The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-03
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Intelligence rom Alasha a, -.
chat over Sl50,Coo has been taheii ou' Vi 'le
mines during the present season.
The estimated cost of the trial OF Guiteau
% sIO0O 600. very expensive mree, Dat
then all the disgrace OF the 'hlns Is thrown
in.
The years total arrival oil immlgrants
will be ABOUT 10000. IL is estimated that
W.. M ncw-eomerS brought not less than 81
10000 III com.
Tho Emneror William and the King of
Sornnv vent out hunting together the
other day, the former killing thlrty-nlne
deer and wild bears and the latter thirty
fye.
A whale caught in the South Pacific last
summer chewed up four boats ami one
sailor before he was subdued ana Killed.
He was sixty feet long and made LOO barrels
OF oil.
DR.. Fritz Hommel, in a defense OF the Sc
mite race, emphasizes his assertion that the
harem was borrowed by the Moslems from
Christian Byzantium and lndo-European
. Greece.
Trouble has again arisen between the Lii
I berian colonsts and the natives, and the
United States steamer Essex will soon be
sent to the African coast to arrange mat
tiers.
Housewives will be interested in a new
discovery. Instead of ironing clothes with
a hot iron on cold table, the garments
will be better done up by using a cold iron
on hot table.
The largest days business in the history
OF the elevated railroads was the day be-
fore Christmas when no less than 2s6,0U0
passengers were carried. These Agures
give some idea how great convenience the
roads are.
If the Baroness Burdett-Coutts survives
her marriage ten years, she Will have paid,
without interest, So, 750,CJo for husband,
taking her loss consequent ON marriage at
t75,OO0 q year-an expensive luxury, but
she could afford it..
At present the population of Key West
inside and outside the corporation bounda-
ries, is estimated at from 1000 to 1000, of
whom oae-ha,f are engaged i'll the manu-
facture of tobacco, while The other half are
dependent upon fishing and sponge gather
Ing.
A party consisting OF Mr., Charles Reed
the associate of Mr.. Scoyille; Mr.. Robert
Bruce, Miss Eva Mills, and Mrs Rogers,
made a Christmas visit to Guiteau at the
Jail. The assassin had just received a bas-
ket Of fruit and connections, which he
shared with his visitors, with whom he con-
yersed Tor some time.
When it was pointed out TO Mr.. Gambetta
that some of the wives OF his colleagues
4 were hardly likely to shine socially, he re-
piled Il have secured my colleagues ser
vices on account of their own politc.l
merits, and not on account of the social
merits of their wives. | regard them us
bachelors, not as married men,"
Governor Winslow's char and table have
t.tII r.l.
grim Hall, Plymouth, by their owner, Mr..
made iire-proof, and the trustees hope to
collect everything in the way of relics Of
the Pilgrims into this museum.
Japan, the most aggressive and intelh-
gent of all Eastern countries, is anxious to
still further extend her commercial rela-
ton with Europe and America and there
will be conference on the subject at Toxic
early Ill January Strange how long it is
taking China to get out of the old ruts OF
ignorance and intolerance.
If the menu were filed, Queen Victorias
Christmas table bore up what is called Il
royal baron" of beef, weighing 800 pounds.
1t was cut from II prime red and white
shorthorn, fed by the Duke. of Connaught
at Bagshot Park, which fetched G73 at her
MaJesty's recent sale at Shaw farm.
The German customs officials have a cute
way of increasing the tax on any kind of
imported provisions. by taxing the wrap
pers and labels as essential parts oil the CON
sgnment. BY this means American canned
beef in tins is taxed as " fine tin wares. ,
Fine old sole leather would be more APP
propriate in many cases.
N MOI one in one hundred of the pioneers
Vol Nevada, the Carson Appeal asserts, has
Il Siin that mo run all hia Out,, "a ,Voalt "
mcn OF the State to-day are those who
lwent there alter 1855. The bonanza mines
are exhausted. Those who made the great
fortunes have carried of their money to
New York 10 speculate upon, or to Paris to
spend and enjoy.
Cheng Tsao Ju, the new Chinese Minis.
ter, is a practical man OF business, with a
mlsd open to improvements. His journey
from San Francisco eastward was his first
by railway, and ii greatly delighted him.
He particularly remarked the great alkali
plains, and thought that they might be sue
ceSsiully reclaimed and cultivated like
hose near Tien Tsin in China
Mr.. aud Mrs Seward Webb, upon their
return from their bridal tour, will make
their home with Mr.. W. II. Vanderbilt, in
his new Fifth avenue house. 1t is expected
mat they Will remain there Il year, while
.iio' Ntub 10 ilhNiliS tllc HOuSc ntI
has given her reiitted and reiurnished.
The amount of i. Mrs Webb's wedding gift
in bonds from her father is said now to be
half million of dollars Mr.. Webb is to
become Mr. Vanderbilts broker in Wall
street.
tramp who wandered about the eastern
counties of Connecticut was remarkably
ugly and apparently sixty years old, his
hair and beard being streaked with white.
He was successful beggar, his hideous APP
pearance exciting, pity. One day a woman
at Preston refused to give him dinner and
he angrily assaulted her, throwing off his
AR OF feebleness and knocking her down
with great vigor. Being arrested, washed
and dressed in clean clothes, it was found
mat his hair was CRITICALLY whitened, that
ms decreptitude was all assumed, and that
MS age was not over thirty.
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Consumption Cured.