San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-20
MlSCELGANE OUS.

1T is good to be rooted and grounded,
provided you are not rooted in the
ground.
because in that form the greatest
strength is combined with the least
weight and quantity of material.
IF a dog should howl under your
window at night, would you regard it
as a sign of death? yes; if it was light
enough for me to get good aim at the
dog."-lndianapolis journal.
No matter how large the spot of
oil, any carpet or wooden stuff can be
cleaned by applying buckwheat plen-
tifully, brushing it into 4 dustpan
after a short time, and putting on
fresh, until the oil has disappeared.
"A Violent Insinuation. Truth
'Harry told me l was the first girl he
ever told he loved" Kitty-''When did
he tell you that?" Ruth-'Monday
night. Why?" Kitty-"O, nothing;
only he must have been lying to me
Tuesday night. detroit Free Press.
M. Turpin, Frenchman, claims to
have invented gun which can exter-
inmate an army in very few minutes.
1t throws 100000 projectiles in a min
ute, and can thus sweep an opposing
force from the ca nth as a tornado levels
a field of corn.
TO brighten burglars, Edward Jen-
kins, of Louisville, kept savage
canine, and displayed this sign: Look
out for the dog" Some thieves pois-
oned the dog, stole fourteen chickens,
and made the sign read: Look out
for the chickens"
The lions roar can be heard at a
greater distance than the sound of any
other living creature. Next comes the
hyena, then the screech owl, the
panther and the jaclial in succession.
The donkey can be heard fifty times
farther off than the horse.
The Florida gopher, tortoise
weighing eight or ten pounds, digs IN
sandy ridges remote from water, his
burrow being eigh teen or twenty feet
long and descending at an angle of
thirty-tive degrees. Being long lived,
it occupies this place many years.
of course it's none of my business,
dear" said Mildred to Amy, but if I
were you 1 wouldn't marry Mr.. Spat-
ters." "Why nOt?" with all your
money, you ought to be able to get
really handsome manufacturing
Chronicle Telegraph.
Atlanta, Ca, was originally called
Marthasville. It's name was changed,
it is said, to Atlanta, because of it's
geographical position on the divide be-
tween the waters of the Atlantic and
Gulf. 1t is, however, probable that
the name was a contraction of ATLANTA.
Authorship is pretty hard lines"
he said disconsolately, as he brushed
his hair out of his eyes. whats the
matter now?" "a second hand dealer
just tried to sell me one of my own
books" Rather compliment" mo
it wasn't. He said it would make a
very neat scrap book"
The number of birds killed by
striking lighthouses is incalculable.
Over 1,5OO have been found dead at the
foot of the Bart holdi statue in single
morning, while from Fire Island Oong
Island light we have a record of 23O
birds of one species-black-p war
blers-which met their fate on the
night of September 80, 1898.
Several theories are offered to ac-
count for the origin of the dollar mark.
One declares that it comes from the let
ters u. S. which were placed on the
Federal currency, and in the hurry of
writing were run together, the s. be-
ing placed over the U. A more proba-
BILE explanation is that it is modifica-
ton of the figure s, and denoted piece
of s reals, or 81.
Quill pens were made in the fifth
century. There is no record of their
earlier use. Theodore, the Ostrogoth
king, is said to have been illiterate and
unable to write his own name. A golden
plate was made with the letters of his
name cut through it. This was placed
over the document he was expected to
sign, and he traced his name through
the open spaces with quill.
Bottled ale, rendered mellow by
long keeping, was an accidental dis
covery. 1t was made by Alexander
Newell, dean of st. Paul's. in the reign
of Queen Mary. Newell was obnoxious
to Bonner, and the latter had sent SOL
diers to apprehend him; but it hap
pened ont hat day Newell was out fish
ing, and in order to keep his beer cool
had buried it in the bank. Getting in
timation of his danger he fled, forget
ting all about the beer, and escaped to
the Continent; whence, returning some
years later, he remembered his beer,
dug it up and found it wonderfully
improved with age.
There is casino in Stockbridge,
Mass, which is to that town what hos
pitfalls and fresh air funds are to other
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