The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-10-11
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Maior General Pope, now commanding
the department of the Missouri, will prob
ably succeed General Sheridan in COM
mand OF the military division OF the Mis-
souri,, which includes, beside the depart
ment OF the Missouri, the departments oil
Dakota, Texas, and the Platte.
Tho Berlin press is jubilant over the con
tinued decrease OF suicides during the past
few months. much as these Wanted loH
| figures leave to be desired. In the month
of March the number was 81, in April Dill
| May 81, in June so, in July 48 and in Au
gust A. This makes an average OF "a q
day; there was one day, however-the 22d
ON which SIX, and six days on each o
which three suicides occurred.
The United States Stamped Envelope
company has already delivered more thar
thirty millions OF the new 2 cent issue
The company Is dissatisfied with the die
and has ordered new one, butt the mean
time the post-office department has con
sidered it necessary to proceed with the
work in order to lose no time. The new
die will be finished in about two weeks
The works are running night and day witt
two sets of hands.
Visitors at Saratoga are beginning to
complain about the increase OF fees to
| walters each year. The head waiter at one
of the big hotels bought $4,000 in govern.
ment bonds after the season last year, and
his earnings are said to have been 1000
One of the sources of his revenue is the
power to change the seats of guests at the
tables, something that people in foreign
countries would not be likely to endure
very long.
f. B. Harper, owner of Longfellow and
Ten Brock, says: "Longfellow is now 10
years old and Ten Brock II. always
keep watch over them both night and day.
have been offered $50 600 for d oo nGn
but l wouldn't sell him for 100000, nor
would / sell Ten Brock for the same mon
ey. 1 will keep them as long as they. live,
or until die. am not married, but !
have some poor kin down in Woodford
county, who would like to have 'em.
Perhaps the most interesting acquisition
lately made by the Berlin Museum of Art
industry is splnet once belonging to AL
tonso II. of Ferrara, and the identical in.
strument upon which the duke 8 sister,
Eleonora, played to Tasso. The woodwork
is richly lacguered in red and gold, the
cover is painted and the sounding GARD is
the keyboard bears the name of the own
err and the inscription: DUN vixt tacu!
mortua duice cano."
Fifteen years ago Horace Greeley was
ridiculed because he said he had seen a
herd of buffaloes fifteen miles long and
half that distance wide. Yet this was CON-
paratively small herd. On the upper
Missouri they were seen dozen years ago
blackening the country for scores OF miles
| in every direction. To day buffalo is
very rarely found even in Dakota. They
have been cooped up in the northern cor
ner of Montana, and even there will soon
become extinct unless speedy action is
taken to protect them.
The following is a notice which is at
tracing much attention in Ithaca, New
York, and its neighborhood, where it is ex-
citing the Indignation of many people.
The purpose of the notice is to supply Cor
nell university with specimens for its lab.
oratory. This is the obnoxious part of 1t
Persons who may be willing to dispose OF
partly grown cats at 10 cents each, may
send them to the anatomical laboratory in
the basement on the north wing OF the Nc
Graw building on Monday, October l, be-
tween the hours of and 6 p. m"
During severe rain-storm in Metcalfe
county, Pennsylvania, recently, MIR. T. e..
Shuffitt's daughter heard loud gathering
on the root, and in few seconds a stone
about the size of a hen-egg rolled off. Miss
Shuf1itt ran out and picked it up as soon as
the rain slackened, and to her surprise
found it intensely hot. Where it came
from, or where it was going to when it
struck the roof of Mr.. Shuffitts house, is a
mystery not yet found out. The rock is
of limestone formation and exceedingly
heavy.
A fun.lovipg clerk of a popular hotel in
Rockville, New York, ION cold winter
eve," recently lighted lantern and placed
il in coal-sIove in the readingroom, and
sat down to await developments. One by
one the guests strolled in. walked up to
the stove, rubbed their hands with salts
faction. turned slowly around so as to
warm their ice-clad backs, noticed q broad
grin on the innocent clerk, took in the sit
uation, felt like kicking the bottom out of
the hash-honse, and finally set down TO en-
Joy the discontinue OF the next victim.
In the Arkansas Valley grows weed
shaped like ball and varies in size from
one foot or less in damter to five or six
feet, some specimens being as tall as man.
II grows upon a small stem, which is, how
ever, stout enough TO bear the mass till IL
has ripened and dried, when puff of wind
will blow IL over and snap the slender sup.
port. Then it is that every gust Of wind
sen IS il rolling over the prairie. bounding
over bushes and rocks with the grestest
10 s,rong and high thess tumblinp weeds
present a most peculiar appearance as they
bound from rock to rock, and in more than
one instance hunters have mistaken them
for bisons and felt considerable irritation at
the impossibility OF bringing them within
range Of their guns.
The following is Artemus Wards des-
cription OF why he couried Betsey Jane
There were many affectin' ties which
n. 4 Cta1
father's farm jined ourD; their cows and
ourn squenched their thirst at the same
spring; our old mares both had stars in
their forreds; the measles broke out in
both families at nearly the same time;
our parents (Betsey James and mine,l
slept regularly every Sunday in the same
meeting house, and the nabors used 10 OBJ.
sarve, how thick the Wards and Peasels
air. IL was a sublime sight in the spring
OF the year TO see our several mothers bet
sey's and mine) with their gowns pinned up
80 that they couldn't sile 'em, effeckshun-
itely bilin' soap together and aboosin' thsii
Majors"
Among the most remarkable illustra-
tons OF human energy are certainly the
hoating gardens in Kashmir, in eastern
Asia, the more 20 that they are the work Of
an essentially iDdolent population. For
their creation an expanse Of water about
nine miles in circumference has been util-
zed, on which masses OF weeds, grasses
and aquatic plants grow and become inter
twined and entangled. These form the
soil as n were, on which cultivation IL car
ried on. Divisions are made In them, they
are cut level with the surface Of the water
and then banked over with river mud.
Property prepared for this purpose, this
soi il sown with melons and cucumber
plants, and crop is raised which IL I'M
squalled in any country In quantity and
quality. These melons and cucumbers
IRE sold in a good season at the rate Of 10
Dr. % for 2cents; in dear seasons they bring
} cents apiece. Floating gardens IN hex-
1s-ally devoted 20 The culture Of flowers.
All the interesting correspondents, who