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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-16
Building Permits.

l.. J. Long, shed, Second ward.
ELSIE Wells, addition, Fifth ward.
Louis Walter, dwelling, First ward.
K. J. Hofheinz. awning, First ward.
Miss Howard, dwelling, First ward.
Joe Keller. dwelling. First ward.
Juan LCSano, stable, Second ward.
Jos. Hermann, dwelling, Fourth ward.
Mrs. p. BURNS, kitchen, Fifth ward.
Atilano Pena, dwelling, Third ward.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-16
Assaulted an Old Man.

Mr.. Manuel Sierna AN aged Mexican citizen.
was celebrating with his compstriots at San
Pedro park last night. He started to walk
home about O'Clock this morning taking the
North Flores street route. but was set upon
and knocked down by three ruff ans, near the
Springs. whose evident purpose, he thinks,
was robbery, They got nothing for their
trouble. but the old man has a very bad cash
across his forehead today.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-16
Today's Weather Report.

U. S. Signal Service headquarters Sep
TENDER 16, 2 p. m.
Highest temperature. ................. 80
Lowest temperature. ................ II
Mean temperature. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 80
City Drug Store. September Is. p. m,
80: 10 p. m. 70. September Is, a. m. 70;
D. m. 90.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-16
Prohafe Court.

Estate of Kippax minors, order of sale
granted.
Estate of Dillon minors, annual account
of guardian examined and approved.
Estate of John Edwarl Green, minor,
order of sale granted.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-16
MULTUMIN PARvO. FREEI

Free! Free! "The Progress Pony"
with every Is cent purchase the
Patrons OF the progress Saloon"
the cosiest resort in the city, 6lO
West Commerce street, will receive
q ticket emitting them to q chance
on q fine three year old horse. Draw
ing on the eve of election, November
3rd, 1890. So 3m.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-16
CARPETS CARPETS CARPETS

Our Fall Shipments being received and showing
the extensive variety and colorngs than be found
eswhere of intending purchasers to
purchasing enabled give low
prices
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
Dams FOrCible Method,

At the very outset of our advent
ures I discovered that the Zunis are
special objects of Dams antipathy.
Our guide hates these Indians as
white man hates a rattlesnake, and
at times took measures which, to say
the least, were very forcible. While
Jim was building a fire to get our
morning meal Dan went to the cor
raj to look after the horses. There
he found big buck inside the in
closure and without word knocked
him down. Dams big fist raised a
lump under the Indians eye almost
as large as the fist itself, and during
our stay in the pueblo that Indian,
whom we passed perhaps fifty times,
used one eye only. We saw no fewer
than five bucks similarly marked
during our sojourn in Zuni. and when
we went to Ojo Caliente the first In
dian we met, Antoniovico by name,
had a similar designation upon his
face, sustained in an argument previ-
ously held with Dan about sack of
oats.
l expostulated with Dan about
this little recreation. He looked
sulky for minute and then said:
young man, I've lived among
these redskins for thirty-nine years
and 1 don't believe you can tell me
much about them. If get in an ar
gument with an Injun and can talk
any sense into his head [ hit him I'M
der the left eye and that settles it. l
never have any further arguments
with the same Injun. Amt that bet
ter mr. shootin' them?" New
York World.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
"Whoa, There! Old Benzine.

A firm in Munich is making car
riages to be propelled by gas gener-
ated from benzine. Several of the
new vehicles are in successful opera
ton, and the company is securin g
patents in all the big nations of the
world. On the country road they go
at a rate of ten miles an hour, but in
the crowded streets they move about
as slowly as horse car. The motor
is placed in the rear over the main
axle, and the benzine is carried in a
receptacle under the seat. 1t holds
enough for a trip of eighty miles.
The gas mixture is ignited in q cyl
inder by an electric spark. The
motor is started by simply turning
a lever. A link chain belted to a
wheel on the rear axle applies the
power. In it's make up the carriage
is something fike a tricycle., having
only three wheels, and is guided pre-
cisely the same way.-New York
Journal.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
How They Garry Money,


One of the queerest sights is to see
how different immigrants carry their
money.
Most English immigrants carry
their coins in small case, attached
to chain, which they keepin a bock-
ct as they would a watch.
Irishmen always have a little can
vas bag in which notes and coin are
crammed together. Irish girls on
the other hand. generally have their
money sewed on the inside of their
dresses.
Germans carry their money in a
belt round their waists, and the belt
is usually an elaborate and costly
affair, no matter how poor the i'm
migrant may be.
The French mostly carry a small
brass tube in which they can place
forty or fifty twenty franc pieces and
remove them very readily one at a
time.
There are very few Italians who do
not carry a large tin tube in which
they keep their paper money or silver
coins, and this tube is hung round
their neck by a small chain or cord.
Swedes and Norwegians are sure to
have an immence pocket book that
has generally been used by their
fathers and grandfathers before them,
and which has in it enough leather
to make a pair of boots.
The Slavonians and Hungarians
carry their money in their long boots.
together with knife, fork and spoon.
Chatter.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
He Got it Easily.

The following incident, which oc-
Cured in Cincinnati, shows that Gin
cinnati women have more ready
money than ready wits: A Mrs. Me
land, living on Jane Street, was vic
timized in an original manner one
afternoon. A stranger knocked
at the door about II o'clock and
told Mrs. Nieland that her son had
been arrested and that $25 was i'm
mediately necessary as bail money
for him. Without thinking of uncer-
tainty of the mans identity Mrs.
Nieland gave him the money. At 4
o'clock the son, who was supposed to
have been arrested, came home, and
it was found that there was nothing
whatever in the story except the $25
for the sharper.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
Servants and Tips.

Speaking of walters and tips, there
are no meaner hogs in the city than
some of the New York walters. If
you pay their wages by giving them
what they have no earthly right to
{ tips } they will wait on you till sun
up; and if you are so fortunate as to
impress them with your wealth, there
are few things they will not do for
you Of servile nature; but if you
cannot afford to tip the Lord help
you! You will be neglected, shut
out, stared at, covertly sneered at
and finally have the dishes almost
flung at you. That was what hap
pened to two poor but very respec-
table young women who went into
an up town dining room the other
night, while women who could afford
to tip, and did, had the best service
the house afforded. The two young
women atlast left, humilia ted, crush
ed, shamefaced, as guilty looking as
if they had stolen something.-Cha
ter.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12

and battered onto the panels and
rung the bell until Granther peeks
stuck his head out of the winder. and
says he:
Chow de do, jedge?"
"Fair to middlin, says the Judge.
"Why don't you open your door, Mr..
Peeks?'
~ amt openin' no doors Jest now."
says Granther Peeks.
"Guess you've got to-" says the
judge. ''There's man says you've
got his wife shut up there"
II ain't!' says Granther. "There
amt nobody here but Corianna: she's
a spinster and my grandfather.
''Mr. Chow, you jest step here"
says the Judge.
So Jabez comes around the house.
Demand your wife," says the
judge.
"Well, I'm here, Mr.. Peeks, for
that purpose. You've got my, wife,
Mrs. Jabez Chow; in there and
want her," says Jabez.
"Your wife," says granther grin
ming.
eyes, SIR" says the dominic follow
ing GIVE jest married them"
81 assisted" says Dominic Brown.
"Will the waitress come forward?"
says the Judge.
Then we all trooped around the
house;
"You see granther," says Jabez,
''Cupid don't need doors to get in at
eff there's ever SO little hole in the
shutter.
Twas a very romantical speech,
but the occasion kinder worked ia
bez up, reckon, and he was sort of
inspired.
1t seems that just then Corianna
went up to granther and showed him
her ring and her certificate, and that
settled it.
In a minute more he opened the
door aud we walked in. He was
cryin' hard.
"Oh, Jabez, Jabez!" says he, chow
could you? Nobody else kin make
pancakes that l kin digest only Co.
rianna. Now I will starve to DEATH"
mo, you sha'n't," says Jabez."
Can't you board with us, or we board
with you? and she can fry'em all day,
if you want her to and she's so dis
posed"
"Of course l WILL" says Corianna.
Then Granther Peeks got out his
red pocket handkerchief and wiped
his eyes.
"Ef you'd explained that there to
me before, .Jabez," says he, II
wouldn't hev made no objections;
but dom without Corianna's pan
cakes was a matter of life and death
to me, my son."
Then they shook hands; so did
everybody all round, and we had the
biggest supper that night, and the
greatest dance in the barn afterward!
Mary Kyle Dallas in Fireside Com
panion.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
Married His Nurse.

A marriage rare in the history
of nations was recently celebrated
in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." (Trinity
church), Berlin. A young Russian
of wealthy and respectable family
in the Baltic provinces named Geige r
married his nurse. The bride was II
at the time she nursed her future
husband, who is now 20 years OF age.
1t appears that the friends OF the lat
ter are not exactly pleased at his
choice, but the young man declared
that his affection for the present
partner ofhis joys and sorrows dates
a long way back. Finding it impos-
sible to overcome the prejudices Of
his family and being under age he
fed to Germany, where the civil and
religious forms of the marriage cele.
bration were duly observed without
let or Observation-Disclosures.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
lnhumanity in Maine.
A Saco man has in his family

A Saco man has in his family y
stepdaughter about Z years old,
whose lot cannot be happy one.
One afternoon the man and his
wife locked up the house, leaving the
girl outside, and went visiting. They
did not come back thatnight and the
girl slept on the stone doorstep, get
ting what she could to eat the next
day, as her mother and stepfather
still remained away. That evening
she had again camped upon the door
step when neighbor saw her and
learned why she had no better bed.
He took her to his home, and bright
and early in the morning started out
with a club to try to beat a little
humanity into the stepfather, pro-
viding he had returned. He found
him, and though he did not use the
club he gave him emphatic warning
that if he ever heard of his abusing
or neglecting the girl again he would
use it. This is one of the cases where
the American Peace association
would prescribe war, we think
Lewiston Journal.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
A Plucky School Teacher.

Eastern women may have the cul
ture but for pluck and push the
second place is not where the western
woman belongs. Miss Kate Kenne-
dy, who has been teacher in the
public schools of San Francisco for
more than twenty years, has just
gone through a years fight with
the board of education, and estab-
lished the principle that the board
cannot discharge teachers without
cause. Miss Kennedy, having OBJ
tanned a leave of absence, made a
visit east, and was surprised upon
her return to find that her place had
been given to her substitute. The
board of education coolly informed
her that she was not wanted, where
upon she brought suit to test the
legality of her discharge, meanwhile
making formal application every
month for her salary. She won her
case in the lower courts, and now the
supreme court sustains these decis-
ions. and orders that she be restor-
ed and receive her back salary.-San
Francisco Letter.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
One of the MeaneSt.

One of the most remarkable cases
of close listed stinginess ever known
has just been brought to light in Sa-
lem, Ills. 1t is unnecessary to nam e
the parties, but the story as vouched
for by several citizens of this place is
as follows:
A farmer residing near here, worth
from $4,000 to $4,000, not long
since had brother in the neighbor-
hood who was very sick. The at
tending physician requested that the
sick man be given small quantities of
lemonade. The wealthy brother was
dispatched to town to get some lem
ons. He went to a leading grocery
store and purchased three for ten
cents. That nj ght the sick brother
died, and only one of the lemons had
besn used.
The day after the funeral the
wealthy brother took the two re-
naming lemons back to the mer-
chant and said as his brother had
died before using all of them he had
no further use for them and he de-
manded six cents for the two return
ed. The merchant refused to take
the lemons back and the miserly old
fellow went away mad-St. Louis Re-
public.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
We're the Cigars Paid.


From the New York Tribune
Some people do not easily forget
old tricks. A man who had been q
cowboy" once, and anexpert lasso-
thrower, happened to be on the stage
of a theater in Broadway a few days
ago. One Of those wooden busts
painted white, which do service as
occasion demands in almost any
dumb capacity, was standing on a
guadily gilded chair of state. Along
rope lay on the stage, and the retired
cowboy, taking in at a glance the
rope and the venerable block ofwood,
said: 81 bet box of cigars 1 can las
SO the property bust first trial." In
twinkling he had knotted the rope,
and after making two or three grace
full motions with the circling lasso he
shot the coil across the stage on a
direct line, and the painted head lay
on the floor. the rope closely drawn
around it's neck. This was not chance,
for the performance was repeated
while the cleaners stopped work and
became spectators at this matinee.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
Disadvantages of Rank.

Rank has it's disadvan tages if "the
claims of long descent" incumber it's
possessor with such a baptismal
heritage as Lyona Decima Veronica
Esyth Undine Cyssa Hylda Rowena
Adela Thyra Ursula Ysabel Blanche
Lelias Dysart Plantagenet, WHICH is
the name of pretty 12-year-old
cousin of the volatile Earl otDysart,
all the other Dysart Plantagenets
being endowed with equal liberality
as to prenomen and agnomen, as
witness for example Mabel Helming-
ham Ethel Huntingtower Beatrice
Blazonberrie Evangeline Wise de Lou
de Orellana Toedmag Saxon Dysart
Plantagenet, or Lyneph Ydwallo
Odin hester Egbert Lyonel Toedmag
Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Crom-
well Orma Nevill Dysart Plantage
net.-Harper's Bazaar.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
A School for HouseWifery.

The domestic laboratory of Mr.
Dwight L. Moody's seminary at
Mortified was organized by Miss
Huntington, of the Wilson Mission
Kitchen Garden in New York, and is
carried on by teachers other train
ing. One hundred girls are here
taught honsewifery and sewing,
cooking, washing, table waiting and
fine laundry work as exact sciences,
and not as makeshift employments:
Mr.. Moody's seminary was founded
for pupils having high aims but
small means, who may by it's means
obtain a thorough education at the
lowest cost, with the tacit under
standing that every graduate, both
of it's acadmic and domestic science
courses. will be moved to teach what
she had learned, eitEer privately or
Observation-Disclosures Bazaar.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
Cremated in Burning Brandy.
A shocking incident occurred the

other afternoon in Paris. An APP
prentice baker was carrying a jar
containing about six gallons OF
brandy on his shoulder up dark
staircase where jet of gas is geper-
ally burning. On the second land
ing he missed his foot and stumbled
against the wall. The jar broke, the
liquor came in contact with the gas
and in a moment the unfortunate
lad was enveloped in flames of burn
ing spirit. His heartrending cries
brought the tenents out but the heat
was so great that they could not get
near him for some time, and he died
before their eyes in intense suffering.
When the police and the doctors ar
rived they found nothing but body
completely calcined, and it took
them some time to prevent the burn
ing brandy setting fire to the wood
work on the whole house.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
A Son Of Liberty.

Shortly after the close of our last
war with England boy stood on 9
corner in New York with a number
of small birds in cage, which he was
offering for sale. An old sailor hap
pened to pass that way and espied
the little prisoners futtering against
the bars of their cage. He stopped
and looked at the birds, contemplate
ing the scene awhile in silence. At
length he addressed the boy:
Glow much do you ask for your
birds?"
"Sixpence apiece, sir" was the re-
ply:
81 don't care what you ask
apiece" returned the bluffy sailor,
"but how much for the whole lot! I
want to take all hands,"
The boy reckoned up and ANNOUNCE
ed his price of the lot as five shillings
and sixpence.
The sailor counted out the m oney
and took the cage; and no sooner
was he assured that the birds were
his own lawful property than he
opened the door and let the fiutter-
ing songsters all fly away.
There you go!" he shouted, as the
last bird shot away into the free air
of heaven.
The bystanders were amazed. One
of them said:
'Why did you do that?''
'I'll tell you," said the sailor, with
a kindling eye, 81 was impressed into
the English navy, and have been
shut up two years in an English pris-
on; and don't want to see anything
wrongfully imprisoned that I can set
tree!"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
MY PALACE.

High over the lamppost. high over the street,
Remote from the traffic, its rust and it's beat,
Meath sky now o'erclouded now sunny
and blue,
Idwell in the stiffness, my dear one, with you.
Ny windows are grimy, my walls they are
bare,
wreck is my table. ruin my chair!
Yet prize them far better than if they were
new,
For they tell me- my dear one, they tell me
ofyou.
Untroubled by visitors, tranquil brood.
At the chimney tops level folk seldom intrude;
And heed them but little if ever they do,
For am talking, my dear one, still talking
to you.
Then as dust over gable and roof hovers near,
And the first star is family beginning to
peer,
Half song. half sigh, the dim easement
steals through,
And the angel who breathes it, my dearest,
is you.
-Cornhill Magazine.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
A Big Building for Masons.

The new masonic temple in Chicago
is to have eighteen stories, AND the
roof will be 24O feet from the pave
ment. The ground dimensions will
be 10 to ia feet. The structure
will be built principally of steel.
What the exterior facing will be is
not yet decided. 1t may be terra
Gotta, stone or special brick made
for this particular building. In any
case the exterior will be but fire
proofing, not bearing any part of the
weight of the building. -Philad elphia
Ledger.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
Picturesque Destruction of a
Fence.

A thunderbolt which hit the ele-
waited farm OF Francis Drysdale at
Rockville, Conn.,, a few days ago
touched off a very lively pyrotechnic
exhibition. A part of the ball car
romed from a stone wall, descended
on Mr.. Drysdale's five-rail fence
about his ten-acre lot, and rode the
fence almost entirely around the
field. The dry wood took fire from
the flaming electric rider and the
whole fence was burned in a mean
dering trail of soaring flames. New
York Sun.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
CORIANNA'S WEDDING.

HEN Jabez
Chow came
courtin' Corr
anna Dowly,
G r a n t h e r
Peeks was jest
as m a d as
hops. You see
COrianna she
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12

When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she hadchildren, she gave themCastoria.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-12
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