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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
POLAR BEAR CUBS.
First Ever Born In Captivity See
Light Of Day at Bridgeport Conn.
Interesting Event Occurs In the Winter
Quarters of tho Barnum and Bailey
Circus-Mother Bear Grows Very
Suspicious and Ugly.

The first polar bears ever born in
the United States made their appear
ance the other day in the winter, quar-
tiers of the Barnum & Bailey circus at
Bridgeport, Conn. They are twins, and
the double event is considered of i'm
portance by the showmen, as under the
best natural conditions only two cubs
are ever seen at one time in. the care
of she bear of this variety in the Arctic
regions.
Besides being the first white bears
ever born here, it is believed they are
the first ever born in captivity. The
cubs are about the size of shepherd
dogs, weighing about AZ pounds each.
The parents were procured by Mr..
Bailey last August and were transferred
to Bridgeport, where the she bear had a
compartment of her own. 1t was con-
sidered too hazardous under the cir
cumstances to take her travelling with
the show.
Since the birth of the cubs the moth
er suspects every moving object to be
an enemy and snaps and grows OF
everybody approaching the cage. In
her present state she is very danger
Gus. Polar bears cost $1,000 each, so
that the advent of these two little ones
means quite sum gained.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
The Cocoanut Crab.

The cocoanut crab is one of the odd
est specimens of the whole crab family.
He lives in the South islands, and makes
a diet of cocoanuts. This species has
a pair of front legs terminated with a
strong pair of pincbers, and it is with
these that he husks the nuts and breaks
through the weakest portion of the
shell. The crab begins by tearing the
husk, fiber by fiber. and always at the
end where the eyeholes of the nut are
situated, that being the weakest place
in the she'll When the husk has been
removed the crab commences hammer
ing the shell with his heavy claw, and
soon makes an opening, through which
he.extracts the meat of the nut. Mr..
Darwin, writing of this crab, says; II
think this is as curious a case of in
stinct as l ever heard OF. especially in
structures so remote from each other in
the scheme Of nature as a cocOanut and
a crab."-Detroit Free Press.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
WHITE HOUSE ETIQUETTE.
Rules That Are Strictly Observed by the
President's Family.

Rules That Are Strictly Observed by the
Presidents Family.
When the president and his wife drive
out the president sits on the right
hand seat and his wife on the left, says
the Illustrated American.
If there are others in the carriage,
whether ladies or gentlemen, they must
sit with their backs to the horses.
When Mrs. Cleveland was first married
she tried the experiment of placing her
mother opposite the president and her
self in the presidential landau, but the
people laughed at it so immoderately
and professed to think Mrs. Folsom (as
she was them to be the maid, that twas
speedily dropped. When the presi-
dents wife drives alone, she sits in the
right-hand corner-the place of honor.
The lady of the white house cannot
set foot within those splendid houses
in Washington whose fiagstaffs mark
the foreign embassy or legation. She
could not go without the president, and
as am embassy or legation is technically
a part of the country it represents, the
president could not go - so that she
never sees the inside of n diplomatic
house as long as she presides at the
executive mansion. The president
dimes only at cabinet houses, and his
wife cannot dine anywhere without
him. President Arthur dined with
judges of the supreme court and with
senators-but as he had no wife the
whole system was very much simplified
for him. The presidents wife may, If
she chooses, go to luncheons where
there are no gentlemen, or to teas, both
being regarded as strictly informal;
but the danger of giving offense by ac-
cepting one invitation and declining an
other is so great that it is seldom or
never risked.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
TIMES CHANGE.
She Thought the Case Required Heroic
Treatment.

She Thought the Case Required Heroic
Treatment.
They had been married less than
year when she noticed that her husband
stayed out late at nights and when he
did come home was apt to be noisy and
demonstrative, says the Detroit Free
Press. On his part William observed
that he could never find a knife to cut
a bite to eat, and that even the family
shears were out of reach, while his raz'
ors at such times were locked up and
the key hidden.
He did not say much, because he was
not in a condition to talk, and when he
was sober he did rot care to refer to the
past.
But he grew worse instead of better
and one night he went home at laie
hour and found the hall brilliantly
lighted and on the table under the gas
an assortment of all the cutlery in the
house. Knives, scissors and raZors al
luringly open met his unsteady gaze.
''M-M-Mary," he called, 'w-w-whai
d-does t-this mean"
1T MEANS" she answered, from the
top of the staircase, that ever since
you've been cutting up in this manner
I've been afraid you would do as you
threatened to do-kill yourself witt
some of those things"
"Y-y-yes, Mary"
"Now I'm beginning to be more
afraid that you won't, so 1 thought ID
give you every possible chance"
There was a sound of cutlery by
night, mingled with forcible though
unsteady words, and William has re-
manned at home every evening up tc
date.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
GAVE HER BODY TO SCIENCE.
DIR. Caroline ID. winslow's Bequest De-
clined by Howard Trustees.


The late DR.. Caroline Brown Winslow,
the well-known woman physician who
has just died at Washington, left will
bequeathing her body to Howard uni
versity, to be carefully dissected by a
woman medical student for the purpose
of advancing her knowledge of anat-
omy. After that she desired that the
several parts of her skeleton should be
wired together for the use of the minor
normal school of the district founded
by her friend Myrtilla Minor, the skele-
ton to occupy the place in the school
designed by her.
DR.. Winslow desired this disposition
of her body because the laws of the
country require that every medical stu
dent shall obtain and dissect one human
body before he or she can graduate OF
receive diploma, and because there are
no methods provided by which such
bodies can be legally obtained except by
bequest or sale by the owner previous
to death. If the trustees of the uni.
versity declined to accept the bequest
the body was to be cremated. 1t is un'
derstood that the university did decline
to receive the body, and it was accord
ingly cremated and the ashes will be in
TERED.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

David Coulter, Kansas prisoner
charged with the murder of Edward
nlston near Topeka, has invented a
corn-husking machine.
The lord mayors of London during
the past 20 years have collected lit
tie over 6 2O,O0O,OCO for charitable and
benevolent purposes.
The California health board finds
that in San Jose the average duration
of life is about IS years. which is
longerthan that OF any other city in the
United States.
Five boys, all under Is years of age,
were arrested at Indianapolis for rob
bling a grocery, and one confessed that
they had formed the ''Bungaloo" club,
which met in ali abandoned building to
read novels and plan small depreda-
tions.
A prehistoric cave has been dis.
covered in the department of the
Dordogne by NJ. E. Riviere, the walls of
which are covered with pictures of ami
mails cut deep in the rock. Some of the
drawings are buried under stalagmites,
which prove their antiquity. They
extend for at least 420 feet, which is
as far as the cave has been explored.
An old man who three years ago
went to Wasco county, Ore, and has
since worked around under the name of
John Campbell, died last month at the
home of James Elliott, near Dufur, and
papers then were found on him indicat-
ing that he was ]. ]. Burnhemer, of
Beatenridge, Col, where he owned 100
acres of land. There was no eXplana-
ton of his change of home and name.
Mile. Couedon, the prophecies, has
come into prominence again, owing to
the recent cyclone in Paris, she having
predicted in July destructive storm in
September. Her success led her to pre-
dict another storm that should dcvas-
tate the Champs Elysees by fire from
heaven and injure the Church of the
Sacred Heart on top Of Montmartre
for September 90, but this does not
seem to have come off yet.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
THE BED OF BEDS.
Pleasures of the Couch Made of Boughs
in Camps in the Woods.

Sa"Ps III VIC "ooN6s
There are beds and beds, but none
is so comfortable, so restful, or so in
teresting as that which the hunter,
fisherman, OF plain camper-out makes
for himself from the boughs of ever
green trees in the forests of Maine,
Canada, or any of the other great hunt
ing regions along the northern border
This bed, made of short trimmings
of twigs form the spruce, cedar, hem
lock or balsam, or all four together,
consists entirely of the feathers" OF
the trees, the siX-inch outshoots from
branches, with the plume end up, laid
against PROSTATE two-inch sapplingr
so that the head may have a pillow
AS the twigs stand nearly erect the
bed is four or five inches deep, and I
blanket spread over it yields ano
springs back as one rolls over it. The
bed, wide in proportion to the number
of persons to use it, and seven feet long
is as fluffy as haymow, and give
forth a scent that sooothes and heals
ones senses and body.
But the bough bed is getting less anc
less used. Hotels and fancy cottag'
camps with spring beds and liner
sheets are slowly superseding the old
STYLE hunters bed because of the diff
ficulty and bother of getting new be-
every trip. 1t will be long time, how
ever, before balsam bough pillows ceas'
to be used in even the most aristocrati
of hunters lodges.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
WORDS BORN IN NEW YORK.
"PorterhoUse" Originated in Eurling Slip
-..Boss" from the Dutch.

New York city is the birthplace of
several expressions that have been for
many years current all over the world
These expressions are not the outcome
of scholarly thought and culture. AL
though our professional men have du-
tifully and generously aided in the cir
culation and ennoblement of neolo-
gisms foreign born, the apt yet un-
studied offerings of the untutored
workman have held their own in lit
erature as we'll as in everyday speech,
while many labored results of learned
mind workers and would-be mind mas
ters of words have lived but long
enough to be named.
The word "boss," which came into
common use during the regime of Will
liam NJ. Tweed, is Dutch baas-master.
In the language to which it belongs
it is much used in composition. Thus,
zimmerman baas is a master carpen-
ter, and a preacher is in Dutch merely
a church boss.
Only few years ago attention began
to be called to the prevalence of the va
rious forms of vice in what was then
considered the choicest residential part
of the city. \ newspaper reporter
named the region the ''Tenderloin dis
trict," and as such it is destined to be
known for a long time to come, while
the name tenderloin will do duty sin,
| gularly in other towns as they grow
more like the city in their notable char
acteristics.
Porter is the name given in LondOr
more than a century ago to a very dari
and heavy beer much fancied by porter
and other outdoor workmen. The wore
and the thing came to New York in du
time, and porter was soon in demand a
beverage among the wharfmen, truck
men and 'longshoremen engaged on tn
river fronts on the east and west side
of the city. One taverner in Burlin
slip became famous for the porter b
sold and his place gradually gained tn
distinction of being the porter hous
of the town. In course of time he adde
all the facilities of hotel to his "pul
lie" and increased it's reputation by flu
nishing his customers a steak such &
they could get nowhere else. The
called It the "porterhouse steak" an
by that name particularly choice cl
of the steak part of a steer is know
erywhere.-Harper's Weekly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
FREE CURE FOR men.
A Michigan Man Offers to Send His
Discovery Free.
Claims 10 be "a Bcnefactor To
Weakened Mankind.

There is always more or less sus-
picion attached to anything that is Of
fered free but sometimes a man so
overhows with generosity that he can
not rest until his discovery is known
to the world, in order that his fellow
men may profit by what he has dis
covered. 1t is upon this pricipal that
a resident of Kalamazoo, Mich, de-
sires to send free to mankind q pre-
scription which will cure them of any
form of nervous debility; relieves
them of all the doubt and uncertain
ty which such men are peculiarly liza
BILE to and restores the organs to nat
ural size and vigor AS it costs moth
ing to try the experiment it would
seem that any man, suffering with the
nervous troubles that usually attack
men who never stopped to realize
what might be the final result, ought
to be deeply interested in a remedy
which will restore them to health.
strength and vigor, without which
they continue to live an existence of
untold misery. AS the remedy in
question was the result of many years
research as to what combination
would be peculiarly effective in restOr-
ing to men the strength they need, it
would seem that all men suffering
with any form of nervous weakness
ought to write for such a remedy at
once. A request to III. q. Olds. Box
174S Kalamazoo, Mich, stating that you
are not sending for the prescription
out of idle curiosity, but that you wish
to make use of the medicine by giving
it trial, will be answered promptly
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money IL Il
fails to cure. DC. 10-5-l66t.
AN UNRELIABLE SERVANT.

A few evenings ago a servant girl,
of family on South Heights took the
baby of the household out for a walk.
She failed to return and the mother
of the child was almost frantic, but
being sick in bed, she could not go
out to look for her A diligent search
was begun for the servant girl and
the child. They were found across
the creek" in a dance hall, where the
girl was dancing, and the baby was
asleep on a bed. The child was re-
turned to the mother about IL O'Clock
ut night. but the servant girl never
returned to the house.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
A Snap Shot.

A little child often not only leads, but
amuses by original descriptions of or
binary events. Says the Pittsburgh
Chronicle: A judges little daughter,
who had attended her fathers court for
the first time, was very much interested
in the proceedings. After her return
home she told her mother: Papa made
a speech, and several other men made
speeches, to IL men who sat all to-
gether, and then these - men were put
in a dark chamber to be developed"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
DEFECTIVE ARMOR PLATES.
Government Tests Those Furnished by
Carnegie works for Battle Ships.

Carnegie Works for Battle Ships.
A dispatch from Newport News, Va,
saws: Some of the steel plates sent here
by the Carnegie works to be used on
the battle ships Kentucky and Kear-
sarge and subsequently rejected by
Naval Constructor J. ]. Woodward have
been tested by the special board APP
pointed by Secretary Herbert. The
members of the board are very reticent
about the outcome of the investigation
and would give out no information
whatever.
At the official test the plates were
subject to heavy, bending strain with
view of breaking them, if possible.
These plates so subjected were taken
to the Portsmouth navy yard, where
they will be tested another way by ma
chimes used for this purpose. The
officials of the shipyard made private
test of two of the plates and one an
inch in thickness was cracked by a
1,SOO-ton weight dropped from height
of about 80 feet. At 20, 80, 40 and 60
feet the plate was bent by degrees and
showed no defects.
In regard to the assertion to the effect
that the Newport News Shipbuilding
and Dry Dock company had taken the
contract at loss and was substituting
cheap plate, Superintendent Sommers
n. Smith says that the pecuniary con-
sideration will enable his company to
put in the Kentucky and Kearsarge the
very best plates according to the specif-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
cALvE AND EAMES MAKE UP.
Embrace Each Other on the Stage at
New York.

New York.
Emma Calve and Emma Eames, the
rival opera singers who have been on
bad terms for three years, embraced
each other on the stage of the Metro
politan opera house in New York the
other night before an applauding audi
ence. 1t was after the first act of
Carmen"
Nine. Calve had made a. great hit in
her impersonation of the cigarette girl,
and the audience rose en- masse and
called her out. She stood alone on the
stage for moment, smiling, then, with
out even glance of apology, away she
darted into the wings. Out she came
again, pulling Mime. Eames, who held
back modestly. The audience cheered
and laughed, and cheered and laughed
again. Eames and Calve vanished from
view, hand in hand, to reappear with
Don Jose, whom they considered en-
titled to a part of the plaudits. The
| three singers came down to the foot
| lights to gather the flowers thrown
! upon the stage, and Calve filled her arms
with them. Then she ran to Eames AMI
! gave her the bouquets as a final peace
| offering. Eames smiled deprecatingly
and refused, whereupon Calve insisted.
Eames accepted bunch of red roses,
and impulsively threw her arms around
her rivals neck and embraced her. The
audience, understanding what it meant,
renewed it's enthusiastic demonstra
ton.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
CAUGHT IN THE ACT.

Reyes Martinez, a Mexican living
in little hut on Ruiz street. is too
poor to buy fuel. and last night he
helped himself to some coal in the
rear of the Waters Pierce Oil cOmpa-
ny's warehouse on Medina street. He
was caught in the act by Waterman
Bill Haynes and taken to the police
station in the patrol wagon. A charge
of disOrderly conduct was made
against him and his case will be heard
by Recorder Shields tomorrow.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
Life in Spain.

In Spain constitutional incidence,
fertile soil, and a magnificent climate
combine to make life one long dawdlc.
In Turkey the natural thrift and indus
try of the real Turkish population are
paralyzed into idleness and apathy by
the hopelessness of winning anything
worth having which will not be at once
stolen by official corruption.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10

and without evidence as to where in
formation came from.
The prescription is sent free, and al
though some may wonder how Mr..
Odds can afford to give away his dis
covery, there is no doubt about the
offer being genuine. Cut this out and
send to Mr. Odds so that he may
know how you came to write him.
IL 81 ID S 3m
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
First New York Street RaIIroad.

The first street railroadbwas laid in
New York in 1882, between the city hall
and Fourteenth street.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
An Ocious custom.

":"r in japanese theater is
,r email fee, to stand up,
a-c-t":atia Individual behind
20 70 demonstrate or to
y; the stage. He
f,t ' 's cannot see.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10

Elegant round glass corner China
closets at S15. formerly sold ut $40. G.
\. SHOWERS FURNITURE co. loft
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10

Call at Sulivan's and examine
those Mems $500 Ok blood and box
calf shoes. winter weight, we are now
selling for SS.75. 1-10-3t
A grand ball. partly of political
nature was given at Convention hall
last night by the Democratic" club.
The majority of those attending were
Mexican people.
Misses $500 spring heel school
shoes, dongola kid and goat, for $1.0O
pair at SULLIVAN SHOE ca. 1O-3t.
A political battle was held last
night out near the city rock quarries.
All the new styles in Ladies' Vici
Kid handwelt shoes regular price $500
selling this week at $500. SULLIVAN
SHOE co. 1-lO-St.
For an enjoyment take a ride out
to the San Pedro springs and visit the
museum and menagerie. Take the chill
dren and make them happy. l-lO-lt.
Now is the time to get felt slippers,
when you can buy them at actual cost
to manufacture. SULLIVAN SHOE
~ 1-10-3t
For comfort style and durability
there is nothing like our Mems Russia
ana box calf Balls. former price $500
now s8.75. SULLIVAN SHOE co.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-04-24
A Valuable Prescription.

Editor Morrison of Worthing-
ton, Ind, "Sun," writes: "You
have valuable prescription in
Electric Bitters, and l can cheer
fully recommend it for constipa-
ton and sick headache, and as a
general system tonic it has no
equal" Mrs. Annie Stehle, 2625
Cottage Grove Ave-, Chica go,
was all run down, could not eat
nor digest food, had a backache
which never left her and felt tired
and weary, but six bottles of Elec-
trio Bitters restored her health
and renewed her strength. Prices
so cents and S1.OO. Get a bottle
at drug store. F. G.. Alworth &
Co. 6.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-04-24
r. r. Carroll. City Editor.

Sea salt for the bath ut the
Autobiography drug store.
Ed Greer of Savannah is in the
city.
The Observation-Disclosures,
&c, Sc, DC, &c, 10c, 15c.
j. E. O'Hearn of Lexington, is
in the city on phosphate business.
L. Patterson is in the city from
the mines.
r. A. Afford of Marvinia, is in
the city on business.
G. E. Taylor of the F. G. & P.
Ry., is in the city.
DIR. E. Van Hood has returned
from attending the state medical
association in Palatka.
Hoods pills act easily and
promptly on the liver and bowels.
Cure sick headache.
DR.. VIM. Anderson returned
this morning from Crystal River
where he has been on a fishing
expedition.
Rev. j. G.. Porter went to Viii.
liston today where he will preach
tomorrow.
j. j. Fuller lett today on the
1855, f. G.. & P. train for New
York City where he will spend
ten days or two weeks, partly on
business and partly on pleasure
Spring humors, eruptions, hives.
boils, pimples, sores, are perfect,
ly and permanently cured by
Hoods Sarsaparilla, the best
spring medicine and one true
blood purifier.
The many patrons OF the
narrow guage barber shop will
find it few doors further south
in the Montezuma, where George
Williams, the proprietor, will be
pleased to see you.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-04-24

Mrs. A. e. Handley and chill
dren have returned from a several
months visit to her mother at
San Antonio and are now occupy
ing the cottage east of the arm
DRY.
Almost a pure camphor at
the Autobiography drug store
for 25 cents a pound, just the
thins>for storing away woolens
and wooden fabric.
Rev. j. w. Carpenter did not
leave yesterday for Orlando as
expected, but stayed over and
preached again last night. He
left today to fill his own pulpit to-
morrow and will return to Ocala
and continue the revival through
next week.
j. w. Hodges of Stark, our
wide-awake merchant came over
yesterday to make his store and
our city visit. He is well pleased
| with tie business of the store, as
during his absence under the skill
full management of Mr.. Nicely and
Mr.. Douglass, the business has
been most satisfactory since
] changing hands. This house has
demonstrated the fact that a bust
n ess can be run in Ocala and that
successfully too, on strictly cash
basis. This store credits no one,
keeps no books, but sells the goods
cheap and the people appreciate
this fact and always come with
| the money.