The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-04
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apDrenenSlOn Ol lllt llllCl WHO oNolt Ills Ia
vorite black poodle.
"America," says an Englishman, "is a
country where mans statement is not
worth two cents unless backed up with an
offer to bet you SO"
Samuel Morley, Liberal member Of Par
lament for Bristol, addressing his constit-
uents, said strong feeling in favor OF tree
trade was growing in New York.
The wives of Governor Colquitt, of
Georgia, and Ex-Governor Brown, it is re-
ported, will engage in an old-fashioned
spinning match at the Atlanta Exposition.
Gould could close out to-day or within
weeks time, for $75, 100000. The same i'll
formant says that the richest merchant. in
New York was Moses Taylor and that he
was worth S40,OW,O0O.
The Pittsburg Transfer Company have
been compelled to suspend business because
their horses are all afflicted with pink-eye
The disease is spreading in that city, though
few cases terminate fatally.
jean Ingelow spends much of her time
visiting the poor Of London, and gives
dinner three times week to discharged in
yalids from the hospitals, and to others of
the sick and disabled in want.
The late Baron James Edward Rothschild
lived in a little chateau close to his moth
er's home, the Abbey DIES Vaux de Cernay.
This ancient and beautiful abbey is said to
have inspired the famous scene in Meyer
beers opera, Roberto il Diavolo.
In Hoboken former wealthy resident,
Emanuel RGiphQltz, who lost q fortune in
Wall street, has been arrested for stealing a
washtub from the front of a store. He says
he committed the theft deliberately, in or
der to secure home for the winter.
Calomel, DR.. Il. Drechsel notes, readily
dissolve in solution of mercuric nitrate
at gentle heat, with formation of mercuric
chloride and mercurous nitrate. Mercuric
chloride is preciptated, however, by mer-
curious nitrate except an excess of merGuric
nitrate is likewise present.
A matchmaker at Vouyry, in Switzer-
land claims to have made watch which
will run four years without winding up.
The Nature says that box containing two
watches Entrusted to the municipal author
tiles on January 10, 1879, has just been
opened and the watches were found going.
1t may interest PSYCHOLOGISTS to learn that
on the authority of Or. Myths only col
gramme of oxide Of copper was extracted
from the intestines of a girl poisoned with
Schweinturt green, although 100 grammes
of the liver, 81 grammes of the kidneys
and half the stomach had been operated
upon.
By experiments upon the absorption of
radiant heat by gases, Il. Lechler finds that
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1t is stated that the Fheng-chui, or the
superstition OF geomantic influence, is still
so strong i'll emma that troops had to be
s.nt 10 protrC3s t G .caegf"pI ilme between
SOVSuM anu nt So .uI
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ava or ,ho $500 w. YIN in,omt;onS ho W. Va
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a tunnel TO JON france with SPAN, by
passing under the Pyrenees at some point
equidistant from the Bay OF Biscsy and the
Mediterranean, Is under the consideration OF
the governments oil each country. The pres
ent routes by Bayonne ana Perpignon are
3 tb o Torb of ~,n and the South
of Eroncn
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troll hrchloalu ueikie writes III Inc Ma
Iure, giving Seheral l9ea OF the great geo
l9glG.i Yalue Oh the FOSSILS from lhe sna'es
vi iluues S anu Eshuaie, ON the ocoltlsll
poIuvIc me more important OF theIl Cou-
s Wi VI uslles, cius!aceaIls' anu arachhlus'
neil Wy uisooNellgS ure Iully examiner
;mo conclusions ure iikeiy 10 prove oil great
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lhe husleIi ProVectlol organs call our
ATTENTION 10 the iarge NUMBER OF southern
newspapers auVocatihg projection we
nave not seen that large number, and
our Eastern contemporaries nave not seen
them, because no suoh large number OF
protective,tarih advocates exist IN the
south, Inc Leaning southern newspapers
are ahtl-protectioniSt' as Wen they may be