The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-06-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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A Petersburg, Virginia, saloon-keeper
has a musical bottle, which plays tune
each time drink is poured from 1t.
Senator Ransom, OF North Carolina, is one
Of the heaviest losers by the severe hail
storm which passed over that state re-
ceetly.
Curiew bell was introduced into England
by William l., loss. 1t rang at s O'clock,
when all lights aud fires were to be extin-
guished.
His Texas republican friends say that
Colonel Burnes, of Galveston, will be NOM
mated by the president for a judicial Office
OF prominence.
Oarsman Aanlan is down with typhoid
fevyr of a mi lignant kind. He is at hishome
in Toronto. II is not likely that he will be
| able to row again this year.
In Cambria county, Pennsylvania, there
are two springs only few feet apart, one OF
which finds its way into the Atlantic ocean,
| and the other into the gulf of Mexico.
Three ministers are in the Frar's Point,
Mississippi, Jail, charged with various
crimes. They amuse themselves by hold
ing religious revivals, with the other pris.
oners As congregation.
According to writer in the Revue des
'tuA LhOLutS, lllt Z llllch ptultai JuuElHS
from its previous advance III population,
should have in 1882 a population OF nearly
H0,0O0,0O0.
Alexander III, has recently presented to
the Emperor OF Germany four horses, two
which are, 1t is said, the very ones that
drew the late cars carriage when he was
assasslnated.
Henry Ward Beecher presided and made
q speech at the third annual banquet of the
Brooklyn Revenue Reform Club. A num-
Der of other speeches were made also, in
favor of tree trade and revenue reform.
Richard Wagner will never again visit
England, because he thinks that the anti
pathy manifested towards him in London
years ago was biased upon the peculiar
character of the English religion, having
mVre affinity with the Old than the New
Testament
a Waterbury, Vermont dispatch says
| that the wife OF John Hartman, of More
town, gave birth to four children, three
boys and a.girl, weighing four pounds each.
All were alive and doing well twenty-four
hours after birth.
Oar now fore God / never would q
| thought anybody could make ice if | hadn't
seed it What will de white folks do next"
| This was the soliloquy of an old coored
man who was watching the process of
making ice at the factory the other even
| ing.
Military stores from the Rock Island arse
| nal to the value OF S262i 81 for the infantry
and artillery organizations of Minnesota
were received in st. Paul last week, con-
sisting OF cartridges, belts, scabbards, ETC.,
| and artillery equipments.
Fifty million spurious bank notes were
put in circulation in Peru. Many hitherto
| respectable people are involved. The peo-
| pie of Peru are SO anxious peace should be
made that some leader will he forced into
| the position OF concluding terms with Chilli
| lAdolph Sutro, who gave the name to the
| famous Sutro tunnel, is interested now in
scheme to establish large summer resort
on the seashore near San Francisco. He
has transformed sand Mills into woodlands
| already, and expects to make the landscape
attractive i'll spite of its barren soil.
The area of the peninsula forming the
| eastern shore of Virginia is $50 square
miles population 30, 500; number of farms,
2,926; public schools, 76; increase of popnla-
ton since 1870, 5,li5. 1t is composed of
two counties, Accomac and Northampton,
and lies between the Chesapeake bay and
the Atlantic ocean.
Nearly all the Newport cottage people.of
prominence have arrived for the season, and
Believe avenue, these pleasant afternoons of
early summer is crowded with handsome
equipages for which Newport is so famous
There will be no fashionable testivity for
soa'e time to come, and not as much, the
socicial gossips say, as there was last year.
After the circus is over, after the wild
beast show is done: First son of toll Tee
statically) THAT was a bully show. Did
you see the lion-tamer, hey?" Second son
of toil-"Didn't |? tell you, it takes him
to boss lionl Why, he just knocked that
old lioness about as though she had been
his wife. " French Paper.
At Garlic, the seat of Zapata county,
this state, sixty-iive miles from Laredo,
stands the quaint old castle built by the
Englishman Redmond, with its portfolios
for musketry, and pieces of cannon, now
planted for corner-posts, which once served
to protect this knight-errant and his wealth
from the prowling savages,
Governor Terrazas has ordered that the
census OF the city OF chihuahua be taken
Outside OF the ordinary importance of this
act, II is dictated AT this time by the desire
to have some data on which to estimate in
future years the influence which the rail-
road has had on the increase of the popua-
ton of the city.
Queen Nictoria's yearly allowance is
S3vp,VOo, with supplement of 500 for
good measure. Added to these sums from
the public treasury, her income from pri.
vate sources is over 100000, AS it is al
most impossible for her to have spent this
income, her savings are thought to be i'm.
mense and her interest account is another
large item in her yearly revenue.
The Odd Fellows of Oregon, have pur.
chased farm comprising one hundred
acres Of land admirably located near the
mouth of the Sandy, in the eastern por.
ton OF Moulmomah county, on the line of
the Oregon Railroad and Navigation com.
pany's railroad, and about twelve miles
from Portland. This farm is to be used as
home for the aged and INDECENT of the or.
der that are not otherwise provided for.
The latest rage in England among
wealthy ladies OF fashion, is mole.skin
sscques. The smallness of the moles and
the difficulty Of unearthing them make the
mole.skin coat more costly than the
fur of the seal. Lady Brassey is the owner
fthe largest and most perfect mole.skin
sacQuc ever made. Ii contains over 1000
skins and the price of 40 guineas, or
more than $1,000, has been offered for it,
Colonel George Washington Jones, green
back member of congress from Texas, Is the
Ia Ia,