The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-14
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III montgomery, Alabama, while negro
was splitting wood, he opened solid stick
loot ana halt thick, when from the cen.
sIe Two Well-developed and healthy looking
iroGs hoped out.
a pretty novelty was introduced at a re-
cent lunch party in New York. Roses were
IfC4en IN a large cake of lee, winch was
placed on 'nat OF sniilax. The effect was
as II these were standing in water.
"A tired bee" saws Sir John Lubbock.
NUNS on +, aud therefore vibrates its
MMlnss only 5SO times IN second \ brisk
niue De nun mlng on A will, on the other
hand, increase It's vibration to 40 per see
oud.
A wild woman, who goes perfectly naked
auu carries knife in her hand, has made
her appearance in Newberry county, South
Carolina, and Is creating great deal OF ex-
eltement among the colored people.
gentleman in Putnam county, Florida.
is growing five or six different Varieties Of
olives, as many different kinds OF American
ana European prunes, and sixty varieties of
grapes lie also has tOurishng apiary.
a correspondent writing from Rio ia.
nero says that the burial cAs6ets in that
locality are covered with black, red or vio-
iet material, bordered with gilt tinsel, Civ
ing them the sprightly air Of bon-bon
boxes.
Atthe end OF the year Ill species OF wild
flowers We're found still in bloom in Pen
zance, land lately become classic on ac-
count OF Its bold buccaneers. OF the
species which, according To botauists, Cease
10 Hover At midsummer, ~ still doomed
III Fen4auce at the end OF December.
The committee selected by the Eutsw.
Alabama, Fair association to award the S23
| premium Offered by Mr. W. o. Monroe for
the best acre of corn by a boy under Ia
years, have awarded it to Willie Kyles. OF
Clinton. He made sixty-two bushels of
corn.
| MIR, Cummings was candidate for alder
man IN ST. Louis. lie wrote to the Spect,-
tor; give me little puff. II YOU ask
any one that knows me you will find that [
am not unworthy Of your support. | en-
close SlO. The editor printed the letter
by way Of a little puff, and gave the
money to charity.
Investigation shows that in Utah the
Mormon church has about 100 900 members,
in the western states and territories about
SO,OOO, and in the Sandwich Islands about
Iuoo. IL has about ninety churches in
Great Britain, ana the denomination i, one
OF the largest in the southern part of
Wales.
/. w. ,Crutche-, of Reno, Nevada, sold
| I,-VV head oil horses short time ago for $50
per nesu, amounting to the nice little sum
of $4,000. The animals ar. graded and
will average 900 pounds weight. They are
running ON Crutcher's range in Humboldt
county, ana will be rounded up and
delivered on the LIST Of May.
| John IIerholtzer about fifteen wears AGO
married Miss Lena Kiminger, of Wapako-
meta, Ohio, but deserted her after a welded
life OF few months. The other day he
returned and reclaimed her, taking her
to live with him at Chickasaw, Ohio. For
twelve years she had received no tidngs
| from him, but always trusted with implicit
faith in his return.
X 1t IS said that the gigantic statue OF Ger
mania to be placed at Niederwald, near the
| Rhine, IS to contain iOrty-tive tons ofmetal
The blade OF the sword alone weighs one
! ton. On the tip OF one OF the fingers of the
left hand of the figure is the imperial
! crown of Germany, and the body is clad in
chain armor. A figure of the N oselle is 10
stand opposite; another, representing the
Rhine, al the foot of the statue, and each of
those will be eighty feet high. Different
portions of this bronze colossus and its at
tendant groups are being cast in Berlin,
DANSuSAi ~ uiNhibclb anu ollltT pldCtS.
There recently died at Alton, New York
an old man by the name of Seeley who was
the first one who ever invented machinery
for making pressed brick. He obtained a
patent for his invention and was offered
SlOO 600 Tor it, which he refused He took
IN partner, and the result was that he
realized but little from his valuable inven-
ton. He owned small house ut Alton,
where he had lived alone for several years.
Shortly before he died he declared that he
hadn't cent Of money, but after his
death nearly 500 were found under his pill.
low.
The largest thing we have seen, GAYS the
Augusta, Georgia, Vidette, in the way OF a
grapevine, is a piece of vine about six feet
long, which was cut by some hands who are
clearing land for Hon. T. u. Stanley, on
his place near town. The largest part OF 1t
measured thirty-nine inches in circumier.
ence. The hands also found curiosity in
timber growth. II is u tree from which a
limb comes out and grows up some two
and half feet, when another limb comes
out and joins the lower limb about foot
from the body OF the tree, where they form
one limb, which is almost as large as both
OF them below the place of joining.
A successful thief on New England rail
trunk he knows to be valuable. Then he
tries to turn over the back OF the seat, pre-
tends to find some difficulty with the lock,
aud asks the victim for the loan OF his check
TO slip down upon the catch, and so throw
il out IF place. While thus using the arti-
Gle he exchanges il for another, which he
hands back without the trick being de-
tected. AT the end of the journey he loses
no time In presenting the stolen check and
getting away with the baggage to which it
is attached.
Universal charitable effort has been made
by the Presbyterian church of Cszenovis,
New York, during the winter, end q Dor
cas- tells OF a woman who, while hunting r
garments to fill box, found wig. She
turned 1t on her hama and said: "What a
ridiculous thing!" She decided to send il;
and in due time came letter from 4 west.
ern home missionary's wife, saving the box
reached them the night before her husband
was to preach the first time after an illness,
which hao caused the loss OF his hair, and
a silk handkerchief was the only substitute.
| The wig was a fit, the exact color of the dc.
parted locks, and indeed, an unlooked-f for
God.send.
Some one in France has made an estimate
U the average cost OF living among the
working classes in that country, and he
| finds that the expenditures of 10 families,
fairly representative of different orders OF
laboring people, varied from 1922 to 5000
per annum. House accommodation, as a
rule, claimed 10 per cent. of the total ex.
penditure, clothing l6 per cent, and food 81
per cent, s per cent. being reserved for mis-
cellaneous purposes. In the matter Of food
he found that the highest expenditure reg.
istered was ~ per cent, and this item OF
expenditure was thus distributed: So per
cent for bread, IA per cent. for meat, IL per
cent for milk, "a per cent for groceries, and
10 per cent. for miscellaneous ailments,
any individual case was IS per cent.
No man in his senses should buy worth