The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-09-07

draws the bow.
PhladolUhia has an exceptional opium
den. IL 10 fine house. luxllrlonsly fur
nished aud the resort OF iashionabl
women, who pay roundly.
China animals of all kinds are now uset
as parlor ornaments. They are very mucl
better made than those first imported; th,
large dogs being especially good.
Hair dressers predict radical change II
the sly Of wearing the hair before long
hey say their business Is dull and tina
they have got to make their house rent.
A hackman recently went into the surf a
Long Branch and encountered huge
shark. Their eyes met for an instant
when the shark blushed and swan out
PUCK.
Feathers are to trim the winter bonnets
as they do those now worn, but more
deliberately and profusely. The long SO
called Swiss plumes will be in highest
favor.
The Buena Vista creamery at Storm Lake,
Iowa, shipped its sixth carload of butter
on the 24th. This makes about 5000 tubs,
or $50 COO pounds of butter shipped so far
this season.
Tiffany e Co. have in course of prepare.
| ton a set of solid silverware, consisting OF
200 pieces, for the wife of former governor
of California. 1t will be the finest that
$1,000 can buy.
At the Alexandria Palace, in London, an
American gentleman looked at some ster-
eoscopic views OF this country, and was
somewhat surprised to find one labeled
"View of New York city from the Illinois
Shore"
Miss Wade, a young English tourist, who
went out sketching ON Mount Epomeo, at
tn ta1 al hOttnn n
deep ravine. She died in the morning
without being able to give an account of
the accident.
A real estate dealer advertises in Da-
kota newspaper: ~ can be found either at
the Gold Mine playing freeze out at
Mitchell's Exchange betting on the age of
odd horses with Brown, or at my residence
on Oak street, perusing the scriptures"
The facts are said to have been with the
speaker who said at the Chicago picnic Tor
the benefit of John Browns widow: II am
reioiced to say that have seen to-day
colored men and white girls, and white men
and colored girls, dancing on this floor"
Tennyson said that he meant to refer to
Goethe in the much querleu lines Oh IN
Memoriam:"
held 1t truth with him who sings
TO one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping-stones
Louis Rublo; an Italian painter, who has
inst died at the age Of s., was distinguished
at %, and gained European reputation
by many considerable pictures OF hsto-i-
cal and symbolic subjects. To America he
was unknown, and for twenty-five years
past he had not added to his record.
James Field obtained a promise from
Jenny McHenry and her parents in Phila-
delphia, that she would become his wife
when she was 49, her age at that time being
70. but on her sixteenth birthday Field
committed suicide instead of marrying, for
the girl refused to keep the agreement.
During the manGuvers of the German
,ronclad squadron in the Baltic last June, a
torpedo got misiaid. AS soon as the cap
tain ofthe ironclad Kronprinz, to which it
belonged, missed it, he offered a reward for
its recovery. 1t is fifteen feet long,
weighty in proportion and at present q
terrort to navigators.
Twenty Meridian men and their wives
have gone on a trip to California together.
They have chartered two hotel cars for
month, and are privileged to stop as often as
they choose. The YOSEMITE valley Will be
visited, and other places OF interest on the
route. The cost OF the trip is estimated at
from $500 to $500 a couple.
| Some boys were bathing in the Severn,
in England, and when in mid-stream one
was seized with cramp and sank, but re-
turned to the surface twice. His comrades
endeayored to rescue him, and appealed to
boatman who was rowing up the stream
| to assist them. The fellow repled tnat ne
had something else to do than pull fellows
ont of the water and rowed on. The youth
was dro yned.
A Paris thief, in opening carriage doors
for ladies, invariably managed to take their
nurses. sometimes even their bracelets, and
then made for the nearest police station,
where he deposited them with his name,
strictly according to the regulations. He
lived on the momentary gratitude generated
in the owners in recovering their prop
erty: but at last lady caught him, and he
was given into custody.
The "boss" watermelons seem to be raised
in Georgia. A grower at South Mountain,
that state, has one now ripening which now
weighs sixty-fiye yonnds, ana is expected
10 attain to seventy and perhaps seventy
five hounds before il is ready for gathering.
The largest watermelon that this man has
previously raised weighed sixty -fiyepounds
and when it was cut INTO sections like bar
rel hoops and the pulp removed the body oil
a man weighing 200 pounds was easily
passed through the ring taken from its
largest circumference.
The Reverend Father Costa, the Italian
pastor of the Roman Catholic church at
Galesburg, illinois, has excited his Irish
congregation by attacking the local lodge
of ulbernians. SIX members " TIC order
were pail bearers at a companions funeral,
and after they had carried the coffin into
fine church and taken their seats the priest
refused TO celebrate mass until they had
retired, which they did very angrily. The
bishop, being appealed TO by both sides,
upholds the priest.
Professor Tommassi has written a letter
10 the Italian newspaper Piccola describing
a case of hydrophobia in which the pow
erful drug pilicarpina was used without ef-
feet, The professor says THE prodigious
effects OF this remedy soon showed them
selyes-prof,Ise sweats and enormous saliva
ton; and yet the .malady continued its
fatal course as usual. was one OF those
who be a bopel in the good efiects Of pill
carpinAin cases Of hydrophobis, and now
this hope mas vanished, and il 10 nee ssary
that the fact should he known"
When the rider IN the guise Of drunken
spectator staggered into a circus ring at
Marquette, Michigan, and the riDgmaster
weut through with the usual f0ossry Of
eiectiDg him, incidentally remarkmg nsst
no policemen were ever present when order
needed 10 be restored, German officer hus.
tied the performer eli 10 jail, in spite Of all
protests and explanations. "a choke Is q
choke he said, but ven a man gay we're
Is de bolece. and Wy don'd dey arrest dat
drunk inan, den De Marquette bodice !. IN
dot vicinisy, und dondtyou forgot IA, Mr..
Circus, bed you"
Anv perron looking for the champion ad-
vertisef will find him In Fargo, u. +. en-
Gagged in the real estate business. He