The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-10
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AT London public dinners it has ceased to
be in order to rise TO any toast except that
of the queen.
Mr.. Waddington says that $50 600 is not
nearlv enough Tor the coronation embassy
from France to Moscow.
Some of the farmers in San Bernardino
county, California, are killing binds by
placing poisoned apples ON trees.
Petitions against the affirmation, in lieu
of oath, In parliament bill, flow into West.
minister ut an amazing rate--largely from
non-conormists.
A man in Winthrop, Mainc plays the
piano, organ, violin, banjo. cornet, lie
xylophone, bones and guitar, and whistles
IKE nightengale. The Maine people are
proud of him.
Professor Sorokin, OF the st. Petersburg
Medico-Surgical academy, says that, iudg.
ing bv certain signs he had noticed in sew.
eral bodies lately examined, there is a pos
sibility OF cholera appearing in Russia dur.
ing the present year
Smoking has become so prevalent in
south Australia that a measure his been
introduced in the legislature to check the
practice IN youth. 1t imposes Il fine of
I'VE Shillings To five pounds upon any per-
son under eighteen who shall smoke pine,
cigar or c garette.
A New York surgeon has resusctated n
man who was almost sutloCated by gas es-
Gaping in his room at hotel by means of
TRANSMISSION of blood. The blood was
pumped from the arm of "a healthy negro
into that of the almost smothered man.
The result Is regarded rs valuable to medi-
cal science.
In many parts of Spain farming opera
Tons have made little or no progress since
the expulsion OF the Moors. The same sorI
OF pillow Is used now as then, oxen tread ont
the corn after the ancient Oriental fashion
and women separate the chair from the
corn BY tossing the grain up in the air dur
ing breeze of wind.
A Frenchman has recently gone deeplv
down into statistics in regard to matches
HIS figures show that an Englshman burns
eight matches day, n Swede nine, Ger.
man eleven anda Frenchman fifteen The
number OF matches consumed in Europe
every year amounts to two thousand mil
lions Nobody is likely to dispute these
figures.
Something new in the funeral line il
the holding of the regular church services
III the evening, all the friends and acquaint.
ances attending, The next morning the
'"uiho ei' tuNoh W inc cemetery, the
family and most intimate relatives being
the only persons in attendance. Another
Innovation IS the using of sons and nonhews
tor pall-bearers.-[Chicago Herald.
An English experimentalist finds that for
every pound OF mineral matter assimilated
by plant, an average of 9 600 pounds or
water is absorbed. AT the French obserya-
tory of Mont Souris it was found that IN
rich soil ~ pounds OF waterp lssed through
the roots OF wheat plants for every pound of
grain produced, while in very poor soil
2,bo3 p0undspassed through the wheat roots
tor each pound of grain.
During the year 1852 there were 1SGo
scholars taught in Dougherty county.
Georgia. OF these ,G76 were colored and
only l03 were white. Twenty-seyen coiored
aud seven white teachers were EMPLOYED
Ihere are about seven ColOred men TO ono
white in Dougherty county, and evidently
III this case NJ least the cOlOrcd people can
not complain OF any Partially in the dislri.
button OF the school fund.
A London paper says that nobody eycept
an intimate friend knows where Mr.. Par
| nell lives in London. When he takes n
| cab from the House of Commons he inya.
riably drives TO Charing Cross, and on leay-
ing the conveyance walks toward the
Strand. MIR, O'kelly shares with Mr.. Par
nell the secret OF his abode. They live to.
sether In the same rooms, il is believed, in
one OF the side streets oil the Strand.
There was once in Georgia a most re.
markaple Old man who, at the age of lOl
| years, became the father OF boy whom he
| lived to see cast II ballot. This son is now
10 years OF age, is rs fall of vim and energy
as person IN the prime of life, can split
rails as well as anybody, and is said to be
| aDle 10 outrun any man Of his age in the
world. His oldest brother, were he living
would be loo years of age Atlanta Con-
stituton.
Nanderbilt's fayorte team of marcs
Aldine and Early Rose, that were renn, ed
last fall to have trotted mile over thq
| Hartford track in 2;l6l, have been placed
IN Dan Mace's hands, and the understand
| ing among urfmen is that they will b,
! taken to- Hartford soon and prepared for A
last exhibition, Maud S, will probably ro
| tue same track some time in June and
| during the Hartford summer meeting n
ger eral exhibition of the Vanderbilt stabl,
is billed to take place.
| The combined corps OF the Russian I'm.
peral Guard ordered for service in Moscow
| during the coronation festivities will be nm,
der the chief command OF the Grand Duke
| nlaulmir, and will consist OF 10 generals
ol9 officers, l2,5l5 men, 36l3 horses, and Q.
guns. The troops will commence leayin,
Tor Moscow by railway ON May 2d( and will
assemble there in full strength on May 10Th
| Iotaire,s house is now used by the
Geneva Bible society rs a repository IN,
Bibles. The British Bible Societys hons,
IN Earl street, llacklriars, stands where. in
1878, the council forbid Wyclille circuatin,
portions of Holy Scriptures, aud where h,
uttered the words, 1.-THE truth shall prr
vail, and the Religious Tract Society,
premises are where Bibles We're publcl,