The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mr., d. 0. Mills, the well-known capital
isl and speculator, is reported to be dying o
Brlght's disease, in Chicago.
Ex-senator Sharon's health has so far i'm
proved that he is able to drive occasionally
in the suburbs of San Franciso.
A horse that was supporting Joe Muir
ply, in Kerry Cow fell off from the
stage in Chicago and broke its back.
A REPUBLICAN organ says the indications
are that Pennsylvania will become a politi.
cal storm centre during the next year.
The Parisans have eaten II 900 horses
and 80 mules and jackasses this year and
II was poor season for fresh meat too.
Mrs, Garfield receives from thirty to sixty
lmpudent begging letters daily. She has
placed the literary estate of her husband in
the hands of Colonel Rockwell.
Twenty thousand pounds of public docu.
ments went from the Capitol to the Junk
shop, on Saturday, the public Treasury be-
ing enriched $500 by the movement.
Abram S. Hewitt returned from Europo
yesterday, to find the party he hoped
would make him Governor gone to the
demnltlon bow-wows. Such is fate.
Mr.. Daniel Manning will find his efforts
Tor lilden's proteges loves labor lost. They
are wanted very far in the rear so far back
that they will never be heard from again.
They are burning brick in Northern
Dakota with twisted hay. 1t is claimed
that a kiln of brick can be burned in
twenty-ieur hours by the use of this ma
terial.
G. Il. Williams, South Deerfeld Mass,
from dairy Of ten Jersey COWS, between
october ., 1880, and August !, 1881, period
OF ten months, obtained butter product
aggregating about 1888 pounds.
According to the Atlanta Constitution
Georgia has gold in thirty-three counties,
copper in thirteen, iron in forty-three
diamonds in twenty-six, whisky in al. of
them, and the last gets away with all the
rest,
Darwin says that dogs do not fight until
one gives the other the lie. Then the dog
which lies begins to fight to prove that he
is the injured party. From all of which we
infer that dogs don't know any more than
men.
Samuel j. Tilden answered an invitation
to be present at the opening of the Cakes
Ames Memorial by saying: at would
crafty me to join with his old neighbors in
paying, by my presence, feeble tribute of
respect to the memory Of one who has a
title to rank among his countrys benefac-
tors"
To the averooe c;tizan,s Wow tbo fact
that the Government has u surplus of $780,
100000 derived from internal revenue tax
alton and the present tariff, argues pretty
conclusiyely that the former could be low
cred and the latter reduced and leave the
Government with as large, if not larger
surplus.
FIororoo Nicb,oo,. :,
wears and her long Confinement to an inv n.
lids sofa, looks voIlnp and even handsome
Her fair face is unwrinkIed her large brown
ewes are full of kindness and sbe 10 still
deeply and actively interested in vor; S'l,s
practical works for t6e relief of the sicI, md
the poor. ''''
Low corI1,, o la ,,.
roS;dyon wuiu sLoohlIo9ses, ~ ms SUMMER
t b,,n1 On tne HUDSON, whlch were
built. They are S72 fert LONG nv eighty
wide. and il reouires sixteen men 05O ions
of coal and five large furnaces 10 tronsfSrm
the freezing mir TO tronicol dnring thn win.
ter season
IoonoI5 ., al, ;., c,
Oraop oF SmJ U,iiy ui' fJ sSn 2l we
SS.; VI IInfiau' mas i4uLlu ms iate III 'le
WniJooI, fo,,nth r nLud w nususSsa vi
Viotor n,,d p.;a.N SliIn nI vi my ueSIse
late Wilhelm. Duke of Nassau. The prin.
cess is in her twenty-first wear. Leopold is
eight years older.
Thc Tordnn T;r,oo hosor o.,;o,o o,,
,,o,,n,, i'V tnInYn nnos iiSs W. ni'iCle upon
p oo Sue-mt .io new Molu,
os 70 ussu N . ieia.ion W ene teIcpllo;ne
"1 di ~ 70 W VIZ oiIei eigu.Ilc llaolliie
10 COX nno III ~ 10 s.oteu .lia' .iere aTc now
do ioU"i a nHn n Se''t III loiluoil
n ".S yeSi, a,,J lv,''''VVo 'eioiosucS Ut
se' Pv' 'e''p''o"''
henry Clay, grandson OF the famous
u vearer ., 'ilao naine' wenI 10 ureeniahd
iba IoyC,a IS, VI ~ pO'0 nj NJ JolS
she noWgate expeuiIlon there, Inc expe-
,'J NJ M ~ itVn ia.9, mas INJURY,
4nn MI Gay was lelt 70 lo0S Tor the North
oae vi I'M ni1 o"iI nooA. iie uiu 30, IaNeleu y
great deal by dog-team' ana got enough OF
~. ne nus us'-reacheu MS nome Ill Men
'ucAy'
James Card, the English statistican, says
that in the ten years ending with 1871, S20,-
900 acres of grain land and 226,00O acres of
green crop. land in Great Britain had been
converted into permanent pasture, and the
annual return Oh Ao,WV,VyV, formerly de-
liveu rom uhese oIops, nau thereDy ulsap-
peare9, MI, oaru attrlouteG the agrlcui-
tural IMPRESSION NOV W American cohpet-
lioh, put W pau seasohs'
Probably the largest COW in the world is
owned by Martin z. Stokes, of GRANVILLE,
White county, Illinois. She is seven years
old and weighs 5000 pounds; 11l hands
high, 10Y feet long from the end of the nose
TO the bullock, IL l42 feet from the end of
the nose to the end OF the tail, s feet and 8
inches around the girth, % inches around
the forearm and II inches across the hips.