The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

an attendance of 256 students, against IS
last year.
Joseph Cook Is to devote two months q
iccturing to the educated natives in The
principal cities Of India.
A lady's cloak has been found secreted IL
!. a haystack at Chicago. It is doubtless tho
: property of some grass-widow
I AT a recent tally pulp near Vinton,, the
family cat was iished out OF two,gallon
kettle of the mixture, and tho tally was
/, given TO the poor
The commissioner of Indian affairs tavors
the removal of the Apache, Navajo and
Mescalcro Indians IN New Mexico TO suit
able reservation in the Indian Territory,
General Grant and Rutherford b. Hayes
were born in the same year lS22, but there
is no coincidence in their lives that would
lead any one to suppose they were twins
The number of ordinations in the church
OF England at Christmas Is reported at 5I6
. Ofthcse l76 were from Cambridge, III from
! Oxford, 30 from Durham, and Is from
Dublin universities.
II is proposed to raise 100000 for the en-
dowment Of Robert College, Constantine
pc Some S32 90 has been pledged IN
Boston, and IL is expected that $4,000 more
will be raised there.
DIR. someryille the Scotch evangelist,
appears to be stirring up the Germans re-
ligiously. His meetings in Strasburg are
said TO have been very successful Ills con-
grcgations were quite large.
Imagine the indignation Of an American
boy in u French school who, in II history
class, Is told how Lafayette, the great
French general, triumphed in the Reyolu-
ton, assisted by one Washington.
Two sisters in Osborne county .were mar
ried last week to men from Dakota, with
whom they became acquainted by cores
pondence, and whom they had never seen
until the day before the wedding.
The Rev. Robert Prout, of Charleston
county, Maryland, recently deceased, has
bequeathcd $4,000 to the Protestant Epis-
copal Missionary Society, and $4,000 to
the Virginia Theological Seminary.
A man who was excessively addicted to
tobacco, asked his wife at the opera a
conundrum. MY dear" said he, 'what
part of the performance do | resemble ~
1.-THE over.chewcr," she sweetly replied.
W. G. Dodd, of Smith county, having
published notice that his wife, Alice W.,
had "left his bed and board" etc, Alice re-
torts by card In which she says: IL did
leave his board, but the bed belonged to
me and took IL with me-"
According to correspondent of the
Houston Ago, there is now but one survi-
vor of the battle of San Jacinto-Elis Ben
son. He is blind and bed-ridden, aud lives
in San Antonio on the pitiiul sum of s. a
month, allowed by the county authorities.
Is this trucY
For nearly two months not n drop of
rain, not q ilakeNof snow, not hailstone
has fallen in Paris, this being the drest |
winter of the century. 1t is also worthy OF |
note that within the past two years France |
has had the hottest and coolest weather |
known since 1900.
Rosecrans has been chosen chairman of
the democratic congressional campaign |
also chairman of the executive |
committee. Representative Flower was
elected n member of the executive commit
lee, and he and General Rosecrans cmpow-
cred to designate the other five members
According to the United States census of
1880 the church membership of Texas was |
as follows; Methodists, $4,000 Catholics, |
10000; Presbytcrians, 1900; Christians |
(Campbellitcs.l 1000; Episcopalians, 1000;
1900. Total, $4,000, amounting |
TO nearly one.iourth ofthe entire population |
Of the state.
A citizen of st. Johns has poplar stick,
around which Is coilcd tho skeleton OF a
snake, with tho wood grown nearly over IL |
lie will send IL TO the Detroit museum. Tina |
5t. Johns Republican says IL is mystery
low the snake got there. There is the crude
'oasoning of an unscicntiic thinker TO
he trained scientific thinker the mys.
cry Is how the snake didn't get AWAY from
here.
Little Lulu Stone, the beautiful child of