The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-04-12
ITEMS or iNrEHEsT

The income the pope could have from The
Italian government, II he chose " take IA o
money, Is $4,000.
This has served rs test winter for the
81. Gothard tunnel, which has answered
the best expectations.
An incorporated company In New York
city gathers the names of individuals Who
do not pay their honest debts, and prints
them for the use OF merchants.
April 10 Is the twentieth anniversary OF
the landing OF the Jesuit fathers in Amer
lea. and the occasion ~ TO be appropriately
celebrated by the members of the society.
A gentleman of Enterprise, Florida, has
spread muslin under many Of his organge
trees to collect the orange blossoms when
they fall. He will make perfumery out oil
them.
1t has been discovered that by a leakage
OF Y hydrant pipe in the basement wall on
the east side of the state.house, New Jer-
sey, has settled SO as to crack the plastering
upon the inside.
A 14-year-old boy and wildcat engaged
in desperate fight near Port Allghany q
few days ago. After receiving several
scratches and bites the boy succeed in kill
ing the wildcat with club.
There are l, 100 foundlings at q single in
lection has been made within two years.
Most Of them were left upon the doorsteps
OF wealthy residents.
The presbyteries of the South Presbyte-
rian church have been requested by their
assembly to express their opinions respect
ing the prohibition, in their confession OF
faith, of the marriage of man with his
deceased wife's sister.
The question whether clergyman could
marry himself, as decided some twenty or
thirty years ago by the British house OF
lords in an appeal from Ireland, where a
Presbyterian minister in the county OF
Down had married himself. 1t was de-
cided he could not.
A man with pieces of porous stone, which
he offers for sale ss having the property OF
preventing lamp explosion and also OF
softening glass chimneys and preventing
their breakage, has been humbugging the
people OF the interior of California.
A piece of rose point lace at the London
aquarium, six and threequHter yards long,
is valued at $1,000. There are ninety-six
sprays to each inch of the fabric, and each
spray cost two days labor, showing that 1t
required seven years work ola skilled work.
man to complete the trifle.
1t costs money to be Christian after the
manner of the Salvation army. A broth
er's" uniform, including helmet, costa
$3.50. The overcost costs $l4. The price
OF the sisters" uniform variss from $l4 to
$40, according to the amount of trimmings.
1t is said that there Is ssme talk of estaD-
fishing salvation bazaar in New York,
where these and similar articles may be
purchased by the blood washed warriors"
Cypress has been visited by severe shock
of earthquake, which lasted nearly q
minute. Houses at Limassoi were swsyed
in an appalling manner, aud walls not &C.
meuted tumbled to the ground. People in
the streets found 1t impossible to keep erect
without assistance. The shock occurred
early in the morning, when many people
were still in bed. In consequence crowds
of them in their night-shirts were common
sights in public places.
II is now proposed, in England, to build
steam fire engines with separate and dis
connected boilers. 1t is claimed by the
builders that two horses cannot haul more
machinery upon four wheels than is massed
in the present steam fire engines, and this
puts limit 30 the increase of power. But
by the change suggested the power can be
lrebled With only double the number OF
horses. This is worth thinking of in New
York, where so many enormously high
buildings are constructed.
The manager ola variety theatre at AL
buquerque, New Mexico, was sensitive as
to the morality of his entertainments on
played on week days in coarse sketch,
and, on being told that he would have to
modify it for Sunday uee, not only de-
cined to mar its artistic proportions, but
gave the manager threshing for suggest
ing such thing. The fight occurred on
the stage, in full view OF the audience, and
seemed to be accepted as the best feature
of the show.
In 1888 Queen Elizabeth sent company
of English players to Perth, and it is sur
missed that Shakespeare was Of the party,
and then made acquaintance with Birnam
Wood. O1lv two of its ancient trees now
remaln-an OAK and plane--supposed to
be 900 years old. They are on the banks
of the Tay. 1t has been said that Birnsm
Wood never recovered from the effects Of
that excursion TO DuDsinane. Larches,
however, have been planted of late years,
and natural birch covers some part.
The German military maneuvers which
will take place this autumn in the vicinity
of Frankfort-on-the-Ma and Homburg
will, in point of numbers, be the greatest
which have eve. occurred, even surprising
those at Wabern some ten years ago. The
forces will comprise the 18th army corps,
with forty-two battalions of infantry, thirty
squadrons of cavalry and los guns. The
emperor will take up his headquarters at
the well-known watering place Of HON.
burg.
Last fall farmer by the name of Raup,
living near Thrbutville, Pennsylvania,
built a stack of straw in his yard which was
remarkable for nothing at all, but vas like
every other stack ia the vicinity. All AIR.
Raup's neighbors, however, are now look
ing at il with great interest, for a young
pig, shich disappeared at the time it was
built, has Just cravled out from under it in
a condition of thinness and feeblepess
shocking TO contemplate. The animals
frame has grown as fast as If it had enjoyed
the monopoly of a reeking trough, but as
for flesh il has none.
The biological students Of the Johns
Hopkins university have entered into an
agreement with the small boys OF Baltimore
for supply of dogs and cats at the fixed
price Of 90 cents for the former and 25 cents
for tie latter. Occasionally a mistake il
made, and some worthy old lady mourns
the loss Of compsnionable tabby. but on
the whole it seems TO be the general con-
clusion that the activities Of the small boys
were never better employed than In dimin-
fabip0 tho cfoclr Of an narNluoua rata