The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-12-22
HERE ANO THERE.

Mexico, and much suffering among the
poorer classes has resulted in consc-
quence.
There are only thirty Cinnamon IL
Truckee, Arizona, owing TO the anti
Chinese agitators. One year ago there
were 1867.
London chimneys arc relieved OF the
presence of fifty thousand tons OF SCOT
every year, for which the sweepers re-
ceive about S2000,000.
A monster bear came down from the
mountains near Tullahoma, Teen, one
day last week and created great terror
amongst the colored people.
The Cascade mountains, near south
huge tunnel. Two thousand feet are
the result of the work up to date.
The Goldfish catch on the Pacific coast
amounted to 1928 600 during the past
season. Eleven vessels, employing 3l9
men, are engaged in the industry.
The striking craze has reached Frank
fort ION thc1Main where the fashionable
women have combined and refuse to
buy articles ofFrench manufacture.
The woman suffrage law recently
passed by the lower house Of the Yer
mont Legislature required that female
voters should own $3.50 worth of prop
erty.
A Woodland. Cal, paper gives the
pleasing information that the road to
Hell's Half Acre has been graded and
graveled and is now in Il passable con-
dition.
1.-THE father of the forest" in Tulare
county, California, is the largest tree In
the state. 1t is $50 feet high and
measures 1873 feet around the trunk.
1t is chestnut.
Mrs Cora Brown, of Shrub Oak, N.
Y, is IA years old, and has been mar
ried one year. She still wears short
clothes, although she is the mother of q
2-month's old baby.
Coyotes are causing much apprehen-
sion among the sheep owners near
Ukiah, Cal. They are as thick as
flies, and have already begun their at
tacks on the fccks of sheep in that vi.
entity.
A gentleman in Culpeper, Md, has
been regularly paying taxes on three
$1,000 bonds which he supposed he
owned, but which, It has been lately as
certained were stolen by his agent
several years ago.
The Mormon church has nearly eleven
hundred missionaries scattered in the
south, and a large number OF converts
are reported. At Spartansburg, S. c.,
there are number of elders, and large
meetings are held nightly.
young man in Lancaster. Pa, before
going to bed the other night, hung his
pantaloons upon the gas-jet. The
weight of the clothes opened the stop,
letting the gas out and the young man
was found dead the next morning
A number of prominent women of
New York have inaugurated crusade
against the slaughter-houses. bone
boiling, fat-rendering, kindred estab.
lishments. They want pure air around
their homes and intend to have it.
During the summer a swarm of bees
took possession of pumpkin growing
on farm near Santa Maria, Cal, and
when the owner went to chop 1t up for
cattle feed one day last week, he found
seven pounds of the purest honey.
Grapes are now recommended rs q
remedy for obesity. A pound of grapes
is given the patient to be eaten the first
day, and this amount is increased till
he can eat five or six pounds a day.
Other food is gradually lessened, and
the diet at last consists wholly of grapes
A bin of bituminous coal in New Ha-
ven, Conn, 200 feet long. 80 feet wide
and IA feet deep, and containing about
1000 tons, caught fire from spontaneous
combustion, and smoldered for week
in spite of all the water poured upon it.
Then workmen shoveled the coal out
10 cool it off.
A swarm Of bees, for some unac-
countable reason, have pitched their
headquarters in the Baptist church spire
in Gibson, Ga. The hive is in the small
part of the spire, about sixty feet from
The ground, and the bees can be seen
by any one of good cyesight coming
and going continually.
Richard Comstock, of Monroe coun
ty, Oregon, wore boots whose soles
were fastened on with brass wire
Last week the leather shrunk and ex-
posed a piece OF the wire A small
particle of the wire entered his foot
and made lis way up toward the knee
Blood poisoning set in, and Comstock
died.
In Virginia amateur sportsmen are
learning to shoot wild turkeys and
other large game with mediums zed
rifles. They find it less trouble to shoot
the game several hundred yards distant
with rifle than employing the old, elab-
crate plan of blinds, and of creeping