The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-28
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THE art Of printing Is taught In the public
schools Of San Jose.
Clark county paid s6l6 last year for bounties
on wildcats and wolves.
A black foX's skin from upper Wolf regions,
was taken to Oshkos0h. Il day or two ago, and
sold for SIS cash.
The tobacco growers of York county, Pennsyl.
yqnin. are combined In an effort to exclude all
tie inferior varieties.
Paper made from strong fbcrs can now be
compressed into II substance so hard that moth
ing but the diamond can scratch It,
The Atlanta Constitution says there are at
present fully 5000 girls and women earning their
living in the factories In that city, while ten
years ago there wero hardly 500
The Woodland Mail states that an English
capitalist, Sir John Lister Kaye, Bart, of York
shire, England, has invested $4,000 in the tule
lands OF Yolo Comfy.
Less than n year SINCE the trustees Of the
Westminster Presbyterian church, Minneapo-
lis, sold the lot they owned on Fourth street for
sl2,0 o. The other day the same property sold
The English steam pillow was tested at the
Lyndalo farm, near Minneapolis, the other day
and attracted much attention. II is claimed for
the pillow that II can break thirty acres every ten
hours.
A million rounds of buffalo meat were shipped
from the plains last year ana the railways have
carried 10, co., o. pounds Of buffalo bones and
100000 pounds OF hides to eaAtern markets.
seen bale OF genuine silk from native cocoons.
Tho silk was raised there by Asenath Bishop,
In her s0th year, shortly before her death.
The Peoria Transcript says there will he at
least $4,000 expended In repairing distlllcfies
in that city, and In ncieasing their capacity
during the coming summer,
The French Cabinet council has approved tho
scheme Of De Lesseps 10 I'll up the Desert OF
Sahara with salt water and separate Tunis and
Algeria from Trlpoli.
The total transactions In petroleum for the
first three months of 1852 were 1874 49, 900 bbls.,
against 55,55l,0OO bbls. for the corresponding
bbls., or over 200 per cent
: man in tho town of Allen La Sale county,
In boring for n well struck gas bed, and the
flow was so great that he has conducted 1t to his
house for fuel and light far 1t is success.
Lockport, N. Y, Is n contradiction. 1t has re.
Gently voted to grant no licenses during the
coming year, yet II contains the largest elder.
mill In the word The capacity Of this mill IL
thirty thousand barrels each season.
Fishermen near the mouth of the Rappahan-
mock river have been catching shad IN immense
quantities. Chesapeake bay and all It's trbuta-
ries seem to be filled with small rock fish,
Des Moines now claims the largest distillcry In
the world. Tho works cost S2Ol.W0 will employ
Ia men, VIII consume 700 bushels Of corn
daily, and pay Y government tax OF $4,000 n
day. II viii also feed i0Ou cattle.
Tho Chicago German relief and aid society
has furnished work for 6Ss2 persons during the
s,N
Germans with medical assistance and funds /,
provide them with temporary relief
The frat volume of the census Of the Domln
ron has been laid before parliament The 10
75SN7 OF which l.692 were classed Us shanie,
or temporary dwellings. The number OF fami
lies Is Sl2 l@. Ola total population OF AS2l, SIC
there are !, lSSSi males and ., 1856 Q56 females,
gentleman In Rapldes parish, Louisiana
cultivated 1000 acres of cotton last year nn1
~ acres In bermuda grass, The cotton yielded
him net return OF of about $1,000 less than III,
grass The cotton was cultivated with, sever,
man, manual labor while the grass was handled en-
There are 1905 vessels upon the great lakes
Most of them touch at the mort of Chicago whicl
accounts for the fact that Chicago has bccom,
the most important port of tho United States
The region once known MS The Great I%crcs,
desert Is now populous aud productive Tim
portion of Il that was specially A desert.-('oio
RADIO. Utah, Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona-ha
given more tangible wealth to the world In TN
decade since 1860 than the entire United state
furnished In the period between lSSs aud lS1O
That desert Is now u great producer of mineral
and cattle, besides being almost self.supportln,
In all agricultural products
ltappears that trial of rooted roads Is 10 b.
made In this state. The citizens OF Collnsyille
Madison county, have Subscribed $40 400 townr,
'shed road" between that place and FAST 81
Louis, The proposed thoroughfaro is TO b
covered with d gable roof of blanks. and m,
Alton Telegraph thinks il may be the "6rs
step toward solution of the road problem /,
Illinois"
The citizens along the course Of the Nooksacl
river Wyoming Territory, have subscribed slC
for cleaning It's channel Tho river is nayirebl
from its outlet in Puget sound. eirhtec,
niles up It. course 10 FerpJnlc. nboye Hvhici
place there Is a Jam that projects almost ncros
tho channel of tho stream. Il Is proposed 10 di
acanal across this. and when i IS done III
Tho cargo Of The schooner 'p FrsSe"is " Wsv,c,