The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

81 The new directory of Milwaukee show
increase OF 1900 since May, 1881.
II The Cleveland city directory shows an in
rease of p, COS population during the las
| ear.
II Peter {, oper built the first locomotive
nj vet he has lived TO see over lot, OOOmile:
track.
IA The people OF Milwaukee are already
aking arrangements 10 receive the Army
the Cumberland Sept. 20 and 2l.
The Athenian bar numbers over l,00C
racticing attorneys; yet Athens has only
100 population. The Greeks are ardent
oliticlans.
The rapid growth of Winnipeg is shown
Nv the fact that the assessed valuation oil
( f6rtage la Prairie amounts this year to ST.
|. 900 while last year it was only $780,
RV.
III A. C. Fish recently established large
|kaeon.factory at Racine Junction, WIS.,
|ton.in. He has now made an assignment
In ]. C. Lukes, to meet liabilities amount
| Ing to SiOVVo'
| n The trade in northern farm impl ments
a much greater than ever before Tough
9he south. 1t is said that NOR ( sping
| machines have been sold in Georgia this
|3eason than the entire cotton belt possessed
10 year ago
|H A gambler named James II. Madden
|6ied at Leadville Tuesday. A post-mortem
Examination developed the fact that his
brain weighed sixty-two and a quarter
kunces. This is the heaviest brain ever
bund in America.
II At Richmond, Indiana, two young men
bsmed Osborn and Bennett, recklessly
|8roye over an old lady named Dinelaker,
|3{rushing her skull so that she died soon af-
|3er, The young men were held in $1,000
bonds each.
~ In blasting rock on the railroad, near
#pld Cayuse station, Umattilla county, Ore
hon, nest of snakes was disturbed At
Ter one blast no less than 450 rattlesnakes
we're counted among the.debris, not counting
Detached pieces.
III Dr.. Bellows, while living, was thought to
| Be in good circumstances, but an eXamina-
ZION into his affairs after his death proved
)hat such was not the case. His former
|barishioners, on learning this fact, raised
pr his widow purse of $4,000.
At Plymouth, Indiana, an Old farmer
banned Josiah Reese got into quarrel with
Michael Foley, a contractor, over some
Ditch matters. Foley struck Reese such a
powerful blow that he broke his neck,
|{ausng almost instant death. Foley made
| bis escape.
The number of Russian Jews arrived in
New York during June was 2,370, making
II total of ,6S7. Saturday lis more came
IN. The total of all kinds of immigrants
last week was l0,l6S. Among these were
thirty men and fifteen women who were
|blorman recruits.
During 1881 there were in Alexandria s.
|Q75 deaths, being 80 per 900 of population.
Among the resident foreigners the rate was
|53.16 per 1000. Both rates are very high.
lhe last census showed the whole popula-
Mon to be 2l2,034 of whom 164,7lS were
Egyptians, and 1876 foreigners.
bee in yellow satin and brown plush,
|4nd fly III black tulle, yelled with darkest
blue shimmering gauze, with wings Of the
anne, and curious head ornament, were
he most charming figures at the fancy ball
siyen at Pau recently by Mr.. James Cor
lon Bennett, where the presents for the
tOtilion cost almost 81 600.
The people OF Washington have new
bread Of imprisonment in the jail, as q
|Dory is in circulation that Guiteaus ghost
|Nalks the corridors after midnight. On
3he roof OF the medical museum, each day,
fan be seen u negro under an umbrella
Watching the bones Of the assassin as they
+ id drying in the sun. sH
Alexander II. Stephens is friend of
struggling young men and women, and now
pas no less than fourteen dependent upon
Fplm for their education. For some of
3hese he merely pays the tuition and for
Others all expenses. To each goes check
livery MONTH signed by the nervous hand
N the rolling chair.
The citizens of Philadelphia are greatly
harmed over the discovery that the Schuyl-
|flll river, between Reading and Pottstown,
pas beee poisoned by refuse from the old
copper mines. Thousands of dead fish have
|4een discovered floating on the surface.
IN immediate investigation was ordered
Saturday.
In the collegiate schools of Germany the
udy OF Greek is to be retarded for one
ar for the purpose OF giving more room
~ French and physical science. Great
ilHss is laid on the proper acquisition ofthe
reich language. The understanding of it
|ghen spoken is to be specially acquired by
|retation.
financial magnateof Berlin was charm
81 with new and most unusual pattern
Pr trousers, but while desiring it for HIM
|fIf, did not wish any one else to appear in
lie therefore bought the whole piece,
2nd has eigh,y-three pairs of these trousers.
He is now known III Berlin as "the eighty
Shree pair trousers man"
In preparing baths for children, the cold
!ater should be put in first. A fatality is
Itely reported where the nurse, having
tat filled the tub with boiling water, went
tnIo an adjoining room for the cold While
ele was absent small boy tell over the
tdge OF the tub into the water and was so
badly Scalded that he died almost imme-
tately.
81, Paul's Episcopal cathedral, in Inlian.
Bp0lls, being wrecked by wind-storm, a
iieOrew congregation prollered their syna-
vogue Tor use ON Sunday. Other arrange.
tlehts had already been made, but the ex.
snange OF letters on the subject was ex-
|{vedlngy cordial, the reply from the church
sehS written by the Hon. Thomas A. Hen
bricks, warden.
ulrarla were attached to every decent
OuSeho!d of Imperial Rome. Athenmus
tescrioes glirarium as large brick struc.
tuTe divided by thin partitions into small
s.s, rom oW to 1000 of them, every cell
as receptacle OF a captive rat, which was
rMt S iu on husks, rotten fish and other
u1l WI further increase in bulk would
sIaAe u difficult TO extract the animal
.Sugh the narrow door OF it. cage The
|mrVt specimens were then collected,
uaeu with crushed figs and served in a
SSVe OF olive oil at the banquets of veal
Every day in this city thousands of ne
ons eat too much at dinner, and as con.
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