The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-18


sixty-six years Old is as handsome as he
ever was, and he knows it.
The annual product of wheat in the world
is about $50, 10000. OF this tho United
States already produces 450, 900 900 bushels,
one-third of which we send over the sea.
The editor of the New York Times says
Oscar Wilde's rhymes are fit only for the
reading of ccstatic millincrs. The millin-
ers will endeavorto get even by selling the
editors wife new bonnet.
How rapidly the German carp increases
may be gathered from an advertisement
mentioned in the Sacramento Bee, in which
aMr. George Mashler, of Stockton, offers for
sale 10000 fish for stocking ponds. He
commenced operations with seventeen year
ling carp two years ago.
Inahut on the bank of Niagara river,
near the Catholic college at Suspension
bridge, there lives a hermit. He is an Irish
man, apparently about 40 years old. The
hut is very comfortable, and is supplied
with ali that is requisite to a well-kept
kitchen He has occupied this hut, for the
past two winters, and seems to enjoy 1t and
seclusOn.
Mr.. Blaine is busy in experimenting the
completion of his new home in Washington,
and in adjusting matters of business which
have long needed his personal attention.
lie is also giving a large part of his time to
the composition of his eulogy on Garfield
lie will probably spend the winter between
Washington and New York.
Miss Ida Ulman, of New York who oh
tanned verdict Of fl,15O damages in
breach Of promise suit. was married on
Sunday to Mr.. Cohen one of the witnesses
IN The case, MT HGnty u; meyer, VINO
had to pay damages, claimed that his prom
n,,o,, y,.rt 60 far 90 70 dare evcrvbodv 70
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MICS nv
Another great engineerlng project IS con
templated-,he closing o. t9e hortherly out
let OF the vailey OF the Macke lzie river ~
the line OF oS degrees o n0r rda' ana
storing up the wafer OF l;5oo,VV nlles
square. 10 tlls coulu oe auueu we WAFER
vi 9tncI Ia ~ caho,,t ono ,,iIss in lonotI'
oe iolil. .o o NJ anora. ,,,;jth
anu Soi'io wv '''''s0 ",U'"'
Eighty-one hemeiess boys ana one lonely
little grl assembled III the rooms OF the
Ghildren's Aid Society. III New ork, on
Tuesday: They constituted MRS. j. j.
Astor's New Year party ana were prepar.
Ing to leave Tor homes IN the west and
South. Mrs Astor, who PAD Tor Their
Tanspor,5aIhIoi,, Was VAS fon |" INC "i'e''
hooh' anu p""e 'he'' '''oNe"'
The men who think Mrs Garfield and
Mrs. Hayes have done so much to dignity
womanhood, would have been the last men
to perceive their, virtues had they been
poor women, teaching school or sewing for
living, but as wives OF residents who
possessed as much power: almost ms the
Gar OF Russla, their virtues shlne with
u o.E brightness american eour'
''es
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the st. Louis 1rc department have received
instructions to VISIT AL the large buildings
IN their respective districts ana famlllarlze
themselves with the location of the en-
frances, Railways, inside doors, etc, so that
in case OF tire every foreman will know the
best way to take line into that portion of
the building IN when the stream will do
the most good.
Rochester, n. y, claims the champion
criminal, Ellen MGCaudless is 90 years
OLD, and between 1897 ana lSi2 she was con-
Ncted 100 tunes. In the latter year she
was sentenced hve years for telonious as
sault. she Was convicted twenty-five times
IN one year. Her husoand IS well OIL and gen
orally pays her mes, She Is now held to
await the action oil the Grand Jury for at
tempting 10 stss an oiilcer'
An English mastiff, weighing over one
hundred pounds, from the Prince of Wales
kennel, has been received at Waterbury,
Connecticut, lie IS two years old and is
owned lointiy py Judge Muhson and Dir;
flerpont, OF mat Guy Inc brute Is valued
AZ ABOUT fZVoi ana was purchased Tor breed
ing purposes, the Judge owning another
specimen OF lne same species Which he has
hau ior some uhe'
Tho manufacture of artificial furs threat
ems to he dangerous to our fish supply. By
no means are the same amount of efforts
shown now to trap mink, etc, as was for
merly the case, and where trapping ceases
these vcrmin increase and multiply in the
same proportion that the fish about their
haunts decrease A full-szcd salmon is an
almost inadequate lunch for an otter, and
brook trout bass or croppie fall in counties,
numbers victims TO the appetite OF single
mink.
A sale Of pevs took place this evening in
the New York Madison Avenue Censrera.
tional Church, whose new pastor is The Rev
DIR. Newman, late Inspector of Consulates
Among the first purchasers was General n
$. Grant, who took pew No. iii AT ST, 600
II is in the center circle, five rows back from
the front. ULYSSES S. Grant, Jr.. tack \
pew adjoining his fathers, at the sai,C
price. DR.. Newman's new is close nv. q
+. Putnam, the publisher, took a new he
hind General Grants, at 81 900 Russell
Sage took a pew for $3.50,