The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-05-04
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

There were seven hapgings in Ais
osma during Nareh-all colored.
! Corn is selling IN many Mississippi
counties AZ seventy-fve cents bushe
! Ii is thought that the Spitz dog dis
c1sst1n will be reopened, as aoon aS tn
Conkling excitement subsidies.
/ A Macon. Georgia, man has invente
a circular saw thst turns out lumbe
planned perfectly smooth.
William H. Vanderbilt has donate.
one thousand dollars for the enlarge
ment of the library at Vanderbilt uni
/ versity.
Amar Smith is mentioned as tn
coming collector at Cincinnati Tn
Smith family must and shall be pre-
served.
| Russian papers compute the entir
cost incurred by the war on the part o
/ Russia at s50,oO0.00o rubles, or $685.,
ooo,000.
II report be true. twenty-five men ar
already engaged writing what each call
the only authentic biography" of vii
liam N. Tweed.
A fellow who voted the straight pro
hibition ticket in Michigan was $,
drunk that the two men had 10 carr,
HIM to the polls.
A gardnenat Goleta, California, ha
grown a rose that measures seyenteeI
inches IN circumference. 1t Is OF tn,
cloth of gold variety.
The New York World paid 5000 70,
the Conkling interview. and IL is though
Conkling would have gone 5000 bettel
TO have kept 1t out OF print.
Hard times do not seem to have muct
effect when pleasure is in the way. A
New ork coniectioner realized 81 90,
by the sale OF Easter eggs alone las
week.
The Boston Transcript is trying L
hre the public heart in favor of reform
ing the bakers who give light weight
And yet what Is so indIgestible as heav,
bread
Schuyler Colfax is to deliver the ora
ton at the laying of the cornerstone o.
the Odd Fellows temple, at Austin
Texas. in September. Schuyler is al
odd Fellow.
Clrcuses are little backward thi
season. Only five of them are the "bip
gest show ON earth" Each of the othe
six is siinply the most complete aggre
CATION on the road.
A gentleman who had Just left tn,
smallpox hospital in Chicago was robbie,
by foot>psds the other night 1t will
transpire in few days. we think. tina
he had the best of the Joke.
Mrs. Franklin, who shot Miss Vo
lanter is shooting at other apples OF
other heads now. and assures a contid
ing public that there will be no more o
those annoying accidents
Miss Kitty Ord, the niece of Genera
| +. q. Z. Ord, was married "Wednesday
morning last at San Antonio. She is
cousin of Mrs. Sheridan, the wife O
Lieutenant General Sheridan.
A young man of twenty recently tool
as wife a Pennsylvania widow OF tifty
the sole proprietress OF a couple of nay
ing petroleum wells. He loved no
wisely but too wells.
Parlsian hotel keepers are trying I.
Introduce the fashion OF high prices 10
lodgings. when a man dies in his loom
An extensive crop Of American suicide
is expected during the exposition.
Julius, is dat Halafacts reward set
| tied yet r Il dunno, Copernicus. hu
| reck Ii not, for / 'bserve de house O
representation is maxim music bout d,
preparation for de fshiu' sea bill"
Beechers unusual mirthfulness of lat.
should be viewed in the light OF re.
mark he once made in = sermon "Mer
will let you scale them ard skin them
II You Will only make them laugh"
Nsryaez was q Spanish soldier and
| devout Catholic. AZ he was about u
die the priest asked: DO you forgiv,
your enemies p The reply was u grin
| one: 81 haven't any; shot them all.
During time of great political ex
element. DR.. Cheever called on an old
deacon for prayer. The deacon said
We'll, pastor, will if you insist on it
bat, really, I'm too mad to pray now.
Forty members of fashionable club
in London have bound themselves by
an oath to horsewhip the editor of ans
paper that prints the name of any OF
their lady friends with dispsraging re,
| marks.
Observation teaches that there is nc
change in the style of fish bait this sea.
| son. Tho best is procured at the sa.
looms as usual, and is carried in glass
receptacle. cut basket shape and gar,
nished with a cork.
A Boston witness, who was question
ed very closely as to the people he ss.
ISOLATED with, confessed that he some.
| times got into questionable company
as his business required him TO consult
with lawyers.
The English are snubbing Coun,
Schouvaloh, Russian AMBASSADOR at Lon
don, The more he's trowned upon tine
more he smiles, and John Bull Is work.
ing himself up to a fine frenzy on &C,
count OF it. IL would be accepted as a
glorious victory over Russia if some one
would hit the count with deceased cat.
The agony columns of the Turkish
newspapers are filed with advertise
ments for lost relations. giving painful
evidence of the dispersion of families o.
the Mussulman population which has
taken place IN the districts rsyaged by
war
The elder Bennett once reproyed one
| of his editors for using the prefix Mr.. -
in speaking of Horace Greeley. you
wouldn't speak of Mr.. Socrates, would
you Greeleys a greater philosopher
than Socrates ever was" The edito,
promised never to repeat the offense.
A new song is called Shes Pretty
when She Paints. Any one who has
seen woman with her frock tucked
up, diispidated sunbonnet on her
head, and shoes run over at the heels
on her feet. painting the back fence
with whitewash brush, will take ex-
eeptions to the title OF the song.
A New York society" young man
committed suicide month ago. and the
cause of the rash acs has just been dis.
covered. He imported a Russian sleigh
early last December, and the absence of
snow during the winter affected his
brain. But it didn't prevent his sleigh,
ng himself,
Over a store in New York state is this
sign: John Smith--teacher of COW.
tiilions and other dances; gramer tsut
in the neetest manner; fresh salt herein
on draft; likewise Godfrey's cordial.
rutes, sassage and other garden truck.
N. B. A bawl on frida mite. PRAYER
meeting chuesday; also saline singing
by the auire."
Mr. James G. Fields said in lecture
at Boston, the other evening, that
twenty five years ago he met George
Eliot, then an unknown girl, Marian
Evans by name, and GIVE ,onle seuain.