The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-17
LLAS, TEXAS.
FRIDAY MORNING :;::::: DEC. H..
PENSIONS AND THINGS.

No kilograms,
No mail opened.
Watched was originally groom.
Contractors are not contractlonists,
The author of Beautiful Snow-Jack
Frost.
0rville Grant has been qulte.ill in
Washington.
The Baths Of Luca are taken by that
prima donna.
Wendell Phillips has a new lecture
on the Indian question.
The regular fall crop of ships are TAX
ing a bott0mry bound.
The report of the Secretary of State
is said to be Fish story.
The seekers after Charley Ross are in
the heir restorative business.
Count Arnim has arranged to pass
the winter In San Reno, Italy.
Striped stockings, it is said, attract
most attention on windy days.
Literary bonny clabber Is the latest
name for Tupper's latest effort.
The fact that Tweed Is "tiighty" will
probably prevent his conviction.
The latest toast Is, "May we kiss the
girls we please, and please the girle we
kiss.n
We now observe the difference be-
tween Tweed-le deaf and Tweed-le
dumb,
The gifted Jones, of Washington, is
seulpturing burst of Reverdy john
son.
The season Is here hen fellow can
rise with the sun and not rob himself
of sleep.
The Philadelphia Press locates Cow
inglon in Ohio. That Is crooked
geography.
One hundred and sixty-six branches
of the Congressional tree are climbs OF
the law"
Boss Tweed IL undoubtedly a materi-
alization fraud-one of those deceitful
Katy Kings.
At great reunions it is not unusual to
see lacks resisting, particularly If the
floors be carpeted.
Talmage won't say who fired his
house bat thinks the actors are bad
enough \. De Wilt.
All New York buys China tea sets
for Christmas presents. Dallasites can
find them at China Hall.
Won Bulow wears out piano a
month, and If he lives long enough
will eXterminate the race.
The cutting of the trees on its banks
has widened the Ohio river from one
to three hundred yards.
Edgar Poe was o good deal "set up"
by women. and now his works are
undermining the same ordeal.
CASTELAR, proposes to start news
paper in Paris and run 1t In the inter-
est of the Spanish Republicans.
Kaleidoscope Wickliffe warrants,
which change from 500 to 5000 and
back again are the latest novelties.
From the number of its maid matr
mentally inclined, Philadelphia should
be called "the city of sisterly love.
THEIRS new book is entitled "Mind
and Matter" What is mind? No
matter. What is matter? Never nina.
Either Unser Fritz will, after all,
come to the Centennial, or there has
been some more lying done about MIN.
The man who helped to make gun
powder finer by grinding 1t In coffee
mill has nearly completed his new
kitchen.
Paris critics say Offenbach's last ope-
ra bouffe, 'pThe Creole" Is failure,
and the same report is made Of Lecocq's
lie Pompon."
The Herald says Senator Sargent, of
California, has been appointed orator
for the ensuing year by the Grand Mas
ter Of Masons.
Two forthcoming works by Victor
Hugo are the concluding volumes OF
the III legends DIES Siecies" and 1.-THE
Art of Being Grandfather"
Santa Claus probably knows where
Ross Tweed is-Ha perhaps he is Boss
Tweed! He looks like 1t. Let the po-
lice arrest that person on sight,
Professor Proctor cOntradicts the re-
mort that he il about to assume the
chair of astronomy In the new Catbo-
lie University at Kensidgton, England
Mr.. Delane, having determined to
retire. at least temporarily, from the
Tondon Times, revival Of that mus
lin Delane pun may be expected.
There IL q man in Michigan named
John Devil. The chances are that ne
Il n married man, with lot OF little
devils and small hill of his own.
The checklist man yet Is Jim Green,
Of Ieayenwnrth- dog fancie and a
v q ia Jlm-who wanted a pass over
a railway on the ground that he was a
Smith for q Smith in the Indian
Commissionership is a new measure OF
exact compensation. A mere PREDATORY
matter Of John q. makes no great
difference.
MIR. Talbot, of Canada, one OF tne
nersons who was drowned In the lost
Pacific has turned up all right. IL ap.
nears that be was registered, put
missed the boat.
A correspondent writes from Fort
stoktop. Texas, saying that IN the
Twenty.fifth Regiment OF United
=. !" 49, tharo Ia a First EerQeant