San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-10
BRIEF MENTION.

Nine Jews were returned to the
italian Chamber of Deputies at the
recent election.
The Tacoma (Wash.) Coal Com.
pany has struck o vein Of pure coal
which il is estimated, will Yield 81
000, 900 tons.
A citizen of Manistee. Mich, has
a clientage of 1000 children, who get y
pound of candy each from him on
New Years Day.
Santa Monica, Cal, has q new in
dustry. 1t is that of putting up mus
sells In glass jars by process that
makes them very palatable.
Prof. X och has been made an hon
orary citizen Of Berlin. He Is the
fourth man to enjoy that distinction.
His colleagues are Prince Bismark,
Connt MOltke and DIR. Henry
Schliemann.
The Turkish Sultan's daughter
has been educated in accordance
with European ideas and is young
lady of taste and accomplishments
She is especially known rs q pianist
of remarkable execution.
The fund voluntarily contributed
and bequeathed In the British Isles
to the work of foreign missions for
1889 was Sc, 500, 900. of which more
than half was by the members of the
Church of England.
A woman living down on Cape
Cod reckons in her life work as q
housekeeper the making Of 1000
loaves OF bread and IA 900 doughnuts.
y, of fo
took in washing at the time.
A ring which Gen. 81. J. Hunt lost
near Fairfax Station, Va, during the
war, was recently found embedded in
the hoof of COW owned by a dairy
farmer in that. locality, and was re-
turned to its owner in Washing
ton.
The Mediterranean is comparative
ly shallow. A drying up of $50 feet
would leave three different seas, and
Africa would be joined 10 Italy. The
British channel Is more like Q pond,
which account for its choppy waves.
The high schools In Germany seem
to be regard ed IS superficial A pa
per has been signed by 407 German
university professors declaring that
the education now given in high
schools affords poor foundation for
scientific medical studies.
Senator Jones, who lives In Cali
fornia and New York, and represents
Nevada, has built q fine villa at Mon
lea, Cal. 1t overlooks the ocean and
adjoining 1t he owns q 10000 acre
ranch. The Senator is man who
takes good sized views Of ali ques-
tons.
Under the will of the late William
Thaw, of Pittsburg, . number Of
Pres byterian and charitable insti.
tutions will divide $500, 900. The estate
lie esti mated at SIS, 600 900. Mr.. Thaw
in his lifetime, was the leading rail
road man of the Western Pennsyl-
vania.
Gentleman.have been very lucky
on the French race courses this year.
M. Maurice Ephrussi won $S5, 900
BarOns Alphonse aud Gustave de
Rothschild about $40, 900 each, Baron
de Schlicklea 800, 900. and M. Pierre
Donor, Baron de Saubeyran and M.
Michel Ephrussi between $50, 600 and
$40, 1000.
Rain-in-the- Face, who Is now at
the head of the hostile tribes, is one
of the bravest Indians In the West,
as we'll as one of the worst. He is
the reputed slayer of Custer, though
that distinction has been claimed by
spotted Tail and several other braves.
He is said to be perfectly void of fear.
The wonder is that he has lived SO
long.
If one of the stories told of Senator
Stewart is true, he is q man of nerve
in game of poker. 1t is related Of
him that in the crash of 1878, when
/ financial ruin stared him in the face,
he staked and lost mortgage of
SIS, 900 on a single hand at poker.
| The mortgage was on his house,
| known as "Stewart Castle" and now
occupied by the Chinese legation.
| WuRDI WA THE MA NfONn0