San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-06

northwest Is now turning toward
Texas"
Brenham Banner: "The Chinese
soldiers are said to receive the
enormous wages of one dollar a
month for their services and it
would seem that the invoice was
correct, judging from the results so
far. This seems to be as much as
they are worth"
"Major Mckinley should not be
unduly elated at the reception
given him in the South, for il he
will ask DIR. Depew he can learn
that something more substantial
than enthusiasm is required to
hold the Southern delegations at a
Republican, National convention"
Fort Worth Gazette: "The en-
peror Of China does not understand
why his armies have not annihilat-
ed Japan. His majesty may, how
ever, cool his anger with the
thought that they had knocked a
great hole in the sprlnting record"
Fort Worth Gazette: "The only
parallels that we recall to the in
Simultaneous conversion of Major
Buck Walton to the cause Of silver
as represented by the Pops were
the presto change conversion of
Judge A. w. Terrell and Judge Geo
Clark to gold monometalism."
San Angelo Enterprise: Mr.. w.
c. Brann says in an interview with
the Dallas News that he would
like to put the Texas Cotton Palace
on wheels and exhibit it to the
New Englanders who are combing
icycles out of their whiskers and
tunneling through snow banks.
Unfortunately there are no wheels
big enough to mount the Texas
Cotton Palace and our New Eng
land friends will have to initiate
Mohammed when the mountain
failed to come to him.
Danville, Va, Evening Star: Gin
the faces of the United States
stamps all the government
branches are recognized, except the
judiciary. In the new issues will
appear the faces of Marshall and
Madison, the famous expounders
of the constitution"
"Any young man who will now
incase himself in soiled pieces of
rub his face with coal dust,
muss up his hair, and then walk
through the streets with a football
under his arm can win all the ad-
miring glances his vanity may
crave"
"Trial Justice Hammett, of
S. c., on last Wednes-
day whipped his IA year-old son to
break him of smoking cigarettes.
The boy went to school but later in
the day complained of being I'M
we'll was excused by the teacher.
He went to a hardware store and
bought rope. A few hours later
his lifeless body was found hang
ing to a tree in the woods near BY"
Brennan Banner: "Poor Pops
They now have an additional bur-
den thrust upon them in the form,
name and person of one Major
Buck Walton! 1t has been truly
said that sorrows follow close up
on the heels of each other and that
they come not singly. Bye, bye,
Pop"
"The staid old Philadelphia
Times is getting frisky. 1t aston
ished it's conservative readers in
the old Quaker City the other day
by announcing that 'Breckinridge's
trying to 60 to the Senate may be
differently received by the various
old women said to be there" This
is shockiDg-far the Times"
ga case of smallpox developed re-
Gently in one Of the departments at
Washington, and to save them
selves they gave all the clerks who
had been in contact with it holt
day so that they might go home
and spread it through the country.
II the clerks who were given holt
day were infected with the virus Of
smallpox the head of the bureau
could not have taken more GER.
tain method to spread it generally
than by giving them a holiday"
Houston Herald: "Forty years
ago, it was considered a sufficient
offense to expel a man from the
church who would even play the
fiddle at his home. Now the vio-
lin is used in many of the churches
in the cities as one of the means of
softening the hearts of the sinners.
In this connection, would it be i'm
pertinent to ask if religious people
are progressing or 'retrograding"
no tho world np0yo or mott