San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-21
BRIEF MENTION.

besides attending to the pu bile affairs
of that enterprising little city, does
all the household work at home, in
GLIDING cooking, washing and IRON
ing for . family Of six. IL is
perhaps unnecessary to add that
Mayor Salter IL . woman.
Anastius, the.chief of the famous
Greek brigands, whose cheerful
habiy it IL to kidnap harmless travel
ers aud keep them on short commons
till q ransom Is paid, Is described rs
q type of perfect Greek beauty, . very
cultivated man, who speaks four
languages, and has the. manners OF
courts.
There Is Q temple Of silva, near
Allahabad, In India, surrounded by
high mound composed wholly of
earthen bottles. On one of the last
days of February from 10000 TO 49,
600 pilgrims assemble, each being
provided with two or three earthen
bottles containing water from the
Ganges and a few copper coins.
The opposition to the reelection Of
Senator Call, of Florida, has crys-
tallized about John F. Dunn, banker
of Ocals, who is about forty years of
aye, of ford complexion and sturdy
frame. He has been active in devel-
oping the natural attractions of his
section, and the last year has made
some very profitable deals in phOs-
phate lands.
The coroner of Pittsburg, Pa, re-
ports that during the year 1890 he
held ipQuests over the bodies of 277
persons whose death was due to rail-
road and traction road accidents,
which number was % per cent OF all
the cases of violent and sudden
death coming under his observation.
The deadly grade crossing was the
cause of much of this mortal
ity.
Edwin B. Winans, the new Demo-
cratic Governor of Michigan, is a
hard headed old farmer, with neatly
trimmed beard, stylish clothes and
kindly eyes, that beam through
pair of gold bowed spectacles. He is
one of the California Argonauts OF '49
but found that he could make more
money by establishing q bank than
with pick and shovel.
aBoss" Sheppard, whose perform
ances in Washington were the scan-
dal of the nation not many years
ago, and who left this country under
a cloud and without q dollar in his
pocket. lives now in Chihuahua,
where he Is the life of the American
colony. He is hard at work in his
mines in the Sierra Madras Noun
tsins, and is fast becoming million
aire.
A dispatch from Raleigh states
that it is generally understood that
there will be no seperate and dis
tinct action taken by the members of
the Farmers Alliance in the North
Carolina General Assembly on any
public measure. That is to say, the
Alliance will press no matter of great
public importance as an Alliance
movement, which in direct conflict
with any well-defned principle OF the
Democratic party. The "knowing
ones" most positively assert this
This gives assurance of a most har-
moniOus session on questions of pure
ly public policy.
The balloon in which MN. Bisan-
con aud Hermit propose to reach the
North Pole will be ninety feet in
diameter, and made of two shells OF
Chinese silk, coated with imper-
meable varnIsh. 1t will be inflated
with hydrogen. Small balloons to
dispatches will be attached and
| utilized in case of need. The great
car will be in the shape of a wooden
house divided into three compart-
ments, of which the central will be
the living room, and those at the
| wings will be set apart for sledge
dogs, and physical apparatus. The
journey from Spitzbergen to- Alaska Is
expected to last nine days if the wind
is favorable.
jeremiah O'Donovap Rosa is now
free to pay visit to Ireland, as his
term of twenty years of Punishment
has expired. He has seen the interior
of ten English prisons. He says that
he expects to pay a visit to Ireland
early next year. Before he goes,
however, Rosa proposes to run down
to Washington and find out from
Secretary Blaine whether or not the
United States would protect him if
he were arrested on his arrival In
Great Britain. This government
ought to-" he said, "unless, of course
disObey their laws there. became
a citizen OF this country In 1863" Re-
garding the present condition OF
Irish political affairs Rosa says that
he Is neutral He believes thai
Gladstone has been fooling Parnell
and the Irish people and will con.
tinue to fool them as they hope FOL
freedom by parliamentary means.
One of the most popular men in
Russia fast outstripping Count Tol
stol for the premier place, and on the
high road to canonizatiop, is Father
Ivan. of Cronstadt. During the las