San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-24
THE SUNDAY LIGHT
SUNDAY, MAY "A, 1896
SHORT SNAPPERS.
Well, we'll, well Another police
man has opened a saloon.


man has opened saloon.
Truth may be crushed for time,
but will finally "get there"
The mechanical editor makes the
average reader feel very tired.
The average Sunday paper is in
demand by the old Junk dealers.
Professional heslers generally
take good care to "heel" them
selves.
The statute of Limitation has run
against the wreckers of the "busted
Maverick bank"
An old San Antonio topper says /:
sour city beer is laden with COOL
ing consolation"
ga good cigar is one that it is a
pleasure to receive; a bad one, a
pleasure to give away"
Some editors endeavOr to be so
extremely conservative" as to
appear positively silly.
Can one in hundred of the Big
Chiefs Indians tell who is presi-
dent of the United States?
With the Indian aliens knocked
out the A. p. A. will not leave a
grease spot of the Big Chief.
The poor duped depositors would
be pleased to hear from the trustee
of the "busted Maverick bank"
Franks Gossip is running COM
petitive race with the Fad. He
will have to call on Aunt Ruth to
help out.
The less a man knows about the
money question the more anxious
you will find him ready to discuss
free silver.
The evil-doer has no fear of the
law, if he can only stand in with
the officer whose duty it is to
enforce it.
The "faith cure" may do for
diseased mind, but a little ginger
and brandy will beat it in case
OF summer collie.
Pauper immigra ton ii ON across
the Rio Grande is no more desir.
able than pauper i'm migrants
landing in New York.
The LIGHTS Mergenthalers may
tackle little German occasionally,
but we will be very careful in feed
ing them anything like Aunt
Ruth.
1t is better to be born lucky
then "purty." If John O'Connor
gets into the senatorial race this
fall the 'purty" fellows had better
look out.
Our proof-reader is a little
"rusty" in Latin. The church
brethren will please copy their
Latin quotations correctly for their
Sunday notices.
In the eyes of the law the coon
crap shooter is the equal Of the
heightened poker player, and they
should both be treated with the
same consideration.
"Upon the Paris stage, they say,
Burlesque is thought just right;
At least, in nearly every play
There's 'take.of every night"
Town Topics.
Whenever you hear any particu-
lar young woman run down any
particular man on all occasions
there's case of sour grapes. She
wanted him but couldn't land him.
The colored folks of Kansas City
have organized a new secret So
ciety, called "The Independent
Order of the Sons and Daughters
of Jerusalem"
During the waterworks election
one Of the challengers asked an
Indian who he was voting for,
when he readily replied: "Josey
Casiany." Another one answered:
'Thady Smithey,"
II some OF the democratic Doodle
spent in the last campaign had
been used in buying up Maverick
bank certificates OF deposit, there
would have been something to
show for the money after it was
all oyer.
1t is understood that Perry
Lewis will not be made the pur-
chasing agent for the democratic
congressional candidate this year.
He will have his own hands full
keeping up with Statesman O'Con.
nor,
T H., Al i'H.-o.l ~