Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-09-05
Here and There.

There are 1000, 0OO acres OF cOiTec.felds
in Brazil upon which are 800, 900, 900 trees.
Zach iree averages one pound OF coffee
every wear. and 100000 hands are en-
ployCd by the industry.
The New Orleans P,cGWtpe saws that the
first railroad built in Louisiana was the
Clinton and Port Hudson, OF which 29.7j
miles were completed In 1898, three QIlr-
tiers Il Il mile in 1856, and one mile in 1880,
ahing its total length go miles. The
SLATE has rOW 1920 miles completed and
1873 miles Of this have been built N the past
four years.
The Publication OF The last grotesquc in
dCX cXpurraloriOuS Of the Russian census
lIas called attention 10 the extraordinary
restrictions on literature in that country.
There are only five or six firms in the whole
CmI ire who have a patent from the Crown
TO sell books. al the rest exist on suffer-
ancc, under permits arbitrarily given and
arbitrarily Withdrawn by the local police.
There are only two public libraries in tn,
whole country.
The Working Omen's Protective Union
Of New York has spent in the twenty years
Of its existence $4,000 20 conduct 1000
prosecutions for frauds upon working
girls. I'm this way $4,000 Of wages have
been collected that never would have been
Iaid otherwise. These expenses are borne
~ the voluntary donations OF those who
sppToyc Of helping those who help them
selves in hard fight for life and against
the temptations which beset them.
The od-fashioned game OF bat,lcdore
and shuttecock has lately been revived in
the cnyirons Of Paris by a few OF the great
ladies, such aS the Princess de Sagan, the
Duchessc de Ia Rocheioucauld, and the W.
cOmtesSe de TrederD. At their garden-par-
ties IL il undoubtedly Il graceful eXcr-
else, especial; for slender people. and has
the advantage OF being less beating and vi
olent than lawn-tenrIs. The ba.tledorcs
are 1dIculously elaborate, and have plush
handles, round which some iantasticll
motto is embroidered. The woodwork is
Of rose or sandal wood, the Shu.,lccock be-
ing OF the same color as the plush Of the
DattledoIe.
The chairman Of the West Coast OF
America Telegraph Company describes 4
whale over seventy feet in length siruS-
Cling with an ocean telograph-cqble III
which. like an Gel in a nighttime, il had
wrap Itself up. The circuit through
this particular cable being broken. the tel.
egraph.shlp was sent out on voyage OF
discovery. After picking up twcniy-One
knots Of the cable the monster fish was
laued TO the surface, struggling in "a knk
Of The wire which had eut right into its
sides, the wuoe OF its entrails coming out
and great streams OF blood. the cable an
pearCd to have been bitti n through suili-
cieutly TO stop the communication in no
fewer than six different places. when the
whale was brought 10 the surface the steel
ri last broke on "the bow shcaves." and,
last OF all, the whale died also.
A legend exists on the Isle Of Man TO the
effect that fairy who exerted baleful In
Guence over the island was pursued by a
knight, and only escaped in a moment OF
eXtrtme danger by assuming the appear
81 ce Of a wren. In consequence Of this,
on the specific anniversary, the ISLANDERS
devoted their energies TO the eXlirpaiion Of
the fairy, and the wrcns were pursued,
peited. aad cred at without mercy. Their
feathers were preserved with great care,
there being superstitious belief that they
possessed the poculial charm OF preserving
against drowning or from death by ship.
wreck. Any fisherman going 20 sea with
out such a safeguard was looked upon as
exceedingly foolhardy. Every year, after
Cbristmas-day, boys 20 about the Isle OF
Man carrying a wren in cage. suspended
upon pole, and they pluck on, her feather,
ard present one 10 any liberally-minded
person who pays them for their song.