The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-17
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SANGER, BROS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The United States army numbers 2l,C0O
men.
There are 100000 Masons in the United
States.
The total school fund of Kansas is S11,-
Sl5,5l9.20.
-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-fve years old, is shortly to be married to
Miss Hall, girl of twenty-one. The in
tended bride is his niece by marriage
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 25c.; fry, 25c.; broil or roast,
"Take tlS/Elevator, is inscribed on the
fence of IN iowa meadow. A curious tray
eler wh8 climbed the fence discovered in
about ten seconds that the elevator Is OF a
dark brndlc color, with curl in the mid
die of his forehead.
Emperor William is complaining because
his enthusiastic female admirers throw bou-
uuets AZ him so rccllcssly whencVer nc ap-
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 increesed from 1878
in 1876 to 21 800 in 1850. The largest num-
Der of deaths occurred in Bengal, where 10
O64 persons died from snake bites and 3j9
were killed by tigers.
The monument TO Prince Louis Napo-
leon, which it was proposed at one time TO
erect In Westminster Abbey, has been
placed in the Braye chapel, in the nave Of
81 Georges, Windsor. 1t is q very beauti-
full piece of sculpture. Queen Victoria in
tends TO fill the windows Of the Braye
chapel with stained lass.
Complaint is made that the California
element" is sdemOralizing New York by ex-
trayagance of the most foolish kind, and
vulgar display and ostentatiOn. IL Is also
alleged by the fastidiOus and would-be ex-
elusive that the Pacific coast people are
cloud" 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 disbsnding the Con
federate army Of Northern Virginia. MI.
Vest saws the paper was placed in his hands
by 'one who was loyal to the cause Tor
which that army fought. and who accepted
in good faith the results OF its defeat
Some Canadian women have organized
sort Of cooperative society for the impOrta-
tiOn of servant girls from the United King
dom. The discouraging fact about the
movement is that after the girls are induced
10 come across the water the danger Of
losing them by matrimony is in almost eK-
act proportion 10 their intelligence and
uscfulness.
II Is now officially announced by the
Could managers that the much-talked-Of
Wagner sleepers viii he placed on Tie Iron
Mountain and Texas pacIfic December I.
The Pullman contract expires about that
time. and il is intimated. though not ofiici-
ally that ns fast a. the Pullman CONTRACTS
er.Bfre on other of GOuld's roads the Wag-
ners would be substituted j i denied that
Gould has any Wagner stock.
A docifon announced ily tire C0nseit Iron
C0muanr tfust b. regarded as significant
n tie present time. Tint company has
hern one Of the most fortunate d all those
surar-d ~ northern metal llrEy. lt bought
fmmense fr0n-uorks and c1llcri.s in the
northwest q Durliam q a very l0U. price,
and bT iudirious crpeuditure anl good
management j. has paid r7pri1erln- disi,
dEuls ~ NAM Terrs- DTrr --rles ri
vears u paid Is pfr ccr.-- pef nnnufn
~ iis f1rfuna-e sltrthcilers. and IN TIE
LAT rr0 years if has rellrl.l'l p rer reiIf-
~ rrnIm. ard -iror q l1orus in nlli11n-
T1Ia=s lnres re-rlis. rU-.tri51tcd - ~ the
coke rnaruf1r-rre. have heer Chiefly e.
tafn1l ~ tLr irln trade. and n1iailT II tie
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