The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-05-08
HERE AND THERE.

| The Colorado coal beds have veins eighteen
feet thick Of the finest quality OF coal
There are about million and half Of car
riages made in the United States yearly.
w. jenkins, of Pittsburg, tainted in his
bathtub the other day and was drowned be-
fore help came.
A London dealer in orchids employs sixteen
collectors in South America, Africa, Asia
and the Pacific Islands
1t is credibly stated that soap, water and
| scrubbing, in tue cleansing Of its cars, cost
the Pennsylvania railroad $4,000 year.
Nine brothers and sisters from family OF
! ten attend the same school ia Clarence. Mich.
The eldest is ~ and the youngest years
old.
Minnesota and Dakota alone, as thinly set
tied as they are, raise more than enough
wheat to feed the 81, 100000 people Of Great
Britain and Ireland.
\ Memphis gnall girl, aged years, has
Just gone ulonc all the way from Florida to
Tennessee, and that, too, not by express but
GA an ordinary passenger ticket.
An Iowa genius holds the offices of United
States signal observer city clerk, township
clerk, United States claim agent, township
treasurer and adjutant OF G.. \. K. post
A Biddeford, Me, man advertises for a
wife, and offers TO the lady who will take him
an active promising, good looking young
man 40 years OF age. good home and two
yoke Of oxen"
Mexico, now that she has railroads, is get
ting up excursions without end-and viii be
largely represented at tue Barcelona SPAIN
exposition next year, and the corning Wash
ington centennial
a Kansas man in revenge stole the child
OF u woman who refused 10 marry him, and
has grown 50 attached to it that he refuses
to give 1t W to tae mother, even under threat
OF legal proceedings.
Two large tifms of japanese nur5erymen
are introducing into California the Unshin
OF dwarf orange tree, and find many Gus
toners for the tree because it can be grown
i'll very small space
AT a late election, Kansas City voters Who
cast their ballots for L. Robinson, thinking
to elect male fellow citizen, were astounded
to find that Instead they had made a council
man Of Mrs. Tina Robinson, his wife
y reader OF The Boston Globe reports that
the word dude" is to be found in the die
tionary Of the Swahili language spoken by
Pzangibas negroes-that the plural is "mas-
tude'-and the word itself probably older
than the hills
Page county, Va, had tue most unique fire
of the season-a house there having been set
afre by the burning swallows that few out
OF chimney, and the fire having been put
out with hard cider several barrels OF which
happened to he at hand.
The Chicago aud Alton road has very lately
put upon Its line between st Louis and
Chicago two armchair coaches t. be known
as ladies palace day coaches, and reserved
entirely for ladies. No extra charge Will be
made for their occupancy.
1t is said that there is postotiioo for every
1000 men, women aud children in the United
States, and that If the expense Of carrying
the mails was paid directly by the people
pro rata each citizen would pay al average
OF eigbty-ive cents year
An interesting legal question is likely tc
arise over the finding Of jar containing
$4,000 at Holman Station, Ind, by Smith
Stewart, on a farm which he had rented
The landlord claims the money on the ground
that it had been buried by his sister, now
deceased. The collection includes some coins
over 200 years old.
For giving information about forgery ia
Texas, Frank Murray, u Tennessee man, was
arrested by constable and pseudo detective,
without warrant OF law, hustled off to Texas
and kept in jail six months Now that he is
at liberty he is giving his whole mind to
securing the punishment OF the men who
made him the inmate Of Jail