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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11
WHITE ROSES.
LADIES LOVE THE FLOWERS,
Child of Sunny Italy and His Avoca-
tion-A Dealer in blossoms Bunch
of Pinks-Pond Lilles-A
Pretty Trade, Etc,

"Only titteena centa bunch," shouted
asun-burnt son OF sunny Italy," as he
approached a lady and gentleman at a
Fourteenth street beer garden. And
without further ceremony the gamin
handed the lady bunch of Jersey pond
lilies, and she placed them at her belt
rs an Indian warrior might trophy
scalp. Then the lady took another
bunch of dripping lilies from the basket,
the little Italian boy handed her pin,
and she pinned it on her escorts lapel.
"Ihirta centa, pleasa," and the boy
grinned at his clever forced sale.
"Those boys make So or 81 Il night"
said an habitue of summer gardens to
Mail and Express reporter. "rhe bunch
tilat he sold for fifteen cents did not cost
him cent; no joke intended; | meant
not cent each. About the time the
resorts close you VIII find that boy try
ing to unload his stock at Ave cents a
bunch. But if he gets stuck, he will
keep them i'll water all day, and to-mor-
row night sprinkle cologne over them,
and, if the place is crowded, sell out at
a quarter bunch.
"Iou have heard of the peanut man at
a circus, who without saying Il word,
would turn out quart of them into
| your Sweetheart's lap and demand pay
for them. Well, this is an improvement
ON that bunco game. These gamins
know that woman naturally wants
every flower she sees, just as a baby
COOS for each new toy. In ten minutes
another boy will come with pink lilies,
and the same squeezing process will he
repeated" said the obserVant summer
| garden lounger.
When the lady arose to leave she had
a bouquet of white roses on the left
shoulder, a bunch of pinks and bunch
of white pond lilies dangling at her little
waist, and yet she glanced cOvetously at
the basket AS she glided out.
"Pond lilies are tho correct thing
now" said the gentleman to the repor-
ter. "Walk in Broadway between TWEEN
ty-third and Thirtieth streets, or down
on Sixth avenue among the cheap retail
stores, and you will see pond lilies on
the breasts of four ladies in five. When
the season commenced about two
months ago, the ladies wore bouquets
twice as large as they do now; it seemed
that the ladies were so eager they
wanted to possess them all, especially al
they were more novel then. But now
the ladies are not so eXtravagant in theiI
display; besides, lilies having become
SO fashionable, the extremists can Ii,
longer lead the popular craze. Tn,
lilies come from New Jersey and Con
b necticut; the crop is unusually larg
this season, and the hawkers will n,
doubt do very large business unit
about October, when the delicate lii,
fades out OF season with the first coli
snap"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11
CANNED GOODS,
Almost EVERYTHING for the Table 10 BE
Had in Cans.

almost EVERYTHING for the Table 10 BE
Had in Cans.
every many people," said leading
Boston packer, "live almost entirely,
especially in summer months, on
canned goods. Few people are aware
what immense quantities of these goods
are annually consumed"
"The variety is very great, also?"
"There is scarcely anything that
grows that is not canned. We pack
meat of all kinds, and vegetables and
fruits of every variety. AS a rule these
goods are packed in better shape than
| they used to be. This especially APP
plies to Strawberries. The great bulk
of this fruit which is canned is nut up
in Maryland. Until recently the pack
ers have used only the very poorest of
the fruit for canning and have used no
! sugar in the process. You can readily
imagine what n strawberry is which
has been soaked in water for six months
or perhaps year. They are bleached,
tasteless and entirely worthless. No
one who used can once would ever be
caught again. But, a year or two ago,
Il fruit-raiscr and packer commenced
putting up nice article, using selected
/ y
been that others have been forced to do
the same, and now we are getting a fine
article of canned Strawberries"
"N hat class of people are the largest
buyers Of canned goods?"
ran les are the largest consumers.
Then Il great many go ship chambers,
who supply them to the ship-own.
ers and captains. Canned goods are a
wonderful boon to mariners TO whom, o
few years ago, a taste of fresh vegeta-
bles or fruits was a thing unknown.
"The miners, too, are large consumers
Those who have Travelled in the mining
! districts, especially in Colorado, have
, frequently noticed deep gulles in the
, mountains almost filled with old cans. =
"Picnics and sailing parties contribut,
I their share OF the trader"
Yes; the goods which may be classed
especially, as luNuries, such as pottoC
, meats, are in great demand for sucl
} purposes. Yachting parties carry large
q quantities of canned as well as bottled
, goods"
r "liow are the goods prepared for can
= niuG?'
= "Ihey are cooked almost eXclusivel,
= in the can. This is true of meats AM
l vegetables. Peas, for example, are s.
D treated. They are first assorted int
7 four sizes by passing through scrie
d, of sleeves or Colanders. They are thci
= placed in the cans and subjected to tn
Y action of steam, after which they ar
hermetically sealed. Another mode /
e to cook them by placing the cans in wa
o ter, which is forced to a boiling point b.
S the use of steam, As n rule, the pea
+ thus prepared are really tresher am
,, better than those purchased in the maI
f ket, especially the first which appear
o The first peas are grown ut the Soutl
: aud cannot fail to he somewhat willie
Y by the time they reach the Norther
? market. But the Gamer of peas take
V them fresh from the vines, aud seal
$ them carefully, so that they cannot Il
r otherwise than fresh when opened. -
70 Boston Globe.
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Career of the Greatest Dancer.

There are a few old play-goers who
remember the great night when she
first came "Aoating on the stage" of the
Kings Theatre, on the Sd of june 1880.
Her engagement was for three weeks
only and the house was packed to suflio-
cation. She took the part of Flora in
the ballet Of "Zephyre Flora" and she
had not been five minutes on the stage
before her triumph was assured. 1t was
the old story. They had seen no one
like her for grace and purity of motion,
for that poetry of movement which was
the perfection of art, because it seemed
so wholly artless. "Signori Taglioni,"
wrote the Examiner, sis the most per.
feet specimen of grace and elegance as
a dancer we ever beheld. Her move
ments are all series of elias Sical
studies. Every movement i,
accomplished with such extraordinary
ease and with the airiness of thistle
down, that it would scarcely have in
creased our wonder had she ascendeC
| like Il spirit" A writer in the Athen
rum said: "She is certainly angelica
almost Eve-angelical; grace is in he
step whether heaven be in her eye o
not. The manner in which she occas
ionally springs from this cold sphere
leads us to think that by an extent o
volition she might with perfect cas-
visit the lively inhabitants of Mercury
but her descent-her return-her feath
ery-like snowfall resumption Of tn
tread of earth is beyont
description. Her bound upward
is graceful and natural;
Is her coming back again that is super
natural" Chorlcy, in his "Musica
RecOllections," thinks that in her frs
season in London she was not so highl
appreciated as she deserved to be; bu
the critics, at any rate, seem to have az
praised her at her proper worth. Durln
her ilrst and her subsequent visits
London Taglioni danced great dca
ana often in company with three of tn
most famous hallerinas OF that or an
, age-Carlotta GriSi, cousin Of the RI
nowned singer; Fannie Elssler, tn
siren whose charms had equal powe
5 over a philosophic historian and til
heir to a usurper's throne, and Ceritt
; surnamed the Fourth Grace. The i'm
/ mortal "Pas de Quatre," composed fC
these four divinities, was perhaps tn
finest exhibition of dancing ever see
on any stage. But Taglioni then, z
= ever, was the star; the others were hr
| the satellites revolving around her.
3 was, however, in Paris that she mad
I her home during the halcyon period ,
% her career. Her first appearance Their
e saws Miss Mabel Collins, had been col
/ sidcred to make an epoch IN the histoi
- Of dancing. In her later years "she b
+. came the object of a cutie. and so his
l did the enthusiasm about her ri
e among the composers no less Tia;
: among the general public in this and
N.If 10.
q not put his opera of "Robert le Diahl
Il on the stage In Berlin until he was q
i Surod that Taglioni, for whom he HI
|, written the music, had been engaged
q dance in the part of the nun in the thi
n act.-'The Cornhill Magazine.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

Naturalists tell us that the fly is not an
insect. A true insect has six legs, four
wings, an external skeleton and under
goes metamorposes, but flies have only
two wings; so the naturalists make a
classification of them and call them Dip
terra. They seem to have nothing else TO
do but multiply their species, and no fly
trap has yet eyer successfully applied
Malthusian principles to them. 1t is esti-
mated that from spring TO autumn as
mary as 2,OO0OOO descendants will spring
from single pair. The green bottle fly
thrives best on carbon. The horse ny
is bred in filth and dirt. One species of
fly, instead of laying eggs, lays living
maggots, and another kind is said TO be
able to shoot out his eggs like pillets out
of popgun. At Pisa, in Italy, there are
flies that give out an agreeable odor.
They feed on orange and lemon flowers,
and as they have four wings, some natu-
rGlists claim they are more like bees
! than flies. Flies take theirf food by sue
ton, either iinching it or reducing it to
fluid state by secreting and throwing
out fluid for this purpose. The mouth,
or, rs 1t should more properly be termed,
| the trunk, consistst of II sheath, a suck
| er and one to four bristle formed lancetS,
which at the same time that they pierce
the food apply to each other so accurate
| ly as to form an air-tight tube; the last
two named parts are retractile, and
when Withdrawn and hidden in the
sheath may be forced out by pressing
between the forefnger and the thumb
the two sides of the upper and lower
part of the thoraX, when the fly is forced
10 show his trunk to It's fullest extent
In its flying about, naturalists, with {
mathematical turn, have estimated
that the &C mmon house fly makes Will
its wings 600 strokes II second, which
carry it five feet, but il the fly be alarm
ed, il can increase its velocity sevenfold
so as to make thirty or thirty-iive feet
the same length of time II would tax,
Il race-horse to clear ninety feet. Com
pare now the size of the two animals
aud some idea can be obtained Of the in
credible swiftness with which the,
move.-l Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Tho Egg Business.


egg business has assumed I'm
qyille, during the present season
4N since February LIST, the va /
. q9t0nS of 10000 barrels. There are
v seventy dozen eggs packed in
barrel, which makes the actual
A.g shipped from this city to the
curing the period mentioned, 2i,-
WV These facts were obtained 10y
NgElCr upon visiting large mum
AWEplurC merchants who deal In
~ Ne average nrlc' received for
a.l - was 20 cents per dozen, thus
~ The 2,WO,0O duZcu worth about
G But this by no means repre-
~ " 'le whole of the egg business done
.NSaville merchants, for during this
.h ami September they ship eggs
Nl, as the price Is now ouly from to
guy per dozen, which IL rs low rs they
ocen for five years. About five
"sgo eggs were sol I la August
Nashville, ut from > IN
cents per dozen. The
NneSN commences to get quite brisk
oOer when the prices range from
- cents per dozen and Keep getting
,ltr until the hens stop LAYING, which
generally between the 18th and 10Th OF
emher, when they are worth from b
cents per dozen packed and free ON
" ofcars in this city.
Sat this period that the cggpicklers
lose Ot their stock, which amounts IL
Ihy. hun ired barrels. The reporter
about 1000 dozen picked in one
Luz ina South Cherry street produc,
Vhants warehouse yesterday. The
/ THIS pickle Is manufactured Is one
,he secrets of the trade, possessed
| by a few merchants, whose expert
aS have cost them good deal. Fol
aug purposes these eggs are. ~
Isaly esteemed rs new laid eggs, ant
ohly debarred from app ,aring on the
esOlt bolled or Ir.tu, rhe merchnn
| PICKLES IN nrc eggs than any othe
IN Nashville broke one that hat
IN the brine four weeks YESTERDAY
Ndld not differ materially in ap
sence from n new laid egg. In ship
these eggs they were taken Iron
ollhe, wiped of aud backed in lar
Wslu eases. They cost from six nm,
. W. 10 seven cents dozen, including
Vst OF the brine In which they ar,
.epIed, and generally bring from thir
A. n'ee and u third to forty cents whel
are sold about Christmas an,
Nv XIV east by the ear load, lD barrel
nan egg market Nashville is secon,
S hvne III the United States, when tn
meueo i the trade IL considered, L
,yiuorll N to tho extent of its otho
abysnSi interests. In addition to this
n M. lWiio egges are graded higne
W. etst than those from any othe
Vu of the United States. This
tr ,W he owing To the fact thG
l v1s .,c9l'le from the limestone cout
rS,nh'ch makes the contents of III
,hoii and of n better flavor Will
/ loa,i v', , N much stronger, and consl
/ pm i. mere IL much less loss sustaine
/ N. urulion eggs.
.eolc,r ees, shipper of eggs in this cit
no. dsu man named Louis Winter
uurlng the last February an
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11
Gcpcral scott,s Rclected Advice.

Gen. Charles p. Stone publishes in the
Magazine Of American History for July
very interesting account of council T
war held at the headquarters of Gen.
Scott in May, 1851, The article is of os-
pecial value for the light It throws on
the VeNed question of the military policy
of Scott ut the outbreak Of the war. The
opinion Of General. thon Col, stone, and
OF Gen. Totten, had been asked Ia re-
gard to the force and the time requisite
for successful advance upon Rich
mond. Finding concurrence of opin-
ion among military officers, Con. Scott
took up the subject, and gave his views
nj some length and with considerable
warmth. He said that the question had
IL fntsuGtely ceased to be political
uIestion, and had become purely mill
trv question, and, consequently, 1t
must he settled purely in accordance
with military principles "Nou must al
| low" said the General, 1.-THE soldiers tldo
what they know they ought to do; and
| YOU must ho careful not to force them TO
/ do what they know they ought not to
| do" Secretary Cameron said, general,
Won shall have all YOU want" where
upon Gen. Scott replied: "Thanlls, Mr..
| Secretary, everything want Is all that
| want. Thanks. Well, then, | want
the best practical naval constructor in
/ the United States sent 10 Louisville
! Kentucky, To design and see constructed
gunbnats. These boats can easily hC
finished before the first frost. Oul
southern friends, seeing the Govern
ment apparently content with guarding
the frontier. may not believe they are tt
be attacked, and may relax their pre-
paratious. In any ease, our preparations
being made on sound principles, woult
have, nv the first day of October next
assembled ut the junction of the Obi,
and Mississippi rivers, an army of ldO,
0OO men, and I would have here anothe
army of 10000 men. | would shnd tina
Western army, accompanied 10y gun
b puts, down to the Gulf of Mexico. y
the same time would send this arm'
. oi 10000 men hence to Richmond by tn
right road. If you act thus, II you alloy
The soldiers 20 do what they know the
o ight To do. 4 VIII answer ior 1t that III
,,pVerumcn, Of the United States shal
, have its flag and its authority recognize
throughout the land, over every mch q
! its territory, by the 4th of May next, ol
, at the least, by the ith day OF July fo
lowing. YOU do not thus act, II yo
. make the soldiers do what they kno'
, they ought not to do; ii you push thes
three-months men into battle lust belor
= they are all thinking of going home;
YOU push the two or three-yearS me
! into battle Just before they shall be OF
: ganized, you will be beaten In the iir'
, general action of this war. You vi
4. consolidate what IL now an insurrecli0
into reholliOus govornment, which r
!, hpllious government yuu may be able
:. nut down in two or three years, put
! douht it, II would require not llttl
\ mathematics, aud still more innagln'
y tinn, TO figure out the cost to this coui
= try OF the simple rejection ofthat advice
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rhn nh,liiN a. MIMI.

In the matter OF wll-making there "a
u vast deal of oddly, the caprice OF cc-
centricity sometimes verging so closely
upon the anomalous, 1t is not to be
wondered at when suits are instituted
bv disappointed eNpectant hoirs 10 test
the sanity of the devIsUr. Though very
little Is required 10 prove up VIII, more
is required to make It stand. IL must be
confss ed, however, that evasions of the
spirit of II will are rarer In England than
In America, where the state of affairs
scnmed to have reached that pitch courts
we're uisposed to hold that no one knew
so little what was intended TO he teS-
uted MS thaunhonpy man who made the
testament. Fortunately, thera IL less
laNitv in this direction now, and "a sen.
sihle man who makes n will feels some
fair degree ur certainty that u will be
legally observed after his death. IL is
too much the cHse that the wills OF liv.
ing persons are by themselves regarded
with indifference, nrO caro.cssly placed
with unimportmt papers, and so be
come lost OF estrayod and can not bt
found upon the deaths ofthe makers. BY
this means persons have for years beer
kept out OF the rights to which they
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

March, shipped from one to three car
loads OF eggs day, his average ship
mehts being between 700 and 900 bar
rels OIL eggs week, about 1870 barrels be-
ing loaded to car. These egps went to
Cincinnati, Chicago, Pittsburg and New
YORK. This merchant SAYS the average
price of a barrel of eggs in the fall is
SSIIoO, and he is now shipping eggs to
New Orleans and other Southern cities.
These eggs are brought into Nashville
IN the farm wagons in lots of from one
10 lO0 dozen. Very few farmers keep
over 100 hens, and there is no farm where
the egg crop is made a speciality, as there
is in the Northwest, where 100000 hens
are sometimes found on one ranch and
10000 hens on great many, which are
devoted exclusively to that purpose and
keeping up good stock of chickens.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11
A squirrel with rIpericnce.

\ we'l-authentlca'od soul rel story
comes nom Fishkill, Dutch,s s. county,
New York. William II. Callaghan and
family live in that village, and for years
one of the pets of the household has been
u red squirrel. Three weeks ago the cage
door was left open and the squirrel es-
capped out of doors. 1t was chased by the
boys and Mr.. Callaghan, and II was last
seen jumping from tree to tree. It's
whereabouts was lost sight of in the
darkness, and the Callaghan's made up
their minds that their pct was lost to
them. The squirrel, however, surprised
the family by running into the break
fast room one morning tins week, and,
Jumping up on the table, greedily began
to drink milk out of u cup. IL appeared
to be nearly starved to death. II was
emaciated to degree, and It's coat OF
hair had been torn out in spots by the
roots, evidently the result of tight with
some animal in the woods on or near tn,
lisliitill mountain. Now, when the out
side door of the Callaghan house Is lef
open, the squirrel looks out, but refuse,
TO cross tho door-sill.--, Philadelphia
Bulletin.
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A Innnihnl Snnkn.

"Rather strange occurrence came re-
Gently before my notice, and thinking
that perhaps you might care to insert il
in your columns, send you the facts of
he circumstance: \ few days since,
Toward evening | killed snake Just
close behind my house; il measured
about yard and half in length, was
one OF the most deadly of the numerous
kinds of snakes found in Java, and
bears the name of 'Oelar Belangl On
examining IL later | found what
thought TO be the tail of another small
snake protruding from its mouth, but
on pulling II out was greatly surprised
to discover that 1t was reallya snake of
the same species, and of almost the
same length. There was certainly not
more tnan three inches difference In the
length of the two snakes, and at tho
time | killed the outside snake, only
about an inch and half or two inches
of the tail of the one he had swallowed
| protruded from his mouth. The outside
snake was, of course, considerably the
thicker of the two, but this may be at
tributed to his having swollen after, oil
rather during, tremendous meal. The
natives here say that the two snakes
must have been lighting, tho victor at
tcrward swallowing his opponent
! From Nature.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

In recent address before an English
institution, DIR. +. Hudson stated that II
very remarkable thing about the
"rotifera,n or wheel animalcules,
Is that under certain conditions
they may be dried and kept for
three or four years and then brought u
life again by moisture. The world OF
the rotifera, he added, is full of marvels
and they can he seen with microscopes
OF small power.
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Pullman sleepers to New Orleans

The Texas a. Pacific railway are nov
running Pullman sleepers through t
New Orleans without change. Trai1
leaves Dallas S:25 a. m. Tickets an(
births secured at 504 Main street, Il. p
Turner Agent.
Il. w. MCCULI OUCH,
G. Z. and Z. A., Galveston.
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ponhIe pnny Trims ON Mo. z. nv.

IMPORTANT 10 DALLAS.
The Missouri Pacific now run double
daily trains to and from st. Louis, via
Denton, thus doing away with any
possibility of lay over en- route.
Trains arrive mt and depart from the
now brick depot, foot Of Lamar street.
T.. p. TURNER,
Ticket Agent, 5Oi Main street.
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since the Mo. =. have put on double
daily trains TO st. Louis, via Dehloh'
Passengers can leave Dallas from pIivN
depot 6:lO a. m. aud arrive ut Gaines
vile i:i0 u. m.
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- "A H EG ES II IAN Ev ERR {!


hm VERY LOW PRICES Call and
Best Material
some Fire and BrgarPof
co.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-12-18
Wasn't Impressed.

Walter and his little sister arrived
early one morning in Albany, where,
with their mother they were to spend
the day with an old friend of hers, who
has home more elegant than the chill
dren had ever seen. After quite an
elaborate breakfast, the children were
overheard in conversation by their
mother.
Wasn't it lovely?" Florence was
confding to her brother. $50 many
things kept coming; and there was so
much glass, all different colors, and
such beautiful plates, and flowers, and
such lots of fruit-W
''Pooh!" interrupted Walter, who in
reality had been quite overpowered by
the breakfast, but who never lost an
opportunity to assume patronizing
tone toward his sister: .'why, the poor
things didn't know enough to have
griddle-cakes!' -Harper's Basar.