The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-29

mand- Some few had the curiosity to buy
". nut no honest man cares TO have such
a relic IN his library.
A ten-yesr-old son Of Thomas Morgan, Of
kediord, New York, died last week from
the effects OF drinking a glass of liquor that
had been lett on a table.
The invention OF tapestry hangings be
longs 10 the Netherlands. The Saracens
were the first 10 weave the cloth in the
Well-known peculiar manner.
A Suspension Bridge calf has upon its
head a formation in the shape Of skull
cap, with tassel on one side. Barnum
has offered 500 tor the animal.
There are only two Irish dukes, but the
race will probably not soon become ex,
iinct, for one of them, Abercorn, has fity,
seven grandchildren and five great grand
children.
Nothing has come up faster during the
last few years than the bottoms of straw.
berry boxes. Should the rise continue they
VIII have to be turned bottom up TO have
any show of honesty.
In Germany third of the population is
married, per cent. widowed, 81 per cent.
unmarried, and per cent. divorced or
separated. This makes the last class / in
Il oil the married, or ~ to the /, 900. a large
proportion.
st. Louis paper has an article showing
now to cut yosr throat" 1t may be
thought Nsthetioal in St. Louis to do such
thlees scientifically, but af'er all the best
way Is TO move st. Louis, and be tempted
to commit the act.
commenting upon recent ball in Chi.
cago' the democratic Cincinnati Enquirer
says; "Atter.dinner speeches made by
statesmen who hang to the back of their
cnalrs LOT support neither create public
opinion nor make votes"
The wars of the roses lasted from 1855 to
lis9, ana in them persisted twelve princes
OF the blood, two hundred mobiles, and one
hundred thousand gentry and common
soldiers, closing at the marriage of Fila.
neth' the daughter of Edward w., with
Henry VII.
The Irish portion of the Ashburnham II.
Orary Is one OF the richest Celtic collections
IN existence, and the Royal Irish academy
is striving to obtain il. 1t comprises nor.
lions OF the orisinal annals OF the -Four
Masters, as well as many other works
which, are to the Irish, historically as well
enthusiastically speaking, priceless.
The Federal capitol at Washington cost
about SIP 600 600, but is regarded AS one of
the great buildings of the world. The work
was well done at reasonable figures. The
diminished state capitol at Albany has al.
ready cost Sl4 000,0 600, and the total cost
VIII probably be nearly or quite 50, 900 900.
me estimated cost eight years ago was 81,
0O0,0OO
The military commission now sitting at
versailles IS inclined TO report tavorably on
the adoption OF the Wetterli repeating rifle
Tor large section Of the French army. In
the event OF this plan being adopted, 1t
would be recommended that the Gras rifles
with which the troops are now armed
should be converted to that system. IL il
claimed for the Wetterli rifle that it can be
iired ten times in twenty seconds.
fashion writer says: Let nae record n
hydropathic freak which the fashionable
woman lsinduleing with her feet, She
takes dish OF some sort every night, and
pours cold water into it TO the depth Of
about quarter of inch, and then puts
her bare feet into it for about five minutes"
tits too bad to call so simple performance
as that "hydrophatic freak and who
would ever have imagined il to be new.
fashioned?
1t is pleasing to record that another date
has been liked for the opening of the East
hNoi BRUCE anu tnat tne one now i'll mind,
which will be the siSth-fourth anniversary
OF queen Nictoria's birthday, is not so suspi-
clously near TO the first day of April as was
the date when March 81 was chosen. What
irony there is in the fate that leads this struc
ture, which has one foot, so to speak
among the constituents Of "Richelieur Rob
inson, up to point when 1t. completion is
to occur on the birthday of the queen of
Great Britain