The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-03-14
Drift.


The sawdust swindlers are at work
once more.
Wilkie Collins sails for England in
about n fortnight.
Pennsylvania is to have an "aged
printers home"
Parasian consumptives lubrlcate their
/ bread with cod liver oil.
In the late elections in Great Britain
over 1900, 900 votes were east.
Father Burke has received the title
of doctor and master in theology.
Marshal Bazaine's counsel declines to
receive any fees for his service.
They are selling Theodore Tilton's
photograph in Dubuque as n portrait
of Stokes.
Trotting horses for sporting purposes
can not now be imported into Canada
free of duty.
A Utah man, who is trying to make
both ends meet, lives Oh head cheese
and OK tail soup.
Who has the head Of the table, we
wonder. "Mr. and Mrs. Nilsson" Is
way 1t is registered now.
Buffalo bed quilts sell rapidly since
man found 5000 sewed up in the bat
ting of one which be bought.
"A Boston paper calls druggists the
"pill-ers" of society. AS they cater to
the public tastes they might be called
cater-pillars.
Hon. George HI. Pendleton<knocked
Columbus hackman down last week.
One vote less at the next national con-
vention.
Thomes Danforth, of Boston High
lands, gave party on his ninetieth
birthday, and played the fiddle himself
for the dancers.
Ex-President johnson is perplexed.
He sees the circle of female crusaders
coming, but sees no chance of swing
ing around it.
TIE Governor of Maine recently
sent to the legislature of that state
the first veto for fifteen years. Both
houses sustained the objection.
The Boston papers says Yankee
Locke in the play ''ten nights in a bar
room," is doing more for the temper
ance cause in that city than the state
law can accomplish.
lIle SINlScIl NIIGCtOlS vi VliC lSootoit
theater sat down, all by themselves, to
$500 dinner at Parker's the other day,
and dcvoured to the amount of S3l
head.
Forty graves, with their ghasily con-
tents, recently fell through defective
arch into u railway tunnel, which
passes under the famous Partisan cem-
etery, Pere la Chase.
Our Irish editor suggests that news
papers at loss for headlines for the
temperance crusade, can very properly
call it "rum-war," as the ladies are
making it warrum for the gin singers.
A strong minded female, who was
arguing the other day that the condi-
ton of married woman was slavish,
was eflectually silenced by her oppo-
nent who said, at is not slavisll, but
high-menial."
Father Secchi, the Jesuit astronomer,
has accepted the post of director of the
Roman observatory from the Italian
government. He had previously de-
clined a chair in the Irish catholic uni
versity.
Talleyra nd's sarcastic brevity is adj
duced as an example of brief epistles:
He wrote to lady whose husband had
died suddenly, "Ah! Madame!" and
then, on hearing of her wedding soon
after, he wrote, "Oh! MadameW
Jones growled very harshly about
his afternoon meal, and his wife retorted
with, "You needn't make such hor-
rible din about such little thing like
that.n "Well. if have made hOrri-
bic din, you've made a horrible din
ner."
Rear Admiral E. G. Parrott, who was
ordered to the Asiatic squadron in
October last to relieve Rear Admiral
Jenkins, has returned in i'll health. He
was ordered home by the fleet surgeon
and reached Portsmouth, N. H., last
evening.
SIR WALTER CRoFToN, author of the
Irish Prison system, is expected to ad-
dress the National Prison Reform
Congress at st. Louis on March 18th.
Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour will
make the opening address, and the
Rey. DR.. Bellows will be among the
other speakers.
THE search for the oldest living ex-
member of the New York Assembly IS
becoming interesting. DIR. Elias Il.
Foote enjoyed the distinction fora few
DAYS, but he is now supplanted by Mr..
David C. Judson, of Ogdensburg, who
was member in 1918, two years earli-
er than DR.. FOote.