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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-12
WORK. WHERE DONE.

WORK, WHERE DONE.
Rolled East street from West
Commerce street to North Laredo
street.
Rolled Zavalla street from East
street to North Concho street. Re-
moved the city hot house from San
Pedro Springs to park commission
er's nursery, on River avenue, as
per resolution of the city council.
Cleaned cutters on Austin street
from Burnett to Duval streets. Re-
paired holes in st. Mary's street
and cleaned the cutters from West
Commerce to Travis streets.
Re-foored the bridge over Ala.
IAN creek on San Fernando street.
Re-rolled Augusta street from
Convent bridge to Richmond Ave.
Delivered two cords OF stove
wood to city hospital from city
wood yard.
Filled up sink in street on Dryer
avenue in front OF new county
courthouse with gravel.
No work done by city prisoners
this week on account of none on
hand.
Out Of appropriation OF $685. to
refloor bridge over Alazan Greek on
San Fernando street, the same
costing as follows:
Lum Der. .......... $46 %
l keg nails. ................ B 70
2 carpenters l day each. .... 5 90
3 laborers l day each. ... 4 so
Total $50 AZ
CITY CARPENTERS REPORT.
Nov. 4th: Repaired hole in Gull
vert corner avenue d and Fourth
street. Repaired hole in culvert
corner Walnut and Montana street.
bridge oyer ditch on
North Centre street. Repaired
bridge over ditch on North street.
Tearing down hot house at San
Pedro springs.
Nov. 9TH: Removed hot house
to park commissioners nursery on
River avenue. Repaired door at
City hospital. Repaired culvert
corner Avenue Il and Fifth street.
Nov. 9Th: Re.floored bridge
over Alazan creek on San F9rnan-
do street. Repaired bridge over
ditch on Lewis street. Repaired
bridge over ditch on River avenue.
Repaired bridge over ditch on
street.
Nov. 7th: Repaired bridge over
ditch on South Alamo street. Re-
city hot house.
Nov. Sth: Working on hot house. |
Repaired culvert, corner La Sale
and East Commerce streets. Re-
paired culvert, corner Avenue G
and Seventh street. Repaired Gull
vert, corner Galan street and Mill |
tary plaza.
Nov. 9th: Working on hot
house. Repaired culvert, corner |
North East and West Houston !
streets.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-12

M. Half & Bro, Of the city,
have leased 3S sections OF state
lands in Crockett county for ten
years at three cents per acre.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-12

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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-12

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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-12
STREET WORK.

The following is the street com.
report for the week
ending Nov. %:
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23
Noted for Sarcasm.

Some years ago there lived in Alabama
a Judge who was noted for the sarcasm
which he dispensed during his admins
tration of justice. On one occasion a
young man was tried for stealing a
pocketbook The next case was for MUIR
der. The evidence in the larceny case
was slight. but in the other seemed to
the judge conclusive. To his amazement
and wrath. however, the jury convicted
the young man and acquitted the MUIR
derer In passing sentence upon the con-
victed thief. after the discharge Of the
other prisoner, the judge said: Young
man, you have not been IN this country
long?" mo. your honor" replied the
prisoner. Il thought not said the
Judge; you don't know these people; you
may kill them. but don't touch their
pocketbooks." On another occasion, when
the evidence seemed to point conclusively
to the prisoners guilt, but when the
judge, from long experience, distrusted
the jurymen's wisdom, the counsel for the
defendent said 1T is better that ninety
nine guilty persons should escape than
that one innocent man should suffer-" In
his charge to the jury the judge admitted
the soundness Of this proposition, but he
added impressively and severely: Gen
tlemen, / want you to bear in mind that
ninety-nine have already escaped.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23
THE MoToRMAN's DIFFICULTY.
Too Many Levers to Handle to Stop q Car
as Quickly as He Might.

Too Many Levers to Handle to Stop q Car
as Quickly as He Might.
We believe that it has been very fairly
demonstrated that a four-wheeled car
can be brought to a standstill by the
mandrake within space so short that
neither the airbrake nor the electric
brake could do much better, and that the
difference in favor of the two latter is
more than counterbalanced by certain
disadvantages inherent in them. A
cable car is by no means as heavy as a
motor car, nor is there a cable line any
where in the country running at as
great speed as electric cars are habit
ually driven. We think also that there
is no question at all but that an electric
car, Notwithstanding its greater weight,
can be stopped more quickly than can
cable car, and that all it requires with it's
present braking facilities is that those
facilities should be applied intelligently.
A cable car cannot back out, nor rely
upon anything to stop its course but the
adhesion of the wheels on the track.
With the electric car, as with the steam
locomotive, the wheels may be reversed
as soon as the speed is reduced so that
this may be done without skidding. The
storage battery car is more difficult to
stop than the trolley, if both are at the
same speed, simply because the storage
battery car weighs just about twice as
much as the heaviest cable car.
The greatest trouble, in our opinion,
with the braking facilities of our cleo
trio cars is that the motorman has too
much to do already. He has the con-
trolling lever in one hand, the brake
lever in the other, reversing switch,
which we suppose he is expected to con-
troll with his teeth, while be blows a
whistle with his mouth; a bell push to
occupy one of his feet and the pawl on
the brake rachel which his other foot is
intended to control, and sand valve
that must be operated somehow. There
is canopy switch also, which,
if he be very tall and spright-
ly, he might work with the top
of his head. Now, supposing we add an
emergency brake or two, as the Ameri-
can Machinist would have us do, that
wsuld have to be controlled in the same
way that the one-armed ffer held his
fife while passing his hat for aims, and
this, we think, would not be an effective
method of control.-Electricity.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23
BASE BALL VS.. BAPTISM.
Preacher wilkins Too Lenient and Squire
Razen Demands His Scalp.

Preacher wilkins Too Lenient and Squire
Hazen Demands His Scalp.
SQUIRE Hazen of Jamesburg, Kas., rode
around among the Pensioners Of the Bap-
fist church the other day. wildly exclaim-
ing. 'Our preacher has sold out to the
flesh and the devil"
He caused great stir. as the village
was full of country people, Baseball was
the cause of his excited condition and
trouble and lots of it is brewing in the
community.
Jamesburg is a country village. six
miles west of Wichita, and its greatest
pride is a baseball nine that takes the
pennant of the county this year.
The Rev. Wilkins, the pastor of the
church mentioned, has been holding hot
revival meeting lately, and among the
other conversions he made were i've mem
hers of the baseball nine.
That was the day set for the general
baptizing of the converts, but the base
bail team had to play the Colwich nine
at the very hour the baptizing was to take
place. The manager of the Jamesburg
nine went to the minister to postpone the
baptizing until tomorrow SO as to allow
them to play at Colwich, and the request
was granted.
When Squire Hazen heard the baptiz-
ing in his church was postponed for a
baseball game he became furious and rode
into town shouting the above exclamation
at the top of his voice.
The affair has caused great sensation
and nothing short of the discharge of the
Rev. Wilkins will satisfy him.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23

Zone of the most interesting things
about them,'' says the student, sis not
their singing nor their voracity, but their
lack of perseverance and their dependent
actions. When they fell into the tub
they would make single effort to bound
out again, or perhaps swim across the
water, but would afterward turn on their
backs or sides and give up the struggle.
one made several efforts to crawl up the
side of the tub. but it is a singular fact
that, nimble as they are on Oat stems and
horizontal surfaces, it is next tn impoSsl-
BILE for them to go up vertical boards,
and so the creature, exhausted, dropped
into the tub and sank like lead to the bot
tom.
Every often two grasshoppers in their
feeble struggles collided and then each
would try to get ON top of the other, so
that it would have foothold from which
to bound, but since neither was willing
to yield to the other they kept on strug-
Cling till both sank. One little fellow
had gained floating leaf near the edge
and was painfully making snail's progress
up the side of the tub. It scratched it's
head as if thinking and then proceeded
till it finally reached the top. This ac-
complished a thorough drying process
began. First the eyes, then the wings
and lastly the whole body were rubbed
with the long legs and after a shake and
a bound the emancipated insect was seen
no more.
'Grasshoppers are good for the turkeys,
for they are food which is always ready
and requires no preparation. but it is
worthless as fishing bait, for the fish will
have none of it.
zone day in late spring one of the
green variety was resting very quietly on
a leaf. Looking close / thought saw
two-headed one, but it was really the
new grasshopper crawling out of his
too small and worn-out skin. The process
lasted half an hour, and just before it
own breathing frightened the insect, for
of it's last pair of legs Then it rested
on the under side of grass blade just
above it, and letting it's wings hang down
to dry kept very still. Finally it gave a
flutter and bounded off to join it's fell
lows.
''There must be great deal of nourish-
ment in grasshoppers, for the notified
black and yellow spider feeds almost en-
tirely on them.
"One thing about grasshoppers is de-
cidedly unpleasant. A green grasshop-
per may often be seen feeding on one of
his own kind. He is a very cannibal
among insects. On one occasion some
little ants were seen biting the cannibal
to make him retreat, but he simply
brushed them off with his legs and kept
on gnawing.
eff there is no chloroform or ether at
hand specimens of insects can be killed
by holding the sides of the abdomen
till they stop struggling. IL. NJ. in
BROOKLYN Eagle.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23
Marriage Prevented by a Cigar.

The discovery of a cigar i'll a BRIDE
groom's pocket has caused the indefinite
postponement of marriage ceremony,
says an Oneonta, n. Y, dispatch When
Frank Parks sought the hand of Miss
Jennie Titus in marriage several months
ago the young lady consented on condi-
ton that Parks, who was an lnveterate
smoker, should, from that date, discard
the use of tobacco in every form.
1t was a difficult matter for the ar
dent wooer to take such a pledge, but
rather than have his suit denied he de-
Stroyed his stock of smoking utensils
in the presence of his affianced and prom
Used the young lady that he would be a
total abstainer in the future.
The young pair last evening drove to
neighbOring village to have the mar
rage ceremony performed, and as Parks
assisted Miss Titus from the carriage
she suddenly spied cigar in his pocket.
'What does this mean, FrankW eX-
claimed the bride, snatching the cigar
and hurting it away, her face flushed
with anger.
Ill will tell you all about it later"
stammered the perplexed bridegroom.
"a friend gave it to me and IL
mo further explanation is necessary"
interrupted the bride. "Drive me home
at cnce and then go your way. You
have broken your pledge and l have for
tunately discovered it in time"
The disappointed pair retraced their
Journey, while Parks begged to be for
given and restored again to favor, but
to no effect, and Miss Titus returned
to her home and Parks left for parts
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23
The Gun Had a Peculiar Click.

Seeming trifies have hanged many
man. Clarke Miller of Dallas probably
realizes this. Miller was recently SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for life for
the assassination of Hagan Roberts,
wealthy farmer. Last March Roberts
and his family were sitting by the fire
side in his home when they were startled
by a demand to throw up their hands
and by the appearance of two masked
men. One of the assailants fired, strik-
ing Roberts, who died within a few
hours. AS the man who fired the shot
brought down his gun a peculiar click
was recognized by one of Roberts sons,
who had used the same gun few days
before.
This click was due to the looseness of
one barrel. Clarke Miller and Howard
Parton were arrested on the charge of
murder The gun with the peculiar click
was found in Miller's possession. He
had run to his home, and in order to
avoid suspicion had himself rammed
down two charges into the gun and had
gone out to join in the search for the
murderers. When the loads were with
drawn it was found that he had neg
lected to put any powder in the gun.
Truth is stranger than detective stories.
Savannah (Ga.) Press.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23
False Hair Once Again.

A revolution is at hand. The imple
ments of warfare will be a toothed
crimping iron, wire frame and some
extra hair if the homegrown crop is in
sufficient to produce the necessary album
dant effect. The severe simplicity we
have been affecting Of late was not be-
coming to many of us. 1t was adorable
when the profile was fine and the cheeks
delicately modelled, but when these per-
fections were lacking it was, to say the
least, trying. Who does not recall the
attractive girl, with full red cheeks and
pleasant, blunt features, who made a
caricature of herself by parting her hair
and drawing it over her ears after the
style of prevailing modes?
The only disadvantage of the incom-
ing styles is that they are apt to inaugu-
rate an era of false hair. as the COM
ponent parts of which the new couture
is composed may all be bought individu-
ally and adjusted.
American women wear less false hair,
proportionately, than the women of any
other country. English women of all
classes load their heads with false
"fringes"-we call them bangs-toupees,
switches, scalpets and every other device
of the money-making hair-dresSer. The
hair problem is a very serious one to the
average Englishwoman. In the arrange.
ment of her hair she is almost as helpless
as her japanese sister. This is particu>
larly true on festal occasions; no matter
how small and early, her hair must be
dressed. If she has not a maid she calls
in the services of the knight of the tongs.
And he crimps and frizzles and waves till
the result produced recalls Daniel Web
ster's Wonderful, wonderful; would
that 1 could say impossible But can
forgive the Englishwoman much in the
way of such harmless adornment, be-
cause she washes her head in soap and
water, which is more than can be said OF
the Frenchwoman. Madame first puts
the yolk of an egg on her head, and then
washes it off in a scented decoction OF
bay rum and quinine, which may be very
good indeed for an occasional dressing
but is little short of disgusting for q
constant wash.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23
Fatted Calf killed i'm Vain.

A Hindoo goldsmith, says an English
journal, disappeared some years ago, and
was mourned by his friends as dead. The
other day, however, a nephew of the
missing man met an individual whom he
at once recognized as his uncle. He
hailed him with joy and carried him off
to his aunt The latter Immediately
greeted the newcomer as her husband,
and was soon joined by her mother-in-
law, who saw in him her long-lost son.
The fatted calf was (fguratively) killed,
the Oldest cask was opened, the largest
lamp was lit. and the rejoicing went on
until-until the eldest son of the family
turned up and denounced his nephew..s
find as an impostor, who was not his
brother at all, and it turned out that he
was right, too, though his mother and his
sister-in-law are of the same opinion still,
and refuse to be convinced.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23
A Strange will.

The Neue Weiner Tagblatt of Ger
many prints the strange will of veal
thy and eccentric old man who lately
died. II give all my property" he says,
''to my six nephews and six nieces, but
under the sole condition that every one
of my nephews marries a woman named
Antonio, and that every one of my nieces
marries a man named Anton The
twelve are further required to give the
Christian name Antonio or Anton to
each frst-born child, according as it
turns out to be girl or boy. The mar
rage of each nephew and niece is also
thongs days. either January II, May
10 or June Is. Each is further required
to be married before the end of July.
1896. Any nephew or niece remaining
unmarried to an Antonio or an Anton
after that date forfeits half of his or
her share of the property.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23
About Grasshoppers.

One cannot take a step anywhere in the
country during the summer months with
out disturbing an army OF those arch
mischief-makers, the grasshoppers, and
many a field is shorn of its harvest by
these voracious creatures.
In an old rain catcher by the kitchen
doorstep an observer had occasion recent
in their promiscuous bounds they often
found therein a chill and watery grave.
The green kind are apparently the only
ones which sing, and this they do, as
everyone knows, by rubbing the left wing
rapidly over the right. One which alight:.
ed on a tea plant, over the tub, seemed
to be listening to another grasshopper
calling. and when the others note ceased
it would begin a long one of its own,
during which 10 movement of the wings
was discernible. This was followed by
a short note when the vibration could
plainly be seen. So the call and answer
were kept up continually.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23
More Trouble in store.

Now the bicycle is causing trouble be-
tween New York landlords and their
tenants. A woman has brought suit
to prevent interference with the free use
by plaintiffs daughter of the steps,
porch, vestibule and hallway of the
apartment house she occupies for ingress
and egress for her bicycle during the
term Of the lease. Previous to August
16 defendants obstructed and prevented
daughter, who came to see her on their
bicycles, and on that day the janitress
notified the mother that her daughter
would not be allowed to take her bicycle
in and out This momentous issue is to
be argued in the Supreme court this
week. The bike" promises to make as
much trouble in the fat as the babe.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23

which may be used to advantage, but
only in two or at most in three shades,
and always of the same color, using the
lightest for the body of the house, and the
darker for trimmings and window blinds.
All attempts at stripping or panelling are
odious. Even after one has done ones
best to secure softness and unobtrusive.
less of color, one is impatient for vines
to grow and with. their cool green's in
summer or changing hues in autumn, or
by the delicate tracery Of their denuded
stems in winter, to soften all crudities OF
outline or tint.-Harper's Bazaar.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23
TenderlY Raised.

There is pretty little girl of five years
in northwest Baltimore who has been
tenderly raised. Her mother has guard
ed her against witnessing acts of vio-
lence or cruelty, and she is in ignorance
of the methods employed in killing fowls
for the table Several days ago, un-
konwn to the careful parent, the little
girl strayed into. the rear yard of her
home, where a servant was killing a
number of chickens for dinner by wiring
ing their necks. The child watched the
proceedings with great interest for sew
eral minutes and then, in a glow of ex-
she cried, ''iust come and see the fun
Mary is winding the chickens up!"-Bal-
timoro SIM
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23
BRIDE FROM A COFFIN.
Dakota Girl Supposed to be Dead Comes
Home q Wife.

Home q Wife.
A girl who year ago was pronounced
dead and prepared for burial has reap
peared before her astonished parents
and friends as the wife of George q.
Thompson, a young farmer living with
his mother near Hope, N. D.
Mrs. Thompson was Miss Ellen Nor
man the 19-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Norman, living just south
of Hope. She was engaged to be mar
ried to Mr.. Thompson, but her parents
were strongly opposed to the match.
In October, 1894, the girl was taken
i'll. October "a she died; at least the
doctors pronounced her dead, after sub
jecting her to numerous tests. The flu
neral was set for October 20. The body
was kept over night in the Norman
house.
The only watcher was Mr.. Thompson,
who declared he was not afraid of the
disease, whatever it was. 1t was due
to his watching that the young woman
is alive today Thompson removed the
lid of the coffin in order to once more
gaze upon the face of his fiancee.
He was startled to see the chest of the
body in the casket rise and fall in a
spasmodic way, as though the girl was
gasping for breath. He wrapped the
rigid form in blanket and carried it to
his home. There she awakened and eX-
planned all to his mother.
Then Thompson returned to the Nor
man house, made ups dummy and closed
the coffin. This was buried. After Miss
Norman had been carried to the Thomp-
son residence and a doctor had worked
over her for several hours it became
evident that she had simply been in a
trance.
She remained delirious for several
days. AS she became stronger all was
explained to her. About the middle of
December Miss Norman was spirited
away from Hope by DR.. Mullan and Mr.,
Thompson, and since that time she has
been travelling in the South and West,
where she has fully regained her health.
Soon after leaving here she and Mr..
Thompson were married and shortly
after that DR.. Mullan returned to his
home, leaving his patient in charge of
her husband. Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson
arrived at Hope a few days ago, first hav-
ing advised Mr.. and Mrs. Norman that
the daughter that they had mourned as
dead was alive and well and on her way
home to them as the wife of Mr.. Thomp-
son.
There was dramatic scene when Mrs.
Thompson met her father and mother.
Mrs. Thompson looks as well aud happy
as q woman can, but does not care to
talk of her strange experience.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23
Bronzed Iron.

Lemon juice applied to cast iron ar
ticles gives an excellent finish to the sur
face Of the metal. 1t turns the portion
of polished cast iron to which it is APP
piled to bronze black. and when touched
over with shellac varnish will absorb
sufficient amount of the varnish to pre-
serve it. To many lemon juice would
seem to be a weak and ineffective acid
for metal. but everyone knows how
quickly knife blade of steel will black
en- when used to cut lemon, and the
darkening of polished iron by the acid
is very beautiful