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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25
FAULTY FINANCIERlNG.

Failure of n Suddenly Devised Plan
to Save Street Car Fare.
There is man somewhere on the
theory and practice of finance than he
did few days ago and all he did to gain
the knowledge was to jump off a street
car and pick up nickel which he saw
lying on the street, says the Chicago
Tribune.
Relating the circumstances later to a
friend he said:
'It's funny what fools some men are.
l saw that nickel after had paid my
fare, and my first thought was that if
jumped off and picked it up it would
make up for the nickel had already
given the conductor. Having plenty of
time did so. Of course missed the
car which had originally boarded and
paid my fare. When the conductor
came around on the following car
surrendered my new-found nickel with
serene and satisfactory belief that my
ride had not cost me anything, having
paid for it with the nickel found in the
street.
"Then began to figure little. The
more / tried to solve the problem in
mathematics the more deeply became
involved. AS an actual fact I had to
count my change before 1 discovered
that had not only saved a nickel, but
that had contributed ten cents to the
company's Golfer and was still nickel
out of pocket"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25
CITY COUNCIL WAS SHORT.
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.

torney Minors opinion. Mr.. Minor
held, as formerly held by Mayor CAL
laghan that the city could not legally
provide indemnity bonds, and also held
that the collector or he and his bonds
men must be responsible for the de-
linquent taxes, the same as sheriff Is
in his collections. The opinion was re-
csved and filed, Alderman Hicks CIV
ing notice that he would prepare an
ordinance regarding the matter, for
next meeting.
The proposition to curtail the pound
limits in the Sixth ward was defeated
by close vote, the mayor ruling that
it must be decided by a majority of
the entire council, which can not be
had until the return of Alderman
Duerler, who is out of the city.
Alderman Hicks asked that the may
or provide a. copy of some standard
work on parliamentary law for the
committee on rules.
The mayor stated that the contract
between the city and Mr.. w. H. Weiss,
for operating the railway sprinkler
was progressing.
The street commissioner estimate
that it would require 81, $50 to complete
the work on Main and San Pedro ave-
nues was read. The citizens have left
$l2S5 toward this and the street car
company's share of the expense would
also be deducted. The mayor said the
work would be finished as soon as pos
sible.
A resolution by Alderman Richter
directing the street commissioner TO
remove the dead track of the san An
tonic street railway company on Lare-
do and San Fernando streets was re-
ferred and a resolution to notify the
company to remove the. track was
adopted.
The street commissioner was direct
ed to open McCracken avenue in Ward
s.
A resolution of Alderman Johnson
that an appropriation be made to pro-
vide public watering troughs in each
ward and on the plazas was referred
to the finance committee.
A resolution of Alderman Johnson
to order class A sidewalk laid on the
south side of the cracker factory on
East Nuevarstreet was referred and the
council stood adjourned.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25
TIE Daify iiqGt
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1897.
CAMEL'S EXPERIENCE.
Sat Down So Much That His Hind
Legs Became Useless.

Sat Down So Much That His Hind
Legs Became Useless.
\ large camel which was landed at
Hoboken few days ago from the
Bremen line steamer Dresden had an
experience which probably never before
fell to the lot of "ship of the desert"
He made the voyage in large box,
ind as there wasn't room enough in it
fol any self-respecting animal the camel
sat down in sheer disgust. He sat that
way for days and days while the ship
rolled and made all sorts, of heavy
weather.
When the detected animal was finally
landed and tried to stand up, he couldn't
use his rear props at all. They had be
come paralyzed with their long stay in
cramped position. The camel wasn't
any good, it seemed, and, as big price
had been paid for him, there was a gen.
eral lamentation. The camel was ''in"
on the lamentation. Such picture of
woe was never seen in Hoboken.
At last genius suggested radical
cure. The camel, by his advice, was
placed in sling and hoisted up until
only his toes touched the ground. He
padded the air for spell with his fore
legs, and finally the rear props came to
life and Joined in the exercise. They
loweredshim to the floor, and, after he
had tested his rear legs somewhat gin
gerly, he was as good as new. But he
doesn't sit down any more. Once was
enough for him.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25
CURSED A WOMAN,

John Foell was before the recorder
this morning on the charge of using
insulting and abusive language toward
Mrs. w B. Harkeness and was fined s.
for the offense
He lives on Dashiell street, Seventh
ward. and became enraged because
Mrs. Harkeness' children, together
with others were playing on the side
walk in front of his gate last Saturday
evening, whereupon he cursed her.
Neighbors say that a knife and
pistol were brought into play in the
AFFAIR hut nothing was said of this in
the testimony this morning.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25
Living specie. of Animals.

The editors of the Geological Record
have drawn up table that indicates
approximately the number of the living
species of animals. The following are
the figures given: Mammals, $500; rep
tiles and batrachians, 400; tunicata,
900; brachiopods, $50; crustaceans, 90
900; myriapods, 5000; -echinoderms,
5000; ooelenterata, 1000; protozoans,
6,1OO; birds, 12,5O0; fishes, $4,000; mol
lusks. $4,000; bryozoans, $500; arach-
nids. 10000: insects. 100000; vermes,
6.150; sponges. $500. General total.
366. 900 distinct species.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25
DAINTINESS COUNTS.
How to Make a Plain Meal Delightful
and Acceptable.

and Acceptable.
A simple and dainty breakfast is one
of the most delightful things in the
world, and the woman who can serve
it in an acceptable manner ought to be
considered better housewife than she
who serves rich feasts unattractively.
A chop set fol tn on glittering china
on a cloth of shining damask is better
than the rarest bird in the market
brought on in slovenly style. Toast
and tea may make feast with white
linen and glistening silver when all the
delicacies of the season would be poor
meal if carelessly served. Always have
the tablecloth spotless and fresh, even
if you have to convert every day into
wash day to compass it. Always have
a silence cloth, though there is no des-
sert for week in order that it may be
paid for. Always have bit of green
in the center of the table. Let the sill
yer. even if it is plated, be shining,
ard the glass, though it be pressed
and not cut, be glistening.
Have the accessories of banquet,
though the main part of it be lacking.
Serve olives, radishes, sailed almonds
and the like with the plainest of family
dinners. You may make the last-named
yourself at trifing expense. Heat one
teaspoonful of best butter, or one scant
teaspoonful Of olive oil, smoking hot.
Add ope-half pound of Jordan almonds,
blanched. When the almonds begin to
brown, sprinkle over them one scant
tablespoonful of salt, and stir and
shake until all are a golden brown. Oil
gives richer glaze than butter. To
blanch the almonds pour over them
boiling water. in which let them stand
IS minutes. Rub the skin off with a
coarse cloth.
When the family wearies of the regu-
lation desserts, give it cake with sliced
oranges. A delicious dessert cake is
white layer. To make it beat to a
cream 1Hs cupfuls of sugar and three
quarters of a cupful of butter. Add
three-quarters of a cupful of milk, two
cupfuls of -four, one teaspoonful of
baking powder, one teaspoonful of van
lila and white of four eggs. Bake in
layers. Maple sugar frosting gives
delicious flavor to plain cake. To make
it boil one-haf cupful of white sugar,
one cupful of maple sugar and little
cold water. Boil it till it forms fine
hairs when dropped from the spoon.
Add one-half cupful each of butter and
sweet cream; boil ten minutes and stir
till cool.-Chicago Chronicle.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25
A cIsslPATED DOG.
The Animal Has a Weakness for Get
ting on u Spree.

The Animal Has a Weakness for Get
ting on u Spree.
Fort Logan, Col, has fayorite who
is the cause of more temperance lee
lures than all the frequenters of that
post put together, says the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat. He has contracted
the bad habit of INDUCING in the flow
ing bowl and when in the vicinity of the
canteen-about the time of pay day
especially-he is sure to get more or
less intoxicated on the offerings of the
doughboys, who like to share with
their fayorite the good things of the
day which comes but once a month.
Jerry Simpson is private in the ranks
and is total abstainer, never going
near the canteen except when. ordered
there on duty to escort to the guard
house those who are unable to pick
their way to the barracks. On such
an occasion it is not an uncommon
thing for Jerry to find Colonel, his IA
nous retriever, prone on the floor in
the highest stage of inebriation, chew
ing the last of a good-sized jag.
Colonel is kept by his master for his
usefulness on the hunting field, though
he would not suffer for home as long
as any of his boon companions re-
manned in the ranks. They love him
dearly and keep him well fed and sup
piled with tobacco-for the Colonel also
likes taste of the herb nicotina when
he is in the dumps after soaking his
head in the stable bucket on the morn
ing following debauch. He is a
troubled specter when in his moods
after recovering from the good things
of the night before and acts very much
like one of the two-footed jewellers who
enticed him from the sedate quarters
of his owner. Private Simpson keeps
a warm place in his heart for the for
lorn canine when he is seduced by the
canteen crowd into bibulous condi-
ton.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25
BRiC-A-BRAC CABINET.
How to Make n Neat Piece of Furri-
ture at Home.

ture Mt Home.
Anyone who is at all handy with tools
can make the framework for quite a
pretty piece of furniture in a very short
time with a few strips of wood and
some iron or wooden brackets. This
would be q good occupation for the
boys some Saturday or afternoons after
school if there is time after the chores
are done. Girls can do this sort of work
quite as well as boys if they have proper
tools. In the industrial schools now,
adays girls are taught the use of tools,
ETC., and it is useful knowledge.
The framework should be made after,
the general plan of the cabinet in the
accompanying illustration. The up
right and cross bars need not be more
than seven-eighths of an inch square
and the shelves may be made of half
inch stuff. All may be made of pine
and stained to initiate any wood de-
sired. Cherry is very pretty in effect.
1t should be sandpapered very smooth
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25

deners' posts at good salaries. Andwhy
not? We have finer taste than men and
should be quite in our element design
ing exquisite pleasure grounds. AS for
the suitability of the employment, it
may be urged that digging is not harder
work than many OF the athletic wom-
ans recreations, nor is it dirtier proc
ess than tramping through wet turnip
fields after guns"
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or the shelves to rest on.

for the shelves TO rest on.
The panel at the right may be made
of canvas or any material desired, en-
broidered or painted; or, as in the illus
tration, it may be made of silk or plush
and have bands of ribbon stretched di-
agonally across it. These make a con-
venient case for cards, photographs or
small pictures of any kind.
Altogether it is quite pretty piece
of furniture and is convenient for vases,
etc, especially where one has no man.
tel.-Farm, Field and Fireside.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25
DRUNKEN BEES.
BumbIebees That Gave Evidence of
Feeling RemOrse.
genious.

Feeling RemOrse.
7. L. Williams, in a note in the Jour
nal of Botany, points out certain facts
about bumblebees which will be of in
terest to some humans. He says that
these insects often get drunk. Their
intoxicating tipple is the honey pro
duced by the crowded flowers of the
capitulate heads of certain compositae
and dipsasaetae. When the stage of in
toxication is reached it is indicated by
rolling on the back, striking the legs
wildly in the air, and general helpless
ness.
The bees rapidly recovered from the
effects, and in most cases were eager
to repeat the debauch; but one indi-
vidual which had been shut up in, a
vasculum with copious supplies of CEN
taurea scabiosa manifested the next
morning a praiseworthy remorse and
disgust, raising. its head and foreleUS
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25
FAIR FIELD FOR WOMEN.
A Writer Tells What Her Feminine
CO-Workerss Should Have.

CO-Workers' Should Have.
All women who are active in business
or professions want is a fair field and
nofavor, says Margaret Sangsterin Dem
orest's Magazine. We ask for moth
ing on the ground of sex. We are will.
ing to compete with andwork with men
on their own ground and desire to be
measured by the same standards. We
demand no courtesy further than that
which prevails between gentlemen; we
expect no Difference. In business life
men and women are simply workers.
and the more the element of sex is in
truded the greater the interference
with the success of women.
I know q young woman who went
into a newspaper office on a purely bust
ness errand-to sell an article, in fact
and was indignant because the re
porters, all of whom were busy writ
ing, did not jump to their feet and offer
her a seat They were absorbed in
their work, and most of them were
probably unconscious of her presence.
Perhaps 25 women enter the Office of
great New York daily every day. You
can easily see how it would interfere
with business if the reporters should
Immediately stop writing and pay them
the little attentions they are accus-
toned to in. the drawing-room. The
woman who expects these shows her
ignorance of business; if they are nee
essary to her peace of mind she is out of
place in the business world.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25

as high as it could above the plants,
then hurrying away as soon as released.
The most dissolute species is the neuter
Of bombus lapiderius. The remorse
probably indicates the presence OF the
headache, which in the highest animal
of all is SO provocative of good resolu-
tions
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25

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ofthe human body.
A small fire is easi-
ly trodden out,
which, when left to
itself, rivers can
not quench. Look
to your physical
health, for a sound
mind can only
dwell in a sound
body. There is no
one so able to re-
store your natural
faculties. as the ex-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25
COMMANDMENTS.

The exercises of st. Mary's Hall. OF
the Episcopal church, will be held to-
night in the opera house.
Mrs. Mulholland's school will give
its closing exercises in Y. M. c. A
hall tonight.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25

"A large shipment of c. F. &c
CARTS Celebrated Brands Of GER
MAN WINES has been received by
SCHOLZS FALM GARDEN. 5-eeod
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25
A NEW SENATOR.

Washington, May Ex-senator Ste
phen r. Mallory. of Florida, was sworn
in by the president of the Senate to-
day
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-25
REPRESENTATION
lis THE
THIEF OF TINE.
rs THE

Don't procrastnate but do something for
yourself at once. Your delay is not only cost
ing you time, but money also Disease is a
nara taskmaster when once il gains posse ssion
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and finished with two or three coats of
hard oil finish, well rubbed in, when it
will take on beautiful polish. Either
wooden or iron brackets may be used
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-13
The PlucI<y MOngOOse.
Longman's Magazine.


There are animals which enjoy relative
although not absolute immunity to snake
poison and among these may be mentioned
swine, hedgehogs and the mongoose. Swine,
1t is well known, will greedily devour rep
tiles, and in some countries they are Spe
cially trained up and employed for this
purpose. OF particular interest, however,
are some experiments which were carried
out to test the traditional immunity toward
this toxin ascribed to the mongoose. These
animals are very useful in sugar planta
lions, and are largely used to keep down
the SerpeltS and rats with which they
abound, for the carniyOrouS little mongOose
is extremely partial to such prey. Attempts
have been made by sugar planters to intro
not found in the wild state as in the Island
of Guadeloupe.
Six specimens of the mongooSe were for
Warded to Calmette from Martinique, and
these particular animals it was stated, had
never been set at liberty since they were
imported, so that they had had no previous
experience of snakes or venom. On arriv-
creatures was placed in a glass cage along
with large cobra. The cobra, at once ris-
ing up and dilating its neck, darted with
fury upon the mongoose, but the latter.
thanks to its extraordinary agility, escaped
being caught, and took refuge, stupefied
and terrified for the moment. in a corner of
the cage. This stunned condition, however.
did not last long, for just as the incensed
cobra was preparing to make fresh at
tack upon it's insignificant little victim the
latter, with wide-open mouth, rushed and
jumped upon the head of it's enemy vic
iously bit through its upper jaw and broke
it's skull in few seconds. Thus, although
in size but a little larger than a squirrel
this tiny creature was more than a match
for cobra two yards long.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-13

Grant bears a rampant lion with the word
''Stabilis." The crest of the Emperor of
Germany and Bismarck are much sought
by collectors. President McKinley's crest
bears an armored hand grasping sheaf Of
grain The inscription, Not too much,"
appears above the name Mckinley.
The coat-of-arms of Queen Victoria and
of the Prince OF Wales are favorites. One
of the handsomest things that has been
produced in the desire to satisfy collectors
is the jubilee memorial crest. In the center
appears the head Of the Queen. printed in
gold 1t Is set against background of red.
hand painted. The whole is surmounted by
crown of gold, with appropriate inscrip-
tons. The insignia of the Society of Colo
NAL Danes Daughters of the American
Revolution and Sons of the American Revo-
luton arc favorites among the society en-
blems.
Among the crests and monograms of act
ors, Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry. Henry
Irving, Maud Adams and Ada Rehan take
precedence Monograms of Charles Dick
ems. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry
Ward Beecher are much priced. A unique
sheet bears what appears to be the entire
pack of playing cards in miniature The
five of diamonds, however, has been re-
peated in the deck to avoid the necessity
of paying internal revenue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-13

CINCINNATI, Dec. 12.-The seventeenth
annual meeting of the National Civil-Serv
ice Reform League will be held on the 10th
and nth inst. The programme includes the
annual report of the secretary; remarks by
Hon. John X. Proctor, president of the
United States Civil-service Commission;
annual address of the president Hon. Carl
SchurZ; election of officers; public meeting
of the league, at which the following papers
will be read: THE Municipal Situation in
Ohio" Hon. Rufus B. Smith, of Cincin--
natl; "Civil-service Reform in Municipal
York and Albert Shaw, Phi. D., of New
York The Legal Situation, the Right to
Compete for Public Employment" Edwin
Burritt Smith, of Chicago; DO the Amer
lean People want Civi-service REFORM"
Charles j. Bonaparte, of Baltimore; THE
Democratic Party and Civil-serVice Re
FORM" Hon. Moorfield Storey, of Boston;
The Republican Party and Civil-service
Reform" Hon. Henry Hitchcock, of st.
Louis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-13
TO REFORM PRIMARIES.
Call Issued for Conference of Men
Interested i'm Pure Elections.

NEW YORK, Dec. IA call for a con-
ference was given out tonight by Ralph M.
Easley, secretary of the Civic Federation
of Chicago, who has been acting for a large
number of reforms and quasi-political or
CARNATIONS the past three weeks. The OBJ
ject of the conference is to bring together
men with practical ideas from all the large
cities and especially from States where sub
stantial progress has been made in caucus
reform. The programme will include speech
es from men of national reputation in both
political parties as well reports from
practical men as to the working of the va
rious laws now governing primary elections
or caucuses. Considerable attention will be
given to the question how to get voters out
to the primaries" after fair laws are Sc
cured. The conference is to be held in this
city Jan. IA and Is. The call has been signed
by prominent men throughout the country.
Among the signatures appears the names of
Albert j. Beverage and Evans Woollen, Sec
rotary of the Commercial Club, Indianapo-
liz
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-13

WILKESBARRE, Pa. Dec. PA heavy
freight train drawn by two locomotives
crashed into a train of empty coal cars in
the Vossburg tunnel, on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad this morning. Both engines and
about sixteen freight cars Were derailed
blocking the tunnel completely. In a few
minutes after the collision the wreck took
fire and the big tunnel began to fill with
smoke Engineer John Thomas who had
the throttle of the first engine, was thrown
violently out of the cab. His fireman, James
began, had an ankle sprained. The other
trainmen escaped injury. but they had the
greatest difficulty in making their escape
their hands and knees for eight hundred
feet When they reached the mouth of the
tunnel they were very weak The railroad
officials telegraphed TO Wilkesbarre and
Towanda for fire engines and firemen. Spe-
cial trains from both places carried men
and apparatus to the scene of the wreck
at the rate of mile a minute. After a
hard days work the flames were finally
subdued at 5 O'Clock this evening. Traffic
was delayed. all trains had TO be run
around the tunnel.