San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-03-11
LONG STOPS.
IBr No FLIES ON HIM.

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One heard the thrushes MARBLE,
| And sat beneath the trees.
The first Self-gReat in places,
| Seemed many merged in one:
| The second bore the traces,
| OF labor'S humble son.
| The former SwIgged his brandy
| "a worldly man was he;'
The latter, less dandy,
| Found Stimuant in tea.
A cvcloNe of the winters 80,
Soon famed the regions, Till
| The castle fell in splinterS-
The trees are still!
Tins is il with The naughty
Who tread life's gilded halls
Inclining to the naughty,
| They greater feel the falls.
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Some of the alcade'S alderman do their
| thinking left handed.
The old expression used to be 'as drunk
as a lord" but recent events suggest the
more appropriate one las drunk as a
King
San Antonio has poet,
Wise and sweet;---
Tho we know you not this minute,
Here's our hand and all that's in 1t.
S. X. Skeet!
IT'S the welcome of stranger,
Who in pOesy ranger
Is at times,
VINO can lasso not his Faber,
As it prancing lands neighbOr
And his rhymes.
That ungilded name on Market street
bridge is getting tly-specked.
As was said before: Beware of him
whom God hath marked, Isl saying that
well applies to one OF Brine'S literary
bussards. Well be more explicit, if nee
essary, however averSe we are to uselng a
steam roller to crush gnat.
If the county and city officers were
elected two years ago for the period 81
four years, San Antonio would be now as
clean Of smallpox as hounds tooth
Fact!
Whiskey and certain officials seem to
be as inSeperable as smallpox and the
! administration.
| The council couldn't pick up enough
energy to meet Monday, but the deXterity
with which some of them can conceal &
toddy would make Jay Eye See slow an
| imal.
Brine reminds one of the doctor in Gi
Bias. Though some one else does thu
bleeding, he takes the copious draught'
of water-on the outside.
Politicians are the mutilatOrS of tn
BODY polite: Office holders are the buz
yards, and the people are the bones. Thi
allusion is in direct prOpinQuity TO a re
ference.
Some people are disposed to cenSure tn
peeIer on whose watch wagner giasse
! were broken. This is wrong, as Detwee
sleeping and dreaming of the admin stra
ton the poor devil is worked down.
Brine-What'S new, anyhow?
Claud-NOthing, only that paint 0
those old alarm boxes.
Brine: You're too smart, you are:
knew that much myself. What's new i
the town, mean?
Claud: / dislike to tell it, but some {
your green firemen had the street Sprnk
, Ter at the river today trying to fire it VI
They thought it was the fire engine
Some more Of them had the street role
Keeling hose around it. They took it fo
, a hose cart.
Brine: told you to label those thing
, until | got my fremen from Mexico.
Claud: Yes, but I've been so busy keep
- ing the last one you hired from rlugin
up water plug instead of q fire box.
: Brine: All right my regulars are CON
> ing.
. Ciaud: But they cannot tell fire fro
: | a burnt finger.
Brine: Din the difference.
The stilfeSt man will bend TO a emil
Yes. and he will bend TO sour mash II
is an alderman.
The people want champion, and
can 90 to congress; but he must be pa
-, twenty-one, pretty free and very whit
? No half-breeds need apply.
The -b0>emmisSary who went over
I ! rush through those amendments with u
vaccinated Doodle, has returned diScoI
;. fitted. The hayseeds walked around hi
= as if he was cross between a yellow haI
mer and political toOthpick.
= The character who would spell |
name with c. TO conceal his nationaIii
d isn't altogether brick. though he Uou
o sell soft ones occasionally.
y Pasturage and Horses.
Good no s+,,ra pa for cattle n nd horses