The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mr.. Geo. w. Childs, of the Philadelphia
Ledger, recently secured Il clock made in
| 1895.
| Blue cranes-nine feet spread-are killed
in Arizona and eaten as Colorado tur-
keys.
The pawnbrollers of Great Britain, A, 372 in
number, take in during year 200 200, 900
pledges.
Mr.. Coventry Patmore, the poet of the
domestlcities, has just been married to his
third wife.
Lord Londonderry, very large coal
owner, now sells coal retail as well as
Wholesale.
Judge Folger, the new secretary of the
treasury, is Ga years of age and native of
Massachusetts.
Captain Boyton is reported to have
made $4,000 by padding around in his
life-saying dress.
Miss Arthur, daughter of the presi-
dent, is blondc-haired young lady now at.
tending school at Albany
General Stoneman has raised $4,000
worth of grapes on his vineyard at Los An
geles, California, this year.
The new bridge at Albany, New York,
will cost $5i0, 600, and it will be 800 feet i'm
length and % feet in width.
Ex-Vice-P President Wheeler is going to
spend the winter in California. The fishes
of that state should preserve this item.
Gambetta in his twenties was distinguish
ed, 1t is said, for animal spirits and for
line power OF absorbing mugs of Strasburg
beer.
Miss Cary Is TO be married soon, but the
name OF the gentleman who secures d sit
uation as Mr.. Annie Louise has not trans
pired.
Sheep cheese is very popular in Austria,
an enterprising Austrian has started q
sheep dairy near Chattanooga with 600
head.
Bonanza Flood intends to build house
IN Fifth avenue New York, beside which
Vanderbit's hut will look like a prairie
dog house.
John Muir, the naturalist of the Corwin,
says that he believes the Jeanette will re.
port on the Atlantic side of the continent
next year.
James Flint, of Philadelphia, Illinois,
will soon enter upon his 10th year, He
attributes his longevity to tobacco, which
he has constantly used since boyhood
The destruction of grape by the phyl.
loxera in France threatens to destroy the
greatest of French industries, the manuiac-
ture of wine, so say the members of the re-
cent congress held at Bordeaux.
An Iowa lawyer of some years practice
is now serving rs locomotive fireman on
the. Chicago Burlington & Quincy railroad,
and physician of twelve years practice
is acting as freight conductor on the same
road.
The approaching census of st. Petersburg
will be preceded by systematic enumera.
ton of the houses as well as of each sepn.
rate tenement in the city and It's suburbs.
In 1860 the inhabitants amounted to 900 600
souls.
Under law passed in 1905 James Garyin
was last week arrested in Erie, Ponnsylva-
MIA, for profane swearing and fined 500, or
ut the rate ofB1 cents for each oath or curse,
as the law provides. Garyin refused To nav
and was Jailed.
Archibald Forbes, the famous British war
correspondent, saw the Connecticut troops
parade Mt Charleston, and says they
equalled the best trained troops OF Europe,
and with such militia the country needs no
standing army
DR.. J. b. Meyer, an Austrian editor, who
Is visiting this country, was asked what he
thought the greatest feature of American
Journalism. He replied; Certainly the
advertisements; the editorials are also
grandly incomparablen
Smallpox is severely prevalent in Chicago.
Last Sunday the health officer visited two
churches and vaccinated the entire congre.
cations. This was the best part of the SER.
wee, but he should have completed the
work by turning o hose on the barbarians.
so many seized pistols have accumulated
IN the Memphis (Tennesseel court that
Judge Horrigan has issued an order direct.
ing the. clerk TO throw all, except army or
navy pistols, that have been IN his hands
more than six months into the Mississinni
river, and into such deep water that they
cannot be ilshed out. wy
George Bancroft, the historian. 20 n,
home at Washington. lie breakfasts M D
o'clock, dictates history to his private 500.
rotary until 9, then lunches, md rides
horseback, rain or shine, until O'clock.
He then comes home, takes nan until
dinner, and during the evening eutortnins
his friends. lie $50 years old.
The work Of opening up western Soudan.
undertaken by the French ministry Of ma.
rine, continues 10 attract attention in
France. A large part OF the country inter.
yening between the Senegal at Medine and
the Niger at Bamakou, has been SURVEYED
Across the tract II is proposed TO construct
railway, and the surveys made show that
the work will not be difficult.