San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-08
en- nonye MONTH-THElDAlLYi LIGHT
~ UtlltS Cheapest daily paper Texas
HUMOR OF THE WEEK,

West failure hams are not at all
good.-New Orleans Picayune.
A cat show ought to be held in a
mewseum.-Pittsb burg Chronicle.
The Fashionable bud is modest.
Gazette.
Soft music should accompany mel
low drama.-Binghampton Republi-
can.
"This cat purrs like house afire."
"Well, shut the damper. PUCK.
The International Marine Confer
ence has been a "signal" success
New York World.
Odd-Having stopped sneezing you
are grateful because you have lost
your grlp.-Judge.
When.sa woman wants the eartn, it
is with the view of giving it to some
man. Boston Courier. -
M. Eiffel's daughter is to be mar
ried. OF course she will 60 on we'd
ding tower.-I.owell Courier.
He who allows his notes to get over
dew will soon be mist from business
circles.-Hotel Gazette.
A cooking main is a kind of prize
fight that is always won by FOUL
Binghampton Republican.
A young man whose girl went back
on him. says that he suffers from
heart Observation-Disclosures Capital.
Ii you would see some fine examples
of still life visit the moonlighting dis
tricts down south.-Boston Tran
script.
The conceit of some people is go
strong that they admire their mis-
takes because they make Them
Atchison Globe.
The most popular publication of
the day ia work in twelve chapters
entitled Calendar for 1S90"-Chica-
60 News.
Unless the surgeon gets slash at
him, a man always goes through
life on his last Observation-Disclosures
The fashionable woman in the for
ties is not generally ambitions to dis
cover new Observation-Disclosures
Leader.
A breach of promise suit begins
with one of the parties being nom
suited by the other.-Binghamton
A woman is never so badly in love
that she does not try to find out
the cost of her engagement ring
Atchison Globe.
Some one said of Kean's acting: IT
like his dying scenes best; he acts the
dead man to the very life. "-Louis-
vile Post.
"Ring out, AVild belles!" young
fellow exclaimed when he found him
self a ring out on account of one
Texas Siftings.
There is nothing worse for the har-
mony of an orchestra than to have a
trombone player get off his base
New Orleans Picayune.
Whether the influenza is here or
not, there is no doubt that many of
our young ladies are affected. Boston
Just now the travelling public con-
sists mainly of experienced couples
who have been married ever since
Christmas. Chicago News.
We never heard Of the wires troub-
ling anybody in Noah's time; and yet
they must have used the ark lights.
-YonKers Statesman
TheinfluenZa has become so common
that it is no longer Interesting 1t is
q sort of hoarse chestnut, so to speak.
Transcript.
"Have you really signed as pitcher
on the nine?" she asked breathlessly.
II have" he answered. Then am
ewers," she replied.-Puck.
1t is very strange that among those
who set themselves up as great guns
the ones of the smallest caliber are the
biggest bOras .-RnstOn Transc
"What is sweeCor than to have
friend you can trust?" asked Sawkins.
ITO have a friend who will trust you"
replied Dawkins.-Hartford Times.
Perhaps the hardest test man can
give his self-respect is to sit down and
read one of his own love-letters when
it is five years old.-Somerville Jour-
nal.
"If gave you a cent, Bobbie, what
would you do with it?' Cpd buy
a postal card and write to you for
quarter.-Harper's Bear.
High Stakes-Mrs. Hilough-"The
paper says there were two men killed
yesterday in Colorado by falling over
a bluff" Mr.. Hilough (absently)-
"Great Scott! / wonder what the