Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-03-14

son behind him his wife, TO the left the
singers and q person who plays on q
small piano. The canvas Is twelve
feet long and nine high.
Near Tokmak, Turkestan, two an
Gent sepulchres have been found with
Christian gravestones bearing inscrlp-
lions in angular character.
The names Of the imperial body
guard (equites siHgulares) Of Antoninus
Plus have been discovered on a SLAB
found near the Scala Santa at Rome.
A fragment of the marble figure OF
n man has been found near the Parthe-
non at Athens. Ii is thought to re-
semble the work on the Panathenalc
procession.
The portrait of the late Charles
Kingsley, painted by the British artist
Loves Dickinson. an intimate friend,
will be placed in the nall Of Magda-
lene, his college, at Cambridge.
Hughes Krant, who owns a large col
lection Of paintings by the animal
painter Brascassat, proposes to dis
tribute them among the Partisan and
provincial museums of art.
Paper has been turned to an extra
ordinary use at Breslau, in Prussia. a
manufacturer has just had a factory
chimney built entirely of that fabric.
The shaft is 81 feet high, and the blocks
composing it consist Of compressed
paper.pulp mixed with some sihcious
cement.
Vandalism is natural to New York, a
city that prefers bad statue whenever
it can escape a good. On the corner OF
Third street and Second avenue was a
dingy house, remarkable above all
houses in the city for something that
the wealth Of Yanderbilts and re-
lieious corporations could not du-
plicate-a wisteria with a stalk the
size of large tree and a mass
of flowers which were better worth
seeing than all the picture galleries In
the world. The owner of this house
has pulled it down, and in doing 50
utterly destroyed this marvellous pro-
duct of nature.
C. W. Darling. Of Utica. y. y, asks
for information regarding the places
and appearance Of sites where indica-
tons of Indian and other primitive races
have been found. lie is trying to per
feet an archaeological map devoted
mainly to the Indian tribes of the
United States. Indian trails, mounds
and tumuli, burial-places, rocks
worked in so-called " mOrtars, caches,
fint-quarries. garden-beds. earthwork5,
and village sites should be located a.
exact distances from towns, rivers, and
lakes. without forgetting shell heaps
and deposits in gravel, which can be
attributed to man. Mr.. karling would
be glad to get the addresses of those
interested in this subject and Of those
who own relics.
KcysoT, Of Baltimore, has eNhlhltel
in Rome the clay Of his statue 81 De
Kalb. The General steps forward with
the right foot on a hillock. His face Is
TUNED to the left, his body leans for
ward. his right hand waves sword
above his head. The size is colossal,
the material will be bronze, AMI the
site Annapolis. The inscription IS
that adopted by Congress IN October,
L7S0. when the monument was ordered,
setting forth his name, " Brigadier Of
the Armies Of France" his services,
and so forth. and ending, The Con
gress of the United States Of America.
in gratitude to his zeal, service, and
merit, have erected this monument. -
One hundred and six years Is a tidy
little delay, but better late than never.