San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-31

certain how they would behave
during storm; the result was
deemed successful
The mariners compass was used
| for centuries by the Chinese before
it was brought TO Europe. Its in
vention or introduction is credited
TO Flavio Gioja, in the fourteenth
century.
The origin of the American navy
dates from 1875, when Congress
| authorized the equipment of two
cruisers. BY October, l776, the
American fleet consisted Of twenty
six vessels, mounting 536 guns.
Italian ships are worked cheaper
than those of any other nation.
The monthly expense of an Italian
ship with a crew of twenty men is
about $40; of an American ship,
$1,000.
The Danube Navigation COM
pany does the largest river bust
ness Of any one company in the
world. It's steamers carry 100000
tons of freight every year.
Great Britain and her colonies
have 27,906 ships of all kinds;
France has 15,37S; Germany, 2635;
Russia, 4iO6; Italy, 6SlO; United
States, 22,623; the world, lO7, l3I.
The United States has 1855 light,
houses and beacons, thirty-twO
Iight-ships, l07 Fog signals worked
by steam, 1877 by clOckwOrk, l76l
river lights and 1886 buOys of vari-
Gus kinds.
There is to me a daintiness
about these early flowers that
touches me like poetry. They blow
out with such a simple loneliness
among the common herbs Of pas
ture, and they breathe their lives
so unobtrusiVely, like hearts whose
beatings are too gentle for the
world Willis.
Experience brings in the mater
ials from which intellect works;
for it must be granted that man
of limited experience will often be
more capable than he who has
gone through the greatest variety
of scenes, or rather, perhaps, that
one man may collect more eXper-
fence in a sphere of a few miles
square than another who has sail
ed around the world William
Goodwin.
Great talent for conversation
should be accompanied with great
politeness. He who eclipses Others
owes them great civilities; and
whatever mistaken vanity may tell
us, it is better to please in CONVEX
satiOn than to shine in it. Anon.
What sculpture is to block of
marble, education is to the human
soul. The philosopher, the saint,
the hero, the wise and the good, or
the great, very often lie hid and
concealed in a plebian, which a
proper education might have dis
Inferred and brought to light
Addison.
If there be light, then there is
darkness; if cold, then heat; if
height, depth also; if solid then
fluid Hardness and softness rough
ness and smOOthness calm and
tempest; prosperity and adversely
life and DEATH PythagOras.
Industry while seeking the sup
ply of material wantS,unCOnsciOus-
~ sets the mind in operation. 1t is
too apt, however, to dwell on ma
terial things, and to value what
ever can not be turned into money.
Theodore Parker.
There are no chances so unlucky
from which clever people are not
able to reap some advantage, and
none so lucky that the foolish are
not able to turn them to their own
Observation-Disclosures.
1t is a Notifying truth, and
ought to teach the wisest of us
humility, that many of the most
valuable discoveries have been the
result of chance rather than of
contemplation, and of accident
rather than of design.-TCOltOn.
The blossom can not tell what
becomes of it's odor, and no man
can tell what becomes of his influ-
ence and example that roll away
from himself and go beyond his
ken on their perilOus mission
Beecher.
Hail We small sweet cOurtesies
of life; for smooth do We make the
road of it, like grace and beauty,
which beget inclinations to love at
first sight; it is We who open door
and let the, stranger in.-[Sterne.
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