The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-09
mrs OF INTEREST.

The Mormon Church is equlpplng loo
missionaries 10 gather in recruits IN the
barem which the United States is keeping
in Utah.
Horse-shoes are now being made OF cork.
II will be a lucky thing for the human race
when the hind shoes of mule are made OF
the same material.
Twenty thousand pounds of public docu-
ments went from the Capitol TO the Junk
shop on Saturday, the Public Treasury be-
ing enriched $500 by the movement.
The 'beefeaters" of the Tower of Lon
don. so often spoken of, get their names
from a corruption of the French word buff
ietiers, or walters on the royal table.
Patti calls herselfS5 and is said to look
AS if still in her twenties. We saw her in
The leading part of Nose in "Egyto" and
other operas in 1858, and doubt the 35.
The Archduke Royal of.Austria has
earned the eight to be ranked with authors
nv publishing in two volumes the Tour in
the Orient" a journey taken last year.
The remarkable information has been OBJ
tanned by the Troy Times that ''in one of
the New York theatres half of the &C
tresses are amateurs and belong to good
New York families"
A religious paper printed at Poohah,
India, saws of young woman who commit
ted suicide: "She ended her virtuous life in
the cool retreat afforded by convenient
and outrageous well.
A comparison Of the increase of popula-
ton With the works of the railroad builders
will show, the San Francisco Chronicle
notes, that the latter are not ahead of the
demand for transportation facilities.
Edward Richardson, of Mississippi, is the
largest cotton raiser in the world. He gets
1900 bales of cotton annually from $1,000
acres. He gins, spins and weaves it and has
oil mills. His wealth is put at $50 100000.
The census reports shrink the area OF
Texas considerably from what We have
heretofore estimated it-274,7S0 square
miles-stating it at 265,7 S0 square miles.
No wonder the public lands are disappear
ing"
A flirting belle of Akron, Ohio, has
caused q social excitement by having all the
love letters she has received bound hand
somely in morocco volume for her parlor
table, in place OF an ordinary, autograph
album.
Mrs. General Bander has returned from
Europe and is now at home in Washing
ton. Her two sons are with her, one hay
ing returned from his first theatrical tour
and the other being at work preparing for
Harvard.
The "od school boys" of Boston have
been holding a meeting to protest against
too much study by children. The normal
school pupils have been prohibited from
studying more than three hours day out
of school.
State Engineer Seymour, of New York,
whose term of Office expires January 1, has
accepted charge of 100000 acres of wood
land in Wisconsin, owned by Boston syn
dictate, and will soon remove to Appleton,
Wisconsin.
A new theory of the so-called fascination
of birds by snakes is that the the bird mis-
takes the snakes tongue, which the reptile
keeps in constant motion for a lively worm
and watches it with the expectation of
devouring it,
Signor ISalvni's eldest daughter has Just
been married in Florence to Sisnor Ca
brielli, young lawyer Of that city. Next
month Salvini goes to Alexandria and ex-
poets togo to London in May to act with
an English company.
If Guitequ is found guilty of murder,
Judge Cox will have the authority, under
the revised statutes of the District of Col
umbia, to direct that his body, after hang
ing until he is dead shall be delivered to Il
surgeon for dissection.
Mrs. NTarlclu is SOOH 10 nc uluuc llle re-
cipient ora silk dress, the first of which
every part was produced in this country
The silk was reeled by the Woman's silk
Culture Association, and is said to equal
the best Italian article.
The Christmas issue of the London
Graphic will number 100000 copies, and
will be printed on $50 tons of paper. The
estimated cost i: $4,000 for artists and
authors, $4,000 for paper and $4,000 for
printing, The figures are startling,
Mr.. Longfellow who. has been and is still
suffering from attacks of vertigo, which
have confined him to his house, kept
Thanksgiving Day by reading TO friend u
poem entitled "Hermes Trismegistus,n re-
Gently composed by the venerable poet.
The Patti concerts in Boston promise n
comparatively greater success in a pecu-
MARY way than they received in New York.
The tickets for the four concerts are SIS
each, and the first afternoons sales
amounted to Sill, 200, which is better than
Boston ever did for any artist before.
An IDIOT assuming to live at Milwaukee,
Wis, writes an anonymous letter to Wash
ingten, addressed to Judge Cox, Mr.. SEQ
vile and the jury in the Guiteau case, in
forming .these gentlemen that he is the
leader of thousand men in Milwaukee
who have sworn to hang the lawyers, the
judge and the Jury, in case Guiteau shall
not be convicted.
Mrs. Roscoe Conkling and Mr.. and
Mrs. Oakley recently engaged rooms
for the winter at Mrs. Storey's,
No. II West Forty-second street,
New York, Mrs Oakley, the
married daughter of Mr.. Conkling, took a
severe cold, and her health became so bad
that last week they gave up their rooms
and returned to Utica, where they will re-
main for the winter.
A Philadelphia theatrical wig-maker
says that Clara Louise Kel-
logg wears q profusion of blonde
hair yard long as Marguerite at
cost Of 500, but, rs rule, wigs on the
stage are cheap limitations. The curly brown
wig worn by Jefferson as Rip Van Ninkle
weighs less than an ounce, and is considered
amarvel of good workmanship, while the
gray one cost $50. Rose Wood lately paid
$50 for blonde wig, Ada Gilman 1925, Mar
ion Boots 500, and Fanny Davenport sos
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