The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-25
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tin on the 30th instant, TO make arrange
ments for opening the institution on oep'
TENDER 18th proximo.
II is said that remarkable parrot. which
died at the age of q in Quebec, took great
delight in giving this conundrum; "WhV
does a donkey eat thistles? Give II up!
Ha, ha, ha Because it's an ass
At last the cause of woman's rights"
has got a lift from legislative body. The
govern nent's franchise bill in Canada, in
troduced last night, gives vote To WIDOWS
and spinsters with q property valuation OF
800.
A Hester street, New York, saloon
keeper owns number OF canaries
aud mocking.birds that clamorously
chatter for lager beer. When he
he serves ii TO them in tiny sauc rs they
drink until their eyelids droop and they
become too mudded to move.
Port Gibson and West Point, Alabama
are rivals in enterprise. While the one has
raised $50 900 for II cotton factory, $2O,OOO
Tor an oil mill. and 1900 for Il railroad,
the other has raised $4,000 for a national
bank, $500 for an oil.mill, 900 Tor a
railroad, established a cotton exchange aud
increased its ad valorem tax $lO0,OO0 du-
ring the past year.
The Yankee and his wooden nu,megs are
matters of tradition. This is matter Of
fac. The sanitary inspectors OF Paris late
ly stumbled over All establishment where
operators were busily engaged IN manuinc'
turing ground acorns and burned wheat in
t. Il sllif paste which was then stamped In
to coffee beans. These were then Col6ed
with an alcoholic solution OF colophone, ITO
give them rich Mocha color" and packed
in bags for sale.
The dramatic festival at Cincinnati prom
lses TO be the greatest event OF the century
III the annals OF the drama. The scenery
wi DO of the grandest description; the
properties are all reproductions of the orig
luals and the artists who will appear have
been selected from the best material in the
profession. For Romeo and Juliet the
scenes have been painted from sketches
taken at Mantua and Verona, while those
for julius Caesar have been painted from the
best descriptions OF ancient Rene eXtant.
The death OF Mr.. Jarvis Brush at New
Haven last week took from life n man who
had been of great use to tho world, He
was the founder of the American Pin com
pany, that made the first solid-headed pin
those before that time having wire heads
IL was in 1915 that Mr.. Brush perfected The
ready for sale, as now. Mr.. Brush had
lived under the administration of every
president of the United States, having been
born January G, 1907. In 1896 he took up
the manufacture of pins that have since
continued III use.
Here nre four odd wagers The winner OF
corn.raising contest near Rome. Ga,
raised thirty seven bushels on half hcre
A Salina, Mo, woman won $50 on wager
that she could chop % cord OF wood in less
time than n certain man could. For u sum
OF money two package wrappers, at Dav-
export, Ia, entered into a contest. The
winner wrapped $500 bundles in single
day, using 1900 yards of Irvine. William
Campbell, young farmer of Mexico, Mo-.
| won wager Of 500 and received two and
a halt cents II bushel besides, for his labor
at corn -shucking bee. In eight days he
threw over his shoulder 81. bushels Of corn.
1t is reported on pretty good authority
that Charles Pierce, atlas Howl tt, who on
the LIST day OF October, 1881, murdered Ted
dy Franks, and was afterwards taken from
the county jnil by an Infatuated mob and
hanged to a tree, was u son oI Quantrell,
the celebrated rebel general and Missouri
guerrilla. IL is said that this unfortunate
boys mother was the wife OF Quantrell
that this was their only child, that after Il 9
death of Qnantrell she moved to Mount
| Pleasant, Iowa, taking her son Charles
with her, where she married man by the
name of Hewlett. Soon after moving To
Mount Pleasant, IL is said, Charles sirayed
away from home, ana in order to cover up
his tracks sailed under two names and
when he was arrested at Jacksonville he
gave the name OF Pierce.
Antonio Luigi, an Italian sailor, recently
an inmate of sailors boardng-house in
Philadelphia, while overhauing bundle
of Old clothes, found in an old ragged
jacket $4,000 in English and French
bank notes. He was one of the crew OF the
Italian brig immaculate, which arrived in
New York on March 7, with cargo OF
marble and rags. During the voyage in
securing some of the blocks of marble
which got adrilt in the briggs hold, u bun
die Ut rags were thrown ON the deck and
were afterwards placed in the forecastle.
Having occasion to use some rags for pol.
ishing brass work on the vessel, luigi took
the ragged jacket, but finding 1t was still
more or less intact, fancied he might find
use for 1t IN IN emergency and slowed IL
away in his bag. Recently while arrang
ing his clothes preparatory to taking Il
new voyage. and IN attempting to repail
the Old Jacket, ho discovered in the lininl
what seemed to be \ quantity ofpaper pad
ping, but what upon examination proved
to be bank notes, II is needless to state
perhaps, that luigi did not ship befor,
the mast upon his contemplated vow
age, The above may or may not be al
April too..