The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-08-21
NOTES AND OPINIONS,

The largest mirror in the world
has inst been put into the parlor of
one ot the Saratoga hotels. Two plat
form cars were required to transport il.
II will he Il great convenience To the
Milwaukee bellies at Saratoga, enabling
them, for the first time in their lives,
to get u complete view of their feet in
a mirror.-[Chicago Times.
The death of Andy Johnson leaves
no eX-President nor eX-Vice President
among the living.-[Des Moines Reg
lister. Let's See: ColfaX died of an
aggravated attack of Credit Nlobilier,
but what was Hamlin's disease? Oh!
yes; increased postage kille Hamlin,
and the Register is quite right-they
are more dead than Andrew Johnson.
[Chicago Times, lnd.)
-Steinberger, Prime Minister, and
the King of the banana country, are
said to have quarreled, because Stein
berger refused to annointhis Majesty's
royal corpus with cocOanut oil every
morning, or rub him down or groom
him. When last seen the King was
after his prime Minister with Il knotty
war club five feet long. Steinberger
was making for the coast.
Recently Mrs. Taylor, of Green
vile, Va, drove sixpenny nail into
the back of her head to relieve a
chronic pain in that region, and the
remedy provedso eflectual that she OBJ
iected to the removal OF the nail when
her daughter, in combing the mothers
hair, discovered it. The family physi-
clan, however, removed it, and the pa
tient is doing as well as could be en-
pected.
In reply to the official announce
ment that the degree of Doctor of Laws
had been conferred upon him 10y
Washington and Lee University, the
Hon. Charles 0ConOr says: "Inde-
pendently of other features rendering
it acceptable, it Is rendered extremely
so by the connection, even in this re-
mote manner, of my name with those
of the ilustrious departed, to whose
honor your shrine of learning is ded-
icated.
We learn from a reliable source
that an imposter, person calling
himself Smith, pretended to be a
Catholic priest, in TeXarkana, and
victimized the good people of that
place, the Rev. Father Buflard among
the rest. He stole the Rtudte ROnld't
I'M out of the church. He is de-
scribed as about forty-five years o.
age, ordinary size, dark complexion
black eyes, and hair getting gray
Look out for him.
News has reached military head
auartersto TO the effect that Capt. Nolan
commanding q scout of two cOmpa
njes, detached from Col. Shafter's eX
pedition, has struck the Indians, de
stroyed seventy-four lodges, captures
considerable plunder and was still il
pursuit of the redskins. No particu
lars given. 1t is believed he has givel
the Indians good thrashing.-lSal
Antonio Express, 9th.
The Sultan Of ZANZIBAR, on his visi
to the gun factory ut Woolwich, wher
the forty ton trip-hammer was a
work, saw the workmen lift an i'm
meuse iron grating, revealing u iui
mace about the size of an ordinar.
room, which sent forth such a glar
and heat that the party were com
pelled to shield their faces for tim
from the hot blast. "When shall W
get to prayers" he exclaimed on tn
return journey, "tor ! have seen tn
} gate of hell"
Kate Field Is said to have made
happy retort upon distinguished pre-
fessor expressing his astonishment {
the absence of the American nasal IL
!, tonation from her speech. Miss Fiel
said the omission was not so unusu;
among the people of the United State
as he supposed, and that she failed
see why Englishmen should esp ciall
remark its presence, since IL was, att
all, the old "Cromwellian WHINE" in
ported by the Plymouth and 9TH
colonies from Sussex, in which count
1t might still be found.
| Already the testimony taken
:, the Indian Investigation Commission
5 ers confirms some of the worst charg
!. of fraud at the Agencies. Major Lor
[ declares that the flour was so bad tn
e bread could not be made of it, but e
v ery effort was made to force it past h
|, inspection. When he refused to pa
}: II il was sent to the Agencies witho
e his brand. That which he had actual
e inspected was found at Sidney for Sc
: to residents there. There ~ addition
It evidence of the outrageous frauds
If the weight and delivery of beef catt
D, As vet the Commissioners have Oh
,e pricked the surface of this kind of t
timony; when they cut deeper 1t W
flow freely.-[New York Tribune, 81
The excavators at Pompeii ha
r unearthed almost every remnant
ancient life, perfumes, cooking ute
m sils, dishes and bread from the ovel
70 They are daily expected to dig up
J. copy of the st, Louis Republican. Il
r. latest discovery is series of househt
" accounts. 1t takes the poetry out
m ancient life to read how Julius PuN->
~ Fmiljanus was indebted to Luc
e. Barbo for two pounds of beefdld
IN ne0lte. and that Agrippina owed Sc
et nicia five asses for hair dye; but thu
Ii Is that the glory of all earthly thil
ID observation-disclosures.
70 "A Corpus Christi special to
a. Galveston News, dated August II
20 saws the "Corpus Christi, San Diegt
su Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Railr'
ne Company was permanently organi
y, here to-day, and elected the follow
D, officers: u. Lott, President; Will
- - l.. Rogers, Vice President j. b. Nit
On ell, Secretary, and G. +. Evans, Trt
"a urer. This company was chartered
y the State Legislature, on the l3tl
" March, since which time they b
ne graded thirty miles; the bridges are
IN under construction; machine and
ef, shops built, and ties upon the gro
20 for part of the road. 1t Is expecte
OF have fifty miles completed and in
lus Grafton by March, 1876. The stoc
lP all owned by the people Of this coun
of The Memphis Avalanche says: !:
by ring the month OF February le7.
am gainst the positive instructions of hl