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


Lehigh university has a Mustard
and Cheese Dramatic Club"
A hotel exclusively for colored peo-
pie has been opened up in New Or
leans. La
Washington policemen are required
to wear white gloves and carry canes
while on duty.
The convicts at Sing Sing made
$4,000 clear profit for the state OF New
York last Month.
An English firm has just received
verdict OF $4,000 in a libel suit against
a New York lawyer.
About one hundred squalling babies
have been named after the present pres
ident of the United States.
Lead pipes are said not be affected
by water if kept constantly filled. II
alternately filled and cmptied the pipes
are readily affected.
A rasin-direr of 100 tons capacity
mas just been completed on a large
grape farm near Woodland, Cal 1t is
the largest in the west.
Every ,av 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 whiskcrs.
A Rondout (N. Y..) landlord, who is
the owner of a 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
,ne in Now England celebrated It's
ieventic,h university last Sunday
David Wait, better known as "Lum-
Der" Wait who died recently at Green
6eld. n. Y, was considered the best
Judge of woodland and lumber in the
east
The beauties of protection are illus
rated by New York steamship that
recently sailed for Liverpool to be re-
barred, because she can save $4,000 in
The cost of the work.
In Clarified 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.
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 a ton,
while linen rags bring as high as $50.
George Kcrsey. of Lancaster county.
PENNSYLVANIA is 13 years old and seven
teet 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
" left property, but there is no law
under which the town or county can be
reimbursed.
One of the curiosties of the Maine
election was q return from the northern
mart OF the state on which the only
signature was that of witness, the
three assessors and the township clerk
making their marks.
Cornell university will confer no HON
orary degrees hereafter, and to become
doctor of laws under the new rules OF
that institution it will be necessary for
q man to tell who Blackstone and Chitty
were and what Kent and Stevens wrote
The Baltimore Society for the Pre-
Nention of Cruelty to Animals has de-
tided TO make a vigorous fight against
the drivers of coal carts who make a
Dractice of riding on their carts whilo
the carts are loaded.
Princeton has been always looked
upon as one of the most conservative
81 colleges, and vet the instructor in
gymnastics has offered prize of S5 to
be awarded to the man who shows tho
greatest proficiency in football.
The farmers in Suffolk county, New
York, are so annoyed by pot-hunters
from New York city and Brooklyn that
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. thai
he was so attached to his mistress that
after her death he refused every kind
of food, and, following her body to the
grave, staid there and starved to death
Witty men sometimes 90 into ba6
clocae Jud0e Gould of the Portland