Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-12-06
Here and There,

Ht DTOULt DtCCuuo ICCShtl1 iVuhN
in the Tiber has not silver eyes, as was
said, but eyes of ivory.
A necklace of monkeys teeth was
found around the neck of a mummified
Peruvian Princess dug near Lima re-
Gently.
At the recent wedding of Miss Neil
son, which took place IN the morning
at Rockaway, the members Of the Rock
away Hunt attended in their "pink "
hunting. coats.
Medical men the world over will be
interested to learn that Japan has been
mapped out into six divisions, and that
a medical college is to be established in
each division.
Persons in need of $500 are reminded
that II. A. Chittenden, of Montclair, n.
j., offers that sum to any one who will
prove that the earth revolves on its
axis or that it moves around the sun.
Out west this winter it is a sort of
craze for the young women to shoulder
parlor-rihes and tramp in martial drill
up and down some big hall. But the
young women are failures as minions
of old Mars, since they cannot look
fierce and bite their moustaches to save
'em.
"In the mountains above Chico"
says the Tombstone "a. IT, Tombstone,
the residents along a lumber-fume
have a novel way of getting their mail.
1t is started on raft from the head of
the flume at regular dates, and the PEG.
pie below watch for it, take out what
belongs to them, and then send the raft
with its precious cargo on the way"
A Berlin surgeon lately took out a
quantity Of dead bone from mans
arm. Immediately afterward he am
putated the leg Of another man for an
injury. Then he took a large piece Of
bone from the amputated leg and put
it in the place of the dead bone Of the
arm. The bone became fully attached,
and so the surgeon made very sue
cessful operation.
"The most curious article in the
memorial hall at Deerfeld," says the
Boston Journal, sis an oblong flask
with a round hole in the top just large
enough to admit the small end Of
goblet. After various theories pro-
posed, it has been proved that the pur-
pose of the flask was to keep the min
ister's glass Of toddy warm while he
was preaching Sunday morning"
The great river Euphrates is in dam
ger of disappearing altogether. OF late
years the banks below Babylon have
been giving way, so that the stream
spreads out into a marsh, until steam
ers could not pass and only a narrow
channel remained for native boats.
Now this passage is becoming oblite-
rated, and there is danger that the
famous river will be swallowed up by
the desert.
Prince Bismarck, who is not afraid to
face all the kingdoms of the earth,
shows the white feather when the den
lists chair is suggested. He has two
troublesome teeth, and shakes his head
like coward when his friends say,
"0ut with them" But, as a bigger
man than Bismarck once wrote:
For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache pa
tiently."
An old Scotchman, when taking his
BARNS to be baptized, usually spoke Of
them as laddies or lassies, as the case
might be. At last his wife said he
must not say it was laddie or lassie,
but an infant. So the next time that
Sandy had occasion to go to the clergy
man the latter said: " Weel, Sandy, is
it a laddie?" ats nae a laddie,"
was the answer. "Then it's lassie.''
L" It's nae a lassie," said Sandy,
"Weel, man, what is it, them" said
the astonished preacher. 81 dinna re-
member vera weel," said the parent,
"but | think the wife said it was an
illefant." The clergyman finally found
out that it was not an elephant, but an
infant, he was expected to baptize.
Speaking of Chinese restaurant in
San Francisco, Mrs. Pfeiffer, in a recent
volume of travels, says: II can ina
CINE nothing short Of being one Of the
useless mouths Of city in a state of
siege that could make me partake of
any of the kickshaws Of that DEVILS
kitchen even then / think | should
have grace to prefer more lingering
death. flashes Of tubular organisms
looking like esrth-worms, birds of the
size Of chickens and the form of cranes
made ready for the spit in the cruel
mockery Of fight, multifarious messes
in little saucers, pots and pans and re-
fuse Of all sorts mixed with shells having
a fatal affinity with those of snails, must
have sufficed to rebut any but an appe-
tite to the manner born"
Miss Catherine Rae explained in a
recent chit.cbat on science in Aber-
deem, over the sea, the way in which
she got dog, within three weeks, to
ring a bell. She began by letting
" Tiny" smell the bone of a mutton
chop, and then tied the bone to the
string Of the bell. At first 50 Tiny"
was in great tremor, but by taking
her very kindly and stroking her she
found that she'could induce her to pull
at the bone and so ring the bell. After
that she tied a small piece Of wood
to the string, but the dog would not
pull il. At last she pulled her gently
back till the bell rang, and in this way
in the short course Of three weeks,
with not more than one or two lessons
a day, the dog would go and ring the
bell by being told "'Tiny.' 60 aud ring
the bell" At the end Of three weeks
she gave an evening party. and during
the evening they were all electrified by
the sudden and violent ringing Of the
bell. Tiny" bad been neglected to
he ipdnlged with any tid-bii, and had
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