The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-08

bot survived a trip across the Atlantic, and
were transferred to American waters at
Brighton Beach, near New York. The
chance that these dainty edibles will be seen
on American tables next season is little
slim at present.
Two pieces Of star route reformation are
reported. The route between Helena and
Missouri, NJ. r., has been reduced from
slS, 730to S6,2i5, the original contract price,
while that from Battle City to New Chicago,
NJ T., is reduced from Sl2,6.7 to S7,2l5, Il
saving to the country of $l1N6 on the two
routes.
1t is not often that Parsans express en-
vious feelings toward London. Some of
the art lovers mt the French capital have
been stirring thmselves to establish an in
ton museum, and with good prospects of
success,
At the beginning Of the present year
Sweden had $50 counts To 63 families whose
heads had seats in the now abolished house
of nobels. Of these counts, GO were Hamil-
tons, and Of the / ,0S5 barons, As were Fleet
woods and y Bcnnets, the descendants of
Scotch and English cadets of old families
General o. b. Wilcox, commanding the
department of Arizona, is reported engaged
to the widow of a Chicago millionaire, and
will go east to be married as soon us he can
be spared from the Apache country. Sec
ond Lieutenant Il. +. Wilcox, twelfth in
iantry, is also, it is reported, about to be
married.
According to MilMnesc journal, the pre-
feet of one Of the first cities OF Italy, who is
Il rich landowner, has, in this civilized age,
rcsortcd to leudal custom, obliging his
field laborcrs to wear an iron muzzle during
the 6 ape harvest, to prevent them from
tasting few punches OF grapes, The fact
was noticed last year. and yet the said pre-
feet still represents the government.
The street car companies ofNew York now
favor the elevated roads, which they ut first
] Utterly opposed. They now carry thou
sands and thousands of passengers who
want short rides. They are relieved of the
burden of carrying passengers all the way
from the Battery to Harlem The people
who want the long rides climb the lofty
rails and sit at their ease in comfortable
cars.
Vegetable food in Arizona is unique. The
most curious production is the fruit of the
cereus giganteus, which is gathered BY the
Indians and the Mexcans The tree grows
from forty TO sixty feet high, and the fruit
is gathered with poles, with fork and u
hook at the end, The juice is expressed for
moIasses and stored in earthenware jugs !;
the pulp is pressed for winter bread.
The ball to be given to Americas foreign
guests in New York on the 9TH of Noyem-
Der, promises to be of unsurpassed bril-
liancy. The tickets, admitting one person
only, are $40, and of 500 to be Issued, all
but 100 have been sold. The president and
his cabinet, the French and German lcga-
lions, officers of the French men-ol-war, and
Generals Grant and Hancock are among tho
invited guests
Eighteen men, composing Il government
party, have just returned to Port
land, oregon, from summers campaign
They began operations in Canyon, Grant
county, and traversed an area of $50 miles.
They surveyed fourteen townships in the
John Day country, and fourteen in the
Wallowa region, The latter will soon be
sought by settlers, as the Snake and I'M
maha rivers will be improved so as to give
an outlet TO Wullowa valley, formerly occu-
pied by Chief Joseph.
a society for the promotion of experiment.
tation in navigation OF the air has been
formed in Berlin. All plausible ideas and
inventions in that direction arc to be cncour
aged, aided and thoroughly tested. A per
mancnt station for giving aerial voyagers n
good start on their flying trips, is to be pro-
vided. The main object of the associat ion
will be the attainment of some practical
and trustworthy method of steering bal
looms or other air ships, this being the first
point to be overcome, and no progress be-
ing possible without it.
Henry Clask, of Prattsburg, New York,
married against his fathers wishes and was
shown the door. He thereupon leased
thirty acres of good land, which he nut in
potatoes, doing all his work himself. The
thirty acres have yielded him four thous-
and bushels, eight hundred bushels of
which he sold for $500, and the remainder
of the crop bringing him 80 cents per
bushel, or total sum of $500, with net
profit, after deducting all expenses, of 81
1OO-morc than his father has made in two
seasons OIL four times the amount of ground
cultivated,
The ruins of the temple of Solomon, in
Jerusalem, are to be restored by special or
der of the sultan, without further delay
They have long been in an extremely neg
lccted condition, and almost buried from
sight beneath all manner of debris and re.
fuse. Directions to put them into as pre-
sentahlc shape as practicable were given by
the late Abdul Azi2, at the time of the
Austrian emperor VISIT anu the work was
actually begun; but II was abandoned
again, The Immediate cause for its renewal
at the present lime is the recent visit of the
Austrian crown prince,
The works tor utilizing some of the enor
nous water-power of Niagara river are now
in progress under the auspices of the new
company formed not long since. In 1850 O
canal thrce-quarters of mile long, IS feet
wide and 10 feet deep, with fall of feet
was constructed The canal leaves the river
above the falls and emptics into reservoir
below. Four wheels were in operation for.
merly The new company has nearly com
plcted whecl-pit near the reservoir 40 feet
long by 20 feet wide, and sunk in the solid
rock SIS feet. In this pit will be placed three
large wheels, to which the water will be led
by huge iron pipes This will give al
available head Of lSi feet, and the possible
ties OF power seem inexhaustible.