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San Marcos Cresset.
e. >1. HULL, JEHitor.
Terms of Subscription :
One year, $2.00. Six months, $1.00.
Tuesday, September 1, 1885.
J wedding cake, and upon a table in
j the ceiitre ofthe-^om were several
large dishes of the cake ready to be
packed in the large number of emp-
ty boxes which wore piled up on
one end of the sideboard.
Lord Coleridge’s wife is not an
American, as has been re ported,.but
an English woman, though she has
travel led extensively in America.
She is thedanghfer of the late Henry
Barring Lutvfdrd, who was connect-
ed formanv years with the Bengal
civil service.
LAZ i
NNIL
The Bride of Lord Coleridge.
And now it is said the woman who
has become the wife of England’s
Chief Justice is not an American.
A cable dispatch, of the 15th inst.,
says:
The marriage of Lord Chief Jus-
tice Coleridge, which took place
yesterday, has created a tremend-
ous social sensation. Every detail
of the affair is eagerly sought for
and retold as often as opportunity
offers with such embellishments
imagination can supply.
The lady is described as being a
decided brunette, about 80 years of
age, with graceful carriage, a slen-
der,though perfectly moulded fig-
ure and aqualine features. Her
fascinating and vivacious manners
so charmed the leading dispenser of
British justice that, during the
voyage, he danced almost contin-
ual attendance upon her. After
his arrival in London, however,
the aged lover’s ardor cooled rapid-
ly, angina short time the ther-
mometer of his affection registered
a very low temperature.
It was at this stage of the pro
ceedings that the lady’s mother
came out strong. She reminded
his Lordship of the fervor of ..his
love-making onboard the steamer,
the tender love-laden sentences ad-
dressed by him to her daughter,
while under the influence of her
smiles, were brought back to him
verbatim and numerous other cir-
cumstances connected with the
venerable lover’s brief wooing, which
might have a certain degree of influ-
ence upon a jury, were mentioned
as reasons why she. should become
mother in-law of the Lord Chief
Justice of England. The austere
jurist, whose very glance has often
silenced the voices of eminent ad
vocates and filled with terror the
hearts of culprits, was powerless to
dislodge the match-making mama
from her position, and finally, be-
ing confronted with the alternative
of an action -for breach of promise,
yielded, stipulating, however, that
the marriage should take place se-
cretly. That; stipulation being a
very unimportant detail in the es
timation of the lady, whose gaze
was fixed upon the end rather than
the means, a ready consent was
given. 'A license was obtained,
and yesterday, in--the back parlor
of the bride’s-bouse, No. 42 Victo-
ria Road, Kensington. Miss Amy
Augustus Jackson Lawford, became
Baroness Coleridge, wife of the
highest judicial officer in England.
Two clergymen, from St. Mary Ab-
bott’s church, Kensington, officiated
at the ceremony. An altar was
erected for the occasion in the door,
way leading from the back parlor
to a small conservatory. The room
in which the .marriage took place is
only nine feet square, and its occu-
pants, besides the clergyman and
the contracting parties, were Mrs.
Baring Lawford, the bride’s moth-
er; Mr. Lawford, hoi brother; and
Miss F. -Lawford. The bride wore
a silver-gray satin dress trimmed
with brocaded velvet of a darker
shade. The'wedding breakfast was
served in a room adjoining the one
in which the marriage occurred?
and the..couple left on the • four
o’clock train for the Dolphin Hotel,
Betersfield..
Lord Gnjeridge’s arrangements to
preserve':secrecy-in;his own house-
hold wered.MporIite and- successful.
Every member'of bis family was
ignorant of the marriage, and when
the Press correspondent called to
verify, impossible, the rumor that
the wedding had taken place, he
was laughed at. He persisted in
his inquiry and was told that there
was positively no truth in the ru-
mor, that the marriage was impos
sible and the report an outrage.
Telegrams wero-sqpfto -Lord Cole-
ridge, but no replies were received
and the clergymen who were said
to have performed the ceremony
declined-.to .speak upon the subject.
The reporter then called at the res-
idence of Mrs. Baring Lawford.
He was received very courteously,
but could ,obtain no information
until he told her that the fact- of
the marriage was well known, bul
that he had called to secure an ab-
solutely correct account of the af
fair. Thisvstetenient unnerved the
lady fof amiuffi-ent, bnf she soon re-
covered her composure and related
the story substantially as above
described. Lord Coleridge, shesaid,
insisted u^dm. dfie - matter being
kept sepretfor a week, and was par-
t icularfvau xious’tnat bis son-should
not know .of it..... j trifiiDgest business I know of an’
In the room were.scores of boxes, | it would suit you to be a lawyer,
packed and;* addressed^- containing I yver
!ArVa-isaw Trav-'lei-.'
As a wagon drew near, a boy lazily
climbed over the fence and opened the
gate.
“Wh . d n’t you move faster, you lazy
rascal.” said the man who drove tha
team.
“ because I'm tired. ”
“You areal wavs tired ”
“Yes, i. am, and i wish I could get
rested. ”
“ j ouTi-never do it, Y’eu are too lazy
to get any tiling. < ome on here now and
help u-e take out the horses. ”
The nn.ti was lurks-m Mil cr, the boy
was bis son, Pinkney, known throughout
the ne ghhorhood as .ay ; ink. t nl.ke
other b- ys he had never been known to
engage in any game that required act! ity,
and iiits toother olte > declare 1 that he
positisely re.used to wa k until he grew
to lie so old that he was ashamed of h m
self, i ink was not handsome. 1 is head
was red and his face was freckled; and,
worse than all else, he was bow-legged.'
Pie cared nothing for bo. ks. At school,
if not intern ted, he would sit all day
with h s eyes half closed,*et no one could
accuse liim < f ‘-being s copy, -for at home
he \va - as ways ti.e last o o to go to bed.
VS hen the horses had been led, and
when .hr. .nil er and his son returned to
the house, the old man asked.
“Tfhat have vou been do.ng today?”
“■Nothin’: S
“What?”
“A'nt been doin' nothin', fur I was
tired. ”
id fit I tell you to break up ‘hat
turnip laud? ”
“ es, sir. belie*' e you did. ”
“Tiica why did l’t you do it?”
• “ h a-;s.e i was tired "
“I cy, v u are goi.i’ to starve tc death,
just as sine as yvu live. ”
“If i li e i won't star e to death. If i
die I m'gkt starve to death. ”
“Hush up your mouth and don’t give
me none of your suss. Mother, I wouldu 1
give ..ini a b.te of snpfier. ”
“I don't care. ”
“I don't bcl'eve you do. You are too
fetchhiked la :v to eat. ”
u( h, yes inrkso let the child have
somcilnog to eat I don t reckon he can
help it. beatU'e lie is always t red. You
know I lmd a brother that was always
that way. ”
“ i es,' and he never-amounted to nothin’
either. ”
“I kn-.ov tha'. Car:.son, l ut Pink may
do better after awhile. ”
“Ko he won t. He is the tri.lin’est boy
in the state of Arkansas. Them .Jackson
boys air out. every inorn’n' breakup colts
or doia something but Pink, p ague take
him, won’t do n thin' hut mope 'rulin' tin
der the trees:. He has just about wore m;
out, lei mote 1 you, and if he don t strike
a lick pui'iy soon i’ll get afoul of him and
wear him out. I won’t, put up with such
no’aceountrieNS. Pink. ”
“ Yes, sir. ”
“Tlicy air gein-’ to take up another
scho >i o .er at the Porks next week and I
reck n you’d bettor go. You ain't got
sense enough to ever make a farmer and 1
reels*.n you'd better be a lawyer or soma
tlPnq oi that s rat. ”
“Let him. be a praai.-hei1, Clarkson,” in
terposed Mrs. Mider.'
readier the deuce. W’y bed ruin a
congregation. When lie’d begin to preach
he’d be Wo ia y to stop. JNo. better let
him talk to the jury, and if he does wear
’em out, the country would be better o.f.
What do you say, fink?”
“ Ain t j .-articular. ”
“Ho, fetch take it, you air neve - par-
ticirar. If you was you d get along bet-
ter. i id v ou unve the hogs outen the
field?”
\ “Ko,: sir. ”
“What?”
“1Vo, sir, I was too tired. ”
“Wife, give me that rope bangin’ up
there. - Ph \v*;r him to a frazzle. ”
“Oil, no, i!on t whip the child. ”
“ Wedlet him -1 -eliave himself then.
I’ll beiur, yaking them hors have ruined
that field. 1 must puni li him. i inx, go
to bed. ”
The boy arose from a box on which he
had been silting, stretched h'mse f and
slowly ascended the stairs. “ Ah. Lord, ” I
said the old man, "I do i t know what is |
to become of that boy. If be wa'n’t j
quite so lazy I would th nk lhat the pe ■>
tentiary. w,.u d catch him. ”
wortd all the tihae. Wouldn’t you like to j
get up and make speeches?”
“Ain't particular.” t |
When Pink arrived at Judge Blake’s
office, he flur.d that the good boy, luge
Berry, had been installed as a student.
’• i..c did not appear to be pleased when
he d scovered that i ink was to be his col-
league, for. botwee i the two boys there
had never been anything ia common. The
gord b.»y merely looked up when Fink
entered, then,'with a frown, he bent him
self io the work of devouring Blackstone.
Pink sat down, .in obedience to the corn-
man i of the 'udge.
“ Young . ent enlqn as business is woe-
fully dull at present, you won't have any-
thing to do but to read. ’Lige you are
getting along very we i, are you not?”
“ es, sir. ”
“i o you find Blackstone interesting?”
“ Yes, sir. very. ”
“1 ink, what s that you are reading?”
“ endin' bout some Inguns. ”
“-Well, throw it down. Voil'll never be
a good ‘awyer unless vou study. ”
With a mighty edort. I ink made a pre-
tense of studying, tie seemed to have
setried upon an entire change of course,
but occasionally he would fall back into
IPs old ways. * Then he would sit with
his eyes half closed: ne day he said;
“ huge do you ever expect to be a great
.lawyer?” •
“wf course I do. ”
“Is that what makes you study so
hard.”
" Yes; if it were not for that I wouldn’t
study at ail. Isn't that the reason you
study, rink?”
“] d-m t study much, but that, rain t the
reason. I wouldn't study at all if I didn't
have to. When i don t read old Blake
makes me tote in wood, and I’d rather
r ad than to tote wood. Totin’ wood
ma'v s me tired. ”
A stranger com'ng into the room would
have v us taut y settled upon Lige as the
coming lawyer. ;■ o one would have
thought llmt any possible distinct.on
awa ted the lazy, bow le. ged, reL-headed
boy. That whi'h asses for disi eminent
is often short sighiedness. Soqji of oui
greatest men have been -but the turning
point of a story should never be autiei
puled.
’Lige wa3 a qu’et boy. and Sundays he
would go to church. Pink spent his -nu
days iff uhe a diderent way. Pie would
ream along the river, throwing stones a
birds, i emonstrance was of no avail.
He hated Sunday school and abhorred
th-..* church.. ecasionally- he would come
home wii h a bloody nose, lVr although
: e was averse to physical exercise, he
hesira ed riot to e igare in combat, Peo-
ple pointed at hiui,* shook their heads and
ahi;
“That boy will never amount to any
;blog. ”
Pink fell in' love with a little g'rl.
b.ight-eye.l 3!ary i'helps, but naturally
enough the girl did n t io e him.
loved Pige- This enrage i l ink and Turn
an opnorUinity presented itself he would
have chastised his fellow-student.
I veu in a lawyers o I ce time drags
along. Lige was ready to stand an e .
i ! o 1 1 All i
ARTiSToric WORKERS IN WAX.
I y ___
A MANHOLER DESCRIBES HIS WORK.
A Man Who ', Brings Famous People Back
to Fife) —a Peep at Elis Den.
H (Chicago Hera’d. 1
In a dingy Hlittle back room on the top
floor of a a-.Fidolph street building is a
curious den t/’Hiat is generally kept locked.
A glimpse i 'Trough the half open dour
till AWD’i ‘1 c'lV ] 12 cr nnrmr nf rl ICJ 1YY Ct iVt _
showed a
belted legs am
hands, w.tipq
less head her
she interlope!
known mate
museums, a ;
the wwriv ta!
human Belief
: aper molds
array of dismem-
*‘1 arms, of severed feet and
an occasional trunk-
Hng with wide open eyes at
"it is the lair of a well-
,er of the wax statuary for
yd is a curious studio. ; pon
Tie are scattered p eees of
O done in wax, plas'er easts,
v'and the icy glare oi' an oc
casional gla eye sends a chill down the
spinal coluntun of a sensitive spectator.
The - making}1! of \v:u statuary is a com-
paratively ncj’yiv industry in this country',
few artists in that line
a wax figure a model
potters’ clay and
after it has ( , been completed a piaster of
i arL cast is t fiaken, into which the melted"
wax is poure!vvi, completely filling the cast.
The wax nc'Lt to the cast hardens first,
and* then tl le center mass is poured off,
leaving the w jaxwork a hollow shell. The
cast has to “ be filled up with the wax in
order to prev ent cracks or creases on the
surface. Affijer the figure has become
cool it is (parefully sm; othed off and
and there areP’bnt
here. To uptake
is first m:ivfile of
touched up l
very light
and a little
spring. ”
“Are wax
anxious in u
“i airly so,'
firm will Hot
y»y the ariist, his tools being
Lnd delicate wooden sera era
‘ knife made of a small clock
•“wax figures expensive?” the
iirer asxed of the artist.
/’ was the response. “One
make a figure of any kind
f< r less than LyoA The wax is the purest
eeswax, ai:dei costs CO cents a pound. In
making a d%e-si e head T use about
eigiiteen pouiAfids of wax; that is, I ha e
to me t up abl jout that much, but of course
'here is a gooKd deal can be poured back
from the ; ayfit. It took IbO pounds to
make that figrlare of the . race, and such
a work wo-ulM cost fJUU. Most of the wax
heads and bursts in hairdressers’ win.lows
yellow K* with age. That s because
the figure is furnished a- d then colored I
in the
mix
wax when I melt
changes its appear-
uU rau u up the hair?” again
ded pthe interrogator.
11* it: frv H/a vprt r
fc‘
mj- colorlps
it, ana time I!ti
i nee. ” N
“ IIoW do J5TOU fl
pro] a?
•Tf the haj ir is to be very heavy I use
a wig, if notL I put it in with a needle
while the wP-:ax is still hot.' Glass eyes
are easily suiSplied and it is remarkable
what a wondi-Grful resemblance to life we
an produce, ’ti”
It is an h).tdivesting sight to watch the
at.^yy ark on
Finding Burglars’ Tools and Skeletp&s
and Toys and Coins in tlie Sewers,
(New York Sun.]
As the door opened and the incomer
walked in there was no mistaking his vo-
cation. Muddy waterproof boots, reach-
ing nearly to the waist, a waterproof coat,
worn and dirty; ai^ ancient hat, and,
above all, a trace of sewer gas in the air,
indicated that he had just come out of the
manhole in fn-nt of the building. Becom-
ing communicative he said;
“ ; es, I’m a manholer. It’s a purly
good kind of biz. It s a healthy biz, and
don’t y.ou forget it. You never saw a
manholer sick to much water falls
down the sewers that it washes away
everything bad and leaves only metal,
sand, stone, and things of that sort. Do
we find metals? The manholes and cul-
verts and basins and sewers are just full
of ’em-pins and needles, tacks and nails.
That's where all the pins go to. Then
you find bails that- little boys lose and the
sticks and bats they drop in after ’em.
Sometimes coin is found, but not often.
Then occasionally jmu run across a length
o’ lead pi, e, a bunch o’ keys, a jimmy or
a brace. That means some burglar was
scared, and emptied his pockets into the
sewer. Vv by, lots o' times I’ve found
old pops and revolvers rusted all away
down below the mud. Then, sometimes,
you find bones; maybe a skuil or a lot o’
small ones, but more often those of a lit-
tle kid. My pard once found a man's
skelet >n. It was in the sewer just below;
where a steam waste pipe came in
from a factory. The steam and hot wa-
ter had cleaned it off so that you couldn’t
tell whether it had been there one year or
100.
“Just like a grave down there? Well,
you haven’t been down there if you talk
like that. Up town in the brown-stone
district the sewers are raiher quiet. .Only
a mouse now7 a„.d then, and occasionally a
rat. But as you get down town, and
especially near the big tenements and the
markets, they re alive. Eels and other
thifigs below the water; spiders, mice and
different kinds of rats above. It's lucky
they get ail the food they want, or it
would be worth a man’s life to go down
into some I know.’’
“How do the animals live w7hcn the
sewers are full of water?”
“Well, they ain t full, by a long sight.
At every manhole there’s almost always
dry space enough for 100 rats. In cul-
verts and l^isins tnere’s room. C ement
pipes, and even iron pipes, get cracked
liom uneven settling and leaves holes in
them. In brick sewers a brick will fail
through, or the masons leave an open
JAMES TAYLOR & BR0.
DEALERS IN
STAPLEAND FANCY GROCERIES
artist
famous
graph of'rifits sub- ect.
The .school had been in operation n arl,
three weeks when, one day, the teacher,
the Lev. hr. Brooks, called on old man
Miller.
“tial to see you, parson; sit down.
How s every thing? ”
“Slow7,” Dr. i rooks replied.
“Hows Link go.Bn along?”
“Not at all. ”
“ i on don’t tc 1 me so?”
“ \ es. 1 am sorry to say. ”
“Wjmt ’pceia to be the matter?”
“He ■won’t study. ”
“Can t you whip him into it?”
“1 have" tried, but it does no good.
“Ah. lord; i don’t- know whats to be-
come of h m. Do you thmk he will ever
amount to anything, parson?”
“Ho, 1 do not. ”
“Would you advise me to take him
away fn m school? ”
“ Yes. ”
“ fi o hope for him? ”
“No. e. ”
“Bo you reckon he’s got any sense at
all?”
“CT, yes, he appears to he smart
enough ”
hat’s the matter, then?”
“He acks application. ”
“ Y\ ell, 1 11 g ve him all the application
he wants. I am much obleeged to you
for lei in me. ”
Shortly a tier Dr. Brooks withdrew,
Pink en.ered the room where his father
was silting. The old man was greatly
troubled, but he was determined not to
be violent with the boy.
“Pink!”
“ Y es. sir. ”
“Dr. Brooks tills me that it’s no use to
send you to school. ”
nil?,-
animation. Pink also declared that he
was ready. They were e ante eel hv.the
circuit, udge. Lige was complimented fo:
his quickness and igs’ght, but pink
failed to answer a sufficient number of
questions, c nse neatly fie was remanded
back to Blake s office. J eaiizing that he
had wasted time he made au earnest re-
solve to do better.
’Lige began the practice of his diffieu’t
profession. He threw his wh le soul into
the wo: k and old lawyers said that he
would sue eed. How short sighted, how
e'rrpncf us are hufiian calculations.
One eieni-ng Pink called on bright,
eyed Mary, lie had determined to ask
her to be his wife for he believed that
she had ceased to love ’Lige. Mary cor
dia’.Iy ivcJ ed him and his heart beat a
hopeful fat o.
“ Miss Mary, I suppose ymu have heard
buw hard I am stuiiviu.v k
“,Y es; and I also heard that you fated
to pass your exainlmitlo . ”
“Oh, that makes sm difference. ”
“It does with me. ”
“Mary, I want you !o be my wife. ”
“I can not, I am engaged to Lige
Berry. ”
“ * .
There came- a day when the wise men
thomrht of the predictions they had made
with retard to the two bo.,8. Berry is
now a distinguished judge. Pink Is in
the penitentiary. It will" be a shock, m
doubt, for some people to learn that a
good boy ex er ami u.ted to anything and
that- a bad boy ever failed to succee 1 in
life. . robabiy those fac-s should, nut
have been penned; but then the hut da
Lie motive which inspired their publ.ca
lion will more than offset the startling
revelations which are made in the narra
t on. The good, studious boy has had'
very’little chance ia this country. A)
the high-places of honor have been filled
by men who were once bad boys. H en
mi lusters of the gospel boast of how they
we e once bad, oh, yes, so very bad; and
with keen delight some of them tell of
their adventures on the race-course or a;
the card table t is time that a reform
should take place. Gi.e the good boy a
cl.u-.ce.
Casting; tho Squid.
[New York Time-!.]
rtanding upright in liis boat, the ex-
pert bass fisherman grasps Ids rod firmly
vw the reel, which must he one that,
runs with the least possible friction, and
holds ...O.t i r 4.0 < feet of line, and whirls
h with the s ;uid and several yards of line
tree. When the whirling s ;uld is brought
to a certain velocity, which the feeling
and Instinct of the angler must, judge to a
nicetv, lie thrusts the rod forward quickly
with a graceful movement that can only
be understood on being seen.
The whirling squid" instantly responds
to the movement, it shoots out with
amazing elocit ■ as straight as a bullet’s
iglitfi ’The wfiizzing reel pays out the
unresisting line, and if the cast has been
i made by an expert !•' 0 feet of line will
have left the reel before the squid drops
into the water ust at the spot it was
launched to reach. It will not be long
before some monster of a bass will show
his appreciation of the skill with which
the cast was made, by swooping upon the
atiractive lure, and then will come a
stai gle that may last an hour, and per-
haps two. before one or the other of the
combatants conquers—the longer the
struggle the more favorable its result to
ihe an .ier.
QUEENSWARE, TINWARE, GLASSWARE,
Woodenware, WMowware, Canned Goods, Etc.
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS.
DEALERS IN
the head of some
Before him stands a photo
0.-- , yjU'ect. With magnifying
giass in lur d he pores over each feature
work ng at the plastic clay all the time.
. taler ills rf'agic touch the clay grows
into 'a perfect" likeness of its prototype,
until every l feature stands boldly out.
The making r of the mode! is the hardest
part of thek work. To complete the
model of any jhjrominent person requires
from four to sy ix days, with two sittings
of two or tliw’ee hours each day; after
that the work ! qau be fin’shed in short or-
der. The boujiies of most of the large
figures, where n clothing or drapery is to
be used, are .ySiade of heavy paper molds,
making them 'touch lighter than wax and
at the same -ti Tie much more durable.
--'4----—
"rV in qi-.fc u .”]§ Modern Ant qae Furnituiv
SttNew York Sun.]
“I woulcles by,; to show you some antique
furniture, ”tpd aid a chipper clerk to a re-
porter-as htlgdliinted to an old fashioned
bedstead wilMSfcur s uare posts and four
rails with jjbgbfc ia them around which the
bed rope vvWMo be passed. Near by was
a carved
All were mat1
time stained «iou
“They are Meautiful. ” said the clerk
“ but 'tlieW-’BBnot old, as they'seem to be
We got from the fac.ory to-day.
We sell tl^HB for what they are. if • the
hui er tells>fiu% friends that his great
grandfather in-ought them over in the
.May ewer iyps no ie of our business. ”
“ They gsm stained then: ” said the re
porter. PV-
“Net exl Illy. There are a number of
good slainsffcfind polishes, but tlie trouble
with is lhat they roughen the
surface aT^^Biake it fuzzy. These things
are si o^A.-MnigatecI We put the furui
lure iiiST’ air tight room, and put a
platter unev¥[it. Then we pour a pint
( f strong aiHm nia info the platter, and go
out and sffiut the door. The ammonia
must : ot t ouch the wood, but the gas
from it rises * and penetrates the pc.res
The furnit'll4c and the chemical action be-
tween it ancH the tan ire acid in the word
does the bvqsiness. The wood is colored
so deep tlis.t a shaving removed shows
the same 'ancient color below. It is a
legitimate v'vay of beautifying furniture
as' long as t 'he customer is not deceived in
regard to : t. ”
'el and a chest of drawers,
of oak. and were dark and
lgh to be B00 years old.
.f,, i j’
1 The Feel-Kicser.
% [CMcssco News.]
He is a pihilanthropist in a small way,
and he imagines lie is the only man in the
city who haN) sense enough to kick fruit-
rinds off the? sidewalks. However, there
are about 2,-ri|00 other men in the city who
are on the sGme “lav,” and each thinks
himself the tonly one engaged in philan-
thropic worl4.
It really K, a habit, and it develops into
a form of insanity. Why, I have seen
old confi meld victims to the habit de
murely 1.Tioiwing men who were throw-
ing peels Gn the sidewalk just to eujo
the p'.easuv'e of kicking them into the
street. Wqignen do most of the throwing
on and men Mo all the kicking off. The
brigade is nlk composed of men who have
fal'ea on banana pee s themselves. Men
who have t;xperienced that acute sen a
tion do not Kick pee s off the sidewa k
they dodge /them and want to see some
one else kieT a hole in the air after tread
iug on a riiyd.
—t---
Wall, J reckon, it ain't. ”
“He says \ ou won l study. ”
“i eck< n he's right. ”
“Now, link, tell me. What do you
want to do?” *
“Nothin'. ”
“Ch, ; ou struck it, dad blast you; oh,
yes, you struck it. Lo you know where
3rou will land?”
“ o. sir. ”
“111 tell y< u. You'll land in the peni
tentiary. ”
“I don t know, sir. ”
“Weil, I knots, It is because you are
no account. ”
’Lige berry was the good boy of the
neighborhood. He stood first in his
classes at school and every one predicted
that he would enter upon an honored
career.
“Fink, wouldn’t you like to become a
lawyer. ”
“I ain’t particular. ” *
“ Well, I am. 1 want to put j7ou at the
“ I reckon
I’ll go
and see . udge Blake to-morrow.
He’ll either make 'you study7• or chop
That there is a proper time tyid place to
1 sneeze, both when it can be profitably
: done, is evinced by* the conduct of a
young ensign, poor and friendless, of ihe
, ng ish army7. He was cnee attending a
grand bail, and stood near a duchess.
She had inadvertently uttered an enor-
. minis sneeze - in fact a snort calculated
j to bring on her the ridicule of the assem
j bled guests. The young ensign took in
| the situation, re-echoed the refrain, and,
| grasping his nose as if to throttle the
| sneeze, rusjied from the room, leaving j
! the guests to suppose that he was the j
o ender. The next day he received a i
; captain’s commission from the duchess j
husband, with aline from the lady that
“it, was au ill sneeze that did nobody any !
good. ”___
I xtfillinft the Minister.
“What do they do when they install a
m I'ster, ” in uired a small boy, “do they |
put him in a stall and feed him?” “Not ;
a bit, ” said the lather, “they harness him
to ihe church ami expect him to draw it
alone. ” ___
Preparing: for Contingencies.
A Michigan woman has provided her-
self with mourning raiment, including a
handsome black bonnet, “because there
are so man. delicate members of tlie
family, and she had to have some new
clothes, anyway.”
The Laucet says the London hospitals
are full of small-pox patients who “did
not believe in vaccination. ”
J.'-les s Ferl-y and the Organ.
|Pa:-js Cor. New York Word.]
Jules Fe^ry esme back to Paris a few
daye ago. He was to remain away for
two years, Gut l aris seems to have at
tractions for- him that he cannot resist.
The wags oV the cafes say that a ter his
arrival in Baris he. went to mass to Notre
f ame to heijir the grand organ play. It i
know n that the former prime minister has
a passion fo r listening to the great organ
of Notre i igme, and the story is told that
on one occasion, afiter leaving the church,
he whispered in the ear of a friend, in a
voice of gloomy foreboding; “That organ
will bring nne to believe in God yet, if 1
don’t quit s£oing to listen to it. ”
Doctor 0f tha Old School.
[Rcfene<\]
In order t*;o prevent his inhaling noxious
germs the, french physician of the time
of the pestjilence of Marseilles (1720-21
used to go, his round of visits incased in
an armor 1 consisting of a short morocco
gown, a heljmet of the same material, with
a ponderous nose, and the nose stufied
with aromatics, which, notwithstanding
its being a doctor s nose, would prove an
enlivening .feature at a modern carnival
circle for a connection. Ti«, rats find
these things all out in no time, and start
boarding h- uses of their own. ”
“Do you like ihe business?”
“ V< eil. no, I don’t. J don’t mind the
smell nor the ra s, but there are worse
th ngs than that. Yaw mav he cleaning
out, when all of a sudden from a small
pipe will come a-burst of steam and scald-
ing water from some, factory in the neigh-
borhood. qs course you remem er it
the*next time. Then sometimes the sewer
gets choked, and enoke-damp fills it all
lip and the first th;ng you know you are
dead. Street gas gets into the sewer, and
if you use a light or a match there’s an
explosion. One time there was a block in
a fast sewer; thats one that has a good
grade. The bo vs further up the street
had Hushed the sewer with water from
ihe h drant, and d gone down the man-
hole to see if I could find out the trouble.
Just as i reached the bottom, the dam
which made the block gave way, and a
ha f mile of water rushed down and
pinned me against that ladder as rat as a
Bounder, If I’d 1 eeu on the other side of
it, I wuuldn t be here now to tell you
about it. No, it isn't a boss life alto-
gether. ”
Tlie Array Mu ket of To-Bny.
[Boston . r serpt.]
When the war of the rebellion ope ned,
the best weapon in the world was ihe
“bpri g ield musket, ” which was effect
ive for 1,000 yards, but no soldier could
cud and tire that musket once a minute
even in a fight. The soldiers carried but
forty rounds in their cartridge boxes.
iiw think of the difference The army
m :Sket of to day can be fired twenty-four
times a minute and is elective for de-
struction of life at a distance of two miles.
The old sty e of close work in ft battle is
at an end, and one an be informed at the
arsenal that artil ery shields have become
a nee ss.ty for the protection of gunners.
With the effective muskets of the pres-
ent day a battery would be deprived of
its men by the sharpshooters of the enemy
as far as they could be seen, and e un-
able to do anything in return, for the old
methods of supporting and protecting a
cattery, i y infa Ary keeping back the in-
fantry on the other side, is at an end.
lie enemy needu t be within a milg of
the . attcry, and yet pick orf his men with
the new weapons and the use of glasses
So shields of steel, thick enough to * e
im; envious tobu lets, whUh can be placed
before a battery of Gattling guns ora new
si eel gun, light hi each loading, but of
good range, and thus protect the gunners
from long range infantry, have Income a
necessity.
Seitrcliing; for His EJncle.
[Atlanta ((institution.]
Col. Nat Hammond was on the tra:n,
not long ago, when a lank, inquiring-
looking stranger moved across the aisle
and took a seat by him. He gazed at
Col. Hammond attentively for a full
minute, and then said:
“Howdy do?”
“I am well, sir,” replied Col. Ham
mond.
A pause for about two minutes; them
“What mout your name be?”
“My name is Hammond, sir. ”
A stilt longer pause, and then; “I hope
there ain’t no harm done?”
“There is not, sir!”
An embarrassing silence, during which
she stranger contemplated Col. Hammond
ilosely then: “ You see, Bve got an uncle
lives up in Tennessee, that I ain’t never
seen, and I thought 1 might come up on
him some time by jist asking folks their
names I ” __
Water strongly impregnated with tar is
becoming very popular in Europe as an
;ii;ectitude.
CLOTHING,
Fine Hals, Shoes, Notions, &c.
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS.
The Only Exclusively Dry Goods House in Llays County.
ED. CHRISTIAN,
R. HAYWARD .
ED, CHRISTIAN & fJQ,
DEALERS IN
Lumber, Shingles, Lath,. Sash,
DOORS .A-KTO BLIJSTIbS.
All Orders Promptly Filled. Office and Yard, Near I. & G. N. R. R. Depo
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS
At the
Dealer in
will be found
THE BEST BRANDS OF WHISKIES, ALSO WINES, ICE COLD
BEER THE MOST SATISFACTORY CIGARS,
AND THE BEST
BILLIARD -A.I>T:D FOOL TABLES.
WILLIAM KYSER, Proprietor.
F1 XT Pt I>T I T XT R HI
W. NANCE.
-AND-
Caiifoi'jniA’s Yolccnic Eruption.
‘4 i Chicago II ritd.l
The most/ recent volcanic eruption in
the nited [-tales was that which half
filled l eather lake, northern Californai.
in or aboutflhe year 18;70. This locality
has lately i been visited by the emineni
plutonist, < a. Button, who says that the
lava sheet loured out was over 100 feet
thick, and Covers a space about 1x3 miles
in extent iji the center of which a cinder
cone GOO fe»et high covers tlie rent The
la.a sheet ijs rough and ragged in the ex
treme, he says, but shows as yet no trace
of weathering. For a space of 00 to J0h
yards froin the co"e tJ>e trees \ver<,
kill ■
UNDERTAKERS’ SUPPLIES,
Has a full line of metallic and wooden
coffins, ladies’ gentlemen’s and chil-
dren's burial robes and Egyptian
embalming fluid,-with instruments
for embalming.
SAB MARCOS BARBER
Conducted
j, w. mMMom & b
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