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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-03

Ladies and misses light-and medium weigh
ulsters and ulsterettes
Light polo jackets
Military and coachman jackets.
Childrens' dresses. ETC., etc.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-03
Shall Walters Wear Boards.

A proprietor has m undoubtcd right
to engage man conditionally, upon
shaving. No man is forced to accent :.
it is solely question between them. for
them to settle, without the interference
of anybody. Everything is carried to
ridiculous extremes. One wcll-known
uptown house actually requires their
men to shave everything clean. It is
said that a guest, to whom nature had
denied any hirsutc appcndages what
ever, and who consequently lacked that
manly appearance which those ona
ments alone can give, was waited upon
by a waiter who possessed handsome
beard. The customer, noticing the
difference between the waiter md him
solf, announced his intention of not using
the house in future unless the waitera
shaved, which from that time has been
a rule of the house. 1t may not be
generally known, but the proprietor of
one of our leading uptown restaurants
invariably shavcs when in the city.
This is consistency. This gentleman
would, doubtless, scorn to ask man to
do what he would not do himself.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-03
Birds and the lighthouses.

1t is curious fact in natural history
that our migrating birds all (or nearly
alD perform thcirm migrations in the night.
Subsequent Investigations have led to
the acceptance of this habit on the part
OF the birds by all scientists who have
studied this subject. And Capt. Brooks,
OF the Faulkncr's Island lighthouse, says
that every year great numbers of birds
Kill themselves by dashing against the
light Once, in the top Of the lofty
lighthouse off St. Augustine, Florida, I
found the thick and solid plate glass
badly cracked, and some plates ncwly
put in to replace others that had bccn
wholly smashed by the impact of wild
ducks-and this, too, boar in mind. in
spite OF a strong wire netting placed
around the light for its protection |!
Such is tho force with which they ny.
Faulkner's Island light is so strongly
protected by heavy plate glass that it is
rarely, If ever, broken. But "the
slaughter of the imnoccnts " is enormous
in spring and fall. During the period
OF the main movement, for week or so
i'll spring and in September, Capt. Brooks
says hundreds of dead birds are picked
up. On the morning of May 16, 1878.
hc picked up no fewer than 216 dead
birds ut the foot of the lighthouse tower,
none of them larger than n catbird, and
he says there must have been three or
four times that number that wcro so
disabled that they could not get off the
island. He thinks 1000 birds ut least
were killed or wounded in that one night
against his light alone; and he took
measures to ascertain how it was with
other lighthouse keepers. Most of them
reported quite as large, and some even q
larger destruction than Faullsner's Is
| land had Witnessed
Take oven twenty of the eighty or one
! hundred lighthouses Cat guess betw .cn
the New Jersey coast and the shores of
Maine, and if anything like this rate Of
ornithological fatality prevailed. what
must be the annual destruction of birds
on our northern Atlantic coast alone {?
Mrs. Celia rhaxtcr, in her "reminiscences
OF the Isles OF Shoals, tells of similar
state of things at that light. Doubtless
the keeper of almost any light could tell
q similar story. No wonder our New
England birds do not Increase that
many kinds seem to be falling off. That
with the wanton destruction wrought by
long-legged men and boys with guns,
and this work of the lighthouses, there is
danger that the number of our small
birds will tend, Notwithstanding their
fecundity, to diminish rather than in
crease.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-03
Spare the Carpets,

AS it is hard work to sweep carpet,
even with a sweeper, save thcm from un-
necessary litter by care about scattering
fine chips or crumbs OF wood, cloth, paper
Or food. Eating should be done in rooms
easily cleaned, with carpets of oil cloth,
or similar material, or with bare floors, or
with a linen crumb- cloth spread upon the
carpet underneath the table. Children
should not he allowed to run about the
house with pieces Of food IN their hands
If their food is not all taken at the table,
the child should be Obliged to ST. still! some
where. ca ching his crumbs upon a napkin,
bib, or apron, instead of dropping them
upon the floor. Taught habits OF ncatnesss,
order soon becomes second nature. and
they o. not make themselves obnoxious to
orderly people. If they wish to whittle or
to cut paper, or dolly things in your best
rooms, you need not necessarily refuse
them. Spread large cloth or newspaper
down to catch the chips or clippings, and
see that 1t is safely empted as soon as the
child's WORK 10 done. Grown up people
arc sometimes very trying. because OF their
lack Of this kind OF training. They pull
flowcrs to pieces In your parlors, white OH
your smoothly shaven lawn, scatter fruit
peelings and segar stumps about your yord,
! scrlbble on the covers of your magazines
and margins Of newspapers, and scratch
matches on the wall Of the house, or leave
disagreabe marks of some kind in every
possible place. Had they been we'll trained
IN youth, these offences would be impossi-
bic to them.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-03
Tho Catholic Hierarchy.

An official list, lately published at Rome
under the direction Of the pope, illustrates
in striking manner the great extent and
elaborate organization OF the Roman Church
throughout the world The enumeration
of hicrarchical titles throughout the east
and west together includes a total of 1886
offices, oil Of which except about one hun
drcd, are at the present moment occupied.
Or the dignltarles who rank below the su-
prcme pontiif there are G3, and of patri-
archs, comprising both the western and the
eastern rites, there are II. The archbish-
ops Of the Latin rite are no less than 1877,
with 600 bishops, showing that in the coun-
tries protesting ecclesiastical allegiance TO
the pope, the higher dignity bears much
larger proportion to the lower than in our
own. The English and Welsh bishops are
20 in number, as C impaired with only Q
archbishops, whereas in tho Roman Chuch
there is al average of less than bish-
ops to each superior preiatc. The Oriental
rite is administered by only 81 archbiehops
and bishops together. or officials bearing
the title OF apostolic delegates there are 6,
OF apostolic Wears 26, and OF apostolic
projects l02. But OF the bishops and arch
bishops as many as 200 are appointed to
tiles called IN partiGus tnfdeliuna' ana
this proportion has Cf course been consider
ably augmented Of late. In the College OF
Cardinals there are four members who have
not exceeded the age of 80, and only three
who have not yet reached their Goth year.
A contingent OF 20, or nearly half of the
Sacred College, is included in the decade
extending from 10 to- 80; there are l5 who
are between go and TO; and II who are
between 90 and 6D. In Great Britain the
Roman Catholic Dlshoprics are 12 in num-
Der, with one arciibishopric; and in Ireland
the numbers are q and i. In Scotland
there are three apostolic Wears, and in the
British dependencies III Europe there are
three Roman Catholic Bishops. Finally,
in the whole OF the British dominlons the
number OF prclates Of the same religion
was lately estimated at q total Of ll8
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-03
Whispering.

Ask the offenders to go Whispering
for half hour, or hour, and at the end
of that ascertain who have succeeded.
letting them raise their hands. Com.
mond their success give them little
rest and let them try another period
Have a period set apart for speaking
by having large card marked, Study
Hour" on one side and "Necdful
Speech" on the other. At the end of
each hour turn this card.
Keep an eye on the noisy ones, and
give them separate place to sit, not so
much rs punishment rs to prevent
their troubling others.
Keep record Of those who whisper
much, and class them rs 'Disortlcrly. 3"
and lower their standing for good be-
havior. This needs to be handled with
care.
Detain those who are noisy and try
to influence them by kind personal
talk.
Appoint some of these monitors.
Give extra employment to those who
seem to have time to whisper.
Make great distinction between
those who whisper about their lessons
and those who whisper about mischief.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-03
Artificial Diamonds-IIow they were
Made.

Mr.. Hannay, the Glasgow chemist,
who succeeded in producing carbon crys
tails which by careful examination by
experts, proved to be real diamonds, has
atlast explained the method by which
he produced them. His experiments
were bold, expensive and oft repeated.
Out of eighty only three succeeded.
Violent explosions were frequent, fur
naces were blown to pieces, steel tubes
burst, and rs net result he produced II
few small crystals of diamond which
would have but little monetary value.
Furthermore, he confessed to having in
duced in himself a very weak state of the
nervous system causedby working under
such difficulties and dangers. The crys-
tails were Mt last produced by tube of
coilcd Loromoor iron twenty inches long,
four inches III diameter, having an inter
mi bore of only half an inch. In it were
placed mixture of 90 per cent. bone
oil, 10 per cent. pariiine spirit and about
81 grains of metal lithium. The open
end of the tube was welded air-tight, and
the whole WAS heated to rcdncss for four
teen hours, q process which of course
caused tremendous themperature with
in the tube, the same process having ex-
plodcd many tubes tried previously. AT
ter allowing the tube to cool and open
ing it, he found within small mass nd
herring to the sides which was quite
black. From this black lcass he obtain
ed the crystalline carbon. Paralline
spirit is made up of carbon and hydro
gen, and it is supposed that the metal
lithium went into union with the hydro
gen leaving the gaseous carbon which,
under the intense heat and pressure, was
crytnllizcd into the solid form which we
call diamonds. 1t this experiment. can
be regarded as al indication of natures
process the temperature of the earth
must have been at one time much higher
than anything we can now produce arti-
ficially, with pressure 80 enormous as
to be almost beyond calculation. The
earth which now affords habitation for
man must have undergone wonderful
changes since it was capable Of produc-
ing the diamond. d.-Dr E00fc's IruIth
Monthiy.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-03
THE DESERT OF THE HEART.

% desert Of the heart, in those long ewes
When autumn brngs our floweress winter on,
What bleak wind across thy wild waste grleves
With hollow murmurs for the dead and gone
Oh, desert Of the hearth
In our fresh youth, when all things are newborn,
Before we love, In our impatencc, old,
We mourn our fate as though we were forlorn;
Then, also, how thou soonest vast and cold!
Oh, desert Of the heartl
We long for love, we think the heavens are rude,
The future looks all cloud and storm and rain,
And fierce against the barriers that exclude
Our bliss we strike, but seem to strike In vain,
Oh, desert Of the heartl
1llusionsl Run, oh frank and bounding youth
There at two PAGES IL the bush i'll lower;
No more the desert. But for age, in sooth
Is there whitc-rosc bush, or jasmine bower,
on, desert of the heart?
Blttor delays and longings unattainedl
Oh say, beyond the sands and frowning noun
tains,
DIN in the distance TO our weak eyes strained,
Is there not hid some Vaucluse with It's foul-
tains,
Oh, desert of the hearth
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-03
n woman with IL History,

Mrs. Beatty passed through Nashville,
icnn., recently, en- route for Blue Ridge
Springs Va, her accustomed place for
spending the summer, to Crlggie Hope,
where she will spend some time with her
niece, Mrs. Murray, and family, of Mem.
phls Mrs. Beatty ID Il remarkable woman.
She ls daughter of Governor John Adair,
or Kentucky. At the aye of Is she mar
rled Joseph NJ. White, of Florida, who
was elected to Congress from that State.
and continued TO represent 1t at Washing
ton for twelve years, without ever going
to the State or even asking the sutfrat cs of
his constituency. He declined to serve
longer before each election, and finally was
t'lowed to retire on the prciext that his
wite's health required clangc. lie then
went on an important foreign mission and
remained abroad many years. whereby his
Quilted and beautiful wife possessed extra
ordinary advantages in sharing the honors
OF dignltarcs in Church and State. She
was honorcd by Il private interview with
the rope OF Rome fifty yuars ago without
paying the usual homage of kissing his toe,
and not only did he pledge ever to receive
whomsoever she might sec proper to COM
mend and to remember her in his PRAYERS.
but he sent her some valuable presents,
among Which was an elegant diamond
cross, with al exquisite representation OF
the Saviour III amethyst Mr.. White was
successful lawyer, ant al his death left
an estate of hall million dollars. Five
years and moro had elapsed after his death
when Mrs. Florida" White, as size WAS
known IN Washington, married DR.. Beatty,
OF New Orleans. He died in about five
years, when she retired to the privacy of
her estate in Florida There she remained
alone with her two hundred slaves until
tho results of the war made changes ncces-
sary. When Dir. Lincoln issued the eman-
cIpation proclamation she called them to-
gcthcr and explained to them its in.pOrt.
They readily understood, for she had, with
diligence. taught them to read and write.
Although past 80 years Of age she 20 sscs-
scs her faculties quite perfectly. Ter
memory is excellent. When younger she
and Mis-. President Polk were special
friends. After the war she busted herself
in the building of Southern Presbyterian
Church at Washington, and from one of
ler own sacrifices she gave couple OF
thousand dollars realized on the sale of
her diamond cross. 1t was relic that she
greatly priced, and she would not have
parted with 1t, but, although she had cdu
Gated seventeen children, she was never a
mother. hence there was no person on
whom she could so satlsfact orlly bcstow it
as Ill giving it to her church.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-03
a Noted Statue

Bcaconsiicld's statue is to stand in the
north transcpt of Westminster Abbey
that which is cntorcd from the church-
yald of st. Margaret upon the Thames
sldo, and in which stands the wcll-re-
membcrcd monuments Of Lord Chatham,
Pnlmcrston. Mansfield, Canning and
Peel. Bcanconsficld's statue will be
placed next to that of his old antagonist
Sir Robert Peel. 1t will probably take
the place of Chantreys monument to
Sir John Malcolm, the diplomatist of
East India fame, to whose memory an
other monument in the form of an obclisk
100 feet high stands at Eskdalc, in Dunn
fricsshirc, Scotland. The Chantrcy monu-
ment will be removed to another portion
OF the Abbey, as it was the intention of
the late Dean Stanley to have tho north
transept devoted in the future to Prime
Minister'S. The selection of the place
for the Beaconsfield statue, and the ser-
mon upon the late Premier, were among
the very latest official acts of the Dean
Of Westminster.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-03
Poisoning.

we all have a great horror of being pois.
oned, without exactly understanding why
1t is. Poison ia adisorganization Of flesh or
blood, or both. Poisons are of two kinds;
ono the result Of medicinal agents taken IN
to the stomach or circulation, the other the
result of bites Or stings of living creatures.
l will now state two ideas which, if gener
ally known and remembered, would save
thousands of lives every year. If you
have swallowed a poison. whether lauda.
mum, arsenic, or other thing poisonous. put
tablespoon of ground mustard in a glass
OF water, cold or warm, stir and swallow
quickly, and ihstantancously the contents
of the stomach will he thrown up, not al
lowing the poisonous substance time to be
absorbed and taken into the blood; and as
soon as the vomiting ceases, swallow the
White OF enc or two new eggs, for the pur-
pose OF antagonizlpg any small portions of
the poison which have been left behind.
Let the reader remember the principle,
which is, to get the poison out of you as
soon as possible; There are other things
which will have a speedy emetic effect
but the advantage of mustard IS, 1t is al
ways at hand, it acts instantaneously,
without any after medicinal effects. The
use of the white Of an egg is, that although
1t does not nullfy all poisons, 1t antagonizes
larger number than any other agent 80
readily attanable. But while taking the
mustard or egg, send for physician; these
arc ADVISED in order to save time, as the
difference OF twenty minutes is often death.
Cure of bites and stings. Almost all
these are destructive fro IL their acid nature;
consequently the cure is an alkai. Spirits
OF hartshorn is one of tho strongest, and In
almost every house, and you have only to
pour out some into tcacup, and dabble
1t on the wound with common rag; re-
lief is almost Instantaneous But suppose
you have no hartshorn; well, then, sale
ratus is All alkali, every tritling lazy cook
III thS land has il, we arc daily eating our
selves into the grave by It's cxlravagant use,
ana the use OF half a thimbleiul in week
Is cXtravngant. Molsten it with water
and use as the hartshorn. If you have no
salcra'us or soda, pour tcac Up Of boiling
water on as much wood ashes, stir it, and
III few moments You will have an alkali.
The lye OF ashes will answer good pur-
pose While the physician is coming. Re
member the principle the bite Is IN acid,
the cure is all alkali. Have we not before
now looked with wonder on the old negro,
VINO ran out when the wasp's sting made
lis " holcr." caught up "three kinds" Of
weed, rubbed the part well, and Ill five
minutes we were happy in complete relief ?
But why "three" kinds Of wced9 Why,
III the first place, you know " three" and
all its mulliples are mysterious numbers
and then again you can scarcely gather up
three kinds of plants anywhere, one of
which will not have more or less of alkali
IN ii. If men were only to gather up prin-
clples instead of spt ctications, how much
easier it would be to know q great deal,
and to apply our knowledge SUCCESSFULLY to
the practical purposes of life.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-03
a Boys Grip for Life.

William Stonestrect, twelve year old
lad, had narrow escape from sudden
and terrible death recently. III Louisville,
Kentucky. The boy says he was throw
ing base ball up against tie side of his
fathers house, near Hancock and Lamp
toD streets, when the ball lodged in the
gutter at the top of the house. lie imme
diately started up to get IL. getting out on
tn, 'oof through hatchway. The house
has three stories and an attic, the roof Is
rather steep, and as the boy slowly edged
over toward the gutter he felt q sinking at
the beart. His little sister Mary was stand.
ing in the yard eycIng her brother, and
calling out to him every instant to come
down. lie made some boastful answer,
and continued his dangerous journey. He
reached the edge Of the roof, caught firm
nod of some projecting Shingles, and lean
ing over seized the ball. Before he could
mise from his STOPPING position. he felt the
shingles to which he was clinging giving
way with him. lie clutchcd them ncrv-
ously and began to draw himself up slow.
y. Suddenly the shingles gave way, and
IN an instant the boy seemed TO be hurrylng
to instant death. The pavement was fully
thirty feet below, and there seemed nothing
TO prevent his being dashed to pieces on
the bricks. just as he was rolling over
the gutter he nvolrntarlly seized hold of
it and clung there desperately The gut.
ter was an ordinary tin affair, no, very
strong; nor was it bound to the roof very
tightly. The sudden weight of tho boy
made the TIN sag down, and few OF the
fastenings gave way, leaving the boy hang
ing down over the abyss, with only bro
ken rotten piece Of tin between him and
eternity. William was now thoroughly
aroused to his danger, and cried out for
help. His sister ran into the house and
happening to find n colorcd man there told
HIM of her brothers. danger. The man
ran ont and getting long ladder which
wae lying in the yard put it up against the
house. The boy was now almost exhaust.
ed. The pcrspirltion was running down
his tacc in streams. Ills eyes were dilalcd
with terror and exhaustion, and it seemed
impossible for him to hold on till the as
slstancc came. The colored man ran up
the ladder nimblY. Scarcely had he
reached the top when the boy, who could
hold on no longer, dropped into his arms.
The coorcd man took him down and when
IT," boy reached the ground he tainted. lie
was taken into the house and physicians
were Summoned.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-03
The Hallucinntions of Great Men,

In 1906 General Rapp, on his return
from the siege of Dnntzio. having occa
sion to speak to the Emperor entered his
study without beng announced. lie
found him so absorbed that his entry. was
unpcrceived, The General, seeing the
emperor continue motionless, thought he
might he ill, and purposely made Il noise.
Napoleon Immediately aroused himself,
and, without any preamble, sezing r nd
by the arm, said to him, pointing 10 tho
sky: "Look there, up there The Gen
eral remained silent, but, on being asked
second tiTc. lie answered that he per-
ccived nothing. "What," replied the
Emperor, "you do not see iL2 1t is my
Star, it is before you brilliant )" then. ami.
mating by degrees, he cried out "t has
never abandoned me, see it on all great
occasions, it commands me to go forward,
and it is constant sign of good fortune
to me-"
1t appears that stars of this kind, so
frequently spoken of in history, and so
well known as metaphor in language,
are a common hallucinali>n III of the in sane.
l5rlerre de Boismont has chapter on the
stars OF great men. l cannot doubt that
phantasies of this description were in
some cases the basis of that firm belief in
tio1hoio}1S HlllCIl IOl u IL" persons OF emil
nencc entertained.
The halluclnaJions of great men may be
accounted for in part by their sharing n
tendency which we have seen to be not
uncommon in the human race, and which,
II it happens to be natural to them, is lia-
BILE to be developed in their overwrought
brains by the isolation of their lives. A
man in the popition of the first Napoleon
could have no intimate associates; a great
philosopher who explores ways of thought
far ahead of his contemporaries must
hayc an inner world in which he passes
long and solitary hours. Great men arc
also apt to have touches Of madness; the
ideas by which they are haunted, and to
whose pursuit they devote themselves,
and by which they rise to emincncc, have
much in common with the monomania of
insanity. Sinking instances Of great Wis
ionarlcs may be mentioned, who had al
most beyond doubt those very nervous
seizures with which the tendency to hall,l-
clnations is intimately connected. TO
take single instance Socrates, whose
daf1'on was an audible not visual ap-
pcarancc, was subject to Whist admits of
hardly any other lnterpret citation than cata-
leptic seizurc, standing all night through
in rigid attitude.