The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-29
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t0rsnip Oh the New Ork btSr.
A Maine deer has inst made seventeen
loot jump over board fence.
Senator Logan has been improving eve
since he reached the Arkansas Hot Springs
A two year-old boy was found drunk in
Boston. His mother had given him whisky
because lie liked it.
Miss Nellie Arthur has big brown eyes
and short brown hair. She Is described as
being as chubby as a cherub.
"a lady's attempt to become step-son''
Is what the Albany Argus calls Anna Dick
insons effort to play Hamlet.
Jeanne Hugo, the granddaughter of the
poet, Is q handsome young girl with bright
dark, soft eyes and proud and graceful
carriage.
Mr.. w. II. Vanderbilt has been elected
-vestryman Of st. Bartholomew's Church,
one ofthe richest OF all the New York Epis-
copal churches.
With the exception of brief interval for
dinner, Mr.. Gladstone was lately in his
place in the House OF Commons for eleven
consecutive hours.
Joseph Head, who recently died in Bos.
ton at the age Of 81, was the oldest living
graduate Of Harvard College. lie belonged
to the class Of 1904.
Two hundred men laid 800 feet of rail-
road track In thirteen minutes, at Burling-
ton, Iowa. They worked at this rapid rate
TO avoid injunction.
A Chicago jury has awarded $500 TO a
tenant whose family was made i'll by sewer
gas, the landlord having represented that
the plumbing was perfect.
The Hotel des lnvalides in Paris has of
late years become almost depopulated,
t,t tna 4
option OF billeting-out pensioners.
Some thieves at Harrisburg, Pennsyl-
vania, not only stole all the provisions in
house the other night, but carried
off a ton Of coal without arousing the
family.
The wife OF Rev s. S. Gray, coored
of Lexington, KY, has gained u verdict OF
81 900 against the Cincinnati Southern
railroad for being refused admittance to n
parlor car.
A Baltimore nursemaid pushed three
pins down baby's throat. She confessed
the act, but would give no reason for it, and
none can be imagined. She has been sent
to correctional institution, and the child
is recovering.
The new Himalayan railway in India is
nearly 5000 feet above the sen, and is fifty
miles long. II presents the unusual c'lar-
characteristics In its construction Of mount.
ing gradients of one in twenty.one, and
comes round curves of seventy feet radius.
A new amusement in Indiana is egg
jumping. The act of jumping causes tho
involuntary closing of the hands in tight
grip, and in the contest OF ggjumping,
whoever jumps iaTthcst without breaking
the egg that he holds in either hand takes
the prize.
IAN English writer says that on account of
the hlarity with which Dickens writes
about drinking, the time may come when
bands Of hope will be forbidden to read
him, and AT least that the great novelist
and cold punch will 30 down to postcrity
together.
A New York woman has made her will
on silver cards, taking out piece OF each
card In the shape of cresccnt--no two
being alike-and giving this piece to differ.
ent heirs. They are to receive what she
has bequeathed them on the cards into
which their crescent pieces tit,
The wife Of Lieutenant. Governor Tabor.
the wealthiest man in Colorado, il SUNG
Tor separate maintenance. She figures his
property AZ $1,000, 900, and asks for an al
lowance Of $4,000 n year. He is said to
have offered her Sl,OOO,O00 outright il she
will agree to divorce, which she. refuses
to do.
Remark by the Rev. DR.. llartaell, who is
on o southern tour, on being told that the
Methodist church South was the Original
Methodist Episcopal church III belong to
the Methodist Episcopal church of God
and ifyou want to call yours the Methodist
Episcopal church south of God, | have no
objections"
A correspondent Of the New York Sun
writes from Rome: 81 am able TO inform
you that his Holiness the Pope, il very
seriously studying the question OF appoint.
ing q resident apostolic delegate IN the
United States, and such an appointment
will, In all probability, be made in very
short time"
John Taylor, president of the Mormon
church, Is described rs of venerable an.
poarance, tall, broad. shouldercd, full.
ches,ed, with an almost square lace, framed
by snowy hair and short, white beard,
worn under tho chin from ear to ear. His
sunken, dark eyes are Swallowed by bushy,
black brows.
Between the acts of the "Mascotte," In
Richmond, by Mc"aulls opera company,
the stage manager said to the audience
"lades and gentlemen, must claim your
indulgence for Mr.. Standish, who plays
Pippo tonight, The gentleman who was
billed for the part has unfortunately fallen
victim to Vir gina hospitality
The necessity of keeping down the rab
bits which are eating up the colony of New
Zealnd has led to demand for cats Tor
rabbiting. Professional rabbitcrs, who are
paid price ranging from Is, to S. for each
dozen skins, according to their state, have
been employing cats to aid them In III,
capture, and the venture has proved highly
successful.
Dill objected to Hak'e as q sutton for hi.
daughter Henrietta, at West Milton, Ohio
A letter from Hinkle asking the girl I,
meet him In the orchard tell into Dir.
hands, and no substituted himself for her
going to the trysting place in her clothes
When the ardent lover clasped the figure II
the dark he received tho contents OF pisto
in his shoulder.
The senate committee on territories TO
day reported favorably the bill amendn,
the fourth clause OF section 1880 of the Re
viscd Statutes 30 as to read rs follows ~,
person belonging to the army or navy shal
be elected to or hold any civil Office or an
pointnient In any territory, except officer
OF the army on the retired list, who ma,
hold or exercise any Office to which the,
may be elected by the people,"
Skinny Mon.
"Wells' Health Remover" restores hcnltl
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