The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-04
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1--WE are growing old" Queen Victoria's
maids of honor average fifty years of age
Adjutant General Drum reports the losses
of the army for the year MS 2iS by death,
6,5Gl by discharge, and 1851 by descrtion.
Nine million dollars is said TO be the sum
the government has lost by the fraudulent
extension of the star-routc service That
is about So 900, 600 year.
Bayard Taylor venerable parents, Joseph
and Rebccca Taylor, live quietly and com
fortably at kennctt Square. They have
now lived together as man and wife for six
ty-scyGn years.
The car has ordered that seventeen of
the imperial palaces and castles, including
those of Livadia, in the Crimea, and the
Belvcdere, near Warsaw, shalt be converted
into educational institutions for the benefit
of the poor
DR. James Graham, who is 9S years of
age, and amemherof Governor BlaCkbum's
stan, took part in the Yorktown parade
At the age Of SO Dr. Graham led to the
altar blooming bride OF Is. lie now has
son Il years old.
Jay Gould controls ll,71i miles of rail
road, the value Of which added to that of
other enterprises he controls is estimated
n 1861 10000. This does not all belong to
Mr. Could, but he is virtually the control
ling power over it.
One Of the most Objectionable features of
the Texas law imposing tax ON travelling
statesmen is the requirement ,hat the sales
man must 90 to The county-seat aud secure
II license before he can solicit orders in any
town in the county.
The oldest twins in the United States arc
George an Edmund Grayely, of Leather
wood, Henry county, Virginia. They will
be 0j years old on the LIST December next
and are in good health. Their mother
lived to be over 100, and their father died
at SO.
Mr.. Charles Van Bcnthuyscn, of Albany,
who died IN that city, October 10, is said
to have been the first printer in this country
to Introduce steam power in printing The
engine with which this important expert.
ment was made IS still in the possession of
the family.
London has over four million inhabitants
aud yet during the year 1850 there were but
seventeen murders; during 1879 but niue.
Perhaps one reason why American cities
have such comparatively greater number
OF criminals of this grade is the uncertainty
of their punishment even when detected.
President. Arthur has finally selected his
NsANs ~ ~ AAAN dNlll iIllSfOldl,
and will use the pew formerly occupied by
Madison and number OF the other prcsi-
dents, When the church was built this
pew was set aside for the presidents, but all
OF them who have occupied 1t have insisted
on paying the usual pew rental
The Mobile Register says that u rcprc.
sentative of the great English corporation,
the torbin Banking association Is now in
| Mississippi buying up lands for his compa-
ny with u view to settling colonies upon
hem, Our contemporary understand,
| that he has already negotiated for 200, 900 or
10000 acres aud expects to buy much
| more.
Workmen employed in stone quarry in
Rochester, n. Y, have oShumed the armed
skeleton of an Indian warrior, grasping in
his right hand u tomahawk, and in his lcit
the rusty blade of a scalping.kniie. The
figure was IN reclining position, with the
left arm slightly raised, while the right
hand holding the knife, was laid upon The
breast. Two arrow heads of flint were
! found at the warriors side
According to calculations made by the
medical academy Of Paris, there are at tho
present tima $4,000 doctors scattered over
| the world, Ofthcse there are Gl,0O0 in the
| United States, 26,00 in France, $1,000 In
| Germany and Austria, 5000 In Great
Britain and It's colonies, 10000 in Italy, and
5000 in Spain. Putting aside pamphlet,
| and memoirs inuumcrable Il is estimated
thl' l2O,0M works have been published on
medical subjects, OF the writers 2,SOl arc
| Americans, 200 French, $500 German and
Austrian, and 1000 English.
An exchange says prominent New York
capitalists are about completing ncgotia.
tons for the purchase of 100000 acres o.
the land belonging to the Florida Land
company. The price to be paid is 81 pei
acre, and the purchasers are to have The
privilege of taking 1000, 900 additional acres
| The additional purchase was ! 100000 acres
| for which - cents per acre was paid. Tht
sales oftho first million of acres to the New
York capitalists will pay for the whole pur
chase, S2,001,0O0 upon the other 2,00dO0C
acres will be clear profit and the original
purchasers will retain 100000 acres al
practically no cost.
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