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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-02
How He Made the Alps.

Boston Post
Has any painter ever fixed on
canvas such visions, distinct and
haunting, of lands he had never
seen as Claudesor Turner, or the
Flemish people, who painted the
little lowered and domed celestial
Jerusalem? l know not. The near
est thing of the kind was a wonder
full erection of brown paper and ap-
parently, ingeniously arranged
shavings, built up in rock-llke
fashion, covered with toy-bOX
trees, and dotted here and there
with bits of mirror glass and
cardboard houses, which once puZ-
zled me considerably in the par
lor of a cottage. "DO tell me
what that is?, at length rose to
my lips.
"That," answered my hostess
very slowly, "that is work of my
late husband; a representation OF
the Halps as close as e could
imagine it, for e never was
abroad"
l often think Of that man "who
never was abroad" and Of his
representation of the Alps; of the
hours of poetic vision, of actual
creation, perhaps, from sheer
strength oflonging, which resulted
in that quaint work of art. AS
close as he could imagine them!
He had read then, about the
Alps, read, perhaps, in Byron or
some Radclifiian novel on a stall ;
and he had wondered and wonder
ed till the vision had come, ready
for pasteboard and toy trees and
glue and broken mirror to enlbody
it,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-02
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-02
AMERICAN HUMoR.
A Couple of Specimens Which Have
the Long-Bow Flavor.


The disposition of Americans to
exaggerate is especially prominent
in what is known as American
humor. A story associated with
"picket firing" during the civil
war, brings out this feature of ma
tional character.
One day there was a truce be-
tween the two hostile picket lines.
"Ho, Yankw called out a lank
Mississippian, who had just been
posted. "Can you fellows shoot?"
v "WaIl, Johnny, guess we can
some. Can your,
"Shoot ~ shouted back the Con-
federate. "Why, down in Missis-
sippi we knock a humble bee off a
tuistle blow at three hundred
yards"
ooh, that's nothin' to the way
we shoot up in Yarmouth ! 1 be-
longed to a company up there of a
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-02

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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-02
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presented. T. B. JOHNSON, Mgr.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-02
ONE MORE CHANCE.

1t has been decided to continue sale of
the special cheap rate tickets to California
one way $50 90, round trip s35 80, until
April 18th. Apply Sunset Ticket Office,
3Ol Alamo Plaza, and Depot.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-02
FOR SALE VERY CHEAP.

9 room, two-story house on San
Pedro avenue, lot 60 by 165 feet,
wide alley in rear, all modern i'm
provements, can be had at a bar
gain by calling on
JOHN T. HAMBLETON & Co.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-02

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For all diseases caused by torpid liver OF
impure blood, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Scrof
ulous, Skin, and Scalp Diseases Con
sumption Tor Lung scrofulal in its earlier
stages-the Discovery" is the only gltaran
teed remedy.
If it doesn't benefit or cure, in every case
you have your money back.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10
1t Is the Mind That Sees.

How do we seea Did you ever
chance to think2 have asked quite
number of people lately, and they
reply: with our eyes, of course.
How else2" CT words to that effect.
Did you ever realize how much Of
our vision is mental2 We see moth
ing properly and definitely until the
mind lends its perception. We may
gaze steadfastly at picture, yet be
unable to see anything but con-
fused mass of color, because the mind
is seeing faces and scenes a thousand
miles away perhaps. Call the men
tai vision back, and the figures on the
canvas take their proper places AT
once we see the picture. Or shut
your eyes. Can you not see the faces
of those you love or hate as clearly
as you ever saw them with the phys
ical means of sight9 How many
times one glances at his watch, yet
when asked the time as he replaces
it in his pocket is unable to tell, sim
ply because he looked only with the
eyes and not with the mind Also
Boston Advertiser.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10
What He Knew About the Case.

1.-THE most intelligent witness in a
law case l ever saw" said ex-Govern-
OF Proctor Knott of Kentucky, twas
an old mountaineer down in eastern
Kentucky, whom the opposing attor
ney subpenaed. He was said to have
been an eyewitness to the murder my
client had committed and for which
he was on trial, and l was MORALLY
afraid he would annihilate my de-
Tense of provocation that I had been
trying to establish So when he took
the stand Isaw my client blanch, and
l got trifle white myself
d" Tell the court what you know
of this killing said my opponent,
with triumphant glance at me.
"'Well, jedge, war a,settin ON a
box in front Nv Bill Higginses' store
a-whittlin NV a stick, an 81 Jones,
what were killed, he KEN by, a-ridin
Nv a boss. An I seq to ST Jones, seq
l, Isl is that there critter mare er
a hossan SEE he, st is An with
that he rid on. ledge, that's all !
know about it. And the old man
reached for his hat and got down out
of the box. Washington Post.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10

Customer thought you pretend
ed to be temperance man or a pro-
hibitionist or something of that sort.
Clothier-I am, sir
Customer-Why don't you sell pro-
hibitionist goods them
Clothier-How do you mean9
Customer got a 81 umbrella here
last week, and it came home soaked
the first time | took it out. That's
one thing. Three days ago I bought
pair of So trousers. l noticed that
they were little full when l got
them. Last night after the shower
they got tighter'n any pants | ever
had on, and today they're off again.
Then there's that thin coat | bought
here; had regular tear Wednesday
and hasn't been fit for business since
You're in fine company here if you're
a temperance man. Lemme see a
standup collar, if you've got one that
can stand up.-Farm and Field.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10

Official slang and political slang
have a tendency to use the fewest
number of words to express an idea
and the fewest number of syllables
to make the word There is the use
of the word made" instead of pro-
NOTED, ''broke" instead of dismissed
from the service, "got at" to mean
that some one has been successfully
induced to do something, pull to
signify influence, favoritism and Off
cial friendship; pulled" to sum up
what happens when a squad of po-
licemen make a number of prisoners
at once from the same place, fell
down" to show that there has been
a final failure in what was under
taken, done up in the sense of the
demolition and crushing of some
one. These are a few samples. A
little thought will enable any one to
add a number of others. They
show the tendency of one class of
popular slang to brevity and senten-
tiousness. -New York Sun.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10
A Cultivated Memory.

A we'll known railroad man told
the following story: when l was
at Mandan, N. D., we had man
whose memory of Car numbers was
really remarkable. When train
whistled into the yard, he would step
to the platform, and without book
or pencil would stand and watch the
cars go by.
IF any one was standing near, he
would converse upon whatever sub
ject occurred, and when the CONVEX
sation was ended he would step into
his Office and make complete and
accurate record of the train, begin
ming at the first car and ending with
the caboose. Sometimes, just to test
him, we would get him to begin at
the caboose and write the numbers
the other way, or else begin in the
middle of the train and work both
ways.
He never made mistake that l
remember. Car numbers, the names
of the roads to which they belonged
and their relative position in the
train would all be recorded accurate.
ly. His was the most remarkable
memory that ever knew of. Ana
conda Standard.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10

DR.. Schweninger, the trusted ply
stefan of Prince Bismarck, is doctor
who is unaffected by the rank of his
patient. Ills speciality is obesity,
which he treats with such success
that his patients flock to Berlin from
all parts of Europe. The chancellor
tried mineral springs and other rem
edies to reduce his flesh, and having
found them useless sent for DR..
Schweninger, then young man of
a. The doctor, Indifferent to his
patients rank and prestige, coolly
put him through an exhaustive pro
fessional examination.
Bismarck is fond of asking ques-
tons, but does not like to answer
them. He became impatient, then
irritable, and finally declared he
would not answer another question.
Every well, calmly replied the cool
physician, "but if you do not want
to be questioned you had better send
for a veterinary" The audacity of
the young doctor caused the chancel-
lor to remain dumb for a moment;
then he grimly said, IF you are as
skillful as you are impertinent,
young man, you must be great
physician. London Million.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10
They Gave In.

At an assizes in the south of Eng
land the jury could not agree and
were locked up. After a long dis
cussion a division was taken. Ten
were found to be for conviction and
two for acquittal. Another long
debate followed, and eventually a
big, burly farmer, who was leading
the majority, went over to the di-
minutive individual, who, with a
companion, formed the minority, and
assuming his most aggressive atti-
tude sid, Now, then, are you two
going to give INF" mo" defiantly
rrplied the small man. Every well,
was the answer, then us 10 willr
And they did. - Essex England
Standard
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10
Improving a Bulgarian Town.

No European town has been more
conspicuously improved in recent
years than Sofia, the capital of Bull
garia. A series of splendid boule-
wards has been cut through the mass
of old narrow streets and Turkish
houses, one encircling the city, while
the others run across it in various di-
rections, and a still more spacious
avenue, 1877 feet wide and set with
six rows of trees, leads from the cen
ter of the town to the railway sta
ton, while another, called the Boule-
ward Stambuloff, runs from the same
point to the new park This park is
very large and is said to be well
planted. A great public garden has
also been formed in the middle of the
town, with smaller gardens at vari-
Gus points, and a nursery covering
100 acres has been established in the
suburbs, where plants will be grown
for the public grounds and will also
be sold to private purchasers.-Gar-
den and Forest.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10
Courtroom Wit.

Frank Lockwood, an English coun-
sci of whom many stories are told,
was once defending man at York
who was accused of stealing cattle
"beasts," they call them there.
"Now, my man. said Lockwood,
''you say that you saw thus and SO.
How far can you see beast to know
ita'' Just as far off as l am from
you, promptly returned the witness.
In another case thief showed both
wit and some logic. He had been
convicted of stealing horse. Yours
is very serious offense," said the
judge sternly. Fifty years ago it was
a hanging matter" We'll, replied
the prisoner, land 80 years hence it
mayn't be a crime at all. San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10
BullDOZlNG LAWYERS.
The Browbeating of Witnesses Should No
Longer BE Permitted.

Longer BE Permitted.
Just by what process the custom
of berating and browbeating witness
es came to be established among
LAWYERS is not known. Presumably
it comes from the hope that by work
ing upon the Indignation of the wit
ness he can be made to lose his head,
contradict himself and so lose the
value of his testimony. The lawyer
who first conceived this plan OF cross
examination was a great man and
grand originator.
He doubtless won many cases by
its use. He deserves much credit Tor
his sharpness. But the thousands OF
cheap imitators he has bred up IN
our courts are enough to blot his
memory forever. Every crack voiced
Hedging of the law school that has
his first chance at cross examination
ably takes pattern from the power
full lawyers" he has seen in the same
british game and squeaks his abuse
at his betters in the witness chair.
His chief desire seems to be to make
as thorough paced an idiot of himself
as possible. Judges chuckle at him,
old lawyers smile at him, witnesses
call him impertinent when they leave
the stand, and every one who hears
and sees him very properly desplses
him.
Yet he grows up in the business
and expands, and his abusive propen-
sity increases with his fees. But bull
lying does not always win. There
are finer methods of discomposing a
witness than that. Dickens told OF
an old lawyer who never failed to
discompose his victim by much
simpler and infinitely less offensive
method. The old lawyer took snuff.
Just as he was about to ask vital
question he would take pinch very
slowly and tremendously. Then he
would draw out an immense red
handkerchief and spread it upon his
hand.
He would then put the question,
screw up his eyes as if the snuff irri-
tated him and deliberately wait in an
expectant attitude before blowing his
nose until the witness could answer.
These tactics, so the author said,
never failed to distract the victim,
and his answer would invariably be
hating, compromising and of inesti-
mable value in ''impressing the
jury" The bulldozing lawyer will
probably continue to bulldoze until
the courts discourage the custom
generally and thus fill long felt
want.-Chicago Post.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10
Webster's Comment.

The junior counsel in a case where
Daniel Webster was the senior in
formed the great advocate that the
opposing parties were bent on secur
ing a continuance, while the inter
ests of his client demanded imme.
date decision. Among other annoy
ances mentioned was the fact that
the other side had occupied six DAYS
cross examining one witness. When
Mr.. Webster appeared the next day,
he soon had occasion to remark:
''They ask for a continuance of this
case. Why, may it please the court,
they have already occupied as much
time in the cross examination Of one
witness as it took the Almighty to
create the universe. Minneapolis
Housekeeper.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10
The Bright Side of Things.

"T'here is always something to be
thankful for" AT first sight having
ones jaw broken might be thought
an exception to the rule. A north
ern vicar, for whom a clumsy den
fist performed this operation, has
learned the contrary. Among other
troubles it brought with it the in
ability to preach more than 10 min
utes. Ever since his church has
been filled to overfowing, and the
lucky man, unnoticed before, has
had several eligible offers of prefer
ment.-Birmingham England) Mail.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10

In the force defending the Shah
Nujeff, IL addition to the regular
army there was large body of arch
ers on the walls, armed with bows
and arrows, which they discharged
with great force and precision, and
on White raising his head above the
wall an arrow was shot right into
his feather bonnet Dan, as he was
called, coolly pulled out the arrow,
paraphrasing a quotation from Sir
Walter SCOTS Legend of Montrose, "
where Dugald Dalgetty and Ranald
MacEagh made their escape from the
castle of McCallum More
Looking at the arrow, MY con-
scienceln said White, "bows and ar
rowsl bows and arrowsl Have we
got Robin Hood and Little John back
again2 Bows and arrows! Ny con-
science, the sight has not been seen
in civilized war for nearly 200 years.
Bows and arrowsl And why not
weavers' beams, as in the days OF
Goliath9 All that Daniel White
should be able to tell in the Saul
market of Glasgow that he had seen
men fight with bows and arrows in
the days of Enfield riflesl Well,
well, Jack Pandy, since bows and
arrows are the words, here's at you"
and with that he raised his feather
bonnet on the point of his bayonet
above the top of the wall, and inn
mediately another arrow pierced it
through, while dozen more whizzed
past little wide of the mark
"reminiscences of the Mutiny," by
w. Forbes Mitchell.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10

A small boy of my acquaintance,
whose most remarkable talent thus
far developed is for lying, told
whopper the other day and was put
to bed very early as a punishment.
Mrs. H. thought it high time to give
the boy most impressive talking to
and scare him as much as possible.
She told him that the Bible said that
liars were in danger of hell fire and
asked him if he wanted to go to that
dreadfully hotplace, where all wicked
boys were sent, with murderers and
criminals of all sorts. "Well," said
the boy coolly, I'D like to see it. -
Boston Transcript.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10

A southern clergyman having
''roving commission" and whose
great forte was in his ability to adj
dress the children at Sunday schools
commenced his remarks in Brooklyn
by stating that on his way north
ward he had on previous Sundays
addressed children at Baltimore.
Then he went to Philadelphia, thence
to New York, and from Brooklyn he
should go to Boston.
After giving his hearers most ex-
cellent advice as to how they were to
conduct themselves in this world in
order to obtain an entrance into
heaven, he added:
But if-but if-my dear little
boys and my dear little girls, you
neglect the opportunities you now
have you will go to hell.
Then, wishing to ascertain how at
tentive his audience had been, he
tested their memories with the fol
lowing questions:
where did Isay first commenced
addressing Sunday school children"
A dozen voices answered, In Bal
timore."
where did l go next2"
ITO Philadelphia" was the re-
sponse.
"And then2n
ITO New York.
''And where did I say was going
from Brooklynl"
ITO helll' was the unexpected and
unsatisfactory answer and anything
but complimentary to our modern
Athens.-Boston Times.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10

Walter Besant, in the Voice of the
Flying Day." says: From the num-
Der of The Palmist and Chronological
Review before me learn two or three
things of interest. The first is that
the lines of the hand alter. l had al
ways thought them Interchangeable as
the fate which they represent. No;
it seems that they alter from time to
time. In one hand 1.-The line when
first seen four years ago was not bro
ken at all. Since then it has broken
three times, twice closed, and some
time afterward formed an island. +"
Should not the consideration that
lines alter lead us to hope that fate
may change her mind and give us
unexpected good things2
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10

Burton, in his Book Hunter, "gives
an amusing account of De Quincey's
famous collection of books. Some
legend there is of book collector
having forced his way into the Cacus
den and there seen sort of rubble
inner wall of volumes, with their
edges outward, while others, bound
and unbound, the plebeian sheepskin
and the aristocratic Russian, were
squeezed into certain tubs drawn
from the washing establishment of a
confding landlady."
The famous reviewer Jeffrey treat
ed with disdain the bookbinder's deli
cate art. Books were merely meant
to be read, he contended, and he was
quite satisfied so long as the words
were visible. Lord Cockburn laments
the fact chat Jeffrey's library was,
"for a lover of books, and for one
who had picked up few, most
wretched and so ill cared for that
the want even of a few volumes
never disturbed him."
Carlyle, in his "Reminiscences, ?"
describes the study of his brilliant
countryman as "a roomy, not over
neat apartment ON the ground floor,
with a big baize covered table loaded
with book rows and paper bundles.
On one or perhaps two of the tables
,,,o,,o hco1ye,h a1x,ac l;lyaxu,Ca xpa1l f11a1
but with books in tattery, i'll bound
or unbound condition chambers
Journal
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10
He Swan While Asleep.

DR.. Macnish, the great Edinburgh
physician, explodes the old story of
somnambulists waking the moment
they touch water with their bare
feet He knew an Irish sleep walker
who once climbed out of bed one cold
fall night and swan two miles down
a river, got ashore and was subse-
quently found sleeping soundly by
the riverside, perfectly unconscious
of the extraordinary feat he had per-
formed.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-10-10
A Useful EMPLOYEE.

In Paris most newspapers keep a
man OF straw, whose name appears
as "redacteur" He is paid enough
to Keep him in absinthe and sausage,
and he spends his time in a cafe
round the corner. When the police
descend upon the office, they send
round the corner for the ''redac-
teur, who is hauled off to prison and
to judgment, and the paper goes on
as re.-Pall Mall Budget.