San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-06-10
NEWS NUGGETS.

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published in Chicago.
The attempt to introduce European
dress into Japan has been unsuccess-
full.
The Henry George club of New
York owns 1900 acres in Sullivan
county, that State.
Florida has Sl2,NOO,O0O invested in
the orange business, and the sales
this year were a fourth of that big
sum.
Leading statisticians of England
assert that more persons annually
choke to death while eating in Eng
land than are killed on the English
railroads.
Tin and glass have found rival in
paper as a material for making kerO-
sene oil cans. The latter, it is claimed,
will not rust and leak like tin or
crack like glass.
1t is said that the lineal descendants
of the old tories OF the revolutionary
times now living in Canada have
organized union to oppose CONNER
cial union with the United States.
There is Sioux Indian at Chyenne,
Little NO-Heart, who always wears
merchant tailor clothes, and is said
to be as dudish as the Little-No-
Brains kind found in the large cities.
The sum of $500 was placed in the
hands OF the mayor of Ottawa, Cana
da, last fall for purposes of charity,
but there was so little demand for
assistance during the winter that only
S26 of it was extended
A game of poker lasting eighteen
hours was played in Glenwood Springs
Col, the other day. 1t began with
an ante of Sc 80, rising gradually till
several times there were from Sc, 900
to S20, 900 on the board at time.
The grandmother OF the emperor
of China is eighty-nine years old,
blind, deaf and a cripple, and the
other day her loving grandson pre-
scented her with 500 singing birds,
200 silk dresses and 100 musical in
struments.
Albert Sneebold, of Natrona, Pa,
who had received anonymous threate-
ming letters at different times, was
shot at while on his way home at
o'clock on Sunday morning, but his
life was saved by his watch, which
the ball completely shattered.
A horse recently sold near tsburg
by Nathaniel Rice at auction to a
man living seven miles away the
other day took it into this head that
he wanted to go back to his old home.
In order to do 50 he cut across lots,
and jumped thirteen fences on the
way.
According to the statistics of DR..
FOdd of the Georgia State Medical
society the life expectancy of various
countries is as follows: United States,
30 years; England, 80; Russia and
Chilli, 28; Soudan, %; France, 45l-2;
Europe, in medieval times, 30, and
Rome, in the time of Caesar, IS.
The following was overheard by a
small boy at a recent picnic in Mil
ledgeville, Ga: Darling, I'm going
to let go your hand for a minute, but
you won't be mad, will you darlin q?
1 wouldn't let go till you did, only
some sort of a bug is crawling down
my back, and l can't keep my mind
on you and bugs at the same time"
An Austrian nobleman, Count Helm
rich Hardegg, left 5000 to the
Vienna university the other day for
the establishment of fellowships, but
coupled it with the provisos that the
money should be left to accumulate
for a hundred years, and that when
the fellowships were awarded mem
bers of his family should have the
preference,
An Oldtown Me. woman who
moved into an Episcopal church there
several months ago and began house
keeping with her two daughters,
still "holds the fort" The mem bers
Of the church have been busy ever
since, striving to prove the prior
claim to the property, but have as
yet been unable to GUST her. The
matter has reached the chief Justice