The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Cincinnati Exposition receipts were
little over $4,000 and the expenditures
$4,000.
A Canada town boasts two brothers who
are practcng law in spite of the fact that
they are both deaf mutes.
A new daily paper with n capital of $500
OO0 is to be established in New York. 1t is
to support the administration.
In Canada n member of Parliament re-
ceives 81 900 and mileage for his services.
They make it up in glory and brides.
Archbishop Purcell is now entirely help
less, The Ursulinc Sisters wheel him about
in chair and feed him with spoon.
A paper mill in Holyoke made 2i,5OO
pounds of paper in twenty-tour hours on
one machine-the biggest run on record.
In his diary of European travel the Shah
of Persia says that an Englishman who disc.
bcys policeman is instantly put to death
Some ladies', who have seen all the PIesi-
dents for over thirty years, say that Willard
FILLMORE was the handsomcst of the num-
Der.
The stock and household furniture at
General BurnSde's Edgehill farm, in Bris-
toll, Rhode Island will be sold at auction
on the 10th inst.
Charles Sumner particularly admired
llawthorne's paper ON Civic Banquets."
He said one day that he had reread il three
times for the style.
i. II. Sawyer, formerly of the Rome
(Georgia) Tribune, will have the temcrity
next Monday to launch the Atlanta Even
ing Telegram to take its chances amid the
waves and breakers of daily journalism.
Larboucherc, speaking of the blue and
the red effects of cold upon its victims, saws
that blue checks and lips make woman
look older than she is, while u healthy,
wind-born bloom makes her look younger.
Archibald Macarthur, said to be the old
est man in Scotland died few days ago at
,Dunoon. He was born on September 3,
M, and was thus in in his l0jth year For
many years he carried on eyangeIistic work
among the Gaelic population.
The election OF Flower, (Dcmocrat) in the
Eleventh Congressional district of New
York leaves the Republicans With l4G mem.
bers of the House. They are short one
vote, and expect to reinforce themselves
from the GrecnbaCkers and Virginia Repu-
diationists.
1t is said that the PENNSYLVANIA company
use of the word depot" The word "sta.
ton is to be used on its lines henceiorth;
and the Union Depot at Pit,sburg is TO
he known as the Union Station The word
depot" means q place of storage of
goods, and that railways may have their
depots for freight, but not for passengers.
The Texas Il st, Louis, in conjunction
with the Kansas " Gulf Short Line, has
Just issuoda large map showing the com.
pletcd and prospcctcd routes of each, us
well as connections. The latter road is also
to be narrow gauge, and will start from
Tyler Texas. at which place il will have
connection with the Texas IL st. Louis,
The Kansas Il Gulf Short Line will pcne.
trate Missouri, Colorado, Kansas and New
Mexico, making connections at several
places with the Denver Il Rio Grande.
The lnter-0ccan recently addressed TO
each member of the Iowa Legislature let
ter, asking their sentiments on Che senate.
rial question, OF the one hundred and
fourteen Republicans eighty.one re.
sponded,. Forty.one declare for James Il.
Wilson, five desire their letters confidential,
and twcniy-one of those not heard from are
instructed for Wilson, which will
make his vote at lest sixty-two In tho
caucus being majority of four, and his
friends claim he will receive eighty votes ON
the first ballot
a double assess neYt has been called on
lbs deaths, which, IL appears have been
accommodating for some mon,ls past. The
Supreme Secretary says: 1--WE desire, az
soon possible, TO get in shape to pay
death b'nelits In from thirty TO forty DAYS
from date of death, and by direction of the
Supreme Dictator this assessment Is called
now.n Nearly $4,000 will be collected ON
this double call, which will be the largest
amount ever called for since the order was
organized. There are five deaths on the list
from kentucky.-t Louisville Courier Jour.
nal 9th.
According .toa French collector of Stats.
ties, the total number OF recognized mcdi.
cal men throughout the world is $4,000
and of these the largest number poSsessed
by any individual country belong IN tho
United States. We have, Il appears, a.. 900
ofthem, which Is far in excess of any num-
Der for any other nation. Great Britain and
all her colonies claim only 5000; France
has 1900 Germany and Austria togethcr
not so many rs Great Britain. or 1900 ,
Italy 10000, and Spain 5000. Among all
these doctors 1000 have done something
for medical literature.
Governor Murray refused certificate of
election TO Delegate Cannon, the Mormon,
on tho ground that he was not a citizen. and
no court has yet yontured 10 question the
Governors decision, which was rendered
amer judicial investigation. Now Mr.
Campbell, Cannon's competitor, has nsked
Judge Hunter, of the Federal District
Court, TO annul Cnnnon's pretended .ccrtifl.
cate o. naturalization Cannon entered A
demurrer that the court cannot annul what
Is IN itself fraudulent, thus admitting the