The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-03
TIMELY rOrICs,


Slal Is keepinga liquor shop 10 Minneapolis.
Earl BerconsNeld WINS ,eyor better than
Tho present moment Health and spirits ar
both excellent, and he IA 20 good n wallsa
that he tires out any lady lriends who Won,
lure pedestrian exercise with him.
A trenzled drunkard held pistol NJ bar.
keepers head NJ Portsmouth, Va, and pullod
tho trigger The charge failed 10 explode
and the man peor,d cu'iouily into The barred,
At that Instant the bullet came out and
killed him,
I'VE men Of the Boursc," said Para
stock broker 10 his friend, "are much oalum-
nlaled, have now been NJ tho Bourao for
more linn ten years, and ! never know but
two rnscnls who amounted 10 ANYTHING"
And who Is the othcr'" asked tho friend,
Mrs, SOckot,of DownWille, Delaware coun-
~, slammed her doorto, and n gun standing
behind II fell To the iloor disohargiDg rs con.
leuti into her leg and makinga wound which
ncco'siialed amputallon, Moral: Always
shut n door softly, ms though there WAS sick
ness In the family,
The Virginia (Noyada) Enterprise sayt
that tho majority OF men on the Pacific
coast are poor, ana that such will always he
the case until prospecting ceases and men
aro taught the rough lesson that TO possess
competence they must devote lifo.work W
It's requirement.
Abort Sowinski, tho polished pianist the
rival and contemporary OF Lisst, Thalberg, and
Chopin during the reign Of Louis Philippe,
hnS ust died IN bis seventy-fourth year. He
WIS tho son Of n Polish General killed by
the Russians during ono Of tho risings In
Poland.
NJ, Daubourg, a French engineer, claims
TO have devised means of transporting
large vessels over isihmuses, however stecp,
and an experiment Is shortly TO be msda
nj Argenteuil by lifting 2000-ton ship from
the river and taking II on rails 70 another
place.
A Russian correspondent of n French ps-
per asserts that the Grand Duho Constantine,
Inc Emperor's brother, Is u Nihilist, and thu
81. Petersburg correspondent of the notori-
Gus Journal, the Bell, published in Switzee-
land, He was formerly Governor of War
saw, and is the only Russian Prince popular
with tho Poles.
Tue Earl Of Sandwich, who Is the owner
Of the Portholms estate, near Huntingdon,
has, IN consequence of tho serious foods
years, instructed his agents TO intimate 10 tho
tcnnuts Of tho estate that NJ tho next rent
pudit be will return the whole of last years
rent.
The ex.Khedive Of Egypt has Jeff Naples
for Paris, urged thereto by n voxations law
| suit and also by the desertion of one Of his
prettiest wives, Circassian Of twenty SUM-
ners From the terrace to the harem she
spiod Il young lazzarone on n neighboing
terrace, whereupon TO glances succeeded
smiles, and on the strength of these loves
telegraph went into operation. A few days
after she eloped with the Young man.
Spencer Walker, aged sixteen, was behind
In his studies ut the Newton Mass High
School, in consequence of illness, and there
was soon to be IN examination, in. which
those who failed would DO sent back 10 thu
grammar school. Walker became convinced
lnal. no matter how hard no studded, no
would have to suffer what BIO considered q
disgrace. To escape this disaster he commit
ten suicide.
Snug little suppers and small nners ara
quite the rage in London Just now, and per-
sonages in very high positions do not by any
means disdain these private little reunions.
There was one recently at st. james, when
an officer Of the Guards had the honor Of ell
PERTAINING on his right hsnd the Prince d
Wales and on his left the Prime Minister,
both of whom found the time pass SO agrees.
bly, that though their carriages were ordered
, for hnlf.past ten, they did not get away I'll
past midnight.
The Dutch Cremation society has agar
petitioned the government to introduce q bill
| for the amendment of tho existing buria
laws, the society, although having nov
$ branches in eleven of the prin ipal towns o
! the country, regrets to have TO announce
d decrease in the number Of its members from
Q nearly 100 TO 800. Contributions for tn
e ultimate construction Of furnaces have not
t however, fallen off.
A singular will case came before the Pro
Q bate division in London tho other day, OF
Q the question whether thelato John Chaleng
!. er, of Doncaster, tore up his will for the pur
! pose of making it void, or whether, in fact
r Il was torn up by person interested in tn
d testamentary disposition of bis property
The evidence was exceedingly contradictory
Q and Sir s. Hammer declined to give any dc
= cision without the aid of jury, as question
Q of fact which might involve sentence 0
!. penal servitude for life on some persons wer
r involved.