The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-11
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The Salvation Army is said to have
brisk sale OF watches inscribed every hour
for Jesus"
1t Is pleasant to read something to Mrs.
Langtry's credit. She gave 50 to a hungry
woman in a Rochester railroad station.
The British war ship Iron Duke, which
| cost million and aQuarter dollars to build.
costs nearly quarter of u million annually
| to keep at sea.
The annual sum received by the prince of
Wales from the duchy OF Cornwall ranges
between t65 600 and G6j GOO. As "havenor"
from 'haven'') he receives proceeds from
the sale OF unclaimed wreck.
A religious sect in Switzerland contem-
| plates emigration in mass to the Argentine
republic for the purpose of escaping military
service at home, it being contrary to their
/ doctrines to bear arms or take part in war
| fare.
The "Church Army" of which the Rev.
| Wilson Garlic is captain, havd'started II
newspaper called the Battle Axe. 1t is said
to be in tone great improvement upon the
Salvation Army's War Cry. This would
be an easy matter.
A Toronto preacher drew great crowd
to his church by advertising that woman,
vert, would be exhibited. She would not
show herself, however, and the principal
feature of the occasion proved to be u col
lection.
Seven inches from the outside OF log in
a Pennsylvania mill the saw passed
| through walnut which was imbeded in
! the solid wood. The shell and kernel OF
the nut were sound The growth of the
| tree shows that the nut is at least 100 years
old.
| A man living near Lake Louis, in Mani
toba, picked up an armful OF sticks, and,
carrying them home, threw them under
the stove. In few moments two OF the
sticks began crawling away, having devel-
oped into good sized moccasin snakes,
| A man in Warren county, Kentucky,
climbed tree to shake down an opossum
that his dogs had freed. The limb proved
rotten, and Smith came down so rapidly
| that his dogs did not discover their error
until they had nearly killed him.
The Mugby Junction tea party is device,
of Massachusetts, invention, for yielding
fun and money for churches. Baskets con.
tanning suppers for two persons are sold by
auction. EACH bears the card of the wo-
man who prepared the meals enclosed, and
the purchaser has her Tor a companion at
the table.
Persistent war continues to be made in
! Cincinnati upon Italian fruit vendors who
sell decayed or frozen bananas. Heretofore
they have been fined 50 and costs upon con-
viclion, but Judge Hi Sley says that offend
ers hereafter brught before him vii not be
dealt with so leniently.
| A comparison of statistics shows New y ork
as the third German city in the world, cont
| ing after Berlin and Vienna. Chicago, Phil
adelphia and st. Louis rank close to Frank
| fort, Hamburk aud Dresden. Boston is the
only large city in the country where Ger
mans are not found in large numbers.
The orchards and vineyards of California,
in spite of their wonderful productiveness
and occasionally enormous profits, are
likely to bring their cultiyators TO grief
| The business is being overdone. Some
lands have been sold at as high price as
81 600 and acre, and too many people are
going into such enterprises.
The thin red line" will not be seen in
! Eng!and's future battles. Although scarlet
will continue to be the national uniform
Khsrkee will be worn on service. In the
face of small arms of precision, the Austri-
ans had to discard their white Jackets,
which were more plainly visible than even
the red tunics in the distance. Rifle green
is more easily seen than might be supposed
and from experiments with different colors,
the most deceiving proved to be neutral
tint, such as that to be worn in the future.
A series OF statistics received from Alsace-
Lorraine clearly demonstrate the fact, that
contrary TO the repeated assertions appear
ing in French journals, the German Ian
guage is every day more and more gaining
ground in that province, and that II the
present rate of progress continues the
French language will have almost entirly
disappeared in forty years from the present
time. This is especially true of the larger
towns, like Metz.
Solomon Fagly was brought ont of his
burning house with great dialculty by two
brave fellows, ut Peru, Indiana, He was
nearly suiTocated, but, on regaining con
sciousness, attempted to go back into the
house for some money that was in the gar
ret. He broke away from those who tried
to hold him, and climbed up ladder into
the blazing upper story. He never came
out, though he reached the treasure, ana
his hands were full of coin when his body
was found.
A striking feature of Russian coronations
has always been the feast provided for the
poor OF Moscow III honor of the joyful oC-
caslon; but whereas its dimensions in olden
times were decidedly scanty, at the forth
coming ceremony, If the press Is correctly
informed, IL will be given on u scale OF truly
imperial magnihCence When the Empress
Anne was crowned two oxen were roasted
whole, and couple OF fountains OF white
and red wine comprised the bill Of fare. At
the coronation OF Alexander | |. there will
be provided no less than 10000 yedros OF
beer and 10000 OF mead to wash down 800.
600 pies, weighing three.quarters of pound
each,
Two more volumes have just been added
to the splendid dehnitive edition OF Victor
Hugo's works Published by Quantin in
Paris. These volumes comprise the entire
novel ~ Homme qui Rit," and are en-
riched with various notes, copied from the
original manuscript. Thirty.two volumes
OF the series have already been published
and as one is brought out every month, and
forty volumes will include oil that the pro.
life author has written up till now, the
magnum opus will be completed In less
than year. The new and unpublished
writings Of the veteran poet are, II is true,
not included in this computation, and he is
still working rs hard with his pen Us at any
time in these sixty years.
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