San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-15
SHORT SNAPPERS.

squeal."
"a guilty conscience needs no
accuser."
Winter is still lingering in the
lap OF spring.
1t makes a tramp mad il he fails
to pull your leg.
Who pulled that razor on the
trip to fredericksburg?
Has anyone heard anything
about the city pay day?
Thad. and Joe are reported still
standing shoulder to shoulder.
San Antonio needs that big mar
ket house just as bad as the tourist
hotel.
The special rates to newspapers
for noticing them in the LIGHT is
20 cents line.
Last Sundays Express failed to
announce the arrival OF Brer.
Quincy in the city.
Street vendors OF patent medi.
cines should be required to pay a
regular circus license.
G. B. Hice, Doc Roberts and Bart
Crowther will make fine team on
the Austin delegation.
It is not known whether Ethe
Allison Boomers succeeded in
pulling "Our Henry's Leg"
Judge Noonsn endorses our
republican nominee for governor,
Hon. Geo. w. Breckenridge.
A gentleman has all to lose and
nothing to gain by entering into
a controversy with a BLACKBOARD.
II Brother Craig wants to make
San Antonio wake up just let him
start little prohibition campaign.
Hotel Campbell is crowded with
guests from the sporting frater-
nifty" who cannot pay their fines.
1t no doubt made our night
police clerk feel bad to find "the
captain" had cut $4,000 off his
salary.
A contrary juryman who will
consent to take small fee is worth
more than testimony in the ordi-
nary law suits.
A man may have a black skin
and lily white heart, or he may
have a white skin, and a d
black reputation.
Legitimate business houses
which pay rents and city licenses
should be afforded more protection
against travelling quacks.
Prof. Jim forgot to mention that
little incident Of the trip to Fred
.erieksburg when the razor and Ar
kansas tooth-pick were drawn.
Printers Ink: at is not 50
necessary to have your advertise
ments at the stop Of the column"
as it is to have it at the top in ex-
,cellence."
When the Tall Sycamore Of the
San Pedro is asked about his con-
gressional aspiration he grins
broad smile and belches forth an
Indian grunt.
The building OF big market
house on Pssghal square, will do
more to improve the morals OF
East street, than b half dozen
homes for the fallen angels?
Buck Hice's proposition 10 clean
up the San Pedro springs is a good
one, and since the city has no
money to do the job the offer
should be accepted without delay.
The prohibs. are gradually
closing up the saloons in the coun-
ties surrounding San Antonio.
New Braunfels and San Antonio
will be about the last ones they
will tackle.
ga man came into a Texas
printing office to beg a paper,
Because" said he, 1--WE like to
read newspapers very much, and |
our neighbors are all too stingy |
to take one."-[Ex.
Garfield, Ohio, Dispatch: "The
newspapers say Speaker Reed can
talk in the French language with
ease. More votes are to be secured |
in this country by being familiar
with the erich Irish brogue and
sweet German accent"
The LIGHT has a double set OF
machinery and presses, and on the
first of May will have Lineotpye
type setting machines; so it looks
like we are here to stay, regardless
OF little yelping cars who delight
to snap and snarl at us.
Daily Express: "When Cuney's
political mantle drops on some
one else's shoulders it will be some
what frayed around the edges and
ripped up the seams. Political
mantles' have no value. Great men
have no countenance,' as Lord
Disraeli remarked"
Sunday Sun: "When a man
says he doesn't want an office he
reminds men OF one OF these young