The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-14
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the sand lots folka
The Japanese are trying hard to get their
tea trade eatrely in their own hands.
Jefferson Davis has purchased q building
lot in fashionable part of Washington.
Alexandra Dumas says that Sarah Bern.
hsrdt has returned from "the other world"
General B. F. Butler and General Roger
A. Prior are about 10 form law partner.
ship.
Notwithstanding the resignation of Mr..
LIE Due, tea will continue to be raised in
China.
A probable rising of the Brazilian slaves
is the latest Encouraging news from that
section.
Lord Butte is building q magnificent
mansion in Scotland, with outer walls five
feet thick.
Queen Victoria says that young Disraeli
has his uncle's eyelashes. The queen is q
close observer.
Roscoe Conkling has now been in private
life full two weeks, and the country still
seems to hold together.
In many box factories the nails arc now
driven by machinery, one machine doing the
work of ten or fifteen men.
President Porter of Yale college, has de-
clared his intention Of using the revised new
testament in the college chapel
Albany is.to bs partly lighted by electri.
city this week. Whether this will brighten
the political situation remains to be seen.
Mr.. Dorsey is reported to look seedy and
broken down, AMI yet it Is only seven short
months since he saved the country.
Mr.. Conkliug speaks Of the caricstures of
himself in the periodical papers with undis>
guised contempt" Same way with Mr..
Plat.
1t is said that the half.breeds are going to
curl Conkling's hair so tight that he cannot
sit down-at least in the United States senate
chamber.
An American officer who has been visiting
Gibralta says that the coat of the Eoglish
soldier is so tight that he cannot lift his rifle
to his shoulder
Bishop Simpson has engaged passage on
the steamship City of Berlin to take part in
the great ecu enical Methodist council, to
be held in London.
The prison doors have closed on Mr..
Slsmm, Of Philadelphia. lie was a con,
ductor, and fai ed to punch in tho presence
OF the passenjsire.
Mr. Haverly says that he is going to have
two "fashion boxes" in his new Chicago the.
atre, so arranged that ladies occupying them
may be perfectly seen by the audience.
The Chinese do not seem inclined to Dor.
row any monty outside their own country,
but a small share of the proposed loan ia
likely to find its way into foreign hands.
Anti-tobacconism seems to be a growing
virtue in colleges. West Point, Cornell, An
napolis naval school, Oberlin and Girard,
are among the colleges in which tobacco is
not used.
A son of the late secretary of war, STAN
ton, has lately married the daughter of Mrs.
Phillips, the woman whom General Butler
sent to Ship island for insulting Union roll
diers in New Orleans.
The father of the late Commodore Mutt
was New Hampshire farmer, six feet two
inches In height. The Commodore's height
was three feet seven inches, and for three
years, it is said, Barnum paid him salary of
$4,000.
The King Of Corea Is monarch of en-.
lightened ideas, but his intercourse with thu
Japanese from whom he desires to learn
how to advance the interests of his kingdom)
and with other foreigners is strongly opposed
by his people.
Anna Dicktnsons latest idea is to act the
hero, Aurelian, in q play which she wrote
fNp Inh p Mn(v NIL II
was then intended that she should appear as
the heroine, Zenobis, with the tragedian as
Aurelian, but the project fell through.
There is an honest barber, and he is q
Frenchmsn. He says that in twenty five
years he has tried 500 hair restoratives on
bald heads, and be has never seen hair
grow on head once become bald. Tell
this to your tonsorial artist the next time he
offers you sure thing.
Chairmen of railroad companies in Eng
land do not indulge 10 sumptuous private
cars at the shareholders expense Special
cars are provided for the queen, whose
journeys are estimated at $4,000 year,
and Lord Londerry and the Duke of Suth.
erland have private cars, but they pay for
them.
Garfield is to be presented with more
horses by his grateful constituents, and the
government, instead of building new
white house, will have to build new stable.
Judge Advocate ID. g. Swain is in Kansas
City, where he has left orders for three to be
sent on TO Washington to the president.
Anonymous letters, says the London
World, have been at all times the favorite,
as they are the most obvious, expedients Of
towards, ours, and other veromous reptiles
who stink and sting The weernn is so
simple, and apparently 81 s7',, taat any idiot
who can muster s.Ii-.s.. mslignity may
use It.
The Emperor of China has the measles.
BE is II years old. The Empress Dowsger
OF the east Ia dead, and she Of the west is
very sick. If these illnesses should result
fatally the power will come into the hands Of
the little emperor's father, Prince Chup, who
isopposed to all progress and is an enemy Of
u Hung Chong, who advocates railway and
oil the modern improvements.
Washington Territory is q great lumber
country. According to Gov. Newell, the
average size of the Fir, full grown,::s about
six feet In diameter, and many of them stand
three hundred feet high. The saw mills cut
2O) 100000 feet Of lumber annually. Late,
y.,nine pieces of lumber, each 154.. feet long
and Two feet square, and several planks, each
IVA feet long, were cut, One treo alone has
produced 5000 feet OF lumber,
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