The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-03-27
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ders glass half hiled with whisky labeled
refused by Genera Grant in lS7S.'
Atlanta, Georgia, Ia without q female bar.
her, one OF tho necessary stlrAciionh OF q
growing city.
A tax ON revolyers has been voted by the
South Carolina legislature.
The annual reni.roli of the Astor estate
In New York city alone, amounts 70 oyer
100000.
ous firm at Marshall. Tennessee, sold for
ty thousand uozsn OF eggs last year, Tor
which they paid 5000.
Eight million acres OF government land
ia Dakota nave deem disposed oil TO private
persons within syear.
Men on snowshoes now carry the mails
up TO Moore's Flat GraniIevile anu UtD.r
high mountain poslotlicss In the Sierra.
The postnnasts ge aeral hsl ordered that
no business chrds, bills or advertisements
shall hereafter be allowed TO be stuck up N
posioilices,
The German government will ask credit
| for 10 UOO,0'o saayk,, 10 be mainly used ia
constructing torpedUes along the Baltic sea
| board.
COMMITTEES Of one from each post cl
the Grand Army NJ tho Republic IN New
Mexico. 10 10 bs selected Tor the purpose OF
having Kit Carson's grave placed III respsc.
ta,ls shape.
A farmer OF Fall River, Massachusetts,
has recently sold n pair of fowls, dark Brah-
mas, for SAT, TO 20 TO Aukanc, New ZrS-
land. The distance Is nearly seven thOus.
and miles.
Ons Of the stage coaches running between
| ElEo and Tu' cArora, Nevada, got lost dur
ing a snow.storm last week, aud up TO last
accounts had not been heard from.
Las. year the eighteen hundred saloons of
Missouri paid Sl59, 600 fopl licenses. The new
law calls for s9O0,O00 from the same saloons
A mum Der of Memphis merchants have
signed u pol.lion ask.ug that drummsrs OPP
Grating within the taxing districts be re-
leased from taxation when not displaying
goods for sale.
Tularo Lkke, in California, is rapidly dry
ing up. A few years ago it ives 80 mile,
long and q miles wide Now IL !, about Is
miles long and has an average width OF less
than uigh, miles.
Often tho most lschrymose funeral orators
oe tho floor are congressman VINO are be-
lieYed 20 be the most jovisi of junketeIs
when they 70 in Pullman cars to carry the
remains to the grave.
The feeling appears to be general that
Mr.. Blaine, despite his ossentat ous,Driyscy
is seeking the Office with snrewdness, sDd
that Mr.. Edmunds is ready, but not eager,
20 take the office, il 1t seeks him.
6y the last official returns "a per cent
OF the births Ia Nairushire, Scotland are IL
legitimate, while in a berdcenslire &C per
cent. are OF the same Kind. lu The county
of Wigtown enc twenty-iourth of the births
we're iliegtimate, and most Of the northern
counties present an unclesn bill of health.
The annual rainfall in this country, ac-
cording to The Weather Signal, is lowest in
Csl nS
inohes) aud highest in Oregon (49) aud Ala
bans (56). The annual raiDfail IN the Brit
ish islands among The mountains IL al
inches: on the plains 25 iuches; 45 inches OF
rainfall on the west sid5Sof England, 81 on
ths east side.
All Me old envelopes, newspapers, wrap
pings and scraps OF paper which accumu-
late in the treasury department at Washing-
ION sre carefully saved in what is called the
waste. paper room. All this refuse is sorted
cut by nen and women, and sold to one
tirm in New York. The receipts amount
to quite handsome little sum.
An attempt is about to be made to accli-
matizs spopges on the shores of France and
Algiers. The chief difficulty will be in the
trans plantation Of the plants. 1t Will be
about three years before the trapsplauted
spopges will be fit to cut Tor aale. oponges
fetch high prices, aad the projsct ID expe cted
TO pay veil.
According TO the Medical Record iDsur-
ance tables show that man wh6 abstsins
from alcohol has, at 20 years Of age, q
chance Of living 44.2 years; at 30 SO years;
at 40, % yesrs. An Incorporate man IS
chance ut 20 is 1876 years; At 30, 1873 years,
and at 40, l1.6years.
The largest living animal is the roIqual
whale, 102 feet in length; the smallest the
amoebold forms. Whales and elephants
tha
the ahortest, living only a few hours.
The most intelligent of the lower animals.
ahead sven of the Australian oushmen and
others, are tho ants.
Judge Thomas Drummond has been on
the Federal bench continuously for thirty
three years-hrst as United States district
Judge for illinois, then as United States cir
cult Judge for northern Illinois, and since
1869, as United States Judge tor the Seventh
Indiana. Members of the bar speak and
think OF him as still in his prime.
Stewart, OF Texas, ID the tallest man in
the hou-e of representatives, measuring six
feet, eleven inches; Till.nan, OF South Caro-
lima. never wears an overcoat; "Richelieu"
Robinson, of New York, has not had his
hair cut since last session, and says it is not
to be cut again until Ireland is free"
McAdoo, OF New Jersey, wears the tightest
w
OF Virginia-born in Brszil--parts his hair
in the middle, and Cannon, of lliinsis, is
the only representative who always gesticu
lates with his left hand.
Mr.. Bell, the originator Of the telephone
enterprise OF that name, formerly teacher
OF lansusges in Boston, now lives in Wash
ington with fortune estimated at 5.0O0,-
600. Mr.. Blake, the Inventor of the trans
mitter," is worth 81, 600 600. Mr.. Vail, the
ut haC ixy
q poor telegraph operator, has an elegant
Boston residence and "a ,0000 O0 Mr.. Forbes
who furnished the money to put the inven-
ton in use, is said to be worth from S. ,000,.
900 to Sc 600 600.
The Onakers oil Logan county, Ohio. do
not now worship With the quietude usual to
their denomination, but are no ding revival
meetings of an exceedingly demonstratlve
character. Noah McCla'n, the evangelist
who has brought them into such state of
excitement; is a negro. He 10 described as
a wonderfully magnetic orator. The daily
exercises last, with brief internissons, from
10 O'Clock in the morning until past mid
night. The widest campmeeting scenes
are here exaggerated. Peculiar attacks OF
coma are common among the converts.
One Young man. an atheist defiant and
ehockingly profane, fell suddenly insensible
and lay so tor two days.
Glasgow. He is also humorist In his
latter capacity he sent d letter to the secre-
tary OF 81 ate asking to be informed in bus
former capacity. as to the views of the de-
psrtment concerning the definition to be
given to the phrase, "at the last port or
place whence exported to the United
States.n The joke worked admirably. The
head Of the state department found the
problem too deep and transmitted Mr..
Hsrte's letter to the treasury department.