The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-28
recent London dispatch credited her
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eyes and dark hair. Her belief in mci
Is confined to two haries Dlckel'
and Theodore Parker.
The king of SaXony has begun sui
} for libel against the publisher of thu
+ Politik, n newspaper Mt Prague, Bohe
mia. In the complaint he sets aside
his kingly titles, and considers him
self hurt ia his private character
A gentleman in Missouri drew al
his money out of the bank during tx
late panic and put it nobody knows
where. Then he died suddenly, ant
his heirs are wildly prospecting in al
sorts of probable and improbable
places.
A Brooklyn young man, WHO sal
down to mediate ia his sweethearts
lap, had occasion to caution her against
looping up her skirts with pins. Ht
found that the consequences had Il
tendency to disturb his mehtal poise
It is true, as a cOtemporary observes,
"that God meant women to he attrac-
tive, aud it is her duty to carry out
this design" but she could doubtless
do it more cheerfully if she only knew
what God meant by makinSsomc men
so unattractive.
Mr.. J. Mortimer Delaney, of Ken
tucky, fell into tank of sour mash
last week, and had a narrow escape
from sutfOcation. The accident is note
worthy as showing that, sooner or
later, Providence gets even with II man
who parts his name in the middle.
'I can't jne the Grange" said an
Oregon farmer. ~ am sorry" was the
reply; "we had counted on you" "No,
| can't jine," said the farmer; "becausc
they've let the women in, and they'll
work it round so as to get to vote
drec'ly, and | won't have nuthin' to
do with it. The women is gettin'
above their privileges, any way. They
don't stay at home enough now, as
st. Paul commanded, and | tell you |
won't have nuthin' to do with
oranges"
The parents of Miss America Lude-
ma Hagerson of Kentucky, might
! have known when they gave her that
| name that she never would have come
| to any good. She married a man at
| CntIcttsbuIg the other day, only to
| discover attvrWIrh that her husbands
/ first wife didn't like il.
! Customs change. a veteran Brook
| lyn telegraph operator sigls to think
that he isn't as happy now as h. was
| fifty wears ago at the village school,
when he used to write lis thoughts to
his sweetheart Oh Il bit of paper land
chew it up before he chucked 'em to
her, Brooklyn Argus
The two or three Americans who
have received the Gross of st.
Maurice" from the king of Italy, will
he pleased to hear that Victor EN-
manuel's favorte jest il, that there
are two things he never refuses to
any mana cigar and Cross of st.
Maurice.
Sir Walter Crofton, founder of the
Irish prison system, is expected to ar
rive in Boston before the Massachusetts
Legislature adjourns, and to present
his views before the committee which
is considering the subject of prison re-
form.
Josh Billings says, ''There IL hut
phew things on the face of this earth
more worthless than poodle, and yet
| am glad there IL poodle, for if there
was not there liz some people who
wouldn't have emmy object in living,
and have nothing to luv."
For what port is man bound dur
ing courtship? Bound to Havre.
A western butcher, whose premises
were robbed, said he "lost flesh.n
Among the brilliant salons of Paris
opened this winter is that of the Prin-
cess Mathilde.
Carlyle is described us looking quite
as well as he did ten years ago, and
being as wonderful in conversation as
ever.
The body of james Speaight, the in.
FAINT violinist. who died recently in
Boston, will be sent to his friends in
England.
A new writer upon Lord Byron says
that Madame dc Stael attempted 10
effect reconciliation between the poet
and his wife.
Jules Janin has come into the pos
session of good fortune by the death
of his father-in-law, but he is too i'll to
enjoy it.
Thompson, of Montgomery, records
himself us "farmer." He farms him
self grocery in Johnsonville.-[Day-
ton Journal.
John Reeve said to his boy, when
shaving proved difficulty: John,
wish you would not open any more
with my razors."
In Decatur, Illinois, when young
lady declines an offer to convoy her
home, he asks permission to sit on the
fence and see her go by.
'Tis true that 100000 bushels of
peanuts are every year devoured in the
United States. most of them by pale,
brokcn-hearted young ladies.
A lady in Washington was recently
heard to observe, on taking up the
morning paper: ~ wonder if anybody
has been born that i know"
Some of the prettiest aigrettes seen
this season are of spun glass, tinted
every imaginable hue and color. They
are especially effective under gas-light.
In Paris the ladies only wear white
petticoats for carriage or evening
dress. For ordinary house and prom
enade. wear, black silk OF velvet is the
rule.
An impertincDt fellow wants TO
| know if you ever sat down to- tea where
skinned milk was on the table with
out being asked, "do you take crcam"'
The Philadelphia Telegraph heads a
/ leading article with the words, "No
| More Submission" and swears that
/ i've cents is enough to pay for ride
! in horse-car.
The old style of making button-holes
I has gone entirely out of fashion. Now
a-days they are neatly bound with silk
4 braid the color of the dress trimming.
Bret Harte says that ''while in the
| West the broadcast humor is encOur-
I aged, IN the East, outside of certain
( charming circles, it is dangerous to be
/ funny"
The American Atlantic cable COM
pany expert to complete the laying of
/ their cable from the west coast of Ire
land to the shores of New Hampshire
I in May next.
/ pret Hart IL is said pan command n