San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-24
MEPHISTO'S MUSINGS.

Sell concert Is a mans WORST
fault.
Alamo Heights is a romantic
spot for love makers.
Franks gossip in the Express
has mummified tinge.
The "Little Doctor" is "ssying
nothing and saving wood"
Col. Jim Newcomb would make
San Antonio a good mayor.
The wisest looking person does
not always know the most.
When the child or wife beaten is
around, lookout for your chicken
coop.
1t isn't the fellow with the
longest face that is the most Sc
rious.
Some OF the street car conductors
should be a little more polite to
ladies.
Charity fakes are as numerous in
San Antonio as razors at negro
crap game.
Don't monkey" with a coward /;
IL you get him started he's "bad
medicine
Summer has burst full upon us, so
has the picnic, red bug and charity
ice cream supper.
The ice cream suppers "for the
benefit Of such and such a church"
are becoming monotonous.
The chairman of the Bexar
county democratic mugwumps, is
sporting in dude straw hat.
Watch out for your nasal organ
while in the vicinity of the court
house. It's dangerous ground.
Any person who would steal
shrubbery and flowers off grave
Is too mean for resident OF sheol.
The tramp "keg snipe" and the
10 year-old kid with a cigarette in
his mouth are equally digusting.
1t will soon be time for the
campaign speaker to begin pre-
pairing statistics against the other
side"
Girls who fiirt on the street cor
ners and from the windows of bust
ness houses are not taken for
angels.
San Antonio continues to have
her Sunday baseball games regard
less of the recent Epworth League
resolution.
The patrons OF Mr.. Micklejohn's
Riverside park pleasure resort can
truthfully be accused of "having
skates on"
Bootblacks who stand on the
corner and jeer at man because
he refused to have his shoes shined
should be "run in"
If the walls of the old Washing
ton theatre, which is being torn
down, could speak, what scenes of
revelry they could tell Of!
Find the man who subscribes for
a newspaper and doesn't pay, and
you will find the man who drops
a button in the church contribu-
tion box.
If the property owners OF South
Heights do not get the protection
from fire, petitioned for, pretty
soon, there won't be anything left
to protect.
A big headed individual is more
to be pitied than thief, for there
is some chance for reformation for
the latter while the former is
"lOst case"
It is said one of the Express
Merganthalers refused to work one
day last week when an unusual
lot of Aunt Ruth slush was being
ground ont on it.
If the names of some of the
"goody goody" boys who spend
considerable time "across the
creek" were divulged, wouldn't
there be some fun?
The little would.be reformer who
tries to run crusade on the
saloon business may be likened
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locomotive off the track.
The goody goody, lantern jawed
individual who is always kicking
at the saloons is the one who
sneaks in at the back door with a
can for a nickle's worth Of beer.
San Antonio, the metropolitan
city of Texas, did less toward the
aid of the Sherman cyclone suffer-
ers than any large city in the state.
Our pious folks lost fine opportu-
nifty for crushing" an ice cream
festival.
From the nature Of things at
present, it seems highly probable
that the generation who voted the
bonds for the construction of the
San Antonio system OF sewers,
will be cold in earth before their
efforts become a realization.
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FOR SALE.
We offer this week three good