The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1r.;co Is soon to have electric light.
vorkmen are now erecting the poles
"Tbe first steamship ola new llne bearing
.ha Chinese fiag has reached the Thames
with 5000 tons OF tea.
PA. Collins, President Of thu, Natlona
"a Teague. was given q complimentary
5;nner in Boston on Tuesday evening.
Tho arrival at New York show, of man
III Mi. Who have attained height OF over
Seysnteen feet and weight oil over halt
ton isnoted. =, n,
memorial statue to Daniel O'Connels
costing El2, 500, has been completed III Lon
Son and will soon be erected III SackVllle
street, Dublin.
Judre Hilton has given an order TO
Boston sculptor for monument 10 the iate
A. T. Stewart, when Will oe cfeo'eo !"
Trinity church-yard.
Among the scholars of public school in
Woonsocket, Rhode Island is man iorty-
s;x years of age, who attends regularly.
But he will graduate next spring
In the past season Minneapolis has built
over mile of business blocks, ,5ol dwell
mos and mills and other buildings enough
r. hiring the total cost up to nearly 90
100000.
Miss Inlet Corson is engaged in writing
hook unon the subject OF suitable loou
for inyalids and sick persons. 1t Will bea
valuable addition to gastrohomlc hter-
ature - rurooo
in April next to look after the many 0ruers
ha has distributed in Paris and vienna
nu artists and decorative furniture
people.
EI-President and Mrs. Hayes sail for Eu-
-. IN a fortnight. and while in London
viii he the guests Of Hon. Mr.. Puleston, M:
p who has always been one OF Mr.. Hayes
admirers.
Secretary Blaine has cabled his thanks to
pornn Stenben for naming his son AFTER
him and has ordered the finest SILVER cup
ritTanv can make to send to young Blame
Won Steuben'
Mr. Ernest Longfellow, son of the poet,
has lust had the honor OF being elected
yice-president of the Boston Art Clup: he
heins the successor of the late Mr.. Stalgs,
the artist.
Plymouth Church held its annual meet
ing last night, and reported 2,4ol mem EN- eIS
will fine income from all sources of S5I 600
a pretty vigorous institution stlll, hotWlth-
standing its younger rivals.
The women of Mississippi are moving in
ba matter of higher education, and 1t is
Confidently expected the State Legislature
will do something for them in that dlrec-
ton when it meets in January
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague has made ar
ronrements to board in New York during
the winter. She has found pleasant place
On Thirtv-Sixth street, and send her
daughters who are all with her, to school,
Mr.. Oscar Wilde-"Mrs. Langtry's Oscar
Wilden-being present at the debut OF the
Jersey Lily on the amateur stage, wore a
kerchief OF sunfiower hue thrust with cum
ming carelessness" into his white waist
coat.
Professor Charles A. Young, Of Princeton
College, has been appointed by the Nahona'
lake observation of the transit of Venus, in
connection with the United States Commls-
sion for that purpose.
II was the late General Fitzpatrick who
immortaized himself by declaring that the
Greenbackers of Indiana were poor, needy
and in debt" and by prescribing, Ill 1914
that "a bloody shirt campaign with money
and Indiana is safe"
NJ. Meissonier is engaged on portrait OF
Mrs. Mackey, the wife OF the bonanza KING
| is about the same dimensions as that o
NJ, Alexandra Dumas, and VIII COST IL ];
sal |, S0OO0 francs. The lady is represented
wearing a black marveilleuN costume.
American exhibitors of paper, stationery
printing, DOCKS anu klnuLCu iii"u9'iS'i "
HE International Exhibition held II
Adelaide, South Australia, in October
bore off many gold medals and other evl
dences OF recognition of their superiority
There is a total of $40 miles Of new Iail
road. making 1853 miles this year, agains
1924 miles reported at the corresponding
time in 1850. 3,445 miles in ll79, 2,2Oi mlle
in 1879, / ST miles in 1877, Ply miles II
1876. !, 237 miles in 1875, l767 miles IN 1874
3,5O7 miles in 1873 and 6,SS5 miles IN 49,
Mr.. Whitney, the intended of Miss Clari
10 Use Kellogg, has returned to fhllaqei
phia. and is referred to in the Ihlladelpnil
Times as having made up with Tue prln'
donna end stating positively that the mar
rage would take place in the early spring
The Vienna horror exceeds exception
Over 400 bodies extracted from the ruins
and more remain to be found. a iearlu
price to pay for the permitted carelesshes
ard neglcci of managers ana the ettS vi
ficials, and a warning our managers ah'
officials ought to heed.
General Sickes has taken step tina
thousands of housekeepers have lonl
wanted to take He has brought an actor
against the Manhattan Gas Light Compan.
for charging him ut the rate OF ,oVo cuoi
feet per month while he was in Europe AM
the gas in his house was turned Oil.
EX-MlllStcT bNllCIOlb NOliblhiNo W NSNpe
several hours day to his history OF tn
United States. His health, despite his ad
vanced age, is excellent, and he takes hi
regular exercise every morning unattended
In his literary work he employs two aman
uenses.. and Secretary who has been 10
several years in his service.
Countess Ghersrdesca and Counties
dAramon, who are sisters, both of whom
are Americans, whose maiden was Fisher
are named as the leaders OF the America
colony in Florence. The former lives in tn
Gherardesca Palace, which for centurie
has been in her husbands family, sn
where she entertains in magnificent style
Since 1867 ne fewer then $500 houses i
Ednburg that were pronounced unfit
live in have been pulled down; more tina
S2,OoO,OOO was Mt the same time spent in.clt
improvements. The result OF this on tn
death rate is interesting and instructive
In 1863 it was % in 1000. Now 1t isO
al,0O.
In Charleston, s. G., the business of tui
pentinc and rice factors are so material
extended that it has been found necesssar
to erect n mammoth barrel factory in th
city limits This year, according to eXls
ing contracts, 100000 barrels OF 300 pound
capacity will be required for the rice Gro
alone.
During the past twenty years, 100 ne
N.,r L,,;lt In thn Iinpaep 4