San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-05
BRIEF MENTION.
A Bundle of Breezy Bits Baled for
Busy Beings.

"A nall dollar OF 1905 With al "
above the date is worth So.
London horse cars and omnibuses
represent a capital of $25, 900. 900.
In France and Germany horses are
now vaccinated for the CHAMBERS.
Thirty. four pounds of raw sugar
make twenty-one pounds of refined.
Ten days per annum is the average
amount of sickness in human life.
A Chicago man advertises that be
has q recipe whereby black man
may become white.
The savings banks of France have
5,74S, 900 depositors, with 2,9ll 900 600
francs due them.
The household maintained by the
queen of England consists of nearly
one thousand persons.
Four pounds of gold have been col.
lected from the SCOT Of the chimney
of the royal mint In Berlin.
1t is said that the best Welsh
scholar living is an English woman,
Mrs. Ann Walter Thomas.
The standard gold coin of England
consists of twenty two parts OF pure
gold and two parts of copper.
A Michigan man has an apple which
he picked up nineteen months ago,
and it is still perfectly sound.
In England during the past nine
months there were ninety. six col.
lisions in which 402 people were killed
or injured.
A thirty-fOot whale was stranded
in the shallow water of the river be.
low st. George, N. B., the other day.
1t was captured and killed.
The Imperial diamond" which
was recently purchased by the nizam
of Hyderabad from London dealer,
is valued at 81 100000.
Folding linen is an accomplishment
In which each woman in Holland Is
expected to be proficient before she
becomes mistress of home.
DR.. Hubert Flagg, Of Haydenville
Mass, recently set broken neck,
and kept it in place, by an iron head
piece. His patient now seems as we'll
as ever.
Recently between Tewkesbury and
Cheltenham, in three minutes, 700
words were sent to q newspaper office
and correctly received over q tele-
phone wire.
Reading. England, is known as
Biscuitopolis, because of the location
there of George Palmer's big biscuit
factory, in which 5000 people are en-
plOyed.
At Dresden they are baking an
American corn bread that Is finding
much favor and is much cheaner than
their ordinary bread. A pound costs
trifie over 3 cents.
The "White Square" is the name Of
a new secret society just formed in
Philadelphia, whose cardinal object
is to promote the spirit of fraternity
among all men.
The dolphin is the fastest swimmer
In the sea. 1t can with ease swim
around and about vessel going at
the highest rate of speed, and can go
faster than twenty-five miles an hour.
A copper rod projecting from the
| face of q cliff in Saline counly, Mo,
indicates that at some date In the tar
| west, beyond the ken of man, copper
| mining was carried on in that vicini-
ty.
A Stockton well-borer recently
fCnnd the tooth of an animal at
depth of ,124 feet. 1t resembles the
| tooth OF a monkey. Another tooth
apparensly that of a herbaceous ami
NAL, was found at a depth of 700 feet.
The Japanese believe In serpents
| 800 feet, long and large enough to
swallow an elephant; foxes with eight
legs, monkeys with four ears, fishes
with ten heads attached to one body,
| the flesh of which is good for bOils.
The grandest tomb In the world Is,
without doubt, the Tai Mabel, or
Crown of Empires, at Agra. 1t is an
octagonal building of the purest white
marble, the interior being decorated
with inlaid work of precious stones.
At recent family reunion in Mis-
souri, two unusually fat babit 8 were
proudly exhibited by their fond par
ents. The elder aged years, weighs
107 pounds, and the younger aged
21-2 years, weighs ninety-three
pounds.
To protect itself from the rain the
orangOutang crooks its arms over It's
head. The hair on the orang's upper
arm points downward, while on the
lower arm it points upward, the APP
parent purpose being to shed the rain
| like thatch.
Not long ago q London preacher
! INDUCED in q little bit of sarcasm
over q small collection, and he did it
very neatly. "When 1 look at the
congregation, =" said he, 81 ask: Whel Q
are the poor? and when look at the
collection / ask: Where are the
rich?"
A Blow.
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