San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-14
GOSSIP.

A new shade for lamp is a straw
hat deprived of its crown and decor
ated with flowers.
Flowers will remain fresh for fort
night if a little carbonate Of soda is
mixed with the water.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine, formerly Miss
Anita McCormick, has property in her
own right and will inherit SIC, 200, 900
from her mother.
A great deal of the human hair of
commerce in England comes from
Canton, China, and is taken from the
heads of beggars, criminals and
corpses.
A modification of the old-fashioned
black stock cravats will again be
worn with evening dress on occasions
when the white tie might be consider.
Ell too gay.
If there are cockroaches or ants to
annoy you, sprinkle a mixture of
equal parts of powdered borax and
sugar around their haunts, after
cleaning them out thoroughly.
George Eliot wrote to a friend after
reading Cardinal Newman's "Apolo-
gia:" ~ know hardly anything that
delights me more than such evidence
of sweet brotherly love being real
ity in the world"
Out at the Folsom prison, Oregon,
there is horse that has developed
an earnest desire to eat all the red
and green peppers he can get hold of.
The animal behaves just like any
other horse except in this particular.
A correspondent makes the asser-
ton that indigo applied to a bee-stigg
is an effectual cure. The part affect
ed is to be rubbed with indigo tied in
q cloth and dipped in water. The Or
binary laundry "blue-bag" will ans
wer the purpose.
An Irish lady, Miss Eleanor Fleury,
a member of an ancient Waterford
family, has been admitted to the de-
grees of bachelor of arts, bachelor of
medicine and bachelor of obstetrics of
the Royal University of Ireland.
The present rate for Geographic
messages to Australia, says a writer,
is about So a word. Mr.. Heaton
thinks that can be reduced to about
81 q word. Frequent messages are
sent, he says, costing 5000 and one
was sent a short time ago by Lon
doner that cost SIC, 900.
Two new sorts of tea are reported
from abroad. In England fashion
has taken up a mixture of dried and
cured hops. In Germany they are
using strawberry tea, decocted from
the young leaves of the strawberry
plant, after they have been dried and
prepared like Chinese tea
The ostrich farm at Oceanside was
raided recently by California lion.
He got into the pen where sixteen
ostriches were kept and scattered
them right and left. The amen in
charge secured the country and &C.
cured all but one, which is still ut
large.
A fact interesting to syndicates and
spectators was brought forward by
Prof. Garrison in a recent lecture in
Chicago, when the lantern slide
showed picture of Mercury. This
planet makes the circuit of the sun
in eighty days and to professor proved
that it was composed principally of
precious metals-gold silver and lead
making eyes of the spectators bulge
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too distant wealth.
When people say Calculate they
use a word which goes back to the
very infancy of our race, and the very
beginning of the science of arithmetic.
1t comes from the latin calculus, a
pebble. When men first began to
recon and to compare numbers they
could think of no better way than to
lay pebbles alongside of one another
on the ground, and hence the word
for counting.
The event of the London season in
local masherdom, the opening of the
Gaiety theatre with a new burlesque
occurred auspiciously laet week. The
play was Carmen up to Date,n and
the audience was almost exclusive
young and masculine. One dance
that was new was done BY four pretty
girls in black skirts and underwear,
after the fashion of the sylphs of the
of the Jardin de Paris and Moulin
Rouge. This dance was operated by
the quartette putting their heads
together and whirling rapidly, at the
same time kicking vigorously, so that
all the spectators saw was O vision of
boot heels, stockings and skirts in
rapid revolution.
He is Still Alive.