The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-05-24
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Of Coal tar sugar In the latest discovery.
10 chief advantage over the sugar Is itsBuD
e Tor sweetness.
D As Maad s. weighs O05 pounds, and $40
J. 900 has been offered for her, horseflesh
I worth triile more than 800 pound.
The Viennese authorities announce Oh
married men will not be permitted TO 60 I
ina balloon without the consent OF the
wives and children,
, The latest thing in advertising care
given away by Canal street merchant is
cute little pink corset with q smiling lit
chernb showing its face over the top.
Twenty.seven million.barrels Of petroleum
are pumped from the wells every yea
and the world has been searched in vain 10
a market for this vast ocean OF mineral oil.
Sixty bronze hatchets have been foun
imbedded in the ground only one metr
deep in Salez, Canton of st. Gallen) Swift
erland, which are supposed to be at leas
$500 years old.
The New York Sun says that Charle
Mitchell, the pugilist, has blue eyes, brown
hair, delicate pink and white complexion
very little down on his lip, and an express
ION of gentleness and simplicity.
| Whenever q rich wedding occurs among
rich peoplein New York, Boston, and other
cities, it is the custom OF the BRIDES father
to distribute certain amount of money
amongst the poor. The sum frequently
exceeds ST. 900.
The German capital has population OF
l, 122, 900 souls, which is larger by 10000
than the combined population of the four
next largest cities of the empire. These
four are Hamburg with 2S9 $50 Breslau with
272 $40, Munich with 230.000 and Dresden
with 220,6l0.
1t required four policemen to carry into
the house OF commons on April 10th the
petition in favor of closing public houses on
Sunday. 1t contained 500, 1872 signatures up
on continuous roll of paper 4, 1882 yards
largest document of the kind ever presented
to parliament.
The Germans devote much attention to
pisciculture. Prince Bismarck is an enthu-
siastic fish farmer, and the ponds and
brooks on his estate, which formally yielded
him less than 400 francs year, now return
him $1,000 francs, and he hopes to make
them still more profitable. pisciculture
classes are attached to all the Prussian az
ricultural schools.
Pope Plus ms personal effects have been
sold by auction m Rome, much to the an
noyance of the faithful, who consider that
the late pope's family ought to have
preserved every atom of his belongings as
II relic. There was miscellaneous collec-
ton of crusifxes, sacred pictures and i'm
ages, portraits of crowned heads and cele-
brities, missais, etc, but the public was
not very eager to buy, and in many cases
the things fetched even less than their in
trinsic value.
man in the world, possibly with the excep-
ton Of Tennyson. He recently received
$500 tor II words. They were tor an adver
tisement for dry goods house. Many of
his best things are disposed OF in this way.
AS he was an auctioneer and without dol.
lar till nearly three score years old, he is
not above peddling out his work at the best
figure now. He is rich, drives a fine team,
is kind and gentle as girl, but has an eye
10 finances.
At watermelon shippers convention
held down in Georgia last week it was as
serted that $500 carloads of melons would
be sent north this year. Raising water
melons and strawberries and oranges for
the northern market is good deal
more sensible than the old method of rails
ing Cain with the Kuklux, and we are re-
joiced that our southern friends have found
it out Now, if they will raise more choice
fruit and fewer democrats they will come
out all right and no mistake.
At a congress of working-women in Lon
don, Mrs Blunt-described as Sewing
ID achinist she would like ladies to
know that the 'ulsters and jackets in which
they and their children were SO neatly clad
were made up by pnor classes of girls and
women, who were paid at the rate OF As cents
per dozen. Not only this, but they had TO
find their own sewing machines and cotton,
and carry their work to and from the city.
Often sewing machine needles broke over
the rough work, and there was more than
the price gone in moment for making one
ulster. which REQUIRES hours" This is
iree-trade country.
Accidents to workmen engaged in build
ing houses in Paris have of late been so fire.
quent that new and special instructions
have been issued to builders by the project
of police. Local chiefs OF the force are or.
dersd 10 visit every scatfjld IN their district
before work is begun. Suspended scatiolds
are to be maintained by three instead of
only one rope, and arrangements must be
made to prevent dust or fragments falling
into the street. In the event of any work
man or pedestrian being wounded, the
building contractorsa re to be ut once prose
cuted before the police OF correctional tr
bunals. 1t has even been suggested in some
quarters that masons should be protected
in the same manner as acrobats who pei
form on the trapeze-namely, by netting
placed around the building.
London is in a sad plight. A paper pub
ished there thus comments on the state OF
affairs; we are, so 10 say, IN state OF
siege; certainly under the very strictest mill
tary and police surveillance. As night
comes on wesee all The public buildings de-
livered over to soldiers, gates are closed,
sontiuels with rifles loaded with ball car
tridges pace rapidly to and fro, and some
large apartment is for the nonce turned in
TO a guard room. This has n true martial
aspect, absolutely quite picturesque and
worthy otoeing COMMUNICATED by some
enterprising Royal academician; soldiers
are gathered around the blazing ire, ..rms
are glisteningin the light, the toy drummer
boy is waiting TO beat to arms, and all are
on the alert, ready to rush into the streets
and do some bloody business there. This,
be IL remembered, in the heart OF London
in 1885,"
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