The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-11-14
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

A London merchant recently COM
planned before II magistrate that In one
day eleven organ grinders played be-
fore his house, three persons sang, and
company OF negroes performed.
When evening arrived he didn't feel
like Oliver TN ist.
Lord Plunket, Precentor OF 81. Pat.
rirk's Cathedral, Dublin, has been
elected Bishop Of Meath, In succession
To DR.. Butcher, who cut his throat u
few weeks ago. Lord Plunket, who
was born In 1928, married daughter
of the late Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness.
The charm OF Newport IL made up
OF fantastic old.time flavor, aud the
loveliness OF modern artistic garden.
Ing aud architecture. Every year II
proves more and more attractive to
men noted In politics, literature aud
business. The latest purchaser OF q
summer home there IL Mr. George II.
Pendleton.
Mr.. w. = Gilbert, certainly the
most imaginative and wholesome Of
later dramatic writer's, naturally
enough doesn't think that modern
dramati, literature Is going into the
deep, the silent grave,n Az Mr.. Thomas
Coob says. Like a provincial Rich.
ard the Third, II may not be very good
or very strong, but II takes long time
dying"
DIR. Allen Thompson, ut the recent
meeting OF the British Association,
exhibited aud described Two skulls
from the Andaman Isles, md referred
to the custom the natives had VI pre-,
serving portions OF their frlendb'
skeleton and wearing them as orna.
meDts. The skulls of their husbands
were actually worn upan the shoulders
Of widows
Mr.. w. ). Gilbert, certainly the
most imaginative aud Wholesome OF
later dramatic writers. naturally
enough doesn't think think that mod.
ern dramatic literature Is going into
1.-THE deep, the silent grave" as Mr..
Thomas Cobb says "Liks the pro.
vincial Richard the Third, II may not
be very good, or very strong, but II
takes long time dying"
What President Grant thinks OF him
self, In the opinion OF IA foreigner, may
be seen In the Pail Mall Gazette, which
has been publishing n series Of "Imag'
mary Cogitations,n purporting to DO
held by the rulers OF nations. IL has
reached America, and makes the
President say, among other thing: "If
we're oil TO race for the almighty dol
lar, don't see why President should
be left behind. And he won't be oil.
Their, depend upon II, whether you call
him Grant, or Hayes, or Tjlden, or
what not. He may Halter himself he
doesn't care joining in the race, but
wait til he finds himself In the front.
II the country doesn't like
II, let her look out for breed OF angels
10 fight her battles, and manage her
affairs. Pm no angel but man, and
I've done u mans work for mans
wages"
The special correspondent OF the
London Times writes from Newport:
"There IL In the well bred American
woman friendly frankness and fear
lessness of manner, OF kind which,
| ~ iot 10 NY uAput 'ChOV SoOot 10 NV w
be found In any other woman In the
world, and viii h irresistibly invites
the merest strangers confidence. 1t
Is due, | suppose, to the non-European
way IN which, as girl, she has been
brought up, and when, for want
OF perfect breeding, the man
ner Overbteps tho right line 30
that frankness degenerates into
bolcness, IL becomes as exceptionally
painful az, In Its perfection, II Ii ex-
oeptionally pleasant. She Is, too, al.
most sure to be quick -quickness 10
essentially an American characteristic,
though whether due to climate or edu-
cation, or both, cannot say--so that
you feel she will see at once what you
mean more clearly, perhaps, than you
can say II; and even II she makes
wicked fun OF you aud your country,
which, grlevs 20 say, she 10 some.
what fond OF doing, the fun Is so good
and 30 evidently not fun Of malice but
OF merrIment, that q man must be
sadly prlggish or vain who can feel
anything but amused at IT,"