The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-15

company of the theater Francais az the
Palace of Gatshina, the car presented
Madame Favart with ruby bracelet. MN.
Coquelin and Dieudonne with ruby ring
each, and NJ. Schurmann with diamond
ring, ami each received a letter from the
master of the household expressing the
pleasure with which the emperor and en-
press had witnessed the representation.
For the last two years Prince Napoleon's
Sunday dinuers have been rather pleasant
His usual guests were Renan, Bonaparte
Wyse, General Furr and Prince Murat. Az
| first General Fleury went constantly 10
these dinners. but about year ago he
spoke most highly one evening of the Due
d'Aumale as a military tactician. Prince
Napoleon asked him to retract his words,
but the general refused, and was never III
vlted again.
Edwin Forests costumes and SILVER
ware, left by him to the Forrest Home,
Philadelphia, are soon to be sold at public
auction. Among the costumes are those
worn by the characters OF Coriolanus, Lear,
Tell and Spartacus, and the slverware in'
oludes fifteen pieces, besides dozen KNIVES,
four dozen forks, and four dozen spoons.
The bureau of longitudes OF the Academy
of Sciences, in Paris, having been consulted
by the French government with regard 10
the proposal of the United States Tor estaD-
fishing an international meridian, has eN,
pressed the opinion that an international
congress should be summoned TO decide
upon the question.
A convict in Georgia railroad car
slipped Off the handouts and jumped head
iornlost Though window, exactly ike the
harlequin's feat in the pantonnme; but
there was no device for catching him softly,
and it was supposed that he would be Killed
by the fall. However, he was seen TO stag
ger TO his feet, stand u minute us though
dazed, aud then dash oil toward the woods.
Five Massachusetts, state prison cOnvlcts
dave been pronounced insane by experts
and were taken to the Worcester asyl UNI
Saturday. One of them, Timothy Il. Har-
figan, is the man who let bu2z-5gW take
OIL his right hand a year ago. because of
the Bible injunction against Offending
members.
AS Mrs. Michael Moore vas walking with
her husband on the Lake Shore track, near
Bay View, New York, the other evening,
gust of wind blew her skirts among The
moving machinery Of the engine truck, and
dragged her under. She was fatally injured,
dying few hours afterward.
Mr.. Young, of Cincinnati, loved his dog
more than he did his wife, according to the
woman's assertion, and bought for The pet
a collar costing 81 500. This is one of Mrs.
Ioung's points in her suit for divorce.
While the brute was wearing gold aud Ola
monds, she was allowed no adornments.
A Baltimore coroner's jury found in the
case Of colored woman on Friday that she
came TO her death from natural CAUSES
cramp collie, produced by eating sausage Tor
breaklast--and in The opinion OF the jury
the sausage was good"
John White, of East Williamson, New
York, departed IRON the usual practice,
and, instead vi calling upon his wife pull
OFF his boots, attempted to do II himself.
In consequence he fell and fractured his
hip-bone. Innovations are TO be avoided.
There are few new college songs at Har-
ward, and none of original merit The
cause of this is said TO be the popularity OF
the com opera airs, which are adopted by
the students, sometimes to new words, thus
the demand for fresh tunes.
Hamilton Astey, an English actor, was
playing in Ford's Washington theatre last
week, when II telegraph messenger deliv-
cred at the door a cable dispatch announc- |
ng TO M. Astey that he had just fallen heir |
% ESQ., 900 in England.
An amendment to the Ohio liquor law |
vas before the legislature, and the member
VINO deieuded the traffic happened 90 be so
trunk that his arguments had an effect con-
rary to that intended. His cause was de-
isively lost.
The Truckee river in California is frozen
old so that ice is chopped out anywhere
With from one to dcZen trout embedded |
u be crystal blocks.