The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The effective strength of the French arm,
in 1882 will amount to nearly 10000 men
while the reserve force numbers 472,Uol
men.
A syndicate of some members of the Man
haitian Club, New York, have. purchased
Booths Opera-house, New York, for 1850
900. 1t cost Booth 100000,
Some of the Tenness see towns that hay,
abolished their charters TO do away with the
sale of liquor now wish they had both char
ter and whisky. LawlesSnesS is worse thar
ever.
The Montgomery Advertiser estimates
that the amount spent by the people Of
Alabama III going and returning from
Atlanta, and during their stay in Atlanta
will not fall short OF $4,000.
The government of Victoria, y. s. W., i,
once more in the English market Tor loan
this time for t 900, 100, and the English pa.
pers are limiting pretty strongly that The
colonies are toe. ready forum in debt
Italy has addressed complaints to the
French Government with reference TO Tu.
nisian affairs. She refuses TO recognize the
Bardo Palace treaty, under which France
seized the protectorate,
The Auditor OF Kentucky has informed
the Legislature, in respose to an inquiry
that there are now 36l lG3 legal voters IN
the State, The total vote for President in
1850 was but 26B,S19.
The boot-blac&s of London are divided
into societies One Of them, known as the
Saffron Hill, numbering siXiy-SiXmembcrs,
has earned In the last twenty months be-
tween 5000 and $4,000
A Coyington, Kentucky bus driver acct
IDENTIFY amputated one OF ms thumbs by
catching II in tree. Hel Is now suing the
city for 81, 600 damages, alleging it was by
IS neglect the accident was caused.
The great steel arms of the Brooklyn
bridge, reaching from the towers out over
the East River, have met in the center of
the stream, and the structure begins 10
give promise of early completion
A missionary in China says idolatry has
lost its hold on the minds OF the Chinese,
but the worship OF ancestors has largely
taken its place. One hundred and fifty
millions OF dollars are said to be spent an
nually in this worship.
Miss NJ. Lewis, NJ. D., is Secretary of the
Seward tSeb) School OF Medicine and Sur
gerry. She is also Professor of Physiology
ana Diseases of Children. Among the ma
trculates, for the season of 1850 and 1881,
The fog was so dense at Boston, the other
morning, that objects could not be distin-
guished ten feet away, and Il gas-light could
not be discerned from its next post. Pc
destrians frequently lost their way, and the
police were often at a loss how TO direct
them.
A recent judicial decision in England
recognizing all persons hiring room in
INll l,t al, -.
der the terms ofthe last extension OF the
Franchise in Towns Act, entitled to q vote,
will add tens ofthousandS TO the English
voting lists.
A Russian semi-oilical newspaper says of
Mr.. Blane's Panama Canal dispatch that
no guarantee of the preservation of the
neutrality of the canal will be of any value
unless agreed to by the European Powers
conformity with the government OF the
United States
A certificate of incorporation was issued
nv the Secretary of State at Wheeling
West Virginia, last week to a number OF
gentlemen who have united for the purpose
OF purchasing the salt sulphur springs in
Monroe county, and operating the same as
q summer resort.
The members of the Protestant Episco.
pal Church in the United States during the
past year gave $7,3ll,74 for its support
an increase of $2)S,O32 over their gifts last
year. Ii has IS bishops, 3,40l clergymen,
S,035 parishes, and 1880 communicate
an average of one clergyman to each lg
COMMITMENTS. The baptiSms during the
year have shown q decrease OF 5000.
Count Won Moltkc, who is now in his 50,
year is out of health and talks of rGtirins
from his post of Chief of the General Stall
He will, however, continue to exercise Il
general supervision over the working OF the
army staff. Count Won Waldersee, who is
mentioned as Won Moltkes successor, is
one Of the pupils of the old General in the
arts of war Won Moltke is still as upright,
trim, and active as many man of half his
years.
Referring to the enormous duty Of from
100 to 100 per cent. imposed by the Mexican
government on lumber, Consul Turner, of
La Paz, says; al conceive that the real
motive is to prevent trade With the United
States and to discourage mining and other
enterprises in Mexico by Americans
Whoever will take the trouble to examine
the Mexican tariff will find that prohlb-
itory duties are imposed upon almost every
article which was formerly imported, eI-
clusively or generally, from the United
States and ON these facts | base my opln-
ion.'
A story is told of Jay Gould's dropping
into u strange restaurant for lunch, and, not
finding himself in possession OF eneush
ready cash to pay for it-greatly, OF course,
to his chagrin. lie finally attempted to find
relief from his embarrassing position by
telling the proprietor his name; but that in.
diyidual considered this TOO thin" and
threatened him with arrest for false pre-
lenses. He was finally about to show a
check drawn to his order for million, more
or less. when n gentleman came in who
Knew him and relieved him from his em-
barrassment by lending him So.
The Washington Star says: "There is
heavy run on the Treasury for new ten.cent
pieces. All the coins of that denomination
in the Treasury have been once in circula-
ton. They are not bright and perfectly
new, as the people who want them call Tor
The demand for the ten-cent coin at us bril-
liantsst0ge is due alone to the bangle that
some ladies' wear on their wrists. The ave
rage young man wants to string lot oil
bonrles around his girls wrist as q sort of
CHRIS mas gage d,amour. TO that ambition
alone is attributed the present rush for new
ten cent pieces which the Treasury cannot
simply, because il has none ON hand.
THE electric light is the light for villages.
Ii requires for its production no costly
plant like gas works, tanks and pipes. The
electric huid is carried to tho points OF COM
huston by wires. Aurora, Illinois, is beau,
tinlly lighted by a system DISK electrical
towers made of iron rods and network, each
$50 feet high. These are crowned WIN elec-
trio lamps of 1000 cundie.power each, or
equal to l25 gas gets The cost complete
for each towerand apparatus is about 81 ,oVO.