San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-27
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fresh and blooming.
A tight shoe may sometimes DC
made easy by laying a cloth wet In
hot wafer across where IL pluches,
changing several times. The leather
will Shape itself to the foot.
The young ladies of Quincy, Mich,
have q guess party" The ladies
send the gentlemen invitations read
ing: Party in III set this evening.
| Guess where, and come there" 1t is
needless to say that the boys get
around late, as they frequently visit
o dozen houses before finding the
right one.
According to the Boston Traveller
q recently arrived Episcopal rector,
not ten miles from Boston, left his
cheap printed card at the house of
one of his parishiOner's and his neatly
engraved one at :another's. The
houses were respectively in unfash-
ionahle and fashionable quarters OF
the city. But the practitioners happen
ed to be cousins They met, they COM
pared cards-as women willard the
rector now wonders why he is grow
ing in disfavor with some OF his par.
ishiOners.
The sword which Washington
wore when he resigned his commits.
sion, ard for which the Massachus
etts authorities have been Degotiat-
ing with Edward Everett Warner,
representing the Lewis family (col-
lateral descendants of the Washing
tons), is now offered at $40, 900 Twice
that amount was asked originally.
When there was talk of the Federal
,~,rah oainr IL SnnntNy
Hoar said it was"the n single rel.
ic on the face of the earth which all
mankind would agree to recognize as
the most valuable, sacred and prec-
ious.". Senator Voorhees, was quoted
as saying "it vas cheap at any price,
hallowed by such memories"
Bishop Talbot, the genial and pop
ular missionary (Episcopal) bishop of
Wyoming, recently preached in st.
Peters Philadelphia, wearing over
his surplus a red academic hood, such
as is almost universally worn by the
English clergy. After the service
two old ladies began telling each 9th
er how much they liked him. "But,"
said one, 81 liked him 80 much m ire
before he went to Wyoming; he did
not wear that ridiculous red thing on
his back then" "Oh, my dear" re
piled her friend, che doesn't really
like to wear it, you know. But the
Indians where he comes from make
him wear it. They won't listen to q
man who doesn't wear gaudy
clothes.n
M. Cailletet, the well known
French physicist, whose researchers
on the l%iquefaction Of hydrogen, nit
rOgen and oxygen gases have become
classical, recently published a pro-
cess Of soldering metals with glass
and porcelain. The glass or porce-
lain is coated with platinum by re-
ducing the metal at q red heat from q
coating of neatrsl chloride of plsti-
mum mixed with oil of camOmile.
Copper is then deposited o the
plstinum by the e~lectrolysis of sui
phate of copper. The glass thus Gov
cred with O. pper can be treated as .
metal and soldered to another metal
in the ordinary way. Silver can be
used for the platinum by heating the
glass after it has been coated with
nitrate of silver, but NJ. Cailletet pre-
fers platinum.
The following passage occurs in a
protest against the construction of
railways, preserved in the archives of
the Nuremberg Railway at Forth,
which was the first line constructed
in Germany. 1t was drawn up by
the Royal College of Bavarian Doc
tors: Gravel In carriages drawn by
q locomotive ought to be forbidden In
the interest OF public health. The ra-
pid movement cannot fail to produce
among the passengers the mental
affection known as deliriurn furiotum.
Even if travellers are willing to incur
this risk the government should q
least protect the public. A single
glance at a locomotive passing rap
idly is sufficient to cause the same
cerebral arrangement, consequently
1t is absolutely necessary to build q
fence ten feet in height on each side
of the railway.
A Butt county man, q German, bur-
led his wife some time ago, and with
in o week, or ten days at best, after
she died, our friend married d come
ly young woman, the daughter of a
neighboring rancher. On the night of
the wedding, which was necessarily
a very quiet affair, a party of young
men from the vicinity proceeded to
the Germans house tor the purpose
: of giving him a charivari. They were
armed with COW bells and other IN
, gOdly instruments of noise, and, as
!, sembling in the yard about the house
raised q most horrible din. In the
midst of the serenade q door opened
and our German friend appeared,
, candle in hand. Raising his voice to
! q high key he exclaimed: "POys, vat
q the tevil are you toin'? Hain't you
r got no respecht for te ted? A funeral
. was In dis house yoost q few days
ago. The tracks of mine ted frau are
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