The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-10
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Items OF Interest are Extracted From Oui
Exchanges for the Benefit and Publication
of Our Readers-rhey VIII Find Muct
That 10 at Once Enjoyable, and Pleasant
Entertaining and Instructive.
Nearly one hundred million gallons q
wine were made in France last year from
raisins.
The London Daily News says that the
commissioners under the land act have con.
siderably reduced the rent on Mr.. Parnell's
estate.
An eminent physician, acquainted with
Prince Bismarck since 1852 says lac is good
for at least another twenty years, and that
his nervous system and constitution are in
excellent condition.
A dozen of the older school girls attend.
ing the academy at Montgomery, Orange
county, New York. were sent home few
days since because they had attended a
hop In that village the previous evening.
During Mr.. Gladstone's absence his spe.
cial detective has guarded Lord Harting.
ton: Sir William Harcourt has one living
III the house with him. All tins is COM
plete novelty in English political expert
ence.
A new organization called the Three.
Drinks.a.Day league" is said to have been
formed among the department clerks at
Washington. Any member going beyond
the limit OF three drinks in twenty-four
hours has to pay fine of 50.
On the gulf coast OF Mississippi peach and
plum trees are in bloom. Leaves are APP
peering upon the fig, ounce, pear and ap-
pie trees. Strawberries are us large as
partridge eggs and the plants are loaded
with fruit and blooms.
| Ex-Governor Seymour's influence with
Governor Cleveland is said to be greater
than that of any otherman. MIR. Seymour.
the rumor runs has persuaded Mr.. Cleve-
land TO veto the 5-cent fare bill passed by
the New York legislature.
II is estimated that there are 200 900 yapa-
bonds and beggars in the German empire
including thieves, pickpockets and other
swlndlers, and the authorities estimate the
annual loss to honest people by their operg
lions at the enormous sum Of $250O000O.
a COW belonging to John Il. Hathaway,
OF Somerset, Massachusetts,, which mad
beeh ailing for three months, was killed
| asst week. The animal was very much
emaciated, and when the body was opened,
1t was found that the liver and heart were
covered with tough, grayish mass, which
weighed about seventy-iiye pounds.
Statistics of the Russian prisons show
That during the six months ending with the
year 1850, no less number than 1852 pris-
ohers OF all sorts effected their escape from
the various prisons, police stations, disciph
nary companies, and military conveys on
the road TO their destinations Two per
cent. OF the number made off from prison
while under medical treatment.
Somebody has figured it out that the ag-
nj in ba 70
galleries of New YORK city isat least 80, co.,.
OO0. w. IL. Vanderbilt heads the list with
a 81 COO,OOO, and then comes Mrs. A. Il.
Stewa with 100000; Mrs. CatNrine l..
Wolfe $4,000, and August Belmont, $780,
900. These galleries are filled almost en-.
tirely with the works of foreign artists.
A big sensation developed at Chatta-
nooSa tennessee, the other day, caused by
the separation of u prominent physician
and his wife. The husband caught her in
the act OF adultery, and drove her from his
nome Ia retaliation, she charged him
WITH being the father of servant. GIRLS
child, which the wife has claimed as her
own 10 shield him.
The Russian newspaper, the Globe, says
thst the jewish distiliers and liquor dealers
OF the Muscovite empire are required to
pay special tax, while the Christians who
taxed. The consequence is that the Chris |
tlan liquor dealers and manufacturers have
Increased 62 per cent. since 1871, while the |
Jews have fallen of per cent.
In the Little Cottonwood district. near
Alta, Utah, snow-slde occurred last week
near the Emma mine, plungng down the
mountain side and almost burying tho
town beneath II, Two years ago a snow |
side occurred In the gulf east OF the town, |
aud, running over the Grizzly mines, ca<
ried away the miners boarding-houscs. |
crushing the huge logs aud tmbers as i'll
they were but jackstraws.
The city of San Francisco is now, in
measure, ut the mercy of private water
company Its only recourse, in case the |
company iullills threats already made, will |
DC TO take temporary possession OF the |
property in the name of the people, and |
supply water through the company's aban- |
doned works. That this will be done, il |
the company persists in is opposition to |
the operations of law, is quite probable.
The Salem Mass Gazette says that Gov
ernor Butler's proclamation for the M. |
pointment of fast day is the longest that
has been given to the public since Gov
ernor lincoln's elaborate and turgid efforts
IN the same direction-lSH- 3i--whch were
greatly improved by one of the Salem cler-
gymen In the usual public reading, by the |
omission OF every superiluous and tautolog.
ical word.
In Oregon there is railroad which does
a profitable business although hand.car
ana II pnshcar constitute its entire equip. |
ment, Theroad, which is about five miles
long, was formerly used by the Utter Coal
company, but upon its suspension, u few
years ago, the engine was taken oil, a hand |
n iva ,, ,,,l
freight and passenger carriage built up, the !
charge being $3.50 a ton for freight and so
cents for passengers.
A Danielsonville Conn., man lost his
coach dog the other day, but 1t was found |
and recognized by friends. They called him
up the next day by telephone and asked il !
he had lost dog. Receiving the reply,
Yes, where IL he2n they bade him 'csll
him, y placing the dogs ear to the machine.
The animal at once began to yelp and lick
the machine most fondly, and his master
recognizing the familiar bark of his pet, was
soon ON hand to claim him.
The Altoona (Pa.) Thribune cautions the
newspaper press against too implicit con.
ldence in the special information lately
furnished as to the financial affairs of that
town. IL says: whatever irregularities
there may have been about the issue of city
ponus, the money was obtained and spent,
and there is no disposition among our PEG
pie, to repudiate their just obligations. The
ihsinuations in the special dispatch which
nearly all the dailies contained yesterday
are despicablv false"
Jacob Weller, u cigar.maker, of ALBANY.
New York, while insane, was arrested In
mat cry and locked in cell. With n gold
cross, beaten to an edge, Weller opeued an
artery in his arm. lie wet his finger In the
blood and wrote on the wall; 80 God
have too muchl and In another
place the words, mo use" The other
words could not be read He died within
an hour and before his act was discovered.
lie was 80 years old, and left widow and
four children.
The people in PASSPORT, Maine, were
startled the other day by terrific explo.
sion. II was thought at first to be an earth.