The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-11-24
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10 have extended on the French side 3.
niles
The king of Spain Is reported to have
rlieyed his mothers heavy embarrass.
msnts onlv on condition that she will not
return TO Paris.
Itlateiy came to light that in the last ian
Years the solicitor of the London school
hoard has received $4,000 in salary and
commissions on the purchase of sites for
schools.
Mr. Edwin Booth will spend the Christ.
mas holidays in Rome, and soon atterward
20 10 Germany, where engagements have
6een made for him at Berlin, HAMBURG
Leipsic and several large cities.
The spoon story is finally settled. The
rspublicans denied it while he wa, with
them, he then Joined the democrats and
they deny it,. Thus he stands unanimously
Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
Owing to strong feeling in Dublin re-
eardiug the action OF the corporation in re
fusing TO confer the freedom of the city on
Sir Garnet Wolseley, a subscription has
been started to present him with a testi-
monialand entertain him at banquet.
The next Paris salon is not, 1t i, said
likely to be made attractive by pictures by
NM. L. Detaille and De Neuville, who are
both occupied in painting panorama for
Vienna representing the great fight in the
ueighbofhood of Metz, at Rezonyille.
A large number OF farmers IN county
Cork have given notice of their intention to
prevent hunting over their lands this year.
while in some districts the farmers are
themselves organizing hunting clubs, 10
exclusion OF those already in existence un.
der landlord auspices.
An engineer of the Rhenish railway.
which has had the longest experience in
steel rails, has made calculation according
to which the average duration of such rails
when twenty-tour trains pass over daily. is
thirty years, while that OF the iron rails
with traffic of seventeen trains, is eleven
years.
The Marquis Of Butte delivered a lecture
lately in connection with the Edinburgh
Philosophical institution son Certuin Race
Tendencies" He limited his review prin.
cpally to the Celtic races, and, in noticing
the Intellectual and moral characteristics OF
the Celts showed that whenever they came
into opposition with the Teutons they were
broken
One of the tricks for the evasion of the
tariff is for foreign manufacturers TO bring
their thread to this country "in the rough =
asst were, and have it wound on American
spoos. The manufacture OF spools is be-
coming an important industry and is said
torqure abouti,OO0 cords of wood annual.
ly for domestic thread-makers, besides n
large quantity of exports.
A Jerusalem correspondent writes that
vtlculture is from year TO year Gaining
ground III southern Palestine. Nea- Beth.
lehem, especially, large tracts which some
years ago were allowed to lie waste have
been laid out as vineyards and in Jeru.a.
lem there Is European vintner, an old
resident, whose frequent boast it is that the
wines he makes appear at the table of the
German emperor.
Mr., Pierre Lorillard has sent his race.
horses to be trained by Tom Cannon &c.
cording to the LoNdon World, to whom the
Americans appear greatly to incline. as
Mr.. j. r. Keene pays him 60 900 wear TO
have first claim on his services as a Jockey
The new arrangements wall, however, often
place Cannon in somewhat invidous posi-
ton. as he will have to ride for Mr. Keene
against horses trained by himself,
At the last costume fete given by Nine.
de X at Dieppe before the return 70 Paris,
the hostess was dressed vaguely in green
ganze and decolletee beyond measure.
what splendid coStume!n exclaimed
dumas who had come over from his villa
Puy to be present at the fe,e. "And
what, madame, do you represent" 81 am
Amphtrte," replied the lady modestly.
ALLOW tide" suggested Dumas.
The Paris project of police placed his
seals on all the chests and drawers contain
ing documents at the house of the late
Prince de la Moskowa, The Empress Eu.
genie visited the prince when he was dying.
The grounds for this unlocked for step are
said to be serious The prince had been
grand veieur of the empire, and in this
capacity important documents. compromis-
lnghigh personages, came into his possess
sion.
The great grave in which the remains Of
me four hundred victims of the terrible fire
Nthe Ring theater at Vienna were buried
was visited by fully half million persons
on All Saints day, A tragic affair occurred
nconnoction with this event. A German
iady; Frau Peter, of Gotha, whose son per-
Shed IN the flames on the terrible night OF
,he Sth of December last, and who had since
lOst her only daughter, came TO Vienna,
and was among the crowd who visited the
,OM6 OF the Ring theater victims. On re-
turning to her hotel in the afternoon, over
come with grief and despair, she shot her
el' Her remains were inferred in the
son. VI AVA
Two marriages will shortly take place
NniSh will unite one of the royal families
" uermaAy with the house of Savoy
double tie. King Humbert's brother,
unhSe Amadeo, Duke OF Aosta, who wore
ne spanish crown for two years, and who
ias been widower since 1879, has lust been
veuotted to the Bavarlan Princess Theresa,
anfst cousin OF King Louis H., of Bavaria.
another cousin, the Princess Isabella, was
TSny few weeks ago betrothed, al the
SasIle OF Nymphenburg, to Prince Tom
maaso, Duke of Genoa, first cousin of the
Mng OF Italy. Some wiseacres imagine
mal The hand of Prince Bismarck is seen in
'aese projected unions.
me unworldliness of the duke Of Caller,
s sso resigned every cent of his fortune of
M-WV,Voo to his mother, and works hard
S, teacher, finds counterpart IN he de-
SSouon OF an heir to an English marqusate.
, So'ne years ago the young earl of Mulgrave
i%ok orders, aud in due time his brother.in.
n aw, The earl Of Ellesmere, presented him
ssnh living; but so far from loayes and
+, ssI hss ecclesiastical proving any alluremcnt
wh nii no sooner is his fathers mother, to
IN mum he mlnistered at the close of her life,
son ner grave, than he announces his inten-
n vu VI proceeding to British Columbia us
s,nss.olary His father is at present gov
N,'or oil New South Wales.
eau nn an article published In one of the
nv vsnian scientific journals on the effect OF
ca v ooor OF glass bottles on the liquids
s.vntalned in them, some interesting facts