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

The colored people are leaving Kan
sas for Oklahoma.
Potatoes are selling in some parts of
Kansas for ten cents bushel.
The Florida orange crop this season
is estimated at 1000, 900 boxes.
A tree was cut down at Orting, w.
T., that measured 80 feet long.
A Waynesburg pa thief stole .
beehive, bees and all, the other
night.
The new postage stamps are to be
one eigth smaller than the present
I ones.
1t is estimated that American tour
lists have spent $4,000, 900 in Europe
this year.
Marriage is mentioned by the Min
neapolis Tribune as Temporary en-
barrasssment."
About q, 900 prizes were distributed
among the $4,000 exhibitors at the
Paris exposition.
Lyman Davis, the oldest man in
New York, died recently in Salisbury
| in that state. He was a farmer, aged
| ia.
A sixteen-year-old girl has been ar
rested in New York for stealing her
fathers trousers while he slept and
pawning them.
A curious wedding was celebrated
the other day at Ottawa, Kan. The
bridegroom is four feet high and the
bride six feet.
A man from the country went to
BraxtOn, w. Va. the other day, had
his measure taken for coffin and
took the coffin home with him.
A Harrisburg Telegraph man found
| $50, 600 in negotiable securities on the
floor of bank and returned them be-
fore they were missed.
A Camden contemporary has an
article on "Slipshod Milk Inspec-
ton" No article of food requires so
thorough an inspection as slipshod
milk.
An express package shipped from
| Norristown to Philadelphia was 80
covered with religious inscriptions
| that the express agent could scarcely
find the address.
A farmer living near ElinwOod,
Kan, has a field of sugar beets that
will yield $500 bushels to the acre.
| Some Of them weigh as much as tweL =
ty pounds.
A mysterious visiinnl ABOUT the
size OF "a yearling calf, with eyes as
large rs teacups and shining like Goals
OF fire." has appeared o nights at
Belleville, Mich.
There are four men at Old Town,
a suburb of Fernandina, Fla, who
make their living out Of sharks.
They cure the hide, fry out the oil
and use the pulp for fertilizer.
A Philadelphia woman is boss
plumber, and she appears to have
mastered the tricks OF the trade. The
city Ia now resisting the payment of
one of her bills for excessive charges.
J.E. Brown. of Delta, Ont, receiv-
ed q package by express, which was
found TO contain u gold watch and
chain, a gold ring and $50 in money,
stolen from him five years ago.
Bees that for seven years made a
homo of an unused chimney, near
Knightrill, Me-, were recently rout-
cd, the building being torn down, and
more than n washtub full OF honey
was found.
AtPlatt City Mo-, n tragedy W as
prevented the other day by a look
| iug-glass. A woman was in the act
of shooting her husband in the back,
and he was saved by seeing the re-
Election In tho mirror.
Pittsburg Kan mines sell coal at
forty cents IA ton. The Smelter says
III IL tho only city on tho American
continent In which coal can be pur-
chased In my amount the buyers
Wish aC forty cents ton.
A colOred woman on tho shady side
Of 0nv. Wishing b. Join - Boston
svsuIiig school was asked her
nge 6y tho principal, when she
rspIIedS "Why, sir. I left my age
| a1Io,,,. dId not bring 10 with me-