The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-29
PITHY PARAGRAPHS.

The plague, fresh from Persia, re-
Gently carried off 800 Of the Cars sub
jects in the neighborhood OF Kars.
Turin now makes the finest church or
gans in Europe, and Brescia claims TO
have an organist equalling Beethoven in
power.
Arizona's total production of copper
this year is expected to be nearly SO por
cent. greater than last years yield,
which amounted to l7,000,00O pounds.
The project of having policemen de-
tailed daily to weigh coal delivered to
the customers at retail, and see that the
full weight is given, is now agitated in
san Francisco.
A Macon woman was lately fined go
lOr striking her husband ON the head
with bed-slat In n quarrel about black
berry pie. The next day she stole all his
money, $40, and left for parts unknown.
A horse at Riverside, l.. l., by his
weakness for eating chickens, is causing
his owner considerable trouble. The
horse eats the chickens, feathers and all,
whenever he can manage TO catch them.
A mad-dog in Paris bit eighteen of his
follows. All were dead before night.
They were killed by the police. Some
assigned TO VI. Pasteur for his expert
ments.
\ Binghamton physician Is suing the
estate of n deceased Judge of that place
for the recovery of u $1,000 doctors bill.
One item Of 5000 Is charged for EN-
balming the body of son of the Judge.
La Gazetta dogli Ospatali gives the fol-
lowing statistics of the proportion OF
medical men to the population in vari-
Gus countries: France, POI per 10000;
Germany, 3.2l; Austria, S.4l England, q;
Hungary, Clio; Italy, 6.l0; Switzerland,
I.06; United States, 1924. '
A novel mode of paying visit occurr-
ed the other day ut Albury, the Duke of
NOrthumberland's seat, when MIR. Ba-
den Powell, of the Scots Guards, accom-.
panied by brother officer, descended In
his balloon I'm the park, having come
from Aldershot just in time for lunch.
A correspondent OF the Lancet says
that he has practlsed for eight years ON
steamers running between Liverpool
and American ports. During this time
he has had charge of $1,000 people, and
the deaths were less than one per 600.
Five of these were suicides, and the
remainder occurred mostly among chill
dren.
Enumeration from Italy 10 foreign
countries il yearly increasing; i'm 1889
IL reached, according 10 official statis-
ties, l6g,lOl, mostly peasants and the
lowest lazzaroni. The two Americas
receive a little over third OF all the
emigrants, and latterly drift from the
Buenos Ayres cost to the United States
has been noticeable,
A case of death from earth eating Is 70
ported In tho British Medical Journal.
such result is rare nowadays. Yet the
writer saws tho habit In common among
the Hindu Inhabitants OF Trinidad. Chill.
dren often take 10 IL, and In adults the
habit often becomes 10 depraved that Il
cannot DO givon up. The earth chosen
resembles sandstone and In often mixed
with slate. Adults generally adopt the
practice from economical reasons.
DR.. Gamgee, OF Birmingham, England,
has been interesting the Paris surgeons
with his artificial sponge. IL IL made OF
cotton, rendered absorbent and treated
with antisoptics. Ono OF them OF the
sizo OF walnut will absorb water until
u reaches the dimensions OF cricket
ball. One OF Its most important advan.
tages IL cheapness; this quality makes
II unnecessary TO uso II more than once
easily obviated evil.
During the present harvest season IN
Italy the roapers have earned $3.50 pei
day, which they consider extraordinary
wages. Their work lasted fourteen
hours daily, from 4 a. m. TO s p. M, with
intervals for meals, which consisted o
mush and oil, bologna sausage, rice
beans, cheese and wine, taken at !, /.
and o'clock. Outside OF the season
their hands find little 10 do, and the,
sicken often nom downright starvation