The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-10-09

The water in Lake Huron has risen
eighteen inches during the past year.
The highest mountain peaks in the
United States are situated in Alaska.
A large number of Americans are
making pilgrimage TO Egypt this
year.
Forest fires are causing n great deal
of damage in the vicinity of Sandwich,
Mass.
The Chinese of Portland, Oregon,
have organized a committee of hum
lrcds.
The divers obtain about fifty pack
ages n day from the sunken steamer
Oregon.
There are over eight hundred regis
tered cattle brands in the territory OF
Montana.
Nine of the ten congressman who will
not be candidates for reelection are
democrats.
Catamounts are ranging over Waldo
county, Maine, and terrifying the in
habitants.
A 5l-pound sunlower, measuring
thirteen inches in diameter, is Florida
production.
Near Cannelton, Pa, the ground
heavcs and pulsates just like the
human breast.
A couple of Philadelphia boys are
serving out two-years' sentence for
stealing 80 cents.
An International congress of short
hand writers will probably be held in
the autumn of 1887.
The Scientific american suggests the
juice of the hulls of green walduts as
good dye for the hair.
In the state library at Boston, which
contains sixty thousand volumes, there
is not single novel.
A Boston gentleman has become in
sane from the effects of studying Edwin
Arnolds Light OF Asia"
Evening high schools are now pro-
vided for cities of so. 600 or more inhab-
itants in Massachusetts.
Capt. S. Dennis. aged 1903 years, a
quite noted character of the south, died
recently at Dadevllle, Ala.
Nearly 100000 ducks are annually
killed in southern Louisiana and sent
to the New Orleans market.
The Massachusetts legislature passed
law forbding the sale of tobacco to
persons under l6 years of age.
1t is now proposed to fund all the
obligations of Louisiana and make the
debt of the commonwealth about $751;
900, 000.
A Brooklyn street-car conductor won
the 800 prize offered by New York
illustrated paper for the best idea for a
cartoon.
Australia has had its first base
ball game. 1t was played at sgd
ney, and worked up the natives con.
siderably.
A Mexican died the other day who
was followed to the grave by eighty
seven sons and daughters, and who had
buried thirteen.
1t is proposed to build wire suspen-
sion bridge, four hundred feet long, over
Lake Quinsigamond at Worcester, Mass
The expense will be $50, 900 to $50, 0O0
1t is said Georgia congressman
will be left at home at the next election
for the reason that the garden seeds he
sent to his constituents proved to be
worthless.
Mrs. Grundy says that it is a new
fashion for people who are bound for
Europe to send out cards for their
friends to meet them on the dock Of
the ocean steamer.
A Nova Scotian has cut the branches
from the tallest spruce tree on his place
and nailed the American flag to the top
He tells his neighbors that it is the
next question in politics.
A resident of Campbell county. Geor-
gia, is said to have had thirty.six boys
old enough to fight in the late rebellion,
and twenty-three of them were killed
He has been married nine times.
Sparrows have taken possession Of
the tail pillars that support the elevated
railways in New York, and there,
amidst the din of travel, thousands Of
little sparrows are yearly Matched out.
Very little Of the New Orleans mo-
lasses finds its way into Utah, and for
that matter into any part Of the great
west and northwest. The syrups mostly
consumed in that locality are made in
San Francisco.
Louisville is tickled half to death be-
cause Manager LOCKE, of the American