The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-04

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There have been issued against the Au-
GUSTAV society, OF Lawrence, MsSsaehu-
sets, attachments 10 the amount OF $s7.-
NO' lis principal creditors being female mill 4
operatives, The institution was founded
by Catholic priests IN lss0.
IL is stated that the Pluto Indians in Ne
VadS are 50 attached 10 the memory of the /
dead Chiet Winnemuoca that they think /
seriously OF elecling sarah, hts daughter, 1
as ruler sarah Is gay girl, and has had 1
tweniy'one husbands.
Nj. Alphonse Daudet, the celebrated nov. /
eist, mas had marrow escape. As lie aud /
a friend We're visiting the ruins OF the |
iuherles, now being rapidly demolished, a
huge block OF stone fell from an upper story |
close to their feet.
Philadelphia's policeman most notorious
as elubber struck disorderly stranger a
single blow, aud was promptly knook ed
down, kicked, dragged over the pavement
by his hair, ami compelled to beg Tor
mercy. lie had hit the Samson of a circus
side show.
Some time since the Greek Indians coded
the western half Of their reservation TO the
government for 80 cents PEE acre. A sur
vey OF the land shows that the government
obtained lol wv acres more than were paid
lor' An EFFORT is now being made to get
pay for this land at 80 cents per acre.
The smallest bird OF America is the hum.
ming'olrd and Of Europe, the golden crested
wren The smallest Quadruped is the pig.
my mouse OF Siberia. The most diminu.
tive plant Is the Arctic raspberry, which is
SO small thata six-ouuce vial will hold the
Whoie, branches, leaves and all.
China possesses the longest bridge in the
world, 1t Is AT Lagang, over an arm of the
Chiha sea, ana is five miles long, built en-.
urely OF stone, is 20 iVet high, with a road
wa 10 feet wide, and has 800 arches The
parapet is "A baustrade, and each of The
pillars, which are % feet apart, supports "A
pedestal ON which is placed lion y feet
iong, made OF one block of marble.
Sarah Bernhardt is about to GIVE another
proof OF her versatility, in bringing out
TWO volumes of artistic memoirs, uuder the
title OF MA Vie an Theatre The idea
was suggested to her by IA publisher, who
offered her S2,OOO for the copyright, The
amount Will hardly cover her losses ON
Les Meres Eunemies." the piece with
winch Maurice Bernhardt began his cam.
palgn at the Ambigu,
Oxford has never been very great in the
mathematical line, but il seems to be i'm "A
worse pligh, than ever lust nov, says the
London Truth. Five colleges University,
Merton, Exeter New, ana Corpusl held A
combined examination at the BEGINNING of
term Tor mathematical scholarsnlps. uu,
the candidates were 81 deficient. both in
quantity ana quality, that only Corpus was
aple To make nm election at all.
A year after the tire which DESTROYED
nearly the whole OF Hayerhill, the leading
shoe men OF the town had u dinner aud
congratulated themselves on what had Mt
lae tlme of ltsoccurrence been regarded as
Il disaster. Handsome and solid buildings
have replaced the wooden structures on
the burned district, the new factories hold
better machinery, better goous are pro-
dueed, and the owners are the best adyer-
used shoemakers III the country.
A clergyman who asked Governor Butler
TO make hum chaplain at Concord prison
received this reply; From all learn the
present chaplain rs a very estimable Chris
tan gentleman, who has done his whole
duty aud has the iull confidence of the CON
vets. believe, though do not know GER
tMnly, as have never specially inquired,
that he is republican in politics, but that
furnishes no reason for he removal OF a
competent, deserving and honest officer,
who does not use his Office as an election.
eering machine. Ii any such one does. he
mus take the results OF the election"
hlANlN NlN NANNNb nNuNts VI WHICH women
can vote at the election Tor school directors.
Women Tor these offices, says Susan Il
Anthony, are Particularly appr pirate,
since a large propo ton VI the school teach
erS are Oi the SAME SEX. / find that they
show much more tact than men, AS, OF
c urse, they do in every position In
those tleytn states the qualifications tor
voting are IN nearly every instance, similar
to those Of men. In Kentucky, however, a
woman has TO be II widow TO poll, and In
al, hlgan taxpayer.
The ialsity OF II girl who, being naturally
pallid IN the cold, gave her cheeks u decep-
lively increasing glow while OUT sleigh
riding is exposed by the Cincinnati I'm
quirer. She slyly dabbed on the red n lit
tie at a tine, Just fast enough, she confesses,
to make her companion think that the cold
was doing II. The wind was blowing on
us from the right on the way up she says,
and so Redeemed my cheek on that side
first. Then we turned back and I grad
ualiy touched up the other one. Oh, I'm a
fraud, | am
The San Francisco Call, describing scor
pion lately received In that city from Ari-
iona, says that, Strengthened out, 1t meas
ures about five inches from sting to nipper.
The scorpion, the Call adds, was shipped
from Yuma on the 4th January, coskeu up
In bottle containing a little gravel, and
although during the intervening period OF
thlrty'seven days the pedipalpous aachni-
dan has had nothing but diet of stale air
that was bottled up with 1t and pebble or
two to live upon, 1t is sill as lively and
vicious as when II trod its native heath, SO
10 speak, which goes to show that IN some
respects REPTILES are like men--the meaner
they are the harder they are to KILL"
A concession has been granted by the
emperor OF Austria for the construction OF
the Elevated Metropolitan railway in
Vienna. IL is to connect oil the railway
termini with the principal streets and the
suburbs. The work Is to be completed
within four years, and the first part within
two aud a half years. The cost is estimated
at S25WO,oO0 The whole material must
be OF Austrian manufacture, and will come
from Rothschild's iron works at Witkowit2
and Teplitz. The chiefs excepted, only
Austrian engineers are TO be employed
The engines are probably 10 be worked by
electricity.
The decree regulating the liquor traffic in
Russia, reCO"iy slautu' the cup,i
one OF the most ST ingent character. IA, 10
is TO be only one liquor shop IN village,
aud where to or three villages are almost
contiguous one shop must suffice for their
m6ined inhabitants The publican must
ne q native OF the place, appointed and
paid by the common council, and must sell
food MS well us liquor. If he allows any
person to get drunk, he is liable not only
to dismissal, but to fine and Imprisonment.
IT any Russian village is reported to the
authorities as addicted to drunkenness, the
sale OF liquor may be interdioted for as long
period MS may seem necessary.
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One must be poor TO know the luxury of
giving That may DO SO, but we think
anybody can enjoy the luxury of giving his
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