San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-03
SHORT SNAPPERS.

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"Lovers rowing by moonlight !;
take the car to West End.
1t sometimes pays the politician
to be honest with the people.
There should be no room in this
country for a religious boycott.
Travelling doctors like tramps,
generally beat the whole commu.
nifty.
The political preacher is a me-
mace to the peace and good will OF
community.
Most preachers pray on their
knees, while the politician prey on
the Taxpayers.
The Bexar county populists APP
pear to be waiting to get tips from
the courthouse.
The city will sooh have a little
money; the dog catching time be-
gins next month.
When a man starts out for a
"scrap," he does not generally have
to travel very far.
Good principles never die,-al-
though the advocate may exist on
an empty stomach.
The man who is always waiting
for something good to turn up is
oftenest disappointed.
Free trade brick from Mexico,
made by pauper labor is supplant-
ing the home made article.
John Campbell is man of few
words, but he stands a good chance
of being his own successor.
The stranger on picking up a
San Antonio newspaper is surpri-
sed to find no hotels advertised.
The whipping post is good med
icine for wife beaters, but we will
not allow it in our public schools.
There is a dead lull in local
politics. The court house is now
casting sweet eyes at the city hall.
Exchange: ga girl has as much
right to wear boomers as a dude
has to part his hair in the middle
Texas Sitter "Never kick a poor
friendless tramp away from your
door. Tell policeman to do it,
Some of our pious visitors say
that our East street is even tougher
than Fort Worth's "Hell's Half
Acre."
An exchange says: Grinding
pretzels in your husbands pocket
is not necessarily an indication that
he has been to the Salvation
Army"
The San Antonio baseball play
ers, feed "too HIGH" and wobble
around the diamond like they had
the govt.
"Great libraries make q few men
and women very wise; newspapers
lift whole nations into sunlight"
I-ITalmadge.
"Do not complain il the public
does not give you credit for all the
good deeds done in life. Your con-
science will"
"Hope deferred maketh the heart
SICK" is likened unto seedy real.
estate agent waiting for the boom
in town lots.
The prohibition counties sur
rounding, are gradually hemming
In San Antonio. The saloon men
need to wake up.
Deadhead, half-rate, and charity
fake advertising cost the San An
tonic newspapers about ten tho1s-
and dollars year.
The desperate efforts OF a few
black.and-tans to hang on Judge
Noonan's coat tail, will do him
more harm than good.
Atkinson Globe: The bicycle
will never reach the perfection Of
invention until it is made with a
lawn-mower attachment.
Snappers has been propounded a
conundrum "Are Thad Smith and
Jose CassianoI silver or gold
bug democrats ~ We Give it up.
Judge Callaghan can succeed
himself, and his friends do not
want to see him loaded down wi tn
any dead weight at the next cleo
ton.
Since the newspaper men have
been putting up cash fares, there
has been several loads of gravel
dumped on the West End car line
tracks.
The only hope for the democrats
in the Twelfth congressional dis
trict is to try and load Judge Moo
nan down with too much black
and-tan.
San Antonio can secure the next
republican state convention, If q
little effort is made to ask for it
Chairman MacGregor will proba-
bly, makt che call for September.
A little church party met few
nights ago, and organized a politi-
cal league to oppose (they say,) the
A. p. A. The attendance was
about a dozen. Eloquence and
beer flowed freely.