The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-18
sILHOUETTES.

Secretary Sehurz's letter to Senator
Dawes shows that oven worm may turn
when trod upon
Town meetings occur in Massachusetts
mont month. and we learn that one of the To-
csI nclihcirrs of Quincy is getting on his
WARRANT and will store his diamond pin in
bonded warehouse during the fight, that no
4 heavy weights may prevent his jumping
q round"
The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald, in
rn,cinp the fact that hughes 10 his recent
siy-dnys' walk slept bat twenty hours, re
marks that, "instead of Il pedestrian, nature
evidently intended that man for the father
h of twins"
Senator Blaine has good doal of prop
erly laying about. He Is taxed for $4,000
in Augusta and has S60000 in Main state
Il bends Two thousand dollars used to bride
members of the legislature still remains I'M
cSlled for in one of the Augusta banks.
Professor Blsckie. in Sunday evening
hcture to Glasgow audience, explained
what amusement he thought proper for Sun
cav. Large dinner parties he would es-
thew, but be would allow such games as
Cicket lawn. tennis, billiards, cards, back
cannon and chess.
Some men are so uLlucky that if they
should pull sled up steep, icy hill in or
der to ride down, the sun would come out
md melt every inch of the smooth surface
just US they got to the top.
One of our exchanges SAYS that according
b the Prophet Daniel the world will come
an end in 1870. If that is the case we
tar the Washington monument will never
70 completed. The time remaining is en-
irey too short,
Colonel Forney thinks that after George
eliot, "Ouida" is perhaps the real female
philosopher of our time. She has Just writ
len a book, printed for her by j. b. Lippen-
tott & Co, of Philadelphia, which she calls
'The Village Commune and which, glow
ing with her marvellous style, lays bare an
evil which is corroding the heart of Italy, is
eating out the substance of England and
finally, like resistless cankerwcrm, is gnaw-
ng at the vtals of our strong republican
Institutions She calls it by another name:
SPlunder of the People in the Municipalt-
lies" Here is passage descriptive of other
places as we'll as Italy; ga respectable man
went the other day to pay something at a
public Office. Three vOurg men were Cos
siping on the private floor. They said: 1T
is not our business; 90 on the first floor The
first floor sent him to the second, the second
10 the third, the third to the fourth; the
fourth told him il asbusress for the ground
floor. When he returned there they yawned
and ba1e him come back to morrow.'"
The river and harbor bill is good
teacher of geography. II familiarzes the
people with the names of places never heard
of before,
II is b significant fact that while the pop
uation of England and Wales has been
Increased since 1910 by 9, 749,3lS and that of
Scotland by 1,OGOGO0, making total of
1880 948, that of Ireland has decreased
279l,63l.
Grants friends have raised S350000 for
him, and seem to have agreed to furnish him
with free dinners and to have him dead
headed on all the railroads. The poor man
has about 100000 besides his REGENTS gifts.
Really, General Logan, don't you think he
can mango to get on with economy?
-" The Philadelphia Times says that thus far
Stanley Matthews has received Endorsement
from but two sources--his kinsman, Hen ry
Watterson, and the Pacific railroad lobby
who want the Thurman act reversed.
The settlers on the lands of Mr.. Thomas
Hughes Tennessee colony have not been in
their new homes long enough TO raise crop,
but they have brick and terra. Gotta works,
stone quarry, fire brick kiln, coal mine and
a steam sawmill already in operation. This
is certainly dong well for settlement not
six months old.
A. Hartford minister who was urged to
soften his unqualified way of speaking about
hell damnatiOD and some other things re-
piled, 81 take my gospel straight as it comes
from the divine distillery and have no faith
in the rose-water or wilk.and.water dilu
tons"
Senator Allison's INSTRUMENTATION for
the cabinet is that he can beat General
Schenck at draw poker.
Professor Carter, of Yale, has been Sc
lected for president of Williams College.
Hopkins, Chsdbourn and CATER Really, is
Williams ambitious to become a country
acadsmy?
The statistics of the department of build
ings show that the growth of New York was
more rapid last year than in any twelve
month since 1872, when the speculative
building mania reached its height. That
year the expenditure on buildings was not
less than S2700000. In 1877 it was less
than half as much 1t increased to sixteen
and half millions in 1878 The figures for
1880 show an expenditure Of S24, 100000 for
new buildings.
When Sitting Bull found that Garfield
didn't mean to make him minister of war he
shook the dust from his moccasins aHd
retired 10 Canada in disgust.