The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-31

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II is now alleged that Mrs. Heury Adams
is the author OF the Successful novel De
mocracy."
On a deed which WAS registered at
Dresden, Tennessee, lew DAYS sg,, ti.r
signatures of ten persons Merc required,
aud out of this number nine made then
mark.
There are strong hopes that Secretary
Folger will coon recover liz has not sent
for DR.. Bliss, ana no bulletins giving tenn
perature, respiration aud pulls have yet
been issued.
Work on the Washington monument is to
begins on April /. Two hundred and III
teen feet have yet 10 be added 10 the
height Of the tall shalt, anu two seasons
Will be required to complete the work.
The duke of Portland, Earl de Grey
Lord Charles Beresiord aud Major jackson,
during recent shooting excursion ia the
Terai in India, killed four tigers, six rhi
noceroscs and number OF sambhur.
The queenof England's crown is made up
oil diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emef-
AIDS set in silver anu gold body. Ii weighs
thirty-nine ounces ami five pennyweigh
troy. In 1t there are 3,lj2 diamonds. 213
pearls, D rubies, II sapphires and / emer.
aids.
Captain Boycott, who two years ago had
to be escorted out OF Ireland by the military.
returned TO his home, and determined To-
make peace with his neighbers. lie has
been 80 successful that lac is free to 20
where he pleases, without either constables
or soldiers to guard him.
On November Is, 1868, an employo of the
Adams Express company in Hartford, Con.
neotiCut, sent letter to friend IN San
Francisco, California. Last Saturday the
letter was returned to him, it being i'm.
possible TO lind the person to whom II was
addressed. The letter has thus been wan.
derlng fourteen years, four months and
four days.
The speaker of the British house of com.
mons begins his parliamentary dinners
win the cabinet always, and gradually
gets through the whole house. These ban
quets must cost him ut least $50 llis
salary 10 $3,0O0, with II splendid furnished
abode adjoining the house. The lord chan.
ceilor, though speaker OF the lords, does
not officially feed them.
a Wisconsin farmer, pretenlioua as to
piety, took a l0.year.old boy out of n
charity institution, promising torelr him
properly. The Ind lied one day, and thc
good man slit his tongue with u pair OF
SCISSORS. AS thisp punishment was preceded
ny horse-whipprgs, proddings with II
pltch-lork, and suspension by tho heels, n
grand jury has indicted the dscipllnarian.
over two.thirds of all real estate value in
MEXICO IS located within cities, and this
SHOWS III striking way how disorder aud
Drigandage have driven the people to seek
safety by congregation. Farm houses do
not exist, as we understand them, The
hacienda is more like s,ockade, or IA little
fortified town IN itself, and even the fine
sites near the cities are often lett vacant
because II has been petllous to live ON them
An officer "f the Second battalion, east
Mlddlesex regiment, has forwarded from
Burmah to England, portraits OF the hairy
woman of Mandalay and her son. The
King OF Burmah, writes the officer, pays
one OF his subjects 800 rupees u month Tor
having married this woman, whose species
ne wishes TO have propngated, and the
chiidreh OF TINS worthy couple are alter
nately natural aud hairy.
"0ld Betty Morgan" resident of the
vale oil Llangoilen, well known to tourists
III wales, died recently at the age of lO7
years. Two OF her orphan children ara
over so years old. Until within fortnight
OF her death sho was remarkably hearty
anu well, and could even make long Jour
neys on foot Sho was very fond of siuok-
ing during the last fifty or sixty years OF
liie, ana continued the practice az long as
sne could hold pipe IN her jaws.
Judge Barows, of the supreme court OF
Maine, has, within lew years, sentenced
nine murderers to imprisonment ior life.
the highest penalty which this law allows
IN That state. Frequent repetition does not
make the duty light. My heart is more
and more oppressed he says, with The
feeling that the number OF those who har.
Dor malice until their hearts become re-
CARELESS, OF social duty and fatally bent on
mischief is increasing in our state"
Ia. 5. Welton, of San Francisco, Calitor.
mia, committed suicide at sea ON tho Sth
inst, ON the voyage from San Bias 10 Ma.
zatlan. He was sitting with his leg over
the railing OF the schooner, and was OH
served stnhbing himself in the neck, Uo
instantly jumped overheard, and rs he fell
ne cried out: One hundred and thirty
kearney street" His body was secured by
lasso being thrown over his neck. md
when caught huge sea tiger had its teeth
| in his back.
Dynamite is about to be thrown in the
| shade. An ingenious citizen of Paris. the
appropriate homo OF such discoveries. has
produced new compound which he call,
panclastite. Panclastite consists of nv.
poaaotic acid, which is one OF the numer-
GUS compounds OF oxygen and axote, or nj
trogen, mixed either with essence of petro-
| leum or sulphuret OF carbon. The degree
oil explosive force is said to depend upon
which OF the last named Ingredients is
used.
concerning the operation OF woman
suffrage In Wyoming Territory Tho
Laramie Sentinel says: "a smaller per-
centnge of women than of men stay away
from the polls; they are less persistent
otlice,seekers than men, but when elected
to office they have in every case done their
duty satisfactorily; they are accorded entire
liberty OF action-ireQuontly wife votes in
opposition TO her husband, and II has even
happened That wives have worked and
voted Tor one ticket when their husbands
were candidates on the other.
Emma Fontaine, of Montreal, on return.
ing nome rom work the other night re.
Ceived letter that had been lett for her dur.
ing the day. She to open onyelope after
envelope, and in the third one found a beau.
tiful and sentimental valentine containing
n wad OF periumed cotton. batting. She In
hailed the perfume, and ut once fell in fit.
me priest and the doctor, when they came,
found her III commissions from which she
passed into u severe attack of congestion OF
the brain. DIR, Destroches carried away the
valentine, and with the assistance of
another physician analysed all its parts,
without finding any traces OF the poison
which 1t was generally believed IL must have
contained.
! Near Macon, Mississippi, is n remarkable
pigeon roost II embraces an area of lorty
acres, ~ valley surrounded by precipi.
tous hills. a creek runs through it, or
spreads over it, covering most Of the surface
with water from one TO five feet deep,
There Is all over IL u thick growth of cane,
vines, bushes and saplings. which, with the
quicksands, muck and water, constitute il
an absolutely imprenetrable morass. II Is
a wonderful instinct that prompted tho
birds TO- select this, the most secure aud
safest place OF all the places in the whole
region, for their clearinghouse. Between
sunset and dark, pigeons come in from ali
quarters In immense numbers darkening
the heavens and producing roaring noise
that can be heard two or three miles.
IT announced in st. Petersburg CORES.
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