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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-07

efforts 50 lessen and prevent the evils of ill.,
tempecSnce'and promote morality.
PENSIONS.
Ever mindful of the services aud sacrifices
of 'thefmen VIII o. saved the life of the nation.
we pledge anew ITO thesveteraHs soldiers OF
the Republic watchful care and recognition
of Neutrality-suspicious. upon a grateful people.
HARREsoN's ADMINISTRATIONS
wecommend the able. patriotic and thor
oughly American administration of President
Harrison. Under ii the, country has enjoyed
remark able prosperity, and the dignity and
honor ofthe national home and abroad, have
been faithfully maintained, and we otter the
RECORD cot pledges kept as guarantee OF faith
full performance in the future.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-07

j. r. Hacallett, Houston; Il. c. Blain, Del
Rio; &. w. Hahn, Rosenberg; w. t.
Fisher; j. w. Butler, Tyler: J b. Schmitz,
Denton George Armstrong, Lamar; Wal
ter Davis, El Paso.
State Organizer j. M. Kindred, OF
Amoril
Official Journal - San Antonio Daily
LIGHT
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-07
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
NOMINATED AT THE MINNEAPOLIS CON-
VENTIoN, JUNE 10TH, 1892.
FOR PRESIDENT,
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
OF Indiana.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WHITELAW REID,
Of New York.
REPUBLICAN, TICKET.

NOMINATED AT DALLAS, APRILc13TH, 1892.
REPUBLICAN ELECTORAL TICKET.
Max Urwitz, John Nevins, David Per-
kins. D. H. Fleming, w. Y. Roach, Bern
ard McCaen, H. NJ. Spalding, J. B. Glib
son. Geo. A. .O'Brien, o. Bradley, j. H.
Helm, Geo. w. Hahn. VIM. Westhoff, G.
Grothaus, David Redfeld.
For Governcr-Hon. A. j. Houston,
of Dallas.
For Lieutenant Governor-J. p. New
comb, of San Antonio.
For Comptroller-J. b. Schmidt, of
Denison.
Harris county.
For Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion-D. c. Kolp, of Iowa Park.
For Land Commissioner-R.W W. Thomp-
son, of Harrison county.
For Attorney General-Walter s. Davis,
OF Ell Paso.
Presidential Electors at Large-John
Nevins, of Grayson county, and DR.. Max
Urwitz. Of Harris county.
OFFICERS REPUBLICAN, LEAGUE.
Officers Elected at Dallas Meeting, April
18th, 1892.
President-D. A. Robinson, Of Dallas. J
First Vice President-John Nevins, OF
Second Vice. PresidentAL. P Goodell,
Third Vice-President - Judge c. G..
Secreta VI c. Coo per, Of Dallas.
Treasure b. T. Atwell, of Hutchins.
Execu i've Committee j. n. Baker,
Dallas: James Virnon, Denison, w. p.
Golf Fort Worth; James P. Newcomb,
San An onio; j. A. Keubler, Collinsville;
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-07
THE GROWTH OF STEAM

The North Star locomotive, IA
1889, .madeG7 miles.
The tiFstgcrew vessel, the Area
ime des, built for British navy IN
1870.
Halls fuel pconomiZer 7ntre.
duced and in general use ABOUT
lS49.
The unard Line abandonedsa9
and adopted steam in ls40.
Two steam war vessels, Mem
esis and Phlegethon, launched
and semitic China, 1910.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Company organized in 1S4l, Eng
land TO India.
First steam pile driver began
work in tS42.
In lS43 Alban made boiler to
stand lO09 pounds pressue.
In 1916 .272 acts of Pertinent
passed Incorporating railroad
companies.
Mobile and Ohio begun 1878.
Congress granted 1t 1,OOO,OOO
acres.
Illinois Central, 1S49. Congress
donated 2,595,000 acres.
The Inman Line was organized
and began business in 1850.
The Collins Line organized in
1850, Europe to America.
Great Eastern. 692 feet long, SO
beam, launched 1867.
The Great Eastern had four en-,
gines. collectively of 10000 horse
power.
Steam elevators were first used
in 1857.
First steam ram planned in 1859
in England. Contract issued.
The Warrior, heavy iron clad,
launched in England in 1860.
La Gloire, French iron.clad,
,frigate, launched in 1860.
Steam fog horns placed on light.
ships and reefs In 1862.
Union Pacific authorized by
Congress 1862; 25,000,00O acres
granted. E. g"
The Far East, double-screw
steamer, launched in Thames,
1868.
Steam brakes were first propos
ed in 1864; air brakes invented,
1863.
Pullman palace cars were built
and put in operation. 1864.
Steam chain propulsion for
canal boats tried, 1865.
In 1866 a clambing locomotive
assembled Mont Gents.
In 1865 $50 railroad incorpora.
ton bills passed by Pertinent.
A flying locomotive invented by
May and exhibited in 1868.
a steam man, to draw carriage
was invented in New York IN
1868.
Road steamers made success.
full for heavy drawing, in England,
in 1868.
Mont Gents Railroad was open.
ed for traffic in 1868.
Mount Washington Railroad,
steam, cOg-wheels, built in 1859.
Union Pacific was begun 1863.
opened for traffic 1869.
Cost of Union Pacific, 1869, as
reported TO Government, S1l2,.
259,36O.
The Northern Pacific was begun
in 1870, Southern Pacific 1875.
A steam ice.making machine
devised in 1871.
Mont Gents Tunnel finished
1871; cost 100000 pounds.
Explosion experiments con.
Quoted in the, United States in
1871.
Road steamers first used for
blowing fields in 1871.
The Rigi Mountain Railroad
opened for traffic in 1871.
First railroad was opened in
Japan in 1872.
The first steam laundry in
America, 1872; in England, 1880.
Steam first applied 10 sewing.
machines in 1873.
A self.prOpelling steam fire en-.
pine shown in New York in 1879
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-28
Tho Wild Boy of Pindus.


 When Greek newspaper condescends to drop the eternal discussion of the east ern question and chronicle the gossip of the market-place, it is apt to become in- tensely interesting to perverse Occidental readers. Now and then in the country news there appears reprint, in the rough rustic dialect of local news-sheet, of some tale which gives faint echo of the old, old Hellas, and may carry the reader back in moment to the days of Herod or Herodotus. No doubt the western mind will proceed to compare instances and make its inferences. But meantime let us give, as we find it recently quoted in an Atheni- an paper, a tale which comes from Thessa- ly, of the wild boy on Mount Pindus: ''Demetriades worthy honor, the war den of the kings forest on Mount Pin dus, was out shooting on the mountain. Being tired, he left the chase of the deer and turned up path which led through @ steep glen to some shepherds huts, where he hoped to drink cup of the milk of Pindus, milk which is famed to be the best of any. While he was walking quiet 1y up the path he heard rustling in the underwood and stayed to listen. Through the branches he saw an unknown animal moving very quickly in the same direction as himself and made ready to fire at it, but was stopped by shouts of the shep- herds on the hillside above, who called to him not to shoot. He then followed this strange creature, which had the form, in deed, of man, and was wholly naked; but ran very fast, sometimes on it's feet, but more often on allifours, and reached the sheep-cote before him. There he found it eagerly drinking the buttermilk from trough into which it had run while the cheeses from the morning milking | were being pressed. When it saw him | near it ran into the woods; and the chief of the shepherds told him its story. He
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-28
A Feminine Athletc.

lLeipsic Letter in Si- Louis Posl Despatch.l
 The audience of the variety ihesier of the the Crystal palace Of Liepsic, from whose stage many prime curiosities have been promoted to wealth and atiGence by emigrating to the dime museums of the United States are all aSog a; the present time over female athlete, Miss Victoria a handsome woman, tall, muscular, and very graceful wi.hal in the various exploits in which she exhibits her wonderful bodi- ly strength. To lift hundreds of pounds of weight with one hand is child's play 10 her She tears, bursts, and cuts in two iron chains with links one quarter inch in thickness, and stops the progress of can non ball by catching the missile in her hand, thus rObbing 1t Of its trajectory force. This feat of catching a cannon ball that weighs twelve pounds, at a distance of ten feet from the mouth of the gun is one of the most wonderful performances witnessed by anybody. Prowess and ab- solute certainty go hand in hand with ex- traordinary strength. Loaded down with 624 pounds of gigantic balancing rod in her hands, and with heavy iron balls dang ling from her body, Miss VictOrins displays her almost supernatural strength to the very best advantage To lift 100 pounds with her teeth is an easy task for the fe. male Hercules; With one thrust Of her arm she snaps asunder strong iron chain like thin piece of cord. This is done by the enormous tension which IS given to the upper arm. She also cuts in two with one blow of her powerful fist chain stretched between two poles. She closes each daily performance in the tableau of the ironclad Germania, her body eneased in a steel ar nor and balancing on her shoulder the bar rel of an enormous cannon.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-28
The Black aars a. q Jumper. HT~--,


 Some time during 1890 there was quite a discussion in the Angler as to how high small-mOuth would jump when hooked, and. if my memory is correct, the discus sion suddenly ended with an editorial of five or six lines, in which Brother Harris expressed doubt if they ever cleared the water more than eighteen inches. At the time thought I knew thiS to be contrary to my experience, but, as it was not my funeral, I remained silent That some bass perhaps large maiOrity-do not clear the surface more than eighteen incht. is no doubt true, and i; is equally true that others exceed this limit. Eighteen inches is baby to wha; a number of my catch this fall made; leap of two feet above the surface was not uncommon, and I had one ree-pounder to clear the water as much as three feet. l a:, as cool and clesr- headed as the next one when hook a fish, and, as I carry my bait in galvanized iron nlinnow bucket instead Of in a glass bottle or stone jug, will Lot come down aa inch from the above figures: it is below rather than above the distance he made and could but wish that so grand a liberty might result in his freedom. Tn. small month will leap higher, leave the water of- tener, fight longer and with more spirit when hooked in the lower jaw than when hooked in the upper, and the chances of his final capture are about one in the for mer 10 three in iAr latter. In number of instances. whcie the water was not above three to five teet, could see every move the fish would make, and at times as many as three or four wCC!d make dart for my minnow at the same instant. and, 10 my surprise and chsgrin, the smallest one in the school would gr. there first, As a rule,
 Never in all my fishing have had bass to spit out the uIinnow they did on this trip. In fully three cases out of five the minnow would be spi; cut and found above the shell on boating ths fish. and several times, while playing the hooked fish, could see another old cuss trying to ap- propriate the minnow above the shell as 1t was being hurried -through the water by the mad rushes of his more unfortunate kinsman-
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-28

new form the bill stipnlates the death penalty to every spying soldier or official of the military or marine, or official or agent of the State or person entrusted with secret information as to the defence of the country. Life imprisonment in State prison is provided for everybody making typographical sketches, examining the rail ways and highways, or establishing special means of communication, to the detriment of France in the time of war. Any editor, moreover, who publishes in his newspaper any military plans, operations or reports which should be kept secret, is, according to the bill, to be punishable with imprisoR- ment for two to five years and with fine of $500 to 5000.
 There is silver mine near Sarhad, in Afghan territory, which has curious his tory. Three men were sent from that country to Cabul, the residence of the Ameer, to be executed for an offense against the state. They told the Ameer that if he would let them off they would tell him where he could find abundant supplies of silver. The Ameer deferred the execution and sent them under guard to Inkansham, where they went to work dig ging. They, and the men who were put to work with them, dug for twenty days, finding nothing. The Ameer's officer told them at length that they could dig for seven days more and if they did not find silver within that time the sentence of death would be carried out. The next day they come to a very rich vein of silver, and now about hundred men are em- ployed in the mine, which was visited last summer by an English traveller.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-28
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL
 IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. me Dollar per Year, Gin Advance.) Single Copies cents.
NOT ALL COTTON.

The great fall in the price of cotton has caused great many lengthy and able dis quisitions concerning the necessity of more diversified farming in the South. There are some interesting facts bearing on this matter, and they show that the southern farmers have not been quite as foolish as has been popularly believed. Fer instance in the thirteen States of Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee, the cereal crop in 1891 amount ed to nearly $403, 300, ,0O0, thus exceeding the value of their cotton crop ($36O, 16S,- 6O5 by some $43,000,O00; moreover, although both crops show large increase over the figures of 1890, the increase of cereals was over $78,- 000,00O, as against s20,000,000 in cotton, a growth in the value and production of grain nearly four times as great as the growth in cotton. Their last years corn crop alone amounted to $40, ,330, ,0O0 buah- els, some 106, 400, 900 bushels more than in 1890, and more than double what the yield was in 1881; oats reached 76, 178, ,000 bush els, an increase over 1890 of 16,00O, ,O0O; nearly 49,000,O00 bushels of wheat were raised, an increase of 12, ,500, ,00O. The value of hay produced in 1891 was s23,- 50O OOO, an increase of 2,407, ,OOO; of po- tatoes, 1s,s44, ,0OO, an increase of s4,5s1,- 162; of tobacco $s5, ,750, ,4O5, an increase of $4, 472, ,00O, and of fruit $40, 0,526, 900, an increase of 15,9o5, 800, or nearly 40 per cent.
 These will be surprising figures to those who look upon the south az great cotton plantation.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-28
ARaPTD TRANSTT SCH EyuE.

A RAPID TRANSIT SCHEME.
 If certain plans which have been formed are carried out there will be rapid transit between Chicago and St. Louis at the rate of about one hundred miles an hour. A road is planned on which wedge-shaped cars will be driven by new kind of electric motor. At first only double track will be built, but ultimately there are to be four tracks, of which the two outside tracks will be reserved for local traffic and high-class freight, and the company's plan includes the laying out along the line of broad avenues, facing which will be neat cottages and houses with long, narrow farm lands reaching back into the country. The electric cars are to be long, low, com pact, and light, with two pairs of driving wheels, each operated by motor. Each car will weigh only ten tons, and the wheels will be capable of making 800 revolutions a minute. A wedge-shaped projection in front, sloping upward, will diminish the friction of the air and will serve to keep the car steady. Light and heat will be provided by electric devices, and neither conductors nor brakemen will be needed. Safety is to be secured by dividing the road into twenty-five sections of ten miles each so as to constitute a complete block system. One control power station, six or eight miles from Clinton, De Witt county, Illinois, will furnish the cleo tricity required for operating the entire road, and will also provide additional electric power to be let to farmers and residents along the line for their special purposes, and provide for an electric light plant and telephone line the whole way from Chicago to St. Louis.
 This is surely a comprehensive scheme. Perhaps, in addition to it's other benefits, it will help to make a better feeling be- tween Chicago and St. Louis.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-28
OAR IN C..

Her Mother-I saw him kiss you. I am terribly shocked. I did not suppose he would dare to do such thing.
 Herself-Nor l. In fact I bet him he didn't dare.-Brooklvn Life.
 'Is this man charged with profanityf'' asked the judge. ''I don't think he is, yer honor," replied the policeman. He may have been but Oi think most av it must have escaped by this time. ."-Wash- ington Star.
 Emerson Bean-Oh, yes, Pve written poetry, of course, but I never have tried to have any of it published. Miss Waldo mia Hubb-Now, why don't you send it to some of the magazines. l seen some frightful stuff in them lately.-Jester.
 Sitanchin-To hear people talk you'd think there was something new about try ing preachers for heresy.
 Herdso-Has it been long customl
 Sitanchin-Why, they used to tie lem to @ stake and try the heresy right out of 'em. New York Sun.
 Mrs. Shoddy-I want to make my son s wife birthday present. Jeweler-Would you like to See our styles of diamond neck faces? Mrs. Shoddy-Yes, I want to get her something handsome to wear around her throat Give me some of those dia- ulOuo tldIdS l uuNo Icdd dUOuG III tuc pd- per.-Texas Siftings.
 A tramp applied to lady for work, and was given some carpets to beat. He did the job so we'll that she commended him for it. "You must have beaten carpets frequently to be such an expert" she said. tNever beat a carpet before in my life, lady; Pve allus teached school" he ans wered promptly.-Detroit Free Press.
 "Why do you bother me so much to bring out your bookf" asked the publisher irritably. Because" pleaded the impor- tunate scribler. ''1 am in rags; can raise no money and am perishing for want of food" ''Well, well," said the publisher pityingly, "what is your manuscriptf ''It is entitled: How to Get Rich '"-Epoch.
 ''I think it is too bad," said Mrs Brown smith, "that have to slave all day Sun day just the same as any other day in the week, while you just sit down in the house and do nothing but smoke and read" "But you forget, my dear," replied MT. B. in his blandest tones, "that the Sabbath was made for man. ."-Boston Transcript.
 Sunday School Teacher-What is your name, little boy?
 New Boy-Yonny Yones.
 ''You are an American, are you not, Johnnya"
 "You reside in this country, don't youF
 "Nope. Pm i'm t Sixteent' Ward."- Chicago Tribune.
 Reporter (to South Clark street China. man)-John, have you heard of the rice trusta
 Chinaman-Licee tlustl Reporter-Yes. A lot of capitalists have got a corner on rice. You'll have to pay about six prices for it now. What have you got to say about it!
 Chinaman-Latsl-Chic Tribune.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-28
Thoreau's Unappreciated Lecture.
 TIT " Higpinsnn in Rrainsl

IT. w. Higginson in Brains
 One of my most amusing impressions of Thoreau relates to time when, in the qui1otism of my youthful admiration, had persuaded him to give a lecture in Boston at my risk. He wrote April 8, 1852 in & tone of timidity which may sur- prise those who did not know him: "I certainly do not feel prepared to offer my self as lecturer to the Boston public, and hardly know whether more to dread 6 small audience or A large one. Nevertheless I will repress this squeamishness and pro- pose no alteration in your arrangements. |" The scene of the lecture was to be & small hall in a court, now vanished, opening from Fremont street, opposite Kings chapel; the hall itself being leased to an association of young mechanics, who had | reading-room opening out of it. The appointed day ushers in a furious snow storm, before which the janitor of the
 building retreated in despair, leaving the court almost blockaded. When Thoreau and ploughed through we found a few young mechanics reading newspapers; and when the appointed hour came there were assembled only MT. Alcott, Dr. Walter
 Charming, and at most three or four tick
 et-holders. No one wished to postpone the affair, and MT. Alcott suggested that
 the thing to be done was to adjourn to the | reading room, where, he doubted not, the young men would be grateful for the new gospel offered; for which he himself un-
 dertook to prepare their minds. I can | see him now, going from one to another, | or collecting them in little groups and eI- | pounding to them, with his lofty Socratic
 mien, the privileges they were to share. ''This is his life; this is his book; he is to
 print it presently; I think we shall all be | glad, shall we not, either to read his book | or to hear iti" Some laid down their
 newspapers, more retained them; the lec- ture proved to be one of the most intro
 spective chapters from Walden A few
 went to sleep, the rest rustled their pa- pers; and the most vivid impression which I retain from the whole enterprise is the
 profound gratitude felt to one auditor Dr. Walter Channing), who forced upon
 me fve-dollar bill towards the expenses of this disastrous entertainment
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-28
AmemsriaI Visit to Jackson.

IBedford Brown, in Washington Post-1
 It was a lovely, soft, balmy day, the Sab, bath, in the early days of the Indian sum- mer in November. in the year 1s44, few minutes past twelve m., that my father, the late United States Senator Bedford Brown of North Carolina; my brother, MT. Living. stone Brown, and myself alighted from our private conveyance at the door of the Her. mitage on a visit to General Jackson while en route to the west.
 On entering the spacious mansion we were ushered by Jimmy o'Neal, his favorite Irish body servant, into the private cham. Der of our distinguished host, as he was then too feeble from fatigue and a cough, from which he suffered, to receive company
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-28
The Farmer,. Sonp Rird-

The Farmer's Song Bird. You may talk about the music of the thrush, Singing from a shady nook in June: You may tell me how in early mornings hush Robins throats their melody attune; You may even praise the chatter of the wren, But to me the sweetest warbling in the world Is the cut cut cutdawcut,
 Cut cut cut cutdawcut,
 Cut cut cut cut
 dawcut Of the ordinary hen, have naught against the bobolink to say Nor the blackbird's crazy quiverings; can listen quite enchanted all the day If the oriole above me sings 'Gainst the mig htingale I've not single word, But claim there's no singing in the world
 Like the cut cut cnt cutdawcut,
 Cut cut cut cutdawcut,
 Cut cut cut cut
 Cut cut cut cut
 dawcut Of our gallnaceous bird. Iris pean and promise all in one, 'Tis an invitation to feast; Iris an honest boast of useful labor done, And it tells of capital increased. Oh, praise no fancy bird with tongue or pen, For to me the noblest music in the world
 Is the cut cut cut cutdawcut,
 Cut cut cut cutdawcut,
 Cut cut cut cut
 Gut cut cut cut Of the common barnyard hen. True 'tis not cultured operatic song. Like the caged canary shouts and trills, But it often makes a city fellow long For his boyhood back among the hills, While he dreams he's barefoot, hunting egg again To that most pathetic music in the world,
 To the cut cut cut cutdawcut,
 Cut cut cut cutdawcut,
 Cut cut cut cut
 Cut cut cut cut Of his mothers speckled hen!
 George Horton in Chicago Herald.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-28
Itch and Salt Rheum.
R. G. RUSSELL, Architect,
a62 CHAPEL STREET

Vile cod-liver oil has lost its vileness in Scott's Emul- sion and gained a good deal in efficiency.
 It Is broken up into tiny drops which are covered with glycerine, just as quinine in pills is coated with sugar or gelatine. You do not get the taste at all.
 The hypophosphites of lime and soda add their tonic effect to that of the half di- gested cod-liver oil.
 Let us send you a book on CAREFUL LIvING-free.
 SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, I3a South sth Avenue, New York.
 Your druggist keeps Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver ol-al druggists everywhere do $I.