The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-30
FOR THE cy ,oUs.

ish parliament.
Fifty ladies are struggling for medica
honors in Paris.
Three children in Syracuse were poisoned
by eating cheese.
Washington, including Georgetown, hal
100000 inhabitants.
A watch lost two years ago has been found
in ditch, and can yet be used.
The state of California has $4,000 people
less than the city of Philadelphia.
Brockport has manufactured about 1900
moving machines during the past year.
In Boston the aldermen spend only S32SS
year for car fares, hacks and dinners.
Four ladies who went backberrying in a
wagon, were thrown out and three of them
seriously injured.
Lock-iaw runs in family in Camden, N.
j., three members of which have recently
died from that cause.
The New Haven police recently broke up
street fight by throwing water on the COM
batsnts with a fire engine.
The Toxic (Japau) Times says that a
shock of earthquakes probably felt in some
part of the island every day.
The Pittsburg, Pa, glass factories have
closed for the summer, throwing out of EN-
ployment $4,000 men and boys.
A colored preacher in Georgia makes his
Pensioners work out his salary on his farm
when they have not money to pay it.
A California grocer gave washerwoman
his thanks and bar of soap for returning
$4,000 which she had found in his trowsers.
A boy was given three months of hard
labor in the workhouse in Cambridge, Eng
land, for plucking rose and sprig of ger
anium.
A man, who was one of the five in a wagon
which was struck by locomotive in SYRIA
cuse, says that the engineer was flirting with
young lady at the time.
Erskine Wood, shot by Hiram G. Briggs at
Coeymans, the other day, ran half a mile and
lived ffty-eight hours after the bullet had
passed through his heart.
An English rector has omitted the prayers
for parliament since the Liberals came into
power, and says. that "he does not think such
a lot worth praying for"
Edward Trickett, the Australian oarsman,
is to spend next summer on Charles Reeds
stock farm at Saratoga Lake, and train for a
race with anybody for $4,000.
Memphis, Tenn, has lost 5000 in popula-
ton in ten years, and is the only city in the
union that has decreased, although some
cities have remained almost stationary.
At Odessa, three weeks ago, were married
two mites of creatures, the man being thirty
years old and weighing nineteen pounds, and
the woman twenty-five and thirteen pounds
in weight.
At'Le Mars balloon burst and fell, severely
iniuring the occupants, NJ. and Nine. Petit,
while their son, aged fourteen, who occupied
small balloon underneath the large one,
was unhurt
In the Paris postoffice recently was found,
in panel adjacent to the letter box, letter
which had been posted fifty years before, and
which found the person to whom it was ad- |
dressed still alive.
A man is floating down the Mississippi river
in boat drawn by birds. The romance is |
all knocked out of possible picture by the
facts The birds are geese and the man is
selling patent ointment.
A young man by the name of Smith has
been dipping people out west by selling them
an electric corset, warranted to cure anything
that anyone happened to be afflicted with,
including consumption.
A tramp settled himself for domestic
holiday in farmhouse, when no one but the
farmers wife was home 10 entertain him, but |
changed his mind when she brought revolt
yer from another room.
A Boston milk man, being arraigned for
adulterating his milk, said he sold it just as
it came from the COW and an inspector |
called on the COW and found her milk even |
poorer than that sold by the culprit.
There is man in England who is a will.
ne defendant in a suit for divorce by
This wife, correspondent in another mans
suit for divorce, and engaged TO marry lady
who is at present the wife of a nobleman.
Two little girls were playing in an unoccu-
pied house in Oneida, when they we're shut |
in closet by spring lock and nearly sutfo-
Gated. When released they were in profuse
and their eyes were bloodshot.
Two boys in Paris settled dispute by
having duel with knives, which they threw
at each other. One was killed and the other
arrested. The father of the latter, who had
lately lost his wife and daughter, has become
insane.
To prevent closed houses becoming damp
during the summer, it is recommended to
place chloride of lime in large bowls, these
being pla ,ed within still larger bowls. The
lime sbsorbs the moisture, and the water
overhows into the larger bowls.
An Auburn, N. Y, amateur bicyclist, in
attempting to lift his hat to ayoung lady with
bis vehicle in full motion, ran against tree
and was thrown in such way that his heel
caught in a crotch of tree, and he was sus-
pended head downward until his boot came
off and he dropped.
The New Orleans schools have been closed
until there shall be money enough on hand
TO pay expenses. As only 100000 were APP
this year for school expenses, and
teachers salaries are already Sl75, 600 in ar
rears, and state taxes cannot be collected I'M
til December 81, things look bad for the
schools.
The archbishop of Canterbury says that /
the professions held in highest honor are the
worst paid. When he first came to the
locese Of London be was surprised to lind
how few of the elder curates there were in it; |
but when he became archbishop of Canter'
bury he found an explanation of the mystery.
The fact was that the work was SO severe
that only the younger men were equal to IT,
md the curates as they grew old migrated to :
he country.