San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-05
SHORT SNAPPERS.


The market masters have a
cinch on the choice steaks.
Commerce street sewer is almost
as foul as San Pedro creek.
Bets are offered that General 90
Hindry will not appear in person.
Our leading merchants who ad-
vertise do not complain OF dull
times.
Read the Daily LIGHT and keep
about II to "a hours ahead on the
news.
The Hayseeds and Popping-Jay
law thinkers have pulled out from
| Austin.
If you want business, advertise
in the Sunday LIGHT. Read it for
late news.
Better cut down, and cut of a
number of sinecures, than to re-
duco the wages.
Our retail drygoods stores dis
play monopoly Of the enter
prise OF the town.
The grand jury might find out
something il they will send for the
warrant books.
1t is the policy Of some people
to always try and stand in with
the crowd in office.
George Walker is booming the
Charity circus. Send him in all
your advertising matter
All public ~ ork where the amount
is over $25 should be let out to the
lowest responsible bidder.
Editor Bushick will please pre-
pare cushion seats in his menagerie
cage for the newspaper men.
The price OF real estate is down
low enough now, where every poor
man can buy a building lot.
There are no vacant residences
for rent at West End. Several
newspaper men live out there.
San Antonio Base Ball club
should be reorganized by adding a
few of our first-class amateurs.
City, county and state taxes will
climb higher this year. Too much
Observation-Disclosures.
Plenty OF money and monopoly
push many inferior men to the
front, where brains and energy fail.
II all the city departments were
run as cheaply as the advertising,
our taxes could be cut half in two.
The Jockey club are a little late
in getting out their Illuminated
posters, and other advertising mat
ter.
Lets hurry up the sewers, and
then spend about $250,000 on the
streets, and the old town will boom
again.
When the Fair committee throw
up the sponge, DR.. Lindner is the
man to get US up a midsummer
volksfest.
If your newspaper is not what
you think it ought to be, you can
make it better by doubling your
patronage.
The Sunday LIGHT is crawling
slowly; if you want to see it jump
and run feed it little more ad.
vertising.
"Crip" says: "That reporter
gave me a terrible roasting. If
l was a big man 1 would walk
his collar"
The official who kicks the loud
est about his salary being cut is
usually the one who performs the
least work.
The hungry official should give
the poor outcasts a little rest, in
order that they might also pay
their board.
Nearly five-hundred thousand
dollars sewer money in the bank
lying idle. Lets turn it loose
among the people.
There are a few sinecure officials
in the city who seem to think the
newspaper must be continually
throwing taffy at them.
Manager Walker OF the Grand
should start north earlier this year
in order to secure some Of the good
companies for next season.
The Charity circus to be sue
cess, must pitch the tent Near the
center OF the city, or where ample
street car facilities can be had,
Lets not give a Jim crow fair,
but go to work, and for about one
fourth OF the money get up a
grand peoples feast for six days.
1t is a very short sighted policy
for a business man to refuse TO
patronize a newspaper because he
cannot control its political col
umns.
The opportunities of place hun
tiers and charity applicants, is
enough to make the head of the
mayor burst the waist band of his
new straw hat.
Store room rents are still higher
than the business justifies, al
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