The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-14
Mems OF INTEREST.

IfEmS OF INTEREST.
The Paris municipal laboratory reports il
is July analysis. Sl8 out of 455 samples q
wine bad IA good and the rest tolera6e, anC
40 out of $50 samples Of milk bad, 20 toier
able and 40 good.
A sheep dairy for the manufacture o
cheese has been started near Chattanooga.
Sheep cheese is u popular or icle of food in
Austria and this enterprise, beginning will
oneI thousand sheep, is under the manage
ment of an Austrian.
Palatine, MY, is said 10 be tho richest
village OF its size in the world. 1t has about
five hundred inhabitants and it is said that
over thirty of these are worth from $1,000.
600 to $4,000 600 while six have over $780,
000,0 900.
For number of years the lighthous
keepers on the Long island coast have taken
summer bosrders at the stations. Orders
have boon issued by the lighthouse board
that any keeper of lights who keeps board
ers shall be dismissed.
Sixteen years ago Loren Bartlett, of Gran
by, Massachusetts, cut tho figures 1865 on
the back of Il turtle found IN his meadow
and every year eince, with one exception, Ii.
animal has been seen in the same field. Nc,
to DO behind the times he wants his dat,
changed.
The colored pastor Of Baptist church in
Cincinnati recently obtained permission to
Draw water from one Of tho city fire plugs
Tor the purpose of immersing his flock. 1t
has just been discovered that the rascsly
shepherd, instead of using the fluid in that
manner sold it to his neighbors, who desired
TO replenish their cisterns.
The thirty-eight states of the union con-
tain 296 counties. Texas leads of. having
II counties, followed closely by Georgia 4
l3i. After Georgia in the table comes keu,
lucky with III counties; Missouri, lis; Virs
GINA, lO6; Illinois, 102; Iowa, 80; Tennessee
and North Carolina, each 81, and Indiana
". AS o rule the southern states have more
counties Than the northern states.
George Wade, wealthy farmer living
near Wilmington, Ohio, sold stock and
wheat last week TO the amount of $2750, Ia
stead of taking it TO bank for safe keeping,
he put 1t in a bureau drawer. He did not
have occasion TO 60 10 the place where he had
deposited it until several days afterwards.
| When he did no found the bureau drawer
III which it had been placed broker open and
the money gone.
With the expressed purpose Of keeping
| jogs out Of the Stockton house. ut Cape
May, during tho present season the directors
l. sued an announcement that they would be
charged for board AZ the rate of $40 week
apiece. That this scheme for carrying out .
praseWorlhy purpose q an utter failure is
proved by the fact mat six dogs are now
registered at the Stockton house, that is
to say, three skye terriers, two ap-dogs and
one pug.
Mrs. Walter Bell, of Granite Basin, Butte
caunty, California, ordered her Chinese
cook to prepare supper for fourteen men.
He dow into rage Snd the wife summoned
her husband When the latter appeared the
Chinaman msde for him with big butcher
knife. Mr.. Bell retrested to another room,
got shotgun, returned, and ordered the
Chinamsn to leave the house. The response
was another assault with tho knife, when M.
Bell fired at him, killing him almost u-
sIantly. A jury acquitted MIR. Bell.
Gollotts, the port of Tunis which ia now
being observed" both by the French troops
from the landward side, and by English aud
Italian iron-cads from tho sea, Is u pretty
little cluster Of white houses, standing at the
very entrance of theolong, fiat sand bar
which, running slsntwise across tho bay very
much like the causowsy of the groat reser-
voir in central park, New York shuts off Tu-
mis- itself from any approach by the son. A
lpilrosd traversing the patch OF level sand
bordering the inner bay connects Goletta
with Tunis on one SIDE while on tho other
lie the halt-excayated ruins of Carthage, tho
remains Of the famous Roman squsduct, and
the little white memorial chapel in honor of
Louis IN, of France, who persisted here with
his army in 1870.
St. Louis Republican,: Gao of the two
alligators at Benton psrk was sunstruck yes
terday-the fret case of tho kind on record
but as II WAS officially reported by the park
commissioner, it will not be denied. The
alligator turned over on his back aud popped
out eyes and showed other unmistakabe
symptoms of sunstroke. The park keeper
lays il was clear Gaze. He had read of the
way sunstruck patients are treated at the
city diepenssry, but he had neither ice nor
leo water with him, and rs II was bad case,
one that required immediate treatment, he
pulled out his brandy bottle and gave MIR.
A ligator o big dram. The effect was Won
doStul. The patient Topped over on bis
belly again and swan oil seemingly rs happy
as a big hungry catfish among lot of little
minnows.
A recent traveller in Central Africa says:
Lions are ono of tho dangers between
ZHrz.bar and the great lakes. They some'
times hunt game in packs of six to eight.
Some animals show fight against them sue
coss uliy. Lions never venture 10 attack tho
adult elephant, and even avoid the bUifslo,
ua,css they are more ihaa two TO one. In
general they do not attack caravans, and
never in daytime, At moat o hungry lion
may spring upon and carry of stra2glor
y ollie passing through the brakes and jun
LleS. But II Is otherwise at night. When
iioDa scent the caravan from nfAr, particu'
latly If 1t contains goats or beasts of burden
they approach and announce their vicinity
by terrible roars. Nevertheless, In n we'll
inclosed camp there mo danger; the lion!
never st,omptto clear the obstacles, and
msksmen from behind the palisades can
pick them of with almost Inhiling aim
There lie danger only when the camp is NO
completely inelosed, or when those inside &
cut 10 attack ihem,"
Gsicniuts for the Florida EvcrSiadcs