The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a tine portrait of Garfield
scovilles attempt to prove his mother-in-
law a lunatic is likely to be his greatest
effort.
ACalifornia lady will this year make co.
600 gallons of wine and a large quantity OF
brandy.
The authorities of the Vatican have re-
iected an application to put a telephone in
that palace.
A locomotive is already running on the
section of railroad completed in the sub
.urbs of Tampico.
Postmaster. General James is type-set-
ter. He has more stamps, however, than
most type-setters.
Charleston, S. c., has so far assembled the
heights of civilization as to provide for a
paid fire department.
The editor of the London Telegraph hos
boupht the Duke of Westminsters castle,
and paid 81, 100000 for it.
The pawn-brokers of 0axada have been
compelled to close their doors on account #
the strict police regulations
Mdlle. Rosa Bonheur is living at Nice,
where she has a charming villa. and is
greatly admired and courted.
The gossips of Bloomington, Illinois have
il that Senator David Davis is about to
marry his deceased wfe's sister.
A bald-headed Judge in Kansas City daily
rubbed his head with half Of fresh, raw
onion, and in two months his hair grew out.
Mr.. A. b. Alcott is said to seldom pass a
day without composing sonnet or stanza
He is 50 years old. His daughter Louisa
is 40.
The City Council of Oaxada has voted
its thanks to Hon. Matas Romero, for
having initiated the Mexican Southern
Railway.
The high prices of provisions in Canada
are driving very many French Canadian
families to the New England States. They
seek manufacturing towns
Huntington, of Pacific Railroad fame, is
having built at Philadelphia the pioneer
vessel Of feet for freight and passenger
service on the Pacific coast.
Secretary Blaine will retire from the De-
partment OF State on December Is. Pre-
yious to that date he will give farewell
dinner to the Diplomatic Corps.
Mrs Spragues friends say that the lady is
anxious to be yindicated from the rehec.
tons upon her character made by Mr.,
Sprague, by public trial. Sprague him.
self says that the divorce suit has been com.
promised.
Ex-senator Platt will not live in Wash
ington this winter. On his recent visit tC
the capital he authorized his agents to rent
the handsome residence on Vermont ave
nue., purchased by him from Senator Win
dom for $4,000.
Hannibal Hamlin was received with great
cordiality by Presidents Grevy and Gam
BETA. Both of these innocent Frenchmen
now suppose that all prominent citizens Of
the United States appear every day in
swalow-tail coats without ulsters.
English capitalists are visiting the Mont
gomery mining district in Arkansas, with O
view to developing its mineral resources
The great drawback heretofore has beer
owing to the fact the parties operating were
mostly poor miners, who could not obtain
means sufficient to develop their claims.
A New York financial paper explains
chow to relieve the money market"
good way would be to give Cashier Baldwin
of Newark, a position in it. The man who
relieved a bank of two millions of dollars in
few years, wonld have no difficulty in re
lieying the money market.
Mr.. Longfellow, who has been and is still
suffering from attacks ofvertigo, which have
confined him to his house, and who is said
to be threatened with cancer of the face
kept Thanksgiving Day by reading to
friend poem, entitled Hermes Trismegis
tus, recently composed by the venerable
peet.
Since it was announced that big hats ar,
the adopted badge chosen for ladies of tn,
Ugly club, when attending theatres an(
other places OF amusement, there have beer
evidences of very pleasing reform in fe
male head-gear at the ST. Louis theatres.
Is recognized now rs n fact that small
bonnet is almost certain to be the sign AM
sy mbol Of pretty face underneath.
Zoedone is described as a pleasant, spark
ling, champagne like fluid, holding in so
luton the phosphates of lime, soda, potasl
and iron, no trace of alcohol lurking in We
hicle or ingredient. 1t invigorates withou
reaction, we are told, and withal may b.
drunk as freely as water, with considerable
less risk of injury The stimulation
yields not only is safe but comes to stay.
When Prince Bismarck descended
from the railway carriage at Berlin, fort
night ago, he appeared to be in good healtl
and spirits; but it was evident as he Leaned
heavily on his, thick stick and supporte,
himself by holding the handle of the car
rage door that he was less strongin realt,
than he was cheerful in appearance. III
suffers from neuralgia and sleeplessness
and is extremely irritable.
1t takes about $50 for every man, woman
and child in the United States to make IL,
the currency required to meet all the need
Of the nation. Comptroller Knox report
that the aggregate of coin and paper none,
in the United States at the beginning o
last month was Sl,455, 63t ,602. OF thi'
amount $685., 56S ,97l was gold, 1856, 037, 36
silver, $a6,6Sl, Ol6 legal-tender notes ant
$500, 3i4 $50 national bank notes.
The new American hotel in London will
be upon the Victoria cmbankment, part,
facing on White Hall place, and having
park on the Thames. 1t will be nine storie
high and will accommodate about / ,30(
guests. The cost of the building will eI
coed 100000, and that of the furniture
$4,000. Mr.. Charles Il. Leland will rs
sumo the management and the chef; tn,
bar-keeper and the walters will all be Amer
leans.
The ex-Empress Eugene is adding eigh
teen rooms to her new residence at Farm
borough. There is to be q room filled wit
the relics of Prince Louis Napoleon, an
htted up exactly the same rs the one occu
pied by him at Camden Place, The ide
seems to have been taken from the dressing
room OF the Prince Consort at Balmora
winch remains the same as when he wa
alive, His hat and gloves are on the table
and the efligy of him is also in the room.
The proprietor of single hotel, Tn
united States, at Saratoga, bought durin
the past summer, for the 10000 person
whom he entertained, 5000 pounds of bee
costing Sl7 1866; 1900 pounds of mutto
Tor Sl72; l7,7S0 pounds of lamb for 81, 14t
ol,SU pounds Of chicken for $l0,55S; 1000