The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-09-05
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Mr.. GarTct, Of Pine county. Ca, was re-
Gently struck by lightning, but not hurt,
the electricity merely taking all the hair
from bis head, which was left perfectly
/ bald.
| A New York merchant offered his wife
| $4,000 not TO dye her hair blonde. She
I dyed, and now regrets that she did not ac-
cept his offer, since the bleached tresScs
are out Of style.
Just as the hanson is finding favor in
the United States London Is beginning TO
grumblc at it aS dangerous for weak lungs
and inconyenient for ladies, and there is Il
cry for the coupe.
The Greenland seal and whale-fShcrics
have been much more productive this sea-
son than they were last year. Nine steam
erS from Dundee report catch OF ia bot
tle-nosed whales, 22,220 seals, and $50 tons
OF oil, the whole valued at about S13O,000
As train from Berlin was passing Steg-
litz sunday it ran into crowd OF people
who, intending TO take a return train TO
Berlin, were pressing forward to enter the
carriages on the wrong side. The number
OF people killed and wounded is estimated
at forty.
A feather bed, clean as a pin and as good
as new, was found in the iront-door yard OF
farmer named Bailey, in the town Of
Zumbro, Mimi, the morning after the
Rochester cyclone. IL had been carried
thither by the blast distance OF thirteen
miles.
An underground telegraph cable was eX-
perimcnted with last week in Pittsburgh,
Pa. Telephones were attached, and a con-
vcrsatiOn was carried on over fOrty-three
miles of cable wire with as much distinct
ness rs over any short circuit OF aerial
wire.
A flying splinter OF steel from hammer
cut through five thickneSseS OF cloth and
imbedded itself in the back of Henry Clark,
OF PlantSville, Conn.,, while he was at work.
The splinter cannot be found, and Mr..
Clark's pain is so great that it is agony for
him to move.
A Montreal paper says that the reason
Lord Coleridge gave Canada the gO-by was
that the railways i'm the Dominion refused
the Reception Committee in New York
free passes. 1t closes an interview with
the heads OF the Grand Trunk Department
10y saying that it left little doubt in the in
reviewers mind that passes had been ap-
piled for and refused.
TIE condition Of the district Of Lam
pong. Sumatra. is a terrible one. Every
thing In the district for distance OF five
leagues inland has been destroyed. Thou
sands OF dead are lying on the ground. and
IL Is impossible to approach them for their
intermcnt because Of the natives being fu-
riOUsly angercd against the Dutchmcn,
whom they hold responsible for the calami-
ty, on account Of the Achien war.
4 royal order, preceded by circular
from General MARTINEZ CampOs, Minister
Of War, in relation TO the recent insurrec-
tionary outbreak in Spain, was gazetted
sunday. 1t provides that any officer or
sergeant proved to be member OF re-
publican military society. or any other Sc
crct society. shall he dismissed from the
service, and be criminally prosecuted be-
sides.
A fellow working in a Maine factory
where young women are employed con-
trived a practical Joke for the entertain
ment of himself and his admirers. lie
killed an adder and left it among some
boxes that were to be assorted by the
Young women. Miss stevens uncovered
The reptile with her hands. The shock
made her insane, and the physicians say
that she will probably die, and In any event
will be a maniac for life.
A san Francisco telegram says: The
Corean embassy will leave here for Wash
ingtOn on the 7th instant. An interpreter
stated this evening that the embassy
would probably remain over one day in
~ ha, r.rnaaa1 n j. h
ington, where they would stay one month.
Three Interpreters are attached to the mis-
sion. the principal of which is a ChinamaE.
The embassev attracted marked attention
on the streets to-day. The men are tall
and OF good physique.
The New York Times says: Two trains
were run over the Ninth-aVenue Elevated
railroad Monday to test the Flash electric
railway cab signal. The trains run be-
tween Fiftieth and Rector streets. The
signal Of danger in this case, instead Of
being gwen by the side oil the track, Is
given in the cab OF the locomotive by the
ringing OF bell, and the advantage claimed
is that the engineer, in foul and foggy
weather, can hear what he might not be
able 70 see, and so save his train and its
passengers from destruction in case there
i a broken rail or misplaced switch ahead
OF him. The secret OF the whole system
lies i'm the fact that the entire track, which
is separated into divisions OF convenient
length, is insulated, and the locomotiveacts
as an agent in breaking the continuous cir
cult whenever anything is wrong. The
breaking OF the circuit gives the alarm to
the engineer as he enters new division;
and so enables him to control his train and
prevent an accident. The system has been
used for the past eight months on the spur
track between Third avenue and the Grand
Central station, on Forty-second street.
II has also been tested in Austria, and has
the approval OF European engineers rs
practical automatic system.