San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-27
SHORT SNAPPERS.

Katy, Come"
The Corbett and Fitzsimmons
mills are only jawbone crushers.
The taxpayer is pining for more
business and less politics.
Read the LIGHT and keep up
with the latest news.
The fake advertiser is now work
ing the town.
Disguised democrats are becom-
ing more numerous daily.
A deceptive advertiser cannot
fool the customer all the time.
If you want to reach the buyer
advertise in the Daily LIGHT.
Who proposed the $4,000 bond
scheme Don't all answer at once.
Fifty thousand dollars in bonds
wouldn't fill up the mud holes in a
half dozen streets.
The officials will now take turn
at the regular fall skinning of the
sports.
Let's finish the sewers before
voting any more bonds for street
work.
The world must be growing bet.
ter, since even Hot Springs is con,
sidered too good for a prize fight.
Several of our local office holders
have engaged passage on steamer
Salt River.
1t is said ex-President Harrison
is now thinking through his grand
fathers hat.
Charley Culberson struck Dallas
foul blow in his tussle with the
prize fighters.
The little afternoon paper keeps
the morning monopoly from going
to sleep.
DON'T condemn advertising be-
cause you permit yourself to be
humbugged.
One conviction is worth a dozen
indictments in preserving law and
order.
Cutting rates on any article be-
low the point of legitimate profit
is not beneficial in the long run.
The police at the Opera house
should insist on better order in the
gallery.
When the sinecure place holders
talk about each other the people
begin to find "leedle bit oud."
The chicken show should be held
in the heart of the city. Central
garden would be a good location.
Charlie has gone over to the
"black and tans." Charlie thinks
he smells pie.
The city council has invented a
receipt. 1t is supposed to be thief
catcher.
1t is good thing that there is
an honest man at each end of the
city red tape tax receipt.
1t is a poor thing to divide the
responsibility of the city collector
with another officer.
Since the combine the price of
electric lights in this city are
gradually being raised to the top
notch again.
The $4,000 bond scheme is dead
but Alderman Robards put off the
funeral until next meeting of the
council.
Not an alderman at the last
meeting said a word about pay
day. Maybe they have forgotten
1.-THE subject is getting stale.
Last Sundays Express showed
signs of Improvement. Aunt Ruth
actually crowded out several col
umns of boiler plate.
1t would require more than a
column daily to publish all the
complaints about the electric lights
in this city.
Municipal ownership of water
works, electric light plants, and
even street car lines, is destined to
become universal.
Another ten per cent payment
by the busted Maverick bank is
long since due. Is it not time this
concern was closed out ?
Bexar county politicians are now
calculating how to fill the "barl"
they expect to have on tap at the
next election.
Our farmers would find it profit
able to howl more about hogs and
hOminy, and home manufactures,
and less on free silver.
Insurance rates in San Antonio
are too high, considering that we
claim to have the best fire depart
ment in Texas.
It's smart butcher who can kill
a half beef day and sell two whole
ones. Yet there are said TO be some
of them in San Antonio.
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