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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-17
NOTES OF THE FooTLIGHTs.

Isan Lassalle is about to retire
from the operate stage.
Charles Frohman has engaged
Frederick Robinson to appear in
The New Boy.
There are about 1,5O0 theatres in
Europe. Italy has more than any
other country.
Miss Nellie GanthOny will open
her first American season in New
York September II.
The Lyceum, Boston, has been
leased for three years to r. II.
Mohr, the ventriloquist.
Robert Downing is to have elab-
crate scenery for next falls pro-
duction of The Gladiator.
1t is said that during the rail-
road strike the Chicago theaters
played to an average of $l5 night.
The New York "Recorder" states
that Walker Whiteside has mar
ried his leading lady, Miss leila
Wolstan.
Emma Nevada will make a tour
through America next year in the
role Of "Ada," in Wagner's opera,
The FAIRIES.
The Hinriches Grand Opera COM
pany are busy at work .rehearsing
the latest European success, Manon
Lescaut.
Miss Marie Louise Bailey, plan
ist to the King OF Saxony, will APP
pear in concert in st. Louis some
time in September.
Miss Marie Broughton, a sister of
Miss Julia Marlowe, has been en-
gagged for the role of "Sue Eudaly"
in Blue Jeans next season.
Massenet has promised to write
his next opera with special refer
ence to the talent Of Miss Nikita,
who has just signed three years
engagement for the Opera Comique,
Paris.
William Morris has signed a con-
tract for five years with Gustave
Frohman, and will open with his
present company at the Academy
of Music, Milwaukee, August 8, in
Lost Paradise.
Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-17
PURE AND WHOLESOME QUALITY

Commends to public approval the
California liquid laxative remedy,
Syrup of Figs. 1t is pleasant to
the taste and by acting gently on
the kidneys, liver and bowels
cleanses the system effectually, it
promotes the health and comfort
Of all who use it, and with millions
it is the best and only remedy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-17
TWO STUPID BOYS.
Incidents OF the Boyhood OF Dean stanley
and William T.. Gladstone.

VI AhS ivy hNNN ~ NN'-'AA~S
and william T.. Gladstone.
Dean Stanley once said to little
boy: IF tell you was born in the
second half of 1915, can you tell me
why am called Arthur" The name
of the hero of Waterloo was then on all
mems lips. When nine years of age
Arthur was sent to a preparatory
school. He was bright and clever, but
he couldn't learn arithmetic. DIR.
Boyd writes in Longman's Magazine
that the master of the school, Mr..
Rawson, declared that Arthur was the
stupidest boy at figures who ever came
under his care, save only one, who was
yet more hopeless, and was unable to
grasp simple addition and multiplied
ton. Stanley remained unchanged to
the end. At Rugby he rose like a
rocket to every kind of eminence, eX-
cept that of doing sums" In due
time he took a first-class at Oxford,
where the classics and Aristotle's
Ethics were the books in which stu
dent for hOnors must be proficient. He
would not have done as well at Cam
bridge, whose senior wrangler must be
an accomplished mathematician. On
the contrary, that other stupid boy,
more hopeless" than Stanley, de-
veloped phenomenal mastery of arith-
metic. He became the great finance
minister of after years, William E.
Gladstone, who could make a budget
speech of three hours length and full
of figures, which so interested the men,
5ers of the house of commons that they
filled the hall, standing and sitting till
midnight. The story has two morals.
One is that boy may be stupid in one
study and bright in all the remaining
studies. The other moral is, and it is
most important, that a boy may over
come by hard study his natural repug-
nance to a certain study, and even be-
come an eminent master of it.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-17
HELLO THERE!

Are you looking for a large lot near
Main plaza for an elegant building sight?
II so I'll sell you s6x25O feet on Dryer
avenue, the Bon Ton residence part OF
the city for 5000, graded street, cement
sidewa ks and San Antonio river in rear.
Think what beaut fal spot it will make
or home A. DAUGHERTY,
us u Daily light Bldg.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-17
What We Offer.

A full line of buggies, phRtons
and carriages Of best makers. Hon
est goods at honest prices. No
shoddy work no fancy prices.
ALLING & CUMINS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-17
SHOES, SHOES, SHOES.
TO MY FRIENDS AND PATRONS.

TO MY FRIENDS AND PATRONS.
have removed my saloon back
to the old stand southeast corner
West Houston and Cameron streets,
where / will have a grand reopen
ing tomorrow Saturday night,
with a fine free lunch and free beer.
A string band will also be in at
tendance. The finest wines, liquors
and cigars always kept in stock,
also the celebrated Gallagher &
Burton 'Sl whisky. Give me a
call. JOE SHERIDAN,
S172t "Little White Brick"
FACTORY REMNANTS OF
HALF WOOL FLANNELS AT &c.
FACTORY REMNANTS OF
COTTON FLANNELS, %.
s II 2t WOLFF & MARX.
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-25
INDIANS As ARCHEeS.
They Begin PRacticing While Yet In TheI
Infancy.

They Begin PractIcins While Yet In Fhei,
Infancy.
An Indian boy begins to handle a
light bow when he toddles; that means
at the age Of four or FIVE years. His
bow is taller than himself He has a
habit of practicing at anything around
his wigwam. Bv the time he attains
the age of twelve he is permitted to
use sharp arrows. Such boy must be
strong at eighteen 70 use mans bow.
white man, when he takes an Indian
bow for the first time, has all he can
do to bend it. 1t takes Q strong man to
do it, but there is also large amount
OF knack required, An Indian
bow is made straight; the cord,
even when In tension, almost
touches the bow. II Is thick. and Is
some four and half to five feet in
length-the hunting bow is now spoken
of-and the same has an extra stiffeu-
ing by having sinews pasted on it. We
shess-has-ka, q member Of the Ogala
Sioux tribe-his name implies 1.-The
Long Man." he stands nearly seven
feet high. and is not unworthy his So
briquet-has been known to kill an an
teloPe at one hundred and twenty-five
measured yards
The bow used in warfare il . trihe
shorter. and perhaps is sitter The
arrow is not drawn to the eye, but q
catch aim Is taken. as when rife shoot
ing is done from the hip. Such shoot
ing, in perfection, is only acquired By
long practice The string Is drawn bS
the clutch of the whele Of the fingers.
though some tribes use the thumb and
three fingers Remarkable shooting is
often performed by the Sioux. though
nothing that will compare with the
somewhat legendary performanees Of
Robin Hood--N. Y. Verdi
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-25
California.

California ros esses a delightful winter
climate. Almost every day is balmy and
full of sunshine. To live in such air a few
months may save you a big doctor bill. Ii
doesn't cost much to try. The Frisco Inns
and Santa Fe route will carry you to Los
Angeles, San Diego or San Francisco anv
day. on fast vestibuled express train, in
Pullman or tourist sleeper. The journey
is through New Mexico and AriZona.
where heavy snowfalls seldom come. 1t is
short, quick and comfOrtable-straight
across. not roundabout. Once a week
personally-conducted excursions are run
to the Pacific coast in tourist sleepers.
Competent porters and agents in charge.
Second class tickets honored. and good
care taken of ladies and children without
escort. Very cheap rates for one way or
round trip, now in effect. Write to ID.
Wishart, G. p A. Frisco line, St. Louis.
Mo-. for copy of California excursion leaf
let and handsomely illustrated book
entitled ITO California and Back" Near
est local agent of Frisco line or Santa Fe
route will be glad to name ticket rates and
furnish desired information about the trim
Don't be afraid TO ask questions.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-25

On Jan. 1s. Feb. IS, March 20. and April
-, 1894. the Missouri Pacific Railway
company will sellexeursion tickets TO the
following described territory at one fare
Tor the round trip: To all points on the
81. Louis. Iron Mountain and Sonrbern
railway in Arkansas. east of and incInSina
Fort smith; on the Kansas CITY. Fort
Scott ard Memphis railway, in Missouri
beyond Springfield and in Arkansas on the
Kansas City, Mepphis and Birmine Ia n
railway; on the Mobile and Ohio son,p Of
tupsie: on the Illinois Central railway
south OF Memphis. but not including New
be thirty days from date of sale Eor
further information call at the Nissorr
Pacific ticket Office, ia North Main srreat
Wich1ts. Kansas l. l. BIeckley. PISS
and Ticket Agent
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-25
WILD HORSEMEN.
The Gauchos of South America and Their
Untamable Ferocity.

The Gauchos Of South America and Their
Untamable Ferocity.
The love of bloedshed seems inherent,
for even boys will draw the facon upon
the slightest provocation; and, as the
throat and abdomen are the parts
which are generally aimed at, the
wounds are usually mortal. Murders
and homicides cause little or no
emotion. The man who respectfully
salutes the stranger is more likely
than not hero who has cut many
threats. 1t is believed that upward of
one-third of the young Gauchos die a
violent death. There can be no doubt
but that this disregard for the sanctity
of human life is largely due to the con-
slant disturbances which are fatal to
tae prosperity of the South American
republics.
The Gauchos are the wre'ched shut
tlecocks which are banded about by
the battledores of rival politicians.
The selfish adventures who may sue.
coed in grasping, for few brief bloody
months the reins of what passes for
power, find among them the rough ma
terial for an army. 1t is matter of
chance to what party the wild horse
man may be compelled to attach him
self; but, having joined one, he be-
comes forthwith involved in continual
bloody feuds which constitute an un-
ending vendetta. The recklessness
which this engenders becomes such
second nature that he grows cruel
from sheer love of inhicting pain, or
calleusness to the eight of suffering.
From his infancy he has used the
lasso and bolas, has dragged the agon-
lied animal at u gallop from the terri
fed herd, laughing as he hamstrung it.
and mocking as the coup de grace was
given. His later indifference to the
value of human life has been but
step in advance from these Even his
horse fails to xindle ore spark of af-
lection in his tinsel-ccvered breast,
while his dogs, though of value for
driving cattle, are only tolerated as
watch dogs and scavengers The lot
of a Coastantinople pariah dog is en-
viable compared with that owned by
the Gaueho. AS a natural result of the
neglect or Indifference with which
they ar. treated, they become dan
gerous to strangers, while their COM
bats among themselves are so desper-
ate that many are left bleeding or dead
upon the ground. Temple Bar.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-25
DiscouraEing Study.

The case of the honest Irish servant
who could never understand why his
master perpetually required him to
wash his chaise, since he went directly
ont and mudded it up again, is paral-
leled by an actual reply by dull boy
to an examiner in French school.
The pupil had passed a wretched ex-
animation in French history.
What do you moan by this?" asked
the instructor. "Why don't you study
yeur history?"
Whats the use?" drawled the puoil;
they're never going to get it finished.
They're making It noww-Youth's
Companion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-25
THE COAST pEFENsEs.
Proposed Plans Tor the Protection Of Ne
York From Hostile IaXa4fon.

Proposed Plans Tor the Protection Of New
York From Hostile Invasion.
Several years ago, when an unpleas.
sntness arose between this country
and England over the Newfoundland
6eheries. it was claimed by certain of
our officers that one of John Bulls
battle-ships could anchor off Coney
Island. out of sight of the soldiers at
Fort Hamilton, and with her long
range guns lombard New York city
into ruins This statement sent .
thrill of alarm through the country
and awakened the people from their
false dream of security to realize that
the seaboard cities were at the mercy
of any powerful foe who might invade
them from the water Immediately
measures were adopted to SO fertify
the approaches to our harbors that
hostile feet would find the gauntlet
too hazardous to run
Did our authorities at Washington
decide upon building forts of unusual
thickness of wall, with the expectation
OF resisting the masses of metal that
might be hurled against them? By no
means: because it was known that
modern projectile would bore through
stone and mortar as though it was so
much cheese Another point that they
thought of was that the platforms,
called military-tops, on the masts of
war-ships, as well as the rails of those
vessels, bristle with rapid-fre cannon
and Calling guns, and that such an
iron and leaden deluge would be poured
through the portfolios of an ordinary
fort that the artillerymen would be
swept away as quickly as they gath
cred about the guns, leaving the feet
at liberty to knock the fortifcation to
pieces or to sail past it into the harbor
to sack and fire the city.
/ Under these considerations it became
necessary to provide a system that
would insure protection to the soldiers,
and give the advantage to the coast de-
tenders
In the proposed plan three interest
ing kinds of ordinance are to be used,
that of a huge sixteen-inch breech-
loading rife, mounted within revolv-
ing turret of steel built in the shape of
an iron pot turned upside down, so that
anything striking it may be DETECTED,
or turned away on account of its round
ed surface. The second kind of de-
fensive weapon is that of the ten-inch
rifle, mounted on
platform below the surface of the
ground and arranged so as to be raised
to the level of the same by steam or
hydraulic power. This platform is ell
evated when the piece is ready for
firing, and Immediately lowered out of
sight after it has been discharged. The
third and last device is 15-inch dyna-
mite gun. mounted on what is known
as disappearing carriage, because as
soon as it is fired it sinks frou the view
of those outside the Notifications
This tube, fifty feet in length, carries
an awful messenger of ruin. in contact |
with which the mightiest iron ship that !
floats would be torn and mangled as |
though its sides were of paper and its |
ribs of card board. The long barrel is |
raised into a position for firing by |
weights, and its natural
recoil after being discharged throws it |
back again below the top of the works |
-Harper's Young People. j
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-25
INTERESTING SCIENCE.

| Some Of the wonders 81 the Microscopy
| world Of Dacteria.
| The most interesting facts of science
| are sometimes concealed under hard
| and repellent names Who would sup
pose, for instance. that such words rs
''phototaxis" and .'chemlotaxls" really
cover very fascinating discoveries. fol
the enjoyment of which no profound
scientific knowledge whatever is re-
| quired. Phototaxis means the inf1u-
ence of light on the movements of the
simplest living organisms The facts
that it includes are as surprising As
they are interesting.
There is a kind of bacterium. shaped
like minute rcd and of purple color,
which exhibits this influence of light
in . beautiful manner. Indeed, it has
been named the light-measuring bac-
terrain. If drop of water containing
these bacteria is placed under a micro
scope, and narrow beam of light is
thrown upon any part of the field of
view. the organisms Immediately flock
to the illuminated spot. until by their
great number they turn that part OF
the water to the color of wine.
Then, too, they discrimir-te between
colors; for when Engelman threw in
stead of beam of white light micro
scopic spectrum into such drop, the
bacteria avoided the purple and crowd
ed into light of that color which is alb
sorbed in passing through their bodies
just SO another bacterium. the Gu
glena, which is red or orange-colored
at the forward end, always advance
toward blue light when a choice is
given to it among tho colors of the
spectrum.
Chemiotaxis is similar phenomena.
depending not upon light but upon the
presence of chemical agents An in
stance of this is furnished by the be-
havior of the common bacterium termo
when in the water-drop containing a
little oxygen is disengaged. Immedi-
ately the organism flock to that part
OF the water where the oxygen il
being liberated. Similarly other or
ganisms are attracted by sugar or by
some acid.
One of the most wonderful cases Is
that of kind of plasmodium. called
Badhamia. an organism that consists of
transparent, structureless, living ma
terial which spreads itself along a wet
surface. When, near the edge of this
fiat, shapeless, yet living thing. bit of
fungus is placed, that part of the Bad
hanna which is nearest becomes ex-
cited, and streams of living material
begin to flow through the mass toward
that point. Then the organism COM
mences to grow out toward the fungus
and gradually envelops it, and the op-
Grafton ends with the absorption of the
fungus.
These curious phenomena assume
new interest when we learn that what
we call inflammation is a result of
Whenever disintegration
takes place through injury inflicted
upon any of the living tissues of the
body, certain organic cells which exist
in the blood and other fluids congre-
gate at the inhammatory center and
feed upon the products of disintegra-
tion. 1t has therefore been suggested
that these 'chemiotactic cells" arc like
in the blood, which tend to
free it from Youths Gem
panion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-25
have made . cat or terrier turn green

have made . cat Or terrier turn green
with envy.
When the mules were being fed and
the rats Aocked to the stable, Jerry
was there, too. and the mules ate I'M
disturbed. Then, when they were 1t
work. Jerry shifted his feld Of opera
tons to the neighborhood of the min.
ers' dinner cans, and ended the career
OF many thievish rat Nobody ever
frightened him, and 50 he got to be
very tame and confiding.
After Jerry had lived three months
in the mine, he must have got home
sick, for one day he jumped on board q
loaded car at the bottom of tho shaft
and was hoisted to the surface.
The men never expected to see Mas
ter Reynard again, but on the second
morning afterward, he made his ap-
pearance at tho breaker, stepped on
board a ear and was carried down into
the mine.
The men and boys were delighted to
see him, and he at once resumed bust
ness. During the following spring and
summer he rode up the shaft every few
weeks, stayed away day or two, and
then appeared at the head of the shaft
and waited for car to take him down.
The rats had to hustle when Jerry got
back from his holidays
In the fall work was suspended in
the mines, and the mules and cats
were brought to the surface. Jerry
was searched for all through the gang
ways, but could not be found, and it
was supposed that he had quietly
slipped on . car and got away without
any one seeing him.
! Six weeks later, when work was to
be resumed, the foreman went down
the mine and found Jerry lying dead
in the mule barn. He had never been
out of the mine Every rat was killed.
and, as there was no other food for
him to get the poor fellow had starved
to death.-Golden DAYS.
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HANDSOME
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According to Homer. the lotus eater.
were people who lived on the north.
ern coast Of Africa. visited by Ulysses
in has wanderinSs. and who endeavored
70 detain his companions BY giving
them the lstus 20 .ezt-whoever ate o!
this fruit wished never 70 depart Tbs
Arabs called the fruit Of the Istus the
'.ruit OF destiny" which they believe
Is 10 Be eaten in Paradise. The Io.u.
i shrub two or three feet high. and
Us fruit which IS produced in gres.
abundance - dwarf Of the size OF a
Wild plum. which has . pse.ssns. sxe~;
taste The name lotus has been given
10 several t~autifgl specimens Of sa.er
iiiy. especially 10 the blue water llir
ana the Egyptian vsssy liIy.-ch,szzo
Herald
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hen /,

You go east take the Frisco line. for the
reason, that 1t is the only Wichita line
having two solid trains daily TO st. Louis
without change. Chair cars, (seats freel
and Pullman palace sleeping cars in both
morning and night trains-leaving Wichi-
Z 1880 a. m.,, and 1885 p. m; arrive st.
Louis union depot $50 a. M and 6.a1 n
m Reliable-always on time-iusurino
certain connections with diverCinc lines
Call at Douglas avenue station or CITY
ickst Office, l5S North Main street,
% IL W. ID. MURDOCH, d. p
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New Train Sery.ce

Commencing October 22d the Great
Rock Island railway will inougnrate a
new tourist car line between Chicago.
Wichita, Fort Worth, FL Paso Los
Angeles and San Francisco without
change of cars. This car will leave Wich-
lta daily for California points at 7:o0 d. m.
and Tor Chicago and points east at 92S a
m. The Giest Rock Island is the only
Infe running through tourist cars TO Cali
fornia without change of cars. For
further particulars cali at Rock Island
ticket office, corner Main and Donelas
avenue. j. II pUTTJTps
City ticket and Passenger agent. Chi.
cage, Rock Island and Pacific railway.
1857
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-25
PERFUMES AND OZONE.
Co of Electricity in . Manufacturer,
IaborAtorv

Co of Electricity in Manufacturer
Laboratory.
The manufacturers of old and favor
lite brands of perfumery are Just now
greatly exercised by the accounts of a
new development in Paris It is stated
that perfumer in that city has recent.
~ suddenly acquired remarkab BILE rep.
utation for the super-excellence OF his
wares, which exhibit a phenomenal
charm and subtlety. What for a time
perplexed his fellow-perfumers. who
were thus distanced in business CONNIE
tition, was the fact that although his
sales were much greater than ever be-
fore, his purchases of essential oils
were much less, both in regard to GUAM
tity and variety. The secret is now
divulged. The enterprising per-
fumer had read that ozone was
used for the purpose of mitigat-
ing the crudities of new wines and
spirits and .tempering and softeninp
their flavor, and he thought he would
try its effect on perfumes Fitting M
his laborary with the needful electrical
appliances, he set to work, and soon
found that the odor of essential oils
could be surprisingly modified by the
action of ozone, and that by the skill
full com bination of spirits and essences
and their treatment with the ozoniser.
he could vary their delieaey or power
at will. If this discovery should prove
TO be trustworthy q vast field is opened
to the perfumer. who will now need
but TO lay in a stock Of alcohol and
bergamot to turn out essences of the
widest range. from the stimulating
fluid that is more pungent than the
strongest aromatic vinegar to the
scent-laden drops that intoxicate the
senses like the morning air when the
orange trees are white with bloom
\. Y. Sun