San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-17
TEXAS PRESS SPARKS.


elect to congress a few years ago, and
who by the way was the first native
Texan ever sent to the national legis-
lsture, the Waco News says:
The papers were teeming the other
day with accounts Of swell reception
| and banquet rendered over i'm Europe
to the Hon. Thomas p. Ochiitree by
Mrs Bonanza Mackey. The charge
published awhile back that Mrs.
Mackey was plain washerwoman
before she married the millionaire
doesn't seem to have set her back
| much over in the old
country among the "rustycrats,
and she is still gratifying her
penchant for giving big dinings. But
if there is any one thing in which
Mrs. Mackey is more of a conuoiseur
than in another it is paintings, on
| which she dotes largely
ideal paintings.
Toms nose is something admirable
in painting itself, when you come to
think of it, and if Mrs. Mackay sees
fit to make over" him other people
ought not to make remarks. AS Tex
as is to have two more congressman
under the new apportion-
ment, it might avail the red-headed
ranger something o drop down again
around his old stamping ground.
The second issue of the Oak Gift
Journal finds its way to the LIGHTS
exchange table. 1t may be men ton
ed that Oak Cliff is city of which
Dallas forms q considerable suburb.
| Withal it has diminutive head, the
Journals brainery is in good working
order, and 1t tenders the following
apology:
In making up the Journal. the
"head" was about the last thing We
thought OF, consequently we used the
best we had, which, from suggestions
aud criticisms, we have concluded 10
| rather small. A head for newspaper
Is not found in job printing offices,
while their type, as q rule, is much
neater. 1t must be manufactured for
| tn purpose. We have one going
through the moulds, and we promise,
when IL reaches US, if we do not have
the "big head" twill be larger than
the present.
| When Nat O. Henderson dropped
out and Bill Snort left for the broader
fields of metropolitan journalism, the
country press of Texas lost her two
choice and master spirits. But we
still have with US the genius who
yields the lever of the Washington
hand press which prints the Junction
City Clipper. Cord wood doesn's
come In very regularly for subscrip-
tons and bis advertising patronage.
isn't very large, but he doesn't
propose to get left. 1t 10
to be hoped his constituents will I'M
derstand the following:
In the days that are gone, when
there was wedding, the Clipper was
usually presented with nice cake,
| tor which q nice notice was given;
| but now it is not so. We do not work
entirely for glory, and we thought
| we'd mention this ia st in time for it
to have its effects before Christmas.
"A word to the wise-etc."
The Montague Democrat rises to,
say that:
The one gallus and yarn socks fell
lows are slowly but surely putting
crimp in brass collar and bourbon
rule of the political affairs of this
country.
No ghost need come from the grave
to tell us this, from Iowa Park Tex
an.
Texas with her deep water harbofe
and the great Panhandle wheat coun-
try will In ten years take first place
in the grand sisterhOod Of states.
His life is not entirely without joy,
however, for he records that:
While We editors and the ''angel''
were working off the first side of the
Clipper Monday eve, our sanctum
was radiated and our work lighteued
by visit from the Misses Lihbis
MankIns. Wealthy and Matte Rus
sell. After all there is some pleasure
in an EDITORS life.
An english paper once referred to
Cleveland as "the first Confederate
president since the war;" and an
other wrote up Buffalo Bill as the
governor of Nebraska. The Houston
Post tells Of
A French lady who dabbles in po-
litical economy explains to her be-
nighted countrymeu through one OF
the Partisan journals that Mr. Mills
Is a high tariff advocate and that