The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-12-07
HERE AND THERE.

ows own adjoining farms. Ip.
Lehigh university has "Mustare
and Cheese Dramatic Club" 20.
The convicts ct Sing Sing made
5000 clear profit for the state of New
York last month. t.5
An English firm has Just received Z
verdict of $40, 900 in libel suit agains'
a New York lawyer.
About one hundred squalling babie.
have been named after the present pres
ident Of the United States.
The monthly expenditure for wages
of creamery recently established by s
northern syndicate at Hamilton, Va, II
over SO, 600.
Lead pipes are said not be affected
by water if kept constantly filled. II
alternately filed and empted the pipe:
are readily affected.
A raisin-direr of 160 tons capacity
has just been completed on large
grape farm near Woodland Cal. 1t Is
the largest in the west
Every day last week, from houses on
Beach HILL Santa Cruz. Cal, facing the
bay, whales could be seen spouting
about mile from the shore.
A citizen of Waterbury, Conn, re.
Gently obtained divorce from his wife
because she beat and kicked him and
pulled his hair and whskers.
A Rondout IN. Y.,) landlord. who is
the owner of large tenement will not
rent rooms to anyone that has his or
her household furniture insured.
The first parish sunday school OF
Charleston, Mass, which is the Oldest
one in New England, celebrated its
SEVENTEEN university last Sunday.
David Wait, better known as "Lum-
Der" Wait who died recently at Green.
field, N. Y, was considered the best
Judge of woodland and lumber in the
east
The beauties of protection are illus
trated by New York steamship that
recently sailed for Liverpool to be re-
paired, because she cen save $50, 600 in
the cost of the work.
In Clearfield county, Pennsylvania,
there are living man and his two sons
who are married to three sisters, and,
stranger still, the old man is married to
the youngest woman.
Hereafter tho students at the New
Jersey state scientific school. in addi'
ton to the military drill. will receive
instructions in craftsmanship on range
in the suburbs of New Brunswick.
The stems and waste of the tobacco
plant are said to be equal to linen rags
In the manufacture of paper. The
waste sells for less than $40 ton.
while linon rags bring as high as $50.
George Kersey, of Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, Is 10 years old and seven
feet high. His brother. aged 20 years.
is six feet and three inches high. and
the father and mother each measure
SIX feet.
Two persons have lately died in Bos.
cawen. N. H.. who had received aid
from the town or county, and final
ly left property, but there Is no law
under which the town or county can be
reimbursed.
One OF the curiosities of the Maine
election was return from the northern
part Of the state on which the only
signature was that of a witness, the
three assessors and the township clerk
making their marks.
Cornell university will confer no hon.
orary degrees hereafter, and to become
a doctor Of laws under the new rules OF
that institution it will be necessary TO
man to tell who Blackstone and Chitty
were and what Kent and Stevens wrote.
The Baltimore Society for the Pre-.
vention of Cruelty to Animals has de-
cided to make vigorous fight against
the drivers of coal carts who make Q
practice of riding on their carts while
the carts are loaded.
Princeton has been always looked
upon as one of the most conservative
OF colleges, and yet the instructor in
gymnastics has offered prize of IS to
be awarded to the man who shows the
greatest proficiency in football
The farmers in Suffolk county, New
York, are so annoyed by pot-hunter:
from New York city and Brooklyn thai
they have forbidden shooting on their
farms. From reckless shooting one
farmer lost $3.50 worth of sheep one
day recently.
Assistant Secretary Fairchild has in.
structed the collector of customs al
Boston Mass, to discontinue the prac.
tice of RENTING the dues on books i'm.
ported through the mails where the
value thereof does not exceed 81, as
detrimental to public interests.
The story is told of pet dog belong.
ing to a woman who died few days
ago at North Sidney, Nova Scotia, that
he was So attached to his mistress that
after her death he refused every kind
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