The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-14
ITEMS OF INTEREsr.

Vennor, the weather man, is nursing his
rheumatic body In bed.
When at home the Chinaman is Mongo.
ian. When in the United States he Is q
Must-golian.
oraage leaves, six by ten inches, will be
used Tor fans in Florida this season, II is
SAID, displacing the palmetto leaves.
:, There was greater display of flowers -at
Easter services this year than ever before.
owing, doubtless, to the advanced season.
Under instructions from the government
military survey of Port Townsend Wyo-
ming territory, AMI surrounding country is
TO be made. -
The residents oi Palisadc, Nevada, tray.
elcd about that town last Saturday in row.
boats, owing TO flow of water from the
railroad washout.
General Burdan has signed contract
with the Turkish government to construct
Two torpedo batteries in the Dardanelles
and two at the mouth of the Bosphorus.
One of Forepaugh's performing elephants.
named Mungo, died at Washington. The
carcass was turned over TO the Smithsonian
Institute for scientific dissection.
Princess Helen of Waldeck, tho future
Duchess OF Albany, has the most beautiful
iigure possible. In grace and symmetry
OF form she excels all European princess
General Garfield once said that ia walk
ing through the treasury department what
struct him most forcibly among the clerks
was the absence OF well-deyeoped back
heads.
W. Il. Ammo, of Orlando. Florida, en-.
ployed negro boy TO eat 1000 oranges and
save the seed. The boy eat ninety.tl, roe
oranges the first day and then gave ihe lob
up In disgust.
The Chattanooga Times saws n familv ot
emisrants passed through that city last
week, consisting of u father. mother and
four pairs OF twins, aged respectively one,
three, five and seven years.
The subscription to Betsy and tho
Baby Is direct invitation to assassination
upon the part OF men guarding prisoners.
The evil results of such mistaken sympn.
Thy wall develop soon enough. h.-[rhe Con.
s,itutionalist
Doctor Brown'Sequari has l5O guinea
pigs at the College of France, upon which
he II making experiments In regard TO
changes OF The eye'ball which come TO pass
through careful interbreeding.
One, OF the. young ladies recently re.
e,elved into the membership of the First
baptist church, Burlington, Iowa, dated
her first religious convictions to the reading
'" bVhb'ohoW cuinh VI lsue.
Mr.. Warren Leland, IT,, is very enthusl.
astic over the prospects for the coming
season at Long Branch, and expects that az
the Ocean hotel people will have to slecp
five In bed, like Washington with his fore
fathers. u.
Minister Sargent was given reception at
the house Of ex.Govern nor Stanford In San
Francisco few days ago. Many persons
OF prominence on the Pacific Coast were
present and a number of speeches were
made.
Miss Julia Jackson, the daughter of
Stoncwall Jackson, has will of her own.
Remember, she once said TO her mother.
haughtily. that anu Jackson aYss,,'
said Mrs. Jackson, and | am your
mother"
So far as Mr.. Longfellow had any distinct
religious creed, he was, like His brother,
Samuel Longfellow, a liberal Unitarian.
He was not q church goer, but bis family
have usually attended the college chapel,
Nine. PATHS wonderful torquoIses mus,
have bsen the envy Of every blonde At ths
opcra. when she sung. bome Of them were
considerably larger than The ordinary NSv
4 Esnglsrud robins sgs, whose lsvsly hue