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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-25
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The following general directions
are useful in the destruction of weeds:
If it be annual, do not let itmake seeds;
if it be perennial, do not let it make
leaves.
Digestion proceeds more rapidly in
the horse with active exercise than
when eating is followed by period of
rest, according to the experiments Of
DIR. Tango, of Buda-Pesth. In the dog
and in man the opposite is true, which
shows how unsafe it is to infer results
in one animal from observations on an
other.
The scheme of covering the Sa-
hara with forest is pronounced by M.
p. PrivatIDeschenel utterly impractical
BILE, the arid plateaus being hopeless
desert. On limited scale, however, the
valleys-mostof which are favored with
a small amount of waterway be sue
cessfully planted with tamarish, acacia,
eucalyptus and poplar, the last-named
tree having unexpectedly proven the
most suitable. In the forest shelter
vegetables and fruit trees may be
grown.
Mr.. William II. Dali, of the Smith
sonian institution, says in Science that
"during the early days of the whale
fishery several well-attested instances
occurred of whales struck in one ocean,
as the Atlantic, being afterward killed
in the North Pacific, and vice versa"
This would indicate that some whales
are great travellers, for to get from the
Atlantic to the North Pacific they
would have to go many thousands of
miles, passing either around Cape Horn
or around the northern end of North
America and through Behring strait.
Men of science sometimes make ex-
traordinary demands upon the skill Of
instrument makers. An interesting IL
lustration is furnished by the instru-
ment called the 'tmicrotome," the pur-
pose of which is to cut excessively thin
slices or sections of various substances,
such as animal or vegetable tissues, for
microscopic examination Microtomes
have recently been invented which, il
is claimed, can cut successive sections
each only one-twelve-thousandth of an
inch thick! The edge of the knife
which makes such cuts appears perfect
ly smooth and straight when magniflSd
80 times.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-25
Abuse OF the Dfspersary.

1t may be broadly stated, as the re-
suit of exhaust, statistical study,
that fully so per cent. of the patients
who apply for free medical aid are to-
tally undeserying of such charity. The
main reason for this is that no effectual
means are taken by the managers OF
these institutions to correct the abuse.
For the sake of donations and the os-
tensible good accomplished by the
treatment of large number of pa
tents, these charities are managed on
the usual business principles of proving
their right to be and to prosper on the
assumed basis of demand and supply.
In New York alone there are 116 dis.
pensaries, each one of which is vyins
with the other in propagating the worst
form of pauperism. The public is
taught that nothing is more freely
given than medical advice to anyone
who may ask for it. The institutions in
question are crowded daily by hun
dreds of well-to-do patients, who are
encouraged to defraud the really poor
and to cheat the charitably disposed
doctor of his legitimate fee. All this
goes on in spite of protests, and in open
defiance of all laws of ordinary decency
and fair play. The managers of these
so-called charities, who virtually have
the matter in their own hands, while
openly pretending to deplore present
conditions, are covertly combating
every effort at reform, on the ground
of it's ticability.-Forum-
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"ROPED A JAY"

Variety Theatre Woman Arrested Ac-
cused of Theft From the Person.
A young boy about IA years of age,
went into the Standard theatre last
night with some older friends who
promised Pat Bergen, the policeman
on duty, to take care of him.
This, however, they failed to do. As
soon as he got inside, Martha Holmes,
one of the gay soubrettes spotted him
as IAN easy thing and Immediately
began a Irritation which ended in her
getting him to accompany her upstairs
to one of the numerous boxes, where,
as the saying goes, she pulled his
Leg for several cold bottles.
The young RUDE finally discovered
that his hard earned cash was van
ishing too freely and became obstinate,
= refusing to "set 'em up" any more.
This is what caused the trouble.
He declared that after he refused to
buy any more beer for his gaudily
painted charmer, she took some money
from his pockets and refused to return
it. This caused the young jays anger
to rise as he did not relish such treat
ment from one on whom he had Law
ished both his money and affections
and he therefore made his way down
stairs again to the policeman, to whom
he told his troubles.
officer Bergin then arrested her and
took her to jail. This morning he
swore out a charge against her in the
Justice court for theft from the person.
She IS the wife OF Harry Holmes, the
local comedian, who accompanied the
Root-tea-na concert troupe from this
city last winter.
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Electricity for Grain Handl.ne.

Not only will one elevator in Buffalo
use Niagara power to handle grain,
ETC., but two of these great structures
in the Queen city will use the trans
mitted energy to operate their ma
chinery. The latest to announce its
intention TO avail itselA Of the power
is the Electric Elevated company,whose
elevator building snowgoingupon Buff.
falo creek. 1t will take $50 horse power,
end the motors have been ordered.
Electricity is popular with elevator es-
Establishments because II is less likely
TO create fires than power generated on
the premises.
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A PULLING RIVER.
The Niger Was for Many Years an
UnsOlyed Problem.

UnsOlved Problem.
For many years the Niger river was
the conundrum of African geography.
Nobody knew where its waters reached
the sea, but many geographical experts
had the widest theories on the subject.
Some of them thought it entered the
Sahara and lost its waters in the sands;
others that it flowed into Lake Tchad.
Mungo Park evolved the fanatic idea
that it was the upper part of the Congo,
and the Inflated Turkey expedition,
sent by Great Britain in 1916, was in
structed to ascend the Congo to the
Niger. Some of the most famous Afri-
can explorers made great discoveries in
other directions while they were really
seeking to solve the problem of the
Niger. The only result of these inyes-
legations was a fresh crop of erroneous
theories. One of them conjectured that
the Niger reached the Atlantic, and
each one had an opinion of his own.
All these speculations were duly re-
corded on the maps and the cartograph-
ic delineation of the Niger from 1881
to 1882 is something wonderful to con-
template. 1t would seem to be simple
matter to keep to the river when once
il was reached and follow it to its des-
tination, but that was the very thing
the explorers were unable to do. But
it was the German geographer Reich
ard, in. his library at home, who solved
the Niger riddle, some IS years before
the Lander brothers in 1882 proved his
assertions true. Everybody knew of
the numerous rivers emptying into the
Gulf of Benin and they were supposed
TO be independent streams of small i'm
portance. But Reicbard said that the
long stretch of the coast where these
streams reached the ocean Was the sea
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From Talk to Action.

Here have been going with you for
a year and have yet to kiss you for the
first time" he said complainingly.
81 have thought of it Thousand
times" she answered, ''but you under
stand the social restrictions to which
my sex is subjected"
Then the bonds of conventionalsm
were broken and for some time there
was sound that was not that of con-
versation.-Detrott Free Press.
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VALUABLE
INFORMATION.

OUCH DANOAl4NO d. u Ou NGNSI
Heard of Before. For
FIT ZEN DAYS.
Commencing September is.
Is cents Turkish Towels ...... sos
Is " Gents Handkerchiefs. -. .05
5 Writing Tablets for. ...... .05
IL cents Coffee Pot. ............ .06
6 Papers Pins. .05
rs cents Lace Curtains. .... so
Fancy Silk Handkerchirfs. 5000. 10
is cents Table Oilcloth yard. 49,. IA
Two quart Majelica Pitchers. 80. .27
Lawn Worth 20 cents yard. ....... 90
One Dozen Ladies' Handkerchief rs
SanAntODiO Novelty Co.
sos East Houston S eet
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Paper for Floors.

Paper floors are in use in Einsiedein,
Switzerland. 1t is laid in pasty mass,
smoothed and then pressed. Footsteps
on it are noiseless.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-25

mont OF great delta ana that the OIL
rivers were nothing but the subdi-
visions of the mighty Niger. That was
true, and we know that the Niger delta
is the largest in Africa, Chicago News.
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The pnne.s HouSe.

The vatican at Rome is the largest
palace that has ever been erected. In
length it is 1900 feet, and in breadth
1000 feet. It contains 4,422 rooms.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-25

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by sending for s. mptom blank No. ! for men.
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DESIRABLE CHAPS

ALWAYS FIND A WELCOME AMONG THE
MAIDS, but the chaps who are UNDESIRABLE
meet with COLD RECEPTION. tits, therefore,
to the interest of those persons TO BRACE UP AND
The record-union., 1897-05-22

suits followed. But While this is very
probable, and new berries should not
be placed in old boxes for more reasons
than one, ptomaines could not be pro-
duced as stated, for that alkaloid poison
is the result of decomposing animal,
not vegeta BILE, matter. However, terms
matter little and definitions less in this
stained by former use with the acids
and sugars of former contents, may
cause a ferment to set up that Will,
when the new berries are eaten, pro-
duce stomach and bowel distress closely
resembling the operation of poison; in
deed, it is poison that has been taken
into the stomach. The safe thing to do
is to pay little more for our berries
and insist upon their coming to us in
new, fresh boxes, clean and harmless.
Old boxes could be boiled and scalded
probably so as to be made harmless,
but they will be destroyed or made
unattractive by such treatment. The
place for a used berry box is the fire.
Let those who eat berries see to it that
they come free from ferment and con-
tact with anything that may cause it to
set up.
The record-union., 1897-05-22

erton's latest book from tha1 institu-
ton will no doubt call the book to the
attention of thousands of san Fran
ciscans who would otherwise never have
heard of it." a low estimate is placed
upon the circulation of the San Fran
cisco dailies For weeks those papers
have been printing the most objection
able paragraphs in the book, with pic
lures of the author. and if every man.
woman and child in that city does not
possess a very clear idea of the book it
is not the fault of the San Francisco
press. which has done more to advertise
it in one day than the library directors
could do in lifetime
A GIGANTIC SCHEME.
Tulare Register: If the dispatches are
not fooling us gigantic financial in
stttution is In process Of formation that
viii be calculated to aid the farmers of
America materially. 1t is not a propo-
sition for the Government to loan
money to the people, but is next thing
TO it, for the Government is to be asked
To somehow supervise the institution,
but not to furnish the capital j. Pier
pont Morgan and some of the Have
meyers are at the bottom of it, and the
purpose is to loan money to farmers at
low rates of interest for the movaI of
crops and other purposes. The capi-
tai is to be $500. 900, 600. and the insti-
tuition is to have a right to do 81 000.-
o0O,e00 worth of business each year.
This means short loans and the turning
OF the money over several times each
year. Perhaps the scheme will work If
it is tried. 1t ought to with such men
behind it, and then perhaps there is
nothing at all in the report more than
an enterprising newspaper fake.
The record-union., 1897-05-22

1t really looks as if the athletes of
enthusiasm to the national sport, base
ball. That is well. After all, it is
wholesome game and all the better
when it is played by parties not under
hire; all the better when it is the work
of amateurs: all the more worthy of
commendation when it is engaged in by
men from shop, counter, desk, labora-
tory and the market place. 1t seems to
be taking that form now, the profess
sional teams really having second or
third place in public favor. No reason
able person will have one word to say
against exercise in the game by all
the youth and middle aged of the land
if they choose to indulge with discre-
ton, and without excess. Baseball as
gamesters and from the mere show
mans manipulation, is an exercise
that will contribute greatly to physical
well being, and may we'll be engaged
US what cricket is to the English. There
are so many amateur clubs in Sacra-
mento now, that they should at once
form a league Of clubs, unite with the
Amateur Athletic Association of the
State and thus come into pleasant ex-
change and communion with all other
athletic clubs, and SO put the games
upon a higher and more satisfactory
p1ane.
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EASTERN FREIGHT.
Nearly 5000 Tons Sent From Sacra-
mentO in April.

There was shipped from the coast in
April on the Pacific system of the
Southern Pacific Company, 33,9G3 tons
of freight for Eastern points. OF this
San Francisco shipped %, $50 tons, oak
land l.345. San Jose .443. Stockton
263. San Joaquin Valley 2,319. Sacra-
mento 1852. Marysville 1888 and
Portland 413.
The Sacramento shipments are class
flied as follows:
Beans, 70; brandy, 4; canned goods,
134: cattle, ., ,122; fruit. dried. 123;
hides and pelts. 10; hops. 141; leather,
III: lumber, 1i6; miscellaneous, 100:
ores, So; potatoes. %; powder. 22;
raisins 10; saddlery and harness. Is;
vegetables 81: wine. 966; wool grease.
1913; wool, pulled, 2S.
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SPECIAL AGENCIES.

This paper is for sale at the following
places: l.. 2. Fishers, room 81 Mer-
chants Exchange California street, ana
the principal News Stands and Hotels,
San Francisco.
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corner Second and Main streets.
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street.
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Depot.
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Depot.
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Depot.
Also for sale on all trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento.
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The S. C. Beckwith Special Agency,
sole agents foreign advertising.
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Some one has raised the question
whether we have the right to extend aid
to our suffering people in Cuba, be-
cause of the doubt as to the right to
enter Cuba with relief agents in opposi-
ton to the possible refusal of Spain.
In the first place it is to be said that
Spain has not signified any unwilling
ness to have US send supplies to our
people, or remove those who wish to
come away. In the second place, the
advised that Spain will render all pos
sible assistance to have such relief sup
plies reach their destination. But if
these were not the facts, we have the
opinion OF Sidney Webster, who has
made diplomatic usage and interna-
tional law the study of his life, that
there is nothing in either to prohibit
such action on our part if we choose to
take it. Mr.. Webster says:
It is to be assumed that those suffer-
ing who are Cuban born have honestly
resided in the United States five years
and have honest certificates of natu-
ralization.
As TO distributing through Govern
ment agents the aid sent, there should
not be an obstacle in the way Neither
of the warning parties can expect to re-
cruit In its army starving American men,
women and children: neither party can
object to our rescuing them from DEATH
nor can the Government at Madrid re-
fuse to permit supervision of the dis
tribution by agents designated by Pres
ident Mckinley.
AS an abstract question, the Govern
ment at Washington may not have the
abstract right to go within Spanish
jurisdiction for the purpose now under
consideration. Spain might we'll enough
reply to individuals that they intended
to aid the insurgents. 1t is incredible
that Spain Will say that 10 the Govern
ment a. Washington. If Spain or the
insurgent leaders do say it at our De-
partment of State, then the time and
occasion viii have come when Con-
gress had better intervene in Cuba to
strike at the heads and arms of both
belligerents and put order in the
island.
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Java has thunderstorms, on an aver
age. 81 days in the year; Italy 3S, Bel
gium q. Holland Is, France, Austria
and South Russia 16, Spain and Portu-
gal -, England and the high Swiss
mountains Z, Norway 4, Cairo ). In
East Turkestan, as well as in the ex-
treme north, there are scarcely any
thunderstorms known.
The record-union., 1897-05-22

1t was stated in San Francisco news
items yesterday that official examina-
tion made in that city indicated that
the several cases of sickness alleged to
have been caused by poisonous strawber-
ries were really due to ptomaines, culti-
waited by the placing of new berries in
old berry boxes. The idea is that some
of the old vegetable matter remained
in the crevices of the boxes; that the
new berries softened it, and a fer
ment set up, and thus poisonous re-
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is grounded in the most vulgar and de-
basing selfshness? Is the Government
under any obligation to heed such ap-
peals at all? No. Nor will it do so.
The record-union., 1897-05-22

Because the Car addressed the Sui
tan in such fraternal tones, and with
such warm expressions of brotherly re-
gard, does not prove anything at all.
The Car has not set aside Russian am
bition to have a political seat. at Con-
stantinople, and the Sultan Well knows
it. The purring Of the Car to the Sui
tan begging him to be kind and be-
nignant to himself and put an end to
the war, really reads: Stop this war
and adjust terms of peace, or l Will
compel you to do it,"
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humanity when, in the selection of a
horse for outdoor exercise, he declined
to purchase one that had been
"docked, or had a portion of his tail
cut away, in the prevalent spirit of
Anglomania. Ambitious young men,
who shave smooth like the magistra te
in the opera, The Black Hussar. who
was wont to speak of me and Napo-
leon will not be apt to buy bobtailed
horses in order that they may be ac-
eused of relationship to the President
and the cause of humanity will be
greatly subServed because a plain man
was once a farmers boy, and then a
mounted officer in the field, preferred
horse with a long tail like the one
he rode in ''boyhood's happy days down
on the farm
DEMOCRATIC SARCASM
Les Angeles Herald: The old and
very respectable observation that mis-
fortunes never come singly has re-
ceived a new verification. This coun-
try is just now passing through an ex-
perience of cumulative misfortunes,
commencing with Hanna and continu-
ing through Reed and the tariff, and
through Mckinley, trusts and currency
contraction. But just as if this COM
bination were not sufficiently potent for
evil of indefinite duration, there sounds
in the political atmosphere the tocsin
of war from Central America. The re-
public Of Honduras, which has terri
torial expanse even larger than a dozen
Chinese vegetable gardens combined
has attacked our merchant marine with
Warlike tugbOat carrying a smooth
bore terror and threatens to wipe our
commerce from the face of the sea
This pretentious fleet has already over
hauled the American steamer Rover.
and is now cruising around the bay in
search of any other vessel that may
happen to fly "Old Glory" This blood
thirsty tug has a grievance. There is
an American Consul in Honduras who
bears the suggestive name of Alger.
The admiral of the tug informed the
captain Of the Rover that the latter
ought to be thankful TO be allowed to
float, inasmUch as Consul Alger was
even then at the head of the present
Honduras revolution Now. when we
reflect that another Alger has lately
amused himself in Washington bs
consigning an Act of Congress, which
he was instructed to carry into effect.
to his office waste basket, it becomes evi.
dent that the AIser family VIII nave to
be restrained If republics are to en-
dure.
The record-union., 1897-05-22
Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Fair Saturday;
warmer along the coast southerly, chang
ing to northerly, winds in the interior;
westerly winds on the coast; a moderate
norther in the valleys Saturday and Sun
day
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Good Reason.

Tacker-That sailors chorus was aW-
full. What was the matter?
Stage Manager-The tars couldn
get the right pitch.-Philadelphia Rec
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Coronado water, Stockton sarsaparil-
la and iron, champagne cider. ginger
ale, orange cider. J. McMorry, agent
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Firmest and Sweetest.

Our Boggs Jersey creamery buttery
for your Sunday dinner fills the bill.
The Pacific. j near Eighth.
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Santa Rosa Press: With all due re-
spect for the military reputation of
Edhem Pasha, yet the suspicion can
not be kept down that the war would
have been less n7onotonous as well as
a trifle more glorious if he had al
lowed the feather bed dukes to win at
least one fight
The record-union., 1897-05-22

A ray of light from Sirius can reach
us only after travelling for twenty-five
years with speed of 1900 leagues a
second
The record-union., 1897-05-22

These publications are sent either by
Mail or Express to agents or single sub
scribers with charges prepaid. All Post
masters are agents.
The best advertising mediums on the
Pacific Coast.
The record-union., 1897-05-22

Try McMorry's SOC uneolored Japan
tea; L. b. tea, 60c; G.. p. tea, t5c; p. F.
Japan tea, 40c; 531 Nj street.
The record-union., 1897-05-22

Ice-cream and cake, 10c; ice-cream
soda. &C. Eagle Confectionery, S26 Ks
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The new Japanese crepe golf shirts.
ties to match, 81 80. c. w. Haub's, 104
X street.
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Panama Sailors, extra quality. 81 %,
81 80. 81 40. 81. Corwin's Millinery,
COZ j.
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New lot of enameled ware; 10-quart
dishpans SOC. Hirsch, 1913 j.
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THE WEEKLY UNION.

Is the cheapest and most desirable Home,
News and Literary Journal published on
the Pacific Coast. o,
4he Weekly Union, per year. .........sl w
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Entered at the Postoffice at Sacramento
as second-claSS matter.
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f, A Bridgford, lawyer. Stoll build
ing, Sacramento. Tel. red, i23.
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Prime Facie Evidence.

What makes you think that ne mar
ried for moeny?"
His wife's face"-Cleveland Leader.