The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-05
GLE,SINGs ol NEWS.

One of the most successful. as well as tine
most dangerous, ppera,i'never undertaken
in the way of submarine engineering iD this
country, or ANY other, WAS performed, says
the Winnipeg Times uca. Rat Portage, last
week In the lifin., of clglt-ccn cans pIultro-
glyceriue belonging 90 The Hamilton pow
der company, from the ltJum of the Lake
ofthe Woods, otithe shore of what Is now
known as GlyCerinc Island. Tho difficulty
as well as the danger oJhe UrSk may be- UNI
derstood when We say thar the cans ofthis
extremely trcuCherous material laid hidden
under three feet of mud torty-hye feet below
the surface ofthc water, amt had lain IN that
condition since last spring, when the cargo
went through the Ice.
In front of Col Thomas Meads house in
Greenwich Connecticut, stands a sycamore
or ball-wool tree, which is III years old,
having been planted in no. 1t is about
80 feet high, and fifteen feet from the
ground its circumference is tweuty-eight
feet and its diameter nine feet. \ hole IN
the trunk which is no bigger than man 5
hand, was not many years ago large enough
for man to crawl into. and was once used
by the children as sort of playhouse. As
the tree has grown oflatc years the aperture
has gradually closed,
The oft-rcpeated charge that American
wine shipped to Europe returns 10 this
country is declared 10y BouiontS circular
TO be false The amount exported last year
amounted to less than seventy-hye thousand
gallons and went mainly 10 Mexico and
South America Very little has been sent
TO France, and none of that has returned.
Nothing is said of the whisky and highwines
that go to France and come back as high
priced brandies.
Orange culture is rapidly increasing in
Florida, and the prospect is that before many
years that state will have monopoly ofthe
orange trade of the United States. Within
a recent date eight ofthe wcalthieSt citizens
of Atlanta, Ga, have made heavy invest
ments in Florida, principally in Orange
county, where the fruit is said Ia attain the
highest point of lusCiousneSs One Atlanta
capitalist some time ago put $1,000 into an
orange grove in that county, and now re-
fuses 100000 for his purchase
curiosity in the Gulf of Mexico has
been discovered IL is a harbor in the open
gulf fifteen miles from land, kind OF oil
is thrown up by the processes of nature, ana
rests upon the surface OF the water in thick
scum. The effect Of the oil is so great that
even in the SeVcrcst storms the sea III TINS
peculiar harbor is comparatively smooth
This is so well known that when storm APP
prOaChcs small vessels run for tins OIL
pond - as it is called, and ride out the gale
in safety.
Within forty years orange culture has be
come leading industry OF syria. Jalta
and Sidon are the chief centcrs, the former
city having $40 gardens, with an average of
from 2,OI0 to $500 trees in each, and pro
ducing &c. 600 900 oranges. \ garden costs
from S.. O00t to $4,000, and brings in from
$500 to 81 900 per annum. The export IL
carried on chiefly by sailing vessels for
Egypt and Coustlntinople, and by steamers
for Russia, Trieste and Marscillcs.
The appearance Of the mosquito in Eng
land led a gentleman to ask Mr. Darwin if
the exceptionally hot weather could not
have developed the English goat into that
annoying insect. Mr.. Darwin, in his reply,
said that no trustworthy evidence had been
of new species Of the tiputld~e, but 1t
seemed to him probable that some English
species have increased in number.
A quantity of bees, destined for ontario,
have been received in London from Cyprus.
They were let out near London for a tiy,and
afterward repacked for the remainder OF the
Journey They are conveyed in small
boxes, partIyFoyerod with perforated metal
and are provided with honey and water. \
similar consignment ofthis unusual freight
was successfully forwarded to Canada last
year.
A communication in the st. Louis Re-
publican SAYS Having heard Garfield IA
yorite HYMN murdered in two congregations
hy being sung TO wrong tunes, | would
state that il should be SUM to the tune Oh
"From Grecnlands Icy Mountains" etc.
This,tuuc, combined with the words, was 50
melodious and sweet that General Garfield
often loved to sing the song alone with ms
family.
1t is remarkable that tn agricultural do
preston so widespread in England has been
;.41, 4. IA IN A.,
English counties agriculturaliy at the pres
cnt time are Devon, Cornwall anu North
cumberland. The extremes meet.
70 escape payinga debt n London sharper
presented a certificate ofvaCCination to sub
stantiate his plea of infancy" but rs thu
bill for which he was sued included ale,
hama beet, the judge thought that the
diet was altogether too hearty to make Tn,
defendants plea worth consideration, ana
rendered Judgment against INN.
The g eat hotels of Saratoga pay tax this
wear ON the following assessments Tor state
county and town purposes; Grand Union
Mrs e. NJ. Stewart, 1912 500, United
States(J. NJ. Marvin and John Hail, truS
iGes). sos, eco, Congress Hall Clement 4
Cox, 100000; Clarendon (Mr A. }, Jones)
$50,SiO.
Kentucky ~ said to have 500O0OoO gal
Ions of whisky in store, very nearly four
fifths the annual production OF the Coun'
try. This mass of spirits represents $50
100000 locked up in n general speculation
which the short crops this ia! nay MAKE
profitable.
A boy ut Albany, New York, fourteen
wears old, has bcru reading dime novels
and desired to be the hero OF SONS cXcitin.
circumstance He, therefore, the othe
day fired pistol ut little grill the neigh
borhood, grazing her ear
The assignees of John &, Tappan, VIII,
dofauted for large amount rs treasurer OF
the Boston Betting Company, have beer
authorized to dispose of an endowment
policy for 81 go on his life for $500 cash
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BLAINE TO RElIRE EARLY.