The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Roman Catholic convent at George
town, District of Columbia, is one OF the
few in the United States where
the nuns take VOWS for life, and
even here their probation lasts ten years,
and release is sfterward possible through Il
| dspensation from Rome. Sister Lauren
| tia, on lately inheriting $50 1000, asked for
and obtained discharge from the order,
She is now plain Miss Smith at her home
| In Reading. She says that she had no ditli-
Guilty in obtaining her freedom.
The Rev. George W. lIinkle is displeas.
ing many of the Episoopalians of Cleve-
land by hearing and granting absolutiOns,
| He defends this practice on the ground that
il 10 mot Mt all contrary to the teachings of
the church, but is distinctly implied by
passages in the prayer book He reminds
| his critics that when he was ordained the
bishop said: Whose sins thou dost forgive
they are forgiven, and those sins that thou
dost retain, they are retained"
A farmer of Sandy creek, Oswego county,
New York, found single spear of oats
growing in one OF his fields a few years ago.
II looked very thrifty, and Mr.. Remington
let it grow and saved the seed in the fall.
The seed were large and plump, and differ
ont from the oats raised IN that vicinity.
He planted the seed the year following, and
kept on increasing until last fall, when he
harvested five hundred bushels. The oats
weigh forty pounds to the bushel.
II. NJ. Bond, of Worcester Massachusetts,
ce-dealer, reports that during Christmas
week he harvested ice thirteen inches in
thickness from his privilege Mt Patch's res
ervoir, and within II month from that time
cut second crop from the same place of
| ice thirteen inches in thickness and now
on the same place is the third formation of
ice is fourteen and half inches in thick
ness, making over forty inches OF ice that
has formed on the same spot.
| At recent dinner at the Mansion house,
In London, three foreign consnls were pres
ent, whom the lord mayor wished to honor
by drinking their healths. He accordingly
directed the toastmaster to announce the
health of the three present consuls. He,
| however, installing the words, gave out the
| following; 1.-THE lord mayor drinks the
health OF the three per cent. consuls.'
Jake Roy was to be hanged by Montana
mob. He saw that the rope was thin, and
would probably break if strained suddenly
by his whole weight; 50 he climbed up the
tree, after they had put the moose around
his neck, and dropped . distance OF twelve
feet The rope parted, as he expected, but
his spinal column was broken, nevertheless
causing immediate death.
A return laid before the Melbourne hos
pltal committee lately, being the result o
non alcoholic as opposed TO alcoholic treat
ment, by various hospital surgeons (whost
names in these reports are only represented
by lettorsl, is decidedly in favor OF the us,
of stimulantS in sickness-the death rate
being much heavier among those who haC
a meagre allowance of them.
A tramp looked mt the Jail at Malvern
Iowa, on cold day. Smoke was coming
from the chimney. and rs he shivered il
his ragged clothes he longed for the com
Portable warmth inside the ui'ding. As 4
means of getting in, he threw brick
through church window. Bitter was hi.
disappointment, The magistrate gave hin
fourteen days labor on the streets.
The Nicksburg Herald, usually truth
FIJI paper, tells the following: A whit,
boy and black boy in Port Gibson, wer,
recently shooting ut mark. The whit,
boy thought all the loads were discharged
and snapped the pistol at the black boy
black boy IN the forehead. II was iattened
Bullets are tender things.
A couple of weeks ngo James Ramsbot
tom, of Baldwins, Long Island, was robbed
of u valise containing $500 worth of good,
on the Hudson River railroad at Catskill
New York. On Monday the goods were
recovered among the miners in the Rey
nolds iron ore mine, near Livingston sta
ton. The miners are Hungarians and Poles
and cannot speak u word OF English.
! Wycombe, which the cable tells us ha
Just returned Mr.. Smith, u liberal, in tn,
room OF the Hon. Mr.. Carrington, was tn,
borough for which his uncle, then no
thirty, first essayed to obtain n seat in par