The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-12
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Such harvests as England had between
1850 and 1860 would now make the landed
proprietors there the most joyous instead
OF the most lugubrous of men.
Sunday is very largely working day
| like the rest OF the week, in Bohemia, but
an earnest movement to make the first day
OF the week day of rest has been started
there.
| The postal cards are made ut IIolyoke
Massachusetts, by forty men, who turn oui
about million daily They have dimiu.
lshed the consumption Of writing paper by
from $4,000, 600 TO $40 100000 II year
San Francisco claims to make more aud
better chocolate than any other place in the
world. The ingredients are sugar from tn,
Sandwich Islands, cocoa from Ecuador. and
vanilla raised in California.
A horsey young earl has become pro.
prielor OF hanson cabs IN London, and
horses them admirably. II our golden
youth will give us cheap cabs, no ono will
dare any longer to dub them useless,
A London magazine for 1891 contains the
following almost unique death announce
men,; I'm childbed OF her thrtieth child
the wife OF Mr.. Joseph Sims, mt the Bell
inn Cambridge, county Gloucester
A Bristol (Vt) man was making prepare
tons 10 be out of town Il week, and packed
his sachel with the following goods, no
more, no less One handkerchief, two pint
bottles OF whisky one pair socks, one bag
tobacco, one clay pipe, one cigar-box OF
smoking tobacco.
There is in marble-yard at Anderson,
South Carolina, Il bOx-tomb belonging to II
lady who lives in Abbeville county, which
was ordered and paid for by herself 1t has
her name engraved on the slab, blank
space being left to be filed with the date of
her death after she dies.
The Lancaster New Era says that cti-
zen of Pennsylvania may leave 81 900 or
81 600 900 to his family. wife or children,
and the law takes no cogDiaance Of it, but
| If he leaves so much as 500 to public
charity, the laws of the state promptly
dock the bequest 3 per cent.
The Sumter (Ga.) Republican tells of IL
live hog with only two legs that walked all
over town without being impounded by the
police. The said animal is doing well
never had but two legs, weighs about 100
pounds, and roots out very fine living in
Marion county, Georgia.
There arrived In Portland, Oregon. one
day recently, 400 whites and 500 Chinese
direct from the front OF the Northern Pa
Cllic road, and they are very hard crowd.
A dozen OF the whites are already in the
city jail, two for robbing man, and many
more for roaming from dive to dive and
getting drunk and unruly,
As u gang Of Cinnamon employed on the
Kalama, Oregon, railroad were moving
their camp, u few days ago, one Marks,
squatter 10 years old, wished them to pay
% cents for the privilege OF crossing his
claim. They refused, when Marks, who is
a crank, shot Con, the foreman, through
the lungs.
The statistics Of the Methodist churches
OF Lowell, Maine, for the past year are az
follows: Total membership, l,06l total
additions, 2O3; baptisms, 1000 dismissals,
and ii deaths-a gain of III, including pro-
bationers reported. Sunday-school mem
bership, 1852; number of families, 1852; To-
tai charities, 2,l3l; expenditures, SIS, no;
total expenditures and charities, $20,707.
A law will come into operation May
throughout Russia regulating the employ
ment of minors in factories. Children
under IL are not to be employed under any
pretence, while from II to 10 they must not
DO allowed TO work during more than eight
hours. In the latter case, moreover, they
must attend school at least three hours q
day.
An American who went recently to
inspect Belts statute OF Byron, in Hamil.
ton gardens, Hyde park, happily described
the great poet as "studiously looking
askance, so as not to see the bronze statue
OF Achilles over the way; while Achilles,
IN la, a Tod hAll IA. IN -
as to interpose his buckler between himself
aud Lord Byron
So strict are the rules of the Russian Or
thodox church that the grand requiem ser
vices ON the second anniversary OF the as
sassination Of Alexander H., falling this
year i'll the first week OF Lent, were post.
poned until the 18th, no celebration, sol
cum or festive, being permitted by the
Holy Synod during the first days ofthc
Lenten fast.
A young nun in Montreal convent has
grown tired of seclusion from the world,
and is in failing health. Her relatives
have asked for her release, and the authori-
ties reply that there is no oompulsion to
retain her but no promise can be obtained
from them that she will not be oxcommuni-
Gated II she breaks her vow, and the fear OF
that prevents her from joining hor family.
Patriotic Irish pupils in Boston school,
where the succession OF English sovereigns
is taught by the repetition in concert Of the
well-khown rhymes beginning First Wi.
liam the Norman, then William his SON.
and ending with God sent them Victoria;
may she long be the last were caught
dropping the adyorb from the last line, 30
as to make II say God sent them Victoria;
may shc be the last"
In the days when orchestra stalls were
unknown and when the floor of her Males.
tvs opera.house was called the pit, there
existed a gangway, or promenade, down
the center OF the pit, and round between the
pit seats and the boxes, which was known
as "Fop's Alley" Here the Washers of
that day were wont to stroll between the
the singers, aud the bellies OF the boxes.
Mr.. Gye, 1t is said, Is about TO revive "Fop's
Alley"
A report from the records OF the courts of
France upon tho relation between education
and crime, describes results directly op-
posed to those obtained In the United States
courts. 0f250oO. persons wholly illiterste,
I'VE were criminals, OF the same number
able to fsad and write, six were transgrcs-
sors, and OF an equal number Of persons Of
superior instruction, fifteen were under tho
ban. Relapses into crime were found much
more numerous among educated people.
The other day, rs Utica Clergyman and
his wife were admiring the size aud beauty
Of q so gold piece which the former had
just received as u marriage fee, aud ex.
changing condolences as to the best way OF
investing II, messenger arrived hreathless
from the bridegroom TO sny that an unior-
tunate mistake had been made that $50
WINS out OF oil proportion TO his means, and
that he was under the painful necessity of
asking the minister 10 accept much smaller