The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-02-03
MAIL JOTTlNGS.

Dime concerts In New York have
proved profitable.
Private gas machines are gaining
wide introduction down east.
They are burning corn for fuel IN
some parts of Iowa. 1t is cheaper than
wood.
a three months old baby up in Penn.
sylVania weighs but two and half
pounds.
A woman In Meriwether county,
Georgia, never had any finger or toe
toe nails.
De Murska's pet poodle was poisoned
at salt Lake City, and the songstress il
inconsolable.
A lady in Sedalia, Missouri, before
submitting to u dangerous surgical OPP.
Grafton, prepared very elaborate and
beautiful outfit ofgrave clothes.
Queen PA, of Portugal, daughter of
the late Victor Emmanuel, is blonde,
beautiful and of dignitied carriage,
having u resemblance to Queen Mary
Antoinette.
The Kentucky ssioner of az.
rlculture reports that the yield OF to.
bacco il about twelve per cent. above
the average, ana ia the richest, most
elastic aud best bodied crop raised In
fifteen years.
The biggest thing in the way Of re.
cent financial transactions is the al
vance of l,0O0,000,00 francs by the
bank of France to the French govern.
ment at ono per cent. interest, for
railroad purposes.
A farmer of Monmouth county,
New Jersey, exasperated ut the loss OF
his sheep through dogs, shot n dog
which he supposed to ne sheep Kill
Ter. The "intelligent jury" has award
ed the owner Of the dog $500 damages.
A company has been organized In
New Orleans to ditch, levee, and drain
ten thousand acres OF marsh III the
parish of rerrebone, sixty miles west
of that city, located between the Nor.
gau, Louisiana and Texas railroad and
the gulf.
the experiment of sending oarcasses
of mutton to Europe In their skins
seems a success, the wool having been
soalded of. They skin better than one
would expect under the circumstances,
and the carcasses are, OF course, fresh
and clean.
The silver dollar which Theodore
Woolsey favors is one of 420 grains
tender for all debts not exceeding $50
except the bonded debt of the United
States and other contracts to pay In
gold. This dollar would be of the
value and weight OF the present trade
dollar.
The winter of 1S29-3O surpassed the
present one in mildness. Farmer,
ploughed every month OF the season
and no snow fell until February
was followed, however, by cold
backward spring, with snow storm
In May, which killed the returning
swallows.
A proposition IL being seriously con
sidered to dam the Arkansas and Platt
rivers, and thus turn the waters into tn
great desert in the western part q
Kansas and Nebraska, whence, b,
tapping the artificial lake, stream
may be secured for irrlgatlng purposes
Ames, Iowa, boasts OF residen
who Is over forty years old, and VIII
has the greater part of his life reside
In cities, who was never inside of
courtroom either rs witness, principal
or spectator He never saw game o
billiards played, though for years re
aiding next door to "A billiard room
Never saw horse race or fight.
A Hyde Park, Vermont, school ma'aI
r Is la trouble. she undertook to bres
her pupils of using tobacco by steepin
UP number of old pipes and givin
some of the resulting matter to the o
= Tenders, which made the little boy
q very sick, but their parents very mat
|, France il disappointed In the Noun
Gents tunnel, which transfers to TIA
Ian ports, particularly Brindlsi, ii
= East Indian commerce which used
o patronlze the Marseilles steamer
This ia said to be the explanation
! the fact that the French goverDmel
0 keeps down the rate OF speed on Il
Mount Gents passenger service.