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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-03
PERSONAL MENTION.

H. NJ. White, of Houston, is at
the Maverick.
A. l.. Carmichael, of Houston, is
at the Southern.
l.. G. Ryan and wife are at the
Southern from Austin.
w. l.. Johnson, a Seguin mer-
chant, is at the Southern.
Vincent Bluntzer, Pearsall
merchant, is at the Southern.
Capt. A. Armstrong, stockman
of Cotulla, is at the Southern.
II. D. Spore and wife, of Hous-
ton, are in the city, stopping at the
Menger.
Ed. Herring and wife, of Marion,
are in the city, stopping at the
Mahncke.
James McLymont and family, of
Standard, are in the city, stopping
at the Mahncke.
Homer Richney, of Augusta, Ga,
is visiting in the city and is stop
ping at the Maverick.
G. w. Haverson and wife, of st.
Louis, are at the Mahncke, on a
visit to the Alamo City.
Messrs. l.. Mahncke and Her.
man Schultze left today for Rock
port, to spend week in recreation.
Edward Schroeder leaves for
Austin next Saturday to attend
the encampment and visit friends.
Ed. Randolph, of Houston, is
here to participate in the bicycle
races. He is stopping at the Mem
ger.
Miss Lizzie SPAIN, accompanied
by her nephews, Harry and Louis
SPAIN, has gone to New Orleans,
to visit her mother.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-03
Proprietor,
Newcomb's Petition Favored.

A petition signed by a number
of taxpayers of BeXar county, was
read in the county commissioners
court this morning and referred to
the county attorney. The petition
ers favor a proposition made by
Colonel James p. Newcomb to drill
an artesian we'll to supply water to
the public on the Calaveras, the
county to guarantee $4,000 con-
ditional that the we'll is success.
Should the proposed we'll prove a
success, the petitioners claim, it
will lead to other experiments of
similar character and the possible
Transformation of the present con-
dition to one of wealth and pros
perity.
A petition of Justices of the
Peace Anton Adam,andEnoch Griff
Jones for electric fans in their re-
spective court rooms was referred
to Commissioner Boerner.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-03

would otherwise have to walk on
muddy streets.
The United Catholics arrange
ment committee passed vote Of
thanks last night to Mr.. Newt. M.
Smith for his efforts in getting the
wheelmen to parade with the pro-
cession tomorrow morning. All
wheelmen in the city and partic-
ularly all ladies who ride a wheel
are cordially invited and earnest
ly requested to start in the parade
from Alamo plaza, at s o'clock a.
m.
There were meetings of both BIZ
cycle clubs at their club quarters
last night.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-03
Recorders Court.

Santa Arbam, annoying and
abusing, So.
NJ. X. Upshaw, refusing to pay
car fare, So.
Louis Lynn, hack withoutlicense,
continued.
Manuel Hereida, vagrant, $40.
S. Rodriguez, insulting and abus-
ing, dismissed. ,.
Jose Castillo, drunk and disor-
derby, So.
A. Castillo, beating and striking,
81.
Thos. Driscoll, loafng in park,
dismissed.
r.. KrIsch, violating sanitary or
dinance, continued.
r. w. Smith, drunk and diorder-
ly, dismissed.
Mrs. Ed. Code, violating sanitary
ordinance, continued.
Tom Cooper, disorderly, trans.
ferred.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-03
The Lights Prize.

The LIGHT has offered to furnish
one of the prizes for the Riverside
sports program of the United Cath
Ollie societies tomorrow. The offer
has been accepted and the prize
will be a complete set of the Marie
Borough art portfolio collection of
noted men and women of the stage.
The collection is valuable prize,
fit to grace any lady's parlor or
boudoir and is a souvenir OF rare
artistic merit.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-03
Real Estate Transfers.

The following real estate trans
fers were filed since last report:
M. NJ. and ]. Z. Adams to ]. j.
Reed, lots 4 and 5, block IL, Adams
Laurel Heights; S25OO.
F. p. Hord and l.. S. Berg to Me-
dora Bundren, blocks No. 20, II, Y,
II, Is and so, of the Macedonia Park
b.division, for other lands.
Annie M. and C. f. Matthews to
T. J. Largen, lot 4, block Z, on San
Pedro avenue 81, 400.
Axel and Paul Meerscheidt, John
Schumacher and e. Longini to
Charles Klaus, lot l6 in block 7, on
Government Hill s., 572.7S.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-03
Attention!

Republican Club, No. l, regular
monthly meeting at Sam Rose
hall, corner Milan square and
South Concho street, Friday eve
ming, July 6, 1894. All members
are requested to attend by orders
of the president, b. F. LLOYD.
J. w. SoUTHALL, Secretary. 1t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-03
Two New Voters.

Henry Kentmann, a subject of
the emperor of Germany, and HI,
Hack, of the kingdom Of Saxony,
were granted first naturalization
papers as citizens of the United
States this morning and are con-
sequently eligible to vote.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-03
Court House Sale,

This is the day set for the sale OF
the courthouse property. The
county commissioners this morn
ing fixed the starting price at
$65,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-03
AGENCY

For the celebrated Aerial Bicycles
at Robt Schmerbeck, 300 East
Houston street, headquarters for
fine cutlery. 62I I'm
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-03
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

VARA, e. W.: ~
a. Name a good<iotion for the complex
ion2 % Give a cure for pimples and face
eTuptiOns. .ANs.-(a.) Do not endanger your
complexion by any lotions. Most of those
upon the market do more harm than good.
Consult some leading dermatologist who has
made study of skin diseases and it will be
cheaper, better and safer. o. Use antiseptic
sOaps.-Ns7O York San.
John Fl. Woodbury., l25 West 42d Street.
New York, is the leading Dermatologist of
the word. Consultation free. He makes an
aDtissptic soap which besides being an x
sellent toilet soap has medicinal properties
which will cure face eruptions. Send lOc.
for a sample cake and get illustrated. took
noon skin diseases free.-EditoT.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-03
Parsnnal NAdN

L. w. Hagy, the contractor and
builder, will please call at the
LIGHT office. Z 3 lt*
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-05-19

a nix or IL, we Urusu uflaU no Will call and
set us right as to the facts in the case. 1t
wouldn't make any great difference wheth-
er his otfense was arson or bigamy, but we
like to have things straight.
LOOKED For A GAIA party of hunt
ers who have been in camp on Bill Will
liams' mountain for the last month yester-
day brought into town one of their num-
Der to be patched up and restored to life.
His name is Banning, and we understand
that he is a tenderfOOt Nimrod from the
east. Three or four nights ago he was
aroused from sleep in the camp by what he
supposed was the wailing of a lost cat.
Thinking that the feline had strayed from
home and was lost and in a suffering con-
dition, Mr.. Banning went out into the
brush and called her in tender tones. She
came. Sh turned out to be a mountain
lion about II feet long, and she didn't
have any time to fool away. The interview
didn't last over 80 seconds, but during that
time the varminG bit and clawed and
chewed till the man who was looking for
a cat hadn't a spot an inch square without
its mark. The doctor says he may possibly
live, but if he gets around again the tat
toOed man or the chap who was run through
a CornSheller won't be in it with him for
dime museum engagements.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-05-19
Little Girl-You bad cat, where's my
bird?
Cat-Oh, he's just gone inside.-Life.
Police.

The shades of night were falling fast
when the mistress undertook to inculcate
a few moral lessons in the mind of the new
hired girl.
The dinner dishes had been removed
from the table and the fragments of china
swept from the floor.
Mary"
The domestic raised her large, expressive
eyes.
Mary, what is dearer to you than gold
or silver"
Even in the failing light it was apparent
that the servant was getting red in the
face.
"Mary'-
The sweet, sympathetic voice was like
music in the ears unused to kindness.
-"what is it,"
Copper"
There was a rustic of skirts, the sound Of
hurried footsteps, and the mistress was
alone.-DetrOit Tribune.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-05-19
IN Turkey.
VI. QUAD.

Though the Turks cannot be called
lazy, yet they like TO take their time. Pa
thence, they say, belongs to God; harry, to
the devil. Nowhere is this so well illus
trated as in the manner of shopping in
Turkey. This was brought particularly to
our notice when we visited the SiyaS ba-
zaars to examine some inlaid silvcrware,
for which the place is celebrated. The Gus
toner stands in the street inspecting the
articles on exhibition; the merchant sits
on his heels on the booth floor. If the GUS
toner is of some position in life, he climbs
up and sits down on n level with the mer-
chant. If he is Il foreigner, the merchant
is quite deferontial. y merchant is L 0 a
merchant at all, bat q host entertaining q
guest. Coffee is served, then a cigarette
rolled up and handed to the guest, " while
the various social and other local topics are
freely discussed. After coffee and slIOE-
ing the question of purchase is gradually
approached, not abruptly, as that would
involve a loss Of dignity, but ~circumspect-
II, as if the buying of anything were a
mere a~fterthOuGht. Maybe, after half an
hour, the customer has indicated what he
wants, and after discussing the quality Of
the goods the customer asks the price in
an Offhand way, as though he were not
particularly interested. The merchant re
plies, 'Oh, whatever your highness
pleases, " or II shall be proud if your high
ness will do me the honor to accept it as q
gift" This means nothing whatever and
is merely the introduction to the haggling
which is sure to follow. The seller, with
silken manner and brazen cOuntenance,
will always name a price four times as
large as it should be. Then the real bust
ness begins. The buyer offers Onc-half or
o~ne-fourth of what he finally expects to
pay, and a war CT words in a clustering
one leads up TO the close of this everyday
farce.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-05-19
you cOul

She was young; she was green; she was
very young in New York. At a recent
swell function she had gone with the crowd
into the supper room. Presently an ele-
giant looking waiter who for all the world
looked like a real genuine count bowed
most politely before her and murmured:
rs there anybody waiting on you miss?"
Sir, sir?" she stammered, in startled sur
prise and embarrassment.
"PardOneZ moi. Is there anybody wait
ing on YOU"
oh" she said, blushing deeply. NO,
sir-that is, not in New York. But when
am at home in Chicago I have more beaux
than any other girl in town."-Brooklyn
Life.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-05-19
An Economical Darby.

Gabe Snodgrass recently applied to the
Rev. Whargdoodle Baxter of the Blue
Light Austin tabernacle for some pecunia-
ry assistance.
81 jess can do hit" replied Parson Bax-
ter. Il has to sport my pore ole mudder."
but yer pore old mudder says yer don't
do muffin for her"
"Well, den. eff l don't do muffin for my
pore ole mudder, what's de use oh ar out
slider like you trying to make me shell
out?"-Texas Siftings.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-05-19
Famous Amos.

Some years ago when l wuz young an lived III
~GungaWump,
Where ev'ry later wuZ a stun an ev'ry sYrou+a
stump,
We lived clost tew a Gurus chap whose oire,.
name WIZ Amos,
Who talked frum morn till night tew US about
his bein famous.
He lowed at he wuz born tew be a bigger man
than US,
An at some day he'd git the worl into a tarnal
fuss,
An so he Dragged an proffersied an hung aroun
the town
Fer fame tew back up front of him tew milk
an strip her down.
The ~neighbors' boys went off tew work, an
some of 'em grew rich,
While others shone eZ litry lights an senner-
tors and SIGH,
An ev'ry year, vacation time, they heerd the
voice Nv Amos,
Kumplainin, in the same ole way. becuz he
wuZn't famous.
Says he: I'm smart ez Guv'nor Hill or Mayor
Saml Brown.
An / don't see no reason why ] amt the same
renown.
/ allus spelt 'em down in skule an beat 'em
at a game,
But somehow they hev slipped ahead in this
here modern fame"
AN so he waited for the mail an TELEGRAPH each
day.
that his fame nd come in some secb
light'nin way.
An thus he died, while all his fr'en's grew
wealthy, fat an famous,
An soon the village ceased tew talk NV fame
espirin Ance-
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-05-19

nc 50 as we waUcned me r1m1na take his
last look Of earth and set his face to the
east. \ food of sunset followed him out
on the sands. He looked neither to the
right nor left, but straight before him. He
went on and on till the Il went down,
till darkness fell to blind our eyes. When
we turned to look for the man under the
tree, he had disappeared. He had come for
a life. He had sent that life out upon the
heated sands to die of hunger and thirst,
to feel the horror of the night, to be Kissed
at by serpents and stung by scorpions, to
die u score of times before the vultures
would dare descend to the feast.
VI. QUAD.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-05-19
Easily Arranged.

Young Wife Gin tears)-Oh, Gerald! What
do you think? The canary has gone to lay
ing eggs!
Unfeeling Husband-I don't see anything
heartbreaking in that, Elsie. It's a perfect
ly proper thing for a canary to do,
Young Wife-Yes, but Ive always called
it Ben.
Unfeeling Husband-Well, you can call
it Ben-Hur nOw.-Chicago Tribune.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-05-19
CoIOred Society Note.

Sam Johnsing-Has yer darter made her
debOot?
Mrs. Crow-Not yet. MI, Johnsing.
Oats a great pity. Sich a lubly flower
was not born ter blush unseen and waste
her fragrance on de desert air"
"She can't blush any odder way except
onseen, she am so dark Completed; but her
sister Mollie am seberal shades lighter.
Yer can almost see her blush on a dark
day."-Texas Siftings.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-05-19

Miss Sum1nit-Mr. CastletOu is an awful
ly good friend of yours. isn't he? He was
telling me yesterday that you were just de-
termined to join his club.
Tutter (eagerly)-Ies, [ am. And what
else did be say?
Miss SummiJ-Whv, he said if you did,
you could take his place.-Truth.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-05-19
ON THE BLUFFS.
How History Was Made by Bending Tree
and Creeping Panther.

"COmc, Creeping Panther!"
"What is it, father?"
"Here is the spot!'
1t was Bending Tree, he Chippewa
chief, and his only son, a boy of II. The
boy had followed his father for miles and
miles through the virgin forest until they
had suddenly come III on a grand bluff
on the upper Mississippi river.
"Here we make history for the white
man. said the chief as he looked over his
assortment Of warclubs and selected one
made of second growth hickory,
Are you going to mash me, father"
Elmer than squash. Got to do it. In
the years to come the palefaces will write
of these rocks that a famous Indian chief,
who was taking his son on his first war
hunt, was discovered by the Objibeways
and driven to bay on the edge of this cliff.
They held out and held out and held out,
but at length their fried oysters and roast
turkey ran short, and there was only one
thing to be done. Rather than have his
son fall into the hands OF the relentless
Objibs the father Drained him with his
own warCIub."
but what became of the father?"
Don't ask any foolish questions! Some
palefaces will have it that he uttered his
warcry and leaped into the pellucid river
below, and others that he rushed upon his
enemies and died surrounded with bar'ls
of blood. I'll think it over after 0 are
gone and see what I'd better do"
"Can't we fool the palefaces, father"
in~nocently inquired Creeping Panther.
mot much! The first sarsaparilla or
pill man who came along here and couldn't
see your blood on the rocks would say the
story was d dead fake and kick about pay
ing his steamboat fare. l may be an In
jun, but I'm no putter up of jobs on his
tory"
cit wouldn't do to kill smother boy,
would it-some young Injun who hasn't
got any show to climb up?" asked the boy,
who seemed strangely averse to dying.
NO" roared the now indignant father.
boy, do you want me to be ashamed of
you? Stand out there till I crack got
head! If the palefaces get hold of it that
you didn't wan to die, the heroism will
be knocked out of the whole thing, and
the legend won't be believed below Du-
buque."
Father, I am ready-whack away!"
And Bending Tree hauled off and crack
ed him one and Drained him and killed
him and went away happy. Only last fall
saw the mighty bluff and had some of the
dried blood pointed out to me on the rocks
by the captain. NJ. QUAD.
COJOred Society Note.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-05-19
Strange.

Regy-Anything unusua happen while
was out, James?
His Man James-Yes, sir. Your tailor
didn't call.-Truth.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21
The Oldest Mathematical Boob.

The oldest mathematical book in the
world, which dates some 1000 years
back, and was written in Egypt, con-
tains rule for squaring the circle,
says the Engineers Gazette. The rule
given Is to shorten the diameter by
ninth, and on the line so obtained to
construct square; and this, though
far from being exact, is near enough
for most practical purposes. Since
then the amateur squarer of the circle
has been o thorn in the side of the
professional mathematician. Learned
societies at last, in pure self-defense,
made rule that al solutions Of the
problem sent to them should, without
examination, be consigned to the
flames. In the last century a French
man named Mathulus was so sure he
had succeeded in squaring the circle
that he offered a reward of $1,000 to
any one who proved his solution er-
roneous. 1t was shown to be errone-
Gus if not to his own satisfaction, at
least to that of the courts, and he
had to pay the money. Mathema-
ticians have long been convinced that
the solution was impossible; but it is
only few years since they were able
TO demonstrate this. A German pro-
fessor named Landmann published in
1882 n demonstration, which was ac-
copied by the scientific world rs salts
factory; so that would-be squarers of
the circle may now rest from their
labors, seeing that 1t has been mathe-
matically proved that the thing can
not be done.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21
SELECT SiFTIXG.
The musk rose is Italian.

The musk rose is Italian.
The average weight of a lion Is 500
pounds.
Lettuce was eaten by the ancients at
the close of meals.
The frigate bird, it is asserted, car
fly 200 miles in an hour.
The most densely settled State is
Rhode Island, the second is Massa-
chusetts.
In Stuttgart, Germany, there is q
rosebush which covers a space of $50
square feet.
South American monkeys are the
only lower animals than can recognize
the meaning of picture.
The immensely of the great pyramid
is shown by the fact that it contains
SO, ops, 900 cubic feet of stone.
Turner's pictures were admitted to
the British Royal Academy before the
young artist was twelve years old.
Michael Angelo devoted twelve years
Of his life to study of anatomy before
he began to paint the human figure.
1t has been discovered that the art
of engraving gems fourished among
the Chaldeans as early as B. G. 1000.
A larch tree, 140 feet high, the tall
est in the Inverary forest Scotland,
was blown down in one of the recent
gales
The tallest man on the Pacific Coast
is Samuel Hutchinson, of Prescott,
Wash. His height is seven feet d
inches
: The first oil we'll in America was on
) small farm in themountains of Wayne
County, Kentucky. 1t was discovered
in 1929.
A man named Button, of Fort Scott,
Kan, has named his daughter Pearl,
and Mr.. White, of the same State,
has named his daughter Snow.
The remains of an elephant and
numerous parts of lions, camels and
other beasts have been discoverednear
Castle Rock, in Kansas by Professor
w. f. Howard
, Berlin claims the record for quick
3 ness in turning out fire brigade, AT
, q local test company was in readi-
ness IN twenty-five seconds after the
alarm was sounded.
Three of the American diamond cut
s, ting establishments are engaged in
shaping black diamonds for mechani-
cal purposes, for glass cutters and en-
, gravers, or for use in the manufacture
: of watch jewels.
S The largest walnut tree ever known
: in this country was felled in Leaven-
S worth County, Kan, and taken to the
? Worlds Fair. 1T was seventy-hVe feet
. high, and two carloads of lumber were
4 taken from its limbs alone.
0 DR.. Karl Blind informs the students
f of Oxford that their annual custom of
d bringing in a boar's head to their
: Christmas banquet is a survival OF the
sacrifcial banquet the old Vikings used
2 to hold in honor of Freye, the Morse
= sun god.
: Some of the Arab tribes have queer
, notions about future state. They
/, tie camel to q mans tomb and leave
4 it without food. II the camel gets
k away, the man is lost forever but If
l not. he would find it there at the day
: of Judgment and would mount on it to
S Paradise.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21
WHERE THE CATTLE COME TO
DRINK,

" HEtNE ttE CATTLE SOME ~
DRINK.
at evening, where the cattle come to drink,
Cool are the long marsh-grasses, dewy
cool
The alder thickets and the shallow pool,
And the brown clay about the trodden brink.
The pensive afterthought of shutdown sink
Over the patient acres given to peace
The homely cries and farmstead noises
cease
And the worn day relaxes, link by link.
lesson that the open heart may read
Breathes in this mild benignity Of air,
These dear familiar savours of the soil
A lesson of the calm of human creed,
The simple dignity of common toll,
And the plain wisdom of unspoken prayer.
&C. G. D. Roberts, in Youths Companion.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21

of gold we buy for $3.50 or some
less. The $1,50 is for profit, handling
and the risk. Yes, it's quite n bust
ness, and many a family history hiss
been told in the golden heirloomsthat
have fallen into a loan brokers' Cruz
chile.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21
Beware.

Look out for the young woman who
frankly declares that she is bound to
die an old maid. Before you are
aware of it she will be wearing your
name, together with broad gold ring
on the third finger OF her left hand, -
Boston Transcript.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-09-21
ON THE BRINK,
BY AMELIA E. BARR.

. A RS ago
there was a
grand brick
house stand
ing in the
mi d st of a
sweet old gar
den on one of
the pleasant
est sites of
Il i C b mon
Hill. It had
once been the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-11-05
THE BEST WAY TO LIVE.

Life is a glorious experience to all
who use it well.
1t is marvellous how richly it yields
to those who cultivate opportunities.
Many of its greatest successes have
been made by persons who employed
its odd moments industriously.
The evils of the times is that selfish
ness that kills ambition with Incidence
and sympathy with conceit.
There are literally thousands of men
and women who exist without living
They never get away from self, never
feel the joy Of a new growth of the
blessedness of another's gratitude.
Many marriages are failures simply
because husband and wife settle down
in a humdrum way, without dra wing
from the world new blessings and new
impulses.
Every person should have constant
prayers - prayer for deliverance
from too much selfishness and pray
er for sympathy with every form of
human life.
Instead of brooding over self, try
to find interest in the good of others.
Goodness is contagious, and it will
come back to you.
Instead of letting the clouds fall
upon the future, and the dust accu-
mulate upon your books, use the
books, and the culture that will come
to you will melt the clouds like sun
shine, and fill the vista with bright
ness and glory.