Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-09-28
Here and There.

Fifty-four hundred incandesccnt lights
are used al the Louisville Exposition.
1t costs SO, 900, 600 francs PEI year TO sup
port the penal institution. OF Italy. while
only 23,C0O,0OO francs are devoted to edu-
cation.
A number OF city-brcd hunters chased n
black calf seven miles in Michigan the
other day, under the impression that it was
a fierce black bear. The farmer who
owned the calf made some lurid remarks
about donkeys, aud be didn't refer to the
calf either.
4 South Russian daily paper began Of
late TO make very irregular appearances,
coming out sometimes only two or three
times q week. In reply to numerous de
mands. the editor gave this frank eXplana-
tion Of this giraffe proceeding: The paper
was often IN want OF information. often in
want Of copy, often in want OF writers,
often in want OF money. and sometimes.
when il had all these, it was in want Of
readers.
The intricate machinery in the "cut-
ting"-room in shoe-iactOry makes it the
most dangerous room in the building. 1t
is rare thing TO find such a room In a
large factory that does not contain one or
more employees minus a finger or thumb.
Sometimes irightiul accidents occur. The
racer. huge machine modelled something
after the guillotine Of France. is used in
cutting the sides Of leather in strips. IL
contains a knife four feet long that would
cut mans arm OFF n easy a. scissors cut a
thread.
All the people in Crylon, from babes just
"feclng their feet" 10 old men and women.
their steps lettering on the brink OF the
grave. wear gold and silver ornaments.
They even invent new places for carrying
them, and il Id no uncommon thing 10 see
Cingalese belle with the top OF her ear.
covered with gOld-plate or wire. a large
pair OF rings pendant from the lObes OF the
ear, gold or silver circlet round her hair,
her nose adorned with rings, bracelets on
her wrists, rings on her fingers, and silver
plates on her toes.
1t Is related that when Famine War
mouth was examining revolver at White
Lake, y. Y, the other day, his small
nephew and "a setter dog being near him,
and Young girl leaning upon the case
ment OF door a few feet away, it was &C.
cidentally discharged. and the ball PASSED
through Warmouth's left hand, struck the
Nv Gb'N WI ~ Aihiu- ~ vi III lut
second joint, pierced a hole clear through
the dogs right ear, struck 4 stone on the
ground, glanced upward and lodged in the
easement of the door, not two inches from
the girls head.
The latest thing IN Berlin is the Bismarck
pencil. 1t differs from ordinary pencils
only i'll length, which il no less than fifteen
inches, but the difference is very import
ant, as any one will find who attempts to
handle it. A little practice. however, soon
makes il seryiceable, and fine, flowing
slyle OF handwriting may be cultivated
with il. II is a pencil OF this kind that
Prince Bismarck uses for taking notes
and most Of the purposes to which PEN
cll may be put, but he also uses it greatly
for pointing out objects and as general
aid in giving directions; hence the value
Of its great length. Prince Bismarck pen-
ell, in fact, is the wand which sways the
destinies Of Europe.