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

There are probably fifty ccntcnarians
in the United States.
An anti-Chincsc labor party at Boise
City, Nov, has nominated a county
and city ticket.
'Tcaison' is the name of n class of
Diseases arising, it is said, from the
wrong use of tea,
The mountains On the upper San
Joaquin river, California, are covered
with deer, bears, and lions.
1t cost the government $1,000 to
bury the body of Senator Miller, of
California, who died last spring.
A farmer near Yorth Yakima, Ari-
IONA, has five acres of peanut vines,
which are loaded with fine large nuts.
The h~op-growers of Mendocino
county, California, are making pre-
parations to gather their crops next
year without the aid of Cinnamon.
T%wenty-four hours after a recent
wedding in Walla, Wyoming terri
tory, the bride brought suit for n
divorce on the ground of drunkenness.
The annual revenue from the sale of
ice harvested on Il iifty-four acre pond
near Truckce, New. is S75, 600. A sin
Gle crop of ice averages fifty thousand
tons.
The Comte de Paris and his family
regularly attend early mass on Sundays
at Turnbridge Wells. England, whore
he is now living after his expulsion
from French territory.
A bridge across n small river in Mid
dlesex county, Ontario, has stood for
seventy-three years, and Is strong
enough TO stand for fifty more. 1t is
constructed of a black walnut tree.
1.-The numerous marriages in Oil
City and vicinity remind me of my
summer at the s%ea-shore," remarked
old batchelore Bilkins. ''How's that?"
''Methinks / a still hear the moaning
of the tied"
Only seven of the presidentiar' post
Offices in Tennessee now remain to be
filled by democrats. OF the two thou
sand fourth-class Offices in the state
about thirteen hundred are now filled
by democrats.
The United States and Canada sent
forty-two representatives to the recent
congress of naturalists in Berlin, out of
a total of 429 foreign delegates. Eng
land sent seventeen, Japan sixteen,
Italy fifteen, and South America twelve.
a small boy who was struggling with
a large umbrella came to his mother in
grief. Mamma" he said, cmphati-
cally, you must take me downtown
at once and get mt measured for m
umbrella. This one is entirely TOO
large Tor me-"
AT Wcllsville, w. Va, one day last
week, T. b. Evans, u saloon-kceS:r
forcibly elected the mayor Of the city
from his saloon, he having srefused to
go when ordered out. The next day
Evans was fined So for the onlcnse.
The saloon-keeper will appeal.
Spindler (quoting)-With half my
appetite, good dame, my leather doub-
let would be a feast indeed! Servant
I'm glad you feel that way, sir, for
wanted me to tell you that she's
lost the mallet and the steak ant been
pounded quite so much as common.
A Shanghai rooster on the farm o.
William ii. Arnold, near Woodstock,
has adopted tour Maltese kit
tens, whose mother was mangled in a
trap and had to be killed. The roost-
err gathers the orphans under his shell.
wings every night, and the kit
tens appear well satisfied with their
new home.
French wits are never tired of throw
wing hot shot at their neighbors across
The channel. An Englishman thug
to a French friend: II am de.
ighred at the recollection Of the pleas.
mt hours / have passed with you in
France. If you visit England come
1t once TO my house-and | will direct
to a very good hotel"