San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-13
INTERESTING ODDS AND ENDS
A Desultory Record of News,
Views and Varieties.


Views and Varieties.
One of those jolly idiots who like
to play practical jokes handed
Rain-in-the-Face, General Clusters
slayer, cigar on Sunday at Coney
Island, New York, and soon after
the Indian lighted it the cigar,
which was "loaded," exploded.
Just as the funny young man was
getting good laugh the Indian
seized a crutch and brought it
down with a duh thud on his head
and several stitches were required
to repair the injury to his scalp.
Old xiii Devil" Sam Hide
brands trusty rifle and the one
with which he wreaked such ter
rible revenge upon his enemies,
says the Bonnie Terre Democrat
ic Register is now on exhibition at
John Wilson's restaurant. 1t is
an old. fashioned muZZle loader.
The eighty-four notches on the
stock show the number of enc
mics killed with it.
Mrs. James A. Grundy, of Nash
vile, Tenn, lost a bag containing
$4,000 worth of diamonds while on
her way from that city to Leba-
non, KY, recently. She left them
on the seat of the car when she left
the train. Another lady picked
them up and they were returned to
the owner.
Two safe crackers entered a
Brooklyn store to operate on a safe
early one morning recently that
made a great show from the street.
They were so disappointed when
they found that it was only a wood
en- box painted that they departed,
leaving their instruments behind
them.
A tremendous school of whales
came into Kirkwall hay, Orkney,
lately, causing a most spirited
chase, while over 100 were captur.
ed the same afternoon at Westray,
little further north in the islands.
The whales were OF the porpoise
species and about seven feet long.
This is the season when the
Georgia Central railroad should be
doing heavy traffic in peaches,
but not single empty car has
been sent down TO the peach belt
for that purpose. The crop is
total failure. The large orchards
have produced practically no fruit.
An organization in imitation of
the White Cappers has been formed
among the Negroes of Western
Louisiana and Eastern Texas. They
are known as Black Cappers, and
are already terrorizing many COM
munities.
Farmers in Western Kansas are
exterminating prairie dogs by
plugging up their burrows with
tin cans open end downward. The
animal wears itself out in the vain
attempt to dig it's way through the
tin.
An old album of stamps collected
thirty years ago in Savannah and
recently discovered by an heir of
the collector has revealed a num-
Der of valuable issues, some of them
worth 81 1000.
At Clarksburg, w. Va, the other
day Allen Snow married the wife
from whom he was divorced forty
years ago. Since their separation
each Of them had married and
raised largo famiIinS
The city of Boston, after paying
out nearly $lO,00O,OOO for its sys-
tenn of public parks, finds itself I'M
able to provide the money neces-
sary to cut the grass on them this
year.
A bullet from one of the new rifles
in use in the Italian army will
penetrate five inches of solid ash
at a distance Of three-quarters of a
mile.
The teachers of Junction City,
Kan, have been forbidden by the
local Educational board to attend
more than one dance per week.
Five children of Middletown,
NY man and wife died within four
days OF each other recently of
pneumonia and measles.
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