San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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bers.
Russia has % national flags and
France 81.
Elephants produce only about
six offsprings in century.
The ravages Of the wolf cost Rus
STA no less than $l0,O00,00O a year.
In all tropical countries the
snake is the most mortal enemy of
man.
Queen Elizabeth treated the
highest dignitaries of the church
with ontempt.
Apples, plums, walnuts and pos
sibly pears are indigenous to Eng
land.
If all the eggs of fish come to
maturity, the ocean would be
choked with their bodies.
A French explorer recently
found an Assyrian loaf Of bread
supposed to have been baked $50
b. G.
The rabbit plague in Australia Is
due to the fact that there are no
animals there which can prey up
on the rabbits.
OF all historical careers full Of
early promise that of King Solo,
mon is regarded as having a most
disappointing ending.
A waiting woman, Macaulay tells
US, was considered in the time of
the Stuarts to be the most suit
able helpmeet for a parson.
All Saints Day, November l, is
said to have been begun by Pope
Boniface ", about COZ, and was
established by Gregory w., about
$50.
Prussia won every battle and
skirmish during the Austro.P rus-
sian war Of 1866. The same is true
OF the United States in the Mexican
war.
The reformers OF the English
church in l549 struck out nearly
100 holidays, leaving only such as
in their time were dear to the pop.
ular heart.
Actors were so much admired by
the late DR.. Moreli Mackenzie, the
noted English physician, that he
never charged them for medical
advice.
At the beginning Of this century
there were so many church festi.
walls and holidays in Rome that
1t is said there were not two days
In week left for labor.
Dead bodies, when taken as car.
60 on a ship, are always described
as either statuary or natural his
tory specimens, owing chiefly to
the superstition Of sailors.
Lord Napier won the Abyssin-
ian war in 1867, without a single
reverse, and Lord Wolseley con-
Quoted the Soudan cam paign with
equally unbroken success.
According to an English author.
ity, no fewer than 100000 horses
have been imported into England
for hunting and harness purposes
during the last II years.
The raspberry was introduced
into England from Virginia in
1896. The cherry was introduced
from the eastern shores Of the
Black Sea at a very early date.
The carnival season is the
m ost highly esteemed holiday in
most Italian cities. In many res
poets it bears resemblance to
the Roman Saturnalia.
The Queen OF England has a
royal income OF about 100000 a
year. The income OF the family Of
the Prince Of Wales is about $780,
600 a year.
The Duke OF Richmond re-
ceives $4,000 year in the form OF
a duty of one shilling per chaldron
on coal exported from the Tyne
and consumed in England.
When gunpowder lighter
comes alongside ship all fires are
put out. Matches are carefully
slowed away, the cook suspends
operations, pipes are extinguished,
and the heavy chests are carried
on board by hand.
The Sahara is crossed by noun
tains sufficiently high to be at
times snow. covered, while in other
parts it is much below sea level,
and the Australian plains are in
terrupted in various parts by low
hill ranges.
In the middle ages it was COM
mon for even the sons of Kings to
take holy orders. BY the middle
OF the fourteenth century the in
fluence Of the clergy had so far
declined that Chaucer satlrized
them with impunity.
South America has the greatest