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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21
Finding His Bride,

In one part of the Canton of Ticino q
very quaint marriage ceremony prevails.
The bridegroom dresses in his SUNDAY
BEST" and accompanied by as many
friends and relatives as he can music,
for the fete goes to claim his bride.
Finding the door locked he demands
admittance; the inmates ask him his
business, and in reply he solicits the
hand of his chosen maiden.
If his answer be deemed satisfactory
he is successfully introduced to mum.
Der of matrons and maids, some perhaps
deformed and others old and ugly. Then
he is presented to some large dolls. all
of which he rejects with scorn, amid
general merriment. The bewildered
bridegroom, whose impetuosity and
temper are now sorely tried, is then in.
formed that his lady love is absent and
invited in to see for himself.
He rushes into the house and searches
from room to room until he finds her in
her bridal dress, ready to go to church.
Then are his troubles over and his state
as a benedict assured.-Swiss Republic.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21
Marco BO2Znris.

Soon after Fitz-Greene Haileck had
published his stirring Marco Bozzaris,
he repeated the poem TO lady, an init
admiration of the beautiful lines, but
when he was in full enjoyment of what
he considered her perfect appreciation
she surprised him by the innocent query
"Who was Marco Bozzaris?"
WELL" said Mr.. Halleck, respondent.
ly, whats the use of becoming martyrs
for liberty or of poets celebrating heroes
if ladies won't even inform themselves
about the events of the day."
The remembrance of another incident
connected with the poem never failed tc
elicit groan from its author.
At certain dinner party at which he
was present, it was expected that each
man should sing song or make a speech.
Among the guests was Dutch Jew.
whose English was execrable, and he
had been previously persuaded by joker
to commit the whole of Marco Bozzaris
to memory that he might recite it for the
qualification of the poet and the poets
friends.
The day came and the Dutchman was
called upon to speak.
"Shentlemans," said he rising, Il can
neither make de speech nor sing de song,
but viii deliver Won grand poem"
This he proceeded relentlessly to do,
and Halleck, when he heard his harrno
NOUS measures delivered in mixture
of English and Dutch, was divided be-
tween the temptation to laugh and cry.
Youths Companion.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21
The Common Sense of Tbi,gs

There's lot being written nowadays
about decorative things beauti
full. AS matter of fact not one person
In ten can tell what beautiful thing is,
for we do not follow the Greek custom
of placing thing beautiful beyond de
bate by obedience to certain unvarying
forms and proportions. On the contrary,
a thing that is beautiful to us is simply
something that we individually fancy.
Beauty is not fact; it is within. But
we are getting into the old rut of mat
tiers decorative; what we wish to speak
OF is the common sense of things.
The other day we heard of an accident
resulting from the common habit of in
jecting naphtha or benzine over moth
infested fabrics. A room thus treated
had been closed up, and at night when
the lights were lit the gases exploded
with awful effect. We should imagine
that the dangers of such experiments
had been sufficiently exploited. There
is no need of any such treatment. There
are ways of treating hair or other animal
fiber which goes into the filling of fur.
niture that renders it impervious to all
insect pests.-Philadelphia Upholsterer
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21
He Reckoned He Would Run.

One of the most interesting characters
in American history is General Zachary
Taylor, "Old Rough and Ready, hero OF
Buena Vista. father-in-law of jefferson
Davis and twelfth president of the United
States. We ell recollect how Daniel
Webster sneered at him, before he was
nominated, as a "backwoods colonel
and refused to let his friends put him on
the ticket for vice president with Taylor
for first place, thereby missing his last
and, as the sequel showed, best chance
of becoming president. Willard Fill
more, of New York, took the despised
second place and thereby had nearly
three years in the White House.
General Sherman used to tell an anus
ing little story of Taylor anent his nOmi
nation for the presidency. At that time
General Taylor was stationed at New Or.
leans. He was Kentuckian and the
Kentuckians were very properly proud OF
him. One day shortly before the conven.
ton met at Baltimore he was approached
at New Orleans by an old Kentucky
friend, who said:
General, we want you to run for presi.
dent"
"Who wants me to runY' asked Gener
al Taylor seriously.
why, we do-all your old neigh
bors."
"Well, then, if that's the case," replied
the old hero, without changing the ex.
preston of his face. II reckon I'll have
to run. Detroit Free Press.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21
Will Save Many Pairs OF Hands,

A remarkably ingenious and simple
orange and lemon peeler is now being
introduced, by which it is claimed 1000
oranges may be peeled without soiline
finger or glove, or losing drop of juice.
The peeler is piece of wire, nickel
plated, very much in the shape of but
ton hook. but with tiny blade let into
the inner bend of the hook. When the
point of the hook is drawn into the fruit
it slides between the pulp and the peel
without danger of entering either, while
the blade divides the peel easily and rap
idly, after which it may be removed
without trouble. York Telegram
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21
Tho Age of Children.

During the last few years changes have
been felt in every department of labor
and capital and have affected all classes
of society. They have penetrated the
home. and while in no way threatening
the stability of the family, they have ma
terially altered the conditions in the
home. The wife and mother has leisure
where fifty years ago her work was never
done. She reads the newspapers and fol
lows with interest the various social and
political events. She is an active mem
Der of the church as well as of one OF
more literary clubs and one or more OF
CARNATIONS for philanthropic or reforma
tory work. She may attend to all these
and at the same time give more intelli
gent care to her children than the mother
of fifty years ago was able to do. Indeed
the danger at the present time is not that
mothers may neglect their children, but
that they will injure them by excess OF
attention, making them the center of in
terest and the all absorbing subject OF
conversation.
In spite of the fact that women are
now more than ever before occupied
with affairs outside the home it remains
that this is prominently the children's
age. Their needs are studied, their health
looked after. their books selected with
wiser care, even their toys and Their
plays are chosen and directed in way
that shall COnduce to their mental and
moral development. So that as far as
the home of well to do families is con.
cerned the changes which the new time
has brought and the more public char
acter of woman's interests cannot be said
to be other than advantageous to the
home if wisely Chicago Herald.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21
Instinct of the Messenger Pigeon.

Upon what the messenger pigeons
wonderful faculty of finding its way
homeward over great distances depends,
opinions differ. Some ascribe it to an
exercise of highly developed intelligence,
others to an almost inconceivable per-
lection of sight, and yet others to in
stinct or intuition. The fact of the
matter is, it is one o. those mysteries of
nature that perhaps will never be reveal
ed, and stands side by side with the &C
ton of the grilse or young salmon, which
finds its way back unerringly to the
same stream that it left nearly three
years before as a tiny par.-Denver Re-
publican.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21
LOCATION
or THK-
San Antonio Fire Alarm Boxes.
or TIIK-


No. LOCATION.
I2 Cor Flores and Gilbeau.
13 Cor s Flores and Arsenal.
II juno s Laredo and East.
L. juno Laredo and S PecOs.
16 Cor s Flores and Arkansas.
IL Cor S Flones and Lachapelle. { s p r X
crOssing.)
Is Union Stock Yards.
10 Cor s Salad0 and Vera Cruz.
81 & q n X K Stock Yards, San Luis.
% Cor Medina and w Commerce, Il & G
NRR.)
"a Cor w Commerce and Pecos.
25 Cor PecOs and Matam0raS.
% Central Office, Military Plaza.
q Cor Houston and s Flores.
% Cor Houston and San Saba,
20 Cor Leona & Morales, City Hospital.
81 Cor Morlaes and N Salado.
50 Cor Leal and Comal.
"a Cor HidalgO and East.
35 Cor AceQuia and Rodriguez,
So juno San Pedro Ave and Camden, (2nd
Ward HOse,j
81 Cor San Pedro Ave and Elmira.
SO Cor Warren aud Jackson.
81 Cor San Pedro Ave and Laurel.
AZ juno Laurel and Fredericksburg Road,
John TESTS Store.)
43 Cor San Pedro Ave and Locust, iSan
Pedro Springs and Car stables.
46 Cor Main Ave and Macon.
A Cor Lexington Ave and Augusta.
122 Cor SOIedad and Salinas,
124 Cor K. Houston and st. Mary's.
125 Cor E. Houston and Ave c, (NO. En-
CINE House.
1876 Cor Martin and Jefferson.
127 Cor Ave ID and Eighth.
l32 Cor Ave B and Ninth.
1874 Lone Star Brewery, Grand Ave.
1876 Cor Grand Ave aud Austin, (SuDset
Hose). q.
1856 Cor Austin and Duval.
l42 Cor Austin and Carson.
l43 Cor Military Ave and Grayson.
l45 Cor Austin Ave and GraysOn.
152 Cor Military Ave and Crosby
1853 Cor Olive and BurleSOn.
1874 Cor Olive and Nolan.
2l3 Cor Burnett and Walnut.
214 Cor Ave E and Sixth.
2l5 Cor Ave u and Fifth.
2l6 Cor + Commerce and Alamo.
DIT Cor Nacogdoches and Nolan.
231 Cor Crockett and Bowie.
234 Cor K Commerce and Walnut
235 Cor Water and North, (ReimaDn's MILL
241 Cor Water and Goliad.
243 Cor GOllad and Santa Clara,
251 juno Water and Alamo, mission Hose.)
253 Cor CamargO and Labor.
261 Cor Presa and Pereida.
312 Cor Alamo and Villita.
314 Cor Quinta and Nueva.
315 Cor Market and Yturri, tNo. Engine
House.)
ZIG Cor Garden and Villita, Electric Light
StatiOn.)
32i Cor Garden and Mill
1874 Cor Mill and Adams.
S25 Cor Beauregard and Mill.
412 G OrKing William and Turner.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21
glre Daily Eight.
THURSDAY, JANUARY q, 1892.
Colonel Ingecsoii's Tribute to woman.

Colonel Ingersoll's Tribute to Woman.
Over hundred well known men ten
dered Frank B. Carpenter reception
recently in New York to celebrate the
completion of Artist Carpenters paint
ING, international Arbitration" The
picture represents the peace commission
Of 1871 and is a present to Victoria of
England. Mrs. Carson, widow of the
late w. w. Carson, of Dalton, Mass,
furnished the money to purchase the
gift.
During the speechmaking after the
banquet, Colonel Robert g. Ingersoll
paid the following glowing tribute to
woman: 81 am glad that this picture is
to be sent by woman. The gentleman
who spoke to the toast, Woman as a
Peacemaker,' seemed to believe that
woman brought all the sorrows that ever
happened, not only of war, but of
troubles of every description, and want
to say to him that would rather live
with woman love in world of war,
in world full of trouble and sorrows,
than to live in heaven with nobody but
men. believe that woman is peace
maker, and am glad that woman pre-
sents this token to another woman. And
woman is far higher title than queen.
in my Judgment; far higher. There are
no higher titles than woman, wife.
sister and when they come to calling
themselves countesses and duchesses
and queens, that is all rot. That adds
nothing to that unseen artist who in.
habits the world called the brain. That
unseen artist is great by nature, and can.
not be made great by the addition of
titles. And so one woman gives to an
other woman the picture that prophesies
that war is finally to cease, and the civil
lied nations of the world will hereafter
arbitrate their differences and no longer
strew the plain with corpses of brethren.
That is the supreme lesson that is taught
by this picture, and | congratulate Mr..
Carpenter that his name is associated
with it"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21
SPECIMEN CASES.

S. II. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis, was
troubled with Neuralgia and Rheuma
tism, his Stomach was disordered, his
Liver was affected to an alarming degree,
appetite fell away, and he was terribly
reduced in flesh and strength. Three bot
ties OF Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, ILL.,, had
a running sore on his leg of eight years.
standing. Used three bottles of Electric
Bitters and seven boxes Of Bucklen's Ar
MICA Salve, and his leg is sour d and well.
J ohm Speaker, Catawba. :, had five
he was incurabe q bottle Electric
Bitters and one box Bucklen's Arnica
have cured him entirely. Sold by Adolph
DTei s, and Dreiss, Thompson & Co. q 3
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21
Trying to Buy Back His Own Body.

IrylnS TO Buy Back His Own Body.
This queer story comes from Massa.
chusetts: A,man who lives in a suburb
of Lowell is seeking to have deed giver
by him twenty years ago recovered. The
deed conveyed his body to a surgeon now
pIacticing in Great Falls, N. H., for the
sum of ten dollars and other considera
tons, possession to be taken on his death
Since the deed was made the giver has
made fortune in South America and
has decided that he would like a Chris
tan burial The deed provides that the
body shall be dissected and the skeleton
articulated and presented to a medical
university. The lawyers have decided
that the deed holds good and that the
only alternative is to buy off the doctor.
The giver of the deed has made a big
offer, but it has been refused. -Hartford
COurant
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21
NOW Try THIS.

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pense and learn forryourself, just how good
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21

Soap

The skin ought to be
clear; there is nothing
strange in a beautiful face.
If we wash with proper
soap, the skin will be open
and clear, unless the
health is bad. A good
skin is better than a
doctor.
The soap to use is
Pears; no alkali in it. 1t
is perhaps the only soap
in the world with no al
kali in it.
All sorts of stores sell
it, especially druggists;
all sorts of people use it.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21
Feeding Bees in Winter.

| From the Homestead.
We are asked how to feed bees In
winter. Some, it appears, have not
taken time to attend to their bees UNI
til corn was out of the way, and now
they find them without enough stores
to last them until spring Feeding
at this time of the year is a very
difficult thing to do. If you had
honey i'm combs you could feed 1t by
simply taking out one or two empty
com bs and inserting combs of honey
i'm their place, but it is not probable
that many have combs on hand,
the next best thing to do is to
make preparation of bee candy.
This Is made of granulated sugar and
honey, mixed or boiled until &c is u
thick paste, and fed by pouring in the
combs, or in O brood frame with thin
boards nailed on the sides and left
open at the top for the bees to get at
it. However, unless you know just
how to make this, you will be more
than likely to make failure with 1t,
as It must be just about right.
But the most practical way by far
will be TO feed them syrup of granu-
lated sugar. II it Is warm enough,
Get them outside and take out the
brood frames and pour them full of
syrup on both sides until you think
you have enough stores to last them
until spring. Have q pan large enough
to put the frames in and there will be
no syrup wasted. If it is too cold to
set them out, ard they have not
enough stores to last until warm
day comes, carry them into the kitchen
or some room that is warm enough to
work with them and take the fran es
out and fill them there. At the best
it is not d pleasant job and you cannot
always depend upon getting them
through. Bees, in order to winter
well, must have sealed stores, and
syrup fed this time OF year will not
be sealed. 1t would be beat to look
through your colonies and if you find
any that have frames of honey that
they can spare, give the weak colony
one of these, which will perhaps
keep them until they can be fed in
the spring.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21

Josef Holman, the child pianist,
has failed TO keep the pro-
mise Of his marvellous precocity. As
He grows older his fingers seem to
lose the magic suppleness Of his
childhood. his ear is less susceptible
delicate intonations. and his once
absorbing taste for music seems to be
deserving him.
Mr.. Rockhill who made nota BILE
journey in Thibet a while ago, accuses
the Indian government OF plglonhold-
years journey OF the Pundit Krishna,
when he crossed Thibet from North
to South and from East to West,
making an excellent survey which he
completed in 1882.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21
A HOME.?
KAN ANTONIO offers unparalleled advantages to tbs

-
location of surprising loveiness climate unequailed
for purity and heahfuness open winters and COOL
delightful summers such very few cities in the world
are blessed with the complete system of electric street
railway of any city of its size in the world spendd paved
streets and beautiful suburban and drives excellent
public schools and churches of every denominations all
binng to make San Antonio the inviting place. for
permanent home the continent
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-21
FOR SALE.

e.double seated canopy top car
riage and harness, almost new, also
gentle horse, young and about six
teen hands high. For further par
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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-04-28
EARLY USE OF 1osAcco.
Scientific Men Think That It Was Smoked
Before America Was Discovered

Scientific Men Think That It Was Smoked
Before lAInerrca Was Discovered.
To me it appears probable that even
before the discovery of the fourth quar-
ter Of the globe sort of tobacco was
smoked in Asia This conjecture, says
Bcckman's Technology, being men
toned to the celebrated traveller, NJ.
Pallas, he gave the following answer.
THAT in Asia, and especially in
China, the use of tobacco for smoking
is more ancient than the discovery OF.
the new world, 1, too, scarcely enter
tain 4 doubt. Among the Chinese, and
among the Mongol tribes who had the
most intercourse with them, the custom
of smoking is SO general, SO frequent,
and becomes SO indispensable q luxury;
the tobacco purse affixed to,their belt so
necessary, an article of dress; the form
of the pip2s-from which tie Dutch
seem to have taken the model of theirs
$50 original, and, lastly, the prepnra-
ton of the yellow leaves, which are
merely rubbed to pieces and then put
into the pipe. so peculiar, that VIC can
not possibly derive all this from Amer
lea by way of Europe, especially as In
dia, where the habit of smoking tobac-
co is not SO general, intervenes between
Persia and China. ,"..# Il
MAY we not expect to find traces of
this custom in the first account of the
voyages of the Portuguese and Dutch to
ChinA?"
To investigate this subject have IN
deed the inclination, but at present, at
least, not sufficient leisure, and must,
therefore, lcaye it to'others. However,
I caa now ndduce one important con
firm&tioh of my conjecture from Ulfoa's
"Voyage to America" at is not proba-
ble," says he, "that the Europeans
learned the use Of tobacco from Amer
ica; for, as it is very ancient in the east
ern countries it is natural to suppose
that the knowledge of it came to Europe
from those regions. by means of the
intercourse carried on with them by
the eommercial states on the Mcditer-
runean sea. Nowhere, not even in
those parts of America where the to-
bacco plant grows wild, Is the use of. it
and that only for smoking either
general or very frequent" .-s .-.
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THO Mountains Of Central Asia.

4 A traveller, who has crossed the.
mountainous Pamir' in Central Asia.
says mountain scenery there is quite,
different from mountain scenery Ii
Switzerland and Caucasia, where, when
the eye is tired Of resting on the grand
ice scenery above, it finds a pleasant
change by turning, to the green pastures
and the forests below In Central Asia.
however, although the mountains arc
higher, the glaciers, owing to the puny
snowfall, are much smaller, while be-
low the mountains, instc9d of yerdant
fields end forests, is picture of utter
desolation that would be hard to match
in any other part of the world. The
country at the base of the mountains is
so high above the sea that vegetation is
very scanty, and the plains are most
forbidding in aspect. .. 20 ~
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