The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-24
HIRE AND THERE


Ballinger, Tex. is but month old,
yet it has n population Of 1000.
Cake after the soup is new and
queer feature of some Newport dinners.
The farming out of paupers will be
Illegal in Connecticut after Jan. /,
1887.
An electric eel three feet in length is
on exhibition in Fulton market New
York.
Sixty thousand cards are used in the
new card catalogue OF the Brooklyn
library.
A Fort Worth. Tex, concern has
begun Shipping two hundred frozen
Leel carcasscs day to England
a Chinaman accused Of murder AT
San Frisco had on coat OF mail ut the
time of his arrest that cost $500.
A young snob Mt Meridcn, Conn.
sends TO Che laundry each week twenty
faur pairs Of cuffs ana twenty-five co.,
lars.
The Gypsy colony near Dayton, g.,
will he considerably increased IN u few
days by "a largo party oi gypsies that
arr we'd 1T New Torkrecanuy.
There ARE twenty-five hundrod chil
drcn unddr ID years %. age at work in
iho mc.ories in Nrudhnm and New
london counties Connecticut.
Paslmas.cr Hopkins Of $50 Adams,
w., recently receive. the following Or
darIom o b0Niol}.r "lcsmaster
please rive my male 60 tho bear.
ANew England young lady has ac
qu'rad the habit of chewing coffee.
There is, however no rumor that sho
ever goes ont "jus, 60 see "a man.
Al Nodoc. Cal, parties have been
orEanz.d 10 hunt rabbits on one day
In each week. The rabbits IRE very
numerous. and causa much annoyance
to the farmers
The Peanut club is large social or.
ganization in New York. The badge
Of membership IS peanut, and il
must be worn on every occasion in
metal, jewelry, or carved wood.
A bill!ard~player is said TO have run
over two thousand points at IL thrce-ball
game in New York on Friday last, IN
achievement which exceeds the highest
run ever made in public game.
Harry Durant, of Atlanta. Ga, III
such bicycle enthusiast that he arose
in his sleep one night recently, and
rode his machine five miles into tho
country and back before sunrise.
The fatal epidemic among employees
81 at tcIo Do nottsn1 Inv n
putrid copperhead snake which has
been fished up from the bottom of the
well from which the people drank.
Something new in feminine locomo
ton is called the "tennis strut" 1t 10
quite generally adopted by the girls OF
the period, and it does not matter tina!
it is undignified so long as IL is fash.
ionable.
Edward Spaulding, Of North Adams,
Mass, threatens to expose the secrets
of the Masonic fraternity, and also to
confer the degrees in his own house for
S2. unless his appeals for help are
needed
One day last week a Bridgeport,
Conn, newsboy was carried out Of the
station by a train. He jumped when
it was going at q good rate of speed
and lighted on the other track. where
he rolled over and over. A train was
approaching on that track, and was
stopped just in time to save bis life.
The boy was very little the worse for
his double peril, and was selling papers
as usual half an hour later.
Canada shows her enterprise by
lighting the Lachine canal, around the
rapids OF that name in the st. Law
renee, with the electric light The
current for the cable is carried under
the canal at five different points, and ii
is claimed that the light "defines the
banks as plainly as in the day timo."
The pint is owned by the railway and
canal department.
One of the oldest characters in Bos-
ton, Isaac b. Swatellee, better known
as Yankee Doodle" q nickname that
he acquired by invariably whistling
that tune while marching along the
streets delivering to his customers the
boots and shoes he had repaired. died
recently in that city. He advertised
himself in this way, and made it pay
well. for he accumulated quite for
tune by his industry and dabbling
shrewdfy in real estate. The last years
Of his life were spent in house he had
built at a cost of $50, 200.
Some two weeks ago young man Of
Moransburg. Pa, was bitten on the
ankle by copperhead snake. Whisky
was applied, externally and internally,
but in an hour OF two the limb had
swollen TO such an extent that serious
were feared. The lads
father then placed his sons foot in