The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-18
STRAY BITS.

London theatre
The cost of public education in Pn,.i, IL,
10 cents per head.
The Target grape crop ever known ia Call
foInia Is now maturing.
"anconver Island coal !, 10 b. mini
the rate of 1900 tons day.
snobisme is the latest word which Franz.
has borrowed from England.
Irrigation has produced great Gro, o,
mosquitoes at Los Angeles, Cal
Executions by electricity will b, c,mr.i
sorry in New York after Jan. next
The French propose to send gell m..
sages from ship to ship upon the broal .a,.
A French laundryman cleans linen s..i..
out soap by rubbing it with boiled po..to..
The "lO00-foot tower at the Pan. Evro
sition will be only 9Si feet high. It wu.,ss.
E,oOoOO rivets to put IL up
American plays, actor, and actress. I'M
England are getting good share OF a,,.g
ton.
One hundred road wagons have be-.
shipped from Middebury, VI, 20 B..s.,
Ayres
Memphis Is the greatest inland o9...a
market IN the world, receiving from 10000
to 100000 bales yearly
A Butte Call man who BEGAN farming.
rented land ten years ago ha, thi, year S6l.
90 worth OF wheat 10 sell
The deaf often hear conversations wbe,
there is music going ON. which they could
not hear when there was no music.
An artesian well sunk under the salt wlte.,
OF New York bay, on the Jcr,cy side pr..
duces pure fresh water in abundance
Florida is to grow opium It bc expected
that sixteen plants Will grow am ounce of tHl
drug, and that an acre will give Sl0O
profit
The municipal councillor Paris has gi1u,i
ground upon which to construct tho J0v.
balloon, in which he proposes o. eros, hs
Atlantic.
A Kansas ranchman predicts that c .ap
beef and mutton Of the future will como
from the immense grassy plains OF Brazil and
the Argentine republic
The Panama canal lottery has not proved
a success. Tho capai will require only lo.l.
500 OO,0J0 more to complete o.. mlLla.
about $3.50 000,O0 in all
som" high diguitauc5 Of the Chimes e.a.
pre- who were lately detected 300 -,..m-
false decorations aud credentials" l.l
Wilson, President Grevy', 5ou-in-law. wc.a
condemned to be behClded
A society has been formed out in OREGON
for the importation of German song biri,
10 be turned loose in the country. where ir -
hoped they will increase. multiply and make
music IN the now silent woods
There are two sunnower stalks Of natural
,rowth "a Rochelle Fla, one OF which has
900 and the other il5j blooms and buds
ihc stalks are about ten feet high, with
ranches reaching out about SIX feet
The salute OF seventy two guns fired %.
Berlin when the new empires, gave birth t0a
on marked the first time since 1909 that
imilar eyent has happened in tue case of u
eigning sovereign of the Hohonzollom nm.
ly.
) new use has been found for the dsirlt
boy. The walters in a down toss.
emily, aud the proprietor rang for numb..
If boys, and thus temporarily supplied us
places Of the walters until other, could b..
\ new route for the Nicaragua canal Das
)een discovered which IS much more favor
lble than the line laid out IN 1855 Bytheua8
cute IL IS said that the total length of tas
xcayation from Och0a % Greytown B.l
lot exceed nineteen miles, and viii consist "
everal short embankments instead Of 5se
49, one Tho 1c,t VIII be greatly REDUCED
There IS now on exhibition at the Alexan.
ra palace "A steam life boat built OF steel j.
) absolutely unsinkable is uncapsiaLa.
worked with twin screws placed ia a position
gnere they sill not DO lifted out Of the water
nd can be raised instantly on coming L.
bore. The engines aud fires are perfectly
rejected, and the draught Of tho vessel with
fteen men Oh board Is only twelve niche,
Within the antarctic circle there has never
cen found a towering plant IA the arctic
egion there are 762 kinds Of flowers Eff,
these are confined 10 the arctic region
hey are really polar flowers The colors u
iese polar flowers are not as bright ana
aried as our own, most " them being white
yellow, rs if borrowing the5s hardy hues
ON their snowy bergs and golden stars
4 Chinese merchant who sailed from San
rancisco for home n few days ago is re
)rted TO have accumulated a fortune vi
100000 in Peru during the last thirteen
ears. His name Is Chun Lee. he wears
Ieue, according to the Chinese fashion. b4t
resses exclusively in the European fashion.
zen to the high standing collar anu O 90,
ting CATERS. Before his departure gave
grand banquet 70 the Chinese mandarus ot
an Francisco.