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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

GALVESTON makes the big report
of port clearances and NelaScO
makes the clearances. There is
more puff than profit for Galveston
in this kind of business, but We
lasco says nothing and loads her
big steamers.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

THERE is something rotten in
the management Of that Jackson,
Michigan, state prison or murder
err Latimer never would have
secured a bottle of Prussic acid
with which to poison his guard
that he might escape. 1t seems
mighty queer that such prescrip-
ton should have been filled for a
prisoner upon the order of a prison
clerk. 1t is quite evident that all
the criminals in that institution do
not wear striped Jackets. The gov
ernOr and the state prison board
are making personal inVestiga-
ton of the affair. The whole state
is aroused.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

THERE was something eminent
ly lamb-like in the attitude of
March as it departed this life and
ushered in the reign of the youth
with his April smiles and tears, his
cap and bells.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

GROVER has issued his ukase
against the slate makers and an
nOunces his intention to smash all
states on sight. Grover proposes
to keep the congressman in the
back ground, so as to occupy all
the front ground himself.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

UNCLE SAM is not suffering
seriously for gold when he is not
willing to pay cost of transporta-
ton on 100000 from San Fran
cisco to Washington, offered him in
exchange for currency.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

GALVESTON TRIBUNE remarks
anent the establishment of a soap
factory on the Island, "whiIp there
is life there is soap;" and where
there is soap there is lie.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

CLEVELAND has notified the
labor organizations that they have
nothing to expect at his hands.
This declaration alone should de-
feat the democracy in 1896.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

CHICAGo'S female footpads are
successfully practicing their art
and in two months will be perfect.
The police are growing more eX-
pert in their detection and when
convicted the judge gives them the
limit.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

THIS is Bismarck's birthday.
Germany Salutes him on the attain
ment Of his fOurscOre minus two,
and Europe and America wish him
health.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

THE live newspaper continues to
pay premium for report from able
bodied press liars, and the supply
and demand never We're greater
than at the present.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

CLEVELAND would be much
more ready to decide on an extra
session of congress for the consid-
Grafton of tariff could he be assured
that congress would favor his
urgent request for the repeal of the
Sherman silver purchase act.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

THE Dallas TimeS-IIcrald is de-
termined on Democratic harmony
if it has to fight for it until it dies.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01
SATURDAY, APRIL |, 1893

THIS is 'all-foOls" day, but all
are not fools today, though more
or less cracked.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

HARRITY has been designated by
Cleveland as chief pie carver for
his own state. He accepts this in
lieu Of any office that might other
wise have been rendered him.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

THE sanitary authorities at New
York are encouraging the country
to believe that they have a dead
cinch on cholera. San Antonio
would be more ready to believe
Were she herself cleaner.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

TIE free gold in the United
States treasury continues to accu-
muIate now that the eXegencies of
the Democratic party no longer
require that the country be kept in
a state of alarm over the empti-
ness Of the National treasury.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

CLEVELAND continues to fish for
mugwumps with patronage bait,
and his success is marvellous.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

CLEVELAND faces the prospect Of
an extra congressional session with
fear and trembling.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

CANADIAN JOHN must quit
smuggling "Heathen Chinee" into
this country or be turned over
Sans knee.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

SOUTHWEST TENAs will be the
garden of the world when the irri-
cation of her cultivated lands be-
comes general.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

THE condition Of the Treasury
does not appear to be worrying the
democracy as much as it did.
They are always worrying more
over the responsibilities of the
other fellows than over their own
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

tF All contracts or hills must be APP
proved by the Secretary and Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

Announcements for State and County
,fficers ten Dollars in advance.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-01

"A good silver watch for $500 at
Emerson & Co.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-16
TOLD BY A DETECTIVE.
How He Protected BaScomb From a
Green-0oOds Man.
Cleveland Leader.


Chief Drummond of the United States
Treasury Secret Service tell a good story.
A man named Bascomb came up from
Tennessee. He had received a green-goods
circular, and determined to trap the swind-
lers. Drummond was detailed to go with
him.
Il put on a flannel Shirt" says Drum
mond, ''and an old pair of trousers. rough
pair Of shoes and soft hat and followed
Bascomb to the meetiBg-place. He was
accosted by a man who took him into a
building. [ followed aud stood upon a stair
way where 1 could watch the door leading
into the Office of the swiBdleTS. After a
while the door opened and Fowler, noted
greeD-go0dS man who was then employed
by the Davis brothers. stepped halfway
INTO the hall. He had yaiise in his hand
and was neither In the Office nor out oil
ii, but stood in the door. BaScOmb had
his eye on Fowler all the time, as | after
ward learned. While Fowler was in the
door cOloTed boy darted across the hall with
a valise in his hand. The exchange was
mace so deity that Bascomb didn't see it..
In minute Bascomb came out and he and
Fowler started for an express Office. | fol-
lowed. They took stage and L took one,
toe. Their stage stopped quite often. but
niue didn't, and at times | found / was
abreast of them. Fearing that Fowler
might recognize me | would lie down fiat
upon the floor OF my stage whenever l got
near the one ! was following. Tie psssen-
gers were amazed, and though, | suppose,
that | was s1 escaped lunatic. Fowler and
Bascomb left their stage near the Adams
Express Office and ! alighted from mine.
just as Fowler was in the act of handing
the valise 10 the receiving clerk / tapped
him on the shoulder and told him that
wanted him, and that too, pointing to the
bag
''Bascomb was delighted. I've got him !
I've got hint said he. The yalSe,' he con-
iinued, is full of counterfeit money,
My friend, l replied, they grow smart
men in Tennessee, but there are smarter
ones in New York
Then Fowler put in: Look here said
be to me, let the jay have the vaIise. If
you de. / am century ahead, and you viii
get fifty eases
What did he mean by that?" asked
Drummond.
He meant that the Davises were to pay
him S1o0 tor the part he had taken in the
sRindle, and that they would give me $50 If
| didn't interfere"
Il led Fowler and BascOmb into a hall
way next 10 the express Office" continued
Drummond, land cut open the valise. 1t
was filled with damp paper and block of
wood. In be tetOtally goldarued.' said
Bascomh. How did you do it?' he asked
Fowler"
Aud you arrested Fowler" said /.
''No. let him &C." DrummoDd replied.
There wasn't a point to be made against
him under the law. There was no counter
felt money in the bag. On the other hand,
Fowler could have had nae arrested for high
way robbery. but Of course he didn't. he
was glad enough to make his escape"
And Bascomb?"
'0h, he returned 10 Tennessee with his
comb cut.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-16
University Notes.

The university reopens to-day for the
second half year, though Professor Howison
held his lecture philosophy Of Education"
for teachers last Saturday. During the va
caticn various repairs have been made about
the buildings, and the new electrical en-
cheering building in process of cOnstrUe-
ton has advanced its walls TO the third
story. An overhead system of wires will
connect the electric bells of the halls with
the cIockwork in the library. which is con-
trbiled from the Lick Observatory, thus do
ing away with the hand ringing Of the old
North Hall eowbelI.
The University Glee Club, which made
its first tour during the holiday recess, feels
rather dissatisfied with the results OF the
trip. Their manager did not advertise them
TO any extent, and hence they PLAYED to
small houses, except in one or two places
where some resident U. c, men interested
the town in them, when they received rous-
ing receptions. As 1t was they came back
to Berkeley with deficit Of about $500.
What with football surplus that disap-
peared. glee club pile that never was
made and president who failed TO materi-
a'iZe, the University of California seems
temporarily to have lost its hold on this
fleeing show.
The local trains run ten minutes to the
hour and half-hour, and, as a student can
be at the university ten minutes later, the
hours for recitation have always been ar
ranged to suit the convenience of the large
number of students living out of Berkeley.
The only disadvantage in the system lay In
the short lunch hour from 30 to Is, and
the late Is o'clock last recitation. To obvi-
ate these difficulties the faculty has intro
duced change of questionable merit, so
that beginning with to-day, the hours run:
80, 9:25. 10: 30. II :15; lunch. IL to l; /,
80. $50, 3 AS. The last recitation thus
closes al O'clock.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-16
BIGGEST IN THE WORLD.
Artificial Cistern Which Has Never
Been Fully Explored.
Bosten Globe.

The largest artificial cistsrn in the world
is at ConsianiDople. and is known as the
YeTe- Batan-Serai The approach to this
immense subterranean eistern is through q
Turkish house.
After entering 1t. visitor passes through
the entrance-hall into courtyard, and, de.
scendng a steep slope of slippery earth
finds himself at the opening Of the dim and
mysterious Palace OF Waters.
The roof of this monster cistern Is sup
ported by marble columns, distant about
ten feet from each other, every one Termed
from single block; the capitals are elab-
orately wrought, aud in one instance at
least the entire pillar is covered with sCulp-
tured ornaments.
Two attempts have been made to explore
it. both by Englishmen, but neither sue
ceeded in ascertaining its full extent.
All that Is known ~ that il occupies a
space OF many square miles beneath the
city. In tie first ATTEMPTED exploration the
explorer and his boatman never returned,
and, il is presumed. got bewildered among
the columns, and being unable to retrace
their way persisted by famine.
In the case Of the second explorer he pro-
ceeded alone mo one being found willing TO
accompany him), having first fixed two
lighted torches 10 the stern of his boat and
tied one end of a QuantIt of strong Irvine
10 one Of tbs pillars near the entrance
leaving il TO unravel itself from reel as be
went along.
The fame Of his torches gradually faded
from view, and the fourth hour from his
departure had expired when faint CLEAN
OF light once more appe AIRED. to the great
relief of the watchers for his return.
Shortly the wanderer landed from his
boat, chilled and exhausted, and stated he
had gone on for two hours in a straight
line, bnt had seen nothing but the yaulted
roof overhead. the water beneath him. and
long avenues OF columns stretching around
him In all directions and losing themselves
in the darkness.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-16
HUNTING WITH BLOWGUNS.
Savages of Guiana Use These Queer
Weapons With Poisoned Arrows.


The blowpipes used by the sayages of
Guiana for shooting poisoned arrows are
very wonderful weapons indeed. The
climate Of this equatorial region, being both
very hot and very IN DIST. produces vegeta-
lion Of astonishing luxuriance. The for
ests are commonly ankle deep in water for
mile after mile. and consequently the ami
mails found there mostly inhabt the trees.
Monkeys are exceedingly numerous. For
killing these tree-dwellng creatures the
blowgun is the best possible instrument. 1t
is made from a peculiar kind of reed, and,
although eleven or twelve feet its weight Is
only one and half pounds. 1t is provided,
like rifle, with fore sight and back
sight. the latter being made of the teeth of
a small beast called the acouchi.
The natives are most careful respecting
the straightness of their blow-guns and
never allow them to lean against anything
lest they should be warped. The arrows
employed are made from the leaf-ribs of
kind OF palm made 20 fit the bore of the
gun by wrapping OF wild cotton fastened
with fiber OF silk grass. Great art is re-
CURED to put on the cotton properly. The
arrow is about ten inches long, no thicker
than a crow quill. and at one end is brought
to a pOint as sharp rs needle by scraping
il between the keen-edged, saw-like teeth
always suspended to The CULVER.
The vegetable poison used for envenom-
ing the arrows Is called "curari" 1t is ex-
tremely powerful and will kill man
within few minutes when introduced
into the circulation by an arrow-p point,
though it is harmless when swallowed. IL
is very difficult TO procure the strongest
"curari'' from the natives. who are most
unwilling to part with it. The arrow
heads are kept carefully separate from the
shafts as a precaution against accidents,
the SavageS themselves being very much
afraid of the poisons which they employ.
The secret OF preparing the poison is
handed down by the medicine men from
generation to generation, and the common
people are not permitted TO know il.
First must be sought the eCrari vine,
which Is closely allied to the tree which
furnishes stryclnine and to the upas tree,
from which the Diaks of Borneo get the
poison for their arrows. When the poison
maker has found the curari he looks for two
Dubious plants, the stems of which yield
glutiDous juice. Another vegetable in
gredient is the bitter root. commonly used
by these savages In poisoning water for the
purpose OF catching fish. To the mixture
composed of these elements the medicine
man adds two kinds of venOmous ants and
the poison faugs of deadly species of snakes.
The whole is allowed to simmer over a fire.
the snakes fangs and ants being pounded
and thrown into the pot The boiling is
continued until the poison is reduced to
thick brown syrup. Finally few arrows
are dipped experimentallv in the poison and
its effect is tried upon some animal or bird.
IL satisfactory the poison is poured into a
spherical earthenware pot, in which it is
kept carefully covered over with leaves to
exclude air aud moisture.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-16

One is IA; perhaps the other is 16. Both
look older and wiser. but that is the way Of
the Southern damssl
Wherever they stop crowd quickly gath
ers, and when the youngest one passes
round her faded hat the nickels and dimes
flow into ii generously.
Have you heard them sing?
1t is worth a nickel. end the jostling OF
the crowd about them to hear their Latin
version of "Ta-ra-ra- boom decay" or white
Wings" or Il Dreamt That l Dwet in
Marble Halls"
Their lips are red without paint and
there is the glow of health on their cheeks.
From the standpoint Of my lady with
three toilets a day" they are hardly
beauties. but their dark eyelashes are
seductive and their youth and vvacity
though shown through habbiness and rags
''catch on" immensely
They remind you Of Venice or of Genoa
or of Rome when You see them ana hear
them at their calling in the streets and they
are one more evidence Of the eity's cos
mop0ltan character.
They are San Francisco's latest acquisi-
ton. You can find them IN the downtown
thoroughfares any day. When they play
and sing under your window toss them a
coin and breathe the wish that they may
never grow older nor more gGileless.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-16
SHOOTING FROM A STICK
Things Are Not Always What They
Seem Nowadays.
Nav York Hsrald


Lets take a tramp in the woods" said
my friend Jim to me last Sunday.
The invitation was too tempting to be re-
sisted. The dog-a fine setter-seemed to
enjuy 1t as much as we did, or more, for he
wagged his tail. jumped, barked and in-
dulged In every manifestation of delight
known to the canine race. The spirit OF
the heather was upon me.
by joye," | could not resist exclaming,
81 wish IL weren't Sunday and we might
have some shooting"
II feel little that way myself" said Jim
with smile, but We may get partridge
or two"
How? Do you think they are going to
fly right into our hands? ?"
''No, not exactly. but 1t Is the unexpected
that happens sometimes, you know"
| didn't see the point, but | had observed
before that Jim's observations sometimes
lacked pertiDeney.
We came to a field Of stubbe. Suddenly
the setter. who was decidedly heretical in
his ways and views. made point.
My sporting blood arose.
I'll / had a gun I'd take shot if it cost
me ten years in purgatory," | said, and felt
better for having said it.
Jim said nothing. That's one of his pro-
vOking ways BE never gets excited He
| turned his back on me and began monkey
ing with his walking stick.
| few up, what chance that is missed"
Jim wheeled round and brought his walk
| ing-stick up to his shoulder.
Trying some hypnotic
But before / could finish the sentence
there was fash and report, both proceed
ing from the walking stick, and as Pm n
living sinner that partridge dropped as dead
as hammer
Then jim showed me what the walking
stick was made OF. 1t was walking stick
outside and a shotgun inside, and the whole
business didn't seem to weigh more than a
trife over two pounds.
To load it you just gave the handle turn
and yank and there was breeeh exposed.
Into that you showed the cartridge. gave the
handle another turn and yank, and lol
the walking stick was loaded, cooked and
ready for business, the handle taking the
place OF butt, and by means of Joint
hardly apparent when the thing was used
as a walking stick, an angle was formed
thus providing very good substitute for a
stock.
You pressed button in lieu of trigger
and the stick did the rest.
II call that my Sunday gum" said jim.
at cost NE only $50, and I've had twice
that amount Of fun out of 1t already. You
see ii would never do for me to be seen 60
ing through the village with gun on NV
shoulders on Sundays l should be- mace
the target for no end of hypocritical ipdig-
nation But the walking stick Is above sns-
pieion.
"And when get into the fields and part
ridge comes my wayI have my fun. or
course 1t isn't as handy as regular shot
gun, but it Is surprising how well one can
get along with it with little practice.
flake 1t all In all there's lots of sport to
be had out of a walking-stick shotgun"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-16
A DUDE FROM BOSTON.
lie Taught The Drunken Lumbermen
an Effective Lesson in Manners.

an Effective Lesson in Manners.
ST. Louis GiobeDemocrat
Il was going from Oshkosh up to Green
Bay. last spring." said George Bailey, now a
guest at the Lacede. II had for fellow
passengers half dozen lumbsrmen, who
had just been paid off and had gone to Osh-
kosh to have little fun with the boys.
There were but two coaches ON the
train, ladies car and smoker. and the
lumbermen took possession of both and ran
the train to suit themselves. For the first
few miles they were good-humored, and the
passengers enjoyed their pranks. but the
Oshkosh WHISKY finally began to assert it
self and they began looking for row.
They went through the coaches smash
ing the mems hats down over their eyes.
Ihis failing TO produce the desired result,
they began singing ribald songs In the
ladies car There were dozen men
aboard besides the train crew, but the ruff
fans were big, strap ing fellows. and no.
body cared to provoke difficulty with
them
Presently little Boston dude. with a
complexion like tallow candle and con-
sumptiye cough, got np, laid off his over
coat. and then his undercoat and vest.
Then he removed his spectacles. wiped the
dust from them, put them in case and
frightened up his silk surcingle notch.
The lumbermen, who were spread out
over several seats, with their feet dangling
in the aisles, watched his pre- aratious and
wanted 10 know if he was preparing to take
bath. When he had arranged his affairs
to his liking he came down the aisle. He
caught the leader of the gang by the legs,
whirled him over in the seat and struck
him twice just behind the ear.
The blows sounded like the impact of a
piledriyer The other toughs rushed to the
relief of their leaders and were knocked
sprawliDg over the seats. Then the tallow-
fueed dude pulled the belieord. The train
came to stop, and he began dragging his
victims out on the platform.
Everybody lent hand, and two minutes
later we were steaming away, six passen-
gers short The youngsters who did the
business so beautifully had just graduated
at Harvard, where. among other things of
more or less value, he had acquired the
science Of putting up his dukes"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-16

teriais. They were 81 angry that they
formed an alliance aad petitioned tho Pope
on the subject.
1t was the best thing they could do, for
his holiness, ever anxious to assert himself
in Venice, annuled the obn rxious decree,
which had emanated ffom the Venetian
patriarcbd
Anon, however, they got 10 despIse the
various sumptuary laws which came upon
them thick as autumDal leaves. Nearly
every one disregarded them.
True. the executive employed spies,
whose business it was to 90 about taking
stock" of the peaple, measuring with their
eyes the ladies' dresses and guessing at
their value. Now and then prosecution
occurred.
If the gown was at fault for its sump-
were fined. If lady was found with more
pearls on her person than was permissible
she was liable TO penalty of no less than
2C0 ducats, OF which half went to the in
former.
But it was by no means light and easy
work-thiS OF professional spy. The times
had got so much out of joint that there was,
on an average, a homicide daily in the city,
without mention of the various disappear
anees, which often had sanguinary sig
Dlficanee.
A patrician might submit TO pay the fine
for extravaganza, but it would afterward
be excusabie Ia the young bloods OF the
patrican's family If they waylaid the in.
former and either perforated him with their
rapiers or knocked him on the head and
mbled him into the canal.