The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-27
HERE AND THERE.

Baltimore. Md, turfmen, own 25O
raco-horses.
A white partridge is curiosity on
exhibition ut Americas, Ga.
The butternut crop along the HUDSON
river is very large this year.
About forty thousand barrels OF coal
oil are consumed daily on the earth.
An English firm are filling large
order for shoes made of papier-mache.
Starch factories have been declared
free from taxation in Hidalgo, Mexico
Bar Harbor manners and customs
are giving variety to life in New York.
Anumber of Norfolk. Va. merchants
have established "a peanut combina-
ton"
A pinch of snuff large enough TO pro-
duce a good sneeze will cure hiccough,
it is said.
At Genesee, n. Y, one day last week,
mare gave birth to twin colts-a horse
and mule.
The city of Vienna, Austria, with a
population of 750, 900, has nc. single
free library.
A hunter near Buena Vista, Ga, the
other day, shot at one partridge and
killed eight.
An onion which weighed nearly three
pounds was exhibited in Highland, N.
Y, last week.
A Santa Rosa hunter is credited with
having killed twenty-six birds at one
shot recently.
During the past eight months 25,676,-
800 eggs were shipped from St Adams.
VT, to Canadian ports.
A hawk was killed near Hartwell,
Ga, a few days ago. that measured five
feet from tip to tip of wings.
The leading bank in Birmingham,
Ala. has recently increased its capital
from 5000, 900 to $5OO,00O
An Arkansas man whitfield q bullet
out of a plug of tobacco and shot it
through the body of wildcat.
Ireland" means the westland. 1t
comes from the Celtic word lar and our
word land" lar meaning the west.
During the past three years eighteen
switch girls in telephone Office in
Connecticut town have been married to
subscribers on the line.
A cotton-gin saw and grist mill. val
ded at $4,000 and belonging TO w. S.
Cooley, of Snider's Cross, N. c., was
destroyed by fire Thursday.
From Oct. /. 1885, to Sept. 80. this
year, 1913. 1925 70 worth of stamps were
sold by the postoflice at Atlanta, Ga,
and the net profit was 1000.
An oyster weighing three pounds
four ounces and measuring ten inches
in length was found in the harbor at
Huntington, l.. l., one day last week.
Near Eufaula. Ala, recently, was
taken from a river bank b workmen
large white oak tree tia was in an
almost perfect state of pc rilication.
A new expression has become popu-
lar in the south When charges for
labor or merchandise seem extravagant
people say they are earthquake
prices"
Three million feet of the finest
grades of lumber were sold by an Al
bany, n. Y, firm Thursday to New
York parties. 1t was the largest sale
Of the season.
A tattooing studio is New York at
traction. Sailors are the best patrons.
One Of the visitors recently had the
epitaph from his wfe's tombstone re-
produced on his chest.
A large band of Arabs have taken
up their winter quarters near Pits
burgh, Pa, and the citizens are seeking
to have them move on" because OF
their thieying propensities.
G. b. Thayer. son of ex-senator
Thayer, of Connecticut travled 4,224
miles this year on bicycle. He left
his home in Vernon. Conn, last April,
and has been on the road ever since.
The legislature of the state of Vera
Cruz, Mexico. has authorized the COM
mon council of the city of the same
name to erect jail for women, and TO
sell land sufficient for that purpose.
Considerable trouble is experienced
by the authorities of New York in keep
ing trespassers off the one million acres
of timber land owned by the state. Last
wear thieves stole nearly $3.50, 900 worth
of timber from the lands.
A most strange disease is affecting
the horses in the vicinity of Albany, Or
egon. They are taken with stagger-
ing. and then seem to NOPE and fall in
strength aud finally becoming blind
and seized with trembling and fits.
An evangelist in Clarion county, New
York, has hit upon an ingenious scheme
of securing converts. He offers cheap