The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-12-16
HERE AND THERE.

At COSTA Rica candles made of castor.
beans are used.
A railroad to Mammoth cave has
been completed.
Nevada's state capitol is being thor
oughly repaired.
1t will cost someone $50 day to light
Libertys torch.
Professional lamp-trimmers are New
York development.
In Bernardino, Cal, new wine is sell
ing mt l2l cents gallon.
Epizootic is killing large number of
horses in western Maine.
One of the popular dishes in south
ern cities is red snappers.
Saloons in TAYLOR, New, charge 20
cents for drink of whisky
Missouri apples are on sale in the
markets of Los Angeles. Cal.
Four steamers brought 1916 immi-
grants to New York Sunday.
Honey-raisng is gradually becoming
The chief industry in Nevada
Turkish bath parties are now the
fashionable thing in New York.
The Carson (Nevada) mint will be-
gin coming within Il few weeks.
The oyster trade along the Maryland
coast is remarkably dull this season.
A band of seventy-cight tramps was
seen near San Bcrnarlno, Cal, re-
gently.
Nearly @25, 900. 600 worth of candy
was made in California during the past
week.
Brick is being imported from Chicago
90 be used in IL new city building in San
Diego, Cal.
Little Rock. Ark, is being improved
By the erection OF II new court house,
costing 100000.
"Birdicdes' is the name given to
Boston women who decorate their hats
with stuffed birds.
One of the patients in hospital at
Aguascalicntcs. Mexico, is said to be
exactly 1l5 years old
Every voter in Dayton, New. II town
of three thousand inhabitants. belongs
to some secret society
A farmer near Manchester, Tenn,
has an S.months-old calf which gives
one-half gallon of milk per day.
The Philadelphia BRIDE who was mar
ried On the day she was Sc zed with
scarlet fever is rapidly recovering
In Hawthorne, Neb., sand is often
used to extingush fires in the absence
of water, and it is said to be quite ef-
fectual.
A petrilicd human being is said to
have been discovered in II caye on
Sand mountain, near Valley, 1enh., q
few days ago.
A Trenton. N. j., firm has used more
than one thousand tons OF copper dur
inc The past season in the making of
telegraph wire.
Piedmont. Ga, comes forward with
the claim of having within its limits u
tree that drops snow from its branches
ut regular intervals.
An eight-yem-old lad ut Upshur, Va.
drank so much brandy during the
absence of his parents that he died
within two hours after.
In Decatur Ala. recently man
was arrested who put Il counterfeit
dollar in the contribution box and took
out genu ne coins in change.
A check for | cent was recently
drawn in New York by the government
in favor of an importer who had pad
excess of duty to that extent.
Carson, New, Nimrods are talking
of sowing wild rice on the shores OF
Washoe lake to lure wild ducks and
other water fowl to that vicinity.
The oldest bank building in this
country is situated in Albany. N. Y.
II was erected in 1903. and has been
occupied by one concern ever since.
In England, recently, clergyman
sensibly refused to christcn ch ld which
the father wanted to give twcnty-siS
names. one for each letter in the ~
phabet.
A l0-year-od maiden ut Rose BanA
Md, carried off n prize one day recent
" by repeating eight hundred verses
from the bible which she had committed
to memory.
A company with a capital stock o,
$4,000. 600 has been organized at Los
Angels. Cal, for the purpose of con.
a. xvhorf aud chin canal 4,