The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Paris is. going to spend S90,OOO,VO to I'M
I'VE her water supply.
,tthe Sunderland library sale Latin
HE of62 sold for l,6o0pounds,
If ninetv-four papers published in Ne
1ska, eighty favor Woman Suffrage
n Alsace. | orraine the use of the French
,rnace has been prohibited IN ofiiclai
cles.
Nv yanderbilts wedding gift to his
nchter will be a quarter OF a million IN
lied States Government bonds.
nd members believe that the present
sion of Congress will be an extremely
4. and interesting one.
Isaac Bassett, the doorkeeper of the Sem
, Chamber. has held positions there for
~ years. He was appointed a page by
.niel Webster.
At the village of Morita, in Echizen, ia
n a field of 800 yards square was swal-
we'd up during an earthquake and turned
% deep lake.
ioyernor Cornell is President of COM
nv which has Just made a purchase of
) Natural Bridge of Virginia, intending
make il q summer resort.
The services of Doctors Hamilton, Agnew
4 Bliss, as medical attendants upon the
q President are valued at $4,000. Con-
PISS will pay the bill.
The Princess Helene, the fiancee of Prince
thur is the fourth daughter of the Prince
Waldeck- Pyrmont, and just eight years
niger than her future husband.
Tho wife of John Davis, the Presidents
iyate Secretary, is to be the lady of the
hite House. She is daughter of Mr..
the future Secretary of
ate.
rbe Nova Scotia authorities are con-
inc with the Medical Society OF the
nyince AZ Halifax with reference to diph-
pria, which last year killed 1900 of the
habtants.
, correspondent of the Hartford Courant
&c that his dress, air and manner are
ose of an Englishman, and that in his
neral contour OF the lace ana form he re-
mbles the Prince of Wales.
Two Philadelphia mechanics claim to
We discovered device for running street
rs bv a series of powerful. steel springs.
the end of each trip the car is to be
,und up like clock.
Five millions of acres of Florida lands
are recently sold for fifty cents per acre,
an immigration company. and an Eng
n company have purchased half-mil-
N acres in Mississippi at. eighty cents per
re.
Every painting of the great masters in
ONE is now photographed, and some of
le photographs are sold in the Eternal
ity at cent apiece. The well-known
ealer, Piale, on the Piazza di Spagna,
ways keeps 900 900 of them on hand.
A Paris photographer has succeeded in
king photograph in a hundredth part of
second. He shows series of six OBJ
lined during the leap of a clown,
it'll all the changes of position faithfully
produced.
Henry James, Jr., the novelist is now
Early 40 years old. He is a man of me-
ium height, of firm figure, and full and
lldy face. His hair and eyes are dark, his
Nehead is high, his full beard close
ppped.
The Rev. T. Il. Aldrich, pastor at Mid
|etOwn, Connecticut, has been arrested tor
Fatng his wife. He has been successful
importance worker, but, it is charged, usu-
[y got drunk after every sermon, and
dipped his wife when he got home.
Each year on the Prince of Wales birth
~ his three young daughters play before
ina short dramatic piece TO show their
lOgresS in foreign tongues. Last year the
lection was from the German this year it
Es French. The young Princesses, Louise,
Edoria and Maud, acquitted themselves
Fmirably in their respective parts.
AN exchange says that "at Boston we'd
PISS the newest feature is to have the
fde and bridegroom stand during the
|emony in a floral grotto made. OF
ffySanthemums, asters, lilies, passion
(wers, and smilaX." AT Chicago we'd
Hgs the newest feature is for the groom to
|stle around and get living for himself
p vile after they are married.
Food and Health" recommends, as an
tiidotc against infection Gn smallpox,
trlet fever and diphtheria) the fumes OF
ping mault vinegar. 1t is claimed that
tey dispel infectious particles rapidly and
their virulence, particularly IL used IN
pc. Where these fumes are used win
Tvs and doors should be closed and not
ened for about twenty minutes. Alter
time the fresh air can be freely admit
When these fumes are used repeat
" disease will assuredly be kept OIL"
Among the ,23i civil engineers of Eng.
|ld, last year 81 became insane. The same
fhappy fate befcll 10 of 5,SOi painters and
lIptors; only - of 5000 architects and
ptractors; IS of 20,64 clergymen OF the
[ablshed Church; l45 of 234,71S masons,
cklayers and stonecutters; l32 Of l06.S2i
Enters, GLACIERS, and paperstainers; and
Of 2l5 ,694 carpenters. Only II cases Of
fmanent insanity were reported among
100, l43 authors, journalists, reporters,
transators, male and female, of the
! gdom.
lew York Times; A people of fifty mil
do not need to be directed by Congress
order to secure variety in their occupa-
rs, They know far better than the mis-.
aneous collection OF three hundred and
citizens at Washington what they can
protitably engage in, and If the law
lld only leave them to carry out their
IDEAS they would be abundantly able
pok out for themselves. 1t does not en-
Page diversity of occupations to tax
te or four industries to maintain copper
Pes, or q thousand industries to give
Ee profits to Bossemer steel mills.
hmense frauds have been suspected fol
e time in the construction department
be Atchison, Topeka h Santa Fe Rail
at Topeka. The matter has beer
lly traced to the Roadmaster and, section
man oftheEastern Division from Topek'
htehison and Topeka to Kansas City. Tit
OF operation was by issuing bogus
checks to fictitious persons for labo
ormed, and indorsing the checks Il
les who presented them to the Treas
and received payment. About twenty
persons in all are implicated in tn,
", including many well.knoun an,
thy citizens OF Topeka.
It
yIoian's Advice ofhow to Gain Health
HARRtsBuRG, Pa, March 30, 1881.
Plhing is more charming and attractiv,
a tlornuu hlv haaitky nprfpptlv formed