The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t is proposed to supply the elevated rail
roads Of New York with water from artesian
wells.
The King of Siam has just purchased in |
London, through an agent, furniture to the |
value of 81 10000
a bouquet given to Patti in Brooklyn was
six feet wide and so heavy it could hardly |
be lifted from the stage.
Jay Gould has bought the Grand Opera
house in New York, He snapped some
coal lands for it. The Erie Railroad wanted
them.
Ex-Governor Straw, of New Hampshire,
has been declared insane by a judicial
commission, ON petition of his wife and
daughters.
Mile, Rhea, who is playing at Booths, in
New York, was goyerness in Russia, and
comes to America from st. Petersburg by
way Of London.
Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria's favor
lite son, will be married to the Princess
Helena at Windsor Castle, during the COM
ing month of March.
Mrs. Langtry, the Jersey lilly, will appear
at the Haymarket Theatre on the 10th inst.
in a professional matinee performance in
aid Of the Dramatic Fund,
The assassin's trial will cost, according to
the estimate of Marshal Henry, round
$l50,000. The spectators seem to think
that they are getting their money out of
Lord Ashley is reported as about to re-
sign his office Of Secretary of the Board Of
Trade on account Of his dissatisfaction with
the Irish policy Of the Gladstone govern
ment.
Mile. Bernhardt has been stoned in Rus
STA on account of her Jewish origin. We
thought they stoned actresses and singers
there only with diamonds. These were not
that kind
There are in Persia about 10000 Jews,
and the Judische Press says they have
bad time of it, being subjected to all sorts
of vexatious restrictions. In the town of
Hamidan are the traditional tombs of Els
ther and Mordecai.
An eucalyptus planted near Mentone in
1863 had u height of so feet and diameter
of 40 inches at three feet from the ground
in 1874 1t is strange that tree which has
such marvellous absOrptive powers should
he the special product of the dryest of
| countries, its chief original home being, it
seems Australia.
During Fanny Davenport's performance
as Lady Macbeth in Philadelphia last week,
| q sensation was caused by a Sherifl's officer
| Geaplng on the stage to serve Il legal paper
on the actress. lie was promptly elected.
| The legal proceedings grow out of the
| trouble between Anna Dickinson and Fanny
| Davenport regarding The Amerlcap Girl
drama.
| Some idea of the wealth of the mines on
| the Pacific coast may be obtained from the
fact that in 1877 there was 76,0000OO on de-
| post in the savings banks Of California.
| This is the largest amount of money ever
hnll la.rt alb a. SN,t,
and its accumulation was the result of the
mining propensity that had prevailed for
some time previous.
Among the remarkable novelties of re-
cent discovery, is the boot-blacking plant,
| native of New South Wales. The leaves
of this shrub contain tough substance
| gifted with all the properties and attributes
of the finest boot polish. Squeeze them
gently, and they will yield some thick,
dusky drops of sticky fluid, which must
then be spread over the surface OF the boot.
This done, polish of dazzling brilliancy
may be brought out by few light touches
of the finishing brush.
The tobacco crop of the United States is
worth annually less than forty millions of
dollars to its producers, and yet our own
Government, and the various governments
OF Europe derive an annual revenue of one
| hundred and sixty millions alone from this
single product. In other words, one agri-
cultural product yields to governments q
revenue more than four times the amount
the entire crop puts into the pockets Of
those who produce it.
The baby elephant at Barnums head
quarters in Bridgeport, Conn, is being
weaned. The milk taken from Hebe, its
mother, since the weaving began, is freely
drank by the show employees. Professor
/ A all .,,l,a l. r A i.
plants, has grown quite fond OF it. 1t is
thicker and richer than cows milk, and has
a consistency and flavor suggesting the
milk of the cocoanut About gallon of it
| is drank daily by the attaches of the estab-
lishment. The baby is 10 months old,
One ]. Emerson Douson, of England,
claims to have invented a new gas which
can be produced at q cost OF y to A pence
per 1000 feet. The process requires twelve
pounds of anthracite coal to produce 900
feet; superheated steam plays into the re-
tort, which is decomposed in passing
through the burning coal and tho combi-
nation OF oxygen with the current of air
| which is drawn in with the steam, with the
oxygen, form monoxide of carbon hydro
gen and nitrogen. This gas has not one
third the heating power of ordinary coal
gas, butts vastly cheaper.
The New York Associated Press was or
gnnized thirty.two years ago, the original
members being the Express, the Journal OF
Commerce the Courier and Enquirer, the
Herald, the Sun and the Tribune. Since
1919 the changes in the organization have
not been great, but two having oc-
CURED until the present. time. In 1850
the Times was founded, and at the
outset it was admitted to the Asso-
slated Press. In 1850 the World was estab.
lished as q religious daily, and year later
II absorbed the Courier and Enquirer, hay
ing been purchased by Manton Marble.
Six morning newspapers and one evening,
the Mail and Express, now have an equal
voice in the control of the great news-sath'
ering,
Pllesl Itching Piles,
The symptoms of itching piles are moist.
ure, like perspiration intense itching,
mostly at night, seems as ifpin worms were