The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The advent of a son in the household Of
Prince William, of Prussia, makes Queen
Victoria grandmother.
A child with two feet on its head has
been born near Elkhart, Indiana. Its
mother is a girl IA years of age.
The Syracuse Herald asserts that frogs,
tOads aud rats are among the ingredients
which help to make the water in that city
palatable.
Colonel Venukoff, Russian traveller,
estimates that third OF Asia, as well as
thirteenth part of Europe, will remain to
be explored,
A man was arrested in New York for
kneelng on Broadway and praying He
doubtless could have stood up and swOre
the shingles OF the roofs and no one would
have interiered with him.
]. NJ. Kinnear, of Kingsville, Ashtabula
county, Ohio, has a son who, although only
five months old can walk as well AS man,
and talk rs well. Its mind is MS well devel.
oped as the average child of II.
A child of Curtis Evans, of Pennellville,
New York, recently born, weighs 2ll
pounds, and its head is so small that COM
mon tcacup will entirely cover il. 1t is per-
iectly formed aud is very healthy.
The Indians now living in Caliente
springs, on the Colorado desert, have ira
dition of the time when their foreiathers
sailed in canoes across the present valley to
the mountains on its northerly side.
A Syracuse man made bet of fifty dol
lars that he could find six women in that
city who would marry him, and he won ii.
Each one blushed, said 1t was so uneX-
pected, but-aham-well, take me darling.
The dead fish floating in the Atlantic, as
l.,, n,.1 la
way decomposed, and are palatable when
cooked so reports the crew of foreign
bark, who tested them after boiling. They
are supposed to have been frozen.
Secretary Teller proposes to disarm the
Indians on all OF the reservations, and then
use troops to take the weapons from rowing
bands. He insists that the wards of the
nation shall be treated pretty nearly the
same MS the whites, and be punished in
the civil courts for misdeeds
The real estate agents and property hold
ers at Long Branch are unable to supply
the demand for cottages for the approach
ing season. Small cottages costing from
$3.50 to $500 are rented at from 500 to
5000 for the summer season, while houses
costing $4,000 or $4,000 are easily rented
for $500 to 5000.
An Italian, who it is, perhaps unneces-
sary to say has lived some time in America :,
has come to the conclusion that it is a huge
basin OF petroleum under Nesuvius, which
keeps the bowels of that interesting noun
tain in u constant state of ebullition, more
or less active. He therefore proposes to
dig n tunnel at its base. tapping the great
caldron, and thus putting the mountain at
rest and securing an unlimited supply of
petroleum.
In a conversation about grave robberies
by medical students, a leading physician of
Syracuse, New York, said that student in
tie medical college of that city a few days
graduated in a neat suit of broadcoth taken
from the body of u well-to-do citizen, which
was removed from the grave Immediately
after burial. 1t fitted him very well, ex-
cept that the coat was little too long All
the medical students knew whose clothes
they were, but as the graduate was poor
nothing was said about it.
A farmer passing an old abandoned house
about mile and halt south of North Peters
burgh, Rensselar county, New York, heard
a noise within and stopped to ascertain the
cause. Instead of human beings, he was
startled to iind hundreds of large rats APP
parently fighting over some object which at
first he could not identify. Upon entering
the room, however, he was Mortified to dis
cover that the mass of old rays upon the
floor was the fragments of woman's dress,
and the body of a female was found therein.
Edward Ankeny, who lives in Beaver
Creek township, near Xenia, Ohio, met
with singular and painful accident a few
nights ago. He was out near his house
shooting owls, and had killed female and
several young ones, and was on the lookout
for the male, when, quicker than thought,
at an unguarded moment, the Infatuated
owl, made desperate by the loss of its mate
and young ones. flew into Mr.. Ankenys
face, tearing an ear badly, and thrusting
one of its talons into his eye, pulled that
member from its socket, and the doctors
say he will lose his sight