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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-02-03

by 6ouatiOn from the Pesbody odEca-
nal fund throzrh the sgency Of DR.. b.
ars. now deceased IN d has been sup
bort d a. public expense seventy-four pupils
Iast scholastic yeer, and ninety-three this
yssr respectfully refer 70 the report Of
The board or educstion for imf0rmation In
regard 70 It. Ths Prairie View normal
school. fnesr Hsmpasad) for the educstion
Of col0red toachsrs. vas provided for By The
sirieeuth Legislature, BY an appropriation Of
sir u Jussn- dollars out Of the Interest Of
the university fund lecauseit may Be pre-
suued tbsi hsd previously been connected
ri'h The azric1lt1r.l srd mechanical college
for ne ed1c4ior n clI1rcd pHrs1ns, but had
failed f1r ua1.t n sf1lars. Il its prfs1zt
orgsn1siian. un1sr o. Law. j. j. ftric-ly q
roTnsl scaool. ard a. uth has been succsss-
fr1r ra-Is1 o. - ne Jest two .Tesrs. With
ftirfT-fre st.is TuriIs last s1tlas g. yesr and
foriv-sir f.is year. - prize eEpsrs8
Fr ne co1d ton 81 nis
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Job Printing in CoIors

The HERALD STEAM Jon PRINTING OFFICE
Is now turning out some of the most beautiful
job work ia colors, Q YER executed In Iexas.
For artistic work go to the HERALD Jon
PRINTING OFFlCH,
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(ilticl1ra
Cures OF salt RheunI, Pso.
riasis, Itching aud ScaIy Humors,
scFofuia, scrOf9ious sores, Ulcers
ned MercurlaI AGeetl0Ds,

Cuticurs Renedie, consist of Cutinnra Re-
solvent, for purifying the blood through the
bowels, liver, Kidney, and ak II, Cu.icura,
q Medicinal Jelly, whick femOr es desd neeh
AID skin, renders eAlthy ulcers and old
ton OF the skin and soalp. ana Cntlcura Me-
dclnal Toilet soap, which restores, wh,tens
and beauties the skin. CuiouIa shaving
soap is the only medicinal soap expressly
prepared for shaving.
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TThomas Delany, Memphis, Tenn, says: ~
Psoriasis. and have spent hundreds OF dol
lars for doctors and stuG they call blood pu.
rlGsrs Doctors did not KNOW what to call
my disease | would scratch sights until
/ scratch ed myself raw; then 1t would dty
and form into scalea, witch would ali be
scratched Off next night, and 30 on. have
been completely cured by the CutiouTa Rene-
dies -
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leprOsy

cured Of Psorissis, or Leprosy, OF twenty
years standing by the Cuticura Resolvsnt In
formally, and Cuticura and Cudcura Soap ex-
tsrnally The most wonderful case on record.
Cure certified TO before Justice Of The Peace
and prominent citizens. All afflicted with
ltshlng snd Sealy Dis 9ases should send to us
for this testiua onial in full.
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Eczema.

IF. Fl. Drake, esq. Detroit, Mich. suffered
beyond all description from n kin disease
which appeared on his hand head and face and
nesrly destroyed bis eyes. Tn most careful
dootOring failed to help BIN, and sitter all
had failed lie used this Cuucura ResOlvsnt in
terms lily and Cuticura and Cuticura Soap ex-
temally ana was cured ana has remsined
perfectly we'll to this day.
Cutlcura Remedie. are prepared by WEEKS
q POTTER, Chemists and Druggists, $50
Washington ST.. Boston, aud are for sale by
all Drupgis E. Price OF CutiouTa, n Medicinal
jelly, small boxes. Scents; large boxes, 81.
Cutleurs Resolvent, the new Flood Pur fler 81
pes bottle. Cuticsra Medicinal Toilet soap,
% cents. Cuticara Medicinal Shaving Soap,
10 cents; in bArs for Baraors and large con-
sulners. 80 cents
Gs"Al, Mailsd free on receipt of price.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-10-01
6or Aonus Blenders.
TOMMY AND TIE FROG.

Little Tommy Tompkins. sitting on a log;
Holds a conversation with consequential
frog.
"LittIc Tommy Tompkins." says that frog
"Ye.te' day saw you fling a stone ut me.
/" / had my new green coat on: you nearly
ruined that
Little Tommy Tompkins. believe in tit
for tat
"Please, didn't mean to-" cries Tommy, in
~ know e6oo-hoo- twas wrong. 1 know it
wasn't right"
"Little Tommy Tompkins," the dreadful frog
sDry your fears and stop your noise, and from
that log arise.
The sport of being stoned you shall have
hope Il viii BE iun for you; twill be jolly
fun for me-.
Then on sudden Tommy goes tumbling
Down to the muddy water, while froggie
makes dash.
And, sitting on the log, oh, many stone
throws he,
Hitting wretched little Tommy with consid-
cradle glec.
"Hold onr' cries Tommy. vainly. "You're
nothing but a frogl'
Comes the answer, as the stones ny faster
from the log.
Was ever boy so wretched was ever frog SO
gladl ls1 -atA
Irealiy don't know what would have hap
pened to the lad.
But by chance wandering bee stung young
Tommy on the nose,
And, waking from fearful dream. up from
that log he rose.
Mary d. Br'ns, IN Nursery.
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CHAPTER Nv.
He fell from above,
To fall In love.

Sweet Singer Of Michigan.
Rebecca Jane Jones bathed the nose
of the stranded stranger with relentless
assiduity. His lids quivered, his eyes
opened a cross-fire on the bangs that
fringed the beautifully corrugated FORE
head of his preserver. Then he closed
his eyes again and remarked in stage
whisper, ~ lis she!''
Rebecca Jane Jones plunged the ar
MICA into his eyes in the excess of her
maidenly agitation. This had the re-
markably effect of opening them again.
This time the stranger was more COM
municative. He not only said Its
she," but he threw in the additional
observation, ..'Tis she whose image has
haunted me since that happy day when
in unison we ate the peanuts"
He got no farther. At the mention of
the seductive fruit Rebecca Jane Jones
shrieked in calliopic distinctness
Peanutsr'
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-10-01
The Costly Search After Gold and Silver.

As everyone knows, the Comstock
mines at the present time are all in
"borrasca. or poor ground, and not
one of them is to-day paying dollar in
dividends. On the contrary. they are
all levying assessments, and are spend
ING enormous sums in prospecting and
driving after that will-o' -the-wisp boz
nanza that is forever being predicted as
Just little beyond the levels of every
mine on the lode.
The Yellow Jacket, that at one time
had famous bonanza which paid in
dividends 81, 1000 previous to 1871,
and which has been steady assessor
for the greater part of the past ten
years. has prospected the lode to
depth exceeding 5000 feet. by shaft
which, on the LIST of July last, had cost,
without interest, 81, 1914, 203.53, and is
vet without ore. The assessments of
this company have already amounted to
81, 098, 900, and during the year ending
June 80, 1881, the expenditures at the
mines were $549, 740, of which S27. 230
were on account of and for driving 743
feet of the Sttro Tunnel. During the
year 1.055 feet of drifts were run, and
$50 feet of diamond drill prospect holes,
which was all the effective prospecting
done for over half million dollars. The
greater part of the outlaywas forpumping
nd repairs. The Superintendent says:
- From April Is, when connection was
made with the Sutro Tunnel, to June
20, or in little more than one month,
we pumped and hoisted $4,000, 900 gal
Ions, or $50, 900 tons of water. We
have had since that time steady flow
of sixty miners inches, or 720 gallons
per minute" This amount, two and
seven-tenths tons per minute, or about
5000 tons day; is raised from the
5000 foot level to the Sutro Tunnel,
nearly 1900 feet, and involves an ex-
pense greater than that required to
work some of the largest and most prof
liable mines in this country. Yet at the
present time the Yellow Jacket is SIM
ply prospect, and all these expendi-
lures are merely prospecting expenses
| incurred in the hope of finding some-
thing. And this is but one out of a
score of mines prospecting the Com
stock, mona of which pays expenses.
Never before in the history of the
world have such enormous sums been
expended for prospecting as we see to-
day on the Comstock. The same
amount prudently invested in less expen.
sive and more promising districts would
no doubt produce vastly better results. -
Engineering and Mining Journal.
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A Haytian Princess.

The Boston Traveller gives this de-
scription of q Haytian princess:
"The lady was the Princess Soulouque,
daughter Of the Emperor Soulouque,
who was driven from his throne
years ago and died in exile in Jamaica.
Her face was a dead jet black, but the
features were softly moulded and, with
a fine set of laughing teeth. made her
appearance progressing. She wore q
jaunty white turban hat with an inn
mense cardinal red feather floating
away behind like a ships pennon. Her
riding dress was of sky blue, very long
and trailing in the dust. Around her
waist was a broad gold sash, and in her
bosom she wore a sapphire brooch al
most as large as saucer. She was
mounted on Venezuelan horse about
sixteen hands high, which was made a
present to her father by the President
of Venezuela. The horse was as re.
markable as the woman on his back.
He was a clear cream color all over the
body, with long snow white name and
tail and most admirable shape. The
lady's riding whip had gold handle
studded with precious stones, and the
bride chain was of solid silver. She
wore yellow leather gloves, with gaunt-
lets extending as far as the elbow. Her
voice had tendency to falsetto, and its
tones were peculiarly entertaining to
hear. The Princess, but no longer q
princess by the laws of the land, was
educated in Europe and spoke four Ian
guages."
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and she commenced gallivanting with
another fellow. She carried her galli-
wanting and co-gallivanter beneath the
window of Horatio. Now he was
maddened. Both were miffed.
To drown his grief, Horatio.
as soon as his leg had assumed
its normal condition, gave his days and
his nights to the bicycle. In the twen-
ty years that had passed he had broken
both arms three several times, one leg
four times and the other seven times.
What with these incidents and several
minor affairs, such as a collar-bone
broken, a wrist dislocated, and his head
smashed now and then, Horatio had
had about all he could attend to.
And Rebecca Jane?
Well, she had firted awhile; but as
none of the fellows yentured to touch
upon the subject of matrimony, her
fond, true heart turned to HoratiO. 1t
found him rot, and she pinned in secret.
So she said; but she had gained forty
five pounds in weight, nevertheless.
But it was all over now. They were
to be united after their long estrange-
ment.
"Promise me one thing" said Re-
becca Jane. Promise me you win
never again mount a bicycle"
OF course Horatio promised. Men
always promise anything before mar
riage.
And so they were married.
Horatio, strange to relate. remem-
bered his promise, and Rebecca Jane
papa so exerted his influence that Hora-
ito was chosen captain of baseball
nine, and though his face is as battered
as gunboat after hard-fought action,
he is rich, affluently rich. In some sea-
sons he has been known to sell out six
games. the proceeds of these transac-
tons serving to largely swell the pro-
portions of his princely salary.
Horatio little knew when he fell over
his bicycle that he was to fall into so soft
thing.
Rebecca Jane Jones, thanks to thai
arnica bottle, won't die and old maid.
Boston Transcript.
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Flying Childers...A Race. Horse Whose
Stride Was Twenty-Five Feet.

The legends about the horse in cues.
ton are so well known thatit is scarcely
necessary so enlarge upon them. II
his stride, like that of Eclipse when ex-
tended, covered twenty-five feet, it was
eight inches longer than the strides OF
the Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur
when they were struggling head to head
opposite York Strand in 1851. The
two horses, while the contest was at its
height, reached over exactly the same
space of ground, and thatspa was twen-
ty-four feet four inches. The portraits
Of Flying Childers commonly represent
him with his hind legs stretching alb.
normally far back. II, by some excep-
tional leverage power, he could bring
his hind legs perfectly under him when
he galloped, his length OF stride and
his superior speed would be not UNI
reasonably accounted for. He won two
matches and received some forfeits at
Newmarket, but his greatest achieve
ments were not performed in public.
He is said to have given Fox, almost the
best runner of his time, twelve pounds,
and to have beaten him aquarter of a
mile, over the Beacon Course, which is
very much as if dark three-year-old
had met Robert the Devil last year at
Doncaster, and reached the goal before
Robert had come to what is called the
end of the white rails. The Duke of
Devonshire was in the habit of buying
annually some Of Mr.. Childers' ''young
things" On one occasion q dispute
arose between them as to whether the
sum due from the Duke to the Squire
was to be calculated in guineas or
pounds. 6. Throw in" exclaimed the
Duke, :" that ugly little white-faced
devil looking over the gate yonder and
guineas it shall be-" No sooner said
than done. Childers went with the lot
to Chatsworth, and was there used as
hack. Returning one day with letters
across the moor, he passed the exercis-
ing ground of the Dukes accepted
racers. The boys jeered at him as he
went by, crying out, Come, now. let
us see what that wonderful high-bred
nag of yours can do" This invitation
was straightway accepted, and the
curiosity Of Childers' critics satisfied at
once. 1t is needless to add that the
horse was Immediately put into train
ing, and the Chatsworth post pony
found himself at once transformed into
the pride and terror of Newmarket
His comparatively small size was con.
sidered at first, / suppose. to unfit him
for racing. The same thing happened
with Gimcrack afterward-some such
accident disclosed his superiority, and
the wondering groom rushed to tell his
master that the little cripple col
could beat them all."-Fortnightly Re
cieU.
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A CORN DODGER.

There was young girl from Bordeaux,
With corns on her little pink teaux,
They gave her such pain
The tears ran like rain
Down the bridge of her delicate neaux,
Her Iover-a youth from Cologne
Fled wildly and left her alogne,
When he found that her feet
With corns were repletc,
with never word he bad fiogne.
They sent for doctor from Lynn,
As shining and neat as pynn;
He looked at her teaux,
The source Of her weaux,
And INDUCED in a Rratificd grynn.
He prescribed for this maid from Bordeaux
And cured all her little pink teaux;
And now IL Is said
They. too, will be waid,
And from sorrow and grief find repeaux.
The sweet-scented youth from Cologne,
Who left her severely alogne,
When he first heard the news
His mind he did Jews,
And fitted from life with grogne.
-E. s. Bartlett.
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CHAPTER v.

Bob up sorenely from below,
She Is the gal you want, you know.
Oscar Wide.
Tell me-" said she, ssunder the dis
figurement OF that mashed nose dwell
est the face of Horatio Fitzgomery
Brown"
The battered bicycler allowed that
such was the true state of the case.
20, Horatior' sighed Rebecca Jane.
Then she collapsed into fainting fit.
It was now Horatio's turn to WELD
the arnica bottle. He did this with
such lover-like liberality that Rebecca
Jane came to in one second and three
quarters.
20 Horatio" she remarked. your
image has been present in this heart
indicating the locality-'for these long,
long years-that is to say"-her wom-
anly instinct reasserting itself-''quite
. little time, y", snow"
Then he sal ,ething.
Then she sd ,iething.
Then they Lo.n said something
Then it was all fixed.
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WHEEL AND WOMAN.
CHAPTER i.

Rounde about the whcele dothe gee,
Rounde about goes life alsoe.
-Chdwsir.
The sun was sinking in the west ac-
cording to the established custom of
that luminary at the close OF the day in
the town of Quiddlequaddle, when a
solitary bicycle might have been seen
careering along the road. The rider, a
young man of some fifty summers, not
to mention the other seasons, seemed
lost in thought. His feet pressed the
treadles mechanically, and his hand
rested lightly on the steering gear. He
rocked not whittier he wandered. Per-
chance he was thinking of some fair one
who in some distant day was wont to
sit by his side and look into the dreamy
depths of his strabismal orbs while
crunching the peanuts which his wealth
hal purchased. o, love, love!
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CHAPTER vi.

Beefsteak pie and fat opossums
Marriage bells and orange blossoms.
Wolf Whitman.
1t seemed that the day after Horatio
Fitzgomery Brown parted with Rebecca
Jane Jones on the occasion of the pea
nut-eating match aforesaid, he bought
himself bicycle and began practicing.
He broke his leg at the first lesson, and
was unable to call upon his dearest Re-
becca Jane without being carried to her.
Nobody offering to take him he went
not. His absence yexed Rsbecca Jane.
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The agriculturists of Cashmere are
robust and their wives fair, but the
shawl-producing villagers are wretched
objects. Long hours Of work in crowd
ed, ill-ventilated rooms. with beggarly
pay, make them mere shadows.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-10-01

Legs have risen in value. In the
time of Edward. the Saxon King of
England, the breaker of leg was
multced in six shillings. Now the New
York courts give doctor $50, 900 for a
leg broken by the Elevated Railroad.
and California gentleman expects to
get SO. 900 from the Central Pacific for
the MASKING of his big toe,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-10-01
CHAPTER II.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall:
Humpty Dumpty had q great fall.

Humpty Dumpty sat on wall.
Humpty Dumpty had great fall.
M. Goose.
The riders meditations had evident
ly awakened an unworthy heart pang.
With sudden start he accelerated his
speed. A pebble was in his pathway.
He needed it not. Itwas struck amid
ships by the wheel. In an instant his
nose had kissed the dust. There he lay,
bleeding like a butcher shop, his olfac-
tory apparatus iattened into prairie-like
fIatness, and his clothing enswathed in
the comminuted real estate that piled
the roadway. His trusty bicycle lay be-
side him, mutely asking to be excused
for the trick it had played upon its
master. Bicycler and bicycle lay mo-
tionless and at the mercy of the bugs
and beetles that crawled whithersoever
they would over their PROSTATE forms.
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CHAPTER III.
A maiden fair to see.

Rebecca Jane Jones, the maiden
daughter of old Jones, the horse-car
driver. had seen the catastrophe. That
is what she called it, though old Jones,
who sat smoking his T. d., said the
Teller was only takin' header. But
pardon the depression. Rebecca Jane
Jones had seen the catastrophe. 1t was
but forty-four brief years since Rebecca
Jane Jones first saw the light of day,
and as she had put in full time ever
since, it is unnecessary to say that she
was no infant. But she was young still
and her unsophisticated heart went out
TO the hapless stranger, and then she
went out herself. She lifted his head
in her lap and bathed his nasal append
age with the hem of her garment stepped
in the healing liquid of the arnica bot
tie.
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Rounde about the wheele dothe gee,
Rounde about goes life alsoe.
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Bob up sorenely from below,
She Is the gal you want, you know.
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She very evidently was ignorant of the
serious nature of the act, and did not
know the revolver was loaded"
The peculiar sickness that has pros
trated number of persons in the Hum
garian city of Pesth, is the occasion Of
an interesting letter to journal of
that city by a prominent physician,
stating the cause of the disease to be
the flavoring in some vanilla ice cream
that the patients had been eating. The
vanilla beans are often picked before
they are ripe, and are then liable to get
into state in which they are extremely
iniudicious, producing morbid condi-
ton resembling, but not the same as,
cholera. DIR. Hartzka mentions an epi-
demic in the city of Berlin produced by
this cause at time when he was thsre.
The Methodist minister in New
port, r. l., who was shot by the acci-
dental discharge of his pistol as it
tumbled from his hip pocket one night
while he was gazing at the stars, is re-
covering from his wound. The Christian
IsIer says: " We are glad be was not
killed, and we are glad also that he got
shot in the calf of his leg 1t then
asks: " Is itin pious Rhode Island that
ministers of the gospel in time of pro-
found peace carry pistols?" The rev.
erend gentleman and his frie nds state
that il was not in order to shoot his
fellow men that this Newport clergy
man carried q pistol, but In order to
defend himself from the possible as
saults of ruffians while on his midnight
walks engaged in the study Of astrono-
my.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-02
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Central Presbyterian church: DR.
McGaw, pastor. Services at l0:45 q. nc,
and ., m. Subject Of the morning dis.
course. Things to think on" In the
evening will be given the seventh in the
series on tho evidences of Christianity.
Subject. THE Canon Of Scripture" The
purpose of lecture will be TO show on what
ground the church receives the books con-
tanned 10 the Bible. and no others, AZ
oanonicaL Young peoples meeting at
$50 D. N. Sunday school at $50 q. m.
The Means By Which Human Respon.
sibility May be Discharged" ll0:45 .. m. J
and The Alpha and Omega ",(7:30 p. m
will lbe the subjects of the sermons at
Trinity church blythe Rev. A. B. Allen,
rector. Holy communion at 8 a.
N. Morning prayer and Litany
at l0:45. Evening prayer at 1880. Sun
day school at $50 a. NJ. Trinity chapel,
Service at 8 p. ~; Sunday school at Q p:
n. Subject of sermon, 'The Beatitudes. =
the poe,ssne Of The Resurrection Vim.
Dictated and Explained" (l0:45 .. m.) and
Enduring and Reigning" l7:s0 p. m. ] will
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-02
THE ICE GORGE,

The ice in the river remains in about
the same condition IS noted yesterday
afternoon. a fearful gorge has taken
place just below the sylvan slough and
along the city levee, The break in the
surface of the ice has not extended below
the city water works. and il is reported to
be very solid and compact 10 that locality
without the ice below..the city passes away
q food will undoubtedly ooccur as the ice
filing in from points above will have a
tendency to gorge on this side of the river
and Ia rise of the water must inevitably
follow.
a great many people who are familiar
with the breaking up of the river and have
given the subject serious thought and
consideration. state that the loss By reason
of overflow will be very severe the present
Seasnn.