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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-29
A BIG XMAS GIFT.
But Hubby Must not Return to tn 9
FoptHghts.

But Hubby Must not Return to tn {
FoDtlghts.
New YORK, Dec. ga type
written communication was re-
ceived in the office of several of the
daily papers stating that "Mrs.
Francklyn Reglid, had presented
to her husband what was probably
the largest Christmas gift in this
city. The gift was $4,000 placed
in trust for term of five years
during which time he is to enjoy
the income and at the end Of the
term to receive the principal, pro-
vided he has not returned to the
stage. When the communication
was submitted to Mr.. and Mrs. Re-
glid at their home, 81 West 46th
street both refused to make any
statements about il.
On Thursday August 16, last,
Mrs. Adele Ronalds, widow Of
Thomas Loriliard Ronalds, was
married to Charles Franklyn
Reglid, at Avental, New Rochelle,
by the Rev. Father Davis. Mr.. Re-
Gid was once an actor In the
Rosina Vokes and Stuart Robson
Companies. He is the son Of man
named digger, who one kept a
saloon on upper 3rd avenue. After
the son had been on the stage a
short time he desired to change
his name and the court allowed
him to change it backwards. Mr..
Reglid is 30 years old. Mrs. Reglid
is 20 years old. Thos. Lorillard
Ronalds, left large fortune, and
it is the general impression that
his widow has a life interest in the
estate which will revert to heirs
at law upon the death OF Mrs.
Reglid.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-29

The great Eng
lish statesman
and orator, is the
fourth son OF a
wealthy West In
dia merchant and
was born at Liv-
erpo0l, Deem Der
20, 1909. He was
educated at Elton,
where he took a
double first class
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-29
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES.

Price OF bread in Cincinnati re-
duced 6 to cents per loaf.
Chambers among horses In Bren-
ham.
Gonzales and Yoakum are to
have cooking main at Yoakum.
Sargent Hotel, Uvalde, burned
last night.
Robert Weyerman withdraws
his contest for Glasscock's seat in
the Austin city council.
Louis Bischko, Galveston mer-
chant, filed a deed OF trust for S..
SOB, yesterday.
III. FRANKIE, Brennan hardware
dealer, assigned yesterday for ST.
7O2. \
F. Fl. Collins & CO., Fort Worth
music dealers, assigned yesterday
for $33,2S7.
Cincinnati Southern railway de-
pot, Maniman, Tenn, burned; loss
$500.
Four persons burned to death at
a Christmas festival in Silver Lake,
Oregon.
Schooner Richard Schoffard is
ashore and total loss, on beach
near Cape Henry, Va.
Big lumber yards at Miliville,
near Pensacola, Fla, burned last
night.
Ex-senator Fair, OF California,
died suddenly at 1920 O'clock this
morning in San Francisco.
Railway station safe at McKin-
ney, Texas, was robbed Of $3.50 last
night.
Hattie Clay, aged IA years
burned to death by clothing catch
ing fire, Hot Springs, Ark.
Nashville, Tenn, mercury
marked two degrees above zero
yesterday.
Mrs. Kate McGown, Yoakum,
Texas, was robbed OF $3.50 by a
negro burglar yesterday.
Quibedaux commission store
and Mrs. Lovelace's millinery
store, Austin, burned last night.
Damage $500.
Negro mob attempting to lynch
Negro murderer in Moorehouse
parish, La, shot and killed inno-
cent Negro boy.
Doss Mats killed his sweet
heart, Lizzie Smith, in jealous
rage, at Hunters Hill, Monroe
county, Ala, and then commit
ted suicide.
Louisville, KY, had big fire to-
day, which began at o'clock this
morning, which in a little time
damaged the business portion
$4,000.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-29
DELAY in Panama Canal.

NEW YORK, Dec. ga special
despatch to the World from Col
on, Colombia, says: The people
on the line Of the, Panama canal
route are indignant at the con.
templated delay in construction.
1t is the universal opinion, at least
of those not connected with the
canal company management, that
no further survey is necessary.
Everything in fact is ready for i'm
mediate prosecution of the work
of excayating,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-29
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1894
A WONDERFUL ACCIDENT
AMAN WITH ELEVEN FEET OF WIRE
IN HIS ARM AND DID NOT
KNOW IT.
How a Hydraulic Press Wound Him
Up in Lead so Rapidly That
he Never Saw the Pro-
cess Going on.

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-Jno. Scan
Ion, a young mechanic, is empoyed
in the East River Lead Wire Works
His duty is to stand in front OF one
Of the great hydraulic presses OF
various sizes in which lead is forced
through hot with tremendous force,
making wire of the same diameter
as the holes. He must keep the
press in order and see that no acct
dents occur. For twelve years he
has stood at his post and never had
a mishap, but recently while his
press was turning out lead wire
one-sixteenth Of an inch in dame
ter with a force of six thousand
tons Scanlon saw a splinter fall
into his press and at once reached
for it. In doing so he misplaced
the die through which the lead
was being forced and the outcomIng
wire struck his left forearm making
a small hole in it. The arm at
once swelled up below the elbow
and Scanlon cried "Pm poisoned,
look at the swelling" On his being
taken to Bellevue hospital, the
doctors examined his arm, and
feeling a hard substance under
meath the skin decided that the
bones of the arm were broken. AS
the supposed broken bones failed to
unite, after being apparently put
in place, DR.. Rathbone slit open
the arm last night with his lance.
He found quantity Of thin lead
wire wound around ScanlOn's fore
arm under the skin. The wire was
followed with a probe under the
flesh and muscle to the small hole
where it had entered. The entire
length of the wire was ii feet 3
inches and this had been driven
into the mans arm by the great
power Of the hydraulic press so
rapidly that he did not see it enter
The wire was removed in pieces,
the largest being % inches long
and DR.. Rathbone says that his
patient will soon be we'll and have
full use OF his arm.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-29
Has a Promise With It.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Dec. 29-Genl.
E. o. Walthall, OF Mississippi, who
resigned his seat in the United
States Senate on account OF Ill
health here today, says he expects
to take his seat in the Senate for
the term which begins March 4
next, if at that time his health is
as good as now.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-29

degree in 1851. He entered the
House of Commons for the borough
OF Newark in 1882, where he con-
tinued as an advocate OF the Peel
or Tory party until 1881. After re-
fusing to hold office under Lord
Derby in 1852, he became Chancei-
lor of the Exchequer In the gov
eminent formed by the Earl Of
Aberdeen, from which time he
may be regarded as a leader Of the
Liberal Party. He resigned from
Parliament in 1886, after having
been for almost half a century the
greatest power in the politics OF
Great Britain. He has published
several works, among which are
"Homer and the Homeric Age"
"Rome and the Newest Fashions
in Religion" "Juventus Mundi,"
and several others.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-29
A STORY OF THE STORM.
Barge Seth Lowe Missing and the
Worst is Fesred--The Ring
leader Rarely Escanes

Worst is Feared--The Ring
leader Barely Escapes.
New YORK, Dec. 29.-rhe coal
barge Ringleader has been lowed
into port, with story Of the storm
on her. The barges Ringleader and
Seth Lowe were being towed from
Boston to Baltimore and were
caught out in the storm. The
steamer Santuit was towing them.
The storm increased in fury, and
as they got out from the shelter OF
the Long Island shore, a tremen-
dous sea was encountered. Finally,
in the storm and nights angry
sea, the barges broke loose from
the Santuit and from each other.
They were provided with sails,
which they set, and Captain Kee-
nan, Of the Ringleader, tried to
make this port. He managed to
escape with difficulty from being
blown on the Jersey beaches, and
on Thursday afternoon anchored
of the Highlands. There a tug
found him and lowed him in. The
captain said that the last he saw of
the Seth Lowe her sails had been
blown away and he feared she was
lost. He watched the Santuit for
some distance after the tow line
parted, then the hurricane blew
out the steamers masthead lights
and he lost her. Yesterday after.
noon the Santuit was reported as
having arrived at Delaware Break
water. She was at once ordered
to sea again in search OF the Seth
Iowa
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-29
SEE THE CLOTHING BARGAINS.
Mems and boys suits and over
coats at the Big Store.
II 20 1t JOsKE BROS.

A party consisting Of f. Eobein
and wife, Of Lafayette, La. L. Lin
coin and wife, Of San Francisco; B.
L. Ridley, Of Tennessee; O'Nell
SEWER and Mrs. NJ. Hunter, Of New
Orleans, arrived in San Antonio
over the Southern Pacific from the
east last evening on a pleasure
jaunt. They are en- route to Sabi-
nal and are stopping a. the Menger.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-29
Jail is Guarded.

AUGUSTA, Ga, Dec. 29.-No at
tack has yet been made on the Jail
where H. w. Virgins, the negro
murderer, whose second victim,
Detective Murray, died yesterday,
is confined. The authorities are
still on the watch, however, and
the prisoner Is heavily guarded.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-29

George E Gouze, representing
"Lady Windemere's Fam" is in
the city to arrange for this produc.
ton at the Grand apers house.
w. B. Garrett and r. J. Swearin-
ger, of Brenham, are in the city,
and stopping at the Maverick.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-29
MONDAY AT JoSKE'S.

A mammoth bargain sale in
honor OF the departure Of ga SUI
preme effort o close out all holiday
goods, together with many other
articles OF usefulness. II 80 2t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-29
Gladstone's Birthday.

LONDON, Dec. 29.-The eighty
fifth anniversary OF the birth OF
William Ewart Gladstone will be
celebrated today. The Grand Old
Man will leave on January, for
the south Of France, where he in.
tends spending the winter. Most
OF the season will be spent at
Cannes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-04
CHINESE SHOPKEEPERS,
Sleek and Placid Men Patiently Wait
ing for Customers.

An English Member of Parliament
Gives Graphic Sketch of Stree,
Scenes in Canton-Novel Effects in
Color.
Florence Driscoll, NJ. p, in the Century
Inc shops were of all sizes Some were
seven or eight feet square. with the back
premises closed from sight; some were
twenty or thirty-five feet wide. reaching
back thirty or forty feet. Perhaps an ay-
erage-sized shop, in fashionable neigh
borhood was about fourteen feet wide
and twenty-five feet deep. 1t was open
of course, to the street with no shop
front, but generally there was a counter
along one side and another at the back
There was almost Invariably an oblonp
opening through the roof to admit light
and air, Enclosed TO the sky in summer
but with provision for a glazed light In
winter. In the poorer class Of houses this
slIylight could be shut by drawing cover
over it.
To a certain extent the wares were dis
played, but not as in our windows Pot
terry and hardware had a better display
than soft goods; food was exhibited In
open trays, or was hung UP. The goods
as general rule were made In the shops
where they were sold. and workmen were
to be seen fashioning the articles IN all
the stages Of their manufacture. There
were some shops where no workmen could
be seen, and in their place a STAFF Of clerks
sat ready to wait upon customers: these
nj l..
shops relying upon tourist trade The
Cantonese shop-keepers struck me as
being generally fat, sleek, pot-bellied gem
tlemen. Commonly the only article OF
clothing worn either by them or by their
assistants was loose Chinese drawers
fastened around the hips. In tIle winter
they don soft warm padded blouse
Placid. Notwithstanding folk were they.
taking life cooliy, sitting thus naked 10
the waist, ceaselessly waving their fans
while they waited for custom, for which.
however, they did not appear 10 tout
Signs Of all colors, sizes and shapes
hung out from the shops; from a board
ten or twelve inches wide AMI six or
seven feet long, hanging vertically 10 "a
little strip Of wood or paper OF about the
same proportions in inches. The letter
INK of these signs was gurgeous-gold
on black ground, blue on white. or
some other striking contrast. Bright-col-
ored lanterns hung all across the shop
fronts and around the walls, or were sus-
pended I'm the center They were bamboo
constructions covered with tough, oiled
paper and paint "a with sigua and hero
glphics-quite unlike the hmay f0rgeries
sold In Europe as Chinese lanterns. Al
night these were lighted. the Chinese
being very fond Of Examinations. An
sorts Of oils were usea-lish oil talioW,
vegetable oils. Kerosene. ~ which last
over l0On,Opo gallons ~ the American
variety are burned yearly I'm the city. A.
the time of my visit The authorities were
Introducing electric lighting Tor their
streets and FOR the better class shops ana
houses.
When yerythinR was well alght the
slght was very hue. Even IN the daytime
the effects Of color We're novel pleasing,
and warm. Black ana brown iaequersd
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-04

from boats into tubs, from tubs into
buckets and then back into the tubs again
They were used to being handled and in,
spected and, If disapproved put back
into the water: to be sold alive If bought
whole, or cut to pieces while living ana
sold in bleeding chunks. 4 thick. short
fish Is this Of the mullet shape, averaging
about fifteen inches in length, and weigh
ing about three pounds, but sometimes
longer and running up in weight TO as
much as four or even i've pounds. When
cut up they bleed like pigs and TO show
how freshly they are killed. the salesman
is In the habit of slicng live one into
pieces, and with the blood smearing all
the pieces for sale, so that they look reek-
ing and horrible to European eyes. To
keep them alive In the shops they are al
ways placed IN large tub with
smaller vessel fixed to It.. From the bot
tom Of the upper vessel n bamboo, with
one or two saw cuts In II, sticks out, and
from those cuts streams Of water flow In
thin cascades into the tub beneath Every
now and then, when the upper vessel be-
comes empty, the fish all rise to the sur
face and glopl glop! glop take down
both air and water. Then an attendant
attraced by the noise, plunges "a bucket
down among them, and from the water
IN which they swim nils the upper yes
sci full again
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-04
DooroRED THE oHIoKENs.
She Kerosened Them, Examined Them
with a Candle, and the Firemen Game.

From the San Francisco Examiner.
San Bernardino oct. lS-Seven chick
ems. a bucket of coal oil, a talow candle,
and woman who knew how to use them
in combination stirred up the greatest sem
sation out on Pearl street last night that
has disturbed the serenity of that peace
ful district In many a year.
Mrs, John Seebury was until last night
the proud possessor OF seven specimens
Of the gallnacean family. OF late the
birds have been afflicted with Vermin, and
at dusk last night Mrs Seebury, armed
with bucket full Of oil and a candle
istarted for the hen house. She also took
IA brush along with which TO apply the
coal oil. and the candle was placed on a
board while he work proceeded. Each
bird received a supply Of oil, and when
saturated the lady took up the light to
make closer inspection or her work.
while trying to look at two chickens at
the same time the candle happened to
touch one, and swish, seven chickens
We're fired. The poultry studio was filled
with more noise than "a barnyard fun of
fowls would make over the first egg OF
the season, while the whole interior be-
light had suddenly been turned on full.
Suddenly seven animated torches shot
out In as many different directions, all
caCkling like mad and winding up three
seconds later In q haystack, which they
began TO fire in true incendiary style.
by this time everybody on the block
was yelling Police" and "A general alarm
est run OF the year. Mrs. Seebury has
the remains Of seven chickens out on
Pearl street somewhat charred, but free
from insects.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-04

Miss Elizabeth Farfax Gaines of war
reutOu, Va, WHH married The other dHv
TO chief Justice Thomas smith III New
McNieo. -Four Clergymen 0niclnfed Doc the
ceremony and there were twenty-sir
bridesmaids
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-04

Camels are now In general use through
out Australia. Within twenty-five years.
By scientific breeding, "a race has been
produced larger Ia frame, sounder In wind
ana limb, and able to carry more weight
than the Indian camels originally inn
ported. a quarantine for imported ami
mails is established AT Port Augusta, 2B)
miles northwest OF Adelaide where they
are carefully guarded for three morths.
during which time they are subject 10 a de-
struotive mango which carries off moss OF
them, but 10 which they are no longer
liable when once acclimated. There are
10 OUu camels at work. which not only
transport lOads upon their backs but are
trained 10 draw wagons, yoSed In teams
Of eight Hike oxen.
Tho shah OF Persia has "a pony which a.
only twelve inches in hight and which he
can carry around With him Ia his polan-
quiu.
The Cznr OF Russia has an income OF
S2a,DD1 DAY, ana A. his psy D. not stopped
when be- is away fFom dutN through sick
uesr. his doctors have no fears about
their billa heing pald.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-03-21
The Smallest Newspaper,

The smallest paper in the world -
published in Guadalajara, in Mexico.
Its title is FL TELEGRAPH, and under
meath is the announcement that the
paper is an Independent weekly pc
riodical in politics and varied news.
The monthly subscription is four
cents, by mail five cents, for this
weekly is cent publication. IL is
printed in eight columns. each four
and half inches long and one and a
half inches wide, on thick MANILA
paper. And yet the staff includes an
editor and director, an administrator
or business manager, responsible
man or capitalist, and printer.
Among newspapers this tiny Sunday
journal certainly occupies unique
position. San Francisco Call.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-03-21
The Lowest Depression.

Mr.. Momson is reported to have said
that the bottom of the valley is the
lowest depression on the esrth's sur
face. This is not strictly correct. The
lowest levels obtained In Deaths Val
ley are about 430 feet below the sea,
whereas the surface of the Dead Sea in
Palestine is 1900 feet below. But the
hole which goes by the name of Death
Valley is pretty deep. The crust of the
earth throughout the valley of Sau
Bernandino and Inyo Counties must
be very thin. The travellers feet are
separated from the internal body of
everlasting fire by a slim sheet of earth
and rock, which would offer but a slight
resistance to seismic force. A few
miles distant from Death Valley there
is region which may be surveyed by
the eve, and which contains thou
sand active volcanoes small of their
kind, to be sure, baby volcanoes, so TO
speak, but still actively engaged in
throwing up mud and water. And not
many miles away is the range of gran.
ite mountains, among which Mount
Whitney rears its head through the
clouds; solid masses of primeval rock
which must have worn the shape in
which we see them now when the plain
at their feet was seething, raging
caldron in which fire and water con-
tended for the mastery.
To see such marvels of nature people
cross oceans, spend fortunes and carry
their lives III their hand. Neither
Mauna Loa nor Hecia offers such won
ders to the beholder as Death Valley
and the Colorado Desert In January
and February the heat III the valley is
bearablc-not over ninety degrees in
the shade. Excursion parties might
be fitted out with supplies of food and
water and III few days the visitors
might see enough to realize what tho
world was like in the Plutonic ago.
The contrast between the pleasant val.
leys of the rivers, with their fruit trees
bursting into blossom, and these dread.
full deserts, with their awful chasms
and their hideous inhabitants, would
be a thing not easily forgotten. San
Francisco Call.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-03-21
How London's Expenses are Borne.

In England and France the injustice
of compelling the inhabitants of the
capital, where the seat of Government
is located, to bear it's entire expense.
is clearly recognized, and substantial
aid given. TO ascertain the full amount
of the cost Of governing the city of
London IL diffictdt. The division of
the expense between the municipality
and the Government is so interviewer
as to make separation well nigh impos
sible. We may, however, reach an ap-
proyimate idea Of the amount by stat
ing the several things which are cared
for by the State and paid for out of
the National treasury. The metropol-
itan police supported by the Govern
ment mnsters Is ,O35 officers and men,
and is divided into twenty-five divis-
ions, of which one division does duty
on the river Thames, and five divisions
care for the dock yards; the pay of
the six divisions thus assigned being
paid out of the appropriation for the
navy. The chief receives the sum of
$40, 800 per annum, more than the
general commanding the United States
Army, and as much as the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United
States. He has several assistants, two
OF whom receive $4,000 apiece; the
men receive about $500 per annum.
There are fifteen police court stations
supported by the Government. The
Lord Mayor holds court in one. The
judges in each of the others receive
about $1,000 per annum. The fire bri-
gade is largely supported by the State,
and cost, in 1892, G155, $40, equal to
about S750,00O. of which amount the
insurance companies contributed $50, !"
O63. There are great many fine
parks in London, some kept by the
city and others by the State. The
Royal Park cost goo, SAB. The Govern
ment collects from the people a tax
known as the local rate Ia large part
of which goes TO London. In 80 it
amounted to Ct, 597, ,565, nearly $40, =
900, 900. The cost of governing the
city of London is about e3S, 900, 900
a year. OF this amount the Govern
ment subvention, rs it is called,
amounted to about $4,000, 900. AL
though the British Government does
not own one-hslf of the land in Lon
don, as is the case with the Federal
Government in Washington. Wash
ington Star.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-03-21
Machine Fingers and Thumbs

What is there that machinery cannot
do? The Dwight Machine Company
OF Connecticut has just completed two
machines capable Of counting and bind
ing in packs 800, 600 postal cards ia
ten hours. Thepostal cards are printed
and cut by another machine, but this
one counts them, and makes them into
packs of twenty-five each. The most
ingenious parts Of the machine are the
fingers and thumbs, so to speak, used
IN wrapping the narrow strip of paper
around each pack. The paper is pulled
of the reel by two long, slender fin.
gers that come up from underneath :;
another finger dips itself into the box
OF mucilage and daubs the end of an
other finger which in turn applies the
'nucilege to the narrow strip of paper
at just the right spot The strip is
wrapped about the pack of cards, u
thumb comes up and presses the muci-
lage part down hard and the thing is
done. Buffalo Commercial.