San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-20
BRIEF M ENTION.

finely chiseled features resembled an
old miniature rather than q man of
the present day.
King Milan has stirred up Karls-
bad by his presence there this month.
His ex-Majesty occupies the beautiful
villa Shakespeare, where he expects
his son to visit him soon.
Ex-Secretary Whitney, replying to
eX-Secretary Chandeliers recently
signed editorial attack upon him
says: I'm the first place, let me tell
you, Mr.. Roach, died a rich man.
that Mr.. Roach's death was due to
cancer
| The Crown Prince of Portugal q
child of four, is in very poor health.
His father is also far from being we'll,
and has been advised by his physi-
clans to 90 to Carlsbad, but he does
not dare to leave the kingdom on ac-
count of the serious crisis in Portu-
| guese affairs.
Henry Labouchere, editor and
mem Der of Parliament, was not great
ly impressed by the young Kaiser's
| appearance in London. He accuses
the young man of assuming a solemn
strut, supposed to be imperial, but
''partaking more OF the barn-dOor
chanticleer than of an Emperor"
The annual sales of wine from the
principal vineyards in the Rhine
gau have recently taken place, and
the demand was so greatly In excess
of The supply that the prices
realized were very high indeed, and
| wines which bad been valued at Z 500
pounds sterling fetched 16, 900 pounds
sterling.
Sir Winshaw M. Petit. one OF the
| most famous men in the English
Queens Indian country, is a million
| aire and philapthropist, owns thir-
teen of the largest spinning mills 10
| India, and with one exception is the
only native ever knighted by Victoria.
The Emperor williams presents
on leaving England were not remark
intrinsic value; but the only visiting
British court who were really magni-
quality of their gifts were the EN-
peror Nicholas in 1S43 and the EN-
peror Napoleon in 1855.
The biggest engine in the world,
''The President" as it is called, is
constantly at work pumping water
from the zinc mines at Friedensville,
Lehigh county. Its enormous power
is that of 5000 horses, or, as it is COM
puted, of 80 900 men. In the same
county there is still preserved at Ho-
kendauqua the first engine ever used
in Lehigh, and set up at Allentown
by Eli Sager in 1888.
The Egyptians had very remarks
BILE ordinance to prevent persons from
borrowing imprudentIy. An Egyptian
was not permitted to borrow without
giving to his creditors in pledge the
body OF his father. 1t was deemed
both an impiety and and an infamy
not to redeem SO sacred plepge. A
person who died without discharging
that duty was deprived of the GUS
tomary hOnors paid to the dead.
Wheat is being bought in San Fran
colonies of the latter country produce
more wheat tnan they can consume,
while the other four produce less
Naturally the former would supply
the latter's deficiency, but the foreign
tralisn wheat is so peremptory that
and importers of wheat.
Eastern capitalists have bought $40
acres of land near Pomona, Cal, and
will SGT out $4,000 fig trees. They will
equip the orchard with irrigation
pipes, bitches, etc., and put up extern
sive drying houses.
1t Is related as q curious tact that
Paris, with q population of nearly 2,
500 900 souls, has less than 100 negroes
within its limits. Statisticisns say
that the whole of France cannot mus
ter a negro population exceeding $40
The average weight of the brain OF
man bears q definite relation to the
climate in which he lives, heavier
brain weight beng found in cold than
in warm countries. In proportion TO
their stature the Lapps have the
largest heads in Europe, the Norwe-
gians next, then come the Swedes,
| Germans, French and Italians. In
| the Arab head it is found to be small
| er than any of the above, while in the
| far north there exists people called
| the Chugatshes, whose heads are re-
markab.y large.
A San Francisco chemist says there
| is only one refinery In the world that
makes absolutely pure sugar. The
| mandatory Is in Germany, and il
supplies chemists and druggists with
sugar for solutions which must be I'M
| clouded. This chemically pure article
would not find much sale for table
use, as it is dirty, grayish white in
| appearance. When dissolved, it gives
a perfectly clear solution, there being
no artificial coloring matter in sus-
pension.