The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
low fever is bad in Yucatan,

yellow fever is bad in Yucatan.
Ten thousand Tunisian refugees are at
Tripoli.
The reported burning of Cronstadt was a
canard.
Sydney, New South Wales, is afflicted
with smallpox.
An expedition is exploring the mouth Of
the Lena river.
The steamer Gellert went ashore of CuI-
haven, Germany.
The new shaft to the channel tunnel is to
be sunk at Dover.
NJ. Pierre Girard, the French painter and
engrayer is dead.
Vessels entering the river Elbc must
hereafter have pilot.
In London. 10000 has been raised for
the Vienna fire sufferers.
One thousand seven hundred anti-Jewish
rioters, were arrested at Warsaw.
Preparations are being made for the coro-
nation of Alexander at Moscow.
Mr.. Justice O'Brien, of the Court of
Queens Bench, Ireland, is dead.
Subscriptions for the Ring Theatre suf-
ferers have reached 100000 tlorins.
Japan desires to remodel its commercial
relations with Europe and America.
Secretary of Ireland Forster has con-
tributed fl0O to encourage Irish emigra-
tiCn.
1t is declared that important changes in
the French Ministry are soon to be made.
ConnelFs arrest has, it is claimed, disor-
gdnized the worst of the Irish Ribbon Clubs.
The steamer Providence is reported sunk
at Constantinople, with loss of 81 200 900.
Over 800 appeals have been taken from
the Land Court, and will be heard January
10th.
January 10Th. Mrs. Langtry will appear
as regular member of the Haymarket
Company.
international skating contests are among
tho sports which this winter are counted
upon in England, Austria and Holland
The big bell recently cast for St. Paul's
Cathedral, London, is the largest in Eng
land and one of the largest in Europe. Its
weight is seventeen and one-half tons.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Cincin-
natl, in consequence of dancing having been
allowed at some church fairs has issued d
circular positively forbidding dances after
dark at entertainments given for church
purposes and round dances at any time.
One point, at least, in the railroad war is
settled. Mr., Vanderbilt must abandon hi.
attempt TO control New England business
and overthrow the well-established rule
that the shortest OF competing lines fixes the
rates between the termini This is only
one form of expressing natural law
Commercial Bulletin.
NJ. Baul Bert, who not long ago received
a present of some crocodies from Egypt
has publicly dissected five in the theatre OF
the Sorbonne, Paris. Among the facts
noted was the almost entire absence Of
BRAIN matter, and it was concluded that
these reptiles are devoid of reason, and ami.
mated by destructive instinct.
Mr.. Roswell Smith, publisher of the
Century, has just performed generous
act, rare indeed in the annals Of business
lie not only gave 5000 in Christmas gifts
to those whom he employs, but distributed
among the leading members of his literary
and business staff $4,000 in Century
stock, a stock which is exceedingly val
liable.
In the telephone department of the Phil
adelphia local Telegraph Company, the
other day, telephone wire and one USED
for electric lighting came in contact. A
great burst of flame ensued, the lady opsr
ators screamed and fled, and the fire ex
nnH6uiohvio Noio pul illto usc 10 CHECK tnt
flame arising from the ignited woodwork o
the room.
President Grevy can "turn on" hi.
theater or his opera whenever he likes, anC
sitting quietly at home in tho Elyseo cal
hear all the first artists of his country
He has u telephone connection with tht
Opera, the Theater Francois, and the Oper.
Comique, and the voices are heard in hi.
yellow drawing-room rs clearly and dis
tinctly as in those theaters.