont TO the worlcinen, and
nothing but the honesty Of tho employees pre-
vents loeA But while the gold is allowed to
be thus exposed, tobacco has TO be locked up,
because IL has been found that the man who
would not steal grain Of his employers gold
would moi hesitato TO appropriate his neigh
bors tobacco.