The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

miStElI-ANEOtS ITEMS,
An Albany taxidermist is mounting
black partridge which was lately shot. 1t
is very rare specimen, the second one ever
captured in that region, SO far as Is known.
Now that articles have been signed for
boat race, between Ross and lIanlon, il is in
in order to name the winner, Just keep
your eyes ON Wallace Ross, but look out for
the Toronto rowing clubs money.
The dog fight between "Nellie, " of New
York, and Spring of Louisville, has fallen
through. The hackers of Spring refused
to put up all the stakes, $500 with the Police
Gazette rs was requested by the New York
dog hackers.
1t is said that Trinket has materially
changed in appearance since starting out
last spring. She has developed into a big
strong, cegantly-gaited mare, and instead
OF having a rather eNcitable temper is ms do
ellie as Il child.
A remarkable clock has been set up in the
municipal gallery of Rouen. 1t goes for
fourteen months without rcwinding, and
shows the hour and day of the month. 1t
was originally constructed in 1852, but UNI
derwcnt some alterations in 1916
Those who fear to cross the Atlantic
ought to have their apprehcnsions removed
by the record of She season now nearly
ended Amoug the twenty-five thousand
cabin passengers carried to and fro within
the last six months, not one life was lost.
Ihelndiana secretary of state recently re-
celved the following judicial report from
Justice OF the peace at Fort Wayne: you
afe lire when you told the paper thcr that
| SAID the laws were made for me. | am
lnStls, and | know what my rights are
You are fule, ! am the wost Democrat in
3 tl1S al 1 Z,
nope you wont tell any more lies about
me"
A remarkable natural phenomenon oc-
cnrred IN Hungary on the 9th of June.
| The Buznau Mountain, near the village of
Paptelke suddenly broke in two Il great
tissurc lotto 1875 feet wide, 50 to 100 feet deep
and 1900 to 1900 feet in length, being
formed by the rupture. A landslip took
place at the same time, and field was
moved bodily some thirty feet nearer to the
village.
The daring acts of the heroine little air
queen Nj lie Iuila, formed the grand center
of attraction last night As she traversed
the giddy road, high in mid air, trunding
her infant daughter ina whec-barrow, the
immense audience seemed GREATNESS and
spell-bound; then were heard ordinations
ofterror from many mothers lips and
| finally, ns'she safely reached the end of her
perilous journey, the prolonged applause
| fairly shook the arena.
| Signor Maicroni, who enacted Count
| Cardiac in Golfers Bankers Daughter con :
hinstion last season, has lost his voice en-
tlrcly, which neCesitates his retirement from
the stage for at least two years. lie will
soon leave for st. Augustine, Florida, for
his health whore he proposes to establish
himself in business. His wife, Nine. Ma
ieroni, who is travelling with the Hoey e
Hardic combination, will join him at the
end of the season.
| IL will he news to some people to know
they must not, when making their adieux.
! say good aucrnoon' or good morning, -
but simply Goodbye Between friends
and acquaintance the expressions of good
afternoon" or good day" are not rcco.-
nized, neither is good morning said to
friends or acquaintance even ut the break
fast hour. The terms good morning" and
good afternoon are chiefly used between
SupcriOrs and their interiors
1t is said by someone, who has apparently
looked up the fact, that only seven days of
national fasting and humiliation have been
appointed by presidents since the establish
I mcnt of the government and that they
have been designated as follows May o,
l79S, by Adams; January -, 1878, by Mad
ison; the last Thursday Of September 1861
April 80, 1868, and the first Thursday OF
I August, 1854 by Lincoln; May -, 1865
postponed to June y, by Johnson, and Sep
TENDER 26, by Arthur
1t is well known that the very lechlcSt
electric currents produce audible sounds in
the telephone, which is more sensitive ia
weak currents than the most delicate gal.
vanometer. NJ. Pellat lately declared that
the heat necessary to warm kilogramme
two and quarter pounds) of water one
degree, ifconverted properly into the cnsr-
gy of electric currents, would suffice to
produce in a telephone an audible sound for
ten thousand years continuously.
An English company places the opportu
mites for making the tour of the world in an
easy and elegant style at the disposal OF
anyone who has $500 and six months TO
spare. steamer has been turned into Il
pleaSure-yacht for fifty people. Starting
about the middle of October, and taking the
Mediterranean route by the Suez canal,
India, China, Japan, San Francisco, the
Falkland islands, and Montcyidco, the yov.
ayers by the beginning of July will have
managed to call at many Of the most inter
eStng spots on the planet within rcaSona.
BILE time, and in q pleasant manner, if thcy
can avoid quarrcling, contingency which
is guarded against by empowering the cap
tain to land any combativc member of the
London.
Lieut.. Gov, Tabor, of Colorado, owns
, from 100000 to 100000, all acquired
within four wears. But his sudden wealth
was preceded by eighteen years ofpoverty
{ deprivation and struggle for himself and
,, his wife, They went West lr0S Maine dur.
, ing the Pixies excitement spent all their
, money, found no gold, and thereafter
roughcd il in border settlements, working
; for small wages at first, and aGerwarl
keeping small stores IN mining camps. In
1877, he bought, in Denver, $500 worth OF
goods for 4 Lcadyille store, and tried TO in.
ducc the firm TO take half Of the Little
, Pittsburgh claim in payment but they
, preferred to take his note. That mine
: yielded him $4,000 In three months, aud
eventually Sl,S00,0OO The original cost
/ was grub stakes for the two prospectors
the bargain being that he should have hall
of what they discovered in the trip.
A daughter Of General Albert likc, Mis-
. Flora, i said to have adopted the stage rs q
profession, and will travel this season Will
Rice's Surprise Party.
, ID.
IL Is Foundat Last.