The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-19
LIGHT LINES.

See that none can find or break 'em;
Trot 'em out IN "a,
pas~0pera bonnets are dear little things.
D@~Provero: Whatsoever a man seweth
that shall he also rip.
Ragn Stripes for bad school children ought
to be fashionable again.
Bay" The veGther is cod enough in New
Orleans for roller skating.
Bdy"0ne kernel Of corn is worth whole
community of home guard colonies.
pa Agricultural item: The kind Of vine
that fourishes best Texas is the bovine
So The critics of New York are com.
PEELED to admit that Sara Bernhardt LACKS
breadth.
R6rDallas has two Methodist conferences in
session. This bodies no good for the chic Of
the city.
BEI"Bob Ingersoll's latest is as follows
"a mprouise is a proceeding in which the
hypocrites deceive each other.'
Day- Oor't be too backward about coming
forward with plenty of shoulder to put to
the wheel Of the car of progress.
Dag~The dramatic critic of the st. Louis
Republican speaks of "Mazzeppa' as a
stri pling. He was not far wrong.
B@~ Boycou's potato crop is worth about
$4,000, ard the English government is ex-
pending over 1000 to help him harvest it
pa The New York Star speaks of man
as "a born alderman" This beats the big
headed man on exhibition on Main street,
the six-headed calf and all other monstrosi-
ties.
D6y- Hancock beat Garfield in New York
and Garfield beat Hancock in New York.
This paragraph would puzzle an English
newspaper writer every day for whole
week.
BWn The Washington Capital observes
that "the country may be booming with
prosperity, but it is just a, difficult to borrow
five dollar note now as in tie hardest days
of the panic"
gBT The correspondents in Ireland have
coined new word out of the land league
troubles. 1t ia "Boycotting." This would
be iltolersble coming from America.
"Suicided" would be the next headline to
follow.
R9y" Olive Logan writes very indignantly of
the American women who shop in London,
turn the whole sore upside down, and then
aounoe off without buying so much ~ q
paper of pins. Olive declares she "blushes
with shame"
B@gHWe can stand exchange fends, col
lectors, book agents and poets this weather,
buttle man with the ventilation hobby, who
comes fooling around here, with the Their
mometer creeping down toward freezing
point, is in danger.
R0y>Henry Ward Beecher did not 60 to
see Bernhard when she appeared in New
York. he got so hilarious over this victory
that his next sermon was from the text,
Proverbs xxi, 1: "a good name is rather TO
be chosen than great riches. A good name
is better than precious ointment"
k&s~ Mr.. Swnburn, in prefaclng his trans
lation of the original meter of the "Grand
Chorus of Birds" from "Aristophanes," made
for the Athen@um, describes the Greek poet
as ''the holy divine humorist, in whose in
comparable genius the highest qualities of
Rabelais we're fused and harnonized with the
supremest gifts of Shelley"
I4~"The startling spectacle of young
man, crazy with liquor, stepping into a
crowded ball and deliberately firing q
pistol ball into the ceiling, is an incident
which will attract public attention even in
this stirring western world of ours, where
people, as q rule, are startled and excited at
nothing Kansas editorial.
Ras~ The sheriff of the county performed
fine surgical operation yesterday The
young highwsyman who escaped Tuesday
evening with a load of buckshot in his
system telegrsphed to Dallas for medical aid.
The sheriff responded to the call, and after
bandsging the young mans arms gave him
an external apple ,tion Of iron.
MA New York preacher recently told
his congregation that the women would all
dance BY themselves in q ten-acre lot sur.
rounded by a high board fence, and the men
in another enclosure Of the same kind, there
then would be no harm in dancing. But the
young folks in the congregation by the time
they got round TO the point, concluded II
was not the square thing.
Aas' The other day the Paris police nr-
rested man who was running about on the
banks of the Seine in o state of absolute
nudity. On being taken to the ststion.h house
and supplied with clothing, he told the fol-
lowing tale; He had made up his mind &c
drown himself, so, proceeding to the bank Of
the river, he undressed himself rolled hi
clothes up into bundle, threw them into thu
river AID then waded in himself But tn,
water was cold, and, as he lamentingly said
SIT gave him a contraction of the stomach,
ha w Adad ont apain Rut bia oloth oo -,