The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-10-26
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uulremcntS oil servants.
The Philadelphia Music Festival associa.
ton has been organized with guaranteed
fund of $3O,0O0 for the purpose OF getting up
festival III April.
A portion of the Jackson, Michigan sop
per mine accidentally cayed IN, revealing q
large body of excellent ore, the existence
of which had never been suspected. 1t is
Clean and nearly forty feet thick.
in Harvey county, Kansas, many hun
bred buxom Mennonite girls may now be
found in the extensive broom. corn fields.
They appear to like the work and present
splendid pictures Of good nature and robust
health.
The immense cost of living in Egypt is
very serious matter for the British troops |
who will have to remain there. The prices
for evGrythingare enormous, and the whole |
days nay OF u subaltern will purchase him |
but one meal at hotel.
A Providence woman found that whip.
ping did not subdue her son, and so she |
made him drink quart of dish-water. As
he was still O5duratc, she burned his tongue |
with red hot poker, and he succumbed, lie |
is now in a hospital, and she in Jail.
Kate Thompson was so eager to marry
Andrew Van Horn, at Hope, Indiana, that
she elopod with him but when, within an
hour OF the ceremony, he got hiariously
drunk, she was SO eager 30 get ri of him
that she went nome alone, and has sued for
u divorce.
A few days ago the state librarian of Min.
nesO0 was surprised at st. Paul by reCeiy-
ing lity-One bags, weighing several thou.
sand pounds, filled with congressional doc.
umcnts, dating back to 1920, and intended
as contribution to repair the loss by the
late fire.
According to modern Greek legend,
quoted by Count De Gubernatis, all the
trees except the holm oak, decided not to
lend their wood to the cruciiixion, and
when they Were tried broke TO pieces. OF
the holm oak tho cross was made, and the
tree is accursed.
MIR. Mitchell Henry, the well-known
IRISH NJ, F., who last month entertained
Lord Spencer in Connemara, where he has
n large estate, was formerly surgeon to the
MiddleseX hospital. His great wealth is
| understood To be derived from an interest
III Manchester medicine making house.
man who was arrested ut Dubuque
few days ago for cOunterieiting was mem.
Der of the Young Mems Christian associa.
| ton, and his accomplish, the woman with
whom he boarded, has been in the habit of
cXh0rtng at prayer-meetingS and praying
with prisoners at the jail,
Many of the leading mercantile men of
London are among the most active and in
terestcd supporters of scientific societies.
The Stock Exchange and LloydS include
enthusiastic botanists scientific aericul-
turlstS, etc. Some years ago the first He
brew scholar in London was asserted to be
n retail iradesman.
The Philadelphia Times observes that if
lieecher and TalmaGe would actually tell
the world all they know about themselves
and all they really believe about the doc.
trlnes of orthodox Christianity, they could
make book that would sell a good deal
faster than hot cakes and realize money
enough TO pay of the debt of the United
States.n
From being the drycst and one of the un.
healthiest towns in southwest Georgia, Al.
bany has become, perhaps, the best watered
town in the state, aud while the country
round about IL is as full of sickness as ever.
1t has very little indeed of the customary
sickness. All this has been brought about
simply by boring two artesian wells.
A lecturer who struck town in Illinois
with "a Lecture to Men Only" is in way
to make his fortune He had an audience
of about fifty men, and those fifty have
since received so much attention from
women anxious to find out what was said,
that If the lecturer visits that place agUin
every man m town will 60 to hear him.
Somorville Journal.
The circumstances leading up to the mar
ragc OF two of the colorcd conyicts in the
pemtenuary ut Kingston, Ontario, were
somewhat peculiar. Neither one had nm
to the day of the wedding, ever spoken n
word TO the other. The loye.makinr was
OF the silent kind, the love itself of the first
sight sort. of course they both promise
reformation.
The Cinnamon of Philadelphia have in
| great measure abandoned rice for eggs, OF
the latter they partakc freely when cheap
they suck the white part from the shell
and use the yolk for desert One dealer
| knows colony of ten Cinnamon who daily
consume eighty eggs, and two Isolated
washoes who all alone in one week ate 30,
an average of n tritlc more than seventeen
eggs per day.
Who wouldn't be Snowman and own
Jumbo! Barnum, Bailey e Hutchinson
closed their summer campaign at Chester,
| Pennsylvania, last Saturday night, and the
treasurer says that their profits for the sea.
son are 100000, n third more than they
made last year. The show is safely housed
| in winter quarters at Bridgeport.
Sir Richard Temple, who has been max.
ing u tour Of America, and who is hasten.
| ing home in consequence of the political
| situation in England, which, ho thinks,
| may involve in n change of ministry, saws
| he believes that u majority of Engishmen,
while themselves being free-traders, prefer
that America should have have u protective
| tariff
The prince of Wales killed three splendid
stays on October "a, ut Braomar, In Scot,
| land. The duke of Cambridge killed four
stays. stag dance by torchlight took
place IN the evening in front of the castle,
IN presence OF the prince and princess of
Wales, tho duke Of Cambridge and the
other distinguished guests
| Vice Admiral orenga, commander of the
Italian squadron, at PirWus, has visited the
works OF the lsthmus of Corihth canal.
which he found advancing very slowly, only
10 workmen being employed But next
spring the steam engines and pcrlorators
now In course OF construction will come
INTO action, and 1t is hoped that the canal
will be finished by 1857.
IL the Indian tea trade has an enemy,
stone ready to his hand may DO found in am
advertisement in paper published In the
Punjaub. L. begins In these terms. "ro
tea planters In Dehra Doom and kangra
Valley. For sale-soapstone, very useful
Tor coloring green teas,h and proceeds TO
give the terms per maund ut which this
very useful article can DO delivered at q
certain railroad station,