The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The number of Hebrews in the world i
estimated to be 6 800 600 of whom 5,5O0,OO
are in Europe and about 300,000in America
Miss Ullmann, of New York, IS suini
Harry H. Meyer, young dry goods deale
of Richmond, Va, for $25OOO. Breach
promise.
Jacob Lorilard and others, of New York
intend organizing a tran-atlantic Steamship
Company, to be known as the American
Express Line.
An eel got into water-pipe and stopped
big New England mandatory. Congress
should Immediately give manufacturer
protection from eels
<fThe nail-carrier between Vergennes an!
addison, vt, is a plucky woman, who il
noted for making her trip of twelve mile
day on time in any sort of weather
Henry Ward Beecher, in the course of {
sermon delivered in Plymouth church re
Gently, defined malaria as big blanke
spread over the earth for doctors to hide
their Ignorance under.
James Carver cut off Patrick Barry's nose
at Preston, Connecticut, a year and hal
ago. The piece was put back where it be
longed, and the feature though hardly
perfect is quite presentable.
A Chicago car, crowded with ladies, and
among them half dozen or more young
girls, rosy with health, kept their seats and
allowed mother with a heavy baby to
stand. Mothers with heavy babies should
buy an omnibus.
At Abiline, Kansas, the other day bow,
Jet black, in the shape Of rainbow, was
observed spanning the heavens from east
TO west. 1t Immediately succeeded snow
storm, or appeared while the latter part Of
the storm was in progress, the sky being
over-clouded at the time.
At the wedding of August Belmont, Jr..
and Miss Bessie Hamilton, in the Church
Of the Ascension. New York, there was a
wilderness Of tropical plants and flowers.
There were about fifty African palms Of va
rious sizes, some of them being from TWEEN
ty-fiye to thirty-hye feet high"
A wax-worl figure Of Franklin, on ex-
bibition in France, is labelled: Franklin.
inventor of electricity. This
savant, after having made seven voyages
around the world, died oD the Sandwich
Islands, and was devOured by savages, OF
whom not single fragment was ever re-
covered"
The Shah Of Persia fell violently in love
with the Princess Of Wales during his
visit to England some years ago, and about
snce a year makes tempting oiier 20 the
him two Of his best wives, his mother and
his grandmother, in exchange for Alexan-
dria, but Wales still declines.
The wooden midshipman celebrated in
DOmbey q Son is being removed TO fresh
quarters, and the old shop Of Sol Gills will
be pulled down In the course Of city i'm
prOvemeuts. A paper on the little officer
and his connection with Charles Dickens,
hy Mr.. J. A. S.elny. vii appear in an early
number Of All the fear Round.
A farmer living six or seven miles from
LIncoin went 20 that place q short time ago
and obtained virus 20 raccinafe himself and
family. Taxing the liftle-blnde % his
knife, be performed the operation On his
arm. shorty afterunrd he trimmed his
c1rrs With THE same k1ife. and j took beau
tifully upon both the corns and upon tie
arm.
Sarah ]. Roiinson vent into a store at
Aliiston. Ontario. and handed three loz-
eures ~ 1sear e. 7rrce. who had paid her
ntteutirn f1r seven yezrs, but vas 1tl9ut n
b rn1rriel o. ar0iter wo1nan- he con
fectiu1arr contained strFclniBe. and it Ees
viii ertsi diflrulfT thst B9Tcs : lile vas
sa~ed- he refused ~ rg~r,sec1ie ms Former
fE-nt. altb1urh the nsr<.ne has deserted
him
6ens-rl Esrf- Ir-rnrrnce1 as II resi
ihii.-' j. q retire ~ CIEfk county. Dtic.
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