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THEIR FAvORlTt BOOKS.

Cowper read only his Bible and his
prayer book.
Hallam said that Livy was the
model historian.
Chopi~ rarely read anything hel
vier IT, a French novel.
Auber mated reading, and never
read save under compulsion.
Caesar Borgia had library OF
works relating mostly to art.
Titan read his prayer book and the
Metamorpnoses OF Ovid
Voltaire's favorte classical author
was Juvenal, the satirist.
Rossini for nearly thirty years read
nothing but French novels.
Jean Paul Richter had only five or
six books. ali philosoph- sal.
Lord Give said th1t Robinson
Crusoe" beat any book ne ever read.
Franklin read all he could find re-
lating to political economy and fla
ance.
Michael Angelo was foEdest of tie
books of Moses and the Psalms CT
David.
Hogarth was fond of joke bo"'<s. and
farces and enjoyed them inll-JIerdte-
ly.
Cherubini was a lover of boz l-y.
and made collections of works Oh tie
subject.
Mario, the great tenor. read any
thing he could obtain relating to spor.s
or hunting.
George III for many years of his
life read nothing but his Bible anu,
prayer book.
Papa" Hadyn liked stories, and he
said: THE more love there is in
them the better"
Swift made a special study of the
Latin satisists and initiated their style
and language.
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PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Mrs. Oliphant, with a record Of
never touches pen in the daytime.
She thinks the stiffness of the hight
is necessary for good writing.
Mr.. Depew has noticed a marked
change of sentiment on the silver
question in the West since his visit
of five weeks ago, and he thinks that
the growing posperity is working the
change.
Frederick Yates, the com dian,
father of Edmund Yates, introduced
the phrase, First catch your hare p"
Among other characters he represent
on the stage was that of Mrs. Glasse
In this he appeared as frumpish old
lady, ostensibly reading out of we'll
thumbed cookery-book the following
words, written expressly for him by
Tom Hood: "Ahem! Hare First
catch your hare. Then do him till
hes donev
The pathetic death of young DR..
John w. Byron, the celebrated bac-
teriolcgist, from consumption, which
originated during his experiments with
ttibercle bacilli, recalls again the
strange fatality- which overtakes so
many medical specialists. The list is
a long one of all those who have sue
cumbed as victims to their special dis.
eases. DR.. Byron has died a martyr
to science, but he lived hero of medi-
cine. He was known as the hero of
Swinburne Island, on which he spent
infected immigrants. During his
brief but Morld-famous career he
braved death many times over in its
most hideous shapes He defied the
yellow fever plaques of Peru, the NAL
arial fever epidemics of Cuba. and the
cholera plaques of both the Old and
the New World. He leaves. too. as q
valuable legacy much new informat:ca I
concerning the dread diseases of small
poX and leprosy.
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MOTHERS OF GREAT MEN.

Schumann's mother was gifted in
music.
Chopin's mother was as delicate a.
himself.
Gounod's mother was fond of paint
ing and music.
John Quincy Adams said: "All that
l am my mother made me-
Spohrs mother was an excellent
judge of music, but no musician.
NIilton's letters cften allude to his
mother in the most affectionate terms.
Raleigh said that he owed all his
politeness of department to his mother.
Wordsworth's mother had char
acter as peculiar as that of her gilt
ed son.
Goethe pays several tributes in his
writings to the character OF his
mother.
Mohammed revered his mother and
inculcated similar reverence in his
teachings.
st. Augustine, in his books, speaks
of the debt of gratitude ne owed to
his mother.
Haydn dedicated one of his most
important instrumental compositions
to his mother.
Sydney Smiths mother was a clever
conversationalist and very quick at
repartee.
Won Ranke's mother was literary
and the author of several essays and
other works.
The character of Washington's
mother is too we'll known to need
more than an allusion.
One of the few redeeming traits in
the character of Henry VIII. was his
respect fror his mother.
Gibbons mother was passionately
fond of reading, and encouraged her
son to follow her example. -
Coleridge reverenced his mother
He once said: "a mother is mother
still, the holiest thing alive
The mother of Lord CORVALLIS did
not, at first, favor the idea of a mill
tary career for her son.
MoZart'S mother was a delicate
spirituelle creature, who, it was said,
seemed more soul than body.
1t is said that the mother of Charles
Darwin had a decided taste for all
branches Of natural history.
Weber, the musical composer, had
a musical mother. who found pleasure
in the gems of classical music.
Roebuck said that the sweetest part
Of his life was his early childhood
Heaven is at the feet of a mother" !"
The Washington bee., 1895-10-12
The Gull and the Eel.

We had a gull, tame gull, with clip
would give him any, failing fish, on raw
meat, failing raw meat, on worms and
insects. and falling these on anything.
including sparrows. It was the most
fascinating entertainment to give him
an eel for ne would toss the eel about
ton most suitab for swallowing, when
he would swallow it; but the eel. no. We:
defeated, would often wriggle up in his
gullet again, and this process would be
repeated many time. So. if swallowing
be delight, the pleasure which our gull
manifold. Eventually, the eel would
weary of the vain ascent of the gulls
gullet, and consent to remain in contact
with the Juices of digestion. Nature is a
queer mother of her children.
One never knows how much the state
of domesticity affects creatures that
ought to be wild. In the natural state,
perhaps. one swallowing would have
been enough for the gull, and for the eel
He was herring-gull, and it was not
until his fifth year that he arrived at the
full dignity of his white and pearly
plumage. Before that he was always
dressed in some of the dingy, dusky
feathers Of infancy. Yet in their wild
state these gulls are said to arrive at
the adult plumage before the fifth year.
-Macmillan's Magazine
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The Most Modern House.

A house at Chamounix. built on what
must assuredly be termed the most mod
crn principles Of construction, is claimed
to possess, as its most remarkable fea-
ture. constant temperature. in addition
to its strength, dura bility comfort and
beauty. The builder, NJ. Caron, first put
up frame Of steel water-tubng, allow
ing continuous circulation to a stream OF
water. and around this frame the hou:e
was put up, the popularity being tha:
all floors and ceilings are crossed ami
recrossed by the wafer pipes-the water,
after passing through the horizontal
tubes first, that is, under the floors and
ce.Engs-passes through the vertical
tubes until all have been similarly treat
ed. In summer, spring water, Trash as is
only the water of the snow-capped Alps,
circulates under pressure through the
network of tubes. cools off the walls, ana.
after having run its course, flows off con-
siderably warmer than when it entered.
But in its course Il has absorbed much
heat, which it carries away. During the
long and severe winter the water, enter
ing through the basement, is first heated
to nearly 100 degrees. and then forced
through the tubing. OF course, much Of
the heat is left all over the house, and a.
the outlet the temperature of the water
is about 40 degrees, and the speed of the
circulation Of water can be regulated 50
as TO allow the fixing of certain temper
ature for the house, which is equal
throughout. The house measures 5000
cubic yards. and weighs 120 tons.
The Washington bee., 1895-10-12
Whittier and Old Butler.

When John G. Whittier was a child his
father had pair of oxen named Buck
and Old Butler. They were treated al
most as family pets, and as they lay on
the hillside, chewing their cuds, the two
boys, Greenleaf and Matthew, used them
as armchairs, sitting upon their fore
heads and leaning against their horns.
Old Butler once saved the future poets
life in way that entities him to everlast-
ing remembrance. The story is told in
Mr.. Pickard's biography. The boy went
to the pasture with a bag of salt for the
cattle. Old Butler, from the hilltop. saw
him coming and hurried down to meet
him. 1t happened that the slope was
pretty steep. and the heavy OK acquired
such momentum that he found himself
unable to stop.
A moment more and the boy would
have been crushed. But the OK pulled
himself together. leaped straight out into
the air. cleared the boy head, and came
to the ground far below with tremendous
force, but happily without harm.-The
Youths Companion.
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Feelings Producing Chemical Products.

Accort7 : to Prof Elmer Gates, re-
Gently of he Smithsonian Institute. bad
and unpleasant feelings create harmful
chemical products in the body which are
physically injurious. Good, peasant.
benevolent and cheerful feelings crea .e
beneficial chemical products, which are
physically healthful. These products
may be detected by chemical analysis N
the perspiration and secretions Of the in
dividual. More than 40 of the good, and
as many Of the bad, have been detected.
Suppose half a dozen men in a room;
one feels depressed, another remorseful.
another ill-tempered, another jealous. an
other cheerful another benevolent; if
samples of their perspiration were placed
in the hands of the rsychophysicist. un
der his examination the samples reveal
all these emotional conditions distinctly
and unmiStakably.
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N%
UNDESERvING OF PITY
His Lack of Judgment in Time Of Emergen-
Was

His Lack Of Judgment In Time Of Emergen-
cy Was Discredisable.
There was a man from North Dakota
sitting near me on the veranda Of q
Cape May hotel when a mendicant with
wooden leg came along and took OF
ais ragged old straw hat and began:
Kind sir, ] am not to blame for ms
present situation. From where you SIT
you can see the iron pier"
yes. I see It," replied the guest.
About two hundred feet of the enr.
of the pier. four years ago this month,
4. shark seized me while I was bathtEs
and bit of my leg. He got hold Of bot.
Of them. but I managed to save one
as you see. For months languished IN
a hospital"
You mean you were a patient "a g
hospital?"
Yes. sir. 1 thought languishina was
the proper term, but you know best.
When I recovered 1 hadn't dollar to
my name and am now dependent upon
the charity Of the public. Sir, II you"
You say the shark seized you by
both legs?" queried the nj from Da-
kota.
Yes, sir, he did / was swimming
about when all at once I felt both my
legs seized as If in wise. gave utter
ance to a shrek of terror and"
THAT Is. you cried out?"
''Yes, sir. To utter is to cry, I sup
pose, but If the term utter Is distaste-
full to YOU we will not use it. The shark
had me by both legs, sir"
"Ah. he had you?"
He did. sir. BY a supreme effort
eXtricated nv left leg from the NAV o.
the voracious monster"
That Is, you yanked one leg free
from his hold?"
Ind he was a voracious monster, but if
you don't like the terms I won't use
EN-"
And you got your left leg free?"
II did, sir
'And left him to chaw up your right"
Yes. sir. 1 am sorry to have to ap-
peal to you, but under the"
Not blamed cent?" exclaimed the
Dakota man, as he brought his hand
down on his leg.
But, sir, 1 am an unfortunate man."
persisted the mendicant.
Cant help that. That shark had you
by both legs. 1t lay with you which leg
20 yank away. Any man who'll save
his left leg when he can save his right
is blamed idiot, and he needn't come
whining around me! I'm tender-heart-
ed and willing, but I'll save my dollars
for the man who saved his right leg.
10 on. sir-go right on with your left
leg and don't try to make me RESPONSE
BILE for your idiotic ders!"-Detroit
Free Press
The Washington bee., 1895-10-12
SWEET AND SAUCf.

A woman looks prettier getting
baby to sleep than she looks upon q
public ,atform. m.--Atchison Globe.
Promises made in the time of at
Fiction require better memory than
people commonly possess.-A. Daudet.
First Twin-This is r,y birthday
Aunt Jennie-And isn't it brother
Willie's. two? Nope. 1 licked him
and made him give his half up to
e.''-Cincinnati Tribune.
Without the consent of the world
scandal doth not go deep; it is only
a slight stroke upon the injured
party, and returneth with the greater
force upon those that gave it.-ssa-
vile.
'The eyes," Emerson says. speak all
languages. They wait for no intro
duction; they are no Englishmen: ask
no leave of age or rank; they resDac'
neither poverty nor riches, ne-tEe'
learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor
sex. but intrude and come again, and
20 through and through you in no
ment of time"
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Satisfied With His job.

I met man yesterday who has just
come back from one of those unpro-
nounceabIe towns up in the Pennsyl-
vania oil regions. He had been spend
ing I don't know how many months
among the Swedes up there, and he has
a great many things to tell of them. He
says that just before he left can't re-
member the towns name-there was
Methodist revival. A great many of the
Olsons and Petersens and Knudsons
were converted. To one of them Nels
Petersen, the leader of the meeting.
said:
"Nels, will you work for God?"
Nels shifted uneasily-a Swede, you
know, can't express anything at all
with his face except the national stol-
idity.
"Ae don't know" he said. hesitating
Iy. "Ae got guide yob at the factory.
Ae tank ae keep dat."-Washington
Post.
The Washington bee., 1895-10-12
Well Guarded.

The treasures of the Bank of France
are carefully guarded. At the close Of
business hours every day, when the
money is put into the vaults in the cellar,
masons II once wall up the doors with
hydraulic mortar. Water is then turned
on anu kept running until the cellar is
flooded A burglar would have to work
in diving suit and break down q cement
wall before he could even start to loot
the vaults When the officers arrive the
next morning the water is drawn off, the
masonry is torn down, and the vaults
opened.
The Washington bee., 1895-10-12
CHARACTERISTICS OF WOODS.

The most elastic is tamarack. the
black. or shellbark, standing net far
below.
The wood with the least elastic t.
and lowest pacific gravity is Fiscus
aurea.
The heaviest of the foreign woods
are the pomegranate and the Hgnun
vitae, and the lightest is cork.
The strongest wool which grows
within the limits of the United State
is known as nutmeg" hickory, wttei
flourishes on the Lower Arkansas riV-
The Washington bee., 1895-10-12
A Mean Trick.

'Tf you have any wood to chop,
ma am" said Tired Tatters to a rural
housewife in the gas region. I'D like to
chop 1t in return for a square meal"
VERY WELL" replied the woman. with
alacrity; you'll find some in the cellar
you can go to work on"
Fooled again!" calculated the poor
man. wringing his hands in agony. "A
Teller over yonder told me you used
natural gas for fuel"
He went away disconsolate.-Pitts-
ourg Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Washington bee., 1895-10-12
The Clever Corean Woman.

Out Of few simple ingredients (Which
her Western sister would scorn) and with
q few simple implements Chat that sister
would not understand), often almost
without implements and with little fire,
fire that must be coaxed and humored
and humored and coaxed, the poorest
Corean woman will prepare a meal which
no hungry European, prince or peasant.
need scorn to eat. It will be savory.
wholesome, clean to deintiness, and pleas
antly served.-F'rom Mrs. L. ]. Minis
Quaint Corea.
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always something wrong with the
spheres, one don't fit in
Daylight had now quite disappeared.
The moon rose, round and red, out Of the
sea, moving slowly up the horizon, leav-
ing shining track across the waters.
My little woman" thus he broke the
Silence that had fallen for moment be-
tween them. II believe there is sphere
where you will fit in; climate where
You will even grow and flourish: the cli-
mate of home. VIII you try 1t with me- -
The waves dashing a. their feet carried
her answer far out to sea.-Lizzie York
Case
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New Boarder-What do we get for
dinner tonight?
Old Boarder-This is the night we
Usually have chicken.
New Boarder-That's not half bad. Do
we often get chicken?
week.
New Boarder-Well, by jove! that's
pretty fine; but / don't see how Mrs.
Skimper can afford it.
Old Boarder-Oh. it's the same chick
en.-Brooklyn Life.
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WHY He Forgot,

Snipleigh-I say, Poorpeigh, how is it
you have not paid that bill Of mine?
Poorpeigh-My dear fellow, have
been so busy on that new book Of mine
that had forgotten all about 1t.
Snipleigh-What are you writing?
Poorpeigh-A treatise on memory.
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Literally.

Blobbs-How did you like the play last
night?
Slobbs-Out of sight.
Blobbs-Why, I heard you grumbling
all the time.
Slobbs-That's it. Your wife's hat
was right in front of me.-Philadelphia
Record.
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A Plagiarist.

Mudge-Another man called me a liar
last night.
Yabsley-What did you do?
well, as he was three sizes bigger
than i, asked him why he couldn't say
something original" - Indianapolis
Journal.
The Washington bee., 1895-10-12
A Heated Rivalry.

Lloyd his is the time when the edi
tors of the weekly papers are wrought
up to the highest pitch of excitement.
Flcyd-What's the trouble?
Lloyd-Each is trying to see who can
get out next years Christmas double
number first-New York World.
The Washington bee., 1895-10-12
Great Holders.

Notes-I am surprised that the Eng
lish of all people drop their H's.
Coats-Why so?
Notes-Because they like to grab
everything in sight and never let go.
The Washington bee., 1895-10-12
Dangerous.

Percy-Why don't you inhale your
cigarette smokef
Reggie-They say II takes the bleach
out Of your hair. .sts.a4 -. 81. -.
The Washington bee., 1895-10-12

Milton was quiet and reserved in con-
versation. but thoroughly refined and
well.brsd.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-23
A NEW DISCOVERY

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case OF young and loving wife Of 20
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If my directions are properly followed
a mothers laborings will all be over with
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l am the compounder and discoverer,
and have a sure remedy TO make teething
of children easy thereby avoiding cutting
of the gums, contracting of fever and an
untimely death.
What do you think OF remedy which
will put vigor enough in a child TO walk
at seven to eight months of Gge. Il have
it,"
Mr. and Mrs. M. II. Kilgore acknowl-
edge my confinement drops to be genuine
and recommend them.
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304 Villta street.
The following testimonial is self ex-
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-23
NOW is THE TIME

TO secure big bargains by attend
ing the Great Salvage Fire Sale of
fine Furniture, Carpets. Rugs,
Linoleums, Curtains, Shades, Ora
peries and other useful household
goods. A great many articles are
not damaged particle, but every
piece is marked in plain figures
and will be sold from twenty to
fifty per cent less than the real
value. Don't miss this great sacri-
flee sale, as you may never have
another opportunity to secure
household goods so cheap.
In order that we may have more
room to show the stock, and to
better wait upon our patrons, we
have opened branch store at 4O4
Military plaza, (south side), where
those articles most damaged will
be sold.
n. B.-The store at 203 Alamo
plaza will be opened in the fore
noon, up to II o'clock. The store
on Military plaza will be open in
the afternoon from one until seven
o'clock.
If you will but pay our stores a
visit, the prices of goods will catch
your custom.
l.. P. PECK & Co.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-23
WATERFALL BURGLARY.
A Badly Frightened Apprentice Boy
Gave the Alarm.


Gave the Alarm.
An attempt to rob the leather
finding store of Fred. w. Stone, on
North Flores street, adjoining the
county treasurer's office, early Sun
day morning gave rise to rumor
yesterday that an attempt had
been made to rob the county treas
urer. This was easily proven I'M
founded, as the testimony of the
boy who sleeps in Mr.. Stones place
was very explicit. He was sleep
ing in the store without a light and
three young dogs also sleeping in
the store awoke him by their
growing. He saw tall, slim man,
whom he thinks is a Mexican, en-
gagged in ransacking the stock OF
leather, pulling down the calf-skins
of the shelves and turning over
the leather stock and tool stock
very thoroughly and even going
into the office, trying the safe lock
and going through the desk draw
ers, in his search for valuables. The
window in the rear had been left
open and the boy could plainly see
the man by the light from the
street, through the glass front. He
had no weapon except a revolver
with one cartridge In it, and was
pretty badly frightened. Finally
he bolted out the windaw in his
night clothes and ran down to the
Silver King saloon and from there
to the police station and called for
help. The night police clerk blew
q whistle to call the plaza officer
and a search was made for the
burglar, but of course he had quick
ly followed the boy out the window
and escaped. He secured nothing,
but it gave Mr.. Stone considerable
trouble in rearranging his dishev-
eled stock.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-23

Monterey, in Mexico, is the most
American city in Mexico, and
by that same token about the live.
lest. tits taking,rank as the first
city in Mexico in the importance
of its manufacturing plants and is
being accepted as the great mining
center of the northern half of the
state. The grating of American
ideas and methods Of business up
on the old parent stem in that re-
public is doing good. That country
Is taking in United States along
its northern border, digesting II
and transmitting 1t clear down to
the southern border. In time that
influence Of northern civilization
and industry will cross the south,
ern border and permeate the Cen
trail American states lying beyond
Mexico Is destined to teach the
whole Latin republics the wisdom
of stable and consolidated govern
ment.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-23
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER %, '95

1t is stated by the faraway-
Moses tribe Of observers, that
Roosevelt is bringing yythe Tam
manyites back again into,lpower
more certainlyIthan any movement
within the party possibly could.
These critics are too far away from
the scene of operations to be good
judges. Certain it is that the
change for the . better in New
York is very observable and that
the best citizens there commend
the results, evenIwhile disapprov-
ing of the particular methods en-
ployed. 1t will be found in the
end that the results will be accept
ed, and that Tammany will snot
rebuild upon the foundations that
the present efficient police COM
missioner is laying. Good govern
ment in New York will Offset the
discomfort of the petty restrictions
that have been found necessary.
The pendulum had an immense
swing in the direction Of lawless-
ness, and it is to be expected at the
first that it will move a CORES
ponding length in the opposite
direction. In time the equilibrium
OF motion will be gained.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-23
A CURE FOR PILES.

Itching Piles are known by moisture
like Precipitation, causing intense itching
when warm. This form as well as Blind,
Bleeding or Protruding, yield at once to
DR.. Bosanko's Pile Remedy, which acts
directly on parts effected, absorbs tumors,
allays itching and effects a permanent
cure. so cts. Druggists or mail. Circu-
lars free. DR.. Bosanko, Philadelphia, Pa.
Sold by e Reuss, City Drugstore, No. LOG
Commerce st. d&w 1y