The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-05-11
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

Moosehead lake in Mime is still GOV.
cred with ice
Instances of the hybridiziug of cattle
with bufaioes are becoming quite fire.
quent on the plains.
1t is singular how early in life child
gains the reputation of resembling the
richest and best looking relatives.
Dying in poverty says a modern
moraiist. us nothing--it is living in
poverty that comes hard on fellow.
a New Haven paper publishes list
OF overtwo hundred people having tele-
phones at their Offices or residences in
the city.
A Connecticut firm has lately been
detected seliing'a barreled mixture OF
sand and mud for a valuable fertilizer
at thirty-two dollars ton
The heather Chinee will learn some,
thing about the bible in California,
They are showing him out there that
the wages of All Sin is death.
The Kansas papers are still pitching
into the president for appointing +. +.
Baker, lottery dealer OF that state, an
honorary commissioner TO Paris.
A musical soeiaele is an entertain
ment where one poor person plays on
an unotiending piano, while I'LL other
people present sit around and talk.
Don't sit down to table where there
are twelve others In the first place il
is bad sign, and in the next place
you can't get as much to eat as if there
were only five or six.
In Agra and Dude, British India. the
number of persons starving is very
great, officers reporting in the latter
country that they find the water
courses strewed with dead bodies.
A Prussian shell. picked up after the
battle of Bapaume in 1870, exploded
the other day, blowing young mans
hand off, after lying TRANQUILITY on a
shelf for seven years.
Doctor" said a thick headed youth
to college professor, you once said
that fish is the proper food for men TO
eat who have brain work to perform.
How much ought eat to tone me up
properly About two whales" was
the reply,
Sunset Cox went all the way from
Washington to Baltimore to see Booth
IN Hamlet" BY the way, il is iecit.
innate noting OF news to say that Boot b
never appears in Washington, for the
reasons which every delicate minds will
appreciate.
General joseph E. Johnston recently
visited the Wilmington monument 10
the confederate dead, and, after he had
gazed long and silently, he went away
and returned, and then burst into tears.
and, lifting his hands to heaven, said.
my GodI'
Ohio has "a new thing in. strikes.
Sometime ago the salaries of the town.
ship assessors were cut down, and the
Hamilton county gentlemen refuse to
work until their compensation is re-
stored.
The late food in California was not
an uumixed evil The Colusi Sun saws
1t is estimated that 10000 acres of land
heretofore comparatively uBproductive,
have been covered from six inches TO
two feet with rich alluvial deposit
The hard pan" covered with this sedi.
ment makes the very best grain land.
The friend of Stanley Mathews, Mr..
Alexander Reed. whom the president
Thought good enough man to succeed
Pat Downing In the Toledo postofiiee
ran for alderman In one OF the Toledo
wards the other day, and received less
tnan ten votes. There 10 nothing like
home Endorsement.
The rumor that Mrs. A. T. Stewart
is to marry an Episcopal clergyman is
again revived The gentleman men.
TONED is in charge of the great cafhe-
dral, as yet unfinished, ut Garden CITY
He is at least thirty years younger
than Mrs. Stewart, who is nearly Sow,
enty-fve.
The fact that a bill is likely to pasa
the Pennsylvania Legislature requiring
sleomargafine to be sold under its own
name, branded on each package. and
not as butter, proves that the bogus
butter is SO accurate an imitation of
the genuine article that buyers cannot
detect any difference between them.
The question is whesther the bill. III
passed, will not operate as an excellent
advertisement for the oleomarsarine
manufactures.
A young lawyer in Corsicana, having
an Grafton Of some kind to deliver. went
out In the woods near q graveyard 10
test his eloquence before appearing upon
the restrum He spake his speak. and
when he had finished entirely 10 his
satisfaction, what was his establishments
to hear the unmistakable musical laugh
ter and clappine Of hands of his sweet.I
heart end her companion, another young
lady, who had been walking in the
graveyard and hid themselves when he 1
began 10 speak. He declined 70 deliver
the grafton, and it Was hard work for
frienda TO keep him from leaving town
forever.
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