The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-05-12
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A hahy.hoy In California Is dead
iiom eating pluR'hlossoms
"Shure M where IL the entrance
oul'' asked an lrlshman Of the Jailor
"EXtremes meet sald u Milwau.
keean on encounlering u 49, L0uisian,
Noyes, the new minister 10 France,
Is the man that old lilll Allen beat,
The Russians sleep In their clothes
ana never quarrel over u hne'toolh
comb,
The bottom ofau empty flour barrel
makes a war map that people eau un-
dersiand,
II II now said that Putnam had moth.
lng 10 do with the battle Of Bunker
Hill. lie Il still allowed his wolf
however.
Miss Betsy Jones died In Royalston
Mass, the other day, but she had
passed her one hundredth year before
! she gave up,
Ward Lamon h not gloomy because
Ben Wade called him u liar, lie says
that Ben is "too old 10 whip aud too
wicked Ia die"
When Greek meets Greek then
comes the tug of war, hut when Amer
lean meets American its "whatll you
have TO drinkw
a lady monkey at Gilmore's garden,
Philadelphia, has been blessed with a
son, The newcomer weighs only six
ounces, but il very lively.
"Don't be insuItan,n exclaimed
Prince Gorlschakotl ".Aud don't You
czbrs me,n replied Safvet Pasha, saw
agely; "n0ne OF your czars around
men
A Mr.. Witty has been fined in Brook
Ign for an assault. He Is nota mem
her Of the photographic association. In
fact the association has never had
any witty member,
The podophyllum peltatum, the as.
simna tril0ba and the amelanchier
adadensis, are in bloom In Philadel.
phia, bat very few OF the Philadel-
phians are aware Of IL.
Such is the strong feeling in England
MS TO the illluck OF marrying In May,
that n late dignitary of the church
never would perform a marriage In
that month for friends.
The world does not seem to have
teen sufficiently drowned ut the time
OF the food. Kars is not far from Ala
rat, the mountain upon which the ark
rested, and to-day the descendants OF
Noah are numbering each other at
kgrs.
Why does the Russian squadron
linger in our harb0r? The young lady
who keeps one of the grand dukes
cards prominently displayed in her
pnrlor, bushes slightly when asked the
question, and gently replies: "Don't
ask me-"
The Hawkeye man ruefully remarks:
"Was 1t Her Brother ?n is the title OF
n new novel. We think not. II IL our
impression that the large gentleman
in plaid coat, who was kicking him
down stairs and calling for the dog,
was her brother
A little girl recently went out to
make CALI as she rose to go she eX-
claimed. "0h, forgot ] want to see
all your new spring dresses and things;
they'll ask me about EN- the first thing
when | geU home" She was furnished
with the required information.
Two cents il virtues reward in Bos-
ton A letter for the Boston Traveller,
insufliciently stamped, was dropped
into the postoillce whereupon one of
the clerks, out of his own pocket, put
q stamp on 1t, and wrote that he did
SO because of the papers single-handed
defense of right
The Graphic says: When new Pc
destrienne makes her debut on the
sawdust track in Boston, the papers
call it "bounding from sedentary ob
security into the arena Of peripatetic
celebrity They have to put mus
tard poultice on the back of the die
tionary every night.
Miss Grundy gives reason why Mr..
Sartoris, Nellie Grants husband, has
selected the Baltimore line of steamers
on which to return to England. 1t is
because he can land at Southampton,
near his fathers country place, and
there leave some horses taken over
with him. One ia fast trotter pre-
scented by the ex.president.
The first game of croquet of the
season of 1877 was played in Burling-
ton the other day The young man
won the game, but it broke the malet
handle. She hasn't spoken to him
since, and the lump on the side Of his
head IL SO big that half the tine he
wears his hat on the lump and ties
cold compress around his head.
The hard times among the upper ten
in this city during the past winter
have been chiefly indicated by pauci-
ty of dinner parties, and diminution
in the number ofnew dresses. A casual
observer would detect no change, but
ladies are heard to say: "She actually
had on that old dress she wore two
months ago at the Brownsmiths." "No,
really" etc, etc.
Some Williamsburg, New York,
school boys held their playmate,
Edward Joseph Gombere, under
grocer's awning, so that the cold rain
poured down his back. Gomberg went
home and died, and the teacher re
proved the boys who killed him, going
so Gar as to call them murderers,n
but the father made the teacher apolus
gize.
The present Earl OF Eglinton, whose
father presided at great Burns festi>
val in 1874 and delivered an eloquent
eulogium on the poet, says: 81 beg to
say that have had the bad taste TO
neither appreciate Burns character
nor poems, so, under these ciroum-
stances, j must teg to decline sub
scribing towards the proposed monu-
ment at KilmarnOck."
First Englander "Hi ear that Tum-
mas Carlyle 'as been saying we mustn't
fight the ROOshans Second Eng =
"WeT, Hi don't suppose the Hempress
will mind Tummas. A hempire Were
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