San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-08-07

if he had not finished. And the latter,
receding a few steps to examine his
work, replied:
Another dab or two, and can put
1t in the frame."-Il Messaggero.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
One of the athletic clubs of New
York city offers silver medal to
any member that rides 1000 miles
on a bicycle. The offer was made be-
fore the wheel became fashionable
rage, and as many men ride 200 miles q
week, the club is likely to find the full
fillment of the offer rather taxing.
Berlin is to have sport Exhibi-
ton" in preparation for which, and
to save the German language from for
eign faint, committee offers prizes Of
S125, $50 and S25 for German equiva-
Tents for all foreign sporting terms
The prospect of new jaw-breaking
compou nds suggested by this idea is
appalling.
-Japan's small losses in men in the
battles with the Chinese were due in
part to the accidental use of bullet
proof material. Owing to the severe
cold, the Japanese soldiers wore a
quantity of floss silk under their
clothes; this, when they were hit, was
found in many cases to have stopped
the bullets.
The following were answers re-
ceived by teacher in an uptown
school from her pupils during a recent
examination: 1.-THE cotton gin was in
vented by Robert Morse shortly before
the war broke out" THE Boston tea
party was a famous dinner given by
one of the colonists to the Indians
Many celebrated people were there. f"
'The gold fever is fatal disease which
those who dig gold sometimes get."-
Philadelphia Call
There will soon be great reduc-
ton in the number of lawyers in
France. BY a recent law each one must
take out yearly license, for which he
pays an amount equal to about twelve
per cent. of his house rent. Many per-
sons admitted to the bar who are not
in active practice have asked to have
IhClI hdi1Co 1EOul bllc TOll, dluOuR
them NJ. Fallieres, formerly prime min
lister and minister of jnstice, and Sem
ator Berenger, author of the law re-
uniting the penalty for first offepses,
and also noted for his efforts to improve
French morality.
1T is no easy task to sound the
whistle on fast express train" said
an engineer, recently. Take a run of,
say, 140 miles through a thiclly-settled
country and figure it out. The train
runs IS miles per hour, and there are
about five crossings per mile. Five
times 14o is 700; now multiply 700 by 4,
the number of blasts given at each
crossing, that's 1850; add the station
signals, the call to engineers of side
tracked trains, etc, and about 1900
blasts are necessary. Who says that
the whistle-puller has an easy time?"
Conductor Pershing, of the Pan
handle, who has just returned from the
west, had novel experience in a Kan.
sas sandstone, the train on which he
was passenger having been stuck in a
sandstone for nearly four hours. The
sand defied the efforts of hundreds OF
men who had undertaken the task OF
digging it out, and there was no alter,
native but to calmly await a change in
the direction of the wind. Mr. Per
shing had seen trains stalled for the
want of sand, but never before had
he observed a locomotive hopelessly
blocked by sandstone.
Female nudity in art comes frou
prehistoric Greece, and not, as is com
monty believed, from Babylonia, say,
NJ. Solomon Reinach, of the French
Academy of Inscriptions. Istar (As
tarte) as a warrior goddess is fully
clothed and in armor; it is only in hel
humiliation, when she goes down int
hell, that she disrobes. On the Other
hand, statuettes of nude females hav,
been in the Archipelago, at Troy anC
in Thrace that go back to 1900 B.
He infers that nude divinities penetrat
ed from prehistoric Greece to Babylo
MIA, that the type was preserved b,
1 phonnihia and thence nassau baclr Z,