The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-30
ITEMS oF INTEREST.

Twelve million bushels Of coal are float
ing down the Ohiofrom Pittsburg.
Sitting Bulls brother-in-law, Brave Bear
tried to commit suicide the other day
Car wheels have long been made Of paper
Now they are making them of saw-dust.
1t is said that the combined hotels o
Philadelphia consume annually nearly {
ton of tooth-picks. - - - -,
iiProfessor Huxley has, in consequence O
the pressure of other duties, resigned thu
office of Secretary of the Royal Society
He has held it since 1879. .-.: !. - -,
Champagne, claret, -hock port ant
brandy, from North Carolina, are eI
hibited at the Atlanta Exhibition. All ar,
said to be of excellent quality.
A st. Louis man bought a 5000 golC
brick..for $250,and found it was worth abou
ten cents, which goes to show that as long a.
there are fools there will be sharpers.
A man in Colorado short time ago wa.
sentenced to life of solitary confinement
and the Judge condemned him to serve ou
the balance of his days in the Greonbacl
party
The little daughter of Mr.. Francklyn, who
loaned his residence to the sick President
Garfield, "a maiden ofnine summers, goes beal
hunting in the Rocky Mountains, in boy
clothes, with her father.
"Night-singing canaries" are advertised
by the bird fanciers. Their popularity i.
that they sing by gaslight just as they dc
in the daytime. Fortunately, they are
quiet when the gas is out.
Gathering buffalo bones along the extern
sion of the Texas Il Pacific Railroad is ar
extensive industry. Hundreds of wagon.
and teams are engaged in the business, and
the bones sell for $l2 per ton.
President Grevy has established telepho
mic communication between the Elysee and
the Opera Comique at the Theatre Fran.
phonic lat homes" this winter. ,.s,,,-- - =.
There has been already $4,000 applica
tons made to the Irish Land Court for re
duction Of rent under the Land Bill. tn,
reductions will average about 50 per cent
on the rent formerly paid by tenants.
Governor Hawkins, of Tennessee, ha.
called special session of the Legislature
of that State to meet on December 9TH &c
consider nine subjects for legislation, the
most important being the redistric ting O.
the State
Senator Lamar's residence, at Oxford
Miss, is an ordinary, tlat-roofed, one-story
house, modestly furnished. The dwelling
OF Senator Brown, at Griffin, Ca, is lust al
unpretentious, though Mr.. Brown is mar
of wealth.
Frederick L. 0lmstead, who is paid S.
600 year by the government as landscap,
engineer of the capitol grounds, has been ap
pointed consulting landscape architect tC
the New York Department of Public Parks
at salary of $500.
Miss Emma Thursby has returned tC
Paris from a professional tourin Scandina
via, which has been great success. She
gave titty-three concerts in Norway Den
mark and Sweden, which were attended by
nearly 10000 people.
The father of hazed freshman at Bow.
doin has brought suit for $4,000 from each
OF seven sophomores and juniors, who, in
the course of their cowardly sport, threw q
piece ofcoal through the freshmans win
dow and injured his sight.
A man who was called thief by two
Boston papers sued them for libel, and was
awarded one cent damages in each case.
There are not few self-important men
whose regulations, il put up at auction.
would bring no more than this
If Max Maretzek RECEIVERS the full amount
of the damage 1881 ,025) for which he has
sued Nine. Patti, she will have occasion
to rememberh her little trip to this country,
and perhaps to wish that she had charged
and received-$2O seat instead of $40
Mrs. Collins, OF Troy, New York, lies in
bed suffering great agony from blood-pois.
oning. Last week she wore pair of new
shoes and received an abrasion on her heel.
The scarlet-died stockings communicated
r. blood-poisoning, and her foot and leg
swelled rapidly.
A colony ofveteran soldiers from Phila-
delphia, Norristown and Conshohocken with
their families, numbering forty-six persons
in all, will shortly sail from the former port
to Texas, 10 settle on the Mexican side OF
the Rio Grande, where fine tract of land
has been secured for them.
Mr.. Scovilles mail is said to contain
many ouriosites. A correspondent saws he
receives the oldest lot of letters that were
ever received by mortal man. Some oil
them contain sensible aud valuable sugges.
tons, but the majority are from cranks oil
the cranlIiest description.
The next House of Representatives will
consist of liG straight Republicans, l3G
straight Democrats, eight Greenbackers,
two Rcadiusters, and one Independent Re-
publican. IL is asserted that five of the
Greenbackers, the two Readiuslers, and the
Independent Republican win vote with the
Republicans,
Now that Patti has secured live Amcri.
rAn manager III the person oil Mr.. Henry
Abbey, of the Park Theatre, she enjoys q
reasonable prospect of making her Ameri-
can tour at once profitable and creditable.
Nr. Abbey realizes that ii is better to have
1000 people at SO apiece than 20 people at
$40 each. The trouble with PATHS first
manager was that his arithmetic had been
neglected.
Domingo Ramos died recently in the haci.
cnda Of Apapasco, Mexico ut the patri.
archal age of1iS years. His memory and
general health were perfect to the last AT
100 years ofage he had natural and com.
pete. renewal OF teeth. He had been twice
married, and his death was mainly caused
by the grief he experienced when his second
Vile died, few months ago. His eldest
son is 0years of age, and he leaves vast
progeny of great-grandsons and daughter,
tomourn his loss,
Although II is many months before The
democratic Convention OF Arkansas will
meet, they have already begun Quarrelinf
| over the offices there. There are twenty
candidates for the governorship In the field
With large number Of counties yet TO heal