The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-10
NOTES AND OPINIONS.


Hebrew Leader: There Is u large
share OF common sense In the worlds
average Judgment, after all. If II sees
"A man with ten commandments on
lips, and something quite different
written all over his life, it will be apt
to point to the discrepancy and utter
some harsh criticisms, but who can
blame il .?
Chief Justice Ryan, of Wisconsin,
would rather see woman supporting
her husband and children by honest
labor at the wash-tub than saving the
air in q court room. Says the great
Chief Justice "Nature has tempered
woman as little for the judicial con.
ilicts of the court room as for the phys
ical conflicts Of the battlefield. Woman
hood is modelled for geutler and better
| things. And il is not the saints of the
world who chiefly give employment
to our profession. II has essentially
and habitually to do with all that is
selfish and eXtortionate, knavish and
criminal, coarse and brutal, repulsivt
and obscene in human life.n
A very distinguished lawyer of Rich.
mond, who has passed the meridian oil
life, and has won renown as an orator
aud u jurist, was addressing court re-
Gently, and was in the midst of bril-
liant argument when he saw his wife
the idol of his heart-enter the
room. He at once became confused,
and concluded with some abruptness.
1t was the first time his wife had
heard him speak. Fearful that he
would not make a decidedly favorable
impression upon her, he who had tri-
umphantly faced judges, juries, legis-
lative assemblages, mass meetings, pc.
litical conventions and the best of the
Hterdf, succumbed, aud before one
who in her love for him would have
seen only the gems of his speech, and
whose criticism would have been full
est praise. II Petersburg (Va.) Index.
Charleston News and Courier Some
weeks since Governor Chamberlain
received request from a number of
ladies in Kansas for supply of pal
metto leaves, sheaf, rice, moss, etc,
for the decoration Of a South Carolina
table at grand Lady Martha Wash
ington tea party, to be held in that far
distant State. The requiston was fill
ed, and the several packages forward
ed without charge by the Baltimore
steamers ard Baltimore and Ohio road
and connection to the fair consignees,
who have acknowledged the safe ar
rival. Twenty years make great diff
ference in things; the shipments to
Kansas then We're not so harmless as
moss and leaves, but thus the world
moves aud we move along with 1t, and
we make no doubt the decoration of
the South Carolina table will be ns
great an object of attraction In Topeka
as elsewhere, for there seems to be an
increasing demand for these products
of our soil everywhere North now-a-
days
London Spectator The "Domesday
Book" of England has at length
appeared, aud when its true character
has been recognized will create an I'M
usual amount of social and perhaps pc.
litical interest. II is Dominally roll
of every man In England who pos.
sesses an acre Of her soil, covering
every grade Of proprletorship, from
the mighty Duke Of Northumberland,
who possesses in single county one
hundred and elghty-one thousand
acres of soil, yielding on
an average nearly = el an
acre; or the Duke of Devonshire, with
eighty three thousand acres in Derby.
shire alone TO the retired tradesman,
who talks of the grounds" Of an acre
and half surrounding his Mlddlesex
or Surrey villa. Every man who has a
copy can tell at a glance how much
land the neighboring magnate, or his
own rival in the county, or the new
purchaser who has just called upon
him, possesses of the soil, and what
the amount of his rent-roll would be IL
1t were unburdened, both stated
with official accuracy and clearness.
The book shows that less than forty
three thousand persons are land
owners in England In the political
sense Of the word.