The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-20
STRAY BITS.

Kerosene oil is responsible for nine cnths
Of the fires that take place in China
The fresh fruit crop Of California this sea-
son has an estimated value Of 100000
Pullman says be can build sleeping cars
containing SIX nice bedrooms. but passengers
would have to pay g. instead Of & per night
From 100000 % s40.O0OOO0 Of old
jewelry lies Idle IL England, and various
firms have begun to melt il down 10 make
new patterns
A New Yorx civil engineer has applied for
a patent for locomotive and tender, by
which he claims he can make ninety-five
miles an hour with ten coaches.
Stumm Bros, Of Neunkirchen, Germany,
have offered prize of 1880 for the best
means OF preventing the inhalation Of dust
10y the workmen engaged in grinding Stag
The fastest armored cruiser in the world IL
said TO be the German vessel Grief, Of 1900
tons and 5, 400 horse power. From Kiel TO
Wilhelnshafen she attained a speed Of
twenty three knots an hour.
Twenty Of the leading restaurants and
cafes In Paris are being united into d com
pany. Its capital will be 10000 francs, in
offered 10 the public at par
Two fishermen in the Dee, in England,
have caught sturgeon weighing 200 pounds,
over five feet long and as thick as a mans
body. Tho best previous record was a l5t-
pound sturgeon two years ago.
The Yale sophomore have declared against
hazing. They are entitled TO commentator.
Although the practice Of hazing has disap-
peared from most American colleges, its mod
ern prototype, rushing sti fingers.
A new device has been introduced for the
German army. IL is "a cloak cut and finished
in such way that two Of the garments TO-
gether may be converted into q tent, the sup
ports for which accompany the cloaks.
A few years ago tho Argentine Republic
did not raise wheat enough for homo con-
sumption. Last year it exported 100000
bushels. Immense tracts of pasture are
being converted into farm land, ard the
country is becoming a great grain growing
region.
A new submarine torpedo boat has been
tried by both France and Russia and is said
to be successful 1t is driven by an Edison
dynamo, provided with compressed oxygen
for use under water, and a large pair of scis-
sors projecting from the prov, in order 10
cut torpedo wires
Frank Crabtree and Henry Cyrus killed an
old bear and two cubs out in Oregon. They
went after tho game with team, when one
Of their mares became infuriated at the smell
OF blood. She attacked Frank, knocked hin
down and stamped on him, and struck old
Mr. Crabtree in the face, nearly killing him
The Creates national debt among the na-
tons Of tho globe is borne by France. IL is
about 81. 10000 900 Russia comes next.
with 5000, $4,000; then England, with 81
eco 900, 900: AustrO- Hungary. with $685.
100000 Italy, with &, 22j, 100000; Spain,
with Sl,201, 10000, and Prussia, with sl,-
OOO,G0o,OJ0
Tbs etymoloSy Of the word honeymoon is
thus given 10y a good authority: "Among the
northern nations of Europe there was an
ancient practice Of newly married couples to
drink nethegln or mead kind Of wine
made from honey lhydromelJ for thirty days
after marriage Hence the term honeymonth
or honeymoon Atula, the Hun, drank so
much mead at his wedding feast that he
died.
a young girl in London has turned the
Photographic art to profit by going about and
taking incidents in the public thoroughfarcs
and parks. She las an eye for situations, and
catches them full of natural spiritand action.
She is out from - O'Clock until 3, and under
her camera characteristic scenes Of city life
arc being turned into hard money Her PCT
urcs arc used q great deal nstudios and they
are fall Of suggestion.
A citizen Of Eatonton, Ga, smokes about
twelve pounds of tobacco yearly in q pipe
that he declares1s over two hundred years
Old This leads n mathematical person e
calculate that if that were the average
amount used in the pipe since its first day
2,40O pounds of the weed have been burned
in its bowl, and if the first Sl2 had been put
out az compound interest at the rate Of lO
per cent. it would now have grown 20 the
SUN Of 81 ,75j, As. 200 just how this would
have benefited the first owner Of the pipe
does not appear