The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-13
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Thousands OF girls in switzerland, Gerp
many and Norway devote themselves TO
the cultivation of their hair as resolutely as
farmer does his crops. Once year the
merchant, very often an old woman, ar
rives in the village, and brisk trade is car
ried on. The Swiss girls make the most,
as nature has bestowed upon them an
abundant crop of the blonde color, which is
hardest of all to obtain, and the climate is
evidently propitious to its growth The
price obtained depends upon the length OF
the redundant tresses. Hair eight inches
long is worth twenty-five cents an ounce,
while that thirty-six inches in length will
bring the fortunate pOsSess0r SIS an ounce,
and in cases of exceptional beauty and
thickness even $50 an ounce may DO real
lied.
August Belmont, jr., is soon to be mar
ried TO Miss Morgan, daughter Of Hon Ed
win ID. Morgan. Young Belmont is said to
be brighter than his brother, Perry Boil
mont, so it is not so very one-sided match
Mr.. Morgan is best known and best respect
ed in good society for being the owner of
1000 shares Of Western Union Telegraph
stock and about $4,000 zoo of dividend
bearing stock besides. This is a match with
beauty and bullion on one side and bullion
and brains on the other.
An old peach tree near Vallejo, Califor-
| mia, has developed singuli freak. A bud
| voluntarily appeared from two-iCnh limb,
| which this year bore a dozen or more sweet,
soft-shell almonds, while nothing but insig-
| niticant peaches were produced by the re-
mainder of the tree. The bud started about
four feet from the ground. No other feat
| ures are observable to indicate that the
tree is any other than an ordinary peach
| tree.
The French are VIGOROUSLY an ingenious
| people. The dearth OF game this season
| has created new art. The Juice of pleas
| ants, partridges and similar birds is extract
| ed bya process imperceptible to the buyer of
| the birds, and these juices, placed in her
metically sealed bottles, are subsequently
used to give gamey flavor to entrees Of
| pigeons and chickens, which are represent
| ed and, above all, charged for as the real
article.
| The Rev. !. n Tarbox, secretary of the
American Educational Society; the Rev.
howard Z; Durham, secretary of the
American Peace Society; the Rev John L.
| Withrow, pastor OF the Park street church,
and John W. Guiteau. a brother of the as
sassin, all of Boston, have been subpnnaed
| to attend Guiteau's trial as witnesses for
the defense.
In a Montreal breach ofpromi.e suit il
was shown that the pair agreed upon n dav
of marriage, and marked it in calendar of
her diary, and that he twice surrcptitously
rubbed out the mark and put it a month
ahead. She caught him at it on the last
occasion, and sought by u recourse to the
law to compel him to keep the original
promise.
The people of Marcellus, New York, are
cited over subterranean cavern which
was discovered by workingmen who were
blasting last week. 1t has been penetrated
about 100 feet, but none have dared to 90
further. The biologists are now at work at
1t and expect to reveal rival to Howe's or
the Mammoth cave.
The prevalence oi.diptheria at Frederick
Nd, is truly alarming. 1t is said tina.
there are as many as l75 cases, and that
five funerals of children have taken place
there in single day. A number of chill
dren have been sent away from the town
until cold weather arrests the spread of the
disease.
San Francisco harbor has seldom been so
full. of ships as now. All the wharf room
is occupied, and scores of ships are anchored
in the stream, The view off Vallejo street
wharf is very fine; over fifty ships can be
counted from single point, and there are
more than that number elsewhere in the
bay.
Mrs. Garfield has removed to Cleveland
having rented the residence of Mr.. Burke,
on Euclid avenue. She will send the chill
dren to school and devote the win
ter to the arrangement of her late hus
bands papers. Her brother will act as adj
ministrator Of the estate.
The American line steamer Illinois sailed
from Philadelphia Saturday, having on
board the Hon. Hannibal liamlin, United
States minister to Spain; Miss Blaine
daughter of Secretary Blaine, and ex- United
States Senator John Scott, of Pennsylvania,
his wife and daughter.
General Edward Beale, General Grants
personal friend, who is being talked of for
secretary of the navy, is gentleman some
what advanced in life. He has large pos.
sessions in California, (which state he was
once surveyor general. His home is in
Washington.
The Levant Herald, which leads most
checkered existence, being generally killed
| two or three times year by the Turkish
government is on its legs once more, and
must really be credited with more than
feline tenacity of existence.
William Pyle, u prominent citizen of
| Patterson, n. j., and the most extensive
SILK importer in this country, died on Sat.
urday. lie leaves an estate of about three
millions TO be divided among his, wife and
seven children.
Efforts are hcing made in New York TO
secure the release Of Harry Genet, county
clerk under the Tweed ring, whose term of
imprisonment will expire next Friday, but
who is held for fine of $9,60i.
opposite, the Italian bandit captured nj
New Orleans, has filed suit, in his truc
name, against his partner in the fruit bust.
ness IN the Crescent City, for.Sl5, 600 due
him in settlement.
"rhe local board of underwriters Mt 81
Louis have resolved SAYS the Kansas civ
Times, "to increase the rates 25 per cent
until there shall be more efficient fire de.
partment,n
Charles Hebben, an old resident Of Capac
Michigan, who for some time has been par
TALLY insane, made his will, and killed his
little son and himself with razor.
Many towns of the western counties of
Pennsylvania have been compel led TO sus.
pend their schools on account of scarlet
fever and diphthcria,
Mrs, Webb, 100 years old, attended tho
funeral of her daughter Sarah, aged seven.
ty-tour years, at Greenwich, Conn, ono day
last week.
a monster California lion was shot ncor
Calico mountains, San Bcrnardino county
last week, and the skin sold for so.
Professor King is building another largo
balloon on u novel principle, with which
further to test the easterly current
Judge folger lwhose name Is pronounced