The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-06-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are within the republic of Mex
lc ,, according to the most reliable sta.
tlstics, Is schools for the high
branches OF female education, l6 prepar-
atory schools for professional careers,
~ law colleges, rs seminariesO of eccles-
iastical studies, nine colleges of medi-
cine, eight for engineering, one for
practical mining engineers, and 81 pub
lie institutes or lyceums where, besides
preparatory studies, the careers of law
yer, physician, arothecary, merchant,
or engineer may be acquired. Besides
there are four colleges OF fine arts, two
colleges OF agriculture, one special for
the blind, one for the deaf -mutes, three
OF mechanical arts and trades for men
ana women, three cOnser Vatories of
music, one military college, two nauti-
cal academies, and several normal
schools and colleges where the profess
ION OF teacher is taught to men and
women.
The fashionable girls of PHILADELPHIA
have taken up tho fiddle and the bow.
The outlay for instruments is often ex-
travagant. One young belle has what
she declares is a Stradivarius, $50 years
old. She has had 1t inlain with pearl.
The addition has ruined its tone. Still,
that doesn't matter, since she has made
the instrument an oddity and can say
that its cost has been nearly 500, An
other enthusiast has a fiddle that she
declares was favorite of Paganinils.
is present extraordinary tone may DO
due to the fact that II Is oil tied up with
old-gold ribbons. Her teachers warned
her that the tight bands would impair
the quality, but the young woman an
swered that the difference didn't seem
nd n,.I A
she was determined to retain the rib
bons, because they suited her complex
ION.
There are 10 species OF trees in
America whose perfectly dry wood W i'll
sink in water. The heaviest of these
is the black ironwood (condalia ferrea),
| of southern Florida, which is more than
80 per cent. heavier than water. OF
the others, the best known are the
lignum Vita (gualacum sanctum) and
mangrove (chizphora mangle). Another
is small oak (querous grisea), found
in the mountains of Texas, southern
New Mexico, and Arizona, and west
ward to the Colorado desert, at an ele-
walton Of 5000 to 10000. All the species
in which the wood is heavier than wa
ter belong to semi-tropical Florida or
the arid interior Pacific region.
The native cunning of the Chinaman
was exhibited during q stage robbery
in Oregon lately. Tive masked men
armed with reviewers stopped the stage.
ordered the passengers TO dismount,
from in line and hold up their hands,
an invitation they responded TO with
| alacrity. Among the number of China
man, who Intentionally fell down dur
ing the excitement and threw his
money, SSi, in tho grass. The other
passengers were relieved OF their
watches and money, when the robbers
departed and the Chinaman regained
the moneyhe had so shrewdly disposed
| OF.
A Buffalo dog under a course of in.
stuclion in carrying articles In its
mouth inadvertently swallowed q silver
dollar. The money being out of its
element gave trouble and threatened
the life OF the valuable animal that had
30 suddenly withdrawn 1t from circula-
ton. A medical student chloroformed
the dog, cut into the stomach and re-
covered the silver, and sewed up the
wound. The dog is now as good as
ever; and so is the dollar.
The London Echo treats grave sub.
ject with unseemly levity. "Tho medi-
clnsl qualities II says, "of brandy,
whisky and wine have become warmly
appreciated in the Prohibition States Of
America. Last month al me the drug.
gists of Lawrence City, In Kansas, sold
100 gallons of these liquors, which are
declared out there to be at once an UNI
falling specific for corns and matchless
for the hands and complexion"
A gentleman with his wife lately Wis.
tied one of the Attleboro cemeteries
with one OF the directors of the place
for the purpose OF selecting a lot. After
inquiring the price, he asked If he must
pay in advance, and, according to the
Advocate, got the reply: "Well, no;
guess you are good for II, only if you
don't pay right down you will bo Ok.
pected TO bury some OF your folks
with n two Yeas"
Here is hint TO farmers. Last fall q
man at Clyde, New York, he'd u mum.
Der of stumps which he wished 60 70.
move. He bored holes Ia them, In.
serted saltpetre, filed up with water
and then plugged tho holos. About q
month ago he took out tho plugs
poured In Kerosene oil Sud GOT Ere
The stumps have smouldered away
without blazing, ana now there Is moth
ing left Of thom but ushos.
There have b3en deposited in IN,
Hudson River above Troy, at the re-
quest of Fish Commissioner Blaokford
| 1,10,0OO young shad Matched at Oh,
United Staios Fish-Hatching Station Al
Havro do Grace. The New York Fish
cry Commission Is also engaged IN
Matching shad on the Hudson, neal
Catskill.
The latest discovery of gold digging
Is in the Santa Rosa mountains OF Chi
hu shua, Mexico, an almost inaccessible
zion, surrounded by arid deserts anc
infested by rattlesnakes and hostile In
dians. Fabulous reports OF wealth, how.
ever, have started The usual caravans o.
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