San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-21
SHORT SNAPS.

The guilty is very easily offended
by the newspaper.
The civil service farce keeps a great
many incompetents in Office
The nickle-in-the-slot machines have
made their appearance agin.
The largest ear of corn does not al
ways grow on the tallest stalk.
The Dingle-Dangle doesn't prosper
without the wine room attachments.
The city fishermen report a good
time last Sunday. No one got snake
bit.
The world is full of beats who live
upon the sweat of the other fellows
brow.
Although the electric lights are dim.
does not seem to lessen the speed of
the metre.
The "Cross-the-Creek. Stars must
come billed out of New York to draw
at the Grand.
The publication of libel always
magnities a newspapers circulation
about ten times.
Prosperity with the sports means
prosperity with the officials whose sal
airy depends upon fees.
There will not be much distribution
of Federal pie until after the new
tariff bill becomes a law.
Were it not for the wicked sports
some of the officers salaries would
grow very much smaller.
The chronic kicker delights to make
sewer of the newspaper, but is
quick to shirk responsibility.
IAN exchange remarks that people
in cities do not borrow newspapers.
That's true; they steal them"
A large majority of all public en-
terprises and public charities make
their beginning in the newspaper Of
fees.
The successful advertisers are those
spend their money in legitimate news
papers.
The west side having been pretty
well sapped, what's the matter with
tapping some of the private joints on
the east side.
The city councils finance commit
tee need to get a lively move on
themselves. Those poor fellows who
got fired should be paid.
John L. Sullivan is again signing
newspaper articles which he is alleg-
ed to have written. His name carries
more weight than his fist"
Mr. Herman Kampmann is quite
a busy man since he has taken entire
charge of the Menger, but he seems
equal to almost any emergency.
With about $41S in the street i'm
provement fund the street commits
Sioner is expected to macadamiSe a
few hundred miles of street and fill up
at least ten thousand holes.
IF the salaries of some reporters
were as high as their staud-up collars,
there wouldn't be enough money in
the United Staes treasury to pay them
off"
There is reason to fear that some
of the new journalists were picked
before they were ripe. Though not
exactly green, they are decidedly
fresh"
The boss liar in a town is the cir
culation liar who tries to make the
merchant believe his paper has a
circulation more than his combined
contemporaries claim.
1t should be remembered that no
newspaper is printed for any particu-
lar individual. If it pleases the ma
jority of readers it does all that can
reasonably be expected"
To-day was our birthday, and we
celebrated it by setting up two col
umns of type, cutting half a cord Of
wood, rocking the baby for two hours
and cleaning our shotgun" says a
Texas editor.
"The Bill Poster declares that post
ers are the modern guide-pOsts of the
business world. However this may be
one thing is certain. newspapers are
the modern merchants messengers.
Now the question arises: If man is
in haste to make his business known
which medium will best serve his pur-
pose-the guide-post or messenger"