San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-31

Newspapers that try to live on
personal-fsvor patronage generally
die young.
Goose eggs seem to be the
favorite food Of the BroIcho base
ball team.
Midnight dancers will cut un.
graceful figures on q baseball dia-
mond next day.
The Bronchos would know more
about baseball il they knew less
about "high balls"
Fake advertising schemes drain
the merchant dry, and he puts up
a poor mouth to his newspaper.
Recollection Of good or evil
done, is the only paradise or hell
out Of which we cannot be driven"
The city needs to devise some
systematic methods of checking
up their shortage on electric
lights.
The city hall and courthouse
ticket fixers are studiously devils
ing plans how to "serve the dear
people,"
The man who is most charitable
with public funds Is generally
most stingy in dispensing from his
private exchequer.
The public will grow suspicious
Of an alderman II he talks one
way on the streets and votes to
the contrary at the meeting.
II the state allows the taxpay.
ers go days time, even rs long as
five months, can the city enforce q
penalty on q 16 days notice?
The alderman who is the "most
windy" in the saloon and around
the street corners generally plays
dummy at the council meetings.
Gumso-Well, Mcbride, is there
as much billing and cooling as be-
fore you got married? Mcbride
The billing has increased largely.
The committee have concluded
it will cost less to feed a whole
family inside the hospital than it
does to supply the family on the
outside.
II the city can charge the tax
payer a penalty of ten per cent,
why cannot the city's creditors al
so charge an additional ten per
cent for their bills?
"Do you quarrel with your
neighbor still about his dog COM
ing into your garden?" ono;
that's all over now" "Buried the
hatchetw "No; buried the dog"
Some Of the dude bicyclers are
not very particular about the COM
pany in bloomers they fall in with
after dark. That's probably why
they don't keep their lanterns lit.
Maverick bank certificates of de-
posit promise to become family
heirlooms. In this way the bonds
of the fathers may be visited upon
their children of the fourth and
fifth generation.
The Victoria Advocate must
have been looking toward Bexar
county, when 1t said: "The state
Of Texas has been ruined by I'M
ripe statesmen who have nothing
but pure gall to recommend
Them"
Whatever else may be said Of
them, the courthouse democratic
bosses cannot be called fools. They
are not going to sacrifice their own
jobs to help make a congressman
out of some second.rate democratic
lawyer.
Senator Perry Lewis was the
author of the bill which prevented
the Corbett- Fitzsimmons sparring
match in Texas and kept hundreds
of thousands of dollars out OF the
state, but we seem to have sparring
matches just the same.
Was Hot Show: "There were
a murder, forgery, train wreck
in which many people were killed,
a quarrel, q reconciliation, ten re-
volvers and two marriages at the
theatre the other night, all for 10
cents."-[ Gainesville Hesperian.
II Perry runs for SENATOR again
this year, he will probably not
find such easy sailing as he did in
1892, when he got the benefit of the
trade made between the Clark
democrats and Quincy republicans.
What the republicans ever got out
of the trade has never been made
apparent.