The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-29
FACT AND FANCY.


shipping five hundred kegs OF nails
daily.
Thick ice was reported in many
places in Alabama Saturday, owing to
a heavy frost.
Gin saws have deprived one hundred
persons of their hands and arms in AL
ALBANIA this year.
A number of discoveries of coal veins
have been made recently in various
parts of Oregon.
Extensive improvements are being
made on the Pcnobscot river, from
Greenleaf to Midway, Me.
The latest proposition is that Irish
men should erect n monument to Col
umbus for discovering America
The police of Petersburg, Va, have
arrested several prominent persons OF
that city on charge of poker-playing.
A philanthropic hotel-keeper at Pas
adena. CAL. has purchased forty bur-
ros for the amusement of his younger
guests.
There is only one thing that is more
treacherous at times than woman,
and that j, a sprinkling cart going
over crossing.
A citizen of Key West, Fla, has feet
which measure sixteen inches long and
six and half inches wide. His namo
is Tom Acrefoot
A Mexican lion killed near Meridian,
Miss, last week. measured nine and q
half feet in length and nine inches be-
tween the eyes.
A tifteen-year-ol lad in Fayette
county, Alabama, is said to have picked
an average Of 225 pounds of cotton for
six consecutive days.
An Irish paper at Boston gives sta
tisiics to show that in the course of one
generation that city will be the most
distinctively Celtic city in the world.
The New York people are trying to
estimate the number of times that the
"Nlarseillaise was played during the
parade at che Goddess Of Liberty cele'
bration.
A witness in the Car mul der case at
Brockville, Canada, said that the wife
of the murdered man twas as good rs
any two men in fighting if you gave
her fair show"
The text book on hygiene authorized
by tie Connecticut legislature last win
ter is to be prepared by the state board
of education, and will be ready for the
public schools about Jan. /.
The discovery OF large deposit of
marble is reported from Victor station
Cal. The ledge is on government
land, one quarter of mile wide, show
ing outcroppings for nearly mile,
The Dominion government expedi-
ton sent to the west coast of Vancouver
island to investigate the fishing banks
has returned to Victoria. They report
the existence of large banks
of black cod, herring and other fish,
Black cod is found in deep water five
and six miles from shore.
An Alabama moonshiner arraigned on
a charge of illicit distilling said: well,
it is mighty quare, yer can make
peaches in a pie. stew EN- or pickle EN-,
but lust let man bile 'em, and he is
clapped in Jail or made to pay the gov
eminent more'n his years wages. And
it does seem unreasonable.
Yes" said Mr.. Hendricks to the
minister. II am proud of that dog.
Why he knows the different days of the
week. just then the dog began to run
to gun in the corner, then back t.
his master, and wag his tail. Hes
made mistake this time, pa" said
Bobby; ''he thinks it's Sunday"
One day last week near Hawkins
vile, Ga, a COW with dumped horns
was licking her calf when by some
means the calf got its head in the circle
of the horns and could not extricate 1t
The COW became excited, and in her eft
forts to get rid of the calf strangled ]
and broke her own neck, and boil
died almost instantly.
An Italian who was hanged last yeal
for murder in New York city had si'
boon companions who were hard drink
ers and fighters and terror TO thu
neighborhood in which they lived. Nov
thew are the soberest and hardest work
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