San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-09
BRIEF MENTION.

A piece OF the lCnOgrapnlc stone
from which the $40 bills of the Con-
tederate government were printed
was discovered in a cemetery near
Anderson, s. c., recently.
Rev. DIR. Meredith, who, next to
DIR. Talmage, breaches to the largest
audience in Brooklyn, was q sailor
boy. 1t was in that capacity that he
first arrived in San Francisco, where
he remained some time and then
went to Boston to study for the mir
istry. 3
Riuso Naruse, who is at the head
of the Imperial College of Commerce,
Japan, is now visiting the principal
American cities for the purpose of
studying the business methods of
Americans and gathering such sta
tistics as may be of value to the in
stisution he represents.
A man at Toccoa, Ca, has been to.
tally blind from infancy and has not
been educated, yet possesses unusual
intelligence and can solve difficult
mathematical problems. He can tell
day from night by the atmosphere,
and when travelling can tell when he
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the road, such as house or tree.
A business-like suicide is that Of
Christopher Stanley. OF New Jersey,
who told his landlady that he was
tired of the struggle for fame, and
gave her S75 for funeral expenses and
ate half a can of paris green without
apparently calling forth any remon-
STRANGE from her. He had ex-
perimented for years in the en-
deavor to discover perpetual motion.
A workman at saw mill in Ell Do
RADIO county, Cal, was saving log
when he struck something. He
could not not imagine what the saw
could be- striking in the middle of
tree three feet thick. After the tree
was cut and an examination made a
bottle containing $1,000 in gold dust
was found in the centre. IL was pro-
baby put there many years ago by
some miner.
The municipal authorities of Vienna
have voted 50,0U0 forms for the pur-
pore of decorating the city on the oc-
casion of the visit of the emperor of
Germany and for meeting other ex-
penses that will be incurred in well
coming him. Triumphal arches will
be erected and floral decora tiOns will
be placed along the whole route to be
traversed by the imperial party from
the railway station to the boundary
of the city.
Lord Roseberry, while residing at
the family seat, Dalmeny, on the
Firth of Forth, arrived one morning
at his favorite bathing place for a dip;
but, observing two old women were
gathering seaweed, he addressed
himself to the two old cronies, in
forming them Of his intention to take
a bath, and suggested that they
should retire. To this one of them re-
piled: "Oh, never mind US, my lad
die, never mind us; gang an 1ak yer
dock"
Iowa has passed stringent tramp
law. 1t declares that anysnale per-
son Is years of age or over, who is
able to work, who is wand
ering about begging or idle, and who
cannot show reasonable efforts TO
secure employment. shall be deemed
a tramp, sent to Jail and put at hard
work. While in Jail he shall not be
tobacco, liquors, sporting or
illustrated newspapers, cards or any
other means of amusement.
Emigration Commissioner Valen-
tine, of Vermont, is much pleased
with the Swedes who have settled in
that state. They have been more
than self-supporting since they came
to Vermont. Fifty-five men, women
and children came last April, and the
money earned among them has not
only supported their families, but
they have with their earnings spent
over S400 in the purchase of tickets to
send to Sweden to friends. Upward
of twenty have already arrived, or
are their way there. The addition of
twenty to the original fifty-five
makes quite a ratio Of increase for six
months The idea of calling these
self-reliant, self-sustaining, self-re-
speeding, independent, thrifty people
paupers Mr.. Valentine pronounces
absurd.
How few of us know that the stove
pipe hat, which has come to be re-
garded as quite foreign, y'know,n
originated in the United States and
was introduced into Europe by that
lovely old Arcadian, Benjamin
Franklin. The old gentleman came
to Paris in the spring of 1870, wearing
the simple attire of the Quakers. A
distinguishing feature of this was the
hat, which has narrowed and height
ened into the fashionable plug" of
today. 1t was low crowned and
broad-rimmed and presented so
quaint an aspect that the Partisan
dandies were disposed to make it the
butt of their wit. Not so, however,
the rest. The leaders of the French
rnyolntinn TANGLED that hat and they