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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-29

Total .............. 1886 60
Work, where done-Removed dirt
and stones on Jones avenue from
Nos. COZ to GIT, and cleaned up street
and sidewalk Of same.
Sent 10 teams and 16 laborers out
to gravel pit, on the Salado, and
teams hauled and loaded three
cars with fine gravel for binder on
Crockett street, and each wagon on
it's return brought one load Of
gravel to Crockett street.
Took out culvert across Live Oak
street at its intersection with Daw-
son street.
Unloaded three cars of gravel
from International and Great
Northern depot and hauled same
to Crockett street,.
Hauled 1S4 cart loads and 80
wagon loads OF crushed gravel to
Crockett street and spread same.
Finished matchmaking Crockett
street from Alamo plaza down to
the bridge.
Had new stone put over sewer
catch basin and repaired storm
water sewer, corner of Navarro and
Crockett streets; cost of same SO.
Work was done by J. d. Garrett.
Work done by city prisoners
Finished cutting out brush on
Washington street, from San Pedro
avenue to Mccullough avenue
Howard street, from Myrtle to
French Place.
Cleaned up stables of police de-
partment.
Grubbed out South Flores street,
from San Pedro creek to bridge
over dry creek.
Grubbed out City street, from
Arsenal street to Johnston street,
and partly cut out the brush on
Probandt street.
CITY CARPENTER.
April 22.-Repaired fence on re-
tanning wall on Garden street and
put new floor on culvert corner
South East and South Laredo
streets.
April 23.-Repaired floor in
bridge over ditch on West Gem
merce street and repaired culvert
corner Avenue G and Third street.
April 24.-Repaired culvert cor
ner Live Oak and Fast Commerce
streets; repaired hole in culvert
corner Avenue d and Ninth street.
April 25.-Repaired culvert cor
ner Cincinnati avenue and Bandera
avenue, West End.
April 26.-Repaired bridge cor
ner North Flores and Romano
streets.
April 27.-Repaired staircase at
school house No. 3, on Avenue f.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-29
Street improvements.

The street commissioner and car
penter have compiled reports Of
work done last week, as follows:
STREET COMMISSIONER.
16 teams worked $50 days at
So per day ............... SIG 25
10 carts worked 30! days at
1926 per day .......... 6s 60
Is laborers worked 464 days
at $1.5O per day .......... SO Is
3 carpenters worked days
at $3.50 per day ...... 20 90
l engineer worked 8 days
at S. per day. .......... 25 90
foremen worked 6 days
each, l at 1915 and l at
$1.75 per day ~ 90
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-02-19
MISS ING LINKS.

THE word captain, so often used in
the Bibc. simply means officer.
AM:;I:iyin pumps arc known in China
and Japan as well rs in al parts of Eu-
rope.
TIE "Georgia thumper" grasshopper
has wing spread equal to that of n
robin.
GREEK Sculptors often used eyes of
glass or crystal i'll the faces of their
statues.
it0rH&CHIID requires of his cook a
different kind of soup for every day in
the year.
SupcrstltionS About Gems.
The sapphire produces somnambul-
ism and inpcls the wcarer to all good
works. Cat's-cyc is considered by tho
Singhalc3c as 4 charm against witch
craft. Moonstonc has the virtue of
making trees fruitful and of curing cp-
ilcpsy. The emerald promotes friend
ship and constancy of mind. Crystal
induces visions, promotes sleep and in
sures good dreams. The burmese be-
licve that the ruby ripcns like fruit.
The agate queDches irst, and, If held
in the mouth, allays fever. While
coral is considered a talisman against
enchantments, thunder, witchcraft and
the perils of flood aud field.
THE sister Of Hall Cainc, the novelist,
Miss Lily Hall Cainc. lived for time
in the house of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
1t is rumorcd that she may print her
recollections of the poet.
DIR. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Award.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-02-19

In Wa r,>rrtly stopped Ii,
'.rs. on tia I've l:@twcon Ecllc~"r1~
..:G:lcva. u:.t!Ir the following cl,ri-
=" c.rcuim"t"rccs: 4 freight train hoc
! Crn Of its ears some cod liver oil
l.ich began t0 lcal; away from thu
j;iring vessel. Ey chance. She G.
..','.'f .;rcam truck exactly in ths
.;-,.,i.: { the rail. THO train that lyyy.
L. Il vas noT effected. but the trac!.
';% thu" well creased for the pa&acn
g il".;n That followed, which came I,
t.::..,;&t;!l wl:rn it rc"chcd the eli,
2;!T. early ti:cc-quCrtcrs OF IN hour
.TcT'c consumed in running the two
I'D L 2s&lf mile" TO the next station,
nd this rate w0s only attained by dill
''''''' co." tho track
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-02-19
Tho RarcSt Plants,

The question which are the rarest
plants on earth admits of two answers
as to rarity of distribution and rarity
N the numerical sense. There arc
some plants which grow in one email
spot acl nowhere else. Such are the
Kcrguclan cabbage, which is found
only on Kcrguclan island, Il remote
island in forty-five degrees aouth alti-
tudc and siXty-fivc degrees cast lonni.
tudc in the South Pacific. the species
of harcbcll which grov.a only on
Mount Parnassus, and 4 y&Il which is
found only on the Pyrcuccs. The
palm of numerical rarity is divided
among two hybrid orchidg- artiGciallv
produced crosses-laclia bella a.,l lac
lla scdlna, of each of viii! ouly one
specimen exists, a uniQu1 lov:cr
called odontoglossum vccillariu:a, c.
hibited 1T the last exhibition of tie
horticultural society in Temple Car
dcns, and tiny Japanese plant. over
weighted with the pretcntious name
schizocodon soldanellioides, which
was brought from Japan about two
years ago by Capt. Torreps. So far O..
is known it is the lnlv one in c. :.
~-Ncn
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Ally INDEP D ENT.
AN EVENING PAPER,

Issued every day.. Sundays excepted.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-02-19
". BOOHER, Editor and Pro-
prietor.

prietor.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03
Gold la Cemeteries

A FrenchmRn who recently made a
tour of the United States has been writing
some of bis impressions in lie Temps
In one of his articles he says that what
struck him particularly in this country
was the American habit Of filling the
teeth with gold. He consulted staiisti-
clans, he says and by figuring on infor-
nation given him by them has discovered
that the gold annually pounded into cav
ities IN the teeth of Americans amounts
to the value of 100000. All of this
precious metal, he says, is buried with the
Yankees when they die, and he figures
that at the end Of three centuries the Gem
eteries of America will contain gold to
the value of e30,000,000. 81 am afraid"
the writer goes on to say, chat this will
prove too tempting TO the practical mind
of the future American, and We shall see
the day when companies will be organized
to mine the cemeteries and recover the
gold secreled in the jaws of dead ances-
tors"
The writer then goes on and figures on
the average amount of gold in the teeth
of each dead person. He has evidently
been consulting the records Of vital statis-
ties. He says that $4,000 died in the
United States in 1899. This would bring
the value Of gold in each dead persons
teeth to an average of about 65l cents,
and he thinks that in the well.crowded
cemeteries the mining of this gold could
be carried on proilably, despite the small
average value.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03
A Ballot Trick.

A good story is told Of how the friends
Of young man of rather wild ways en-
gineered his admission into q popular
downtown club. The young man in
whose behalf the ingenuity was exercised
was regular prince of good fellows, a
whole souled, good natured individual, al
ways ready to help a friend, whose only
failing was tendency to "load" up on
booze and enjoy himself in his own way.
While out with him on an evening OF fun
he was asked to join the club by several
of the members The next morning they
were sorry for the action, knowing the
feeling in the club against their friend,
but having gone that far they determined
to carry the matter through. The vote
for membership was by ballot and fortu-
nately when the time arrived for action
on the name, one Of the friends of the
candidate was selected to act as teller aud
carry the box around. BY some means
he managed to pick out all but two OF the
black balls, those being sufficient for re-
lection. He was not detected, and those
who would have voted against admission,
seeing all but two of the black balls gone,
either refused to vote or cast a white ball
feeling sure that the other black balls
we're in the ballot. Everyone was sur
prised when the president announced the
ballot favorable for the candidate, and 10
this day majority Of the members DO
not know how the result was secured
Washington NeTs.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03
W. ". b. GALLAHER, Editor.
Human Storage Battery.

Henry Demuth is strictly fin de
steele itinerant. Alcohol or the juices of
poppy have combined to overthrow the
intellects and queer the plays of other
wanderers, but static electricity has proven
Demuth's downfall, and has landed him
in the workhouse as a sort of half fway
station to the insane asylum.
Il don't see how it's my fault" he told
Judge Morris. Il didn't electric myself
nor 90 to fooling with trolley wires. But
l am so full of electricity that it just boils
out of me sometimes. Look here" and
he bent his rather sprangly whiskers to-
ward the metal gas lamps that adjoins the
court. They Strengthened out as if they
had been unexpectedly combed. That's
the way am" he continued, I'm just
full of fluid, and these ignorant officers
think I'm drunk. / was asleep in lum
Der yard, not saying nothing to nobody,
when that big, double fsted ignoramus
dragged me to the patrolb box and sent me
to the calaboose. I've been this way for
nearly two years, your honor.
81 was struck by lightning down in
Possey county, Indiana, in the winter of
1892, and ever since then it has been
seeping out Of me through the pores
Why | can make campus fairly spin
around with my finger. The doctors in
indianapolis tested me and gave a cerIif-
cate, which was stolen from me by man
who is now acting as the human storage
battery in a museum in Chicago. He
shocks people by a wire connection, but
until | weakened could do it just with
my hands. You ses the trouble with me
is the current is failing. 1t is pretty
nearly all spilled out of me, only when
the weather gets muggy and foul | seem
to fill up again, and then I'm apt to make
noise, you know. 1t amt really me
that raises -, it's the fluid, you know.
Eyes, know" said the court, "it's the
fluid that raises most of the Cain that
comes in this court room. | shall send
YOU to the workhouse, Demuth. st
Louis Globe Republic
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03
Jumping Pills.

A Germantown bachelor of conviyal
habits, missing his last train, spent the
night with friend in town and met with
a narrowing experience. When they
awoke in the morning, the Germantown
man, to use his own expression, felt like
a fur salesman who had swallowed lis
samples. He was still triAe under the
influence of the rosysand his nerve es were
not in the best possible condition. On
the dressing case was an open pill box
containing two pellets. He was about TO
ask bis friend what kind Of pills they
we're when one Of them gave a little
squlrm aud turned completely over. The
Germantown man rubbed bis eyes and
stared il amazement. Then the other
pill slowly began rolling about ihe box,
and his eyes threatened to bulge out OF
their sockets. The two pills next began
hopping up and down, as though trying
to escape from the box. Thoroughly
frightened, the Germantowner gave q
yell, aud jumping into bed pulled The
clothes over his head
Take 'em away? z" he groaned.
Take what away ?" asked his very
much surprised friend.
Those pills in that box. Have | go
'em, or are they really jumping abOut?'
"Pillsl' was the laughing reply
They're not pills. They're couple o
those jumping beans bought yesterday
and put in the pill box to keep."-Phita
delphia Record.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03
Brother and Sister.
writing.

CINcINNATI, March 22.-Charles L.
Young, of Denver, Col, stepped of Big
Four train yesterday and looked anxiously
about among the crowd in the station. A
red silk bow ornamented the lapel Of bis
coat. Soon he espied young girl also
wearing red bow. The two greeted each
other and soon engaged in conversation
Suddenly the girl exclaimed "Why, you
are my brother" They had met to be mar
ried. she having answered matrimonial
advertisement and had discovered that they
were sister and brother.
81 came to be married to an unknown cor
respondent" he said to q reporter. I'VE
have been writing to each other for over a
year, it started by the young lady answering
an advertisement in n Cincinnati paper
We arranged to NEE, at the depot and did
10, and in giving each other an account Of
ourselves we found that we were brother and
sister, although living under different
names.
ave were left orphans 10 Des Moines,
Iowa, fifteen years ago. | went West and
have been engaged about the mines there
ever since My sister was adopted by a
family named Adams, and about ten years
ago came East. could never learn where
or with whom she had obtained a home
About TWO years ago my sister left the
Adams family and came to Cincinnati.
81 told her that my former home was in
Des Moines, that my father and mother died,
that went West leaving sister in charge
Of family there named Adams, when she a
once recognized me as her brother, and sho
will 90 back TO Colorado with me-"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03
POETR Y.
ABALLAD OF LOST GIRLS.

There are Gladys and Mae and Lenore
And Kathryn (Kathlyn of late,
But what ulder heavens blue floor
Has become of the names out OF date ?
There may be 4 Matte or Mate
But these one regards with disdain-
What has become of brave Kate
And where in the wide world is Jane?
AT the tea parties Melitas pour
And finger the teapot and plate.
You meet Milisands by he score;
With Mariss you go out to skate;
In vain do you linger and wait
For a girl with name short and plain.
Where is Lily or Rose the sedate-
And where in the wide =orld is JaneT
Yseult Smith o, let me impiore,
viii Guineyere Boggs be my fate?
Or That's, Masie or Honore-
Some unpronounceable wife for mate
There are Elyze, Fanchon and Nonnette
And Zoe and Fantine and Elayne-
Have Cora and Nell quit the State?
And where in the wide world is Jane?
Princess In this tete-a-tete
You'll likely refuse to explain
But where the (pardon me- dickens is Kate
And where in the wide world is Jane?
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03
Women Who Make Jokes.

The demand Of humor is always great
er than the supply. The number Of hu-
morous contributors TO the press is COM
paratiyely small. All told there are
probably not more than hundred. OF
these small fraction consists of women.
Among these professional jokers is Made
line Bridges, who is one of the cleverest
contributors TO the funny weeklies. She
has had ten years experience and is re.
garded as star paragrapher. Mrs.
Philip Welch, widow of the famous wit,
is also an efficient producer Of humorous
verse and prose. Mrs. Kate Masterson is
one of the newer lights, having come into
literary prominence within the last FIVE
years. She promises 10 be one Of the
very best in the calling. Miss Jessie
Wood adds to humorous talent the happy
knack of drawing grotesque and comical
designs, which makes her work all the
more attractive to both the public and
the publisher. Another woman writer
gifted with large fund of happy satire
is Miss Ida Mullet, some of whose sketches
have run the rounds Of the American and
Canadian press. Miss Viola Roseboro at
one time displayed both ingenuity and
wit in short pieces, but of late years has
coufned herself to serious and studious
,cr;tin0
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03
Victoria aud Her Ladies.

The queens thoughtfulness for others
is quite wonderful. From the mistress of
the robes down to footman each is con-
sidered individually and their pleasures
thought of. Abroad the queen always
arranges that the servants shall see the
principal sights-galleries, etc. Years
ago in foreign city almost every one
had left the chateau except her majesty
and the lady in waiting. The latter
heard tap at her door, and on saying
"Come in TO her astonishment the
queen came in, bringing her souvenir of
their time together-a beautiful bracelet,
with medalions Of various places they
had visited, behind portraits of various
members of the royal fami Y. surrounded,
if | remember right, with jewels and an
inscription 10 the -. From her
affectiouale but sorrowing friend, the
queen of England. London Lady.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03
SASH FACTORY & PLANNING MILL

Nv stock Of glass and queenSware complete
and low-priced, al c. d. EBYS 5, Hooh buildg
Pride Of Virginia. Pride Union, Pax and
other leading brands of smoking tobacco in
stock at C.. ID. EBYS HOoh building.
Worcester Sauce, Catsup, Horse Radish,
Queen Olives Olive Oil. POtted Ham and
Tongue, Sardines Lobster and Salmon at c. ID.
EBY'S, also Stoneware all sizes from pint TO
eight-gallOn in size.
New Prunes, Evaporated Apples and Apri-
cots, and Macaroni, Cheese and Colonial Flour
at c, D. EBY'S, Hooff building.
Full line Laundry and ToiletSOap, cheap, G.
A. and Fine Salt by the sack, cheap, at c. d..
EBY s, HoOf building.
Pure Mountain Buckwheat Flour, Francis
"A. Lergett & Co.'S Mocha and Java Coffee $50.
a pound. at c. u. EBY'S, Hoof building.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03
The jefferson Co. Mutual
Fire Insurance Company.
ESTABLISHED 1878.
K. A. ALEXANDER, Secretary.
OAfce. Gibson Building, Courthouse yard,
CharlestOwn.

OFFERS TO the people of Jefferson County,
~ Insurance in a safe Company at the actual
cost of insurance, which is much cheaper than
the rates usually charged, and keeps the money
at home Good risks from responsible parties
are invited.
Executive Committee meets every Friday.
DrREcroRs-Jos. Trapnell, Henry B. Daven-
port. ]. Garland Hurst. John w. Rider, w. H.
T. Lewis r. Preston Chew, Vim. l.. Wilson,
Eugene Baker S. W. Washington, H. l.. Snyder
Charles 2. Wilson, John II. little Jacob ,.
Melvin, E. G. w. Herr, isaac II. Strider.
JOS. .TRAPNELI.............. President.
II. B. DAVENP0RT,...... 100000. Treasurer.
Executive CONNITTEE-J. G. Hurst, VIM.
h. T. Lewis, Eugene Baker, Isaac II. Strider,
Jos. Trapnell S. w. Washington.
Local AGENTS rs-Middleway-J. G. Shirley;
Harpers Ferry-Chas Z. Trail; Shepherds
town.. S. Fleming; Charlestown-Washing-
ton & Alexander.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03
Al Free.

Those who have used DIR. Kings New
Discovery know its value, and those who
have not, have now the opportunity TO try II
Free. Call on the advertised Druggist and
get Trial Bottle, Free Send your name
and address to II. T.. Bucken IL CO., Chi
cago, and get a sample box Of DR.. Kings
New Life Pills Free, as well as a copy Of
Guide to Health and Household Instructor,
Free. All Of which is guaranteed TO do you
good and cost you nothing, at Brown x
Hcof s Drug store.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03
RncL.Ien.s arnicn SnLre.

The best .alve in The world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chappsd Lads, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Ernptions and positive
ly cures Piles, OF no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price % cents per box
For sale by Brown & Hoof.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03

Oh woman fair that you are heir
To many woe, alas, we know
And through the world you often so
With weary step and sad and slow,
When of your ills you rid might be,
BY using that safe remedy:
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DR.. Piercs's Favorite Prescription has
rescued many periled life. 1t is especially
prepared for women. 1t is the only remedy
of its class, sold by medicine dealers, under
positire guarantee to cure or money return
ed This guarantee has been faithfully
carrrid out by the manufacturers for many
years Cures Female Weakness" displace.
ments of pelvic organs, irregularities and
painful periods.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03
See The Worrd's Fair for rrteen Cents

See The Vorid's Fair for Fifteen Cents.
Upon receipt of your address and fifteen
cents in postage stamps we will mail you
prepaid our SOUVENIR OF THE WORLDS
CoLUMBIAN EXPOSITION; the regular price
is Fifty cents, but as we want you to have
one. we make the price nominal. You will
find it work of art and thing to be
priced. 1t contains full page views of the
great buildings, with descriptions of same,
and is executed in highest style of art. II
not satisfied with it, after you get it, we
will refund the stamps and let you keep
the book. Address
H. Z. BtcKLEN & Co, Chicago, Ill.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03

Representing the following Companies;
The old and reliable
ETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
of Hartford, Conn,
Giving the best results to policy holders, and
which has a larger amount OF policies In
Jefferson County than all other Life
Insurance Companies together.
LIVERPOOL & London Il Globe of England,
Manchester Fire Assurance Co, of Eng
land and Scottish Union and National,
of Scotland, the largest foreign
Cos doing business in America.
ETNA, OF HARTFORD,
The largest and most popular Fire Insurance
Company in America
Peabody, of Wheeling, w. Va.
jefferson, of Wheeling.
German Fire, of Wheeling.
Fire and Marine, of Wheeling.
Phoenix, of Hartford.
Virginia Fire and Marine, of Richmond, Va
Georgia Home, of Columbus, Ga.
Fire Association, of Philadelphia, Pa.
Continental of New York.
JEFFERSON COUNTY MUTUAL FIRE IN
SURANCE COMPANY.
All losses promptly adjusted and paid at our
office.
Agents:
Us. FLEMING, Shepherdstown, W. Va.
CHAS. j.. TRAIL, Harper's Ferry, W. Va
A sworn statement Of the conditions of all
Foreign Insurance Companies represented II
this Agency will be found at the Clerk Ofhce
in compliance with the State laws.
We solicit a continuance Of your patronage
Respectfully,
WASHINGTON & ALEXANDER.
February l3, 1895.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-04-03
Music Lessons.

Madam aud Miss Bertha Ruhl commenced
-leir class I'm Vocal and instrumental Music
sept 10Th. lo9i. at their residence on the cor
-ef OF samuel and Liberty streets, and any
1.e wishing Vocal or instrumental Lessons
- ~iu save time and money by taking from them.
tAey Till teach Vocal in class and special, and
5c-'.raments as follows: Piano, Organ, Violin,
'litar and Banjo. Also Sight Reading. The
and Harmony. Terms moderate.
sept. H. is9i.