davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-20
Pedestrianism In Germany.

A German friend OF mine Che is some
what of humorist) was bantering me
about the notorious aversion of Ameri-
cans to walking, and he remarked that
he had heard it said that the average
American did not walk more than mile
day. Of course / resented this gross
libel, and l asserted that the average
American thought nothing of starting
out for walk of FIVE miles. l cited
with good deal of pride the habitual
practice of Julian Hawthorne of taking
a mere stroll of twenty or thirty miles
whenever he has few moments to de-
vote to exercise. / spoke, too, of your
townsman, Mr.. Slason Thompson, editor
of The America, who is in the habit of
walking ten miles day and running fif-
teen or twenty more.
Ny friend thereupon became personal,
and ventured to intimate that l could
not walk five miles. Of course | accept
ed the challenge implied, and, peacefully
doddering imbecile that l was, l actually
walked for four consecutive hours before
learned upon demonstrating with my
humorous friend) that a German mile
was equal to four and half English
miles, and that in order to accomplish
the feat had undertaken l should have
to cover twenty-five and half miles.
Germany would be veritable para
disc, methinks, for Julian Hawthorne
and Slason Thompson. They would be
elected to the reichstag at the first con-
gressional election. - Eugene Field in
Chicago News.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-20
Iuhaling Hot Air.

1t has been contended that the tubercle
bacillus is killed by a temperature OF
Al dogs. C. QO6 dogs. F., and that
breathing heated air should arrest con
sumption. DR.. Ernst Sehrwald, of Jena,
dogs to test this theory. He concludes
that the air breathed may be gradually
raised from so dogs. to $50 dogs. c.;
but that the temperature of lungs cannot
be increased more than l deg, even by
continuing the experiment an hour and a
half 1t is not proved that the tubercle
bacilli may be destroyed at a temperature
of 4 dogs. or dogs. above the normal
body heat, but even if so it appears that
the lung tissue cannot be heated suf-
ficiently to destroy the germs imbedded in
it.-New York Telegram.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-20
Where MIR. Curtis Learned to Write.

"nSFe hrs Leafneu 10 WI
Whatever my style of writing may be,
it is the result of natural selection and
not of special design. The first author
who interested me deeply after robin
son Crusoe" and the usual children's
books of fifty or sixty years ago was
Washington Irving. Then came Walter
Scott and Charles Lamb, Keats, Shelley
and Wordsworth, then Bacon and Emer-
son, Burke and Carlyle, Thackeray and
Hawthorne. But rhetoric or compost
ton have never studied. Ny long con-
nection with the press has been Of the
utmost service to me as a writer. For
many years have been the chief editor
ial writer upon Harper's Weekly, a
paper which takes part in political dis
cussion, and the necessity of making my
self ineligible to the rapid reader in a
comparatively short space has been prob
ably the best training could have had.
Fortunately have no taste for what
seems to me the frequent extravaganza
of newspaper writing, and therefore |
have easily avoided it. Every young
writer should remember that bigness is
not greatness, nor fury force.-GeOrge
William Curtis.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-20
A Tender Association.

DR.. Jeter, when he became worked up in
preaching and was the most eloquent, had
habit of putting whine into his voice
which as nearly resembled tears in the voice
as possible. Once when the tears were es.
pecially strong during a sermon the good
old doctor noticed a lady weeping in the
audience As soon as the services were
over he FASTENED to overtake the lady and
ask her what part Of the divine word
touched her to tears.
"'Twasn't that" said the lady.
Have you had some deep affiiction in
losing family friends?" said the doctu~.
"'Iwasn't that neither" said the LAZY
well, what was it," asked the doctGr.
well, doctor, we had a mule, and it was
4 good one, too We liked that mule, and
he died; and while you were preaching
your voice sounded so much like that
mules that | couldn't help crying."-
Providence Telegram.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-20
Let 1t Dry.

Father Graham, as everybody in the vii
lage called him, was one of the old fash.
Toned gentlemen of whom there are so few
left now. He was beloved by every one,
and his influence in the little town was
great, SO good and so active was he. One
bit of wisdom which he gave to a young
friend is we'll worth noting
A young man of the village had been
badly insulted, and came to Father Ora
ham full of angry indignation, declaring
that he was going at once to demand an
apology.
my dear boy" Father Graham said,
take a word of advice from an old man
who loves peace: An insult is like mud; it
will brush off much better when it is dry.
Wait little, till you and he are both cool.
and the thing is easily mended. If you go
now it will only be to quarrel"
1t is pleasant to be able to add that the
young man took his advice, and before the
next day was done the insulting person
came to beg forgiveness Com
panion.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-20
The Poets Share.

DR.. Holmes was in a city bookstore one
day when a woman came in to purchase a
book for a holiday present.
One of the first volumes shown her was
the Last Leaf" poem which the auto
crat prizes as one of his dearest.
"Who is this by?" asked the customer.
CDR Holmes"
"The pictures are very nice. Did he draw
them?"
"Oh, no; he wrote the poetry"
1.-THE poetry Is that allH"
The clerk looked at the, doctor, who had
overheard the dialogue and was enjoying a
quiet giggle. When the lady went out
the doctor repeated very comically, THE
poetry! Is that all?"-BOston Globe.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-20

Out of every $500 deaths in the United
States one is caused by lightning. This
ratio has not varied materially in the last
twenty years, showing that lightning rods
are not of much use so long as persons are
careless about exposing themselves. Dur
ing a thunderstorm no one should sit or
stand near an open door or window, as the
current of warm air is better conductor
for the electric fluid than the cold air out
side-BOston Globe.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-20

Mrs. Michigan Avenue (of Chicago)-I
would like you to engrave my coat of arms
on the seal of this ring.
Jeweler-Yes, madam. What does it
consist of?
Mrs. Michigan Avenue-Ah! leave the
selection entirely to you; only put lot OF
lions in it and charming dragon or two.
Jewellers Circular.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-20

Travelled rar beyondlts legitimate bounus
The complaint of the magazines indi-
Gates the outgrowth on one side of those
bounds; the more excited protests of an
invaded privacy point to another over
flow, and other burstings of limits are
heard from in other directions. The
original functions of daily newspaper
appear to have been forgotten. Keen
competition among themselves has final
ly brought newspaper people to a condi-
ton of feverish anxiety in which every
thing within reach must be theirs.
Everything printable is printed. Moth
ing IS so small that it cannot be stopped
to; nothing too remote and abstruse for
reaching after.-Noah Brooks in Forum.
Making the Deaf to Hear.
AS n rule nutes are born deaf, but some
times severe diseases in infancy destroy
completely the sense of hearing. Untier
these circumstances even partial recoF3ry
of hearing is extremely rare. A girl who
is now 10 completely lost her hearing ~Gen
8 years old through an attack of cenenro
spinal meningitis, and in consequence was
brought up as a deaf mute, attending until
recently the school of the deaf and dumb
asylum ut Fordham. Coming to New York
she was placed under treatment with
slight hopes of benefit. Her physicians as.
certained that the delicate, nervous ap-
paratus of the internal ear was still sound,
else the case would have been hopeless
Under appropriate treatment, combined
with dilation of the middle ear by infla-
ton, Improvement was soon noticed In q
month the young woman heard the tick
ing of watch held twenty inches away
and conversation at a distance of ten feet,
and then she began learning how to talk.
A month later she could hear watch at a
distance of five feet and conversation
across the room.-New York Letter.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-20

The Proper Function of a Newspaper.
In its ambition to be everything and
&c have everything the newspaper has
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1890-11-13

BOSTON, Nov. II, 1890. The butter market had Il
strong tone yesterday, with indication MS OF further
advance ON fine fresh creamery, but trade was light
ana no decided change could he reported. West
erh hne fresh creamery ruled at % to - cents per
pound and second grades at - to p cents. North
ern october creamery AT % to y cents.
cheese SLOW of sale and prices barely maintain
cd. Northern factory 10 to l0la cents for best.
Eggs started OF with Slow trade. Eastern y
cents, and new laid 30 Held stock very dun
at 10 to p cents
Potatoes are nrmer with the request good
lloultoh hebrons, Soc rose SOC AroostoOk hebrons
50 TO Soc, soc
Apples were firm with the demand good or.
binary natural fruit apples SOFA Yesterday Al hgh
500 to ). The quotations are Maine BndWins
and greetings, 1913 to 30.
Cranberries steady at - to = - for the b.-t
with fair to good at 81 to Z.
Beans steady. Hay and straw are both quiet.
Milfeed is firm. Trade is quiet in all three.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1890-11-13

The convict4 of the State Prison received tn
news OF the election of Russell with cheers OF ap
probation. but WERE on the whole, quite consider
ate of the feelings of the Republican officials Il
charge. The majority Of the inmates are Demo
Gratis, ana welcome change in the Governorshl
very much as the party adherents of the outsla
world. Boston Herald, Dem.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1890-11-13

~----a-
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-07
A Wonderful Stone.

| A man living near Kingston, Ca, has
found most wonderful stone. While
plowing on sandbar in the Etowah
river he saw something shining with
the most brilliant of lights just to one
side of him. He stopped his pillow and
went to pick it up. 1t was clear,
white stone the size of an egg, reflect
ing in one way all the colors of the rain
bow,e Turning it over the colors took
on sac character of spirit-level, fol-
Toying each other up through the GEN.
ter of the rock till all were gathered in
lone end. Tho owner has been offered
81, 900 for it, but refused it. 1t emits a
perfectly white light in the dark.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-07
WYTHEVILLE, VA.

THE GEN OF TIE AII.EGHANIES THE
SARATOGA OF THE SOUTH"
The county seat of Wythc county.
which was awarded the diploma with
$500 premium at the Virginia EXPOSE
ton at Richmond. in 1888. in Minerals
and Woods. Popula ton 1000. Altitude
?.360 feet.
Wythe County has two blast and fif-
teen charcoal iron furnaces. and Sow
cral zinc and lead furnccs. Wythevillc
offers free the best sites and greatest
Inducements to manufacturing indus
tries of any city in the South The
Wythcvillc Development Company's
reserve fund for new industries alone
amounts to SlS0000. Wythcvillc is the
centre of the richest mineral region in
the South. Wythcville cxempts all
manufacturing industries from munic-
ipal taxation for ten wears. Wythe-
Vile has beautiful and wcll-pavcd
streets 60, 70 and o. feet in width. Two
electric light plants and three water
systems. Wythcvillc has the best pub
lie schools and the handsomcst school
building in Virginia: has three female
colleges and two male academies. Ow-
ing To its mineral waters. free to visit
ors. which are highly curative for many
diseases and its great altitude, it has
SioN iito great anu laSnlOna pie
health resort.
The Wythevillc Development Com
pany will place on the market Septcm-
Der 30 500 residence and business
lots of its property in the now West
End Extension, lying between the
Wythcville Cotton Mills and the lack
son Park Hotel, on both of which work
has just begun. This property to be of
fercd for sale for the first time, Septem-
her 30, is the most beautiful property in
Wythevillc. and will be priced at very
reasonable figures in order to encour-
age investments. Investments in
Wytheville real estate within the last
ninety days have bourne from 100 to 800
per cent. TO investors.
The Norfolk and Western railroad.
running from Norfolk to the West and
Northwest. will have on sale at stations
on line and agencies in New England
special excursion round-trip tickets to
Wythevillc, good until October 81.
For further particulars. apply to w.
l.. IOST. president of the Wytheville
Development Company. Wythcville. Va
scp2l-lm
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-07
& Mass of Worms.

On returning from church Lafayette
'(Ga.) man saw what seemed to be two
small snakes about the size of lead
pencil and eight to ten inches long
They were barely moving. On closer
examination, instead of snake it was
found to be n mass of little measuring
worms, each about three-sixteenths Of
an inch long. By moving in this man
lner they escaped the dust, which would
have been fatal to them ii they had sep
arated.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-07

Table board can be obtained at alS
Church street.
Bad Drainage causes much sickness.
and bad blood and improper action OF
the liver and kidneys is bad drainage TO
the human system, which Rurdocll
Blood Btters remedy.
NJ. L. Blair, Alderman. Fifth ward,
Scranton, Pa. stated Nov. o. 1883: He
had used Or. Thomas Eclectric O'l for
sprains, burns, cuts, bruises and lheu-
matism. Cured every time
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-07

GRAND OPENING SALE OF THE
~ Wythcvillc Development Company.
Sale will begin September 30, at
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-30

Henrik Dshl, of Aalesund, Norway,
was a reader and follower of Darwin
Wishing to apply his theory of the
limit of adaptability of species to its
environment, he procured herring
from neighboring fjord and carried it
home in ii tub Of sea water. He renewed
the water daily for some time, and grad
ually reduced the quantity, with so little
inconvenience to the herring that he
concluded that the fish might in time
learn to breathe air undiluted with
water, like the cat and the man.
1t turned out as he expected, and the
water was finally turned out of the tub
of the herring, never to be replaced even
for bathing. Henrik next removed the
fish from its tub and placed it on the
ground where it Topped about very awk-
wardly at first, but soon learned to move
freely and rapidly.
In a little while the herring was able
to follow its master without difficulty,
and then it became his constant compan-
ion abont the streets of the city. On a
certain unfortunate day Henrik had oc
casion to cross a dilapidated bridge
which spanned an arm of the harbor
The herring coming gracefully along
needless of danger, now and again spring
ing at the ephemera, for which it had
acquired an especial fondness. missed its
footing, slipped through a crack into the
water beneath and was drowned. For
est and Stream,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-30

The session being a short one, and the
practice being for Congress to call upon
the Indian Department for its recon-
mendation or views, it will be difficult
task to get this bill through both Houses.
There are possibilities of the passage
of free-coinage bill now on account OF
the stringency of money that did not ex-
list short time ago There is no doubt
but what large number of conservative
men in both Houses of Congress, who
last summer opposed free coinage, will
feel that the demand for more money
must be met by some kind of legislation
and the only way out will be to pass a
free-coinage measure, or at least to put
through the Taylor proposition, to pur-
chase the silver now OIL the market.
Some of the best financiers in Congress
are considerably worried over the situa-
ton, and look for something to develop
soon which will make legislation Of some
kind necessary. II this contingency
arises, it will, of course, set aside the
consideration of the election bill and
probably result in its ultimate postpone
ment and defeat.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-30
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Secretary OF the Treasury has
transmitted to the House an estimate OF
S3l 500, OO0 by the Secretary of the lnte-
rior TO supply Il deficiency for the pay
ment OF army and navy pensions for the
current fiscal year.
1t is authoritatiyely stated that the
commission to select a site for a dry dock
ON the Pacific Coast at some point north
OF the California line has unanimously
recommended Port Orchard, the site Sc
lected for the navy yard by former
commission.
Bland has introduced bin authoriz-
ing the Secretary OF the Treasury 10 pre-
pare new series al legal-tender notes
and greenhacks, which, when the ordi-
nary revenues of the government are not
sufficient to meet requirements, he is to
pay out in sufficient sums to meet all
demands and dues.
The Assistant Secretary of the Interior
has rejected the application OF the Mar
saret Mining Company ior certain land
near Seattle Wash, containing the hot
springs near Green river, said To he val
liable for medicinal purposes The Sec
rctarY SAYS there is no evidence that the
+tt-++s +7 hfHtlsAiasF ttA kA4AtfAA pun poses
and the company ought "a make entr,
under the miHeral-iaHi act.
Senator Allen Vas at the Department
Of Justice and secured an order directing
that the salary Of Assistant Attorney
sullivan, which Tor some unknown rea-
sJu has been DELAYED. should at once be
forwarded to him. lie was also at the
Department Of State in relation to the
resignation OF Convey as Consul-General
OF Japan. Convey resignation is now
in Senator Aliens hands, and having re-
Gently heard that Conveys health Is inn
proving, he Is waiting further reports
before the resignation is presented
The several members OF the Oregon
delegation are in receipt of petitions and
individual communications from people
IN Umatilla county, Or, asking for Con-
gressional right OF way for an irrigation
ditch across the Umatilla Indian reser-
walton, with view of affording water
for purposes of agriculture. Bills will
be introduced in botn Houses at once.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-30
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

Rumors are in circulation at Little
Rock that the State Treasurer is short in
his accounts with the State of Arkansas
$67 900.
Burglars at Tacoma ransacked house
and then set fire to the clothing Of a
bed on which an infant lay. The cries
of the child fortunately brought relief
before it was seriously injured.
In row between the Pickett and
Todd families on Sonoma mountain
James Pickett, 20 years old, was shot by
Willie Cook, aged Is years. Young
Pickett, though dangerously wounded,
may recover.
Budd Blake, a desperate, near Navajo
Springs, A T., while filled with liquor
ordered two telegraph operators who
were returning from hunting to "hold
up their hands," His order was an
swered by volley from the two men,
and Blake fell dead.
Through a man at San Jose, Cal, who
sold lot of carpenters tools, it was dis
covered that Charles Schmidt of San
Francisco had for year been stealing
tools and selling them. He usually went
about applying for work and located the
tools, when he would at some other time
steal them and dispose Of them outside
the city
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-30
PERSONAL MENTION.


Mr.. Gladstone's nephew, Sir John
Gladstone. owns dstillery at Basque,
which produces $4,000 gallons OF good
whisky annually.
The Prince of Wales has drawn alto
gether $i6,500,0 900 from the English
treasury, and it is estimated that his
debts aggregate half as much again.
Congressman-elect IIalverson of Min
nesota IL the first successful Congress
sional nominee Of the Prohibition party.
He was Endorsed by the Farmers Ali
ance.
Nice-President Morton's eldest daugh-
ter, Miss Edith Morton, is about II
years old. She is pretty girl, who has
been well educated, and possesses many
graces OF manner.
Count Tolstoi is described as wearing
usually only such coarse clothing as is
worn by the poor classes. His shirt is
worn outside his trousers in the fashion
of the monjik. and is gathered in to the
waist by a leather belt,
John G. Otis, the leader of the ALI
ance Congressional delegation from Kan
sas, is a graduate OF Williams College
and OF Harvard Law School, and is ma
tive ot Rutland, vt. For the past twenty
years he has been milkman in Topeka.
In very short time the subscription
for the erection of monument to George
Bizet, the composer of Carmen" was
covered The list of donors includes
quite large number of female names
Madame Patti was one of the earliest
subscribers. She sent 900 francs. The
largest Offering was that of the Baronne
Solomon de Rothschild, who sent 1000
francs
Horatio Harrison Hughes of Howard
county, Mo, is hero OF six wars-the
Iowa war against Big Neck chief, the
Black Hawk war, the Mormon war, the
Florida war, in which he ranked Major
General, the Mexican war and the re-
beIlion, in which he served for four years
in the Confederate army. He was in
more than forty battles, but was never
wounded.
Mr., Blaine is a great student of Napo-
leon Bonaparte. He has in his house in
Washington Il number of excellent en-
cravings and etchings of the Corsican in
the various stages OF his meteoric career.
Ills picture of Napoleon rs the youthful,
alert, tigerish commander of the army
of Italy ia an interesting study, and it is
one that Mr.. Blaine delights in showing
his visitors
August Belmont was an enthusiastic
collector OF old china. He picked up
odds and ends in this line wherever he
could find them, aud when he was so
decroPit from rheumatism and his old
wound that he could scarcely crawl, it
wits not uncommon to see him painfully
hobbing homeward with big china
dish under Que arm and his short-legged
dog at his heels