The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-10-29
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cantly that England never hawks her wares
abroad.
London Saturday Review: "Aiter all,
most friendships come lightly; 50, if they
also 80 lightly, we ought not TO be aston
| ished."
| An English lady writer is delighted with
! the arrangement of Miss Fanny Dayen-
ports hair, wound round and round IN
| Hat, shiny folds, neither cooled nor plated.
From the monthly meteorological reports
OF Toronto observatory it is learned that
the storm in which the Asia went down
| travelled five hundred miles IN eight hours.
Two years ago negro man near Column
| bus, Georgia, KILLED a rattlesnake and put
| it on the fire in an oven to dry it for the
| grease. In his absence his little SON. think.
ing the snake was an eel, ute some of it,
aud has been having fits ever since.
A sanctimomous follow engaged clergy.
man in religious conversation in the Cen
trail depog a. Syracuse, New YORK, the
other evening, and in the course OF tue con
yersation stole Il valuable gold watch and
departed with graceful bow
| Amos Walker and his five sons, of Not
! tiugham, Pennsylvania, were recently taken
before justice OF the peace for picking to-
bacCO- worms on Sunday. Had it not been
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have been compelled to pay $0 for each
worm picked,
| A little more of this comet competition
great hairy monsters tearing through the
| peaceful skies like 50 many crratc electric
! lighLs-and thqsstarS, the more sober,sided
! illuminators of the heavens, will be iusti-
fled IN shutting down work and putting out
their fires
A pretty and effective bridesmaids cos
tune is of pale blue velvet, draped with
cream nuns yelling. The cavalier hat is
trimmed and lined with blue plush and
cream ostrich feathers. The boots and
stockings are of blue silk, The necklet and
locket are of silver, aud the bouquet is of
blue and white tlowers.
General b. f. Putler says ~ do not
sncer at civil service reform, but most OF
those that jump on to it, the reiormers,
do sneer ut and condemn" To the charge
that he has bunting factory General But
Ter says well, | think that bunting is
protected far too much.
Broom-corn is successfully cultivated in
! North Texas, and as II paying crop it is
| ahead OF anything grown in the state. 1t
! yields over ton To the acre, and is worth,
Tor the poorest quality, about $50 per ton.
\ farmer in Parker county has u crop of
about three hundred acres IN broom-COrn.
Last summer Il swarm of bees lit under
the caves of u residence in Pawnee, Ne
braska, and every effort made at the time
to hwe them failed. There was knot
hole In the Wcatherbo boarding. and into this
hole they Crept and went To work lust as
bees would. The Notwithstanding was
removed the other day aud upward OF forty
pounds of honey taken out from between
the studding.
The trustees of Union college, at Shenec-
| tady, New York, have adopted resolutions
| pledging support to President Potter and
declaring their unWlllingness to have the
recent controversy reOpcned by either side.
| The members Of the faculty will retain
| their positions uudisturbed, aud IL is hoped
that hereafter president and faculty will
cooperate in harmony.
James Henson, of Chattanooga,got drunk
on Sunday and abused his wife. Aided by
| his companion, Tracey, he threw the
woman down, and while Tracey beat her
he got saw aud began to saw her head OH
| Her screams brought a policeman; the men
| refused him admission, lie had to break
/ in the door and to pound their heads with
his club before he could rescue their victim,
who was tearlully but not fatally hurt.
The Chihan balance sheet for the year
ending December 81, 1881, now in press, is
said to he most satisfactory. IL shows an
increase in receipts of $ll 6l2,7G3,0S over
those OF 1880 The ordinary income in lSSl
amounted to SS6,A5I, 1il,0l. The emission
of paper currency, which in 1850 amounted
to SliOOOUVO, only reached 100000 in the
year 1851. The ordinary income during
1880 amounted to S25,9ll ,0I7O3.
AT Columbus, Mississippi bacon is six.
teen to seventeen cents pound ut Nerd.
tut, . t,..a 4 H..
aminer says; Tho prices are nearly as
high in Aberdeen us in either of the aOoyc
named towns, and yet though stock hogs
arc scarce everywhere, and many farmers
have no hogs for slaughter, and corn is only
worth about forty cents Il hushel, many
/ farmers are selling cattle from the range at
less than half tile price per pound net that
| bacon commands"
The Cinnamon in Philadelphia and ad.
joining cities have developed an enormous
appetite for eggs. They suck the white"
and use the ycl1 ~ dessert. The grocers
say that colony of ten Cinnamon fire..
qucntly buy eighty eggs pcrtay, and live
on nothing else Tor weeks fhc Cinnamon
say that eggs at 10 to - cents per dozen are
cheaper than anything else they can buy,
aud almost as cheap US rice, ono Of them
adding, and "muchce bettce.n
| NNutlN pEunlVs, NTCSluVUl VI NWttCmNlA,
issued u decree on September 10 declaring
diplomatic relations feopcncd with Costa
Rica. Guatemala papers publish inuumer.
able protests against Senior Montuiar and
congratulatory addresses to General Barrios
for his action in Siguing the preliminary
basis for treaty with Mexico. The census
shows the population OF the republic to
amount to ,99i 600 persons, of whom 1885,
$50 men aud 1862 women are not Indians,
while the remainder, consisting of l2l ,5lS
men ana NJ, 2B women, are all Indians.
Among the coal mines rapidly being de.
veloped in New Zealand is one situated
near the town of Wcstport, on the west
coast of the middle island, which Is distin.
guished by two remarkable, IL not unique,
ieatures-vis,: the thickness Of its coal
seams, which ranges from O feet to 81 feet 9
inches, and the fact that these enormous
deposits ARE placed aud can be easily worked
at an altitude OF from 500 to 5000 feet above
the sea level, some of those seams are OK.
posed on the faces of the cliffs and can be
got AZ with the greatest ease by tunneling.
Twonty.six years ago Daniel Broughat, a
zine'worker, len South bethlehem, Penn.
syivania, for Missouri. Since that time hs
pas pccn heard from only once by his two
brothers, James and Andrew, and this WAS
,wsmy yyars sgo. Daniel owned a small
appointed ami III. ye.nlehenl.A trustee, was
m Hscnsh ago. anu was purchased bv And, ow
ia, vus n Last week Andrcu, 'ronaI.aS
and we'll Y" and naSn'el, stating iha, no was alive
brothers. Tho le,, n'oas to hear from his
Kinnrvv,,,a ~, ,vWer was post. marked Mo.
Tha ynu' 0n"fkey county, Missouri.
tho e.ia,sn ,e hoek Ark Dcmocr., ronor,.
who lea'e noc oil band of fsna,,, s'ho as
Home. fhSy spe " they call the Sayior,s
lid and looking hSsIssc,iSed IS scEly, sqSal.
number Of puny' s,cs srd They have a
rhey feed them o o,e. children with them.
hsa sss Il and sSrcs s@ nd , wse Fl
cine Is allowed y,inn .sse condition. 10 'p %edi.
sh ;S, who would a ssna ,he adults say 70
som , provide, tho Lord Victor w The Lord
getting out n' ,h have been put in ns s ' sss
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