The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-31
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school, wrote on his ballot "know."
Thlate Stoughton Fletcher.o of lndianap
oils, left an estate worth about S2O00,0O
which was divided equally among his four
children.
The proper tartan of the royal family.
says M. Labouchere, is the royal Stuart,
although several new tartans have been de-
signed fort.
A tailor at Chicopc, Mass, puts the ac-
counts ofhis delinquent customers sOnspic-
uonsly Ia his window, pacarded These
bills for sale"
A Cincinnati drunkard put knife into
his pocket without closing the blade, and
then fell ON it. He died believing that
some enemy had stabbed him.
On the lowest computation, $4,000 tons
OF fish are annually taken in British waters,
and Prof. Huxley estimates the take OF her.
rings in the North sea at 5000 100000.
Pere Hyacinthe when asked why the
Prussan soldiers were 80 unifOrmerly vie
torious replied: because each one ofthem
carries bible in his knapsack."
The Texas Christian Advocate says that
thousands OF good men are spoiled by mar
rying the wrong woman, Show this TO
yonr wife the next time she pushes the
eucher-table over.
wear upon his mauly chest the order OF
Charles the Third, the king of Spain having
conferred that decoration upon him in rec
ognition of his surgical career.
The ear has written to the morganatic
widow ofhis father who has been residing
at Carlsruhe since the death of Alexander
H., requesting her to return to Russia, and
live in ST. Petersburg,
Recent eases are noted in the medical
journals of tetanus, or "lockiaw," having
occurred in infants on account of being
bathed in too hot water A single nurse re-
ports several cases of the kind.
The official returns of persons apprc-
Lended by the police in England and Wales
during the Official year as confirmed drunk
ards give the number at ~ $40. OF these
g,siS were males, and 1902 females.
Oliver Ames one of the sons of Cakes
Ames, is said to be the moneycd man in
the new Boston Advertiser company. Pro-
lessor Charles Dunbar, recently dean of the
Harvard faculty, probably will become edi-
tor-in-chief
According to the Bombay Gazette, the
total number of cases of cholera during the
past year was 3O,060, of which II ,2S2 proved
fatal. The latest returns show that for the
present, at least the disease has wholly
disappeared in that part of the world.
Thomas Allen, Henry Shaw and Mary H.
Tyler are the only residents of ST. Louis
VINO pay taxes on over 81 ,0O0,00 worth of
property. One hundred and fifty other
persons are assessed AS worth more than
100000 in taxable property.
There lately died in Paris remarkable
man in tho person of Mr. Blindworth, who
was called the Dean of the European
Corps OF Spies" The son of an English
mechanic, who had settled ut Gottngen, he
passed his life as political state spy, and
grew rich in the business.
Mr.. Beecher, in the course of his sermon
sunday last. said There never was any
tnlng more foolish than this Chinese bill
which has just passed congress. God
writes down asses against every man that
voted Tor II, and that is my opinion on that
subject" Laughter
An Ohio man turned his wife out of doors
on an intensely cold night because she
wished to discharge II pretty servant girl.
She crawlcd into a hay lott and nearly lroze
70 death. Next day some ncighbors dipped
the husband into barrel of molasses and
then rolled him In heap of feathers.
When u Kentucky congressman was in.
formed that he could have all the garden
seeds he wanted from the agricultural de-
partment, he exclaimed: Seeds; what do
| want seeds for But hold on Yes, yes,
believe do want few" And he forth.
with sent for halt bushel of cardamon
seeds, the only seeds he had any use for.
ST. Eouis, March ..26.-Nliss Phoebe Cou.
sins, the well-known woman-suilrage adyo.
cate, OF this city, has applied TO President
Arthur to be appointed one of the five com.
missioners to reorganize Utah under the re.
cent act OF congress. A numerously- signed
petition for the appointment will BIO sent to
the president in a few days.
Mrs. NJ. n. Moran, with ten other Ameri.
cans, was elected some months ago mem.
Der of the English society of painter.etch.
crs. Those by whose votes the honor was
conferred did not know her sex ut the time
and now II Is said that though only men
are permitted by custom to be members
Mrs. Moran will not be turned out.
The residence, which Mr.. Tilden is build.
Ing in New York, will DO one of the most
expensive private residences in that CITY.
aud correspondent says that lever detail
Of the magnificent structure is completes,
and everything has been done under the
personal supervision of Mr.. Tildcn." All
doubts aboat tho proper iitting.up of the
nursery may now be put away.
A pair OF venerable twins held family
reception in Nashua, n. H., last week. il
was their oightieth birthday; they have
both been married twice, both are now
widowers, both are in vigorous health, and
both enter upon another decade in the
cheerful expectation OF v ling to the end of
II. Among the friends who called TO con.
graduate them was their brother, Samuel
Richie, of Nashua, who is 80 years old.
A poor laborer, near Wabash, Indiana,
whose wife and children had been two days
without food, went TO mill in the neigh
borhood and asked credit for small sack
OF corn neal This was refused. lie grab
bed the bag and ran. On arriving at home,
he hastily mixed some Of the raw meal with
water, and the family ate II uncookcd
knowing that no time was to be lost. They
had barely satisfied their hunger before a
constable came in and arrested the thief.
Lucknow, the sporting town of India
finds combats between Quails her most pop.
ular pastimc. A native writer asserts that
sherc Is scarcclya rich Mohammcdan in the
f/acc who does not keep n training cstab.
~rment, An unframed quail is worth
ca IA one to four cents, but when bird has
\ Curc.n ne u famous fighter, its owner can get
Is In grtr II any day. Distinguished quails
y YOudly in gaudily decorated cages
80 pit evince great valor and dcx.
UST 8, Assistant.
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