San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-26

one day II followed MIN on CnanRe,
Where bears the rampage run;
Ii trisked around little while
And now my tale is done,
Chicago Tyre.
The real inventor of the powder
used for the Lebel rifles is not the
colonel of that name, but NJ. Nielle, 6
young French engineer.
British foreign trade was the larg'
est ever known in 1889. Compared
with the previous year the export
trade showed an increase of 7 pei
cent.
Eight varieties of leprosy are recog
nized in China, and the dicease is re-
garded as contagious, infectious and
hereditary, but is said to disappear
in four generations.
There is dog in Brunswick, Me-,
tnat is furnishing considerable amuse-
menL for the OstOffice officials. He
visits the corridor daily to warm his
feet at the radiator. Whenever he is
passing the office he makes call,
but get. around as near o'clock in
the morning as possible.
Upon the death of the Italian Prince
Amadeus the lottery offices in Vienna
were besieged with tickets bearing
the number Az, which; according
to the lottery dictionary, signifies
death of a prince" Al came out, and
the players won several millions Of
forms from the imperial treasury.
Mr.. Herbert Spencer lives all the
year round in boarding houses. Some
times the chatter aud chatter grows
unbearable, but the philosopher rises
to the occasion. He has two little
buttons designed by an artist and
made exactly to fit his ears. When
the noise grows too great he thrusts
them in. No sound can pass those
buttons.
CollIs p. Huntington is an athlete.
He is six feet tall and weighs 2O9
pounds. Mr.. Huntington has room
in his house which is fitted up as
gymnasium. 1t contains all sorts of
appliances for the practice of physi-
cal culture, and it is Mr.. HuntingtOn's
habit to hoist dumb bells and swing
Indian clubs for half an hour or more
every morning.
The women who study at the
schools of the Royal Academy have
petitiOned for many years to be allow
ed living models. The greatest OBJ
structionist was Mr.. HOrseley. The
latter has yielded so far as t. permit
partially draped models to pose for
the ladies. Hitherto they have been
compelled to draw from photographs
of models arrayed in tights.
An English militia captain, recent
ly asked to resign on account of his
age, and to make room for a younger
man, replied to the authorities that
il they would send a dozen of their
strongest young men he would walk
them for forty miles, and then lead
them to the top of the highest and
steepest hill in the neighbOrhOOd.
The authorities declined the chal-
lenge, and did not press tor the resig-
nation
There are tour Ms on silver dollar,
two plainly visible-One each in the
words Unum and America, another
less distinct at the base of the neck of
the Goddess OF Liberty and the fourth
on the left curve OF the knot that
binds the wreath together on the re-
verse side of the coin. The last is
hardly visible to the naked eye. Mr..
Morgan was the designer and en-
graVer of the die and the small NJ rep
Iesents the initial of his name.
Some people are of the opinion that
a man shouldn't take his wife on
wedding tour to Niagara or any Of
those sublime looking places. She is
generally so apt to be impressed by
them that he is small in comparison;
and if there is ever period when a
wife is likely to consider her worse
half amounts to something it is the
week or two following the wedding.
The custom of these journeys ought
to be called in for repairs.
The directors of the De Beers COM
pany in the Kimberley south Africa
mines gave a Christmas picnic to
their three thousand employees at
which were eaten 1900 fowls. 400 tur-
keys, 80 geese, 100 hams, 1000 pounds |
of spiced, rOst and boiled beef and
1900 pigeons, veal and ham, and |
chicken and ham pies, washed down
with 5000 bottles of English and Ger
man beer, 100 cases of champagne,
200 cases of claret and 100 cases of
Burgundy, besides brandy and
whisky.
Among the delcacies which graced
Queen NictOria's table at Christmas,
was a turtle 100 years of age, which |
had been brought from the Ascension |
Island a week previously by the gov
eminent cruiser Wye. So thoroughly !
did Her Maj esty enjoy the soup pro-
duced from the fat of the reptile, the |
Wye has just been dispatched to
AscensiOn-a distance of many thuus-
and miles-fOr further supply of