The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-03-15
News Items.

Richmond sets up for rival of Bos-
ton because she has 400 pretty widows
and 400 pretty girls.
A panther, which howls all night
and feeds mostly on domestic cats, is
agitating Wichendon, Mass.
DEBORAH, Ia, would be good place
for eastern emigrants. They are going
to kill all the dogs there.
Daniel Reed, blind man, of Sioux
City, has patented u new car-coupler,
said to be simple and perfect.
The South Bend Register reasserts
that Mr.. ColfaX is permanently out of
politics. The statement looks plausi-
bic.
Yellow River, Ark, has resolved in
town meeting that ''the great need of
this town is about forty women"
New York Commercials Cautiously
enough, il was at Wagga-Wagga that
the Tichhorne tale was first set in mo-
ton.
A man with turn for relics in Lew
istown, Maine, possesses "his first and
only pair of kid gloves, purchased
thlrty-tWo years ago."
A western paper says the next ma
ti0nal prohibition ticket will probably
be, for president, Van Pelt, of Ohio for
vice president, Henry Hill, Of New
York.
The women of Chicago, says the Post
and Mail of that city, follow the tao
tics of Mcclellan in conducting the
whiskey war. They are waiting for
the dust. They cannot stand March in
the mud.
AT Il meeting of society in Boston,
composed of men from the Emerald
Isle, IL member made the following
mention: "Mr. Prisidint | move yees
that we whitewash the cealing green
in harmon of the ovid flarg"
A Pennsylvania, who loves the
smell of cigars, but whose stomach
won't let him do his own smoking,
keeps on hand machine which pulls
away on 4 cigar or pipe, pu1fs out the
fragrant flavor and sends it curling
around his head.
A writer in the British Colonist notes
various instances of the transmission
of idiocy into genius by head breaking
accidents. What vast number of
unappreciated Michael Angeles and
"mute inglorious Millions" sleep the
mighty sleep of the unjust in the cells
of our police stations.
When the prince of Wales was mar
ried, Artemus Ward gave him some
practical hints as to how to manage
Alexandria, founded on his own eXpe-
rience with Betsy Jane. "Now you're
married, my boy" said he, "you can
eat onions" Another royal onion is
about to enter the English capital.
Mr.. Lowe, in his address to the con-
stituency of the London university,
says that "the man who prefers custom
to law announces a principle which
would stereotype every abuse and sub
stitute the blind guesses of barbarism
for the clear and well considered con-
illusions of civilized age"
A man who was buried at Denver
eighty-one years ago, was exhumed
the other day and found to bepetritied.
His grandchild has made arrange
meats to exhibit the stone at ten cents
admission. This is a nice story to send
circulating through the newspapers.
Where was Denver eighty-one years
ago?
Bayard Taylor says, in an obituary
notice of Johann Friedrich Strauss
"Wjth all his destructive tendencies in
the sphere of dogmatism and history,
it must be acknowledged that he chung
to the ideal element in human nature,
and yearned for something more posi-
tive and substantial than the sugges.
lions of denial and doubt, the monoto-
nous echoes of the everlasting no."
In his political relations he was emil
nently conservative; he had no SYM
pathy with the blind radicalism of
many European reformers, and, If he
reposed deeper trust in science than
theology, it was because he found in 1t
a more sovereign remedy for human
woes"