The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-05-15
NOTES AND OPINIONS.


ayes said man last evening as he
liant his elbow TO raise the twentieth
s',, of beer" il is overwork that kills, u
King Ilumbert has set apart 5000, 600
ant of the income Of his civil list to-
w,,d the monument to his father to be
raised in Turin,
The picnic season has approached
Tho Young man with the lavender trous,
sr should guard against sitting down
on the custard pie
An Iowa minister has invented a
,burn which Is operated by his cush>
ontd armchair as he rocks to and fro,
and meditates upon his text,
Threc.ourths Of lcorice manufacS
mred in the United States is said to be
meplred in New Jersey, Spain and
Ala Minor furnished the root.
They have what they call flower
aid fruit mission in New York II is
composed entirely Of ladies, and their
duties arc to distribute fruit and flows
es among the patients in the hospitals
Of that city,
Efforts are being made in England to
Celebrate the three,hundredth ami.
wnarv of the death of Harvey, the
dscOyerer of the circulation of the
BLOOD Lord Derby is chairman OF the
memorial committee.
A new Masonic organization, called
the Royal Order Of Scotland" has
BEEN formed by some distinguished
Masons in Washington. This order, it
sssid, has never until now exis ted be,
you'd the limits of Scotland.
Billy Bangs, q Philadelphia collector
wears very high hat with the legend
Bad Bills Collected painted conspic.
uOusly on it, and the debtor class are
naturally not pleased to have him seen
hanging around their doors very much, "
Ivison, Brakeman, Taylor a. Co.. We
have tried every sort of medium in
Advertising, and long ago became cons
vinced that the results were largely in
hyor of the fresh and varied columns
Of the newspaper.
The London Week tells of an Ems
gush lord who, wishing to be particular
yahable, and to show that he was not
above his company" began his speech
remarking, in stentorian voice,
Gentlemen | am sprung, like yours
selves, from the dregs of the people"
When Mr.. Anthony Trollope was q
very young man he applied for advice
tOa distinguished person andasked how
be might best succeed in literature"
The reply was characteristics Fix
yourself to your chair with bit of cob~
Aers wax Pin other words, stick to
work.
They have been making butter out
Oallow Cor some time and now we see
BY the papers that somebody has de>
vised plan for turning potatoes into
cheese, The next thing we know some
Yankee genius will have a patent for
inwing imported French brandy out
Of oil wells.
A subscriber asks chow to scald
Oose2' There are several methods,
Perhaps the best way would be to wait
until some evening when the goose
comes around to serenade your daughN
ter, and while he is in the midst of
Sweet By and By" pour kettle of
boiling water on his head from the sec
nnd story window.
Another medium has come to grief,
this time out in Keokuk, Iowa. He was
materializing spirits in cabinet when
one of the audience squirted solution
O,aniline in the face of the spirit of his
dead brother, and, when the confusion
had subsidized, the medium appeared
with his face covered with the dye, thus
exposing the deception.
Sergeant Maior-'"N Now, Private Smith,
you know very well none but officers
and non>commissioned officers are al.
lowed to walk across this grass " Pri,
vate Smith-"But, sergeant major, I've
Captain Graham's verbal orders To-"
Sergeant Major-"None O that, sir
Show me the captains verbal orders !
Show EN- to me, sir p Punch
1t is the fashion to say hard things
about Alaska, but a correspondent OF
the San Francisco Chronicle, writing
from Sltka, gives a very hattering ac-
count Of the resources Of that territory.
The fisheries, he declares, are among
The most prolific. As many as seven
thousand salmon have often been taken
alone haul of the seine, some of them
lor;y>tive to one hundred pounds apiece.
The hanging of boy eighteen years
Old for a murder committed when one
year younger was an event in the San
francisco Jail about two weeks ago
John Runk belonged to that kind OF
youths known in California as hoods
!umS and probably it was as a warning
Nhoodlums that Governor Irwin per-
alIted the penalty of the gibbet to be
sAHcted upon a boy who could hardly
regarded as having attained years OF
Long Branch is undergoinga thorough
moral purging that promises to make 1t
amnch more attractive place this sums
m mel, than it has ever been before.
hitherto the city by the sea has had
@me drawbacks that have conduced to
.gnGer 1t not altogether pleasant place
VI abode, but if the better class of citiN
s stiS continue in their present admirN
aUle course, routing out the low grog-
s s.e and houses of ill-repute, reform
WIN oe effected that will make the place
D nu' only more respectable, but more
Profitable as we'll.
ne magnitude of the glove business
u .n' country is not generally known
last Year no less than 633,233 dozen
E'.r oireal kid gloves were sold. There
suouole in the trade just now, how
., ,si, on account of the fact that some
we importers have undervalued theil
soOIs, and hence an order has been is
W. TO stop all kid gloves in the New
f SIk custom house for appraisement
, ,us innocent have had to suffer for the
sui'y and it is claimed that the trade
sparalyzed.
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