The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-13
STRAY BITS.

A rich Cuban planter has been KIDNAPPED
and is in the hands Of bandits
Wisconsin parties have commenced thf
raising Of bufraloes for the sake Of theiI
hides
During recent hot spell 10 Tulare, Cal.
| every one who had a cellar rugged up bed
and slept there.
Five head porters In the leading Chicago
1 hotels are collectively worth over half a mil
| lion dollars.
According to an official report just pub
lished thirty-two persons died of starvation
in London during the year 1887
There were 9O,G2l pnupcrs, besides lunatics
and Migrants, in the 2.slj,000 inhabitants Of
London in the first week Of July.
The New York and New Jersey watering
places are said to resemble Karnak this sea-
son. There is a "gonencss" abeps them that
is painful.
The latest form OF hazing unearthed by
the Annapolis court martial is standing
cadets on their heads and making them chew
paper and candle grease.
Over $4,000 COWS are slaughtered annually
In India to feed the British soldiers, and the
supply Of milk is consequently so scarce that
thousands of native children die yearly.
jesse d. Carr, the rich ranchman Of Fresno
county, Cal, has been ordered by a govern
ment agent to remove a stone fence which he
has built around 10000 acres Of government
land.
Sham battle flags, tattered and torn to
represent the real article, are the latest pro
duct Of French ingenuity, and arc said to
have deceived large numbers of curiosity
buffers and patriots.
A church organ has recently been con-
structed at Milan whose pipes are constructed
OF paper pulp instead Of metal 1t has 400
pipes and is an instrument Of great power
and sweetness Of tone
An English court has just decided that
railway servants cannot eject persons from
trains who say they have lost their tickets,
the only remedy being to sue the passenger
for breach Of contract.
The new suspension bridge over North
river at New York, it is estimated, will cost
s370OO,0O0. II will give entrance to ten
railroads and viii be one of the great
triumphs of modern engineering.
In London dressmaEcrs and others are
fined heavily for allowing their girls TO work
over hours in the shops Jay, the great
mourning storeman, was recently up in the
police court on a charge Of this kind
American travellers in ireland nowadays
are furnished a travelling companion free Of
expense, it seems Nevertheless, a govern
ment detective in ones tracks can hardly be
said to add to the pleasure of iaunt through
Erin.
The paper money of Chill is so deprecated
in value that a guest at a hotel ordinarily
pays 5000 a day for his accommodations. At
one time only few years ago calico sold at
1000 yard in these deprecated bills. This
is a strange story.
At Kearney, y. j., a factory chimney is
being erected which will, when finished, be
the tallest in the country and the fourth
highest in the world. 1t will be 33j feet
high. There are two taller chimneys in
Scotland and one in England
Victor Brocca, an Italian engineer. has
completed the survey Of a proposed canal |
across Italy from near Castro on the Tyr
rhenian Sea, to Fano, on the Adriatic. 1t
will be $50 miles long, if it is ever built, and |
will cost Sl00,000000.
There is Waterman in the New York |
postoflice whose chief duty is to collect the |
keys Of the lock boxes that are left in the |
locks by careless men and boys. Generally |
there is some sharper on tic lookout to steal |
keys that are left in this way
During the recent celebration at the Bo-
logna University the students of Parma sent
their Bologna brethren a ParmeSan cheese,
weighing $50 pounds, and covered with Latin
inscriptions worked in macaroni A tun of
wine was also sent to wash it down with.
Little Arthur Herberts, of Chicago, is a
marvel of erudition for his years Although
only 10 years old he has read through the
entire 'llad" of Homer in the original
Greek, and can translate passage from any
part Of 1t accurately and without hesitation.
A negro woman who recently went insane
in Atlanta imagined that the sun had
perched itself on her head and she could not
shake it of. II have been walking around
al day with the sun on my head, said She,
trying to shake it Off, but can't get rid
IF it,"
a brilliant idea struck Johnny Bauer. a
Nebraska man, recently. Wishing to clean
,ut powder key, he put a little powder in
{ and then applied lighted match He was
picked up several rods from tho explosion.
md is now in bed wondering what became of
be keg.
1t is related among other exploits of the
leSperado Ike Lambert, who was recently
rrested in Alabama for killing three men,
hat he cnce compelled young lawyer to
lick a banjo all night for his amusement.
eeping him covered the entire time with
oaded revolver.
Tho returns for 1856 show that %. l3i hui
nan beings persisted from snake bite in In
ia. The number Of cattle killed by snakes
returned at 2,15i 1t is stated that Az, 596
makes were destroyed, ard that $500 ru-
ees were paid by the government as rewards
or their destruction.
A bill has been introduced in the British r
arliament forbidding the erection of exces-
I've high buildings III London. On streets
xty feet wide only churches may be erected
{ a greater height than sixty feet No other
uildinS OH any street can be higher than
nc width Of the thoroughfare
There is in Lake county, Mich; co-opera-
ye TELEGRAPH line which HOGAN nv tvvo |