The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST

,stion, has died of smallpox,
.,rty Of professional gamblers, backe,
Ar.ack, have broken four Milwaukee fare
General Jubal A. Early has, after nearly
baf century's absence, visited the Nir
mia sehool-house of his boyhood.
The Empress Of Austria did not hunt ont
law lately, because the weather looked
,baatening, but walked ten miles instead
The increasing shallowness of the sea OF
Aroy is attributed 10 the habit OF casting
ballast into the sea instead of unloading II
ashore,
The American Bible society refuses to aid
IN sending out certain Burmese Bible be.
cause the word "baptize' is translated "im-
merse.
A bin has passed the Iowa senate exempt.
inc from attachment the sewing-machme
otany seamstress who makes q livelihood
N rewith.
Ex.President r. Il. Hayes has become
oneof the incorporators Of savings bank,
Al Fremont, o. lie ought to be well up in
the business
An ambitious man whom you can serve
will often aid you to rise, but not higher
than his knee; otherwise You might be
Standing in his light.
The city of Boston contains Al ,926 dwell
mg houses valued at 81, 0l3 ,00i. There are,
besides, seyenty-eight hotels and li7 family
hotels in the city.
Triplet sons fifty-two years old, and q
father ZIG years old are the boast of Robert
A. White, mill hand seventy-one years
old, living in Santa Rosa county, Fla.
In his experiments with the strength OF
insects, Plateau, the French naturalist, has
asCcrtained that, III proportion to its size, Il
June.bug is as powerful as u locomotive.
The parliament house in Dublin is held
on q lease by the Bank of Ireland, and a
clause in the lease provides that the tenure
shall cease If ever q parliament meets in
Dublin
MiIlais, the painter who is an enthssias.
tic sportsman, has just taken the fishings
and shootings of the estate of Sir Douglass
Stewart, in Pertshlre, at u rent OF S3,5OO n
year.
Parents at Fall river have been detected
in issuing forged school cards misrepre-
senting the ages ottheir young children, so
as to keen the little ones at work full time
in the mills.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes lives in a
handsome new house in the Back Bay sec
ton of Boston. From bay window he
has an extensive and picturesque view of
parts of seven towns.
Prince Prisdang, Of Siam, who is to visit
this country soon, is well yersed in European
manners, speaks English and French flu
emily, and is said to have decided taste
for theatre and art.
Sidney Smith. on intemperance; Gao
COrding to my computation, have eaten
and drank between my tenth and seven.
tieth year forty four-horsc wagon loads
more than was good for me-"
Two women of good reputation, at Ips-
WlCh, Mass, have been arrested for stealing
knck knacks at a charity fair. They are
not likely to be prosecuted, however, as
their friends threaten to proceed against
the fair managers for running lottery, UNI
less they drop the matter.
On February o. in broad day, a man
asked the ianitor ola fully occupied house
in Paris on which floor Nine. Galsterrcr
lived, and was told. He went up. Pres
emily three men folio wed him. A little
later they all went away. They had MUIR
dered her and ransacked her apartment.
A recent treatise on plate shows how
Curiously slow people were taking 10 forks.
Thus the Duchesse of Tourraine possessed
in 1889 nine dozen silver spoons, but only
one fork. Thomas Coryat tried on his
return to England from Italy in 1905, to
introduce general use of forks, and got the
sobriquet of Furciier.
A Western Admiralty establishment will
be formed at Mihara, Bizen province,
Japan, within this year, at an expense OF
$4,000 yen. Three men-oi.war will be sta
toned there, ..and thenceforth two vessels
of war will be stationed at different ports
of Hokkaido during spring, summer and
autumn.
The drama, "A-Child of the State'a /,
merely translation from \ familiar French
original, vet George Hoey, an actor, give:
the st. Lou s. Republican Il circumstantia
account OF how he wrote It, He dwells par
ticularly upon his nervous anxiety on first
reading his work to others, and his pride
when it was approved.
A peculiar circumstance happened in the
town of Leon, Cattaraugus county n. Y.
the other day. The wife of Charles Lilly
gave birth to male child at s o'clock 4
few minutes before, Georgia, her 3.year-old
boy, was noticed to breathe strangely, and
the instant the newborn child uttered its
first cry he died. The boy had always
been in perfect health.
The testimony of General Surgis, mill
tary governor of the Soldiers Home AT
Washington, before the senate investigating
committee, is made public, After alluding
to the amounts expended for beautifyinp
the grounds and home, he said no portion
of the sum had been expended for providing
means oil recreation to inmates. He charges
that the choicest products Of the
farm, dairy and conservatory have been
delivered to two members of the
board of managers at their residences
Material and mechanics have been used IN
adjoining their homes at the expense of the
government. Surgeon General Barnes ant
Commissary General MacFeely are the two
members named.
\ SMALLPOX Preventive.
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