The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Cambridge England University has the
largest freshman class it has ever known.
1t numbers S35.
French capital to the amount of $5e,OOO,-
600 has been invested in Canada during the
last eighteen months.
There are said to be 100000 acres of
land in California that are admirably
adapted to grape growing.
THE Thane of Petersburg has it all ~ is
the way the Richmond States puts it "and
is Governor of Virginia as well as Senator
of the United States"
The New York World calculates the
status of the new Legislature as follows:
Senate-Democrats II, Republicans IS; AS
embellishments 81, Republicans 6l
DR.. Cory, who is mentioned as Wander
bits imam ofsuggestions," wants Gilmores
Garden, in New York, to be converted into
great safe for the storage of valuables.
In 1850 California produced from her
vineyards 100000 gallons of wine, 100000
gallons of brandy, 100000 worth of raisins
and $l5OOOO worth of grapes for table use.
Prof. X. A. Willard, an authority on
dairy matters, estimates the number of
creameries and cooperative factories in the
United States at 5000. And they are only
just beginning
1t is stated that $50 butter and cheese fac
tories have been built in Iowa during 1881,
making a total of $50 now in that State.
There will probably be large addition
made to this number next spring.
The channel tunnel between France and
England is no longer question of prelimi-
nary experiments. The boring has already
been effected to the extent of / so metres
from the English side. This makes alto
gether rather more than one-tenth of the
entire distance to be pierced.
The poison of a sting from a bee. wasp or
hornet may be almost instantly neutraiiztd
by the application of a little liquid amonia,
ana Is SAID that the poison and sting NAV
be forced out by pressing the barrel of a
small key firmly for minute over the
wound No pain or swelling will result.
An old and valiant French Legitimist
has just breathed his last in Paris at the
advanced age Of 62, General the Comte de
81. Priest, Commander of the Order of St.
Louis and of the Legion of Honor. He was
the son of one of Louis XVI's last Minis
tiers, and the godson of that monarch and
Marie Antoinette.
A Swiss Matchmaker, of Vouvry, in the
Nalais, is reported to have inven ted pro-
cess by which watches will run for years
without winding up. A sealed box, CON
tanning two watches intrustcd to the muni-
clpll authorities on January 10, 1879, has
been opened within the last few days, and
the watches ere found going.
Hans Makarts large picture. "The
Summer" has been sold to an English col
lector for $1,000 marks (f3 1901 and the same
gentleman has also purchased (direct from
the artist the important work, entitled
The Wise and Foolish Virgins which
Herr Il. Won Piloty, of Munich, has only
just completed. In this case the price given
was $1,000 marks (fs,0oO),
Six feet tall, broad shoulder, broad
straight back without the slightest inclina-
ton to stoOp and tapering towards the
waist, high forehead, blue eyes, prominent
brows and cheek bones, nose like an
eagles beak-such are the physical char
octeristlcs of Jesse James, the notorious
train robber, outlaw and general devil.
Gambetta's platform, or programme, is
said to be: A reduction of the military
service from five years to three years; the
abolition of the one-year volunteering
service; the fixing of the standing army at
$4,000 men; the formation of a separate
colonial army for service in Algeria to be
recruited by voluntary enlistment from
those who have served in the regular army.
John Tenniel, the cartoonist of Punch, is
bachelor, aud is beginning to look gray
and grizzly" In the season YOU NAV sec
him almost any day in his cab in HYDE
Park. 1t is not generally known that he
has one eye, and that Du Maurier is SINH
larry afflicted. A. b. Houghton, who years
ago did series of grotesque illustrations of
America in the Graphic, was also blind of
an eye.
King Ludwig Of Bavaria, took a fancy
the other day to see how his fairy palace on
the shore OF Chem See was growing, and
accordingly desired that the scaiioldngs
surrounding the still unfinished building
should all be removed He came, looked,
nodded approvingly and left in u quarter of
an hour, IL took week to replace the for
est oil poles, ETC., and the fairy Schloss is be-
ing rapidly completed,
The Chinese are an observing peonlc.
The lesson OF the little war ship Huascar
beatinS oItWo large English vessels by reas-
on Other greater speed aud activity was not
lost upon the Celestials. Recently they
had thirteen war ships built in England.
Instead of the pondcr0us slow-movng ships
like those in the English, French and
Italian navics, the Chinese boats are ofbut
l,SD tons each, but have speed ofsixtcon
Knots. A recent test made by the English
Admiralty has shown them 10 be only Sec
ond in efficiency to the largest English
Sims.
th'lN uiN hNl -'NNtH NElHhS VI WIlhkY TO
the gallon, at ten cents a drink, $50.
Whisky sold at ten cents never costs over
81 to $3.50 per gallon Often the
same article Is sold at fifteen cents per
drink, bringing 1856 per gallon. In the
majority of saloons the ten.cont whisky is
manufactured from French spirits or raw
alcohol, and costs, when Smooth and
ready for customers, 81, - to Sl75 per gal.
lon. Good honest whisky, costing, 50 TO
1913 per gallon by the barrel, is sold at ilf-
teen TO twenty cents per drink. or ss.55 to
Sll4O per gallon.
Peterborough Hall, the new home Of the
Empress .Eugenc stands In grounds of2Go
acres well timbcred, with splendid rar.
dcns, and amid charming, homc.like
country. The estate was bought for her
for 10000, although Il is said that the man.
sions alone could not have been built for
much less than 100000. Alterations are
being made which were originally estima.
ted TO cost $1,000, but Il Is probable that
nearly three times that sum will be ex-
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