San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-13
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The pleasant flavor, gentle action
and soothing effects of Syrup of Figs,
when in need Of q laxative and If the
father or mother be costive or bilious
the most gratifying results follow its
use, so that it is the best family rem
edy known and every family should
have bottle. (S)-4-l9-tt
Miss Martha Kah. of Cheyenne
county, Neb., is the only white per-
son left at missionary station es-
tablished at Manila in the French
Congo by Bishop William Taylor
The last of the party, Mr.. Sortore, OF
Missouri, died in April of African
fever. Miss Kah is too busy to feel
downhearted. She directs the negro
labOrers on heplantatiOn and teachs
school five days in the week.
a veritable battle is going on over
John Gardner and his family IN New
York. Gardner is an able and ener-
getic carpenter, with q wife and six
children, whom the Emigration Com
missioners have kept virtually
prisoner on Wards Island for three
months, because of some notion that
he was likely to become pauper.
The collector of the port insists that
he shall be liberated and the COM
missioners refuse to give him up.
The trade returns of the Dominion
of Canada for 1889, just issued, do
not make a very encouraging exhibit.
The exports fell off 81, 900, 000:the i'm
rtr hatA
5000, 000;the adverse balance of trade
rose from S20,69l, $3.50 in the pre-
ceding year to S26055, 764: and al
though the customs revenue
collected was the highest in the Coun-
try's history, the public debt was in
creased by over 100000.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, has not
put in an appearance at Washington
this session. His health is poor, and
he will not be able to do much work
this session. 1t is said that he would
have resigned at the beginning of the
session and given Gov. Gordon his
seat had not Gordon superseded the
senator with Henry Grady as trustee
of the Georgia State University last
VERY good" remarked
Senator Joe "GordOn can wait until
1917
Emin Pasha's fall from the balcony
is explained by the Liverpool Mer-
curry: ut was the banquet in the
desert that did it. For many years
Emin had been deep in Africa, far
from champagne. He had embraced
and had followed
the abstaining commands of the
prophet. No sooner is he brought
back to civilization than the cup is
set before him again, with such con-
sequences that he who was rescued |
from death III the wilds is nearly a !
prey to death on the confines of Christ
endom."
The last pearl fishing season in Cev
on could not have been more success
'ul than it was. Tho season only lasts
,hirty-twO days. and during that
period II $1,000 oysters were brought
20 the surface by fifty divers They
ire paid by One-fOurth of the number.
This season the whole produce was
old at the rate of 24s for 100 shells,
The government received 600, 600 as
heir share and the divers GG4O0. The
argest pearls are worth in Ceylon
rom $40 to $50, and in Europe they
etch three times the price or more.
A very useful invention, tending TO
essen the possibility of accidents in
actories, is now being extensively
dopted in England. The break
1g of glass, which is adjusted
gainst the wall of every room in the
ill, will at once stop the engine, an
lectric current being established be-
ween the room and the throttle valve
the engine, shutting off the steam
! an instant. BY this means the en-
inc was stopped at one of the mills
gently in few seconds, and a
Dung girl, whose clothes had become
ntangled in an upright shaft, was
pleased ,uninjured.
John Hooper, who died in New
ork recently, left a fortune esti-
lated at nearly $1,000, 900. He
'orked on the New York Tribune
hen it started at IS a week. Then
g solicited advertisements on a COM
Iission, and in few years built up
profitable general advertising
gency, which he finally sold out to
lie well known firm of George p.
DWELL d Co. He made the greater
art of mis- fortune as the proprietor of
New York lead company. In his
1uth he studied two years at West
ONT and afterward became a civil
lgineer on the Erie railway, which
as then being built. He was seven
1.-TWO years old. BY the terms of his T
i'll he disinherited one of his daugh-