San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-18
BRIEF MEN TION.

Russia takes $50 0 Jews into the
army every year, but sees to it that
no one becomes an officer.
The limited mail on the PenDsylva-
MIA line between Columbus. o and
indianapolis is soon to be the fastest
railroad train in America.
Probable the rarest stamp in exist
ance mas been sold in London for 250
pounds sterling, it is in America
o7nG s.aInp, ISSUED at BrattleoOro, VT,
in 1910.
AtLoudon sales of wines, cham
Pagne continues to lead in price, some
oflS74 bringing over $50 a dozen,
while the fine Steinberg cabinet
brought only S25.
A physiological statistician calcu-
lates that in the year 1000 there will
he LOO, 0O0,0 900 people who speak
English, and that the other European
languages will be spoken by only
SOC, 900, 600 people.
The artificial inou baton OF egg.
originated In Egypt, where it is still
carried on. AcOrding to y consular
report no fewer than $4,000, 900 eggs
are Matched in this way every year on
the banks of the Nile.
Prince Bismsrk pockets $1,000 a
week as the profits OF his little poul-
try business, but he would rather be
pottering around the Chancellor's de-
partInent, even if there was not quite
30 much money in it.
Two costly diamond neck laces we're
lost overheard from yacht at Nor
wich, Conn.,, a few days ago. One
yaiued at $4,000, has since been reco-
vered by divers, but the second is still
at the bottom of tho river
1t was stated at q meeting of the
Montreal Corn Exchange last week
that the local charges on an ocean
steamer there were 1881 as against
1851 in New York, q difference of
$loS) in favor of the latter city.
Johann Sebastian Rach's piano has
tust be- n put into COZ ditlon by a piano
maker at Gohlis. The instrument lie
now the property of Herr Paul de Wit
Of Leipsic into whose possession it
came about twenty-five years ago.
An instrument whereby a star is
caused to record W tn absolute AZ Gu
Iacy the time of its transit across the
meridian has been perfected at the
Georgetown College observatory
The instrument is called the photoch.
monograph.
The late Archbishop Of York, DR.
Magee, according to Canon Mcdonnell
used to divide speakers into three
classes, the spe iker you cam, (, lister
TO, the speaker you can listen 20, and
the speaker you can not help listening
to.
Some OF the moDstrons cranes USED
at the Baldwin locomotive works a.
Philadelphia lift big locomotive al
easily as q mother does baby. Each
of them saves the labor of l5n men
and does away with the necessity O
having complicated system OF track k,
for Shifting the Locomotives.
The State Department officials a
Washington laugh at the report tina
the United States will pay $50. 900 Il
the family of Gen. Barrundia, who
was killed by the authorities at
Guatemslan port while ON an Ameri
can steamer. The claim has not ever
been considered by this government
The British naval exhibition pro
misses 10 he a paying venture. 1t Il
expected that q surplus of betwee,
81, 900 and $780, 900 will be availabI
for distribution in the charitable di
rection for which the exhibition wa
originally intended. The exhibitio,
win close on Trafalgar Day, Oct. 81
1t is reported that shark nesrI,
twenfy-four feet in length was receni
ly caught In the harbor of Panama
The skin was about half an inch thick
1t was captured by a harpoon throw,
from steamer and the vessel wa
turned completely round bv the
powerful fish when first made fast
A tramp detected at Port Jarvis
NJ Y. the other day, in the act of Al
tao ling to the trucks of a railroad 90,