The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-09-27

persisted In The lady ElgIn, In Lsks MlcbL
gan twenty three yeais ago.
Ten Indian girls, selected from the Rose
bud, Cheyenne, anu Pine Ridge ngeDoIes,
IN Iowa, are on their way 10 Philadelphia
TO enter the Llnooln institute.
40 advertisement In a West Virginia pa.
per calls Tor No. 1 male teacher, strict.
stern, severe, and OF good morals, 20 teach
The b. George school this winter"
The latest female fayorito OF the Prince Of
Wales Is Miss Nellie Learner once a lead.
ins fdvorite In n London variety show. She
Is about to become the wife of Lord Dun
come.
:, When n freight car was opened at Keene.
N. H., recently. hen lultered out. She
mad been III the car li!teen days, and had
PAID three eggs FOR her passage from st.
Louis.
From parliamentary return lust issued,
it appears that the total amount of house
duly charged on the houses in the English
metropolis Ia the year ending April last,
was f797 SOL.
The election in Rutlandshire. which has
just terminated iii the return of Tory, is
the first held in that shire tor torty-tWo
years, an almost unexampled period of
political tranquility.
Some tourists recently spent q night in
the heat and steam Of the hot rocks near
the crater vents of Mount Tacoma, in
Washington Territory. The crater in some
distances below the summit.
e. A. Harris of Fitchburg, Massachu-
sets. II religious worker among railroad
men, has sent out circular asking for
200 with which to build and equip
mission car for use in railway missions.
Mrs. ]. W. Lent. frightened by a drown
ing scene in theatre in Oakland, Caitor-
mia, tainted and then broke out IN violent
perspiraton. They took her home, and she
caught cold and soon died of pneumonia.
New Tacoma, thriving young town in
Washington Territory, already has 40 law
yers, the total population being but $500.
The local paper says each one of the 40
came with the idea that he was to be the
principal man in the territory, and in due
time United States senator.
Timothy Shields, OF Baltimore, is the col.
ored giant OF America. He stands six feet
eight inches in his stockings, and weighs
900 pounds. Mr.. Shields has four children,
three of whom are sons, averaging six feet
two inches in height, and weighing 2lS, 230,
and 24O pounds respectively.
Some cats are afraid of women, as well
as men, or at least there Is one of the feline
tribe living in Crawford, Georgia, who saw
woman for the first time recently
although the est is nearly3 years old), and
was so frightened that it refused to remain
in the room with the woman, and made
lively tracks as soon as the door was open.
A Russian Jew committed suicide at Oak
dale, Connecticut, few weeks ago and the
suicide was followed by terrific thunder
storm. The two events SO worked upon
the minds OF the other Jews in the place
that they told the mill boss for whom they
worked that Moses appeared to them in the
storm and commanded them to leave the
place. Accordingly they have all gone,
bag and baggage.
One Of the prominent insurance compa-
MES of Ii arttord recently appointed q young
man to vacancy caused by the resignation
of woman stenOgrapher. 1t is stated that
thisis in accordauCe with what is snow the set
tied policy of he company, which has hilh-
erto employed number of females.
Women do the work well for while, but it
is said to be the general impression in in
surance circles that they are deficient in
"staying qualities"
This anecdote. from the pen OF Thomas
Hardy, points the AKIN that ideas as to
what is dirt differ. A worthy Dorsetshre
laborer had put his clean shirt on a goose
beriybush one Sunday morning to be aired
in tue sun, whence 1t blew off into the
mud and was much soiled. HIS wife would
have got him another, but, mo-" he said
the shirt should wear his week. I'll
es h dirt, anyhow, and starch is no more.
Down south new and unique pastime
has been invented, which is known as the
melon contest. A large watermelon is
picked out and placed in some shop win
dow, with the announcement that prize,
generally watch and chain, will be given
to the person who correctly guesses the
number of seeds in it. At a recent contest
held in Knoxville, Tennessee, 4,755 guesses
were received from fourteen different
states.
While engaged in removing bodies from
an old 10 new cemetery in Fulton, o.
wego county, New York, short time ago.
the workmen found a coffin which seemed
to them to contain something heavier than
a human body. They opened the coffin
and found body, the lower part of which
was petrified and the upper portion hard,
cold, and white. The features were easily
recognizable. The body had been buried
twenty lone years. A museum man OF New
York city Is said 20 have offered good sum
for the curiosity.
There are living near Gainesville, Geor-
gia, two young men named John and Sam
Pasco. who are twins and look and dress
exactly alike. Two or three years ago they
married twin sisters, who look and dress
exactly alike. The boys built two cottages
that look exactly alike, and each lady has a
child about the same age that look very
nearly exactly alike. All are in excellent
health, and last week the whole party came
to this city behind span OF beautiful
mules that were nearly exact maches. The
boys are partners in the mercantile
business, and are prosperous gentlemen.