The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-04
FOR THE ClIOUS.
Newark has 1877 900 reents'

"A MAN sWAlOWcu y oiH ""S NN'N" ~
chils and fever.
Chicago has Woma Physiological and
HYGIENE society.
In Agswam, Mass, hf been captured two
robins entirely white.
a man at Brighton les on sandwiches
and soup, by his physin's orders
The biennial .conferee of the Unitar'ans
will be held at Saratog,eptember Il.
A couple were receiy married at New
port after courtship dhirty.fve years.
A partridge nest wittwo hundred eggs in
i. was recently found iLexlng'on' da'
A three,foot eel was4ught By a three-toot
boy 10 Pennsylvaniafeek recently.
A visitor to Utica IS that the pet amoi'
ton of its wealthy pole IS to keep COW.
The Harvard grad.tes now have claret
punch instead Of ru punch at their re-
unions.
st. Louis wants theensui euumerator' In
yestipated, because OEago is snead of her.
The Buffalo board trade Is considering
the erection of a chaner OF commerce oulld-
ing.
London has Hote nd Travellers Journal
the first of the kin DER published in Eng
land
Bismarck has probited the importation
of sauspges and uuIred pork from the
United states.
Two colored boyshave passed the exam
nations for entranGto the Reading (Fa',J
high school.
The arrivals of weat and grain from the
west at Montrel last week were the
largest on re ord.
A father and sousre nov in the Lancaster
county, (Pa,) jail on seventeen distinct
charges for stealing 'hickens
An Idaho woman who vas caught by an
Indian broke awayrom llm and put two
holes in him with apltchfprk'
Two little girls inIlinof raised money for
stone at their granimother's grave by rails
ing chickens and selling eggs.
The Campbellite in .he United States
number $4,000, icludiig General Gar,
field and a number ,f s:nators ana
representatives.
St. LOUIS kindergarten record for last year
shows So schools, 5000 pupils, 100 paid
teachers, Is volunteer assistants, and S2OWO
cost.
st. Louis is going to have her letter.
CARR RS make census enumeration, 10 see
if she cannot bring her population up 70 the
desired figure.
A tramp in West Virginia stole ride on
train, entering refrigerator car, where ne
was shortly afterward locked up and nearly
froze to death.
Kicking boy for cutting shade tree
with knife cost a Galesburg man $4,000.
The lad was taken with spinal disorder,
which has disabled him every since.
A small boy in Louisville hit on the ex-
pedient of tying his kite string to his little
dogs tail, as he found difficulty in managing
it himself. The experiment was successful
and the kite few famously.
The wind at Omaha recently performed a
curious freak. Florence and Willow lakes,
north of the city, were blown nearly dry, and
the ground in the vicinity was covered with
dead fish blown out of the water.
Two young lawyers brought suit against a
Niagara hackman, and compelled him not
only to refund his extortonate fare, but to
pay their hotel bills as well for the two days
during which the suit delayed them.
The Tay bridge will be rebuilt. Instead
of thirteen long girders, there will be twenty
six short ones, and they will be thirty-one
feet lower~fhan before. The plan may be
opposed as the lowness of the Orders may
obstlict navigation.
Xoston has gained 10000 population in
TN years, and many of the manufacturing
sttowps, as Lynn, Lowell and Lawrence have
edded about 10000 each, drawn from outside
the state and not from the country towns.
The old whipping post in Raleigh, N. e.,
which had been used as hitchlng'post SINCE
1868, has disappeared from its place near the
court house. 1t was the last remaining relic
there OF the old modes of punishment.
Berk ley Springs is said to be the oldest
watering place in the country, dating from
the sborigines, who discovered the virtues OF
the waters. These we're drank by George
Washington, who had cottage there, as had
Lord Fairfax.
A Waterbury, Conn, officer the other day
called at a house and asked if the family had
any dogs to be registered. "No, sir was
the prompt reply. He thereupon initiated
dogs bark so effectively that he started up
Llreb uOSs IDub WcI6 III VIZ NSAt"At ~ANS $3.50
closing their whereabouts.
Henry Britain, of Richmond, Ind, while
asleep at noon fell from his second-story
window, struck on lumber pile with sutfi.
Gent force to bounce him into clstern eight
feet away, and when some workmen who saw
him fall ran to him he was still asleep.
A fisherman of Troy, N. T., sold shad
for 40 cents, and received what was supposed
to be half dollar piece, returning 10 cent:
change. 1t was afterward discovered that
$40 gold piece had been given in mistake
The fisherman refused to recognize the error
and suit for recovery was Instituted.
In the heart of large pnie tree, recently
cut down by Johnathan Oatley, of unadiIls
Forks, N. T., was found an Indian, pipe Of
stone with the date roughly carved ON It
1888. A flint knife AM a few arrow heads
OF steel we're near it. This is supposed to ot
the spot where the famous treaty ofl1o3 was
made.
An eccentric rich man lives Of Elton, Ten
nessee. He imagined that the whole country
desired him TO be president. Taking advan
tage of this Authorization, some jokers mad
bogus telegram delivered to him announcing
his nomination at Chicago, and subsequently
similar one purporting t. come from yin
oinnati. He gave a great dinner to the young
men of the town, and made glowing speech
of acceptance.
The appearance of baby bridesmaids j
growing common in England, and their dres!
Is usually so very pretty that they really, adt
to the beauty fthe bridal procession. Skirt
of Lsnguedoc lace, looped with ruby satin
polonaises Of pink cashmere, trimmed, u
s.atoL tho ek;rte ,,d Duohnae of DnVOQsllr