The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-26
HERE AND THERE.


The butternut crop along the Hudson
river is very large this year.
About forty thousand barrels Of coh
oil are consumed daily on the earth.
An English firm are filling large
order for shoes made of papier-mache.
Starch factories have been declared
free from taxation in Hidalgo, Mexico.
Bar Harbor manners and customs
&c giving variety to life in New York.
Anumber of Norfolk, Va, merchants
have established ~ peanut combina
ton
A pinch of nulflarge enough TO pro-
duce q good sneeze will cure hiccough.
it is said.
At Genesee, N. Y, one day last week,
n mare gave birth to twin colts-a horse
and mule.
The city of Vienna, Austria, with
population of 100000, has not single
free library.
A hunter near Bucna Vista, Ga, the
other day, shot ut one partridge and
killed eight.
An onion which weighed nearly three
pounds was exhibited in Highland, N,
T., last week.
A Santa Rosa hunter is credited with
having killed twenty-six birds at. one
sho! recently
During the past eight months 1856
800 eggs were shipped from st. Adams.
VT, to Canadian ports.
III III ,.tu
Ga, few days ago. that measured five
feet from tip TO tip OF wings.
The leading bank in Birmingham,
Ala. has recently increased its capital
from 5000, 600 TO 100000.
An Arkansas man whitfield = bullet
QUO OF II plug of tobacco and shot il
through the body of n wildcat.
Ireland" means the westland. 1t
comes from the Celtic word lar and our
word land" iar meaning the west
During the past three years eighteen
switch girls in telephone Office in n
Connecticut town have been married to
subscribers on the line.
A cotton-gin saw and grist mill, val
ned at $1,000 and belonging 10 W. ).
Cooley, of Snder's Gross, n. c., was
destroyed by fire Thursday.
From Oct. l. 1885, to Sept. 80. this
gear sos, I25 70 worth OF stamps were
sold by the postoilice ut Atlanta, Ga,
and the net profit was &Sl 900.
An oyster. weighing three pounds
four ounces and measuring ten inches
in length was found in the harbor at
Huntington, l.. J., one day last week.
Near Eufaula, Ala, recently, was
taken from river bank b. workmen a
large white oak tree that was in an
almost perfect state of petrilication.
A new expression has become popu-
lar in the south. When charges for
labor or merchandise seem eXtravagant
people say they are earthquake
prices.
Three million feet of the finest
grades of lumber were sold by an Al
banv, N. Y, firm Thursday to New
York parties. II was the largest sale
of the season.
A tattooing studio is New York at
traction. Sailors are the best patrons
One of the visitors recently had the
epitaph from his wife tombstone re-
produced on his chest.
A large band of Arabs have taken
up their winter quarters near Pitts
burgh. Pa, and the citizens are seeking
to have them move on" because OF
their thieving propensties.
G. b. Thayer, son of ex-senator
Thayer, of Connecticut travled 1924
miles this year on bicycle. He left
his home in Vernon, Conn, last April,
and has been on the road ever since.
The gislature OF the state of Vera
Cruz, Mexico. has authorized the COM
mon council of the city OF the same
name to erect jail for women, and to
sell land sufficient for that purpose.
Considerable trouble is experienced
by the authorities of New York in keep
ing trespassers off the one million acres
of timber land owned by the state. Last
year thieves stole nearly $50, 600 worth
of timber from the lands.
A most strange disease is affecting
the horses in the vicinity Albany, Or
egon. They are taken tn stagger-
ing, and then seem to NOPE and fall in
strength and finally becoming blind
and seized with trembling and fits