The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-12

buque man went out on his back porch
swung a heavy club to let fly At them
caught it in the long tail of his night shirt
knocked himself down the steps, and broke
his arm. On the following day man in
the same city, while nt-mindedly trim
ming a Tree, sawed oil the limb that he Wa,
sitting on, and was half killed by the fall.
A married man in Rochester. according
to the Post of that city, took q young lady
TO the theatre one night, and after the first
act excused himself for a moment, as he
wanted to go out and "see man." lie
didn't come back. Instead of seeing man
he saw woman. 1t was his wife, waiting
for him at the door.
Vine culture ceases Mt various points OF
altitude in various countries. In Wurtem'
berg at 600 to 500 feet; in Switzerland
and the Tyrol 1t reaches 200, owing
to the heat-attracting, narrow valleys; on
the southern slope of the Alps 1000 feet, IN
Sicily, 5000 feet, in TenenlTe 5000 feet, on
the Himalayas 10000 feet.
In the seventeenth century London mer-
chants sent their supertluous funds to the
Tower OF London, where the mint then
was, for safe keeping. They abandoned
the habit, however, after Charles |. had
helped himself to 81 600 900 which he found
there, although he CONSIDERABLY explained
that he would take it as loan"
Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie, was the
principal military prison for rebel officers
during the war, nearly 800 of whom were
buried there. The graves are neglected the
head-bonrds fallen or gone, and the letter
ing upon those remaining well nigh or
liberated. A movement is on foot to place
the ground in presentable condition.
An Indian was accused of killing deer
during closed time in Maine. He exhibited
to the Jury treaties { ON the general gov
eminent and from Massachusetts permit
ing Indians to hunt and fish. The accused
pleaded for his exemption from the laws
and manifested so much of the traditional
eloquence of his race that he was acquitted.
A lady living near Windsor asked one of
the keepers OF the royal forest to obtain for
her u young squirrel, which she intended
keeping as a pet The keeper replied that
he could not. as he had received orders to
kill 300 squirrels, the skins of which were
wanted as cloak trimming for certain il
lustrious lady resident in the neighbor-
hood.
The letter sent from Bay City, Michigan,
bearing on the envelope the sender's bust.
ness card as dealer in nitro-glycerine, dy-
Mantle, giant powder and high explosives"
got the receiver in England into serious
trouble, the authorities requiring clear
proof that the Michigan man was not a
provder o. revolutionary material 10
lrishmen,
The docket Of the supreme court of Bos-
ton is so crowded with divorce cases that
judgments are sometimes rendered at the
rate of ten in an hour. 1t is said that pro-
fessional periurers commonly give the testi-
mony, swearing glibly acoordingto instruc-
tions, and escaping exposure because,
through collision. there Is nobody to cross.
examine them. An effort to turn all this
business over to the probate Courts, where
It could receive proper attention, has failed
in the legislature.
Massachusetts has Law and Order
league, which has undertaken to enforce
the liquor law. Under the states local OPP
ton statute each town votes annually 'yes"
or mo" on the question of granting licenses
If a maOrity is opposed to a license. none
but druggists can sell alcoholic beverages,
and then only on physicians prescriptions.
An affirmative majority, on the other hand,
simply permits the selectmen or aldermen
to use their discretion as to granting or re-
fnsing licenses. This law was generally
disregarded until year ago, when the
league was formed, but now the authorities
are badsered into seeing that it is generally
enforced.