The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

but we fni U VINO CpuNNi " aTe uot -thNink
Governor Hubbard for a sample.
There are over 10000 men and 100 600
horses and mules ea ployed in railroad build,
ING in Texas. There arc about 600 miles OF
road under contract ard about 5000 miles
more TO be contracted for.
Stockholders ofthe Ohio and Mississippi
road are being asked for proxies to be used
in support of Gould, Sage and Dillon rs Dit
rectors These capitalists can abolish lhe
receiyership by the deposit of money with
the federal court. aud deal the Baltimore
and Ohio severe blow.
Like the circus clown, OonkliDg has made
somersault into the ring, and SAYS to the
republicans, Here am ngsin, in the same
old wsy. Roscoe resembles Dan Rice more
than any other man in tho ring. he wants
70 be ring master and do all the principal
acts himself.
The bones Of the RussisHs and Turks who
fell at Plevna in the late war, are being ship
ped to England to be ground up and Used
for manure. Thus, after ncurishiug the
grass that sussins the gentle sheep, the i'm
placable Moslem eud the misguided Musco-
ylte NAV meet sweotly in the stomach OF an
Ergljshmsn who sold powder aid lead to
both Of them.
The editor Of the Dayton (0) journal is
an observing man. He GAYS that all ladies
who pick their teeth at hotel tables wear
diamonds, but that tho woman who picks
her teeth at a hotel table is regarded rs SOME
what coarse II may be added, We think,
that this opinion is la gely entertained and
encouraged by ladies' who ere not able to
wear dismonds.
1t is said that the,privs,e fortune of Queen
Vctoris amounts to $50 600 600 and she
possesses sn annual Income of $3.50 900.
Before her birth her parents we're So poor
that they had to borrow the money 10 pay
their passage to Euglsnd that the expected
princess might be born on English soil, and
she remained in comparative poverty until
she ascended the throne.
An idle fellow complained bitterly of hi.
hard lot and said that no was born on the
last day of the year, tho last day Of the
month, and the last day of the
week, ard he had slways been
behindhand. He believed it would have
been hundred pounds in bis pocket is he
had not been born at all. Possibly it may
have been many hundreds in somebody
else's.
Clara Judd, OF Buffalo, claims to have
cured herself by prayer of sn illness that
had been pronounced hopeless. A few DAYS
ago she consented TO 90 and pray for Mamie
Leo. daughter of an Erie principal of a high
school. Mamie had for years been bed
ridden sufferer from spinal disease. Be-
fore the prayer had lasted ten minutes she
got out of bed unassisted and has since been
we'll.
The national board Of health has learned
that George Ambrose, an employee of bar
room at Key West, Fla, died of yellow fever
August 81. On the following day Dr.
Green, Of the marine hospital service, who
was present at the autopsy on the body of
Ambrose, expired from the same disease.
The truth was suppressed by the local aus
thorities, and the health officer WAS removed
for refusing to grant clean bills to outgoing
vessels.
Bert Harris camped out in Logan canyon,
U T. one night last week. About IL o'clock
he awoke and discovered that he and his
bedding we're being dragged down the nouns
tain side by huge grizzly bear. Harris was
almost parsly zed by fear, but managed flnal-
ly 10 wiggle out of the quilts, drop to the
ground and crawl away among the rocks.
The grizzly went some distance with the
beddinp, but finding that his expected prey
had escaped, he set up dismal howl. Hsr-
ris stayed shvering in the can. on for the re-
mAinder of the night.
Chicago Hower in the Times: One word
concerning the breakfast.tsble at the south.
1t is wonderful and marvellous institution.
Every body talks about it. l have counted
four kinds of hot bread on the table of one
of the leading citizens ofAtlsnts at one time,
and if you asked for stale bread, the servant
would be dispatched to the baker for it.
There is much CONSERVATION and solicitude
in the bosoms of sundry philanthropic s,stes-
men over the future of the south in regard
to the free use of the derringer; but / say
unto you, the frying pan at the south Is more
deadly than the hip pocket.
Says the New York Post: "A careful sur =
vey of the murders, suicides and other great
felonies committed in the chief cities Of the
United States during the past ten years show
that heavy fraction of the perpetrators
were atheists and free thinkers. These un-
happy persons, persuaded that life is the be.
all and end-sl here, imagine that they can
Jump the life to come This seems to be
the only way that these unfortunate people
can be converted. 1t Is only after commit
ting crime that they can be made to see
the value of forgiveness. All the murderers
die happy and in the assurance of a blessed
future.
The other day Mr.. Phillips, the manager
of some state prisoners working on the
Marietta d Northern Georgia railroad, threw
one of his men to the ground, stuck pick
axe in the sulid earth, placed the handle
across the neck of the PROSTATE man and
held II in place with his foot. Thus pin.
Toned 10 the ground the poor wretch was
dashed by Phillips until his flesh was re-.
moved in strips. He had the bad taste to
die while undergoing this discipline and a
grand jury has been thoughtless enough to
indict the persuasive overseer for murder IN
the first degree.
Bank OF Eogland notes are made from pure
white linen cuttings only, never from rags
that have been worn. SO carefully is the
paper prepared that even the number of dips
into the pulp by each individual workman Is
registered on dial BY machinery, and the
sheets are car fully counted and booked to
each person tn. ough whose hands they pass.
The printing Is done by most curious pro-
cess within the bank building. There Is an
elaborate arrangement for securing that no
note shall be like any other In existence;
consequently there has never been q dupli-
cate bank note except by forgery. The stock
OF paid notes for seven years 10 said to
amount TO 100000. and to fll 10000
boxes, which arranged side by side would