The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-16
FACT AND FANCY.

Beef brings and 8 cents pound In
several Georgia towns
In Somerville, Ala, live eight per-
sons whose ages aggregate 66S years.
One nail factory at Briefield, Ala. is
shipping five hundred kegs Of nails
daily.
Thick ice was reported in many
places in Alabama Saturday, owing to
a heavy frost.
Gin saws have deprived one hundred
persons of their hands and arms in Al
ALBANIA this year.
A number of discoveries of coal veins
have been made recently in various
parts of Oregon.
Extensive improvements are being
made on the Penobscot river, from
Greenleaf to Midway, Me.
The latest proposition is that Irish
men should erect monument to Col
umbus for discovering America.
The police of Petersburg, Va, have
arrested several prominent persons of
that city on charge of poker-playing
A philanthropc hotel-keeper M Pas
adena, CAL. has purchased forty bur-
ros for the amusement of his younger
guests.
There is only one thing that is more
treacherous at times than woman,
and that is a sprinkling cart going
over a crossing.
A citizen of Key West, Fla, has feet
which measure sixteen inches long and
six and half inches wide. His name
is Tom Acrcfoot.
A Mexican lion killed near Meridian,
Miss, last week, measured nine and
half feet in length and nine inches be-
tween the eyes.
A ilfteen-year- lad in Fayette
county, Alabama, is said to have picked
an average of 225 pounds of cotton for
six consecutive days.
An Irish paper at Boston gives sta
tistics to show that in the course of one
generation that city will be the most
distinctively Celtic city in the world.
The New York people are trying to
estimate the number Of times that the
"Marseilalse" was played during the
parade at the Goddess of Liberty cele-
bration.
A witness in the Car mul der case at
Brockville, Canada, said that the wife
of the murdered man twas as good as
any two men in fighting If you gave
her fair show"
The text book on hygiene authorized
by the Connecticut legislature last win
ter is to be prepared by the state board
of education and will be ready for the
public schools about Jan. I.
The Dominion government expedi-
ton sent to the west coast of Vancouver
island to investigate the fishing banks
has returned to Victoria. They report
the existence of large banks
of black cod, herring and other fish.
Black cod is found in deep water five
and six miles from shore.
An Alabama moonshiner arraigncd on
a charge of illicit distilling said: well,
it is mighty quare, yer can make
peaches in pie. stew 'em or pickle 'em,
but just let a man bile 'em, and he is
clapped in Jail or made to pay the gov
eminent more'n his years wages. And
il does seem unreasonable.
YES" said Mr.. Hendricks to the
II am proud Of that dog.
Why he knows the different days of the
week. Just then the dog began to run
to gun in the corner, then back to
his master, and wag his tail. Hes
made mistake this time. pa" said
Bobby; The thinks it's Sunday"
One day last week near Hawkins
Vile. Ga, COW with dumped horns
was licking her calf when by some
means the calf got its head in the circle
If the horns and could not extricate it.
The COW became excited, and in her eff
orts to get rid of the calf strangled it
md broke her own neck, and both
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