The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-10-16
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

The widow of "Stonewalln Jackson
will be the guest of Virginia ON the
Occasion of the unwilling Of the statue
Rofl the great soldier and patriot,
| The epizootic has reached Richmond,
| ind but lew horses could now be al
flowed linen sheets, if judged by the
Old Scotch rule as applied to sneezing
when given snuff.
| The zeal of relic hunters has reached
its climax. A gentleman of Jackson,
Tennessee, has preserved in alcohol II
bed-bug which was caught in bed
General Jackson slept in.
During recent fire near the Baptist
church, ia Columbia, South Carolina,
an old negro dropped on his knees and
prayed, 80 Lord, save dis church for II
more convenient season."
Last week over two thousand roughs
from New York, Brooklyn and Long
Island City, witnessed three hundred
dollar dog-light near Newton, and re-
ceived edifying instruction.
The Lynchburg Virginian has II
Paris correspondent who says II is ru-
mored that the Prince Imperial is fast
losing his eyesight. The eye OF the
world is fast losing sight Of the youth.
They tell of u man in Maine who
kicked can of nitro'glycerine out of
| his way. TIE story Is shocking one,
as the story of the vain search for the
scattered fragments Of a human being
always IL.
The Detroit Free Press says modesty
Is not yet extinct. DR.. Mary Walker
would not take Off her pants for a mill
lion dollms.p That depends on cir
cumstances, and the chances of unity
of time and place. see -
Miss Alcott, the authcross,n an en-
change says, "refuses to- wear zebra
stockings, and makes her bustles out
ofavery small evening paper" Then
there is some use for a very small even
Ing paper, after all. y
Miss Charlotte Champion, leading
actress in the West, died suddenly on
the 9th, ut louisville, Ky On the
week previous to her death she played
the Queen in Hamlet, y" being one of
the supports Of Mr.. Mccullough. .
Chief Engineer Wood, of the Navy
Department, has invented new mo-
tive power, which he will exhibit at
the Centennial Exhibition. The pow
er is obtained from carbonic acid gas,
which is produced by means of cleo
tricity and galvanism. On
Certain wicked newspapers say that
the Radicals should study the financial
policy OF Pennsylvania, rs she offers to
pay her guano de6t--Gcent for cent.
Upon this policy reversed, cent for
scent, the Radicals seek to carry the
Mississippi elections. However, the
darkies will not assent, you know.
Some very candid sort of person ask
ed Jefferson Davis the other day, If he
considered himself an honest man.
jeff viewed his interrogation moment
with some surprise, and then pleasant
~ observed, "lt's SO long since Pve
had any official business In Washing
ton, that can't tell.n
"Maria," observed Mr.. Holcombe,
as he was putting on his clothes,
there aint no patch on them hreeches
yet" " ! can't do it now no way; Pm
TOO busy "Well, give me the patch
then and III carry it around with me.
| don't want people to think can't
afford the cloth" 81 IN
AS n gentleman was nearly run over,
in n narrow street by dray, he shout
ed TO the driver, edo you want,to ktil
me"' whereupom the driver put the
thumb OF bis dexter hand 10 his nose, 4
and spreading out his fingers like u
fan, replied, "lf ! knowed you was n
comm this way, l would have sent
you postal cardg'a dSF3 N%
An Irish clergyman once. broke off
the thread of his DISCOURSE and thus |
addressed the congregations any
dear brethren, let me tell you that RI
am now just half through my sermon,
but as | perceive your impotence, |
will-say that the remaining half isiiot
more than quarter as long rs that
you have heard"
Benjamin. Wood, a veteran Of the
war of 1872, died in Brooklyn, New |
York, on the 9th. In 1872 having
been for some years established in II !
business, he raised at his own expense
a company of volunteers, l25 In num-
her During the war he received
Capitalize commission in the Twenty |
seventh United States Infantry, and /
served until January 10, 1915, when the
army WIS disbanded.
Two or three months ago Detroiter !
started to build him house, and rs he
had always heard his wife 'Jawing
about the lack of closets In
houses, he determined to give her on
agreeable surprIse.S She went up with '