San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-29
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The editor of Murray's Magazine
Mr.. +. A. Arnold, is to become a Lon
don publisher, and is about to estab
lish house in that city. Mr.. Arnold
as many know, is a grandson of DR.
Arnold, of Rugby.
Eugene G.. Blackford, at Fulton
Market, New York, received some Gu
rios Chinese goldfish Saturday. They
are known as King-Hi-Ho, and have
three tails. They are produced by
the interviewing of deformed species
Two grocers in Dubuque had a
| quarrel and each figured to drive the
other out of business. The sharper
one advertised to give away one doz
en- clothespins with every fifty-cent
purchase, and small as the gift was
| it closed the other store in six months
for want OF custom.
DR.. Hobart A. Hare, demonstration
of therapeutics at the University OF
Pennsylvania, has been awarded a
prize of $500 by L'Academie ROyale
de Medicine dc BeIgique for his essay
on epilepsy. The first prize of $1,000
was shared with DIR. Hare by the
eminent DR.. Christian, of CharontDn.
IL HAS D66u ulSCONSISu GlldU Ull6I6
was a count Bismarck fifty years ago
in Wurtemberg, who became a lieu
tenant general, was life member Of
the local house OF lords, received great
honOrs and decorations, and finally
died highly respected in his siXtieth
year. There was also u Won MOltke
in Wurtemberg at the same time who
became a major general.
\ pretty young woman, say pref
ty advisedly, tor it takes nothing
short of pretty woman to evoke a re-
ply nowadays from Mr.. Clemens
wrote to mark Twain recently, pro-
pounding to him the now famous
question: "What would you do if you
were a woman?n "What would | do?
Disguise myself, [ should feel 50
The German Minister Of the Interior
has just given to the Evangelical
Society for East Africa per-
to hold lottery in Berlin for
the purpose OF raising funds for the
erection of a mission hospital in Fan
libar. The prices in the lottery will
be paintings by the best living Ger
man artists. Two hundred thousand
tickets will be sold at seventy-five
cents apiece.
"They are many Americans" says
Edward Everett Hale, who forget,
Or perhaps never knew, that there |
are in this country towns and villages |
where, practically speaking, there is
no criminal class, and no class of |
The house of correction in
many county in America is empty |
have half the time. There is many a |
DOOrhOuse in New England where |
hey take summer boarders because |
hey have no one else to take
The fayorite fad of the hour among |
luxurious New York women is to have |
themselves rubbed all over several
lines week after the bath with cocoa
Ill. It is undoubtedly good for the
ng. 1t is a favOrite practice with
hrs. Cleveland, who, by the way, de-
idedly refnes and improves with
ime. She has now the expression
he looked as a bride, and her hair
md complexion not bud can beat.
At a ball in a German watering
'lace last summer the wife of the
Berlin councillor Meyer told the edi-
or of a society weekly that Frau
1ubner, also of Berlin, and her Wis
wis in quadrille, had bleached
lair and a false complexion. The
ditOr of the society weekly repeated
his information to Frau Hubner,
mo, upon her return to Berlin, sued
'rau Meyer for libel. Two weeks ago
he case was decided. Frau Meyer
'as fined $50, and was severely lee
Ired by the court.
The most noted father of the house
nd senate of the past was man al
)gether forgotten now. His name
,as Nathaniel Macon, and jefferson |
allied him 1.-The last of the Romans
Ie was democrat from North Caro-
ma, and he had political career OF
lore than fifty-seven years. He re-
gned from the senate when he was
ghty years Old, and died at eighty
inc. He was for forty years in con-
ress, and during the whole of his
treer he never recommended rela-
We to office.
A Madrid correspondent of the Col
Dies and India gives an account of a
athletic incident in connection with
le death of Bishop Sargent which
;curred recently at PalamcOttah
he ''chief mOurnern at the bishops
neral was, it seems, his little tan
PANEL. The dog clung to his master
lroughout his illness, seated in a
lair in the veranda of the sick room.
nd when the body of the bishop was (
rried forth in his coffin and placed
rst in the Tamil church on trestles,
le little dog followed and took up its b
)sitiOn underneath the coffin. C
The observatory at Picking is the !,
dest in the world. having been !,
unded in l279 by Kubla Khan. the .