The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-10-14
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

A Paris letter says that pull-backs
are going out of fashion, and that wo-
men will soon begin to wear clothes
again.
A lot Of land was sold in London re-
Gently at the rate of eighty'nine dol
lars square foot, which would make
an acre worth three million and eight
hundred and seventy-ive thousand
dollars.
Prince Leopold, the youngest son OF
the Queen of England, has joined the
temperance movement, having ac-
cepted the presidency of the Oxford
branch OF the Church of England Tenn
perance Society.
Mrs. Tilton and Mrs. Morse are liv-
ing together in Brooklyn. A party OF
Plymouth people lately paid them n
visit and presented them with purse
of 800. All the children but one,
Alice, have gone to Mr.. Tilton.
"Carl Formes is teaching music in
San Francisco" From the dreadful
eagerness with which newspapers
reach for and publish that item, IL
might be inferred that teaching music
was worse than stealing clans, and
that Formes was being held up as an
awful example.
The Jury In the Beecher trial con-
tend that they are entitled to extra
pay for their services, and have not
given up the hope of getting it, They
have recently held several meetings,
and at last committee has been APP
pointed to draw up petition to the
Board of Supervisors in Brooklyn.
Alfred Penn, an old and successful
merchant of New Orleans, died in
Virginia, on Saturday last. He was
President of the Union Bank for many
years, proprietor of Penn's Cotton
Press, and was identified with the
mercantile interest of New Orleans
during his whole life. He was the
father of Hon. ID. b. Penn.
Mr.. Threefoot, of Minnesota, has
opened u correspondence with Mr..
Fivetlnger, of Montreal. The first
named stands only three foot in his
boots, while the latter stands six feet
in his stockings, and FIVE fingers In
each of his gloves. They are arrang-
ing to go to meet the siX-legged calf
and the colored gentleman who winds
up his abdomen.
A German paper expresses uneasi-
ness ut the decreasing population OF
Prussia proper Between 1851 and 1864
there was an increase of S,4O6, but be-
tween 1864 aud 1867 there was de-
crease of 1921, and between 1867 and
1871 one of 5S,4i0. Allowing for the
loss Of life in the last two wars, and
for the Prussian soldiers quarlered In
France Mt the time of the census, the
loss Of population in ten years amounts
to 1920.
Among the latest arrivals at Paris
are two centenarians from the South
of France, NJ. and Nine. Ballue. The
man Is said to be no years Of age, and
the woman l05 years. M. Ballue is an
old soldier of the First Empire, and
while visiting the ruins of the Tulle-
ries delighted his wife by pointing out
to her the spot where he mounted
guard under the Consulate of Bona.
parte. Both these courageous centena'
rians enjoy excellent health.
DIR. Ellsworth, awell-known surgeon
of Hartford, Conn, has just treated O
remarkable case. A patient was suffer
ing from the Judgment Of a tough
piece of meat at a point in the esopha
gus where II made breathing very diill
cult and seemed likely to produce :
dangerous inflammation. DIR. Ellsworth
obtained from the stomachs Of severa
dogs supply of gastric juice, Will
which he succeeded, In the course o
the day, in entirely dissolviDg th,
meat and relieving the sufferer. - New
: York Post.
Philadelphia Times; An Ohio mer
chant, resident OF an interior town
while making purchases for his fal
and winter trade yesterday, related I,
a Times reporter To what extent tn
electioneering on the financial planl
has been carried In his State. Tn
manufacturing villages, where pur
chases are made and orders general
given in payment, the owners of facto
ries and mills have been paying 70
labor in specie, and gold has becom
for time the circulating medium q
certain sections of the State. or cours
this, he says, II nothing but dodge
delude the working people into be
lief that there Is plenty Of gold In tn
/ country and that the arguments Of tn
|. innationists, no far ~ they refer to tll
. depressed cnndltion OF business, ar