The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-06
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sloner for Canada for at least another year.
The first college to be formally affiliated
to the University OF Cambridge, England,
under the new statutes will be University
College, Nottingham.
The church is looking up in England; In
serious sketch of the new Bishop Wuoef'
force an English writer states that his
lordship is "a great lawn-tennis player.
Mrs. Hone hos given her granddaughter,
the Lady Emily Pelham Clinton, the hand
some wedding present of 100000 on her APP
preaching marriage with Prince DORA
The archbishop of Canterbury has written
TO the clergy recommending the use OF tue
special form of prayer, as the harvest pros
poets are causing anxiety IN some parts oil
the country
Captain Burton will soon publish in pur-
suance OF his project Of TRANSMITTING the
whole works of Camocns, his version oil the
sonnets of the Portuguese poet. III Is conf
plete in manuscript.
The latest bulletins concerning Mr. Oscar
Wilde are to the effect that Texas has dub
, bed him Colonel" that he has appro-
ptiated for his new lecture the title THE
House Beautiful and that he will come
to New York to take passage for Japan on
July 3lst.
NJ. d. Bikelas, of Athens, has resumed
his enterprise of translating Shakespeare
into modern Greek. Three plays, Romeo
aud Juliet "Othelo," and king Lear, y
Macbeth" and Hamlet" and more are TO
follow.
Next year the French Institute will, for
the first time, award the prizes founded by
Theirs and by the widow of Jules Janln
Each is OF the value of 5000 francs, 5000,
and is TO be awarded trlcnnially, the former
for an historic work, the latter for trans
lation from the Latin.
General William N. Armstrong, for the
past two years attorney.geueral and
minister Of the interior of the Kingdom OF
Hawaii, having resigned those offices, has
returned to his old home, Hampton, Va,
where his wife and children have been liy-
ing for some time. ..
The Turk who murdered Commander
Selby, of the British navy, while the latter
was on shooting excursion near ArtaNi,
Asia Minor, in February last, has been sen
fenced to fifteen years penal ssryitude
The man who began the atTray has been
sentenced to II years hard labor.
The bishop of Melbourne, Australia, has
declined to grant the petition of some of
the people of his diocese to direct prayer
tor rain He says thI material phenomena
are under the control of laws which will not
be changed or interrupted in answer to
prayer, and that prayer should be q request
for spiritual blessings only,
Mr.. A. s. Napier, an old Oxford man,
who has for some years past acted as teach
err of the English language in the University
OF Berlin, has just been appointed an Tex
traordinary professor" in the philosopher
farultv at Gnttipunu This ia nrnhuh1v thn
first modern instance of an Englishman
achieving such position in Germany.
Complaint is m ide that the German uni
versities are overcrowded. Daring the sea.
son of financial speculation that followed
tue French war the attendance seriously
fell off But now students are coming in
larger numbers than ever, with the result,
it is said, ofinjuring productive industries
and uepreciating the standard of examina'
tons.
Upon the railways of the United King
dom during 1881, fortyiwo persons were
killed and ,l6l injured by accidents TO
trains, rolling stocks, permanent way, etc,
as compared wthiiliy-one and LOIS, re-
epectively, in 1850. Ofthose killed twenty
two were passengers and nineteen servants
OF the companies, and of those injured 093
were passengers, and l6S servants.
In tho Orkney Islands the trout with
which the Loeb of liarray abounded, have
assembled in large shoals in the shadows
The farmers have taken advantage Of it to
land the fish in hundredweights. One
farmer landed one thousand trout ut one
sweep, while another succeeded in landing
five cart-oads The men wade into the
water and drive the fish into the nets.
The governors OF Massachusetts cannot
claim to have belonged to the aristocratic
classes. Talbot was Il factory lad Rice =
stationer's clerk, CASTOR Connecticut
store-keepers son, Boutwell, village shop
keeper, Banks "bobbin boy" Everett a
,clergyman's son, Emory Washhurn n
country lawyer, William b. Washbum
mapuiacturer and Andrew q country mer-
chants son.
The most contradictory reports circulate
with regard TO the browning of the empe-
ror OF Russia, and it appears certain that
Count lgnatieif is straining every nerve to
induce the emperor and empress to alter
the decision of the imperial family council,
and celebrate the coronation this year, the
count Offering with his life to guarantee
that no attempt Of the nlhilists will take
place.
The duchess of Fernan. Nunc2, Spanish
ambassadresS in Paris, caused considerable
sensation by appearing at ball in her
hotel with most notwithstanding bat sur
mounting the tiara OF diamonds she wore
in her hair The puzzle seemed to be why
her grace had fixed on such q creat IRE MS u
bat for her ornament. But her selection
was natural enough, since the bat happens
to he the heraldic emblem, or crest, of the
FerpanNunea family.
William s. King, brigadier-general United
States volunteers, died at Boston yester.