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FOR CITY ATTORNEY.

ROBERT B. GREEN has requested the
LIGHT to announce that he is a candidate
for CITY ATTORNEY, at the ensuing cleo
ton, February 18th.
TheLIGHTis auth )rize to announce
A LEVY asca andidate for City Attor-
ney at the ensuing election, February Is.
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RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION.
From the Manufacturers Record


way. The Washington, Alexand.
ria & Mt. Vernon Railway Co.
proposes to extend its existing
line between Mt. Vernon and
Alexandria to Washington, d. O.,
and build a bridge over the Poto.
mac river, and has had a bill. in.
trOduced in Congress for the
necessary authority to carry out
it's plans. The road and bridge is
to be completed within two years
of it's commencement.
Bristol, Tenn. Railroad. The
HolstOn Valley Railway Co. has
let contract to Smalling & Co., of
Watauga, for grading and trestle.
work on the entire line Of it's pro.
posed railroad.
Cumberland, Md. Railroad.
Surveys for the Potomac & Appa.
lachIan Railroad are now being
made by the engineers. This road
is projected from Cumberland to
COVlngtOn, va.
Durham, N. G. Electric Street
Railway. 1t is reported that an
electric street railway will be
built from the Durham Cotton
Mills in East Durham to the Erwin
Cotton Mills in West Durham.
Hendricks, w. Va. Railroad. A
railroad is to be built, it is report.
ed, from Hendricks to the Chesa-
peake & Ohio in Greenbrier
county.
Ravenden, Ark. Railroad. The
North Arkansas Railroad has
been chartered to build a road
from RaveDden to Ravenden
Springs.
Roberts, Texas. Railroad. Ar
rangements have been made by
E. II. r. Green for an immediate
survey of the line Of extension of
the Texas Midland Railroad from
Roberts to Paris.
Southport, N. g. Railroad
The Brunswick, Western & South.
ern Railroad, projected fro N
Southport to Meares Bluff, is to
be built Immediately by the Cape
Fear Han Dor & Coal Co., which
has just been chartered. Edw.
w. Leggett, George Livingston,
ThOs. y. Vanderveer and Vincent
A. Ryan are the incorporators,
and intend to organize with j. @.
Bayles, of New York, as president.
Work on the road will be com.
menced within twenty days, and
is expe cted to be completed in
three months time. Capital stock
of { company 100000.
Tampa, Fla. Railroad. The
Tampa Street Railway & Power
Co. has commenced the work of
equipping it's road electrically,
and expects to have it completed
by March 10th. The company will
also extend it's line several miles.
The Westinghouse trolly system
will be used.
Waco. Texas. Railroad. VIM.
Davis, F. E. Rogers and George
Parker, have made preliminary
surveys for a railroad line from
Waco to Moody, a distance of
twenty eight miles. The organ
ization of a company to build this
road was mentioned by us last
October as probable.
Washington, D.. @. Railroad. A
bill has been introduced in the
Senate to incorporate the Chesa.
peake & Washington Under
ground Electric Railway. The
following are mentioned AS the in.
corporatOrs: Henry Carey, of
New York; Luttell Murphy, of
California; Jno D. Parsons, of
Virginia; Geo. w. Tibbetts, of
Washington State, and w. K.
Mendenhall, Jno. w. Parsons and
Woodbury. Wheeler, OF Washing.
ton, D. G. Capital stock is to be
$4,000 per mile, and the motive
power ofthe road is to be electric
itV.
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ALpERMAN-AT-LAReE,

1 hereby announce myself as a candi-
date for ALDERMAN At LARGE, prom
Using, if elected, to fill the position to the
best Of my ability. JOE MCALLsTER.
The LIGHT is authorized to announce
ERICH MENGER as a candidate for alder
man at-large at the election February
9th
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FOR ASSES OR,

The LIGHT Is authorized to announC
Mr.. GUsTAvE FRAsCH as a capdidate TO
reelection to the office of CITY AssEsso
at the coming election in February.
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Best seasoned wood, 1. T. and
Col. coal, grain, hay, etc., cheap for
cash. Tel. S74. Cor. San Fernando and
Medina SITS C. o. Mcclure. 926 6m
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EcRscIrY. COLLECTOR.

The LIGHT is authorized to announce
EDWARD RIsCHE, SR., as candidate for
re-election.tO the Office of CITY CoLLEC-
TOR. at the ensuing city election.
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FOR MAYOR.

The LIGHT is authorized 10 announce
the Hon. GEORGE PAsCHAL, as a candi-
date for MAYOR, at the ensuing election,
Feb. 18th
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FOR RECORDER.

The LIGHT is authorized to announce
ex- County Judge S. W. McALLIsTER, as a
candidate for City Recorder at the cleo
ton, February 18th.
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ALDERMAN FOR FOURTH WARD.

The LIGHT Is authorized to announce
j. n. GROESBEECK as a candidate for al
derman of the Fourth Ward at the enSu-
ing city election.
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FOR SALE OR TRADE.

1,6O0 acres Ere grazing and farming
and within % miles of San Antonio will
trade for city lots or will sell for cash and
part time. This land is near rail road
and we'll watered. Owners object In SELL
ing is having other business and is unable
to attend the ranch. Call early and Sc
cure bargain from,
JOHN T. HAMBLETON & Co.
&-19-tf No 4, East Commerce street
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR MAYOR.

The LIGHT is authorized to announce
PHIL SHARDEIN, as candidate for Mayor
at the election, February -, 1893.
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ADVERTISING SOLICITORS,

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the LIGHT. Our. patrons will please put
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Observation-Disclosures when the bill is
presented. T. B. JOHNSON, Mgr,
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

This Office is not responsible for the
private bills of any of its employees. And
order from T. B. JOHNSON, Manager.
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JOB PRINTING
In all its branches done with neatness
and dispatch at the San Antonio LIGHT
Job office.
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L. HUTH & SON,
THE OLD STAND
Hardware, Paint and Seed
STORE.
226, 22S and 23O Market ST., San Antonio

Headquarters ford, Landreth n Sons
Garden, Field and Flower Seeds. Agents fe
Harrison Bros. and, Co., TowL Country"
Ready Mixed Paints and CoIors, Brinly's Steel
and Cast Iron Flows. Planet Jr., Horse Hoe
and Cultivator's Combined, Hand Drills, Plows
Builders Hardware, Etc. Just received; Car
load Sugar Cane, Mtllet, Alfalfa, Glover.
Missouri Seed Corn. etc
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DODGERS. HANGERS AND POST
ERS.
The best in tho city, and the most reason.
able for first class work, at the LIGHT Job
office. 5-13-tf
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AUTHORIZED COLLECTORS.

The following named are the only
authorized collectors for the LIGHT:
81. G. SCHUMACHER,
FRED SMALL,
WILL SCHUMACHER,
DAN HATToN,
Subscribers are req uested not to pay
their subscription without taking a re-
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BILL HEADS uLErTER HEADS,

Cards, envelopes, and all kinds of com
mercial pr nting done at the LIGHT Office
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PUBLISHERS NOTICE.

TO OuRiEASTERN ADVERTISERS.
All advertising for the Daily and Week.
ly LIGHT, must come to us through our
special agents, Messrs Palmer & Rey
232 to 235 Temple Cou ri, New York.
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q tiny profit on the bread, for the company
has its own bakery. The meats come from
deed. the man who started the enterprise
began as butcher and took up the res
taurant business to make a double profit
The question Of the wine is also an i'm
portant one. Everyone takes wine or beer,
and beer is as expensive as the cheapest
carafon for four cents. This is scarcely
q goblet full and is not good wine. What
they call Medoc is twenty-four cents a
bottle; while an extra franc makes a great
leap toward really good WINE The most
expensive Bordeaux at these restaurants
is sig francs. the most expensive Sauterne
white Burgundy Is two francs.
The restaurants revel in cheap cham
the scosmosa brand V of a0it a. Tem nSis:
runs from dollar to a dollar and a half,
according to the color Of the label; Mumm's
sleek Monopole two dollars. II is nothing
strange to see dinner parties given by we'll
fo-do people In these cheap but dainty
wines are called for in them as often nearly
as the cheaper kinds. The Parisians are
q frugal people. and yet they love good
The Partisan begins his dinner with
Few olives or an extremely small piece of
fancy sausage dear at cents. He ends it
brandy or Benedictine or other digestive,
at about cents. Imagine dinner, then,
taken at Duvai restaurant: Consomme,
cents; caviare, II cents; salmon, with
green sauce. 20 cents; roast capon with
cress. Is cents; fresh cream in a little pot,
II cents: coffee with cognac. 10 cents; and
wine, say White Burgundy, at 40 cents
The total is s1.27. If an extra soup be
taken Is cents). and an extra cents be
paid for table linen and half bottle of
wine be added, with an extra coffee this
will be enough for two, and cost them
about 80 cents apiece. Neither of these
prices is cheap. On the other hand, the
food is very good indeed. Year in and
year out these restaurants maintain the
same excellent standard. limitations have
risen and fallen. but they only remain.
Outside of them II is only the stuffy plat
du jour in a big brasserie, or a small eat
ing house. and the chic restaurants, with
their wonderfully perfect cooking and Won
derfully expensive and changeable prices
STERLING HELLO,
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Among the meats plain boiled beef, dry
and without gravy, costs cents. When
garnished with vegetable its price Is
cents. Here there is a curious manipula-
ton Of prices. The .garniture" of meats
with vegetables costs but little extra, while
the vegetables served by themselves are
but plain boiled beef garnished with peas
costs only cents more than plain boiled
beef alone 70 eat eheaply is therefore to
vegetables sold separately. This is no great
secret. and nothing is to be gained by 1T
except in the line of economy. The vege-
tables used for garniture are inferior in
fectly good.
taurant5. have no proper idea of roast
meats. Mutton Of a cut called "gigot" is
pretended to be roasted, and comes on
tough and bleeding. Beef, on the other
hand. Is frequently cooked so long that 1t
Is as dry as dust Roast lamb and veal is
served under-done and sprawling Imply in
a watery gravy, with water cress around
up for it. When roast meats are stuffed 1t
Is never with plain bread crumbs and herbs.
There must be chopped ham. forcemeat.
chopped mushrooms and grated cheese, all
mixed together.
A small broiled chop costs in these res
taurants II cents. They are thought to be
tourists. registered at the Grand Hotel and
who patronize the little restaurant opposite
It for the sake Of averaging down expenses,
are the chief patrons Of mutton chops A
Partisan would prefer a large dish of NUT
ton stew. with potatoes, peas and onions
swimming In a savory sauce. This would
save him the price of vegetables and give
him the money for three things the En-
glishman does not value highly-the little
radishes before the soup. the soup itself
and black coffee. with brandy. at the end.
Veal outlets. in the true Vienna style
even to the little anchovy curled up on the
top, are large and filing at Il cents A
frtcassee OF chicken, very small indeed
whose poverty Ia hidden IN a thick uhIte
sauce. Is pleasing, but dear at IS cents. The
finest steak. Chateaubriand. comes at a
good bargain for % cents. while there are
no end OF makeshift meat dishes, which
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berries are cheap. and you will have a
big plateful for Il cents. They are either
large cultivated ones. going by the name
which have a fragrance and a deiicacy
quite their own. We do not often get
them IN America. Cherries and green al
monds cost 10 cents a dish; peaches are Is
cents each.
After this glance at each division Of the
carte in these restaurants, IL will be MOTTO
ed how infinitely the prices are arranged
The secret Is TO have no waste, to give very
small portions, to have each thing the best
OF it's kind. and to muddle the mind of the
customer by artfully arranged combina-
tons.
Every penny counts. The keynote Is
struck In boiled eggs-two for eight cents.
This eight cents represents o. the cost Of
the eggs. CD the expense Of their prepara-
ton, and C0 the restaurants profit. The
cost OF the two raw eggs naturally remains
the same, however they be cooked. There
FORE when fried eggs are charged ten cents,
nearly all the extra two cents must be set
gown to profit. The omelette with fine
nerbs Is the same price, ten cents. Here
most or the extra two cents represents the
ezra trouble of preparation But the ONE
Iette with grated cheese is fifteen cents :,
seven cents above the price of two boiled
esss- one Is forced to conclude that the
proprietors believe themselves entitled to a
pront on the work Of providence which has
9ecesu tnat certain people shall be ad-
eggs. To the customer N Is Ali the same
He consults his taste and does not order
particular dishes on which he thinks the
mana gement has taken the least profit
Back of the foods there is the ouestio,
Of service, the cost OF raw material and the
laundry work. The service the restaurant
gets for nothing: the girls are glad to work
Tor the tips. which are about FIVE cents
linen Is sufficient to pay for its washing:
the company has its own general laundry
for all its many restaurants. There is also
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Thanks. no." she answered. I'VE only
feed them TO cattle In America"
Here tomatoes are expensive and tbsv
are most often served whole and raw in the
restaurant referred to. One tomato costs
10 cents. 1t comes on the table in a china
bowl accompanied by splig Of onion
and bunch of estragon (tarragon) There
are no sweet potatoes no Bermuda onions
no Lima beans, and white potatoes are
reserved Tor mutton stews or fried.
Inc reStaurants have few buildings and
no pie III you wish pie you must consult
the advertising columns Of the Paris Her
AID Inc proper addresses will be found
under the scare head of Corn beef hash.
codhsh balls, mince pie and other American
dsfcacies. In Difference to their En-
gllsh customers the restaurants serve plum
pudding (canued) all the year round there
Is also rice cake, which is almost rice pud-
ding, at cents They have a variety of
cry sweet CAKES, which cost cents an or
der, and there IS pineapple, raw, sugared
and served in kirsch, for s cents: fruit in
season at varying prices, and ice cream.
which IL always dear and served in tiny
quantities. At the present hour straw
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FARMING UNDER GLASS.
Ten Acres of Sheltered Houses and
Their LabOr-SavinE Devices.

Thefr LAbOf-Savfng Devices.
From the Chautauquan.
The old farmer and his son-in-law hal
entered a long glass structure containing
countless tiny green lettuce plants growing
in the ground.
What a monstrous lot of plants!
Shouldn't think you could sell em ALL"
ooh. there are only 1000 dozen in this
house. The next house carried 1900 dozen
last winter"
Il should think 1t would take a man all
day to water EN-
1T would If he used a watering-po
once used a hose, but that took too much
time so rugged a pipe on the roof under
the glass. Stand back in the doorway and
take out your watch while 1 let on the
shower"
An instant later fine mist seemed to
NIL the entire place. and then 1t was gone
why. 1t wasn't minute"
mo. usually give them about forty
seconds. You see every single plant has
been given gentle sprinkle of water by
only a turn Of the hand. / calculate that
How do you keep the weeds DOWN.
Wen. In the frst place. 1 don't have
many many; ! use fertilizers largely and Il
weeder that a boy pushes along between
the rows Of plants. The lettuce soon COW
srs the e ground SO that it chOkes off the
Il
Farmer Allen walked along the narrow
paths between the beds, lost in wonder and
admiration. Every tiny leaf sparkled with
dewy drops Of water and stood up fresh,
green and vigorous after the artificial
shower. Was not this whole business OF
raising crops under glass key to much
OF the peculiar position Of farming inter-
ssts? Here were crops raised In an arti-
ncial climate. Under glass there is abso-
lutte control of heat and rain, and these
things are the essentials of plant life
Would the use Of glass spread, would It be
possible to raise other crops than flowers
and lettuce in this way? Did such farm
Ing pay?
TO all of which the son replied in this
wise:
Yes. 1t pays me because I am a man.
ufacturer of food. 1 run my little n-acre
| farm precisely as factory Is run. I use
as you see. labor-saving devices / pro-
ooce great quantities of a very superior
article. and consequently 1 get fair and
! steady prices. My lettuce goes of by rail-
as far as New York. and some Of II even
| to Albany and Hartford and New Haven.
and other places this side of New York
make money by reducing the cost of man
ufacture and by the use Of labor sayin 2
appliances Of every kind. I never plant a
seed by hand. It Is all done with planters.
never touch weed out Of doors or in
side with the hands. do not even dig NV
potatoes by hand. AS for this glass buS
mess, II Is growing Tremendously all the
time. Some of these millionaires who are
experimenting with glass in a large way
are showing US food manufacturers that
der glass" N
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get to the third or fourth. Falling out,
they are rejected. Those which pass the
ordeal and Jump all Of the spaces ere per
feet shot and are deemed acceptable with
out further test. The bad ones are OF all
or triplets. having stuck together in failing
down the well. Finally, the little pellets
are put through q series of revolving
sleeves with different sized holes, by which
they are automatically sorted into ell the
different sizes known to the sportsman.
Then IT only remains to pack them In bags
been said. however, that before being sort
cd by the sleeves they are put into q ma
chine which tumbles them around with
or graphite-the stun that is used to make
pencils. Thus they get q coating Of plum
bago, which gives them their beautiful
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COOKING BY ELECTRICITY.
Devices of Which Ele,
trictty II the Power.

tricity II the Power.
From the Hotel Reporter.
The stories Of the use Of electricity In the
hotel kitchen II practically realized will
make life In the back part Of the house a
very pleasant and easy occupation. There
Is already device for grinding the morn.
ing coffee. A little slide starts the motor.
and when the coffee is ground and falls
into the coffee pot a weight turns Off the
motor automatically
Meat may be chopped. fruit juice pressed
out. an Ice cream freezer turned or cream
extracted in an instant from milk by va
rfous other devices of which electricity
Is the moving power. There are baking
ovens, heating stoves. saucepans, broilers
grfddles. sadirons and various other uten-
sils which may be attached to any electric
nght wire. The voltage In the case Of the
household appliances is from 50 to 10. The
over an oven heated by gas or Kerosene
are hned with asbestos, so that there Is no
radiation of heat into the room. The heat
oven alike, and may be controlled by a
switch on the outside. There is a Their
mometer attached to the oven showing the
exact degrees of heat, and there is a piece
or plate glass in the oven door so that the
cooking may be watched and the heat
graduated du II It is going on too rapidly.
The great objection to the oven is that II
cannot be opened during the cooking and
therefore. meats cannot be basted as they
certainly should be. There is no special
gain In time. twelve-pound turkey re-
Quires two hours and forty-five minutes: a
hve-pound roast Of beef about an hour and
a. half. If 1t is roasted rare Pies OF va
rtous kinds may be cooked in from thirty
to forty minutes. and it seems proba bic
that this oven would prove more Valuable
for pastry baking and other cases when
an intense heat Is required than for gen
eral use in the kitchen. The great ad-
vantage of such an oven over one heated
by gas or kerosene is that there is no odor
and no smoke. The average kerosene stove
Is liable to smoke unless 1t is watched with
the most scrupulous care, and nothing is
more destructive and disagreeable than the
ai-pervading, penetrating and greasy SCOT
from this smoke.
A pancake grtddle, coffee pot or teapot
may be attached to a wire separately There
are also broilers which broil the meat with
out smoke and In SO rapid a manner as
to recommend them to all good cooks who
know the value of intense and rapid heat
In broiling. 1t is not likely that these
kitchen utensils will take the place of the
range. but they may be valuable as an
adjunct.
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J. %WHYrN, ~,

certain elegance vet without expanding too
much money. The girls know that to such a
man spoiled dish or cold steak means
serious disappointment and a loss of money !;
and as they wish 70 keep their clients. each
girl TO herself. there Is great emulation
among them as to who shall be most
obliging and most serviceable
Give me olanquette de veau." you say.
"Blanquette de veau7 Yes, monsieur, i'm
fnediately, she answers. But she gives you
q decided negative shake Of the head at the
same moment That means 1T Is little
warm for veal stew today. Try something
else. The restaurants belong to a great
stock company. and. as in all stock COM
panies the employees take greater liberties
than when an individual proprietor Is stand
Ing about. computing his profits and his
losses on each single deal This habit of
giving pointers to their clients is a distinct
I've mark OF these restaurants. As a con-
sequence. there is scarcely a regular patron
who does not pride himself on having a lit
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look better than they really are-beef cro-
QUOTES, with tomatoe sauce brains cooked
In various styles, Sleeps feet, pigs feet,
sausages. with white wine sauce, calves
head. stewed liver and no end of dishes
made from things left over. All these are
cooked with great care and served with
nearly the same elegance we are accustom-
ed to in good American hotels Of the second
class. while the cooking itself is often as
good as anything we have in America The
foreign use of vegetables Is a prime matter
OF complaint with Americans abroad.
Why don't you give US green corn 90
a young American girl asked in a Paris
boarding house.
We only feed that to cattle over here"
was the landlords response.
Later on the young lady was Offered q
dish of boiled turnips
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Water and MIX.

From the Detroit Free Pres.
Two cultured Detroit girls were at a
country house for a month. kept by an
they sat down TO talk over their pleasant
surroundings.
Just think" said one, what lovely milk
that was. Nice and rich, and 30 much
better than that blue stun we get in town /"
It's too good to last I'm afraid" re
sponded the older one
ing through the garden before breakfast
The farmer and his hired man were IN
the COW lot adjoining.
BILL" they heard him call out did YOU
water them cows before you MIXED 'em7'
The girls looked at each other with quick
understanding.
There" exclaimed the elder, didn't
tell you II was too good to last" and they
went slowly and sadly into the house ex-
pecttng to find blue milk for breakfast.