Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-03-13
Here and There.

At birmingham the sum of nearly
$4,000 has been raised IN small sums
for n public memorial of the late Colonel
Burnaby, who was popular hero in
Birmingham.
Western rivers as highways for trans
portatiOn are fast passing out of ex-
istence. Everywhere railroad bridges
form continuous connections for traffic,
regardless of the nayigable streams
flowing beneath. Thirty years ago st.
Louis had sixty large steamers in the
Cincinnati and Pittsburgh trade, and
almost as many between that point and
New Orleans. At the present day St.
Louis has not single packet in
fact, the name itselfis almost forgotten,
and the total arrivals at the leyees are
not over forty a week.
4 new boulevard pavement of pre-
pared gumwood is undergoing trial
on Chestnut street, st. Louis. After
the rOadbed is dug out and rolled layer
ofcOncrete is put down and coated with
sand. This is glazed with coal-tar. on
which fiyc-inch gumwood blocks are set
uprightly. with an ordinary lath be-
tween the rows at the bottom to Sepa-
rate them. This space is filled part
way up with cOal-tar and the remainder
with sand and gravel, which is rammed
in compactly. Thi, pavement Is firm,
elastic, and apparently noiSelesS, but
costly.
The steering of vessel by the rud-
der of second vessel which it has in
tow. as in the recent case of the Alaska
and Lake Winnipeg. is quite common
in seafaring life. Communication be-
tween the vessels is smaintained by
signals, flags being used by day and
lights by night. When the forward
vessel wants to 20 to starboard the YES
sci in tow is Signaled to throw her
bow to port. This movement draws
the stern Of the forward vessel in the
same direction, causing her to 90 for
ward to starboard. The reverse of
this operation sends the bow of the
forward vessel to port.
After much discussion it has been de-
cided that if there is any safest place on
railway train it is in the rear seat OF
the rear car. One of the greatest trials
of sleeping-car conductors lives is to
provide centre lower berths for every
body who comes. IL the centre Of a
car rides any easier than the end. then
the cars. built as solid and as strong as
they are, spring up and down in the
middle precisely as does blackboard.
If they do not, why should they ride
any easier? As matter of fact, the
lar in an ordinary sleeper will be found.
by close tests, to be quite as noticeable
in the centre as in either end Of the
car.
In Sweden and Finland the Lapp;
are usually divided into fisher, noun
tain and forest Laps; the latter two
are the true representatives Of the race.
In Norway they are classed as sea
Laps, river Laps, and mountain
Iapps; the first two settled, the last
wandering or nomadic. The mountain
Lapps have learned to drink coffee and
wear stout Norwegian cloth. but they
set as much store by the reindeer as
ever. a poor family will have fifty
and upward in flock, the middle
classes 800 to 700, and the richest
1000 or more. The reindeer is as much
beloved by the Lapp as is his pig by
the Irishman, aud the reindeer oiten
sleeps in his hut in much the same
fashion. The Lapp will whisper to his
reindeer when Harvesting him to his
sleigh, and win tell him where to go,
and declares he understands him. The
reindeer is much like the stag. only
smaller. All the people. animals, and
trees in Iapland are very diminut'ye
tbe men are mostly under five feet
high. and the women under four feet
nine inches, so great are the rigors OF
the climate; and the cows, sleep, aud
.,.te -. small an uru0orti0o p