The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-21
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warranted dozens OF bottles and never had
| one returned
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tbs Arkansas legislature has changed
the name OF Dorsey county to De Soto
| county,
The most universal tavorite among Eng
fish statesmen is the blind postmaster-gen-
eral.
The murders in the United States last
year averaged two day, the executions
| two week.
The Evening Chronicle, OF Louisville,
reports that the Passion Play OF Salmi
Morse will probably first be produced in
| that town.
a restaurant palace car runs now from
Paris to Rome, and for $50 excursion tickets
to Italy are issued from Paris for holy
week.
Pawtucket schoolma'am, in order TO
be sure of Furnishing the pupil who had
whissled, gave every oneo of the iifty-eight
in the room five blows.
A number of capitalists at Portland. Ore.
gon, are talking about building A covered
hslt.mlle track so that horses can get the
needed exercise during the long winters.
1t is estimated that in the two Carolinas
| Georgia and Louisiana, total population
Of about 200 900 people, white and colored
are dependent upon the cultivation of rice.
A spring in st, Tammauy parish Louisi-
ana, 1t is reported, pours forth clear cold
water all day, but at sunset it suddenly
goes dry, discharging no water until the
sun rises.
Boston's city clerk, removed by General
butler IN favor OF democrat, has, as had
his father before him. held the post for
thirty years His friends have presented
him with $l2,5OO.
The American Peace society, Boston, has
now invested lands to the amount of about
S6O,OOO having lately come into possession
of legacy of $4,000 from the late Rev. DR..
George q. Beckwith.
1t is said that the Strasburg university
library is continually getting valuable gifts
from Colonel NJ. II. Muckle, native of
Strasburg, described as proprietor of
the Philadelphia Ledger"
The four German officers detailed to or.
game the sultan's army have, by permits
sion from Berlin, entered the Turkish ser
vice, and fifteen Turkish officers are to Join
the German army for experience.
East Orange, New Jersey, has discovered
that the false prophet Virgins used to keep
u grocery store there, that he did not pros
per, and that he was then known as q
weather man of very poor order.
Count Festetics, husband of the duke of
Hamilton's only sister (who was divorced
from the prince OF Monaco, has become by
the death of his father and uncle about the
greatest landlord in Austro- Hungary.
he Mormons are locating i'll large num-
| hers in Lincoln county, Nevada, and the
! Ploche Record says: There is little doubt
that The Mormons will have displaced the
gentlles entirely III another year or two"
The people of st. Louis are apprehensive
OF cholera epidemic during the coming
spring. They had cholera in 1919 and 1866
ia each case preceded by high waters in the
Mississippi, and another seventeen years
have come about.
Darmstadt archives show that it cost p
lorins to boil a criminal in oil, ii to burn
| him alive, y to break him on the wheel, and
10 TO hang him. No one who has ever seen
medieval instruments OF torture in Germany
will doubt these statements.
Imitation diamonds are often set with
tin foil behind them to increase their
brilliancy. A Chicago man had genuine
stone mounted in that way. and cleared
$1,000 week by betting on its value, the
losers being led astrsy by the backing OF
tin,
Some negroes, says southern exchange,
believe that the souls of the dead enter
graveyard rabbits, and darby would as
soon be guilty of cannbalism as to eat
rabbit caught in or near q burying-ground.
AS consequence, .they multiply very fast
there.
With the consent of the widow OF the
late Richard Wagner and the sanction OF
the King of Bavaria, twelve performances
of "Parsiial" will be given at Bayreuth
between July and 80 next. Several artists
from Munich will take part in tho perform
ance.
Italian murderers are very rarely hanged,
but their fate IL, if convicted far from
being pleasant. Passanante, who tried to
kill King lambert in 1878, is fastened TO
the wall of Il nearly dark cell by five.oot
chain riveted to his ankle. He has become
imbecile.
DR.. Schieman has lately returned to
Athens from visit to Thermopyl@, where
he hoped he might find the site OF the Poly
andrion. This, however, he was unable TO
do. He is at present at work on the Ger.
man edition of his new volume on the dis
coveries he made last year at Hissarlk.
In blasting for a sewer in Roci ester, New
York the other day, a piece of frozen earth
weighing 500 pounds was thrown 100 feet,
landing upon the kitchen-roof of house.
The mass went completely through the roof
into the cellar, tearing off some ten feet
square of the ceiling and ripping the rafters
considerably.
Miss Chamberlain has a rival at
Games, in the person of Miss Crabbe,
the daughter of a lady who, after Miss Her
bert WAS one of the most admired OF Lon
don actresses. She and Montague fire.
quently acted together at the st. James's
theatre in London. A more thoroughly
ladylike woman never trod the stage.
In San Francisco lately Sing Lum, under
sentence of death, killed himself. and A. J.
Hess, his death watcher, died suddenly
soon afterward. The Chinese priests say
that Lum, being innocent. hanged himself
to avoid disgrace, and was received with
eilusion by Poo Sot, the great savior, who,
on hearing from Lum good account OF
Hess, sent for him, too.
4 farmer at Amesbery Massaoh usetts,
has among his poultry single dove, which
came upon his premises about year aud
half ago, and domesticated itself with the
barn-yard fowls, at once assuming their
habits, roaming with them through the
day and ruosting with them at night When
the fowls are confined the dove remains in
their Enclosure, although 1t might easily fly
outside.
A French chemist claims to have in
vented an odor that will hold any tort and
the land within half mile of it for u week
The smell is not deadly, but no mortal can
stand before it. The new agent is expected
/ TO work revolution in the art of war, be-
sides serving in obstinate civil cases. Itpro-
duces sensations of nausea and disgust,
. like the worst seasickness.
, The supply OF acceptable ministers Is
below the demand, and the religious jour
nails are quite seriously discussing the stu
alton. II is reasonable to expect a lack Of
candidates for places In the far west, but
, the Congregationalist makes the statement
that twenty-five OF the LEADING and most
. com M .ndinv nnlpits,, Of its denomination