The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

this year.
The Montgomery Advertiser has been
published titty-three years.
In Old England they used to hang a wo.
man Tor merely hooking dress.
General Grant hates Jim Blaine, and
won't SIT behind Russell Sage in meetin'.
Senator Anthony is aid to excel as an
orator on funeral occasions. A grave if not
reverend seignior,
At indianapolis diphtheria flags are yellow
and smallpox flags are red. Would you
IKE to have diphtheria flag?
Bismarck has been presented with tame
wolf; but what that stern heart most
cherlshes is u wildcat or hyena.
The pretty white aprons so much affected
IN New England have appeared in some of
the shop windows of.Louisville.
Total depraviiy goes with everything
human. The man who has never uttered
an untruth may lie at the point of death.
A western editor says that Keller is the
dreariest political tizzle of the day. Penn
sylvania's adopted child had better move
back into Ohio.
An item headed "Where Slate Pencils
Come From" appears in several newspa-
pers. The fathers of many small bows
would like TO know, not where slate pencils
come from, but where they go to.
Within the last three years over SO, OOO, 600
have been invested in manufacturing enter
prlses IN Georgia, and nearly $l0,090,0 200
have been invested and contracted for i'm
new railroads in our state.
1t is said that when Clara Morris first
looked upon Oscar Wilde she felt surprised
az having to raise her eyes so much higher
hnI1 mol lao a,
heightened, as though reflected on table
spoon.
If Wilde had started business in Boston
| instead OF New York, the Bostonians would
have gone crazy over him. As the case
now stands they have no use for him. Their
cup OF, gallery greenery is at present full
New Haven Register,
A new railroad is talked of from LYNCH
burg, Va, by way of Bedford, Franklin,
Floyd, Carroll and Grayson counties, to
Ashc county, North Carolina. 1t is ex-
pected that company can be organized to
carry out the enterprise.
Ann Eliza Young says; "The women of
Utah are like the women of Illinois, Just as
sincere, just as pious, just as faithful, ac-
cording to their light. Entangled in the
meshes of polygamy are thousands of intel
ligent, sensitive and deyout women"
1t seems probable that the managers of
the trunk lines have agreed to a basis of
settlement and that for time at least the
war may soon be over. The Courier
journal estimates that the war, which NAV
notye be closed, has cost the roads $685.
100000.
Eight silver vases have been found in a
tomb in Sweden, and have been bought by
the Stockholm museum. -Four date from
the fourteenth century, one is accredited
with the twelfth century, and the other
three are older still All bear quaint de-
signs and have Runic inscription.
The famous names OF France are fast dis
appearing; only % of the former peers now
exist. Among these are one prince, three
dukes, five marquises ten counts, two
viscounts and one baron. One of the ten
counts is NJ. lie Comte Marie Victor Hugo,
better known as plain NJ. Victor Hugo.
According to the British statistics the
enormous number of 2,O39 shipwrecks took
place throughout the world in 1881, or, on
| an average, six day. The value of the
property lost is estimated at 81 400, 600, 600.
This was an increase of 35l vessels over
1850, and of about $500, 900 in property
Hon. George w. Jones, of Tennessee. n
veteran democratic politician, has written a
letter strongly urging the nomination of
| Hon. Samuel j. Tilden as the democratic
| nominee for president in 1884. He regards
this course as the "surest redemption of the
democracy, and its surest restoration to
power"
The recent burning of the main building
OF the inbecile asylum at Columbia, Ohio,
by which the state loses $4,000, is said to
have been the work of one OF the inmates,
| Elmer H, Givinn, who was promised by
David Goodrich, another inmate, $3.50 for
the job. The iirst-named is 10 years of age
and the latter IL.
| A fine oil portrait of General X. Il. Lee,
which attracted much attention at the ex-
position, is still on exhibition in Atlanta.
The painting was commenced in the camp
at Hamilton's Crossing while the ground
was strewn with the shot and shell of the
battle of Fredericksburg,
Miss VERONICA Adaloniea Catalonia Nito-
eros Tlosana Maudoza Corinth Green, of
Himblin courty, Tennessee, has captured
| a husband. The marriage license does not
develop whether she lassoed liri with her
name or brought him to bay by ne persua-
slye eloquence of platoon 9f voice.
| There is three cornered Il az going on
TO- the Arkansas United States senator.
ship. A. ii, Garland is the candidate of
the debt-paying democrats, who are a mi
| nority of the party. L. X. Roots, of Star
route notoriety, is the republican candi.
date, and the anti-debt-payers have u can
didate tied out in the woods.
When we stand by and watch fellow
wrestling with telephone for fifteen min
utes, finally to throw II down with vicious
Jerk aud entirely irrelevant language, you
think II is u mighty good joke; but when
you have the same experience five minutes
later, you can't see the fun in it, Fun is
My relative matter, after all .-[Boston
| Transcript.
1t was intended that the prince Of Wales
sons sheuld pass the greater part of April
| | the Holy land but there is some proba-
bility that this .plan may BE- altered, and
that the Ba chante may come westward to
Malta or Naples, in which case the prince
OF Wales will make flying trip TO the
Mediterranean during the Easter holidays,
to meet his sons.
There is great deal of truth in what
Judge Hoar says of the late Richard II.
Dana, to.wit III think IL he had been born
thirty or forty miles inland and instead of
being-l say Il with all respect-an adher.
cnt Of the church of England had been the
son Of Congregationalist deacon, he would
have been the foremost man In Massachu-
setts.n