San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-10
MISCELLANEOUS PIcKrNGs.

be put in for about $35O,000.
A half dozen big artesian wells
are badly needed on the lake at
West End.
One hundred thousand dollars
will build a first-class Electric
Light plant.
The price for water could be cut
half in-two and still leave a hand
some profit.
"Red" and my cousin have dis
continued temporarily those lovely
rides to West End.
Editor Brann's Sunday bricks
were rather soft yesterday, and
not SO hot as usual.
Some people neglect their own
business, while trying to throw
stones at their rivals.
Don't waste all your ammunition
on the water works, and slight the
other big monopolies.
There are only a few scrap"
games in the city now, and they
are being run very sly.
Haas & Oppenheimer are con-
tinuing their grand Columbian
clearance sale this week.
l.. Wolfson's big clearing sale
for the summer, begins today. See
advertisement elsewhere.
There is some ugly talk in the
city about a few little unpaid bills
of the Pinafore enterprise.
Every circus advertises itself as
the greatest show on earth. Some
newspapers are like circuses.
Wolff & Marx is keeping up the
drive on shoes, and Red says adj
vertising in the LIGHT pays.
The Express says Majah Nose
Harris is dead, but the major says
he is a pretty lively corpse yet.
Big newspaper circulations are a
nice thing to boast of, but the best
reader is the cash paying subscri-
Der.
The Pole-taX ordinance would on
ly catch the Western Union Tele-
graph company for about $500 a
year.
- Capt. "Phil." is giving good sat
isfaction as recorder, and seems to
deal out justice without fear or
favor.
| The city of San Antonio is pay
ing about twenty thousand dollars
n rnoT. Zoo pnI1nh for thn nlnntrin
lights.
The law doctors have evidently
advised their patient Bracken-
ridge not to demand too much pie
at once.
Mayor Paschal has made a fair
compromise, and Col. Bracken-
ridge has shown his good sense in
accepting.
The circulation of the LIGHT to-
day IN SAN ANTONIO is greater
than several metropolitan dallies
combined.
The San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass Railway is now selling eXcur-
sion tickets to all points, north,
east and west.
The demand for Champagne
beer, continues undated, and
Otto Koehler still wears his usual
pleasant smile.
Next Monday Q7th) is the date
set when the JOske Brothers will
give away two round trip tickets
to the Worlds fair.
There is some talk of another
afternoon paper being started to
take up the fight left off by the
newspaper consolidation.
If the city will shave a little in
all the other departments, like the
city advertising, the saving will
soon make a handsome sum.
Col. Breckenridge is a shrewd
business man, and has got too
much sense to pluck the old city
goose to death at one picking.
The Jockey club will give us
some more good races this fall, if
the owners of the track do not
tax them too much for the S of
the grounds.
Nat Sulzbacher has leased the
store formerly occupied by Sim
Hart, and will open about the LIST
of September, a fine cigar and
stationary store.
Mr.. Herman Kampmann and
Judge Callaghan were out driving
together Saturday evening. They
went up and down Commerce
street several times.
8 One million dollars will give us
a first-class system of water works,
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