The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-08

Pei dogs wr1r-r aa.-s'n blankets are
su.ng l-e sights ol beo>i0ey tew York.
a herd of SWINE GOT drunk eating Crane
lomace Oh ranch n Marncouatr tul
A Wotf street. N-r York. band Organ man
IS teaching DIS monkey rlg art ii boot black
Ing
An isvoar-o.d negro hoy ~ Mariana.
Arr. shot Bis motler because She was baking
sweet potato for bis brother instead ~ for
him
The latest addition 20 Wifhacoochce. Fla,
fame Is % ben which Matched and raised %
the size Of rartridges sixteen chicks from
fifteen eggs
4 novel experiment IS about 70 b. made IN
Paris ia the e,tabhshment of a cab company,
with plant Of 80 hausoms fitted with rubber
tires, drawn by English horses.
The quantity Of sugar used IN a Boston
house suddenly Increased, 70 the astonish.
ment OF tine mistress She began an investi'
cation which revealed that the servant used
sugar to kindle the FIRE.
Two Tennessee men went out 10 fight
duel, one having an ak and the other
scyihc, but stranger came along ana sug-
gested a game OF poker, aud all shook nands
and became good friends
During the delivery Of a course Of lectures
IN Paris the lecturer alluded 10 Damocles and
the sword incident held by thread. lie
forgot the name Of Damocies. "No matter,
lale- and eentlemen the thread was good,
and viii hold till the next lecture
George Thornburg, Of Winfield, Kan, and
Armiuta Miles, Of Sumner, We're married by
Judge Tansey TIE young lady lacked one
day IL being ~ years old, but as she was az
orphan and lad DO home the judge issued
tue license without the usual consent being
fled.
Workmen, while engaged IN demolishing
the Dinwddie, Va, county court house,
found under the floor OF the kitchen a skeic-
ton. together with a canteen and musket II
IS supposed that the skeleton is that Of sol
der who. while sick or wounded, crept under
the nOor, and there died.
a veterinary surgeon Of 81. Louis and for
merly q dentist recently filed three decayed
teeth OF a valuable horse IL Is the third case
OF equine teeth filing ON record. The animal
bad suffered terribly from toothache and was
unable at times ~ eat or drink. The horse
bore tue pain without wincing, and did not
have 20 be tied or be given gas.
In the little town Of Arvcsues in France,
10 has been discovered that there are forty
two young marriageabe girls, AM only three
young men vino are candidates for matri-
mony, and ore of these has proved SO re-
crealt o home influence that he is about
70 marry girl belonging 10 ueighboring
village
4 curious museum has been opened 10
Dresden Ia 10 are collected boots, shoes and
slippers, which emperors kings, queens,
princes and other famous persons lave worn. .
Among them are q pair Of boots worn 10y Ma .
polc0u 40 the battle Of Dresden. on AprI
80, 1913. and pair Of white satin SHOES. em-
broder-i n gold which tine Same great en-
reror wore on tue day OF bis cyrouatiou
David Jennings is the latest perpetual mo
ton lunatic tie lives i1 Lyons, " Y. and
with youth, health and fortune
twenty year. ago 90 develop his insaiIv idea.
lic has speut ms intellect. l.s youth and So,
200. aud s. precisely AS near making some
thing out of nothing aa he was when be-
started. iie finds 10 easy 70 come very near
10 it, as ,4o boy did to finding bis hat
Bernard Meyer, Of Omaha, recently felix a
i.gnt pain under his left shoulder The pain
-oon became intense, and doctor was
sought An examination OF the spot revealed
j hard substance, which, on being extracted,
proved 70 be u needle IN good condition.
Meyer Lai 40 recollection Il a needle having
Uttered bis boIy but hs mother says that It
occurred Wheu he was al infant, dfty-four
lear5 ago.
". C. Vaughn, Dayton, O., has . photo
graph o. aa old ok tree, or what might
more properly Doe rallel am'rlature oak tree,
growing from irtaeen ti.e creyices Of q
curt house spre. built Of solid masonry Of
limestone, a. 81 height II some eighty feet
rom tAs ground The strmge production
iraws il Lle principally hom tie arr a.
here was but little cement u.ed IN tue build.
X II TIE spre. The dwarf IS ~ years old.