Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-09-12
Here and There.

women in San Francisco the other day, the
members of which advocated the wearing
OF trousers by women; and the Chronicle
Of that city unfeelingly calls them panta-
loonatics.
The famous magisterial dictum, fathered
on q Paisley balie-.' Prisoner. God has
given you health and strength, instead of
which you 20 about stealing hens WAS
not quite equalled bya London stipendary
at the Worship Street court recently. The
usual question on such cases being put.
"What do you say. prisoner? Were you
drunk or sober?" 81 have no idea" was
the answer. "wbether i was drunk or
sober" "Then." rctorted the magistrate,
"proDably you were"
The contact between civilized and semi
civilized or degenerate races is often death
to the latter, but it is sometimes dangerous
to the former as well. Ii appears 10 be adj
mitted in Australia that the Use OF opium Is
spreading from the Chinese among the
white population 10 an extent so alarming
as TO render legislation advisable. A dis
cussion has taken place in the Victorian
Parliament on proposal to prohibit the
sale of the drug in that colony except for
medicinal purposes.
An advertisement which appears IN a
London morning paper points pretty plain
" in one direction. II is that buffers
and housekeepers in good families who can
influence the sale OF tea will receive a hand
some commission. The employers OF but
lers and hOusekeepers who may answer
this advertisement will have 10 pay the
handsome commission in question, as
many Of them have had to do before. The
"tipping" system. by which tradesmen
induce servants 10 bring them custom. is a
widely-ramiied one.
The Boston Traveller says the largest in
voice Of New England rum ever shipped
from the United States was cleared OIL Au-
gust 2Sth for the coast OF Africa-150, 900
gallons, or, say, $500 barrels. More than
seventy-ive years ago old Tidd, an Eng
lishman, who built the one.time splendid
mansion in Medford. was a distiller on
Sudbury street. and he had at one time the
monopoly OF the African trade out OF BOs-
ton. He loaded his vessels with New Eng
land rum at an invoice price Of about
twenty cents per gallon. which sold on the
coast for about S2 per gallon, in exchange
for ivory, gold-dust, etc.
With three exceptions, all China's news
papers are published at tour OF the treaty
ports open to foreigners. Shanghai has
given birth to fifteen; Ningpo, Foo-Chow,
and Annoy are answerable for the others.
or the three exceptions, two are published
at Hankow, 200 miles from the mouth Of
the great river Yang-tseKiang-a water
way, which, by opening communication
with the Sesports, has perhaps tended 10
introduce this ephemeral literature. Even
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Hong Kong, where emancipated Cinnamon
attain TO many enlarged ideas, and which
publishes ten English and four Chinese
papers), with its population OF 100000,
has not one publication Of any sort.
Mr.. Walton, lock-maker, Great Russell
street, Birmingham, is about TO exhibit at
, the Northampton Exhibition, in Case
| PAT, = master key which he claims is capa-
bic of opening $4,000 patent lever locks, all
the locks 10 be differeDt-that is to say,
each Of the $1,000 locks may be different In
| their wards and combinations. The key
weighs three ounces, aud is nickel-plated.
lt has taken Mr. Walton, the inventor,
| three years TO complete the drawings OF
the different wards and combinations
which enable this extraordinary product Of
human ingenuity to be made. Master keys
capable OF opening 100 different combins-
tions have besn known to the trade for
many years, but nothing approaching the
key in question has ever been accomplished
before.
Recently al the station OF the Warsaw
railway at st. Petersburg, the Car was
about TO start for his palace at Gatschins,
when 8 number OF peasants called out to
him, "Sire, give us bread; we are hum
CRY |" The Emperor, deeply moved, at
once summoned the Minister Of Finance.
and asked him whether the peasantry are
really In such need that they have not
enough TO eat. The Minister replied that
there was great distress In some OF the dis
uicts Of the empire, but that the balance In
the Treasury was so small that 1t would be
quite impossible to afford any adequate re-
lief out OF the funds at his disposal.
Thereupon the Emperor expressed great
indignation at the real state Of affairs, and
II Is said that he has now finally Determined
to take up his residence In st. Petersburg,
In order TO re0rganize completely the pres
ent system OF administration.