The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-12-03
HERE AND THERE.


oil arc consumed daily on the earth.
An English firm are filling large
order for shoes made of papiermache.
Starch factories have been declared
free from taxation in ii dalgo, Mexico.
Bar Harbor manners and customs
are giving variety to life in New York.
Anumber of Norfolk. Va. merchants
have established "a peanut combina.
ton"
A pinch of snuff large enough TO pro-
tiuce good snecze 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 $50, 900, has not single
free library.
A hunter near Bucna Vista. Ga, the
other day. shot at one partridge and
killed eight.
An onion which weighed nearly three
pounds was exhibited in Highland. N.
Y, last week.
A Santa Rosa hunter is credited with
hcfiHr, hIilcu 'Nchty oiluo ub ohV
shot recently.
During the past eight months 1876
800 eggs were shipped from St Adams,
VT, to Canadian ports.
A hawk was killed near Hartwell,
Ga, q few days ago. that measured five
feet from tip to tip OF wings.
The leading bank in Birmingham,
Ala hoo ranapfly ipcraacnl ito Cpn,tal
from 5000, 600 to $500, 600.
An Arkansas man whitfield bullet
out of plug Of tobacco and shot il
through the body Of wildcat.
ireland means the westland. l.
comes from the Celtic word lar and oui
word land" lar meaning the west.
The streets and squares of Berlin
contain upward of forty-iive thousand
trees, and the number is constantly in
creasng.
Wild game ia fast disappearing in
the timber lands of York state. owing
to the wholesale butchery Of the hide.
hunters.
Among 10, Of coal recently mined
near Pottsvillc, Pa, was found u piece
of crystal rock in the shape OF per.
fectly formed owl.
During the past three years eighteen
switch girls in a telephone office in q
Connecticut town have been married to
subscribers on the line.
A cotton-gin saw and grist mill. val.
ued at $40. 900 and belonging to w. S.
Cooley. of Snder's Cross, n. c., was
destroyed by fire Thursday.
From Oct. ], 1885, to Sept. 80. his
year, sos. 425 79 worth of stamps were
sold by the posioflice at Atlanta, Ga, |
and the net profit was SSl 900.
An oyster weighing three pounds
four ounces and measuring ten inches
in length was found in the harbor at
Huntington, L. l., one day last week.
Near Eufaula, Ala, recently, was
taken from n river bank by workmen a
large white oak tree that was in an
almost perfect state of petrification.
A new express on 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.
6any, 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's tombstone re
produced on his chest.
largo hand of Arabs have taken
up their winter quarters near Pitts.
burgh, Pa. and the citizens are seeking
to have them move on" because oil
their thicving propenstics.
G. b. Thayer, son of ex-senator
Thaycr, of Connecticut travled 4,224
miles this year on bicycle. He left
his home in Vernon. Conn, last April.
and has been on the road ever since.
The legislature 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 tc
sell land sufficient for that purpose.
A most strange disease is affecting
the horses in the vicinity of Albany, Or
cgon. They are taken with stagger.
ing. and then seem to NOPE and fall in
strength and finally becoming blind
and seized with trembling and fits.
An evangelist in Clarion county, New
York, has hit upon an Ingenious scheme
of securing converts. He offers cheap
watch to anyone who will step forward
and Join his church. The rush of new
recruits will last until the supply Of
watches gives out