The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-04-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Rev. Spencer Drummond, ByroD's
last surviving school-tellow, died lateiy,
aged 81.
A frisky colt SHE'D so violently, at HarFi-
son, Michigan, as to break the neck of the
young man who was holding the halter.
With the exception of brief interval for
dinner, Mr.. Gladstone was lately in his
place in the house of commons for eleven
hours.
A Young pianist, August Victor Bennam,
of Philadelphia, only Is years old, is NOW
said to be amusing the musical circles 81
Paris.
Madame Judic's trip to America is indesi-
nitelv postponed. She has just signed u
new engagement at the Varieties, extenG-
ing till May, 1883.
The richest man in Holyoke, Massachps-
sets, commenced life as susage man. just
see what man with little energy ana r.
few dogs can accomplish.
When reprimanded by his employer for
absenting himself from the office for TIVE
entire days, Fogg very calmly replied that
he believed in the office seeking the man
and not the man seeking the office.
There is man in Smith county, Tennes-
see, now quite old, who, it isAsaid, was
never further than three miles from home,
never was IN CDuTCll anu MS CllS2 Gci13h-As |
| is in hunting and eating walnuts.
The Journal of Mental Science, London
saws that criminal responsibility is thY
psychological possibility of the efiicacion5
! ness of the penal code" 1t is good de
milton if one has time to spare over 1t.
Harvard college proper has been livi
! beyond its income for four years to
average amount OF 81, 500 year. Fhe
! fcit for lSs0-Sl, amounting to $34 ,i69.l
| ~. al, 1lau hos axrnr trntI sr0A
It is announced, on good authority. .1has
| Miss Clara Louise Kellogg cleared SSS, 600
! during her six months concert tour just
| closed. Miss kellogg joins the Strakosch
opera company at Philadelphia on the 10th
| inst.
Application has been made to the Ten
| nessee legislature for charter for an insii-
tuition to be called 1.-The Natal League of
| America" the chief object Of which is TO
encourage an increased production of chit
| dren.
They make short work of strikes in SPAIN
! When the Madrid compositors struck lately,
the president and secretary of the trade
union were thrown into Jail, and ell soldiers.
sailors, and civil servants who could sct
type put at the service of the newspapers
There is likely to be a revival in base ball
! throughout the country this season. The
associations of amateur and professional
| PLAYERS both have rules which, il is hoped,
will prevent the sale of matches and reform
the abuses which have proved nearly the
ruin of the game in the past.
The son of wealthy st. Louis bank pres
ident went to Cincinnati on a spreee, and
spent money so freely that the police, mis-
/ taking HIM for a noted burglar who had
! Just committed largely remunerative rob
| berry, put him under arrest. Then he ha2
/ to disclose his identity in order to get free.
J The number of artists seeking admission
/ TO tue Paris salon OF TINS year Is, as usual,
| far in excess of that for which room can be
/ found Already upward of 1000 pltures
and drawings have come in, while the salosI
regulations permit the jury to limit the aa-
mission to $500.
/ Louise Montague, the prize beauty al
/ Forepaugh's circus professions last season,
had leg bruised In a Kentucky railroad
collision. The hurts were not permanent
and did not disable her for exhibition pnr-
| poses, yet she brought suit for $50, and
! has obtained $1,000 by a compromise With
| the company.
Parisians are growing nervous abonf
/ hvdrophobia. As stated in the Bulletin de
! l'Academie, there were twenty-three cases
! Of the disease in 1881, the largest known
since 1875, when there were tweniy-iour-
/ The cause is stated by the Conseil d'Hy-
| giene TO be a growing Iaxity in Carrying
out the provisions OF the dog laws which
| in Paris are very strict.
The New York sun man has found that n
| small piece Of sponge will drive out rats-
/ Cut coarse sponge into inch cubes and fry
them in dfippings until well Drowned.
Place the pieces in places hequented BY
rats. When eaten, the sponge swells, anu
! the rats look for other and more comfOrta-
ble quarters, which falling to lind, con-
l clude to die.
As the stage which runs between Bsse
Timber and Gage, Montanh territory. way
ascending the steep bill bordering Sreet
Grass canyon, the horses gave out and
backed over the precipice, which II abouf
1 .O0O feet high pine tree about twenty
tive feet below the brink Of the precpics.
stopped the stage, and the passengers g.
caped unhurt, except that the collar hone
Of one Of them was broken.
Cases Of arrest Of Germans in the nriEls-
borhOol Of French Qualifications have been
Of late Of frequent occurrence. Not long
ago several such arrests were made near the
works Of the French Comte. and Il IL BOW
announced that q PrussiAn has been Do
tected at AurOnne, in the Cote d or, in The
act Of taking field notes for the construetiun
Of plane Of the deiences nov in course Of
completion around that town.
Senator Hswley. Of Connecticut. has in
troducet a bin IN the senate Tor the ap-
pointmenf Of colored men 20 inquire iuto
ans report upon the industrial, int
and material progress Of the colored peupls
Of the 4 nifed States since the close - Ne
war. The bill apUrOpriAtes $1,000 f1r e.
peeses, s3.O00 for q secretary, and q 30 ~
q stenographer. The only object o. the bll
seems to Be 10 make . few plncss fcr ON
ofi-color 'brethren.H
Mss Nagkie Kirgslev. cf B0mnnT,
Frankiin county, New fork, riecf of VI
liam kingsley. q prominent hrooElyn To-
ficinr. apparrnfir died q fsr dsTz 80. ap1s
. Law a. n dad ~ nine darE Mh-e the-
. BODY Vas being prtpafed tnnlig - ME-
merit sbe cnrns 70 lie. hnrinE hen n =
f-rnre- er,d 4. -ffI1 living 1he would have
! h~1n hnriei. but hat IL hnc o1cr before
I trrr IN = m liar frnnre. t11urn - -
( Irnrfh III time Ths orignnl ceuss ~ h-r
{ sicfress \ said % have ben grid osoan-r
! q the departure q . bro-hsi Hoi- n'i1f