The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-11

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II looks like Texas is to be the leading
state for psaohes, grapes Gnd cherries.
We shall be glad when the staiistlcally
turned individual ebanaons his hsuto' Of
speech for tho year.
The colony that w,s beginning 10 oreen.
iZs Oh the Indian TfstfNa' ion ia Mo tunt
has been driven OIL by n detachment OF sol
dieis FROM Fort AssnaDoiue.
There is some satisfaction in living to b.
eighty years old, like Mr. w. W Cor
coTan, with plenty OF money and an open
hand 10 usa 10 In noble works.
The legislative bill most prominent In
COlu Ous a. present is that which IS con-
slautly held open Tor some QUE 10 COME
along and drop lump of sugar into.
A man has reason to mislrust The accu.
raoy OF his Thermometer IN tha weather
when he answers n RAG no tho door and has
poked at hin au old last summers Ice bin.
Delegations OF Influential property own'
ers In Chicago have repeatedly a'ked Mayor
Harrison 10 desst from prosecuting the
gamblers whose places are either ON or
near tseir lots.
Hot water as a garglc and 40 d0nk is
commended Tor colds aud sore throat IN
the early stages. II should be- used half.
pint or u pint mt time, and Just Us hos as
the throat will bear,
The formula for making shoe blaoking
was given to one OF the partners Of great
London shoe-blgcsing tirm, some years
ago, by aud old and needy soldier TO whom
he mad dono an act OF charity.
According to the Kuiokerbocker more nc.
cidents Unopened on the seven miles OF
elevated railroad IN New York CITY than on
the London Underground with its fourteen
hundred trains daily crossing eaCH otntr Ia
all directions.
Joseph stewart, who married his niece,
Hattie near Lexington, Georgia, after con-
siderable argument, consented TO give up
the girl, who returned To her father. Pro-
ceedings 10 annul the marriage will be be-
gun Immediately.
A caterer in Buffalo, N. Y, cooks angle
worms. He IL DIS them on milk for q lew
days, dusts them with flower and drops
them into ID pan OF burning oil or fat. They
are served in drawn butter with little
lemon juice aud Worcestershire sauce.
Professor Leopold Won Rsnke, who cello.
brated on December q his SSH birthday,
has lust completed the fourth volume OF
his Universal history, which bears the title,
THE Empire in Constaninople, and the
Origin oi the GSrman-Romance Kingdoms
Referring 10 the falling off of immig-a.
ton for 1888 from the previous year, the
Brooklyn Union remarks that 1.-The country
long since passed the stage when large inn
migration is needed for its prosperity, and
thouf htful people are quite ready to ace
she tide ebb."
A novel way OF committing suicide was
recently INDUCED In by ali eccentric lodi
vldusl OF DE Kslb county, Tennessee. He
cut a tree until IL was ready to fail, aud
then lot 1t tall upon him. IL is an etfectual
but expensive way, as timber 10 scarce IN
that vicinity.
A lad not over seven years ofage recently
appeared at the office OF the city marshal
in BrocktoD, Massachusetts,, and expressed
desire to enter complaint against two
boys Of his own age who had thrown snow "
balls at him. He never threw snowballs
himself, he said.
Hogs sent to the market from California
have TO he trapped in the woods in about
the same manner as bears. On most of the
ranches, it is said, the swine are az wild as
deer through the woods, and II oornered
they will place themselves on the defensive
and fight like tigers.
A Biddeford gentleman found in his
woodshed recently dead weasel with his
tongue frozen to an AK blade. The AK had
been used in cutting beef In the morning.
and the animal, In attempting TO secure II
piece of the meat that adhered to the blade
had singularly met his death.
American planes are higher priced than
the English, but the latter are said by the
American Art Journal TO be small light
strung, thin-toned, and not suited to the
American people. However, the English
make of machine might suit very well tor Il
summer evening piano in this country.
1t is reported that vessel recently
brought 70 New BEDFORD Massachusetts
an eagle which alighted at the masthead
fifteen hundred miles from land. IL IN not
stated, however, whether the noble bird
was a wild wanderer OF the watery wastes,
or a regular pet passenger OF the aforesaid
vessel.
The fish aud game commissioners OF
NJ aine are really enforcing the law forbid
ding railroad and express companies TO for
ward more than three deer in season, and
are In great measure stopping the
slaughter OF game In the state. Partridges,
however, are smuggled through in all sorts
OF shape.
The largest truck farm In the south is
In Louisiana, near New Orleans, where the
cultivativation OF early cabbage, cucumbers
and tomatoes for northern markets is made
a specially. Last season the yield Was 200
barrels of cucumbers, $3.50 boxes tomatoes,
and 1900 head OF cabbages. In addition
strawberries, peaches, grapes. etc., are Gull
tivated, and an apiary yields an annual pro-
duction OF ten barrels Of honey.
The assertion is made by the Rev. u. Il
Hale over his own signature, that public
schools in Bo,ton are closed Dy local school
committees to givehn opportunity tor II.
censing the liquor sellers. BY Massschu-
sstts law no saloon can be licensed within a
given distance Of public school. BY the
opportune closing OF one OF the schools for
8 few days, eleven saloons obtained Q II.
cense, and then 1t was reopensd.
The five Cinnamon whs were sentenced
to the New jersey state prison for assault.
ing a brother Chinaman in Patterson, be-
cause he cut laundry rates, have been re-
leased, but they dsplore the loss OF their
queues, which were shorn of In the prison
az 10 the custom to do with convic's. They
carry their queues with them. however, In q
paper parcel, and whom their hair grows
long they will braid their
queues with IL.
The stories OF policemen always being
out of reach when wanted are, many OF
them, unjust. Yesterday an alteration
In bar-room between two drunk
en- loafers, which resulted in one OF them
being severely cut WITH q beer glass. In
less than two minutes after the ARRAY oc-
CURED both principals we're on their way
10 the station-house in charge Of an officer.
The policeman hsppened 10 be in the bsck
room drinking beer and playing pedro"
and be promptly arrested them.-lPhila.
ielphis Call.
Mr.. Eeur Wab, New York laundrymar;
md n student OF western civilization, deliv-
red himself OF the following the day after
New Years: New York one velly stlsnge
,Duntly." Have him bib holiday, no big
KICK up bobhely with fire-clsckers and mu-
nc. All quiet In stleet. same likee sunfsy.
Eyely he put on good clothes, sit aloud
inside he house, Evely man he put on
black coat, he put on black hat; go see him
yal. Gal give him siiong brandy.
make him velly dunk. How can callee
un 10 can see"
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DIR. J. s. Huffman. Philadelphia, Pa,