The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST,


The French chamber of deputies has
adopted the American postal service bill in
a slightly modified form.
The loss by the burning of the Santo
Tomas CUBA provision market is between
$4,000 and 100000. No insurance.
English newspapers comment favorably
upon the appointment Of the Marquis of
Lansdowne as governors general OF Canada
Dean Bradley has made arrangements to
place the bust OF LongfellOw in Westmin
lister Abbey, between the tombs Of CHANGER
and Dryden.
The yacht Majorie, built by the owner
of the cutter Madge, to compete with
American yachts, showed remarkable
speed on her trial trip.
The Pail Mall Gazette says the Japanese
government has purchased the man-of- war
now living in the Tyne which was origi-
nally intended for the Chilian navy.
There are twenty peaks in the Catskill
mountains that are over 5000 feet high.
The highest peak, Slide" is 4 900 feet, and
from 1t sixty-seven peaks are visible.
In the year 1880 there were only eight in
sane asyums in the United States. Now
there are over ninety, sixty-six of which are
supported wholly or in part by state aid.
Despite the fact that General G.. w. Gus.
tbs Lee is the sole and only owner of Ar
lington, the papers persist in speaking OF
the Lee heirs" in connection with the prop.
erty.
Two men at Monroe, Ga, made away
with los oranges one evening last week, one
0eyouring iittv-iive and the other fifty.
three. The affair began in q contest to see
who could eat the most, the loser to pay fol
all
Colonel sylvanus Thayer, father of the
Military Academy" is the inscription on {
large granite statue soou to be erected OF
the parade ground at West Point. Colone
| rbayer was superintendent OF the academy
during sixteen years.
A calf was killed in singular name
near Oswego, N. Y, last week, II was tieC
with a short rope near COW, and while tn,
COW was lying down the calf jumped owe
her, frightening her so that she jumped VI
and hung the calf over her back.
"Stonewall" Jackson's old brigade wa!
entertained at Niagara Falls on the De
inst. by the Twenty-eighth New York reg
| iment. On that day the Virginians re
| stored to their former antagonists fial
captured at the battle of Cedar Mountain
A sDeties of sardines is now caught il
large numbers off the San Juan coast, OF
the Pacific About midnight they com,
near the shore and are thrown out on tn,
beach by the breakers, where they ar,
picked up before the next wave carries then
back.
London Truth: In the worst days o
Rome the complaint was that the Roman
grandee. admitted gladiators to their ieasts
| Not many years ago many British noble
| man was proud of being nun bered amonJ
the friends OF prize-iighter, and nowadayl
| jockeys seem to be the rage.
The democratic executive committee o
| Kinds county, MISSISSIPPI, has agreed t.
| let the colored democracy OF the county
have two members OF the board of super
visors, Two representatives, the coroner
ranger and assessor. jackson, the capita
of the state, is in Kinds county.
Some weeks ago woman eloped flon
Portland, Maine, with a young man. He
husband took it calmly and did not try Il
find her. Monday he received q letter iron
her, dated az Boston, in which she said
So far, Goo has blessed us with health, bu
John has got no regular work yet"
A dead whale was taken to the Isle @
Shoals, of Portsmouth, N. H., last week
and stripped of blubber valned at $3.50
The carcass being then set adrift wa
washed ashore at Rye. n. H., greatly to tn
annoyance of the inhabitants, many O
whom we're driven from their houses b.
the stencil.
Travelling costumes are nothing If nc
striking and conspicuous. Brown, olive
green and mouse.colored cloth is the mate
rial. maze superfluously tight-fitting an
the entire 'front.' of the jacket or Jerse
BASQUE covered with military braid. The
can be seen the distance Of Il block with tn
naked eye.
A number OF Chinese employed on th
extension of the Oregon q California raj
road have been poisoned by eating hog
fattened on flesh of horses, which died dun
ing the winter from exposure and starvea
ton. About twenty-five Chinese are dead
Tue attack seemed like al epileptic nj, mn
proved fatal In u few hours.
Sarah Burnhardt committed suicide III
other day, near Dublin, Georgia. NJ
Drinkwater happens to be the name OF
Massachusetts ale brewer. nachariah Tal
lor has been sent to Jail at Syracuse, Ne
York, for THEFT. Lains Bible and his wifi
Sarah Testament, live In Crittenden coui
Nv. Kentucky. An Indiana farmer ha
3 christened calf with two mouths "O,Dol
oyan Rosa" The village of Thigh
Squeeze" Georgia, Is to be known herea
Tar ns North Atlanta. At recent electio
in Sheridan Michigan, Benjamin Frank
heat John Quincy Adams for justice OF q
peace. Boone county, Missouri, has o oit
ION named Old, whose nearest neighbor
l named Young. At Rocky Fork, M
8 Graves lives a few doors above Mr.. Ga!