The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The United States army numbers 1000
men.
There are 100000 Masons in the United
States.
The total school fund of Kansas is $ll,-
l5,jl02O.
Four thousand New York saloons are
kept by women.
There are 100000 Indians within the terri
tory of the United States.
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, who is now six
ty-five years old is shortly to bcnarricd to
Miss Hall, girl of twcnty-ont The in
tended bride is his niece by marriage
Gabriel and Jerome Ravel are still living
in Toulouse, aged seventy and sixty-iive
They retired on the fortune made in Amer
lea, built cooy villas, and have led easy and
reputable lives.
The price of oysters in New York is regu-
lated by an association of saloon keepers
The rates now are; For raw or stewed,
25c; box stew, DC; fry, 25c brol or roast
40c., or oysters by the quart, 30c.
Take the Elevator" is inscribed on the
fence of an Iowa meadow. a curious tray
eler who climbed the fence discovered in
about ten seconds that the elevator is of
dark brindle color, with curl in the mid.
die of his forehead,
Emperor William is complaining because
his enthusiastic female admirers throw bou-
quets at him go recklessly whenever he an.
pears in public. On several occasions he
has had the skin on his royal nose knocked
off by the force of the admiring sweets be-
slowed.
Last years return show that the number
of persons killed throughout India by wild
beasts and snakes has increased from 10, 273
in 1876 to u $40 in 1850. The largest num-
her of deaths occurred in Bengal where 10
06l persons died from snake bites and $50
were killed by tigers,
At the approaching coronation of the
Car and Caarina the ivory throne of Con-
stantinc, the last Emperor of Constantine
pie, is to be used. The Czarina is to oc-
cupy a throne adorned with $40 diamonds
and rubes, and ,223 sapphires, turquoises
and pearls of the first water.
The monument to Prince Louis Napo-
leon, which it was proposed at one time to
erect in Westminster Abbey, has been
! placed in the Brdye chapel in the nave of
st. Georges, Windsor. 1t is very beauti.
ful piece of sculpture. Queen Victoria in
tends to Till the windows of the Braye
chapel with stained glass,
| 1'll 10 NlluN lllt AulllOTIla
element is demoralizing New York by ex-
truyagance of the most foolish kind, and
vulgar display and ostentation. 1t is also
alleged by the fastidious and would.bc OK.
elusive that the Pacific coast people are
loud and have not an education equal to
that possessed by the late Baron Humboldt.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, has presented
to the st. Louis Historical Society paper
which he claims is the original order of
| General Robert r. Lee disbandmg the Con-
! tederate army of Northern Virginia. Mr.,
| Vest says the paper was placed in his hands
| by zone who was loyal to the cause for
which that army fought, and who accepted
i'll good faith the results of its defeat"
Some Canadian women have organized
sort of cooperative society for the importa.
ton of servant girls from the United King.
dom. Tho discouraging fact about the
movement is that after the girls are induced
to come across the water the danger of
losing them by matrimony is. in almost OK.
act proportion to their Intelligence and
usefulness.
1t is now officially announced by the
Gould managers that the much-talked-ot
| Wagner sleepors will be placed on the Iron
| Mountain and Texas Pacific December |.
The Pullman contract expires about that
time, and It is intimated, though not otllci-
| ely, that us last as the Pullman contracts
expire on other of Gould's roads the Wag-
ners would be substituted. 1t is denied that
Gould has any Wagner stock
The famous spring of boiling water in the
middle basin of Hel's Half Acre, in the
Yellowstone region has lately become still
more wonderful as geyser -Four or five
times every twenty-iour hours 1t discharges
a great column of water, freighted with
stones and obscurcd by A dense volnmp of
steam. The hollow formation for hundreds
of yards around the orifce trcmblcs under
the uphcaval, and the water is thrown to
height ola hundred feet.
\ decision announced by the Consett Iron
Company must be regarded as significant
at the present time. That company has
been one of the most fortunate of all those
engaged in northern metallurgy. II bought
immense iron-works and collcries in the
northwest of Durham at very low price,
ana by judicious expenditure and good
management 1t has paid wonderful divi-
bends for many years Over series of
years it paid IA per cent. per annum
to its fortunate shareholders, and in the
last two years II has returned % per cent,
per annum, and given bonus in addition,
These large results, contributed to by the
coke manufacture, have been chiefly at
tanned by the iron trade, and notably by the
iron.plate trade. For the year Just closed
the Consett Iron Company had q profit of
GNi ,O0D, and out Of this 'fl60, 23G was the
profit on the iron-pates and pig-iron. The
company is, indeed, the largest iron-pate
producing concern in the world and hence
i isa fact OF very great significance to find
that II has decided to erect Siemens- Mar
tin plant for the production of steel plates.
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