The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


A Boston clothing Irm provide Tree
cabs from any pars OF sae CITY 10 'ne"
store.
A Frenohman and his wife made tour
Of 90 miles on tricycle., doing about %
miles day.
n,vid Davis, it is reported, is about 10
marry, The woman who captures hlm
will get something fat.
Now that potatoes are so high it is
wander that the girls do not use them III
trimming their bonnets'
A London clergyman of the West End
makes charge OF IS a year to women
who want spiritual advice.
Texas vet has 100000 acres of unsold
school lands. This will soon give her the
crandest school fund Of any country on the
globe.
Berlin has Free Trade society, prolific
lin lectures and pamphlets, and active at
elections. 1t vigorously denounees Inc
present policy.
Comparing the insignificant increase in
the French with the large yearly increase
OF the German population, the Berlin pa
pers argue that this will materially lnlu-
ence future wars.
A new musical genius has arisen in Lon
don. He is q boy named Galsotu. his
performances are extraordinary, and his
rapturous admirers think they have found
new Mozart.
A Japanese student at Amherst College
has stocked store with Japansese goods,
and will sell them during vacation. In
| that way he expects to maintain himself
during his course.
The little Prince of Naples, heir to the
IL Of t,lx f,tNl ,nH i'm
The first time at the celebration of the ltal-
ian Constitution. He wore the uniform OF
q military scholar.
The Princess Dolgorouki is said to keep
clear of Russia from an apprehension that
a political party might try to make her boy
an opposition car, and carbon has no
charms in her eyes.
Miss Nash eloped at Monroe City, Mo-,
and was detected at the outset by her
mother, who pursued her along q railroad
track. Mrs Nash, in her blind excitement,
did not see locomotive, aud was killed by
4 Fife House, London, is now a public Of
| flee. Formerly it was the residence of
lord Fife anxious to live on Scottish sou
| and in a Scottish house, he imported all
the materials from Scotland.
| At ball at Grand Mound, Iowa, it was
Thought that the safety OF the dancers was
assured by restricting the lighters To the
barroom under the hall; but bullet passed
|up through the floor and wounded u girl
who was Waiting.
| Mr.. Abraham Clark, formerly of Green
| Bay, after an absence OF twenty-nine years,
| is on visit to his old home. He is en-
gagged in working Is, 600 acre farm in Cal
liornia, and last year markted $4,000 BUSH
| els OF wheat.
John Bell, founder of the London Bells
| Weekly Messenger, which ha. just changed
hands was, according to Leigh Hunt (once
its editor,), the first printer who confined
the letter IS" to its present shape and re-
Elected altogether the old flike form.
The health officer Of Detroit, in calcula-
ting the required capacity Of storm water
sewers, has ciphered out among other
things the following: On July 81. 1873.
there fell on the city Of Detroit as. square
miles) over rs, 10000 cubic feet of rainwa-
tier in 45 minutes. The weight of that
amount of water is over 2,35O,O00 tons. In
exact figures, rs ,476, l2l .0S cubic feet weigh
ling, at 72l pounds per cubic foot, 2,S5S, 72S.-
0S tons.
There are 497 fountains and 500 troughs
| in London, which, it is estimated, supply
| water for 250,000,000 drinkers each year
| The society which provides these humane
convenieuces reports that nearly twice As
many new drinking-psces were prepared
the past year as in any previous twelve
months. The daily consumption OF water
| in London is only about 100 600 900 gallons,
4 no. three times that of Boston, but London
people have other beverages to fall back
upon in time of drought.