The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-01-24

N perfect preservation, six feet three inches
an height and two ana half feet in width.
A !Sborer walked some distance along il
without fndiHg an outlet. I orations
Lave been ordered by the munie pal govern
msnt.
Sarah Bernhsrdt hardly seems in fl0ar-
lshing pecuuisry condition just now. The
receipts at the Ambiga Theatre are taken
every night by Sarah's numerous creditors.
She spent GOO upon the dresses scenery,
ETC., OF the piece now running, and the COM
psuy and general expenses amount every
night to above $500, The average taken at
the doors is only $500.
A man in gaping dislocated his jaw. A
surgeon restored the bone TO the proper po-
sltion and made his charge, which the man
thought too high, and refused to pay. The
surgeon changed the conversation and soon
told his best story. The patient laughed
so heartily that the bone became again dis.
placed, and the surgeon reset it after re
ceiving payment in advance.
marriage ceremony came to an abrupt
and ludicrous termination the other day IN
Atlanta, Ga. A prominent clergyman of
that city having consented 20 unite col
ored couple, had Just asked the solemn
question, "Wilt thou take this woman ?"
etc, when an old flame of the bridegroom
poked her head into the room and said;
Henry, Jess dar you to say yes" Henry
sank into the nearest chair without word,
aid the company thoughuuily withdrew.
Josie Mansfield, about whom Edward S.
Stokes had his fatal quarrel with Jim Fisk,
is living in New York this winter, She has
haa many UPS and downs since she was the
iayorite of the railroad millionaire, and has
lived most OF the time in Europe. She lives
in u brown stone front on Twenty sixth
street, only little distance from Broad
way, and is said to own the property, Last
summer she took house ut IA summer re-
sort on Long Island and she and her
boarders were not regarded with favor by
the neighbors.
France has already done much in the APP
! plication of electricity to agriculture, and
she is now being followed by Germany.
The new motive power promises to be very
valuable TO the farmer. At au agricultural
| gathering, recently held at Ladenburg,
some interesting experiments were made
, in the use Of electricity instead of steam,
| for the threshing OF wheat, Messrs. Petite
| Il kriZk lit up electrically the space re-
served tor machines, and at the same time
utilized the current to drive an ordinary
threshing machine The cylinder attained
speed of ,4Co revolutions per minute.
! 1t is not often that pink coats are seen
| within convent walls, but the other day
| fox was run to earth and killed in the gar
den of convent near Brighton, in England,
dedicated to the Sacred Heart. The rever-
end Mother, highly indignant, came out
and demonstrated with the sportsmen, and
especially with the sportswomen, starnly
refusing to be appeased by their profuse
apologies. One man suggested sending
the old lady SINE game" to appease her
| A large distribution of doe venisen from
| Windsor and Bushey parks was made at
Christmas time among the royal family,
| the lord chamberlain, the lord steward,
and other officials and individuals on the
queens list Another Christmas comfort is
the annual gift OF swans from tbs Thames
About thirty are killed every year. of which
the queen has four, the Prince OF Wales
two, and the other members of the royal
family one each, the remainder falling to
privileged persons.
A rumor is goirg about Rome, according
to the London World. that the Palazzo
Barberini has been sold by the present pro-
prietor and bought by Prince Alessaadro
Torlonia. IL the prince buys many more
palaces he will be the posSessor Of all Rome,
as he is already of half the Campagna. He
IS tremendously rich man, and II large
possessor. The present renters of the pal.
ace, notably, the Storys aud the Tilons,
have not AS yet been warned OF this trans
fer of ownership, ana for the present 1t is
nothing more definite than rumor.