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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-16

the oeryI, aquamarlne ana Uopaz-auu
that it is, in fact, the ancient "topazion,"
otherwise known as the chrysolite. 1t
is found in Egypt, Ceylon and Brazil,
good crystals being extremely rare. OF
its various shades of green-olive, leaf,
pistachio, or leek-the clear leaf green
is the most admired as a rule.
At recent fashionable wedding one
of the most beautiful and costly of the
presents was a set of ornaments COM
posed of peridots set in amethysts; the
blending of the soft mauve green was
exquisitely artistic.
OF all the precious stones the peridot
is the most difficult to polish, says the
Philadelphia Times. The final touch is
given on copper wheel, moistened
with sulphuric acid. The stone has the
popularity of becoming soluble. Some
times it is cut in rose form, or en-
cabochon, like the carbuncle, but it is
better and more valuable when worked
in small steps, as the brilliance is there
by increased.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-16
MUST KNOW MORE THAN BOOKS
The Public Librarian Needs to BE an Ac-
tive and Pushing Business Man.

The Public Librarian Needs to BE an Ac-
tive and Pushing Business Man.
The usefulness of a public library to
community is not measured by books
and building, but by the ability of its
librarian and the number of its read
ers. Put a good librarian in a roomy
shed with few thousand books, says
the Philadelphia Press, and he will do
more for city and its real education
than a man who is not both an able
and trained librarian with half a
million books and a building which
cost 81 100000, or, as in Boston, four
times the value of the books it houses
A great public library to-day is simply
terminal facilities and a distributing
station for literature. The business of
being librarian has to be learned Just
as much as the business of being rail-
road man, and to people In libraries the
best librarians are just as well known
as the best railroad men are to people
about railroad offices. A good librarian
of the first rank can get $4,000 year
without asking for it, and he is cheap
at the price-a good deal cheaper than
q poor man at $1,000. No man really
equal to managing library with an in
come of $4,000 or $40, 900 year can be
got for less than 81, 900 or s., 900, though
men can be had cheaper, and cheap
management, always the dearest, will
be the result.
A librarian to-day is not a man who
! can talk about various kinds of books
in an interesting way, or who can cat
! alogue books, or who for years has al
ways been at odd library jobs, or even
is interested in literature" and thinks
that his general knowledge of books"
| fits him for the work of librarian. The
new librarian is as active and pushing
as any business man; he studies city
like a retail dry goods man; he sees
what people are going to read and he
uses the knowledge to turn them to
what they ought to read. He classifes
and catalogues and arranges and dis
| tributes his store of 100000 to 500, 900
books so that the rare books which
some specialist wants to see once in ten
years can be got just as easily and as
quickly as the novel which every one
wants and of which the library has to
have fifty copies. Such a librarian
knows what schools are studying and
he puts books in the way of the pupils.
lie knows what is going on, and the
delivery desk is always ready with an
answer to any question about the books
on any subject up for talk. He is alive
to the finger tips and he makes all his
! books live. No big auction of book
! rarities worth their weight in bank
notes which takes place from Berlin to
San Francisco passes without his get
ting what the library needs, and no
ragged boy strays into the public
library wondering what it is like but
finds himself, he does not know quite
how, seated and reading an interesting
hook
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-16
A Valuable Old Meadow.

An ancient document was recorded in
the registers Office in New York the
other day, which will tend to show the
rapid growth of the city and the ad-
vance in the price Of real estate. The
document in question is conveyance
executed July Is, 1917, by Samuel Wat
ki2s, of the city of New York, physi-
clan, to Isaac and Michael Dyckman,
sons of Jacobus Dyckman, of Kings
bridge, and conveys a piece of
land, being salt meadow near Kings
bridge, containing five acres, adjoining
land of John Maggie and Blazo Moore,
Jr, for the sum of ffty-siX dollars and
twenty-five cents. AS now laid out the
property is bounded by Academy street,
Harlem river, Sherman avenue and
Dyckman street, and comprises six full
blocks in section eight on the land map
of the city of New York. The present
value of this property must be between
three hundred thousand and five hun
drcd Thousand dollars.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-16
sion for brigbt-colored glass

had passion for brigbt-colored glass
beads.
This fancy had been frowned upon
by her mother. She was told, when, as
a child, she begged for beads to wear,
that none but overseers' daughters
(this was in the south) would wear any.
thing of the sort, since beads were ugly
and vulgar. This was sufficient to pre-.
vent the manifestation of her fancy, but
the longing remained.
But are glass beads ugly9 The I'M
tutored mind everywhere accepts them
as beautiful. The tutored mind, one
may almost say, has lost the faculty of
spontaneous admiration. To say that
thing is ugly is simply equivalent,
with many women, to saying that it is
mot worn" To the savage, to the TN.
taught in civilization, beautiful thing
Is beautiful in itself, not with regard
to fitness, fashion or expensiveness. No
searching for data upon which to base
an opinion checks the thrill of quick
delight in the presence of the admired
object. To them red glass bead is as
attractive as ruby, tinsel ornament
nc f,,1
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-16
eARY-SAvING MACHINE.
A Cradle in a Miniature Hot Room That
Has Had Wonderful Results.

A Cradle in a Miniature Hot Room That
Has Had Wonderful Results.
There is now being exhibited in
Lyons, France, a queer machine that
has been adopted by the government in
the Public Maternity hospital in that
city. 1t is an apparatus for saving the
life of young babies, and the success it
has attained there recommends it
strongly here.
Over two hundred and fifty thousand
babies, aged less than one year each,
die annually in the United States, says
the New York Press.
The mortal enemy of babyhood is
cold. To that all children are more or
less susceptible, and the irregularity of
temperature for these little beings
while their organs are in process of for
tlatiOn or strengthening is the princi-
pal cause of the loss sustained by the
thousands of families in this country.
The machine is merely a large box
made from galvanized zinc and stand
ing on iron legs. The construction
provides for perfect ventilation and alb
solute purity of air. There are no
angles or interstices inside where poi
sonous germs might find Judgment, and
thermometer is suspended inside the
glass front, so the actual temperature
is regular and always high, generally
one hundred and twenty degrees, or
even more for very young babies, and
so graduated down, as the infant be-
comes older and stronger. The re-
CURED degree is obtained automatical-
ly, and the heated air is created by gas,
petroleum or electricity.
The babies lie or sit in cradle, sus-
pended like hammock inside the ma
chine, and the most scrupulous atten-
ton is given the cradle and its sur
roundings, so it is as neat as anything
can be. DR.. Lion, the inventor, says
the oldest child treated by this APP
paratus was six and one-half months,
and had been brought up from birth in
this way. The doctor claims the child
was nearly dead when born, and had it
not been for this treatment it would
not have survived at all.
The appearance of the babies is said
to be exceedingly interesting and
charming. They look so perfectly fresh
and rosy and seem to enjoy thoroughly
the warm climate in which they find
themselves.
DR.. Lion claims that during the
three years he has been perfecting this
machine he has saved three hundred
babies that would otherwise have died,
and this is eighty per cent. of the entire
number brought to him. He believes
that had these infants been left to the
ordinary treatment, not one would have
survived.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-16
George washIngton,s Coat.

We hear a good deal about the sim
plicity of life in America in the eight
zenith century, says the Boston Jour
nal, but there was probably greater at
tention paid by men to the matter Of
dress than is paid to-day. George
Washington, who to the great and care
less world is either in uniform or SOL
emn black, was fussy enough at the
age of fifteen to make this note for the
benefit of his tailor: Memorandum
To have my coat made by the following
Directions, to be made a Frock with a
Lapel Breast. The Lapel to contain on
each side six Button Holes and to be
about five or six inches wide all the
way equal, and to turn as the Breast
on the Coat does, to have it made very
long Wasted and in Length to come
down to or below the bent of the knee,
the Waist from the Armpit to the Fold
to be exactly as long or longer than
from thence to the Bottom, not to have
more than one fold in the Skirt and the
top to be made just to turn in and three
Button Holes, the Lapel at the top to
turn as the Cape of the Coat and Button
to come parallel with the Button Holes
and the last Button Hole on the Breast
to be right opposite the Button on the
Hin"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-16
The High School Pupils Error and the
Confusion Which Followed.

Now that the ''sweet little girl grads"
of last years normal class are being
crystallized into the prim schoolmarms
of years to come, the never failing sto-
ries, true and otherwise, funny and sup
posed to be, of class bulls and blunders
are cropping out and being added to
the already great volume of English
as She Is Spoke" One of the latest
comes from the high school and is fast
ened by the Washington Post on a
sweet-voiced lisping youth, with an in
cipient mustache and a furtive glance
that will wander toward the girls side
of the study hall. They were being
called up the other day by the English
literature teacher and examined as to
their memory of last years work, and
the sweet-voiced youth was asked for a
quotation from Scott. He started
bravely enough, but mixed his authori-
ties before he finished:
Oh, woman, in thy hours OF ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please;
But seen too Oft familiar with thy face
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
The conclusion was entirely too much
for the class, the red-headed corporal
from d company exploded in a regular
vacation laugh, the rest Of the room,
including the teacher, followed suit,
and the swect-voiced youth collapsed,
vOwing he would never memorize an
other quotation SO long as he lived.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-16
Metal and Earthenware soldered.

A new electrolytic method Of great
use to plumbers is the joining of metal
to carthenware. The carthcnware
should have an unglazcd surface, but
if otherwise the glaze is removed
and the surface coated with plum
bago and placed in an electro
lytic bath, thus obtaining a metal
lie coating. To this coating the
lead pipe can be soldered in the or
binary way by means of a plumbers
wiped" joint. This process, it is said,
will probably supersede the use Of
rubber sleeves, washers and putty,
with which imperfect joints have often
been associated.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-16
BEFORE MATCHES CAME.
The Flint and Steel and Rush Lights ana
TaIIOw Dips of Our Ancestors.

TalIow Dips of Our Ancestors.
To the present generation it may
seem next door to incredible that in the
first years of the reign of William ~.
there were no lucifer matches. In lieu
thereof there were only long matches
or splints of wood tipped at each end
with melted sulphur, and, before the
complicated system of dipping the sui
phuretted match in concentrated sui
phuric acid came into use, these matches
were kindled by first striking light
with flint and steel and then causing
the spark to ignite a small quantity of
tinder-an inflammable substance, usu-
ally composed of partially burned linen.
This simple adjunct to the process of
obtaining a light had been in use all
over the world from time immemorial,
says the London Daily Telegraph. The
French finder was called "amadou," a
word the etymology of which has been
tiercely contested, some philOlogers de-
irving it from the old French adjective
''amadou," equivalent to amorous, and
conveying the moral idea of the sweetly
agreeable sensation of the hand
coming in contact with a very soft
substance, while others trace it to
the Latin lad manum dulce." The
French finder was often made of the
spongy portions of mushrooms and
other fungi, and prior to the introduce
ton of lucifer matches the manufac-
ture of amadou was one of considera-
BILE Importance. The cryptogamic
substance was beaten on a block some
what after the manner of felt until it
became homogeneous, and it was then
impregnated with solution of salts of
inter or simply pulverized gunpowder.
The Germans still fabricate a delicate
kind of amadou which is used in sur
gerry for stanching hemorrhage. AS for
flint and steel they have as completely
faded out from our domestic economy
as they have from firearms, and the
Undertook is so rarely seen that it might
well be included in an exhibition of old
social curios.
With finder and finder boxes has also
vanished the rushlight which, when
William Goblet was a boy, English
cottagers used to make for themselves
by gathering rushes and dipping them
successfully in melted tallow until suf-
, ficient thickness of adipose matter was
obtained. In houses where refinement
, was supposed to prevail the rushlight
was placed in japanned tin shade per-
| forated with circular orifces, and tho
insomnolent invalid had the pleasure
of contemplating a large number
of round spots of light on the
ceiling, reflected from the rush
light screen. Dips another form
of tallow candle, much given to sputter-
ing, which smclt abominably, have also
died the death; and mold candles"
which strove to emulate wax ones in
their form, but hardly succeeded in do
ing so, have been superseded by cheap
er candles, almost as shapely and as
light-giving as the old and costly sper-
maceti Seventy years ago gas was lit
tie used; there were no railroads, few
steamboats, and no lucifer matches; yet,
as Walter Bcsant might put it, the
world went very well then.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-16
PLEASURES OF BAD TASTE.

One of the Many Cases in Which IGnor-
anCc Is Synonymous with Bliss
A lady who has always been known
as person of quiet and refined taste
confessed to me once, says a writer in
Lippincott's, that she had all her life
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-16
THE PERIOOT.
A Precious stone Which Is just Now the
Fad of the Fashionable.

'I UI 0IIC '1"II'UIIIDIV'
A precious stone on which the decree
of fashion has, at the present moment,
set a fancy value is the peridot, or
evening emerald" as it has been
called. 1t is certainly lovely stone,
with it's exquisite shades of transparent
green, the best suggestion of whose
hue is the effect produced by looking at
the light through delicate leaf.
Jewellers say that the peridot is a
species of divine, of the same class as
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-16
MIXED THE POETS UP.

as beautiful as gold.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-07-20

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Tor kcd EfuSg and nj aS:J3 T.. III fer
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sAt Puget sound f"int-.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-07-20
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Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24
a cRIME ro LAueH.
Queer Sunday Laws of 1Jai That stlt
Govern l1ngland's Lords nay.


Queer Sunday Laws of iJat That stlit
Govern England's Lords nay.
The introduction Of the Sunday bin
by Lord Hobhouse brings up the fact
that wo are governed in respect to Sun
day observations by an act Of the year
1891
Il seems that a Sunday lecture can al
ways bo made the subject Of prosecution.
Some time ago Sunday lecturer at
Leeds was actually sacrilegious enough
to make his audience laugh The pro-
prietor OF the lecture hall was thereupon
prosecuted for keeping a disOrderly
house
Music can now be given in the open
air ON Sunday, but il it is given in a
room nothing must be charged for
chairs In other words, II will be posi-
BILE for any body Of men and women TO
run Sunday concerts and Sunday leo
lures with the view Of making them pay
expenses, but not for their own profit.
In the years 1900 and 1901 one Eus-
tace, abbot Of Flaye, preached through
out England the observance Of the Lord g
day. He enjoined that no kind Of work
should be done after the ninth hour on
Saturday until sunrise ON Monday.
According to the manner Of the times
his preaching was backed up by mira
cles. At Beverly n carpenter porsisting
IN finishing a wodge after the ninth
hour fell down in paralysis. In the same
town q woman went on with her weav-
ing after the ninth hour. Result, par
alysis, with loss Of voice.
At Rafferton man made loaf and
baked it ON Saturday evening. When he
broke it on Sunday morning, blood start
ed from it, At Wakefield a miller,
grinding after hours, ground out blood
instead Of flour.
IN Lincolnshire woman made loaf
and put It in the oven. It remained
doughl In the same county a pious
woman, finding it was the ninth hour,
set aside her loaves. Lol On Sunday
morning the loayes wero beautifully
baked without any fire at all
And yet, the chronicler adds, in spite
Of these miracles the people have re-
turned to tho holding Of markets on the
Sunday l-London Queen.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

In obtaining alumina from clay, ac-
cording to Heibling. supposing clay Of
a known strength In the alumina, for
each moleculo Of the latter there Is in
corpofated with the clay three molecules
Of ammonium sulphato and an almost
equal weight Of neutral potassium sui
phate. One molecule OF the latter Is
theoretically sufficient, and the whole is
well worked up and made into helloW
bricks, these to DO baked at $40 degrees
to 2s0 degrees. Tho ammonium sulphate
is then decoinposed into acid ammonium
sulphate and ammoDiacal gas, which
may be collected in condenser. The
acid Of tho ammonium sulphate is first
thrown upon the neutral potassium sui
phate, which becomes acid sulphatc,
and tho latter at this temperature, in
presence Of Rlumina and clay, Is neu-
tralized by the alumina, forming double
aluminium and potassium sulphate-i.
e., alum. Tho bricks arc then extracted
by methodic hxiviation, aud the silica
may be used for cement. The alum Is
freed from iron by recrystallization, and
tho solution may be treated for the pre-
cipitation Of the alumina by means Of
the ammonia which has been distilled
OF. To obtain tho alumina in a granu-
lated state it is spread ont upon stages
in tower traversed from top to bottom
by the hot moist ammonia obtained GA
baking tho bricks
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24
MILp MR. RocksfEllsR.
Tho Bnub That no Took From q Cierl
without Getting Rnmed.

Inevcr saw q man take life less seri-
ously than John d. Rockefeller, says
correspondent Of tho New York Press
BE has an easy way Of saying and doing
things that appeal 10 tho msthotic nature
Nothing worries him. not all his mil
lions At times / have known John TO
seem dull have known people to take
him for a soft, slow, stupid fellow, iu-
stead Of the hard, gliding. firm. rocky
fellow that he Is He once had an en-
ployoe, a nervous, irritable young man,
full Of his own importance, but withal
q capable clerk. Ho occupied an Office In
which there was ono Of those pulling
and lifting machines, and regularly ev-
cry morning about ., when he was inn
mersed in figures Of correspondence, a
email, black mustached man, quiet and
difident in manner, entered, said GOOD
morning. walked on tiptoe to tho cor
ner and exercised for a quarter Of an
hour. II became boro to tho clerk, who
at last, unable to stand IL longer, re-
marked, with considerable heat and fire.
works, TO the inonensive but annoying
stranger;
"How do you expect me to do my
work properly while you arc fooling
with that - machine? I'm getting
tired Of it. Why don't you put IL where
it won't worry n person to deathg"
Tho stranger replied, with blush II
am very sorry il it annoys you will
have It removed at once "
A porter took it away within an hour.
A few days later tho clerk was sent for
by Mr.. Flagler, whom he found in ear
nest conversation with the small, black
mustached man. The lattor smiled at
seeing him, gave Flngler some instruc-
tions and left the room.
"Will you tell mo who that gentle
man is9' tho young man asked, a light
beginning to break upon him. THAT
is Mr.. Rockafellor," was the reply.
With a gasp for breath, tho clerk stag
gered back to his Office to think. Il was
his first acquaintance with the Standard
Oil magnato.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-09-24

In rncent government report by DR..
FL W. Wiley it is stated that in Ger
many tho law requires that the tins en-
ployed for holding canned goods shall
not contain more than per cent Of lead,
while in this country there is no restric-
tion whatever in regard to tho character
of the tin used, the result Of this latter
fact being the employment Of cans in
some cases containing as high as i2 per
cent of lead This practice prevails, not
withstanding the unanimity among
psychologists as to the effect Of lead salts
upon the human system, the continual
ingestion Of even minute quantities Of
lead into the system being followed
eventually by the most serious conse-
quences-painter's collie, lead palsy and
other trying diseases well known to
physicians being the direct effects Of
continual exposure of the system to any
such minute portions Of lead salts. Il is
said to be possible to exclude tho latter
by requiring that the tin shall not con-
tain moro than, say, Z per cent Of
lead; also that the solder be as free
from lead as possible.
In Germany the solder made uso Of 10
sealing the cans is not allowed to con-
tain over 10 per cent Of lead, while in
this country the analysis Of numerous
samples Of the solder applied shows that
It contains fully 90 per cent Of lead, in
addition to this being the lack Of care 10
prevent such solder from coming into
contact with tho contents Of the can,
and largo surfaces Of solder ON the seams
are often found exposed TO the action Of
the acid contents Of tho can.