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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-10
CHINAWARE, &c.

An IMPORTATION OF NEW EARTHEN.
n WARE.-Do you want Tea Set, or Cham.
Der Bet or Dinner Set ? or do you only want
few pretty decorated pieces to f II out until fall
II you do you must not fail to look at the New
Decorated Porcelaine we have Just received direct
from johnson Bros. Celebrated Pottery in Hanley
England. We have no hesitation in stating that
you will not find any more beautiful Porcelsine
in any market, and IS we buy these goods direct
from English potters, We guarantee the goods and
prices in every instance Look over your China
closet, snd sec if the old set is not about gone.
You will need new set this fall 80 call nos and
select it, Besides the decorated which comes In
pencil, and brown print sprays, We have a full
line of the plain white. TheTo is no IN 6uying
eaer .oare than this porcelaino. Il ,ou su;. the most
fast;diotls. For sale only, by
aus1 E. J. MILLER & SON.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-15
NOW is THE TIME
To Make Money in Buy
ing Property.

The following list is only small por
ton of the many fine bargains now be.
ing offered by JNo. T. HAMBLEToN & CO
Real Estate Agents; Office at No. 4 East
Commerce street
Three very large lots on Government
hill, one-half block from car line.
Three room cottage on Austin street;
lot 81 I-2xI45 feet.
Five acres OIL San Antonio river suita-
Bile for subdivision. COMPLIMENT. to street
car line.
Seven room house on Elmira street,
Stable, Water Works, ETC.
Two houses on Blum Street, renting
for $40. per month.
House of six rooms with bath. 10
52xIoo on Monterey Street, house almost
new.
New House of six rooms on Chestnut
Street. Lot 66xI4o feet.
Fine piece of improved property on
LNOllh I'lOlCS OlISSl. l-Ol lZOAlCO ltSl,
this is bargain.
A desirable piece OF property on Avenue
E, can be bought cheap.
A fine corner on Avenue c near Hous-
ton Street.
Two Lots on Buena Vista Street, con-
venient to Street Car.
Fine Block of II Lots on Tobin Hill.
Large lot So72x34o feet, on ditch and
Rock Quarry road.
Elegant two story house, 10 rooms with
all modern improvements, first
neighborhood and centrally located.
Five room house, stable, lot IS I-2 x
$50 feet. few steps from car line.
40 acres fine land II miles from San
Antonio, on Goliad road; 70 acres in cul-
tivation, good house, q rooms, 200 bear
ing peach trees.
422 Acres farming land in Hays and
Comal counties, 10 miles from San Mar
cos; d room house, never failing spring
40 yards from house, school and post
Office half mile from place.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-15
A Jap's English.

\ japanese boy who works in San
Francisco clubhouse sent the following
picturesque complaint TO the officers: "To-
day ! went to the club to get my wages
The steward, Mr.. John, ordered me to
leave, with many repetitions Of abominable
oaths which man of some honor can't re-
strain his passion from revolt on such a
violent shower of curse. Anger was be-
yond my control, and involuntarily | re-
turned my share of compliments, upon
which he snatched the potato masher and
was brutal enough to give me two severe
blows on my person, and inhicting quite
painful injury. Through all this affair
was never offensive. When | went there
to demand the money to which was en-
titled he unjustly enjOiDed me to get out
That is an unreasonable movement and
cannot fail to hurt mans feelings
What!
Without being satisfied with that in
suit made my blood boil and the veins
burst with successive onslaught of igno-
minOus swear. My returning was COM
pletely eXcusable, for to be Indifferent to
such an ignoble treatment denotes that
one is stranger to the sense of honor; and
abashed submission. And what again!
The tongue the countenance was not
capable enough to wreak his savage fury
and then he resorted to that final step of
violence as though | was a mass of clay,
insensible to disgrace and pain. "-Ex.
change. "
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-15
He WAS A PROMOTER.
Trade Talk of a Curious Character Com
mon Enough in New York.

mon Enough IN New YORK.
Some hundreds of keen and not over
scrupUlous New Workers are perpetually
haunted by visions of wealth to be made
through petty inventions. The success of
pigs in clover" concentrated for time
the whole energy and cleverness of these
men upon puzzles. \ dozen new puzzles
were promptly invented, and as many old
ones were revived. There was an uncon-
scionable amount of lying done about the
prospects of each invention. Half a dozen
of the spectators were tortured by pros
pective success that stopped short in the
first week, and twice as many more per-
severed for months, led on by a hope plain
ly enough vain to all save the unhappy
victims
4 typical man of this class perched him
self on a stool in dingy second hand book
store the other day and talked of his trade.
| He was not twenty-five years old, tall,
slender, agile, red haired, sanguine and ap-
parently void of conscience. His speech
was curious mixture of slang from the
Sums, figures from the counting house
and technical terms caught from the me-
chanical trades with which his precarious
business brought him in contact. He was
glib of tongue. quick at repartee and at
times peculiarly happy in rude figures of
speech.
All his talk was spiced with cynical
wisdom of the world, and beneath the sur
face lurked, half hidden, an intense desire
to get money easily and quickly. He had
sold everything, from knitting needle to
a rag baby. At that moment he was can
vassing for new puzzle, but the owner of
the invention expected too much, in fact
hoped TO sit still and see dollars roll right
in at his doorway. But that amt my
funeral; it's his cemetery, see? So long AS
he pays me five dollars day for canvassing
I'll work for him."
There was always some jay around town
with $500 looking for a cold cinch. Such
| persons expected to get the earth and put
fence round it, and all for $500. He him
self had d little thing of his own invention.
| There was comfortable living in it for
| the next twenty years, and he had it tight
with copper fastened patent He had ad.
vertised in Sunday paper for a partner
with 1900, and had received three or four
answers, but they all wanted the whole
thing He didn't intend to sell good liv.
ing for twenty years at any such price.
His invention had to do with sinks.
Now, there were 25,OOO,0OO sinks in the
United States, and every one Of them was
bound to have that article. 1t could be
sold cheap and made for little or nothing.
A profit of less than cent on each meant
wealth. He need not keep an office, but
could have his article manufactured in
Brooklyn and receive orders direct at the
factory. There was nothing like house
| hold utensil for selling. Puzzles didn't
last. They played out in a few months
and something else had to be done, but the
world would go right on using his article
till sinks were no more.-New York Re.
| corder.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-15

country ano my nanceer VINE the men
were making ready to fire Jeanne erept
closer and closer, and when she saw the
lips OF the man in charge of the firing
party about to give the fatal order, she
rushed in with outstretched arms as If to
s,..v!a her lover and when the smoke
cleared away there were two corpses on the
ground, each pierced with several bullets.
The lovers were buried side by side in
two graves in the little cemetery of Ste.
Genevicve des Bots, with a tombstone at
the heed of each.-Paris Cor. Cincinnati
Tlmes-StSr
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-15
Making Party Calls.

Sister Nell-Bobby, did you go to the
door last night when Mr.. James and Mr..
Wilson came to make their party call2
Bohby-Yep.
Sis:er Nell-What did they say when you
told them was at the theater?
BoGby-Mr James, he said, In luck
again, that makes three" and Mr.. Wilson
said: I'VE dassu't try any more of 'em.
Let's 20 Gown town and have some fun"
West Shore
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-15
LOCATION
OF THK-
San Antonio Fire Alarm Boxes.


No. LOCATION.
y Cor Flores and Gilbeau.
ID Cor Flores and Arsenal.
IA juno s Laredo and East.
Is juno Laredo and s PecOs.
16 Cor Flores and Arkansas.
II Cor 5 flones and Lachapelle. s p r r
crOSsing.)
Is Union Stock Yards.
10 Cor SaladO and Vera Cruz.
q q N r Stock Yards, San Luis.
% Cor Medina and W Commerce, Il & G
"a Cor W Commerce and Pecos.
25 Cor PecOS and Matamoras.
% Central Office, Military Plaza.
n Cor Houston and Flores.
% Cor Houston and San Saba,
80 Cor Leona Il Morales, City Hospital.
81 Cor MOrlaes and N Salado.
80 Cor Leal and Comal.
"a Cor Hidalgo and East.
35 Cor Acequia and Rodriguez,
80 juno San Pedro Ave and Camden, end
WaId HOse.)
81 Cor San Pedro Ave and Elmira.
80 Cor Warren and Jackson.
al Cor San Pedro Ave and Laurel.
AZ juno Laurel and Fredericksburg Road
John TESTS StOre.)
43 Cor San Pedro Ave and Locust, (San
Pedro Springs and car stables.
As Cor Poplar and Main Ave.
46 Cor Main Ave and Macon.
AZ Cor Lexington Ave and Augusta.
122 Cor Soledad and Salinas,
12 Cor Z. Houston and st. Mary's.
l25 Cor E.. Houston and Ave c, mo. 2 En-
CINE House.
126 Cor Martin and jefferson.
127 Cor Ave ID and Eighth.
1872 Cor Ave B and Ninth.
134 Lone Star Brewery, Grand Ave.
l35 Cor Grand Ave and Austin, Sunset
Hose).
1876 Cor Austin and Duval.
142 Cor Austin and Carson.
143 Cor Military Ave and Grayson.
145 Cor Austin Ave and GraysOn.
152 Cor Military Ave and Crosby.
1873 Cor Olive and BurleSOn.
154 Cor Olive and Nolan.
2l3 Cor Burnet and Walnut.
pa Cor Ave f and Sixth.
2l5 Cor Ave ID and Fifth.
2l6 Cor + Commerce and Alamo.
2l7 Cor NacOgdoches and Nolan.
231 Cor Crockett and Bowie.
234 Cor Commerce and Walnut.
235 Cor Water and North (Reimann's MILL
241 Cor Water and GOliad.
243 Cor GOlIad and Santa Clara,
251 juno Water and Alamo, mission HOse.)
253 Cor CamargO and Labor.
26l Cor Presa and Pereida.
312 Cor Alamo and ViIlita.
3l4 Cor Quinta and Nueva.
315 Cor Market and Yturri, mo. Engine
HOuse.)
SIG Cor Garden and villita, Electric Light
StatiOn.)
32l Cor Garden and Mill.
324 Cor Mill and Adams.
325 Cor Beauregard and Mill
4l2 Z orking William and Turner
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-15
1t Would Be Large,

SiX-year-old James, of Boston, and his
New York cousin were disputing about the
relative size of their respective cities.
Quotations from the census returns
rather staggered the youthful Hubbite at
first, but he soon brushed them aside with
the remark:
well, I'll bet yer Boston's the biggest If
yer take in all the hubbubsp'-Boston
Transcript.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-15

Worth-What do you write for. old man
fame or money!
Scribbler-Neither one l write for a
journal that pays on publication.-New
York Truth.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-15
T II E S A N A N OHIO
DAILY LIGHT!
THE ONLY DAILY REPUBLICAN PAPER IN TEXAS

1t is thoroughly Independent and does not
owe allegiance to any clique. corporation, or
conbination of office. holders rings
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-15
THE CRUELTY OF WAR.
HEROIC DEATHS OF TWO DEVOTED
FRENCH LOVERS IN 1871.

An Episode of the Great Franco-Prussian
Conflict-The Romance of the Youthful
Pair Recalled by the Death of the Fs-
Their of the Young Soldier.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-15

1t is Live paper. containing all the latest
Telegraphic. State Specials and San Antonio
Local News.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-15

Its Editorials are Fearless and without
favor, and it's opinions are not for sale neither
to politicians or schemers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-02-19
FISHING PARROTS.

A Branch OF the Family Which Devotss
More Time to Catching Fish Than 20
Talking.
OF all the odd-looking parrots in the
world the putin, or sea parrot, Is GER
tainly the oldest Pufins are members
OF the AUX family and live in holes
which they burrow in the edges Of
sandy cliffs beside the sea.
They are white-breasted and black
backed, and have red and blue beals.
and red feet which give them most
singular appearance when they are fly
ing
All puffins are great fishers They
hover down along the waters edge and
scoop up in their beaks the little hsh
which swim in shore.
AS fast as putin gets beak full he
takes the fish up to the sand hole, where
the little brood is waiting. When the
puflns are not raising young they carry
their prey just the same from force Of
habit, probably, to their nests and
there devour it
It a comicaI sight to see hundreds
OF them waddling ashore with little nsh
hanging from their beaks-
AS the putin generally has bis mouth
full, he has no time to practices saying
bad words. like his more eivliized broth
ers IN, 7. Sunday Journal
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-02-19
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL


"A drainage and p p'umbing bill of
$4,000 is large for one individual to
settle, but the Duke of Portland has
recently completed Improvements to
that amount
AN English tourist in this country
created surprise, as well as amusement
when he asked, upon paying his fare:
''Are any refreshments included in
these tickets?"
-Dark-haired persons have better
chance in the great struggle for exist
ence than those of the opposite COM
plexion, except in contagious diseases
where blondes are comparatively ex-
empt.
The number of sEharriages is in pro-
portion of rs to every 1,OOO individuals
born; the time when the greatest num-
Der of marriages takes place is in June
and Decem mber-about the time of the
summer and winter solstices.
Mrs. Nicholson, of New Orleans,
who owns and edits the Picayune and
who is the only woman in the country
in such po~,tion, is so quiet, low
tOGOCA eAAO ia bh0O OAAS
would never suspect her of holding the
place she fills
BARRIERS on the French steamers ar
riving at New York are said to have
regular patrons among the compatriots,
who visit the steamers upon every ar
rival, bent upon having their boards
kept trimmed in the u ira fashion of
the boulevards.
AN awful admission is made in the
Boston Traveller when lady of that
city is quoted as saying to the wife of a
Cambridge professor: II am sorry to
have to confess it, but it is true, you
know, that when we have any guests at
all distinguished come to Boston, we
have to depend on you Cambridge peo-
pie to help US entertain them"
Miss Maud Powell, the violinist. is
endeavoring to recover by suit at law,
$500 that she paid for an o.d ''Duiffo-
prugcar' instrument. She finds, she
says, it is one of kind turned out by
| the car load in Southern France espe-
cially for the purpose of deceiving buy
ers and that their market val ne is
about six dollars a dozen. 1t is aston
| ishing what tricks there are in every
trade except ones own.
"A man from Woonsocket. obliged to
visit Boston on business timed his trip
SO as to be able to hear Mark Twain
lecture at fremont Temple. By some
misunderstanding he mistook the day,
and happened in on one of Rev Joseph
Cooks lectures. He listened to the
long discourse without discovering his
mistake thinking all the time that the
lecturer was the famous humorist Or
his return to Woonsoeket, his family
questioned him as to the lecture.
"Were it funny?" was asked "Wall,
slowly replied the traveller; 'it was
funny, but it warn't so desperate fun
uyl"-Exchange.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-02-19
The SIMS Control.


1t would almost seem as if our globe
were always trying to escape from the
thraIldom of the sun, who, knowing
how fatal to US such an escape would be,
necessarily interferes to prevent it. If
only the sun were to withhold that at
tractive power by which the earth is
maintained in the course at present fol-
lowed dire calamity must result This
globe of ours is now hurrying along at
a pace of eigh teen miles a second, and
if the suns attraction no longer re-
strained us we should not continue to
revolve in circle, but would at once
start off in straight line through
space. Every minute would take us
more than thousand miles, and by the
time hundred days had elapsed we
should be twice as far from the sun as
we are at present. His light and his
heat would be reduced to one-fourth
part of what we now enjoy. With every
successive minute the SUMS influence
would still further abate, and it is al
most needless to add that all known
forms must vanish from the globe. 1t
is, therefore, satisfactory to know that
we possess every security that the suns
attraction win never decline from what
It is at the present moment and there
fore there is no ground for any appre-
hension that life shall be chased from
this globe by dissolution of the bond
of attraction between the earth and
sun-GoOd Words.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-02-19
"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

Don make so much noise, please.
said the watchman to the serenaders;
.''there's a deaf-and-dumb asylum on
this block. and I'm afraid you'll disturb
the patients. "-Harper's Bazaar
What Ho Would Do-Mr Bingo-
"Tommy, when you get to be the head
of family what will you say to your
sons2'' Tommy (thoughtfully)-'I viii
tell them how good was when was
boy. IN Y. Sun.
"A Problem.
This paradox may now be scanned
To puzzle teachers;
Men find it easy getting tanned
Upon the bleachers.
IN. Y. Press,
The Last Rose-"This reminds me
of popular song" said Bronson, as he
picked up rose from the floor, after
the guests had departed. ''How SOP"
inquired Mrs Bronson sit is the Last
Rose of Some Her - -Bostonian.
Its funny don't get moro let
ters." said the man in bangor, Me.
why" said his wife, 'you never write
any" 81 know that" said he; but all
the letters that come into the city are
addressed to Me- '"-Roston Budget
mo, nc, said the Italian Count.
sEet eese no use; l have long talk
witha her father. teila heem l have
a great vista of possibilities before me. :"
"And what did he say?" "He etella me
to pulla down my vista. Washington
Post.
-Paternal Wisdom. -Father-"Have
you decided what profession you will
enter, my son?" Son-'T am deter
mined to be an actor, father Now,
what would you advise me to do?''
Father-''Go into training with some
pedestrian. boston Herald.
"A Guide in tho Dark. you brought
a piece OF Limburger cheese home last
night John" 81 did, dearest" why
in the world did you do it?' Il knew
would wake up hungry in the night,
and / wanted to know where to find tho
pantry in the dark. "--Boston Courier
"A Miss Clarkson. of Brooklyn, wen
over to Newark, stayed two days, and
when she returned she wanted an item
put into society paper. She gave il
TO tetlOW-DOaruer 10 Jake uOWH' Du
he forgot it, and she pulled his hair
skinned his nose, blacked his eye, ane
had to pay him fifty dollars damages
Society is terror when it gets mad. :
Detroit Free Press
Charlie Usually Does.-One of thi
most unnecessary remarks ever mad
/ by human lips-from the eold-bloodet
outsiders point of VIEWS the younl
| brides tender injunction as she stand
in the doorway with her arms twine
lovingly around her husbands neck an
says: 'sNow. do take care OF yoursel
until you get home again, won't yoF
Charlie, deay9"- -SomeEyille journal
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-02-19
From an o.a Toml,s tone.

The old Derry churchyard, nine miles
from Harrisburg. Pa, is an interesting
spot. Here is an inscription found
there with moss all around it:
"Under this stone hes entombed James
Campbell Duff, you see. Who was as
healthy and as strong as many that may
be. But now by death, wEom all de-
yours, is laid up in his cell With
crawling worms and reptiles base, he is
obliged to dwell You that these lines
may look upon may also call UG mind.
That death will be your certain fate,
therefore improve your time. He died
May 81, 1771. about the age of eighty.
Also Agnes, his second wife. She died
April 8, 1859, about the age Of atty"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-02-19
ONLY PREJUDICE

CahnibalIsm Not So Very Objectionable
When PhiIosophicllIy Considered.
dare say to outs ders the idea of
cannibal is inexpressedly shocking and
revolving but after living among them
and discover ng in them the same traits
of honesty, honor, even chivalry as
might have been found in the beef-and-
mutton-eatng knight IS of old, this feel
ing of horror dies away; and we can
understand how people may be canni-
bal through long custom and tradition
without being inately more ferocious
than the peaceful cit'zen who buys his
steak or chop of the humane-looking,
good-tempered butcher around the cor
ner Personally, although out of purely
disinterested friendship, | have been
offered piece of human broiL Inever
tasted it, but this 1 regarded as preju-
dice bred from custom entirely. As
might pause before / attempted beetle
pie. however delicately dressed up al
so, If could overcome this early preju-
dice, | would not, any more than the
Papuan nation care to do, be induced to
taste European, knowing them and
their failings as do. Yet, except from
that early prejudice. which will not be
overcome, do not know of any more
reasonable objections which can be. set
up against good, mple-living, moral
and healthyfed savage, or even an
opium Favored Chinaman, (which they
tell me is very sweet,) than can be set
up by vegetar ans against the flesh of
the OK, sheep or pi'. OF course, when
it comes to the taking of life, then the
same objection applies all round, and
that is about the only philosophical OBJ
lection which we can raise on the sub
ject.
The New Guinea native in his hours
Of peace and friendsh p is all that can
be desired-faithful, humane. cour-
teous; in his hours of wrath and re-
venge he is no more demon than you
will meet any day in civilized England
When he sets out on these expeditions
of revenge and food-providing he goes
with the border chiefs set object of not
risking more than he can avoid. He
sets out on the war trail secretly and
silently. watches for his opportunity
when be may find the enemy unpre-
pared, then he pounces upon him, pith-
ing him with his man trap, plunging
his spear into him and telling him with
his club and afterwards. like prudent
hunter, cuts him up into servieea Bile
pieces and carries him straightway
home to utilize. If they are forced into
battle they will fight boldly and fierce
ly; there is no giving way or surrender,
the termination of the battle meaning
that he whether have food or be food;
his poisoned spears or arrows are not
used here; the hunting weapons are Or
dinarily arrows, clubs, axes spears and
man-traps, and both sides fight on equal
terms and with similar intentions. Af-
ter man has lived among them for a
time he begins to think it rather com.
pliment to be considered good enough tc
eat. l did not feel very highly fattered
when after asking native who was
leisurely feeling my muscles if was
good ki-ki (food), he replied, with wry
face: No, no; too salt; no good. Chi
naman very good. English Illustrated
Maraz- ne.