The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-01
NEWS NUGGETS

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President Arthur writes large, careless
heavy hand.
William II. Vanderbllt's daughter Is one
Of the most simply attired young ladies or
Fifth avenue
The Duke of Norfolk's child being incura.
BILE, its father has taken II to Lourdes to try
| supernatural means.
Judge Folger Whose name is pronounced
| os If spelled with y is pronounced adj
yocate OF woman suffrage.
! The Emperor of Austria has given pen
sion 10 The widow of Baron Haymarie and
has bestowed SC ,holarship upon her children.
vinie, the aged Queen Of the fifty Pequot
Indians in Connect |cut, is nearly white, is
church member ana earns her living by
making baskets.
A temperance orator dec lares that an av-
erage Of 800 persons a daW are Killed or
MANNED in the United States IN nights re-
sulting from the use of whisky.
Chief Justice Gray, of Massach usetts'
frequently makes his circuit through the
States on horseback. He Is man of giant
stature, measuring six feet four inches. \
The law of Georgia makes it crime to
point pistol or q gun at another, either
in fun or malice, whether the gun or pistol
be loaded or not. 1t is not bad law
either.
Adam Forepaugh has made great name
for himself. He made it by hiring other
men to stand on their heads and indulge in
the various performances peculiar to cir
cuses
BENJAMIN Franklin, who died in 1870,
was grandson of man born in the six
teenth century, in the reign of Elizabeth.
Three generations thus extending over two
centuries.
Boston is spending much money for
church music. The salaries of the musicians
in q single choir, says Bostoa man of the
old-fashioned kind, would pay a half dozen |
country clergymen.
General Sherman does not regard himself
the greatest soldier the world ever saw. He |
is not such an egotist as that. He humbly |
puts himself the second greatest SO as to |
give Napoleon a show.
The fashion OF discarding gloves at even
ing entertainments, which has prevailed |
among gentlemen for the last two seasons,
has had its run, and henCeforth kids, it is |
declared shall be worn.
The cable has informed the world that at
the recent election in Germany, Herr Hen
rici, the notorious Jew hater, received only |
800 votes out of 10000. The should be a |
warning to Judge Hilton
The records of the Patent Office show that |
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Edison than to any other single inventor.
He has taken out sixty patents relating to
his electric-light system alone.
A flask which once belonged to George |
Washington is now on exhibition in Cleve-
land The present owner of the flask is
making further search and hopes to find |
Washington's meerschaum pipe.
General w. S. Harvey, who is on the re-
tired list. is now living at Pass Christian,
Miss. He will have family reunion on
Thanksgiving Day. He is entertaining
some officers fthe French Navy, with their
wives.
An exchange says that America contains
more patriots than any other country in |
the world. No sooner does statesman be-
come a member of the Cabinet than he APP
points his sons for duty in the country's |
service.
John Morely in writing of Golden, nat
ural style, says that classical training is
more aptly calculated to destroy the quail
ties of good waiting and fine speaking than
any other system that could have been con-
trived.
Mr.. Edward Levy Lawson, owner of the
London Daily Telegraph the paper with
the largest circulation i'll the world has, it
is said, purchased the Duke of Westmin
ster's' splendid residence at Cliefden for
100000.
The Chicago Journal would not be sur
prised if Emory Storrs were made Attor-
after all. Mr. Storrs is known
as the man who made electrical speeches in
the campaign in California last year. He is
a Chicago lawyer. :.
Referring to Princess Louise's continued
illness, the London Globe says: at has
become known that some fragments of
broken glass remained IN her ear until re-
moved by the English surgeons on her
reaching London.
Some "motley fool'' has requested Nc
Clures Morning Glory to inform him why
it is that loaf of bread in which there is
placed bullet, when cast into river, will,
BY floating over, show the exact location of
a dead bodyf" Aleck gives it up. l.