The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-10-07

to twelve or fifteen hundred year.
The Brooklyn insane asylum is over.
crowded. The number OF inmates
during the past year aggregated 4,2l5.
SLADE, the Maori pugilist. was re-
Gently "knockcd out" in fight with
George Mcdonald at Salt Lake City,
Utah.
AT A congress of the bicycle clubs OF
Germany, held in Berlin recently,
there was procession of six hundred
wheelmen.
The lumbermen at Fairfield, Me-,
expect to cut upward of twenty-five
million feet of lumber during tho com
ing winter.
ALL travellers to Mount Hood this
season say there never was so little
snow on the mountain; the we Gather has
been SO warm.
A PIGEON owned in Brooklyn, N. T.,
made the fight from Montgomery, Ala,
S75 miles, in ten days, beating all
previous records.
In the scent savings banks Of Charles
ton. S. c., the colorcd people have 1924
9S6 IS on deposit. The largest depos-
itor has SO, 900 to his credit.
THEY have a rug at Cottage City, N.
j.. made in the year SOL, or l, 1876 years
ago. 1t is pretty old relic, and was
obtained from the mosque Of Mecca.
The longest drought that ever oc,
cured in this country is said to have
taken place in 1862, when no rain fell
from the LIST of May to the LIST OF Sep
tember.
ApARrY Of explorers claim to have
discovered near Magdalena, Sonora,
Mexico. pyramid with base of 1850
square feet and height of $50 feet.
The celebrated Cheops is but half as
large.
The latest foreign mail brings infor.
nation of the death of another Of Pas
tours patients. He was boy aged 81.
named Bergeron Cladice. He was Bit
ten by a mad dog on the 14th of June
last, and was at once taken to Paris by
his parents to be treated by M. Pasteur.
He underwent the ten inoculations.
The first symptoms showed themselves
on the 18th. and he died on the 18th ult
NOTWITHSTANDING occasional asser-
tions OF the decrease of crime in Egypt.
statistics for the first six months OF
1886 give LOO crimes committed,
against l. 400 in the first six months OF
1885. The number of murders is 40,
against 100. but this is still enormous
compared with ten years ago. Thefts
with aggravated circumstances have in
creased 20 per cent.
The German emperor. after having
been dieted for years, is now permitted
to eat what he likes and when he likes.
What he likes is shell fish, and the in
tervals between the imperial meals dc
not exceed two hours. 1t is a signif.
cant commentary on the change o.
regime that his majesty declares that
he has not felt so we'll for years;
though his doctors are in terror when
ever he orders lobster.
A CURIOUS case of revenue collection
Is reported from Germany. On the
occasion of the recent music festival at
Kellinghusen, near Hamburg. an artist
had, besides the floral and other orna-
mentations of the locomotive drawing
the extra train from Altoona, placed on
it two boards, bearing in large letters
the words: ''Song Festival in KEELING.
husen." These boards the frontier
revenue officers seized upon, exactina
the payment of duty thereon as
.'painted wood"
PRINCE NAPOLEON (Plon-Plon) was
recently visiting the Vatican galleries
in Rome, and he used every effort to
induce one of the papal officers to al
low him to remain hidden in some
nook while the pope passed through
the galleries in going to his apartments.