The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

vi montreal jury panel OF sixty, elSnI-
cen could neither read nor write.
The French General Lagerot is pursuing
the Arab tribes in South runiS.
Gen Garibaldi threatens to go to Paris to
try to reconcile the French and Italians.
Tennyson's almost constant companion is
now, as it has been for many years, the
clay pipe.
Persons were arrested at st. Petersburg
last week fol- having dynamite concealed in
oranges.
A new law in Kansas forbds any person
to marry within six months after procuring
divorce
OF Mr., Millais it is said that his work has
ceased almost entirely TO be intellectual or
imaginative.
Mississippi river red gum is being sub.ti-
tuted for walnut in some woodworking es-
adjustments
A big circus snake hes cscaped in Cincin-
natl, and half the population fancy they've
got EN- again"
Frelinghuysen is acceptable to China.
The Celestals now think they see Il chance
for Young Hyson.
The Missouri Bell Telephone Company
has declared a dividend offs per cent, pay
able on January2.
One Of Colonel r. G. lngersoN'' dauSh-
tiers is said to have become member OF tho
Presbyterian Church.
King Alfonso hopes ia rank next in popu-
larity to Victoria soon. lie is even ~ peace
with his mOther-in-law.
The English papers all protest that Mr..
Blaine was too energetic, and impore his
successor to give them a rest.
A bill to confer the suffrage on all who
can read and write passed both branches Of
the Italian Legislature on the Dist,
Hiram s. Maxim, the New York cectri-
clan, is the recipient from the French gov
eminent Of the eros. Of the Legion Of
Honor.
Farmers living near Lincoln, Nebraska
complain of depredations from grain
thieves. Burglars and horse thieves are
also quite numerous and active in that vi
entity
Two negroes named Ross and Hughes
were arrested at Independence, Missouri
the other night for stealing and hauling
away 100 bushels of wheat from the granary
OF D. Woods.
1t is said at the White House that the
statement that the President has invited
General and Mrs. Grant to be his guests
during the holidays and to assist at the
New Years reception is erroneous.
1t is stated that ex-senator Cameron, Of
Pennsylvania will pass the winter in the
City Of Mexico. We did not think the lobby
work in the Mexican Congress would be
worth Mr. Cameron's attention, as he does
so well at home.
A broken thermometer from the balloon
in which Powell assembled, on the 10th inst
has been found at Weymouth, on the Dor
setshire coast. The circumstance confirms
the belief that Powell has been drowned at
sea
The Emperor of China has sent three
splendid tables to the "Chinese Merchants
Exchange" in San Francisco, in recognition
of the aid sent by the Chinese merchants of
that city to their fsllow-subects during the
last famine.
Az there are no children at the White
House now for the first time in twenty years
there will be 10 use in sending the Presi
dent q lot OF playthings for Christmas
present. The childish things have all been
put away,
In stating that Mr.. Henry Willard is
about to spend Sl,0OO,0O0 for new resi-.
dence in New YORK, the Boston Journal
says that life is q burden in a house
costing more than one-third of that
amount
built entirely of stone brought from the
Jura, and the materials used in its con-
struction cost six million francs. A like
sum will be spent on the interior decora-
tons
There is q growing feeling in every
healthy community against the journals
which make il their special object to minis
ter TO perverted taste by seeking out and
serving up in seductive form disgusting
scandal aud lieentious revelations.
The Virginia House of Delegates almost
unanimously passed bill to relieve forty
citizens FROM disability incurred by duel
ling Included in the list are the names OF
II. II. Riddleberger, General Payne, ana
three members of the Wise family.
1t is said that the Natural Bridge property
in Virginia has been purchased by stock
company, of which Governor Cornell, of
New York, is President. A new railroad is
to be built and other efforts made to bring
it up as popular summer resort.
The late Samuel Wood, of New York,
made a codicil.to his will, leeving 81 100000
for the establishment ola college OF music
in that city. The matter has been in the
courts for a long time, and on Monday
Surrogate Calvin admitted the coIlcll to
probate.
MARK Twain has become rich enough
to be u beneiactor OF young artists 2nu ~
erary men. He gave Mr.. w. II. Gillette
the $1,000 with which the very successful
play THE Professor was first brought out
in Philadelphia, and more recently Mr..
Clemens sent young Hartford sculptor
and his wife abroad for year TO study.
Sir Walter Scott was, in one of his walks,
leaning on the arm of q faithful attendant,
Tom Purie Tom said. Them are fine
novels OF yours, Sir Walter. They are just
invaluable TO me-" III am glad to hear 1t,
Tom" "IeJ, sir; for when have been out
all day, hard at work, and come home very
tired, and take up one o. your novels, I'm
asleep directly"
A Kentucky COW, raised on the farm Of
Erastus Ellsworth, of East Windsor Hill,
has emarkable record. April 10, 1877,
she gave birth to twins, one male and one
female March Is, 1878, she gave birth to
trplets, two males aud one female, making
five calves in eleven months aud three days;
July o. 1879, she gave birth to twins, both
males. October I, 1850, she gave birth to
triplets, two males and one female, making
ten calves In three years five months aud
twonty.one days. The calves have all been
of good size. healthy, and handsome, ana
have all been raised on the farm.
The habits of canker.worms are peculiar.
The miller that lays the egg for the worm
commences coming out of the ground rs
soon as It begins TO thaw In the spring and
Immediately crawls up the tree aud lays It's
eggs In aud on the buds, which hatch as
soon as the tree begins TO leaf, when Us