The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-25
ITEMs OF INTEREST.

Charles Dudley Warner will winter in
Italy.
Mrs. Burnett makes 5000 year off her
stories.
Mr. Archibald Forbes will write book
on "Thc South Of To-day"
Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, resembles
in appearance Henry Ward Beechcr.
Longfellow has Just been elected u men,
Der Of the Halifax Historical Society.
The new carriage in which Mrs. John W.
Mackay takes her airings in Paris cost
S3l 900.
General Stoneman has raised $4,000
worth of grapes ON his vineyard at Los An
selos, California, this year.
The steamship st. Louis, which sailed on
Saturday for New Orleans, took out l7s
passengers, mostly agriculturalists, for
Texas.
A large brick tea factory, 10 miles from
Foochow, owned by Russian firm, was de
stroyed by fire. Tho Chinese workmen, of
whom 500 were employed, declined TO rem
der the foreign manager assistance in check
ing the flames, and Afterwards stoned him
on the premises.
New York City has n foreign trade of
nearly $900000,000 London of $9l4 100000
and Liverpool of $93l 100000. Hull has Il
foreign trade of $lSS.00O,0O0, standing the
third port in Great Britain, and $4,000, 600
higher than Boston, while Glasgow stands
fourth and above New Orleans
Mr.. Frederick Douglass, after a life Of
strange vicissitudes, is spending his latter
days in comfortable prosperity. lie is the
possessor of 100000 or more, and his Office
provides HIM with an annual salary of
1900 His duties are easily performed
and he has leisure for writing and lee
turing.
Gcrome, the French artist, is of a very
peculiar personal appearance. He is de-
scribed as zone of the thinnest of murtais,
and seems mainly to consist of profus,on
Of iron-gray hair and beard and Il pair Of
piercing dark eyes, the rest OF him being too
tleshles3 and fragile to be taken into CON
sideration."
A NeM Jersey widow couldn't earn six
dollars q week at the wash-tub. She be-
came n clairyoyant, and her income in.
creased 10 sixty. 1t Just shows that man
begrudgcs the quarter he pays for washing
his shirt, while he will checrfully give a
dollar to stick his nose into the other world
before the show begins.
The Palace of St. Cloud, near Paris. which
ever since the war Of 1870 has been a mere
heap of ruins, is to be demolished. and am
editice constructed on its site, which, il i,
hoped, may some day prove rival to the
famous building at Sydenham. The new
Crystal Palace will be completed by next
summer. No better situation could pos
sibly have been selected. The gardens
are still well cared for and the park is
superb, while st. Cloud is within an easy
distance of Paris by boat or train.
Ole Bull, the Norwegian vioini.t, under.
took 10 start colony in Pennsylvania a
quarter OF a century ago. lie bought forty
square miles. OF wild mountainous, Nor
way-like land in Porter county, brought
over 500 Norwcgians, built houses for them
like those they had left behind and set him
self up for II kind of ruling patron The
enterprise was failure and the three vii
lagos which he founded are to-day almost
deserted, while the original coonist. are
scattered. The music hall was recently
torn down.
A young man writes that hc would like
to become a member of the Young Mems
Christian Association, but that he is He
brew; and he wishes to know whether this
would be reason for not accepting him,
Taking into consideration the fact that the
Divine Founder of the Christian religion
| was Jew; that His mother, whom all the
world calls blessed, was JcwcSs: that tho
twelve apostles and the seventy preachers
which lie chose to propagate the faith were
| all Jews, and that the Christian Church fol
a long time was composed wholly of Jews
We should say that the Young Mems Chris
| tian Association should not reject Jew
who asks for admission
The oldest and the richest convict in IN,
| Ohio Penitentiary is one Horace Brooks
who is new "A years OF age, and has beer
owned farm in the suburbs of ClcvelanC
away back in 1850, through which railway
passed One time the cars ran over som,
sheep, for which the company refused tC
pay damages. To avenge this wron,
Brooks obstructed the track and threw OF
passenger train, in which five persons wer,
killed. He was arrested, tried for murder
and sentenced to the pcnitcntary for life
At the time of his conviction he was yer,
rich, and his wealth is now enormous. hi
farm having since become part of the cit,
of Cleveland.
The Augusta Chronicle makes zoo,
point in reminding the Southern publ
that the beginnings Of manufacturing en-
tcrprise need not be on prodigious scale
and that the vastest industry in Americ
has been built up gradually by establish
ments costing not much over 5000 an
even under that figure. 1t rejoices tina
mammoth mills have been successfully cor
summated, But, IN future Il says, let III
people Of Augusta invest their own capitt
in smaller institutions that can always h
enlarged when the opportunity arrives. |
New England, too, The operatives then
selves take stock IN the cotton factories
and thereby share In the profits of combinc
J labor aud capital.
III .---D-o S.