The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-12-13
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A Philadelphia sign reads: Teeth
Quilted while YOU wait.
New York is said to DO the third
German city in the world.
Watermtlons are still being sold on
the streets ut Alturas, Cal
The fashionable ladies of Cleveland.
o., have taken to horseback riding.
Near Winterset, Canada, one day re
Gently, was capturcda 81 pound trout,
The authorities at Tehama, Cal. Of
fer 10 cents bounty for Il jack-rabbit
scalp.
A squad of soldiers now guard the
statue OF Liberty on Bcdloe's Island,
New York.
One of the Florida hotels has adver-
tised pine cone pillows for invalids as n
specially"
1t is alleged that the favor,te pastimc
of Philadelphia society maidens is
poker-playing.
The average cost per scholar of the
textbooks in the South Carolina schools
is S9.46 II year.
Saratoga, n Y, has woman bill
poster who handles the brush with the
skill OF au expert
A sailors chapel is TO be built in New
York by money left by w. Ii. Wander
bilt for that purpose.
1t Is said by competent authority that
men spend more money for hats than
women do for bonnets.
Nathan Hobbs, of Peenlield, Ga, who
is SO years old, works every day and
reads without Spectacles.
There are two counties in Speaker
Carlislc's district that never had rail.
road or II telegraph station
In New York city half dozen young
men have resolved to not wear overcoats
during the coming winter
The cost of the gas used during n the
atrcal performance in New York city,
one night last week, was $50
A cit zen of HOLSTER, Ia, is said TO
have delayed his suicide until after cleo
ton 50 rs not to lose his vote.
A movement is on foot to organize II
company of territor al militia at Spo
kane Falls, Washington territory.
Southern California will show wine
crop of 100000 gallons this year,
and a IA sin crop of 1000, 600 boxes.
A large deposit of red marble Is said
TO have been discovered one day last
week in Lauderdale county, Alabama.
Thirty tons of coal are required to
heat the greenhouses OF one OF the
best florists in Boston dur nc the WIN
ter.
Door knocks of the old-fashioncd
kind are once more appearing on the
doors of fashionable New York resi-
dences.
Iroquos, the only American horse
that ever won the English Derby, is be-
ing wintered on Il farm near Nashville,
Tenn.
At Memphis. Tenn. Tuesday, Is, 752
bales of cotton were handled, the
largest one days receipts in the history
of the city.
Several Alabama papers want the
state Legislature to pass II law requiring
every man to produce tax receipt be-
fore voting.
According to actual count more than
5000 persons paid Their respects to the
president and his wife at Hotel Ven
dome in Boston.
An increase of $5,6l7 in the average |
daily receipts is noticed since the recent |
reduction of fares on the New York |
Elevated railroad.
A sea spider measuring twenty-five
inches from tip-to-tip of It's claws was
dredged from Oyster bay harbor, Long
island the other day.
The greatest strawberry shipping
place Oh this continent is Norfolk, Va. |
A farm OF 440 acres near that city is
the largest one in the world.
At Atlanta, Ca. has been formed an
association OF young ladies who are
sworn to do everything in their power
TO abolish the ''parlor-beau fashion.
The editor OF Georgia paper says
liberty is always pictured as woman
because Liberty to survive must be Wig
liant, and there is no blind side to u
woman.
Parties will shortly engage in exca
waiting lands about White Pla ms, N.
T.. in search of treasures that are sup
posed to have been buried there years
and years ago.
Recitation hours at Yale have been
changed to favor the football players.
This, says The Norioich Bulletin, is the
first indication of the change of the
college into university.
Drinking from faucets is dangerous
thing, in Hartford, Conn, judging from
a recent item i'm The Courant, which