The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-13

in the decisions. Very respectfully,
WILLIAM II. CHANDLER,
Secretary of The Navy.
70 Captain + NJ Ramsay, superintendent of
| the Naval Academy:
ITtMS oF INTEREST
The Pluto Indians have heard oi the
| great quail.eating feat An Austin ludiln
offers to wager his squaw against any con-
s'dernlion equally va liable IN his eyes, that
he will eat three ducks day for a whole
year. said he To correspondents OF ,he
Enterprise: Where's er mans got UNI
quails} | bet um money eat um dozen
quails every day aller time, Wha,sor mat
Ter qnails' Dam good grub you bet
Tellum come see him. Show me qualls.
| The other morning an insane woman who
had escaped from the state asylum Nt Utica,
| New York, ran down Garden street aud
climbed u high fence into The yard OF the
| Globe WOODEN mills Here She jumped into
the creek, which il very shallow She then
climbed up the gate, over which the water
was pouring, and attempted to drown her
self in the mill pond. Workmen in the
mil rushed out and rescued her, and she
was returned to the asylum,
Dr. j. w. Griggs, OF Chattanooga, Ten
nessee, has curious Indian relic. II IN n
| ring made of pure silver, nicely engraved
and weighs twenty three penayweights
and, considering the primitive tools with
which the Indians must have worked, the
engraving is remarkably well done, The
design, although smaller in circumference
resembles in marked degree the bracelets
most in favor with the society bellies OF to-.
day.
A little balloon, filed with hydrogen gus,
was recently sent up from Paris by u
tradrsman, who attached to IL his caro-
with his name and address The otacr
day he was surprised to hear tidings of the
balloon all the way from Russia. NJ.
Jarochewilch, priest at Tehigi, in the gov.
| eminent OF Grodno and district OF Uesk
| picked IL mp in that remote region only three
| days after 1t had been launched from
| Paris.
Alherl Jones Howell, at Chicago, was n
sufferer from insomnia. During five nights
he did not sleeps wink, but ON the sixth
he slumbere souudly. Refreshed and en-
Outraged, ne told his friends that he had
conquered the disease, But If it. should
return, % said he 81 would commit suicide,
for had rather die than spend week
awake That night he was gleepess, and
in the morning he took his lie with u pis,
toll.
AZ reject card party at tho house of a
| popular London dentist the counters used
were false teeth, At first the ladies' present
seemed very sensitive about touching the
! little white heaps but M the evening wore
on, the more false teeth each fair dame
possessed the happier she seemed. When
the counters were totalled up at the end OF
the game, there were only three more than
had been originally given out.
J Bognrdus, the rilleman, has II twonty.acre
! hmm. ,n 4 ltl,nn,a -,
sm0l orchard, n house that needs painting,
and some rather dilapidated outbuidmgs.
Bogardus is not rich. lie made lew thou
sands ON his foreign trip, but is saving that
to bet on future matches. One son.niaw
farms the place in summer, and tends bar
for another man IN winter. A third daugh.
ter is the wife ola saloOn-kecper In Chicago.
A stranger in Persia, during heavy
drought. noticed u schoolmaster march out
of Schiras with his school III procession nj
his heels. He asked where they We're going.
The schoolmaster told him, and added that
he doubted not that God would listen to
the prayers of innocent children. Ii that
he so, my friend Quoth the traveller, ~
fear that there would be very few school.
masters left alive"
A lawsuit about u s. dog has reached a
supreme court decision in Boston At = cost
OF 1880. Mr., Palmer passed the sum.
mer OF 1850 Mt Winthrop, and had with him
his dog, which had been properly licensed
In Boston. The Winthrop officials imposed
u tine, which no refused TO pay, on the
ground that the Boston license legalized
the brute anywhere In the state. The de.
cision is against him.
The smallpox has almost entirely disap-
pcared from the regions of southwest Nir.
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Scott county, has become raving maniac
from having been vaccinated with poisonou,
virus, Smallpox in Accomac county is
rapidly disappearing. Governor Cameron
says that when he had smallpox in his
family not an otlice.beggar wrote TO or ar-
preached him.
The body OF handsome young girl has
been found ON the railroad track near the
CITY of raganrog, in the department OF
Jekaterinosaw, III southern Russia. Bo.
side the body lay paper on which was
written that the girl had been u member OF
tho revolutionary party and had turned
traitor For this she had been condemned
to death by the revolutionary committee.
\ rare present that the king of Spain has
received from Prince Charles of Aohenzol.
Tern is tie urn containing the ashes and
bones of the Chd THIS precious vessel is OF
MARBLE and had long been preserved at
Sigmaringen. II has been sent to Burgos,
whore the grave OF the Spanish hero is said
to be located. II was received with solemn
ceremonies.
A statement that, on the near extinction
OF the dukedom OF Wellington, u property
in Belgium, OF the value OF S,0O00OO francs,
bestowed on tho Iron Duke In 1915, with
the title of Prince of Waterloo, by kinl
William of the Netherlands, would re-.
vert TO the Belgian state, appears in the
Belgian and French papers.
Not less than 5000 marks on Cincinnati
houses stand rs records of the deluge OF
the Ohio river In the third week in Fchru.
AIRY, 1883. Tho owners and occupants poin,
10 them with pride, and IL Is said that a
spirit OF rivalry leads to frequent raising OF
these lines, until the historical accuracy OF
them ali is doubted.
There are no less than sixty seven daily
political papers published i'll Paris, but the
circulation OF all these journals put togeth.
or probably does not equal that of the two
most widely read London newspapers. II
appears that the periodical publications OF
all kinds brought out in Paris number more
than 20
The Chinese papers state that Li.Fu.lep,
wife of the ex.Niceroy OF the province OF
Chillile being seriously IN. her husband
had sent for "Miss DR. Howard,m II Is
added TINT this lady, wno appears to be es
tablishcd In Picking, Is gathering q gooo
practice among tho titled ladies OF China
Arabi pa,ha and tho other exiles hev,
Coy and, further, a wish 70 have ,hei,
sons admitted at once rs boarders In gov
ornupnt collc lara tharr This will hc dnuo