The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-17
LIGHT LINES.

Who, stepping tnr0pgn the kltchen uoor,
On baking day, sees goodly store
OF fragrant lumber Swallowed cake,
And--half unconscious -does not break
A ragged chunk?
n5g- Chicago is chock full of heretics.
Aklg~Will Garfield have buckeyes enough
to go round'
By%Wsles is forty-one years old, an(
ought 20 know better.
Rs5y~B Ben Hill and the Chicago Times wan
to dsintegrate old p rites.
ssga The Mississippi river commission was
made out Just after the election.
RSs~Boston is madden than wet hen be-
cause some one has spoken of Longfsllow NJ
"rhymster."
Bssp Hsnlan' the oars will be more
popular now than ever with the average
college BOBBY,
RSy" The protest against the count in New
York is not against bogus Italian count as
some may believe.
Rsg- The red flag on a locomotiyei is no sign
that the train is "for sail" Some of them
go faster than that.
BGg~ Circus elephants are trescherous
beasts. They are never known to kill the
clown or lemonade man.
B6y" Grant is "gone" on a railroad to
Mexico, but "gone' is merely slang phrase.
He abideth with the NATION yet.
boz The new type-setting machine, in
vented recently in Belgium, will be good
thing if the distribution of them is fair.
Bay-The goose-bone predicts severe win
ter-on shah by-gcntcel young men who are
too poor to steal and too honest to work.
DSya Bernhardti is learning to speak English
before appearing in "culchswed Bosting."
She can already say "ze poke and re beans"
"B@g-Samuel Judas Tilden was the
traitor" said John Kelly, in an interview;
but it matters little now what John Kelly
says.
Dag- The i'Holy Synod of Russia" what
ever that is, will erect an orthodox church"
in San Francisco. Another will go up in
New York.
Day-New Orleans has elected mayor
named Shakespeare. Municipal matters
there will now probably come under the
head Of Amusements.
DS~Colonel red Grant, U. s. A., with
headquarters Mt Chicago, is shooting" his
mouth off about father" mora than he ever
did gun at the enemy.
pSE" The hog cholera is raging up in Kan.
sas, and number Of Kansas editors are
spologiziag for scarcity of reading matter
on account Of sickness
s9y- The leader of the Italian opera troupe
now doing" Texas has beautiful black eyes.
He secured them from q member of bis
troupe in S9r Antonio recently.
Bg9 Mr.. Observation-Disclosures was can
ddate for Office in Minnesota, and when
they went to write his name on the opposi-
ton tick it required patriotism.
ssy- The bug which is now seen on the
hats of ladies is not cockrosch, but q
cricket. The cockroach, with his family, re-
mains as usual near the printing office paste
pot.
=. Bsg~ The discussion now going on by army
officers, of social and race prejudices at West
Point, is ex parte. Nothing is said about the
prejudice of the colored cadets against the
whites.
E8~"How shall have my bonnet trim
med" asked Maria, $50 that it shall agree
with my complexion "If you want it to
match your face, have it plain" replied the
hateful Hattie.
ESS- An American lawyer lie now attorney
general of the Sandwich Islands. If in two
years he doesn't own the entire country and
hold the kings note for large sum, he is
no credit to the American bar.
ESs" Grant wore gloves at the opera in
New York few nights ago, and now the
young men with their hair parted in the mid
die, and who had mostly discarded this hand
covering, are contemplating revival of the
custom.
1.-THE enormous extent of the damage
done to the grapevines of France by micro
scopic and almost invisible insects necess-
htes that moro attention be paid to the ap-
pie crop of this country, or our champagne
will deteroate in.squsntity.
bag Milk can be adulterate1 not only with
water, but also with salt, to give it specific
gravity, and with burnt sugar, to Igive it a
rich color. The .doctored milk looks as rich
as that of an Attorney COW. We charge our
dsirymen nothing for this information.
R6E- Mary Anderson is going to be married
to a Kentuckian named Dobbins. Who
would have believed that q fellow with such
commonplace name as "Dobbins" could
have supplanted the swell names that have
adorned the sweet Msry's card basket
Dslr lady wants to know why tho rail-
road companies do not provide special cars
for Tobacco chewers MS well as for smokers.