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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-22
suckLEN's ARNIcAOSALvE.

The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Tet-
ter, Chapped hands, Chilblains, Corns,
and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures Piles or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed TO give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price % cents per box.
For sale by all druggists. Dreiss. Thomp-
son & Co.'S wholesale. m9:l3-1y
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-22
Have a Swim.

Visit the Burke Natatorium, on the
Flores street car line, or by taking the
Beacon Hill line. Try plunge bath or
learn to swim If you don't know how
fort. safety and health A clear pool of
running water fine bathing suits, polite
attendants, fine dressing rooms, hot and
cold shower baths. Moderate charges.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-22
FIGURES.
Thre are two Kinds---One you don't want

Thre are two Kinds-.One you don't want, the other
you do The kind Offer you certainly will be glad to
accept-reduced figures entire stock of seasonabe
attractions We will sell rst-cass goods the lowest
known honest trade. We will reduce figures on good
qualities cheap good qualities possible be Sold No
do BETTER hardly anyone will do wstwe remember
that. ...'" ...
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22

Professor Giari brings to remem-
brance "a large number of most inter-
esting illustrations in support of the
Lamarckian view that acquired charac-
tiers may be inherited. One of the
most telling of his facts is that found
in the case Of the leaves of the lime
and other trees, which bear curious
malformations, caused by the attack of
mites.
These malformations are inherited.
even when individual trees are protect
ed from the parasites in question:; and
as no one could maintain either that
the trees originally possessed the mall
formations or that the latter occur
accidentally, the only explanation open
TO us il to hold that what was an
accidental and acquired variation has
been duly perpetuated.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
Bruin Catches a Thief.

An organ grinder who was travelling
through the country accompanied by u
tame bear which he had trained to
dance, stopped before "a farmers
house late one afternoon, and after
amusing the family with his perform
ance obtained permission to stay all
night. The bear was placed in the
barn for safe-keeping. During the
night the family were alarmed by u
terrible noise in the barn. Some one
was screaming and shouting: Murder!
help" and apparently engaged in a
struggle for life.
The farmer fastened TO the spot,
followed by the organ-grinder and
other inmates of the house, and found
the tame bear with man in his en-
brace, hugging him tightly, while the
poor fellow struggled frantically to
escape.
The bear was muZzled and could do
the man no serious injury, though he
was far from being comfortably stu
ated. From examination it proved to
be dishonest butcher, who had come
TO the barn to steal fine calf In
the darkness he had stumbled over
bruin, who had seized him and held
him fast.
The organ-grinder learning how
matters stood, called OUT Hug him,
jack and the bear, enjoying the
sport. continued to squeeze him un-
mercifully, until the farmer thought
he had been sufficiently punished
when he was released. The story
soon spread abroad and the butcher
left the town to escape the ridicule to
which il subjected him. London En-
chAnpo
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
MINIATURE WONDERS.
a Full Tea Service and Table All In n
Nutshell.

At u shop in London away back in
l745 was exhibited common Barcel-
ona nutshell holding tea table, tea
sugar dish, bottle, funnel, ID drinking
glasses five punch bowls, 10 rummels.
pestle and mortar and two sets of
nine-pins-all of polished ivory, ex-
quisitely fashioned and, according to
the account Of the time, "all to be
plainly seen without the aid OF optic
glasses" This wonder was the work
Of poor artist who had hit upon this
plan to make a living His little ex-
hibition was soon outdone by Boverick
the matchmaker For | shilling this
last named genius would show visitors
the half of a common cherry-stone,
from which he would take quadrille
table, II chairs with skeleton backs a
looking-g lass neatly framed, two dozen
plates six saucers, II spoons, dozen
knives and forks, two salt cups, and
lady and gentleman whom he seated
at the table. This same Boverick also
made an ivory camel that could be
passed through the eye of common
needle; six pairs OF steel scissors that
could all be hidden under the wing of
a common house-ny, and gold chain
of 200 links TO which miniature pad
lock and key were attached, all OF
which We're OF such minute dimensions
as to be easily pulled across pane of
glass by flea. Later on, he produced
"A small ivory coach to which he har-
messed flea, coach and steed weigh
ing exactly as much as a barley grain;
and crane-necked carriage, with
wheels turning properly on their axles,
carrying four passengers, two footmen,
a coachman sitting on the box with a
dog between his legs, driving six ivory
horses one of the leaders bearing Il
position, the whole affair SO light that
this same pet flea could set it in
motion, but was not equal TO the task
of dragging it across the showcase
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
Blaine's Leng Memory for Faces.

During onc.of his visits To Pittsburg
Mr.. Blaine stopped at the Anderson.
Zach Males r. the aged colored man
who attends to the ladies' entrance
When the secretary came in the old
man was there to see him with a graft
fled smile on mis- face. How are you,
Mr.. Blaine?" he said.
And how are you, Lach?" the
statesman wered.
Poor old Zach was dumfounded. He
expected no such recognition and
greeting. Why, Mr.. Blaine" he re-
piled, nervously, II would know you
If | had never seen you from your
pictures, but how did you know my
name was Zach?"
well, that il easy" said Mr..
Blaine, laughing. Don't you re-
member, Zach. when / went TO school
ct the Washington and Jefferson col
lege fifty years ago? i lived with my
uncle and you worked for him. have
rot seen you for years since, but for
get your face and name Zach / never
coltld."
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
ORIGIN OF WORDS.

The WORT 'nilliner'' owes its origin TO
Milan
Mr. John W. Massey, of Plymouth
Eng. formerly of Philadelphia, writes to the
Record 10 suggest the word "teevoice" as
"a substitute f)r the telephons message
The law of evolution works in language
as well as in q; her things. Twenty thous-
and WORKS have been added 10 the English
language in the department of biology
alone since Dorwin's discoveries.
"Pseudopathy" and ''pseudotherapy'
have been added To the medical vocabulary
Ivy Oliver Wendell Holmes. The first of
these words signifies the quack science and
the other means the quack method OF heal
ing.
The latest linguistic importation from
London is the verb ito finance" which is
used 10 denote the process of furnishing
funds Tor n financial institution 1t is
rather worse, on The whole, than sui
cided
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
THE STARE.

IL man would be alone let him look ssyhe ,tars"
And now all meancr things have fallen
away,
Ignoble arts and triumphs OF the day.
From out tho sombre earth, to left, to
right,
Arise the countless blunders of tho night;
Minute and stridulent they blend and
swell
Into one vast and solemn canticle;
Fleetf~oted winds upea the leafy trees
Play ~ will their grader symphonies.
And ever the attune& soul is smote,
In s~ift response upto each finest note.
No austere moon sails on, serene and
proud,
With her shifting train of dappled cloud; ;
Bnt unto the limiS of Heavens bars,
Shine forth the punctual legions of the
oh, pure compohers of sublimer mood
The humble heart ne'er counts il solitude,
To wait in exnltation, mute and awed,
In divine company of thee and God.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
J. TIDFITT, NJ. ID.

Gersham' = Corners hadn't been stood
up so since the time that Abner Hubbs,
the blacksmith married the Widow
Snively. The widow was not only old
enough 10 be Abner's mother, but she
was the relic of ".Jedge" Snively, who
died iceving her sole owner of the big
tannery That marriage was not
simply an event at the Corners. II
was III epoch For years afterwards
every @previous or subsequent occur
renee thereabout was fixed as TO date
by the union of Abner and the widow.
Things never happened at Gersham' S
Corners before the war" nor ''since
the war" The death of any one in
the community, the selling out of some
one by the sheriff or any similar hap
pening of Importance was remembered
as having occurred 1.-The year afore Alb
Hubbs mar'd the Jedge wilder in the
tan'ry," or the year arter.' as the
case might he. Even so unheard- of
a thing as citizen of Gersham's Cor
ncrs being put up fer the Legislature
7lected' failed to overshadow the
INTERESTINGLY epoch. Absalom Burt
Icy was elected to the legislature years
after the tannery wedding. He was
still serving his term when a dispute
arose one day at the tavern between
Uncle Sol, the landlord, and young
.Jep Sarly over something that had
happened in thohistory OF the Corners.
''WulL i know durn well, said
young Jep, 'th't it were just year
fore Absalom went TO the legislator. ="
ID know nuthing bout that" re-
piled Uncle Sol But | do know tn
it kim off five year arter Alb Hubbs
mar'd the OF Jedge's wilder.
And long after Absalom had served
his term and was forgotten, the time
that Abe mar'd the wilder fixed the
era OF happenings at Gersham's Cor
nerS.
And since that time Gersham's Cor
nels hadn't been stirred up as il was
tho morning it woke up and saw a tin
sign on the side of the tavern in
scribed with these words:
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22

T,iftt NJ. H., came 10 the Corners
j. 1idftt, nj. ID. had not received q
call yet either as doctor or physician,
at the Corners, staggering and brag-
ging, when one afternoon Ben Lopy
dropped in at the tavern and went in
Jasoa's room.
Doctor said he, Betty is ailin
some, N we'm afcerd it's fever this
cornin' on her. by think it's likely
to be anythin' this ketchin'p"
"More'n likely!" said the physician.
AT this time o year, more'n likely.
I'll drop over N look at her."
Ben went home and Jason soon fol-
lowed him. He looked at Betty's
tongue, felt her pulse and shook his
head.
Its fever. sure, he said, IN I'm
afeerd ketchin' one. I'll know by
t'mor', n then I'll know what to do.
I'll drop in in this evenin'."
Then Jason staggered out and told
everybody he met that there was GO
ing to be n case of contagious fever at
Ben Lopy's before two days rolled
round, and nothing could be surer
He called again Mt Ben's in the even
ing and found Betty worse. He left a
powder and told them he would be
around the first thing in the morning.
To all anxious inquirers he said that it
would be a case of ketchin' fever sure
unless it took different turn in less II
forty-cight hours.
Aunt Sairy Mole heard about the
threatening the Lopys, and conse-
quently the whole community but she
didn't seem alarmed.
Il hain't afeerd o no ketchin' fever
l ever heerd on!' she said, IAN I'll go
down 20 Betty's tonight n see wat
the gin n snakeroot IL do"
Aunt Sairy went down TO Betty's that
evening but, as she said afterwards,
she didn't have to use the gin and
snakeroot The next morning Jason
Tidftt strutted into Lopy's inshis ca
pacity of physician and the first person
he met in the house was Aunt Sairy.
He came out again so soon that people
who saw him and were anxious for
news feared that the worst had come.
Jason wasn't staggering and he looked
very sheepish.
Ills it ketchin' doctor?" several asked
him. lis it ketchin'?"
The doctor stopped.
IF it is ketchin'" he said, you fell
lers that's married III hef to dig in to
workin' durn sight tightn y be now
It's twins!'
j. Tidfitt, NJ. d., Doctor and Physi-
clan, took his sign down that day and
left the Corners. The next heard OF
him he was in raftman's tavern, down
the river opening oysters.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
Concerning Glass Eyes.

Good glass eyes come high, SAID
an oculist TO Buffalo News man. In
the first place the greater share 'of
glass eyes, so called, are not glass
The best ?uality OF artificial eyes is
manufactured in America by IA process
that is kept absolutely secret These
are the lightest and best and will last
the longer. The Germans also make n
fine artificial eye. The best eyes are
made of stone. The German article is
cheaper than the American. The Vein
ing in the foreign eyes is not SO well
marked.
What makes the trade profitable?"
I'm tell you. One-eyed men are
likely to be rather scarce. and one
would think that having once stocked
up they would buy no more. Bat this
is not the case An artificial eye gets
to be nuisance after it has been on
duty two or three months. Another
one has TO be purchased. This ex-
plains the reason for the lively trade
in these articles. There II always be a
trade in them. and a good one. too"
How is it we don't notice glass
eye in some menu
Because they know enough to keep
still about the matter, and wear the
best eyes obtainable. In this way if
you notice anything at all peculiar
about their optics you imagine they
have squint or are cross-eyed-"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22

4 heaoy burden
all the ills and ailments that onl
female flesh is heir to. 1t rests will
you whether you carry it or lay il
down. You can cure the disorder
and arrangements that prey upod|
your sex, with DR.. Pierce's Favor
tie Prescription. It's Legitimate
medicine, carefully compounded bl
an experienced physician, and
adapted to woman's delicate organ
ization.
For all organic displacements an
weaknesses, accompanied by wea
back, bearing-down sensations, an|
for all uterine diseases, it's pos
tive specific. It's guaranteed {
give satisfaction, in every case
If it doesn't, you've only to as |
for your money and it's cheerfullj
refunded. If it does, you'll wan
to ask for nothing more. 1t
the cheapest medicine you can usd
because you only pay for The GOOD
you get. 1t improves digestion
enriches the blood, invigorate
the system, and produces refresf
ing sleep.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
Not "a Modern Invention.

TIE elevator in buildings is not so
modern an invention as many suppose.
In the royal palace at Luxembourg,
near Vienna, in l777. was machine
by which the Empress Queen Maria
Theresa who was too UNIV iCldly TO go
up and down stairs. was conveyed
through a well from one story TO
another. The well or shaft extended
from cellar to roof. ard the elevator
had three strings. which. when pulled
served as signals for Ego up" down"
or stop"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
England VIII Need IL

The German colliery-owner thinks
that the day is coming when the old
proverb about carrying Goals 90 New
castle will have become obsolete and
Germany will actually send coal to
English markets. This prophecy is
based partly on the working out Of
England's best seams, but more par
ucularly upon the enormous improve
ment in transport through the great
network Of waterways in Germany
(which will tbe finished about ten or
fifteen yeare hence. The Rhine Ems
canal, which will be opened in about
four or five years, is to connect the
Rhenish Westphalian coal and iron in
dustry with the German North Sea
ports, from whence it is to be exported
and placed on the English markets at
cheaper rates than the home produc-
tior. The Oder-Spree canal already
in existence is TO he widened so as to
enable larger barges, such as will be
used on the Rhine-Ems canal, To be
employed, and along this waterway
the Silesian coal viii be brought TO
Berlin and again through the Spree
and Hazel 10 the whole Elbe district
and the North Sea.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
j. TIDFITT, NJ. D.,
} Doctor and Physician.

10 q. 80 49,. ssa-s
Although everybody at the Corners
knew who j. Tidfitt NJ. d., was, no
one seemed 10 think it was strange that
he appeared among them as doctor.
All that stirred them up was that n
doctor should locate at the Corners.
The fact that only six months ago j.
Tidfitt, NJ. d., had been choppirg logs
for his father, Nathan Tidfitt, over the
Billingsville way. had not seemed as
yet to strike the Corners rs surprising.
Previous TO his log-chopping young
Mr.. .Tidfitt, whose name was Jason.
had tried various methods Of getting
on in the world He was long, lanlI
youth. with tow head. which head
had nothing in it but conceit. lie
early quit going TO school at Billings
Vile because he said he knew more
than the teacher did. and as two weeks
later he was discharged from the
Billingsville store, where he had been
hired a. clerk, because he spelled
mackerel "macrul," and couldn't add
up "a common row of figures, the teach
err must have been IA good one. After
that Jason tried his hand selling light
ming rods but his conceit and his
.swagger in soliciting was too much for
the community and he gave up that
business. He turned his hand tG other
things with the same result and III
Last he said to his father:
The trouble with me is thu this
,deestric' hajn't big enough for me. I'm
cut out fer the county seat, N thar's
War I've got TO git
You jist git out inter the goods
with me n snake l0gs." was his faith
,er's reply.
And Jason, who was then coming
twenty-one, got out into rhe woods.
and he was there chopping and snak-
IN logs when the doctor at the county
seat circulated n hand-Gill stating that
he wanted "a young maj, tO take care
of a horse. Jason snapped at the job
and got it. it Sgas in tle capacity of
groom. ard drives for the doctor az the
county seat that he fitted himself in
six months to b. "a doctor" and a
physician. ana he hung out his
shingle ata iersham's Corners with his
swogger ani conccl { increased ten-fold.
The prettiest giri in Gersi ans Cor
ners, or in any Of tn, adjacent districts,
was BETTY Crane, but she had no
folks" Lett an orphan when she
was a fodder, she had been taken in
charge 10y thu Widow Groner who
raised hez and made her pay we'll for
her raising. Betty at the 4ge of
eighteen. was %, innoc, MT and modest
girl as had ever grow 10 that age.
She was too bash full To- loin in the so
cial festivities of the Corners and had
never kept company" with any OF the
backwoods beaux; consequently, when
she and young Ben LOpy. IA youth
almost as innocent and unsophisticated
as Betty, went together one day To
Squire Fuller's and were married, and
went TO housekeeping in one of the
tannery houses. people couldn't find
words to express their Nstonishment.
and the Widow Gronor cut Betty out
of her will then and there. They had
been married a year and more wbep j.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
She CoOls Him Of.

An Arab women, when left widow,
m0urns her husband devoutly; but,
like other widows. il she has the OPP
portunity, she may be married again.
The night before her second marriage
she pays n visit 10 her husbands grave.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22

There she kneels and prays him not to
be offended. As, however, she feels
that he will be offended, the widow
brings with her n donkey. laden with
two goat-skins filed with water. The
prayer ended, she proceeds to pour the
water on the grave, to keep the first
husband cool under the circumstances
about to take place, and, having well
saturated him, she then departs.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
beware or Ointments for Catarrl
that Contain Mercury.

a. mercury will surely destroy the sense o
smell and completely derange the whole systeII
when entering IL through the mucous surfaced
Such articles should never be used except Of
prescriptions from reputable physicians, as th|
damage they will do Is ten fold To the good yoJ
can possibly derive from them. Halls CatarrI
Cure, manufactured by +. j. Cheney 81 Col
Toledo D., contains no mercury, and 10 take1
internally, and acts directly upon the bloo1
and mucous surfaces Of the system. In buyin(
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the gcnt1
Inc. II is taken internally, and made In Toledo
Ohio, by +. j. Cheney ~ Co.
III Sold by Druggists, price 15c. per bottle
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
Her Craving for Quail.

A sick woman of Huntingdon county,
Indiana, expressed strong craving
for quail. but her husband said it was
unlawful TO kill the birds. Shortly
afterward visitors came and, while the
invalid was expressing her intense
longing, suddenly there was a sound
of something in collision with the
house, and, upon investigating. six
lifeless quails were found.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
a Matter Of Study.

The influence OF food upon the rate
OF formation of carbonic acid has been
made a matter of study in France, and
it has been found out that during the
first hour after n meal the quantity
of carbonic acid exhaled increases till
il reaches a maximum, three or four
hours after the meal. when it falls off
again. Plenty of fresh air is desirable
from one to three hours after meal
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
WHY women are Excluded.

Women are excluded from tho gal.
leries of the japanese parliament oe,
cause, as japanese newspaper says,
they might be moved by the debates
there to'further political agitation in
the empire"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
The Side the Bread Z. Ruttcres.

David Jacks is Californian million.
hire who can ride for twenty miles in n
straight line upon his own land He
Is a Scotchman and devout Presby-
'erian, and reached California in 1s49
Is a stowaway, because he had no
money to pay his passage.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22

Five cents saved on soap; five dollars \
on rotted clothes. Is that economy Their
Is not five cents difference between the cos
Df a bar of the poorest soap made and th|
best which is, as all know, Dobbins' Elec|
fric
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22

TITS.-All Fits stopped free by Dr. Kline Grea|
Nerve Restorer. No Fit after nrst day use. Mari
vellous Treatise and $500 trial bottle free
Fit cases send To DR. Kline. DI Arch St, Phiia.. IA
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22
New Name For SausnrcS,

In Boston, where they believe in
Ealing a spade a spade, they have u
new name for sausages. which is pork
tolls"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22

Texas has appropriated $50, 900 for th|
destruction OF the wolves and other viii
animals within her borders.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22

The pope VIII give a life size statue u
himself Ia ST. Mary's church In Hanover FOL
a monument at the tomb OF Dir. Mindthorst|
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22

King Humbert has 1900 blooded horses in
oils three stables near Pisa.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22

1t is said that the natives of Alaska spen,
so much of their time In boats that thei
legs are crooke d and weak.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22

Miss Louise Imogene Quincy is tO prcpar|
an ode for the sherman memorial eXercise|
IN fremont Temple in Boston.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22

But | couldn't finish. / tainted dead
AWAY, and when came to | was being
picked up by the ambulance corps and
was suffering such pain that ! forgot
Ill about my friend. When | did ask
Tor him he could not be traced, and to
Ibis day have MT learned his name,