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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-16
Fritz Emmett Dead.

The st. Paul game was postponed; rain
No other western games were played.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-01-10
LYoN COUNTY TiMEo.
JON DEPARTMExT.
The most complete country Job Office IN
the State.
Ness ard DispAsch.
PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITION.
PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITION.

maires; % sleep quite unconcernedly.
In the daytime. too. Ishall have defense.
e II becomes necessary" 4
"Oh, have no alarm, Mess Warriner," |"
and the mans facial expression softened
singulsrly q he gaxsd wistfu1ly st ths
gil, II hat said l love-a you" Than.
with startling, quick trandtion, b
glared menacingly o@ in tn difsction
that Gerald Heath had gone. Il seemed
curious to Mary, too. that in his rage hi
English was clearer than usual, - b
growlsd. "Iti il yeur lover that should b
afraid Of me-" He dung ont oae: ~ =
: Asrcs menace, and added ID Italian:
'Nl vindicarvi, bisoGns ehsgK nj rsnda
h gua vita Fsfis
no N coGsnioxD.1 II
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
RECOGNITION.

and my Soul stood face 10 face. alone.
ooh, Soul, how black and SCARED thou art, whsI
known
And my Soul said:
Look at me well, because am thine own.
Year in and out grew as thou hast grown,
And my feer followed in the way thine led"
Facing my Soul in dread at twilight drear,
shrank away and cried aloud in fear.
Then my soul said
"Ay. cry ana call; no man will ever hear;
Nothing will answer but the echoes clear
Dost thou then shun the path thine own feet
tread?'
Alone, but for my Soul, at close of day,
Small wonder that l cried and shrank away
But my Soul said:
1--WE are alone here in the twilight gray q"
Thou hypocrite! Fall on thy,knecs and pray.
Why fearest thou me? followed. Tlou-hast
led"
Maud Repne Burton in Friends Intelligencer
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
Making Tape Measures.

These handy strips of linen or cotton, of
varying lengths, are indispensable in ev-
cry household. Brooklyn for forty-one
years has been manufacturing these use
full little things and shipping them all
over the country There is only one other
mandatory of the kind in the United
States, and that is in Cleveland, o. Be-
sides the ordinary tape measure, the con-
Germ in this city makes the steel measure
of 100 feet and upward, used by surveyors
and railroad men. The cotton and linen
used in the manufacture are imported
from England aid the steel from France.
The first two are painted with a peculiar
kind of paint, and have the feet and inches
printed on them from plates, much in the
same manner as a newspaper is printed.
With regard to the surveyors measures,
the figures are etched on by an acid solu-
ton. The measures come in different
lengths, and rolled up in cases or not, as
the purchaser chooses. In determining
the depths of wells, etc, the measure used
is made of a metal resembling iron, and is
marked off every 100 feet.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
The Bad Commitment.

1t is curious to note that the bad com,
pliment proper in its elementary form,
constitutes the lowest and most rudimen.
tary development of humor. 1t has been
said that this faculty, the sense or percep-
ton of humor, is the only real mental or
moral attribute which distinguishes the
rich from the poor, and is the only pleas
ure which the lowly born are incapable Of
sharing in some degree or other with those
above them in the social scale; but they
undoubtedly have consciousness of the
ridiculous, apt to be tiCkled by the appro-
priately mal-apropos. That this should
take the coarser and more direct form of
epithet-not by any means necessarily ill
natured-with the uneducated, is but what
one would have expected.
Nor is it to be wondered at that these I'M
complimentary comparisons should be
chiefly drawn from the animal world, see.
ing how constantly we are brought into
contact witch SLe lower orders of creation,
and how much stronger are the impress
sions which we derive from them than
from any association of inanimate objects.
Here, possibly, may be some relic of totem
ism handed down from savage ancestry,
for in every human breast there exists a
yearning toward symbolism i'll some shape
or form, from the cultured appreciation of
the tropes and sinliies Of poetry, down to
the rough coacaits heard at the Zoo on
bank holiday ALI the Year Round
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
4 ErneI Process.

A case of secret society initiation occur
red at Harvard only ten years ago which
passes for cruelty, if not for ghastliness.
An applicant for admission to a secret So
ciety was taken to the gymnasium by
night, and first pulled up by tackles fast
ened 10 his wrists and after that by the
thumbs. His treatment was more than
the student could stand, and he nearly died
from the effects of it.
Another case was of more pleasant
nature The neophyte was led blindfolded
through a great number of Boston's
crooked streets until he was thoroughly
nystified. Then he was taken to the high
est gallery of Il brilliantly lighted theatre
and made to lean over the rail, when the
blindfold WAS suddenly whisked off. The
sensation of that moment, the student af-
terward said, unexpectedly finding himself
in the glare of the lights and looking far
down into the abyss of human beings, can
better be imagined than described. New
York Star
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
The Buttons on the Back of a Coat.

An American missionary was once labor
ing with much learned argument to con-
vert Chinaman, but found himself non
plussed when the listener retorted You
are a profound scholar; you know every
thing. Tell me, then, why you wear those
two superfuous buttons on the back of
your coat" Whether the Chinaman re-
ceived satisfactory answer to his query or
not will probably never be known; but Ole
thing is certain, it set investigators to
work, and it has since been ascertained
that the two buttons are the survival of
semi-barbaric custom, and that they were
originally scwed on to hold up belt at a
time when every gentleman wore a sword.
st. Louis Republic
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
Shetland Ponies.

The conventional Shetland pony, the ami
NAL represented in picture bookS-namely,
about forty to forty-four inches high, very
tight jointed, and with an impossible
growth of hair all over hints Just about
as bad type of this famous race as can be
well imagined. From his build he is gen.
orally short winded and thoroughly i'm
practicable in his PAGES. A South Main
land specimen, on the other hand, long and
raEish in build, hard grown, as the saying
is, and clean limbed, will far surpass his
companion in staying power.
One of this hardy breed-in our opinion
the ideal Shetland pony-has been know II
to travel from Sumburgh to Lerwick and
back the same day, with a tolerably heavy
riding weight, say fifty-siX miles altogether
of extremely hilly road. But, minor diff
ferences apart, there are certain character
istics-unfailing tests in their way with
the experienced judge-which go to the
makeup" of a Shetland as distinguished
from an Iceland or Farce, pony-e G., a
certain unmistakable breadth of build, set
of pasterns, and more particularly, an
apathetic air which no other breed pos
SesSeS.
Your "Sheltie" is not a quick animal, is
inclined to be sleepy rather than otherwise
in his PAGES, and is, as rule, disposed to
do no more than he can help in the way of
eXertion, though, if put to it, he evinces
great power of endurance, and will go
through an immense amount of work for
his size. The Iceland variety is altogether
inferior, short lived, narrower in build.
and generally fallacious, but, with all this,
he is quicker livelier, and lacks that air OF
pensive melancholy which haunts every
Shetland pony-Popular Science Monthly
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
Sairey's Son.

He was a little, white haired, withered
up old man, with weather beaten face
peering over scraggy fringe of chin
whiskers. He sat in rear seat of the last
car of the Cape train, gazing through moist
eyes at little shaver perched opposite
The conductor knew him, and stopped
when he punched their tickets to ask,
"Where did you get the boy, Uncle SETH"
He's Sairey's," replied the old man, chok-
ing sob. Il never sot eyes on him afore
a week ago Yesterday. Yer see, when Sairey
run off an merried good fer nuthin'
scamp, mother N / kinder felt we wuz
done with her. Las week got a letter.
the fust fur five years-sayin' she wuz
mighty low. Buds thicker n water. an
started fur town at onct to bring her
hum. But she wuz too fur conceded the
LAY | reached her. | found that leet ie
FILLER thar, an his mis'ble father wouldn't
let me hev him till bought "him-jes' like
he wuz a dumb beast. But I'd hev had
him if I'd he'd to mortgaged the place-he's
got Sairey's eyes. Boston Traveller.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
A Spontaneous Interchange.

No subject can be of more importance
and perhaps there is none in the whole
range of economic science so little studied
as the question of food supply. We can
see in statistical tables how many bushels
of wheat were loaded on ships at Odessa,
and how many were unioadCd at Liverpool.
Every hog that goes int0 ba"rel for ex-
port has his O)'iCuar! ct his tail, ana
the distribute q /, ., butter, eggs and
nutmegs is faithfully .,ulaCed. We read
market reports 81 prices. Everything is
scheduled-sugar, salt and horse beans.
We hear of puts and calls, options and
futures, and of men making millions in
selling wheat they never saw, and corn
that was never yet seen by man or mouse;
but how it comes about in the economy of
commerce that Russia and Ind: will, with
out instructions, grow grain for John Bull
to grind, and China supply rice for the
buildings of Britain and the soups of
France, and the whole matter of inter
change be so complete, and yet so spOn
taneous, that every man who can pay for
his breakfast is sure to get ii, and what
ever a nation may need another has it to
sell, is an economic arrangement with more
complications than a railway time table
Economist.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
English as She Is Spelt."

was in one of BrUnswick's schools,
where picked up the following thrilling
composition written by l2-year-old girl,
which is one of the best pieces of English
as she is "spelt" that have yet seen: "a
right suite little buoy, the son of great
kernal, with rough around his neck, hue
up the rode as quick as a dear. After
thyme he stopped at gun house and
wrung the belle. His tow hurt hymn and
he kneed wrest. He was two tired to raze
his fare, pail face. A feint inown OF pane
rose from his lips, The made who herd the
belle was about to pair pare, but she
through it down and ran with all her mite,
for fear her guessed would not weight. But
when she saw the little won tiers stood in
her ayes at the site. Eve poor dear! Why
dew yov I've hear! Are yew dyeingF
Know, he said, 4 am feint.' She boar
him inn her arms, as she aUght, to room
where he mite lie quiet, gave him bred and
meet, held a cent bottle under his knows,
untide his choler, raped him up warmly,
gave him suite dTachm from yiol, till
at last he went fourth as hail as young
hoarse. "-Brunswick (Ga.) Times.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
A Ouick RptOrt.

A leading counsel for the defendant in
an accident damage case, where the injury
had been occasioned by jet of steam
scalding the complainant's back and neck
as he was driving past the defendants
place, argued to the jury that the plaintiff
was guilty of contributory negligence, and
should have looked up to avoid the acct
dent The quick, witted counsel for the
complainant retorted, "Oh, no; if he had
looked up, instead of suing for damage to
the back OF our head we should have had
to charge you for the loss of both eyes. -
San Francisco Argonaut.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
Worn-Out,


"run down." feeble women, need
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
1t builds them up. It's powerful,
restorative tonic, or strength-giver
free from alcohol and injurious
drugs. The entire system is re-
newed and invigorated. 1t i'm
proves digestion, enriches the blood,
dispels aches and pains, gives re-
freshing sleep, and restores flesh and
strength. As a soothing nervine, it
allays and subdues hysteria, spasms,
and all the nervous symptoms com
monty attendant upon functional
and organic disease. It's the only
guaranteed medicine for women.
1t does what is promised or it
asks nothing. 1t gives satisfaction,
in every case, or the money paid
for it is refunded.
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 beverage. Purely
vegetable and perfectly harmless in
any condition of the system.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
People Who Never Go to the Box Office

"You have 10 idea" said downtown
man, chow many theatre gOers never go
near u box Office to buy tickets. There was
time when every man bought his own
ticket. But of late years press of business
has broken up the long line which used to
stretch from the window of the ticket
seller clear across the street. Now there
are men who furnish tickets to the best
paying theatre goers of the city. know
one man who has an Office down town who
sells between 500 and $500 worth of tickets
every day, and when there is al opera
season or an extra attraction his receipts
are larger. OF course he has til sanction
of the leading houses, which furnish hin
so many seats day. He knows his Gus.
toners, and they are people who want the
best there is in the house.
He makes selections himself, and his
patrons never complain. He knows the
coming attractions of course in advance of
the average goer, and notifies his patrons
of the dates of the same, asking how many
tickets will be wanted, and for what
nights When he receives answers, if they
are favorable, he selects the seats, and
sends the tickets by mail. The transaction
is strictly commercisE At the end of thir-
ty days he sends his bill for tickets fur
nished, and gets his remittances promptly
The people who patronize him pay more
for their seats than they would at the box
Office, but they are willing to pay extra for
the comfort of being served. This extra Is
the compensation of the broker. 1t has
become a thriving business with him. ~
Chicago Tribune
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
Tricks of the Swallower.

The meanest trick that the epiglottis has
done of late is to an Auburn storekeeper,
who was about to open store the other day,
and held key, a very small one, in his
mouth for Il moment, when he unfortu
nately slipped on the door and swallowed
it (the key, not the door. He waited for
his partner to open up. A pretty girl who
was about to pay the conductor in the
street car pine street route Thursday sud
denly blushed and then turned pale. She
had swallowed ten cent piece.-Lewiston
Journal
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
Winters That Were Severe.

An aging correspondent with a memory
notes the following coincidence: Winter of
1901 remarkably severe, with heavy snow
fall. Winter of 1SS0-l remarkably severe
with heavy snow fall Winter of 1s70-1 re-
markedly severe, with heavy snow fall.
Winter of 1901 remarkably severe, with
heavy snow fall. Here our correspondent
prays rate in aid" from some one with
longer memory than his.-Pall Mall
Gazette t ~
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25

opera mouse orchestra at Mr. w r. Van
derbilts concert. Ten years ago he was
willing to accept $40 for an evenings work.
AT that time he used to go out to Newark
once a week TO conduct little choral club
there, and was glad to receive So for his
evenings toll.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25

Leland Stanford is the richest man in
California. His wealth is now estimated
at S5O,CO0,0OO. He was born in New York,
became lawyer in Wisconsin, and went
with the ArgOnauts il lS49
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
A Blind Man at the Play.

A good looking man of 40 walked down
the aisle of the Grand Opera house. Few
observed that he was blind. He sat well
down in the parquette, listened atten-
lively to the rollicking dialogue on the
stage, and laughed loudly at some Of the
witticisms of the comedians. 1t was rather
pathetic to note a man so afflicted in such
a brilliant place, but he enjoyed the per-
formance Observation-Disclosures CONNER
cial.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
When Does Winter Begin?

What is the exact date Of the beginning
of winter?
According to the almanac, it begins with
December but the astronomers make it
begin on Dec. 81, while if the testimony of
the thermometer, which ought to be worth
something, be accepted winter has not act
ually come in recent years till some time
in January.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25

The marked separation of some cloud
layers has been eXperimentally demon
strated, while ascending mountain, by
Professor Moller, in Germany. The lower
cloud was left behind when he had gone
upward of 200 feet, but high above him
were clouds of the middle layers at height
of 10000 feet, which soon began to darken
with rain or snow.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25

In parts of Scotland it is a current belief
that if the water hen, or any other aquatic
bird, builds its nest high above the usual
level of the water, there will be more than
the ordinary fall of rain, to cause floods in
the stream or loch.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
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
money refunded. Price 25 cents per box
For sale by all druggists. Dreiss, Thomp-
son & Co.'S wholesale. ) W:9:13-1y
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25

Senator Sherman is feet inches tall,
but he weighs only $50 pounds. He looks
no older than he did fifteen years ago, and,
though now 90, his hair has just begun to
turn gray
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25

an ingenue. don't Know what that Is,
but she wears garden hats and has her hair
down her back most of the time, and the
other one, shes what they call a song and
dance artist. Sho can kick six feet higher
than her own lead One Of those dark
young ladies is trying to get into light
opera.
She had to move out of three boarding
houses. She works bard. She sings every
night till II O'Clock and begins every morn
ing at :. That other dark young lady
they call her Mrs Siddons, cause her
teacher ays she : got tears in her voice. 1t
sounds like a sore throat to me. Why
added Maria, every one in the house is GO
ing on the stage 'Cept that red checked
young man--he's Sunday school teacher,
and his mother won't have it--and that
young woman that sat opposite to you
"'And why in. the name of Shakespeare
isn't she going 0G?"
"'Weil, You see, they say she was born
for critic, and Il lnanager wouldn't dare
TO take her in his company because she'd
be sure TO be Shot inside of twenty-four
hours. Why, Pm studying for the stage
myself! | 10 and take lesson whenever
it's my Thursday OUTPUT I've got a broth
er-he's mean old thing-said if he ever
caught ME on any stage, unless it was a
Fifth avenue rapid transit. he'd come on
and chase me- off with a club. But I'll get
there yet! Pm just bound to act like Cora
Potter and Mrs. Langtry, and it's great
deal easier to do than 10 wash dishes and
wait on the doorsR
THANK you, Maria said l, Il see it all
now and went back a sadder and wiser
man. New York World
A Brute of n Man with a Merciless Plan.
"Please go inside" said the brakeman to
very large man with brown whiskers
who fingered on the platform.
mo, SIR" said the passenger, with a
gruntthat reduced the brakeman TO sub
mission.
And the rain fell pitilessly on both of
them. When the train had passed three
or four stations and the passenger had
been thoroughly drenched he turned to
the brakeman and observed:
Don't take me for a Baptist cause l
like this, dye"
NO" answered the brakeman, who sur
veyed the questioner as he hazarded the
reply.
'Tell you" said the large man, "Pm
going to do this if it kills me. Oh, yes,
know there's lots of pneumonia in Brook
Ign, but, my friend pneumonia is a bless
ing compared TO what | want to escape.
Fact is, my wifes got another singing
craze. Brother over from jersey; sister in
from Long Island; wife sings soprano;
brother tenor; sister cOntralto, and they've
got no bass. Want me. Dye see it YETI
Want me to sing bass, man. Eli? Ought
to be glad to do it? Oh, yes, Pm glad.
I'm practiCing. love singing, especially
quartet singing. | love it so that like to
express my appreciation as a dog does.
But they've invented this bass business so
that can't decently howl. Pm gong 10
stay on this platform till get COLI ',tJ ii
shake my voice into'inch square Cnunt,s,
and then I'll sing bass in that quartet.
Pm willing to take with the rest a chance
of living after | once get loose, but my
melodious part is bound to scrape the rust
of all the door keys on the block if the
ambulance and firemen don't get around
too soon. "-BroOklyn Eagle.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25

Walter Damrosch is said to have asked
81 200. for Conducting the Metropolitan
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25

Continued Su Third Page.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-05-06
GORDON HEIGHTS.

Handsome building sites now for
sale. The whole property is surveyed
and plotted, streets and avenues laid
ont and the most prominent of them
are being graded and macadamized or
paved The land lies facing the South
Magnificent outlook and views from
al parts OF The property. The Public
Buildiugsin PHILADELPHIA can be seen
on any clear day. Unobstructed view
Of the Delaware river from Philsdel
phiR to Fort Delaware. Woodland
mostly Of fine old oak trees, rocks
springs, sc win be left as a park
We invite parties 70 60 on the ground
and look over this property. IL Is IS
minutes drive from the city and min
htes from p. w q B. railroad station
AN idea Of it can be had bv view
from the Court House. Will be
pleased to give further information
or show the property To anyone who
will call at eur office or address.
GEO. r. TOMNSEN D. g. co
8 a Market Street.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-05-06
DIED.

ANDERsON.-onM May 2, Joseph r. Ander.
son aged a.
BOON I'm this city on April 30, Alexander
Boon, aged % years
BRkCk.-At Scranton, Pa on the lst in
slant. Gabriel Josephine, widow of William
Breck.
BROWN.-In this city, on Nav 1st. John
Q. Brown, aged 81 years.
DE ATS in this city, on May B Tunie
Deals, aged 81 year.
HARVEY I'm this city on May /, Miss Ann
Harvey. aged 10 years.
JONES.--In this city on May =, Edmund L.
Jones, aged &c years.
Nc ,ALL.-In this city. on May 8, Fannie
j., wife OF Harlan Mccall.
McCONNELL.-In this city, On May 4, Mary
Mcdonnell, aged IS years.
MORAN,-In this city on Nav q Mary ]
Moran, aged 2G years.
TURNER.-On April so, Talbot Turner
nged "a years.
WOODROW.-In this city. Elwood IT.
Woodrow, aged 81 years