The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-20

OF MIN, says INC LhcTcHuW If"tcto'' ~
over in Canada.
A pair of quails flew into Norwich
Conn. residence Of recent evening
and took up quarters in the parlor.
They were captured, and an attempt
will be made 10 domesticate them.
There are hundreds of idle sailors in
San Francisco unable to obtain employ
mcnt, and the return of the whaltrs
from the north in \ few weeks VIII
throw 1,600 more men on the market.
A peculiar custum of the California
Indians is the annual burning" The
Indians surround the graves of the dead
with clothing and then set fire to it.
thinking that in this way it goes to the
departed spirits.
Coons are plenty this season in Con-
nocticut. Sunday night a youth near
Bashan He'd three coons in one tree.
Monday night G.. w. Lester, of Bashan.
killed large coon, and Tuesday night
Mr.. John Rogers killed coon weigh
ing nineteen pounds.
"Incontainnantis fulget honoribus"
(Which being interpreted means he
shines with untarnishcd honors) is the
sign of bootblack boys stand in an
alley of Pcmberton square in Boston.
The lad does a good business with law
ycrs who pass his place.
The friend of q miner who died one
day last week ., c"r Il Alene placed
revolver in the folded hands of the dead
man when the funeral procession ar
rived at the cemetery, with the remark:
at was his best friend in life and
should be with him in death"
The geological survey proves that
the Hoosac mountain, Massachusetts,
is MS little understood by scientific men
as any other range in the country.
Five different specimens of rock are
found there, and their formation is
complex and intricate. so the survey
ors say.
An awning on the first building
south of the Delaware and Hudson cut
on Broadway, Albany, N. Y, projects
across the track of the company, so
that trains cannot pass without wreck
ing it, The agent of the property re-
fuses to remove it, and the cut must re-
main useless until the matter is settled.
A mound containing many curious
Indian relics was recently opened near
Mayoma, New Mexico. Among the
articles taken out were spear-hcads,
hatchcts, skeletons, beads, earrings
made of stone, and n piece of wood
which bore the following curious in
scription "Srepapswen diuohs tiderc
tahw yeht laets mort EHT sEMIT."
An Italian youth, aged IA years, was
driving yoke of oxen near Hartford,
Conn, n few days SGD, when one of the
animals turned his head suddenly and
a horn entered the lads cheek, cut up
ward, and tore out an eye. The boy
fell and the cart passed over him and
broke one leg above the knee. The
boy is still living though suffering ter
ribly
A tramp was seen in Benton Park,
Springfield, Mass, Sunday morning
deliberately changing his stockings, or
TO be more precise, his stocking, for he
had but one. He slowly removed both
shoes, and then very carefully took of
his single sock and tcnderly slipped it
upon the other foot, thrust his feet into
his diapidated shoes, and his toilet for
the week was ended.
Currants were 50 plentiful in Eng
land during the past season that they
did not pay for picking and sending 10
market. Some lots sent to London
were sold TO feed to pigs and others
were used for manure. Plums were
cheaper than they ever were before in
the history of the county. Apparently
too many followed Mr. Gladstone S
advice about raising small fruits to
make into jam.
A report has been submitted to the
French Academy of Science by Col.
Landas, who believes that the deserts
of Africa can be made productive by
irrigation, stating that he has put
down an artcsian well three hundred
feet that now discharges fresh water at
the rate of two thousand gallons n
minute. There is now n fertile and
well stocked district about this well,
and another is being put down.
A California paper says the great
plateau between the Rocky mountains
and the Sierras, comprising the terri
tory of Utah and the state of Nevada,
is apparently destined to become the
greatest cattle range of the country.
Immense tracts of land, some embrace
ing $50, 900 acres. have been purchased.
and owners of large herds in Texas
and other southwestern states are look.
ing for ranges in this wide section OF
natural pastureland.
Col. Gascoigne, of Darlington hall,
near Leeds, England, has just made an