San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-28
SHORT SNAPS.


plain Sewing and FURNISHED
Rooms" are very often misleading
signs. ,
The most uncOmpromising religious
crank is usually some old reformed ,
rake"
High license is the most practical
remedy for the evil of too many sa-
looms.
If there is anything Billy Sheehan
likes better than Chile" it is to talk
baseball.
The Allison boomers are still plead
ing with Billy Mckinley for a piece
of his pie.
The Gossipper seems to be well .
posted on 1.-The whims of shriveled I
old maids [
Popular price theatres are becoming
quite the rage-Or rather an asylum I
for busted actors. {
The present is the silly season. If
you doubt it read the reports of the
legislative doings."
The city has issued new order to :
some of the residents of East street
Pull down the blinds"
Judge Peter is becoming somewhat
of a lawyer himself and is working
on Old Probate first rate.
When you find a man who claims :
to know all about woman you may Z
look for wheels in his head. Z
Col. Page emphatically states that .
it's a base Islander that he bats his J
fish with Paul Jones shoppers.
A Texas legislator always enjoys )
himself in San Antonio, particularly J
if he rubs up against Otto Wahrmund :
Five indictments against as old par
alyZed woman is like asking the dis
trict attorney to draw blood out of a !.
turnip. :
Mayor Callaghan is becoming an ex- :
pert pisol shot at bull frogs, and OBJ :
tanned a good supper this way last
Sunday. =
'"There is a difference between ad- !.
vertising what you want to sell and )
what people want to buy. Did you ever
think of itT' :
The CITY steam roller could be used :
70 advantage to rub down some OF the :
bumps on some of our suburban street :
car tracks. :
It would take half million dollars .
to nut our streets in good condition, 9
but $4,000 will build us a very nice 9
market house.
Street Commissioner MickleiOhn will Z
please get new move on himselt ana a
look into the bad condition of the
street car tracks.
Popa Page and Col. Micklejohn took
out more fish last Sunday in Their
minnOw buckets than they brought y
home with them.
II is said the new city administra-
tion inherits about 100000 floating
Indebtedness. a large part of it be- t
ing unpaid salaries. t
A fishing trip is used some times by
Mr.. Kampmann as a good excuse TO ! !
show his friends his fine modern farm
out on the ''SaladO."
/
You'll stop advertising because bus I
mess is dull, will you? The boatman 5
doesn't rest on his oars when the tide '
is against him, does he? Well, then" |
An old dead craytish on small {
boys fishline often gets more results {
than the finest minnow of the best
fisherman in town. We can prove it {
by Pop Page.
\ dozen market masters could not I
keep up with the inspection of the
watcred milk. foul beef and rotten
fruit and vegetables. Build us mar
kct house, Bryan.
If Street Commissioner MicklejOhn
wants to shake up his front bay win
dow just let him make Il few eXcur-
siOns over the West nd ROUTE as far
as the st. Louis college.
If Judge NOOnan will accept for
eign mission, some good Mckinley
man may have a chance to get the
San Antonio post office.
The stone walls of the city bastile
have become so thoroughly impregnat-
ed with microbes and foul smell Cap
tain Shardein is having a herculean
task to get it clean. Abolish it Bryan
The officer who does his duty in en-
forcing the law brings down upon
his head the curses of the law break
ers, but gains the good will and sup |
port of our best citizens and taXpay |