The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The San Francisco fund for a Garfield
statue amounts to $4,000.
Twelve million bushels of coal are float.
ing down the Ohio from Pittsburg.
Sitting Bulls brother-in-law, Brave Bear,
tried to commit suicide the other day.
Car wheels have long been made of paper.
Now they are making them of saw-dust.
1t is said that the combined hotels OF
ton of tooth-picks.
the pressure of other duties, resigned the
office of Secretary of the Royal Society.
He has held it since 1872.
ChamPagne, claret, --hock, port and
brandX from North Carolina, are ex-
hibitetIat the Atlanta Exhibition. All are
said to be of excellent quality.
A st. Louis man bought 5000 gold
brick..for $3.50 and found it was worth about
ten cents, which goes 10 show that as long as
there are fools there will be sharpers.
A man in Colorado short time ago was
sentenced to life of solitary confinement,
and the Judge condemned him to serve out
the balance of his days in the Greenback
party.
The little daughter of Mr.. Francklyn, who
loaned his residence to the sick President
Garfield, a maiden ofnine summers, goes bear
hunting in the Rocky Mountains, in boy S
clothes, with her father.
"Night-singing canaries" are advertised
by the bird fanciers. Their popularity j.
that they sing by gaslight just as they do
in the daytime. Fortunately, they are
quiet when the gas is out.
Gathering buffalo bones along the, extern
sion of tm Texas d Pacific Railroad is an
extensive industry. Hundreds of wagons
and teams are engaged in the business, and
the bones sell for SIP per ton.
President Grevy has established telepho-
mic communication between the Elysee and
the Opera Comique at the Theatre Fran
caise. and intends giving series Of tele-
phonic "at homes" this winter.
There has been already 5000 applica-
tions made to the Irish Land Court for re-
duction of rent under the Land Bill. The
reductions will average about % per cent.
on the rent formerly paid by tenants.
Governor Hawkins, of Tennessee, has
called a special session of the Legislature
ofthat State to meet on December 9TH 10
consider nine subjects for legislation, the
most important being the redistricting Of
the State.
Senator Lamar's residence, at Oxford.
Miss, is an ordinary, fiat-rOofed, one-story
house, modestly furnished. The dwelling
of Senator Brown, at Griffin, Ca, Is just a.
unpretentious, though Mr.. Brown is man
Of wealth.
Frederick L. Olmstead, who is paid s5.-
900 year by the government as landscape
engineer Of the capitol grounds, has been ap-
pointed a consulting landscape architect 20
The New York Department Of Public Parks
at a salary Of $500.
Miss Emma Thhrsby has returned to
Paris from professional tour in Scandina-
via, which has been a great success. She
gave fifty-three concerts in Norway. Den
mark and Sweden. which were attended br
nearly 10000 people.
The father 81 a hazed freshman at Bow
dOin hazbrouglit suit for $1,000 from each
Of seven sophOufOres and Juniors, who. In
the course Of their cOWardly spgrt. threw
piece ofcoal through the freshman's VIII
dow and injured bis sight.
A man who was called thief by two
Boston papers sued them for libel. and was
awarded one cent damages in each cnse.
There are not a few self-imT1rtant men
whose repurafions. II put up nt auction.
would bring no more fifan this
III Nar Marefzek recorgTs the full arn0urt
ufthe darnare SO. .925l fyr which be has
sued Nrne Patti. she VII have occasion
- rernenber her little trip 70 this cguntrV.
and perhsrs terrish that she had CHARGED
md receired-S5 q seat Instead 0f SO.
Donlinz1 Earnns died recently IN the lac
enda - AuaT.asco. Nerico, e. the ratri-
s-rcllal ara of "A. Tea-s- His r1eUcrT an1
frDerEl bealfh we're r'eriecI ~ the last At
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