davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
He Knew Great Men.

Tha death of the young son of Gen. Alser
recalled to a congressman story concern
ing the boy. Owing to the esteem in which
Gen. Alger held Gen. Logan the former
named his son after the distinguished III
inois statesman and soldier. Gen. Logan
frequently visited Gen. Alger's home and
was very fond of young Alger. This con-
sideration was so marked that a friend of
the boy was led to remark that it was a
great thing to be named after great man.
Yes" said the 7-year-old, 81 have been
named after great man, Gen. Logan, and
I have talked with Brouthers, the greatest
first base in the League. Chicago News.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18

An entertaining house game called the
Sea and Her Children is thus described in
Good Housekeeping: The players, with the
exception of one sent from the room, must
be seated in a circle. The person having
left will represent the sea. All others
must now decide on an assumed name,
which is also the name of a fish; for exam
pie, trout, red snapper, pickerel. This
done, the sea returns and walks slowly
around the outside of the ring, calling her
children one after another by the different
names they have selected until all have
risen and followed her. Then the sea must
run with varied motion, sometimes
rapid, sometimes slow, eXclaiming, THE
sea is troubled! the sea is troubled" Sud
denly she seats herself, and her example is
followed by her children. The unfortunate
individual who is unable to secure a chair
becomes the sea, and the game is continued
as before
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
He Was Safe,

A western justice of the peace, who was
more noted for severity than knowledge Of
law, was much annoyed one day by an at
torney who was in the habit of parading
his legal lore and making the justice ap-
pear at disadvantage. At last the justice
was enraged, and he shouted, BE quiet,
sir, or will commit you" The lawyer
seized the book of printed forms, which
was the sole reliance of the justice in max
ing out his committals, and as he walked
out of court he shouted derisively to the
justice, 'Now defy you to commit -
San Francisco Argonaut
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
AN ODD SUPERSTITION.
To See the Goddess Kiss the Washington
Monument Brings Good Luck.

To See the Goddess Kiss the Washington
Monument Brings Good Luck.
The Washington monument leans against
the blue sky, great white shaft, and 10
towers nearly 200 feet above the Capitol
dome, which stands on hin about mile
away. The Goddess of Liberty is of bronze.
She weighs IA, 900 pounds, and she stands
erect on great bronze globe on the cap of
the dome, measuring 1915 feet from her
toes to the tips of the feathers which crown
her head. She is woman of wonderful
beauty, and as a Pennsylvania railroad
train carries tie Statesmen out of Wash
ington it goes around part of the city in
such a way that TIL traveller looking from
the windows sees this great figure of the
Statue of Liberty coming nearer and nearer
to the Washington monument until at last
the two are in direct line with his eye, and
the great Goddess forms black silhouette
against the pure white of the monument.
This view of the monument has TO be
| caught on train going at the rate of forty
miles an hour There are number of car
tracks just at the point where it becomes
visible, and passing freight car will shut
it out. 1t can only be seen for a second,
and only one time, perhaps, in a dozen
| trips. Public men leaving the capital on
missions keep their eyes glued on the win
dows, and if they are lucky enough to
catch the combination they expect to find
their missions successful. If not, some of
them feel the superstitious dread of fail
ure assured, and it is strange how many
times they are correct.
When Hansbrough went home to seek
for reelection to congress he kept his
eye glued on the goddess from the time
the train left the station, but just as he
was about to see her kiss the monument a
freight car rushed in, and the momenf
passed. He went to Dakota, and failed t
get his election. At another time he vs.
left to make his fight for the senatOrship.
But will let him tell the story himself.
Said he: 81 watched the Goddess as we
left the depot. The tracks were full of
freight cars and feared should miss it.
Senator Farwell was with me and he also
kept his eyes toward the Capitol. As we
went out of the city freight cars increased,
and as we neared the point where the two
come together the track was full of them.
l kept my eye on the window, however,
and l just caught view of the Goddess
against the monument between the cars of
a passenger train. | was leaning over and
watching closely as did so, and when the
two came together | eXcitedly clapped one
hand against the other saying, I've got itP
and nearly scared the wits out of an old
woman who sat in front of me and who
must have thought was crazy.
"Well, 1 went out to Dakota and secured
my election. don't, of course, believe that
the monument and the Goddess had much
to do with it."-Washington Cor. Phila-
delphia Press.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
The Power of Music.

A lady who was once travelling through
western forest with friends stopped one
night at ''rancher's." Everything was
poor and plain, the cabin built of logs and
the dense forest crept up to the very door
The wind soughing among the fir trees
made it seem indescribably lonely as dark
ness came on. The jewellers in the cabin
were simple, kindly pioneers. who had
grown accustomed to this rough mode of
living, ami had no thought above it. After
the plain supper the lady, noticing little,
old fashioned rnelodeon in one corner,
went TO il and was about to open it, when
young gIrl came hurriedly to her and
said:
"Oh, yuh mustn't play. Gran'ma don't
low us t. tech tia melodyun sense gran'pa
died. Says she won't hev no more O. our
jigs N hOrnpipes." The lady hesitated.
Then, with a glance at the old bent figure
by the hearth, she seated herself at the
melodeon, and touching the yellow keys
softly began TO sing, low and sweet, pro-
nouncing each word with liquid clearness,
"Auld Lang Syne."
The child stood beside her awed and
frightened, but "gran'ma" only leaned a
little forward and listened. But presently,
as the full meaning of the simple, tender
words stole in upon her hardened, narrow
mind, her old fingers moved nervously, and
great tears swelled into her faded eyes,
and when the song was finished she was
sobbing like a helpless, weary chill that
has at last found an outlet for its lons psnt
grief.-Ella HigginsOn in West Shore.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
Curious Lore About Mandrake.

Perhaps the most extraordinary of the
properties attributed to mandrake are
those which it shared in common with the
rastrivtrava of Russia, of enabling house
breakers to pick locks, which is certainly
one of the most amusing developments of
the solar theory. Love, it is said, laughs
at locksmiths, " hut the connection between
the mandrake and "burgling' seems a lit
tie forced There is tradition that the
moonwort will unshoe horses if they step
upon the plant, and similar powers have
been attributed to the vervain and the
mandrake.
1t is. on the other hand, still part of the
rural lore of Oyfordshire, Buckingham
shire and Hampshire that the root will
improve a horses condition; but this seems
to be founded upon the Identification of
the mandrake with the bryony, which
played such great part in old English
herbalism. 1t is, however. more than
doubtful whether the plants belong to the
same class But both are alike in the curl
Gus wealth of legend which surrounds
them. East and west meet in their folk
and flower lore.-Chambers' Journal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
OUR KIND OF a MAN.

Not an Apollo with snow white hand,
A tribe austere, nor yet too bland,
But heart of gold all through and through,
And tender and sympathetic, too
Our kind of amani
All, one who, walking the, worlds broad ways,
Sees little to blame and much to praise:
Has cheer and smile for the weary throng,
And bold contempt for the bitter wrong
Our kind of q mani
Yea, one who, ignoring baser ends,
Liveth for home and the good Of friends;
Where, self forgotten, broad manhood lies,
A star in the glory of the skies
Our kind of mani
Who not for theories but for deeds,
Christ's own apostle, with love for creeds.
The worlds Brave prophet, after Gods plan,
In healing and teaching he leads the van
Our kind of man!
e. s. l.. Thompson in Frank Leslie's Newspa-
per.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
Could We Talk without a ronguee

The case of Margaret Cutting, of Wick
ham Market, Suffolk, is an answer in the
affirmative, but perhaps the fact that she
belonged to the talk&tive sex may account
in some measure for her good converse
tional powers.
When years Of age a cancer appeared
on the upper part Of her tongue and grad
ually ate its way to the root of that organ,
so that one day when the doctor who at
tended her was injecting some medicine
into her mouth the tongue fell out. Al
most Immediately, to the surprise of all
around her, she said to her mother, Don't
be frightened, mamma; twill grow again.
A skilled .apatomist examined her some
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
Boston School Teachers Clever Methot
OF intoxicating PoIiteness.

A Boston. School Teachers Clever Method
Of intoxicating PoIiteness.
There is one woman in Boston who is de-
termined that her sex shall not debar her
from putting heavy mark on the next
generation. She is school teacher, and
one of the few who do not undervalue
their position and its influence. She has
suffered deal in her time for the bad
manners prevalent in public places, and
every year she has about fifty boys and
girls between the ages of Z and 9 in her
power between five and six hours five days
out of seven, and she thinks that it will go
hard if she does not do something toward
intoxicating mannIs into them, Sand at
the same time hitting the parents side
slap which may not be without its result.
This is one of her methods: Once week
half an afternoon is given to recreation,
and she invents games for the amusement
and instruction of her class, so that while
they think they are playing they are really
learning something. One of these games
the one, in fact, which the youngsters en-
joy most-is called street car" The CEN
trail aisle of the class room, with its row of
seats on either side, becomes the electric
car.
A boy is chosen for the motor man. This
post is given to a boy who has been very
good for the week. and in a simple way
the teacher makes the class understand
how the electricity runs the car. Another
boy is the conductor, and they have paper
checks for fares. The other children are
all passengers They are supposed to be
business men returning home to dinner
and it is impressed upon them that they
are very tired and very anxious to read
their papers-and women who have been
shopping or to the matinee.
One by one the children signal the car,
and the conductor rings his bell, the motor
man turns his crank. the passenger enters,
walks down the aisle and takes a seat. FL
nally all seats are taken, and to point the
play the better most of the boys enter first
and take the chairs. Then the girls board
the improvised car. The boys, being i'm
pressed that they are very tired, politely
rise one by one and civilly offer the girls
the seats until every one is up but one boy,
who is known in the game as the "pig"
Then the teacher enters. She plays her
own part, and the children are supposed to
be her old pupils, who are glad to see her,
and all the girls, even, are anxious that she
SuOulu tdhc OuSli SSdIS, anu SllIL luC plSI
glanced at with surprise by all the chill
dren, sticks to his seat. Now this game
is very popular with the class, but no one
enjoys being the pig"
The teacher says that she already notes
the great improvement which her pupils
show in manners. They are most anx-
ious to do civil things for one another,
'and, remarks the teacher, 'do you not
think that they tell this story at home?
Do you not think that the pig gets shown
up by those little ones in his true Colors?
1 do not know if the papas and older broth.
ers are shamed by it, but am sure that
hope they are, and l mean them to be-
Boston Home journal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
Books That Have Not Pail

"Sheridan's Memoirs" did not begin to
sell as well as expected. While on the
Confederate side Joe Johnston's and JEFF
ferson Davis memoirs barely escaped being
financial failures. One of our great pub
fishers tells me that the only memoirs of a
civilian active in public life that ever
brought much of profit were Blaine's
book and BentOn's Thirty Years View"
Sunset Cox realized barely enough on his
book of memoirs to pay him common re-
porter's salary for the writing. New York
Cor. Philadelphia Press.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
Origin of the Word Sterling.

The origin of the word 'sterling' is very
curious. Among the early minters of coin
in northern Europe were the jewellers of
eastern Germany. They were so skillful
in their calling that numbers of them were
invited to England to manufacture the
metal money of the kingdom. The stran-
gers were known as "Easterlings" After a
time the word became sterling" and in
this abbreviated form it has come to imply
what is genuine in money, plate or char
kcLer
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
A Chemical Fire Alarm.

A new fire alarm now in use in Sweden
consists of a small copper cartridge closed
by an indiarubber button, and filed with
a fire composition. The fuse contains a
mixture of potassium chlorate and sugar,
and on it is placed paraffine capsule con-
tanning few drops of sulphuric acid.
When the temperature of the room rises
above the melting point of parafine the
sulphuric acid is liberated and ignites the
chlorate mixture, which in its turn sets
fire to the Bengal light. A fusible metal
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
Appetite of a Spider.

The stupendous nature of the task that
. a man who essays to provide food for some
thousands of these voraciotfs little crea-
lures sets himself may be imagined when
it is stated that a confined spider has been
proved by actual experiment to eat twenty
six times its own weight in the course of a
day! At this rate a man of ordinary size
would require three or four bullocks and
from fifteen to twenty sheep to satisfy his
appetite daily.-Cornhill Magazine.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18

1t seems hopeless to expect that Euro
pean spiders will ever live together with
out falling upon one another, and so the
idea of turning their product to profitable
account must be abandoned. If only this
was not the case no doubt lucrative bust
ness could be done in rearing them for the
purpose of making use of their silk.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
Can't BE Proved.

A lover of the weed says, that the man
who says that tobacco Injuries the system
can't prove it except in isolated cases. A
Boston physician has kept track of seven
users and seven. non users, all business
men, and in ten years the seven non-users
have aged the fastest and called in his
services the oftenest.-Detroit Free Press.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
suckLEN,S ARNicA SALvE.

THE BEST SALvE IN THE WORLD for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns and all skin eruptions, and positive
ly cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per box
For sale by all druggists. ~Dreiss, Thomp-
son & Co.'S wholesale, O:9:l3-1y
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18

years aIJerwaru, out couIu not nndthe least
appearance of any tongue remaining; but
there was fleshy excrescence under this
left jaw, which extended almost to the
place where the uvula should have been,
and which was about half an inch broad
This, however, did not appear until some
years after the loss of the tongue, and was
not movable.-London Tit-Bits.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18

aPPueu LeVnvI Iunpprvf>1NVeiy. Unce,
while preaching a ftIheral sermon, while
the corpse lay before him, he exclaimed,
"Here, brethren, we have before us living,
witness and standing monument of the
frailty of human hopes"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18

disk. piaceu al C5n5i.. IA ;..s .,....-.
will also be melted, and thus make cleo
tricai connection with a call bell 80 as to
sound the alarm at a distance.-New York
,Jourual
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
His Shining yirtue.

81 have got boy, said the proud father,
"who is destined one dayto shine brilliant
ly in the political armament
SHOWS an aptitude for statecraft, does
he?"
mo, but he can't write a letter. st.
Joseph News.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18

An egg was few years ago given to the
infanta of Spain which cost the sum of
$4,000. On the inside of the shell was writ
ten the gospel for Easter day. 1t also held
miniature bird of enamel which when a
secret spring was touched would sweetly
sing twelve different operate selections.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18

An object of some little interest has
been brought to the house of commons by
a Lancashire NJ. p. This is an English
one pound bank note bearing the date Feb.
IA, 1917. The note was one of the last ever
issued, and has been half round the world.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18

a building up
of the entire system follows the use
of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton. It's an invigorating, restora-
tive tonic, soothing cordial and
bracing nervine - and a certain
remedy for all the functional de-
engagements, painful disorders or
chronic weaknesses peculiar to wo-
men. 1t improves digestion, en-
riches the blood, dispels aches and
pains, melancholy and nervousness,
brings refreshing sleep, and restores
flesh and strength. For periodical
pains, internal Inflammation and ul-
ceration, leucorrhea and kindred all
ments, it is a positive specifics
guaranteed one. If it fails to give
satisfaction, in any case, the money
paid for it is refunded. No other
medicine for women is sold on these
terms. With an ordinary medicine,
it can't be done.
That's the way its makers prove
their faith in it. Contains no alco-
hol to inebriate; no syrup or sugar
to derange digestion ; legitimate
medicine, not a beverage. Purely
vegetable and perfectly harmless in
any condition of the system.
Worlds Dispensary Medical As
ISOLATION, Proprietors, No. 663 Main
Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18

Rudyard Kipling set up the type, print
ed and published his first book himself in
India, and as it had sale of over 500
copies it paid all his expenses.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
An Advantage.

"Your new cook is avery attractive look
ing person"
"Very; and it has. added largely to our
safety here. There is always policeman
Oh duty in the kitchen. London Tit-Bits.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18

A certain Presbyterian brother had a
stereotyped expression which sometimes
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18

PLAYING STREET CARS IN SCHOOL.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18

Continue .Ou. Third Page.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1891-12-30
II.

Gtpas ntebr ais eth Sabr mad benz
ersdblten 8organee berri6te srobe 8ee
triibniB In benz fleinen S~armbauie. Sc
mar am letten Sage beS Sa6rcs. Die
Sarm mar i9on piele Sabre nit ether
berbdltniBndbig fleiren 5Dpotbef be-
laitet geipeieu, Die aber ute g~efiinoiet
tperben iolte, 10 LANCE Die j3inien piinfts
lid be3ablt murben. Dies mai bis
Der sei9eben. &eioer mar bies l1ebere
et1fummen mir miinbli6 ~getroffen lpors
ben. Stun abcr gins Die SDpotbef
bur6 eiuen SobeSfaH in bte 6dnbe
eiles neuen 8elisers iiber, Der cine
art SbDlod NOR. Derielbe nabnt fets
men 8ortbeil mabr unb fiinoiate pl6bs
li6 benz altcn Yaare. bas auf cine lolGe
neberraldnng gar ni9t porbereitet mar.
Ser @laubi9er ertpartete, fpettn feline
Soroerung niGt gebeGt piiroe, Die
Sarm bel Der Dffentliden 8eriteiger1ng
fir eine1t Spettpreis Git erlperbell un6
babel einen 9eb0ri9en S9nitt gu ma
den. Im 2. Sanuar follte Die Ser
f%teigerung itattfinoen.
IS lit lei9t begreifli1, bab biele
gia6ri9t bic alter yeut9en III Die
grobte 8eitirsuns perieete. Sdttcn iie
3eit gebabt, 10 bdtten iie lift 8eitstbum
TT folder Weile ~perfaufen f0nnen, bab
fir ibren 2%ebensabeuo seiorgt sepeiea
pare. aber jekt, mober bas n0tbtse
@elO CUR 9efrieoisupg bes unge>
ftiinen @laubigers bernebmen? 0ie
metiten 2ente in ibrer um9e5ung batterl
1elber fein baareS @elb unb Die ueldeS
batten, iparen ni1t better alS tbr
Drdnger. 9aselang bate ii6 Soliab
bemiibt, baS erforoerlide 9crlebn ai
erlanseu, aber bisber INNER pergebens.
3ulest, obwobl innerli6 iiber5eust BON
Der per9eblihen Grbeit imei1er 8emtibur,
gen, nttternabm er es bod nod einrnal,
auf oie Bittenieiner Satin, ben @laubis
ger 5a elmer Stuuouns gu berpegen. III,
lein umfonit, Der 8lltfauger bliee hart,
nddig. Des lesten 6offnun9sftrabls
beraubt, mafte ct ii6 auf ben Seinls
meg. @emobubeitSmaBis febrte er ies
bod in Der 8oftoffice Ses Stdot6ens
elm, Tim ietrle pMiail4 in Gmpfans gu
nebmen. Inter anberem lpurbe Inn
aud Elm groBes Goupert eileebanbiet,
oaS ct 5lpar suerft etlpaS perirunoert
anidaute, aber banu, in feline i6mers
nliitbigen @ebanfen p%eriunfen, uner0ffs
net einitedte.
@ls er mad Dem langen @e0e. ben er
3nriid5ule9eu bate uro Der linn bel
leinen alter ooppelt bel6werlid fiel,
oabetur eintraf, mar Die Witterna6tss
ltnnoe bercitS iiberi6ritten - Oas
meme Sabr bate ieinen @in3us sebalten.
Do9 fir i'm un6 feline Satin brafts
ss ntdlts erfreulides, mie sr ii6 NIT