The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-10-15
FACT AND FANCY.

mhTo ISiunu HuVy-yMu'
There is ono public-house for ever
three hundred people in Japan.
People who throw banana skins a
large are now called bananarchists.
On Tuesday of last week the loyalists
of st. John, N. b., celebrated the 1886
anniversary of their landing ut that
place.
A Coney Island museum proprietor
offers $500 week to Herr Most if he
will go and sit in an iron cage in his
museum.
The Kamloop Indians in Idaho are re.
ported on the war-path. They are
averse to the Entertainments of white
emigration.
Farmers in the vicinity of Lima, o.,
are on the warpath in search of horse
poisoncr. He has succeeded in killing q
number of very valuable animals.
The Stockton (Cal.) Mail says that
the craze there now is for big roses,
and one has been grown in that town
this spring eighteen inches in diameter.
Bloodwashed RUDE, of the Science
tady, N. Y, Salvation army, has been
arrested for stealing four carcasses OF
mutton, two of veal, and four sheep
pclts,
1t is estimated that fully $50, 1000, 900
of northern and English capital was in
vested in new undertakings in the south
in the first three months of the current
year.
you will see, dear, that my grave is
kept greene" Wife-"O yes, John.
The sexton has q l0-year old boy who
will be only too glad to earn little
something every week."
Millions of little swallows visited
Baltimore last Wednesday. 1t was an
unusual sight, as since tho advent OF
the English sparrow in that city the
swallow has not been seen there.
All New York policemen not SO pro-
vided have been ordered by Supt. Muir
ray to procure revolvers of thirty-eight
caliber (any make), so that cartridges
can be exchanged in case of emergency.
Capt. John Miller, of Jimtown.
Chickasaw nation, is now defendant in
a murder trial at Fort Smith, Ark. The
typical hero of the cowboy kind is now
20 years old and is said to have killed
thirty men in his long and glorious ca
reer.
The owner of a patent medicine, liv.
ing in New York, has recently contract
ed with printer in an eastern city for
supplying him with 4O,OOo,0O0 PAM
phlets of 80 pages, and 400, 100000 cir
culars of 4 pages cach The price to be
paid is $S0O,000.
1t is related that hungry rats devour-
ed q five-pound package of yeast cakes
in the frcight-house in Middletown,
Conn, and few hours later, when the
yeast worked, the noise of popping rats
was heard, and their fragments strewed
the neighborhood.
That cver-popular resort of things
curious and remarkable, La Grange,
Ca. has come to the front with an ac-
count of well developed frog which
was found recently imbedded in the
heart of an old oak tree, which was
fully four feet in diameter.
A race between two horses, trotter
and a runner. came off recently at
Rockford, N. Y. The trotter distanced
the runner every time. The owner of
the running horse now threatens
trouble, as he thinks the trotting horse
was u professional in disguise.
A grotesque drawing on an envelope
sent by young Clarence Rigby, OF
Youngstown, o., TO friend on New
York newspaper, was seen by the edi-
tor and led to an order for several IL
lustrations, and probably to a perma-
nent and lucrative place on the paper.
"When hear stories of odd pray
crs," said n certain colonel, 81 always
think of one heard offered by an old
darkey down on Ship Island during the
war. He prayed: 20 Lord, ranshack
the worl' all ober on white horse and
glib us all charity like bounding brass
and a simple tingle!"
Hostess Sunday morning in Wash
ington)-Is there any particular min
lister you would like to hear preach.
Penelopcp Penelope Visiting from
Boston, We'll, if you don't mind,
auntie, would like to hear one of the