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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18
Wheat Harvest I'm Rnssia.

The wheat is stacked at first like that of
America, except in the matter Of cap
sheafs. Instead Of three or four top
sheafs just one is placed. 1t Is turned
heads down and spread 50 as TO cover the
entire stack. The heads Of Russian wheat
are long and slender and the grain small
and red. twould be graded at Duluth or
Chicago as No. ,. The straw is rank and
slender, and the yield a little more prolific
than in America. Ii is harvested and
own in the same month, AUGUST. When
the wheat is sufficiently matured IL IS
hauled on long, slender, one horse wagons
to the windmill on the farm and threshed.
Hauling wheat 10 the thresher IS q
leisurely and lazy work, and is never done
till the plowman wants the ground it
occupies. The windmill which furnishes
the frail power for the threshing is the
same found throughout Holland and Ger
many. II is double armed, the same as
the one Don QuixOte set out TO conquer.
These mills are very common around War
saw, in Poland, and are used for every
conceivable work, the women even grind
ing their coffee, churning and washing
with them. The slightest breeze sets
them going, rs their faces are turned
against the wind 50 rs TO catch its full
force. This appears, however, to be the
only labor saving institution found 10
Russia.
| asked a landlord why he did not intro
duce the modern implements on his farms,
and was informed that labor was too
cheap; besides, it was found advantageous
to give as many people work in the coun-
try as possible, because if they go to the
towns or cities they become troublesomel
1t will not be till the serfs leave the farms
that Russia will have modern improve
ments, and not till then will she compete
to any great extent with the United States
In supplyingthe wheat markets Of Europe
st. Petersburg Cor. New York Mail and
Eyprpee
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18
ON rHG OTHER SIDE.

Tho Australian market gardeners arc Do
ing ruined by Chinese cheap labor.
There is a proposition to cut a ship canal
across the instep Of Italy's great boot.
The late Marmaduke Blake Simpson, city
editor Of The Lopdon Times, leaves an estate
OF 100000.
The chapel In which Wesley preached Tor
nearly half q century was recently bought
in at auction for f4,500.
A horse lately in the hunting field picked
up a stone with his fore foot and threw 1t
against his hind leg and broke the bone
There will be another attempt to build q
railroad through the Euphrates valley, not
~withstanding the many previous failures.
The vice regal council in India has in
augurated a reform by prohibiting the kill
ing Of birds for the orramentauon OF ladies'
costumes.
Mr.. Richard Schultz Of the Hamburger
Bicycle club rode nearly four miles and a
half in half an hour upon a unicycie hfty-two
inches in diameter.
In two London churches actors have been
invited to read the lessons for several sue
cessive Sundays lately, with great satisfac-
ton to the audiences.
During the past seven years more than
ZOO 900 acres in England have gone out of
cultivation. It means a loss of 43OO,OOO,OO
to the land owners and farmers.
The switching engines Of the Caledonian
railroad in Glasgow are to be provided with
trumpets for signals instead OF whistles. The
system will also soon be adopted in London.
Recent experiments with thirty-six pound
quick firing guns showed that twenty-five
rounds could be fired in two minutes and a
half. Seventy ~ponnders are now being
made.
The English system Of naval punishment'
is to be revised, and minor offenders, instead
of being treated to the cat and sweat box,
will now be punished by fines and stoppage
of leave.
Tho famous polo team of the Seventh Hus-
| sars, who came to this country several years
ago and beat us. have lately met with their
second defeat in India by q native team OF
| the Nizam's.
The London Field says that q man whocan
ride with hounds when they cover eight or
| nine miles within an hour ''accomplishes a
| feat which takes him and his horse out of the
common herd"
Tho greatest long distance ride On record IS
now TO the credit Of Col Gatacre. He went
from Simla to Umballah, % miles, in s12
hours, with t~hreequarters Of an hour allowed
for changes, and returned, making l9I miles
under % hours.
Dr.. Gross, Of Geneva, has lately expert
rlented with himself in hanging. His ex-
perimen;s established that the sensations
were only warmth and a burning in tho
| head, without commissions. OF course his ex-
periments didn't 60 very far.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18
Chicago's Cheap Restaurant.

II DO most Of my business in the last
two DAYS Of the week Friday and Satur-
day." said the proprietor OF a cheap res
taurant in the ne~ighborhood Of some Of
the largest mercantile houses In the city
'Do you account for thatg'
"Ob, yes; it Is very plain. You see,
these big business houses pay of all their
clerks Saturday night. During the first
few days Of the week the young fellows
have plenty OF money, so they 60 to the
high priced places for thei. meals. Along
about Thursday or Friday most of them
are nearly out Of money, so they have I %
retrench. Then they come here for their
meals. BY Saturday Dol / have tho bulk
u them.
II think 1t argues pretty well for these
young fellows" added the restarrateur,
as If he felt that he ought to say some
thing In favor Of his ~patrons--'it argues
pretty we'll for these young fellows that
they would rather come down a notch in
their living than keep up the stylish bill
Of fare and run in debt for it or steal TO
keep it up,"--Chicago Herald.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18

The stupid husband of the talented &C
tress must not be forgotten. He, of all
such husbands, is the most difficult to
manage. One-half of his wife's life is oc
cupied in correcting the silly plumbers he
hourly perpetrates. Her lord and master
will In one day do more injury to her and
to her interests than she can rectify In
months. The saddest phase OF this mat
rimonial alliance is that his ofiicious err
rors arise from genuine and intense admi-
ration Of her talents, and from inordinate
pride in belonging, even as a husband, to
her retinue. 1t is vain for her to beg
him to moderate his zeal, which urges
him to interfere with her business, but,
rs she really loves him, her solicitations
are feebly uttered, and her forgiveness for
his errors is easily obtained. He Is full of
promises, so full, indeed, that he has no
room for performance of them, so as fast
as one fault is condoned another is COM
mitted, and thus the story Of error and
forgiveness goes on to the end. When
old age comes upon this pair it finds them
full Of quiet respect and decent love for
each other, but with a very moderate for
tune wherein to live TO the close Of life
New York Star.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18

The New York Legislature appointed
commissioners TO ascertain 1.-The most
humane and practical method OF carly
ing into effect the sentence OF death IN
capital cases." and the commissioners re-
port that an electric shock Is the best
and most civilized means OF executing a
death sentence.
The garroto and guillotinc are pre-
ferrable to hanging as far as one can
Judge without practical experience. One
Of the difficulties in the way Of determin-
Ing the mos; humane way Of removing a
sinner. whom his fellow men by a jury OF
twelve determine as no longer needed
here, Is that we cannot ascertain the
opinion of the principal party.
II may look very bad or may look
rather easy, but we do not know how 1t
feels, and, after all, the criminal is most
Interested and ought to be allowed his
say. So that we return from all ideas OF
bsrbari,y to the simple consideration of
ofense to decency.
The commissioners Of the New York
Legislature seem to have the right idea.
Let the poor wretch be struck suddenly
by lightning, and @ to the Supreme
Court Of the ncxt world and it will be
easier for him and everybody else, while
the example will be just as strong.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18
Foley.

The Tribune as the big organ, As al
ways on such occasions, plays a wild and
and discordant "Bamboula," as the You.
doc w~orshipers call 1t, overthe connrma-
ton of MI. Lamar as Justice Of the Su.
preme Court.
We copy an extract from the BAN.
boula" IN another column, and 1t will
serve to brace the nerves Of sensible and
patriotic men, who wish to reunite the
country upon the mutual recognition by
the two sections of patriotic motives in
each. The sinister spirit Of the
Republican party has always taken
hold on the bad things they can see in
the South and makes them worse with
the lurid paint of prejudice and the curl
GUS inspiration for moral deformity that
can never see fair proportions in any
thing but the pretense of Republican
virtue. Happily the people Of the United
States have seen behind the curtains of
Republican afYectation, and recognized a
monster of ring rule, monopoly, section.
al hate, and false Amcricanism.
1t IL as true as the light OF day thai
the Republican party was beaten by
itself, and by the same things in its
policy that we have mentioned. The
common sense of the country perceives
the mockery of wisdom and patriotism
represented by Bill Chandler, and OF the
championship of pure elections repre-
sented by the men who stole the presi-
dency in 1876.
Perhaps the two monstrositles OF the
day most illustrative of Republican hy-
pocrIsy and fraud are the alleged protec-
ton of American labor and the sectional
issue with the South. The last is the
survivor or rather the ghost Of a princi-
ple that the North established, and hav-
ing established, supplemented with the
great victory Of peace. The former is the
old man of the sea that rides to death
about $4,000, 900 Of people by making
them pay double the price for the ne
cessary articles of life under the pretense
of protecting 100000 laborers whom
monopoly grinis down more and more
as protection of monopoly and capital
istic trusts" increase the prices of the
product of labor. Deny that who may:
but If you look at the facts it canno be
denied.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18
LITERARY NOTES.

John q. Whittier is enjoying better health
thar he has for several years.
Statistics are said to show a steady dimiru-
ton in the percentage Of fiction called for at
.ho great college Libraries Of our country.
William D. Howells, Whitelaw Reid and
Ohm Q. A Ward, the sculptor, are fast
riends as well as natives of the prolific state
f Ohio.
The widow of NJ. katkofY, the Russian edi
Tor, is preparing for publication enough OF
her husbands newspaper writings to fill eight
volumes, comprising 5000 pages.
Gen. John G.. Fremont has arrived at Los
Angeles with his wife and daughter and will
remain there during the winter. He hopes
10 complete the second volume Of his memoirs
before spring.
The largest book bound is owned by Queen
Victoria and measures eighteen inches across
the back and weighs thirty pounds. IL con-
tains the jubilee addresses Of congratulation
from members of the Primrose league.
Before Frank r. Stockton had become fa-
nous as a story writer he worked as an en-
graver in a Broadway, New York, house.
His style Of work in this department Of art
was fine and clear, daintier, indeed, than
strong.
Tho famous historian, MommeSen, cele-
hratcd his 10th birthday some weeks ago. He
is a familiar figure on tho streets Of Berlin.
&c walks along rapidly with his eyes on the
ground, and pays no attention to those who
salute him.
1t is stated that Mr.. Ruskin's profits from
bis books amounted last year to f4,co0. No
fewer than 2,122 copies Of Sesame and
Lilies" were sold during 1886, and the authors
profits from the new edition Of Stones Of
Venice exceeded LOCO.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18

ave believe II is q fact that OF the
twelve or fourteen wooden mills in Phil
sdelphia three-quarters arc closed. All
would be busily and probably at work If
they could have free wool, but the wool
and wooden ring forbids.-N. 7. Herald.
That Is the right text. The wooden
manufacturers want to pull the wool
over the eyes of the country, and who
ever goes TO them TO get wool returns
shorn.
How long will people endure this mon.
strous idea of protecting the rich man
ufscturer instead of protecting the poor
working manY
The manufacturers are forming trust"
companies to withdraw every product
from the market except at twice the
right prices for it. They get big prices
for the product, but do not increase
wages. Labor wants competition on the
markets of the whole world, and then the
home manufacturer cannot manipulate
the market. 1t looks like a very plain
proposition that il raw materials can be
obtained at the same price as the rest Of
the world gets them, then American
products must at once compete with the
whole world instead of being narrowed
to the local market.
When the demand increases of course
the supply increases, and the supply is
the gauge of the working mans wages
and the time that he works.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18
Again we urge our honorable DEN

Again we urge our honorable Demo
cratic friends in the Legislature not to
fall into the error of thinking that the
people expect them to sit ninety days to
win their pay. On the contrary, the
people know that the pay is scarcely
more than nominal, and that the mem.
Der would be entitled to it fairly whether
he sat in a session of the Legislature one
dav or a hundred.
As a representative he has a certain
responsibility, and is subject to call at
any moment that Is paramount to his pri-
vate affairs. He is not a hired man, but $500
a year is a pittancc, and the honor of:the
position Is questionable when the diff
culties are great. We hope that the
Democrats in the Legislature will rely on
the TIMES TO stand by them with the
people and explain this simple point, and
we hope they will not sit a day longer
than there is something to do.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

Mn. Dinah Mulock Clark left a personal
estate valued at more than $4,000.
The women Of Crovetown, Ca, are trying
to raise a fund to build a church in memory
Of Paul Hayne.
Up to the present time Sir Morell Macken-
ze has received IS, 500 sterling for attendance
on the crown prince Of Germany.
London women Of fashion have apparently
settled the theatre bonnet question by adopt
ing q crush hat, without which, it is said,
few ladies attend places Of amusement.
The wife Of Senator Beck, Of Kentucky, ia
O descendant OF a relative Of George Wash
ington, and a part Of her estate comprises
land surveyed by Washington for the state
Of Virginia when Kentucky was the western
county Of that state.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Gle veland has been for
some years engaged in a close study Of tho
life and work of st. Augustine, with the pur.
pose in view OF writing a book upon him aud
his mother, Monica. The work will prob
ably Be completed within ~ year.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18

Bon rOydge, Messrs. O'Bfannagan and
Booth and may the next provincial
town" show a fuller appreciation than
Richmond did of the tragedy of
O'Thello the O'Moor Of Venice played in
two hours and twenty minutes, instead OF
three hours and twenty minutes. cut with
a hand-saw in order to catch a
train, and generally garbled to suit
the artistic idea Of getting shekels
under false pretenses. And by the same
token that word moves us 10 advise
Messers. O'Brannagan and Booth to play
Shylock instead of O'Thello. But on
second thought. after critically compar'
ing artistic skill with sharp management
and h%armonizing tragedy with cheating
we think that the best play for these two
eminent actors is Robert Macaire and
Jack Stropp.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18
A AND ACTORS.

The dove eyed Perugini has been engaged
TO sing with Carl Rosa in England.
Emma Abbott has purchased a block OF
buildings in Denver, Colo, for $4,000.
A dramatization Of 'She," by William a.
Brady, has been produced at Los Angeles,
Cal.
A rumor is afloat that Rose Coghlan and
her brother Charles will run a theatre Of
their own next season in New York
Mr.. William Anderson, who for five years
was a leading character actor in Lottas
company, has been engaged to I'll the place
made vacant by the sudden death OF John
Howson.
1t is stated that when Henry Irving plays
Don Quixoteo John L. Toole will appear as
Sancho Panza- 1t il also understood that
Mr.. Irving will by and by effect a revival Of
Shakespeare's Richard H."
The managers Of the New York Bijou
theatre have printed tho receipts OF "Adonis.n
Tho first year the burlesque drow s22l,000
and tho second year s1S3,00O. OF this sum
the proprietors Of the theatre received about
$4,000.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18
Precocity In Children Undesirable.

Precocity is undesirable In every way.
The precocious child may be the delight
Of It's parents, and still more OF its grand
parents, but the psychologist looks npon it
with Suspicion and the family medical
attendant knows that such child Is liable
to tubercular meningitis-.water on the
brain-and can estimate the risk 1t runs
in the ordinary maladies Of childhood. Its
nurse shakes her head when she sees its
precocity, and fears it Is too good for
this world" with its winning ways. And
her forecast Is too frequently VERIFIED
National Review.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18

The rubber men have long viewed
with alarm" the growing demand on the
part of the public for inferior goods.
Yielding to this demand, they have been
led to place worse and worse goods on
the market every year until the situation
has become unbearable.-N. Y. World.
OF course the rubber trust" can
stretch itself or bounce just as the op-
p~ortunity of swindling the public offers.
Rubber, however, ceases to be elastic In
price when the trust gets hold oft.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18
The Northwest Territory has just su

The Northwest Territory has Just suf.
fsred the worst visitation Of the cold
weather that has ever befailen 1t.
Alresdy the death list appears larger
than that of the famous blizzard Of 1864.
Over one hundred lives are known 10 be
lost, and OF unknown victims there must
be many. Where there have been SO
many deaths there must be many more
sufferers.
The people all over the country will
call charity to the aid Of the sufferers.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18
Ex-Governor Pattisop ia attacked on

Ex-Governor Pattison is attacked on
the ground that judge Jeremiah Black
once wrote a message for him while Gov.
srnor which he 1.-THE Governor) declined
to promulgate. The subject at Issue was
q railroad matter about which Pattison
seems TO have had the hardihood to
change his mind. The idea intended to
b conveyed is that Pattison was bribed,
and hence that the Pacific railroad steals
were honest transactions.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18

By a mistake of the types Yesterday
the word Iambics was spelled wrong,
which we regretted very much, as only
the initiated could see what the word
should have been, and thereby appreciate
the delicate compliment therein con-
yeyed to our friend O'Brannagan,
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18

We are glad to see that Mr.. Ellis was
seated. Never lot a party In power be
afraid to act with nerve when they know
that they are right.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18

II q cellar has a damp smell and cannot be
thoroughly ventilated, a few trays Of char
coal set around ON the floor, shelves and
lodges will make the air pure and sweet.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
PARAGRAPHS ON PROMINENT TOPICS
OF THE DAY.

The Majority of the House-The GieefnI
Mugwump-The Reading strikc-A Sub
stitute for Hanging-Mr. Lamar's Con-
Armation.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-18

"Sbeep men representing over 500, 900
sheep" have resolved that Congressman
representing over 6O,O00,0 900 people ought
not to lower taxes on wool and woollens.
II this were q government OF, by and for
sheep, the resolution would command
respect.-G. Louis Republican.
1.-THE hue of the Democratic dark horse
for the Vice.P Presidency seems to be
0ray-0f Indisns."-E1ehange.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-04-04
LUBRICANT Il.
IIASE.

hurricane has two schools. Ono taught
by Miss Lizzie Smith with forty schol-
lars, tho other by Capt. Stone with TWEEN
~ iyo or more.
In two miles of this place thore has
boon twcnty-fonr hundred dollars spent
for young mules, nearly all bought AZ
Laurons. There has beon several horses
sold to u n%oighbors also, wodon't know
what goes with tho old stock.
AS to the storm n few nights slncc, we
can only say that We think his section
had its share.
Tho cattlo mon havo been buying up
nearly all the cows around hero, it is
hard to find a good COW Mt a reasonable
price.
Mrs Goodcrson who is now with tho
family of III. Copeland is sick with chills.
There arc chills in several families hero.
Mr. Green has his cotton seed mill run
ming with his old engine ho has bought
u new one but has no time to put 1t mp.
NotSmuch corn planted yet. Most of
u farmers have corn enough to do
thom and some to spare.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-04-04
BY MAIL AND WIRE.
NEWS OF THE WEEK FROM THE
WORLD AT LARGE

Russia is reported to be resum-
ing her military activity.
Many bridges have been washed
away in Edgefleld County.
The Broad River at Aston, s. c..
was twenty feet above low water.
The Darlington Building and
Loan Association is to be converted
into a bank.
A Georgia physician near Gains
vile killed his brother yesterday
during Il dispute concerning a fence
line.
Both tho Logan and Blair peusion
bills werc~ passed-by the Congress-
ionol House by largo majoritics.
The people of Kingstree, S. G.,
Az short of beef, and attribute the
lack of cattle to the effects of the
n%o-fence law.
"A boom in business is reported
from Batosburg, S. G. A railroad
Is suggested from Blackville to
that place.
w, G.. Colmery, cashier of the
Crystal Springs Bank, Miss, COM
United suicide yesterday by shoot,
ing himself.
The French cabinet has resigned,
caused by the defeat of the govern
ment on a question of the revision
of the constitution.
The President has sent n fctter
to the civil service commission re-
commencing the extension Of the
limits of the classified service.
Walter CayO, n young man from
Edgefleld, was run over and killed
by a locomotive on the Port Royal
Railroad at Beaufort.
In a quarrel over n nicklo in q
game Of cards at Atlanta, Neil
Stark shot his brother Flantz dead
and fatally wounded another man.
A most brutal murder occurred
in New York, Golden Robinson,
colOred, cut his wifc's throat after
an attempt to murder her sister.
The damage to %thcraIlroads and
the telegraph wire at various points
in this State by the recent storm
have been very considerable.
The delegates to the Y. NJ. G. A.
Convention, at Florence, S. c., are
receiving great attention and hos
pitality at the hands of the people
Of that town.
President Cross and Cashier
White, of the Raleigh bank, will be
tried for forgery. The amount in
volved in these forgeries are said
to be over $4,000.
a freshct OH the Congareo River
at Columbia, S. c., is reported to be
almost equal tothat Of 1856. All Of
the low lands above and below the
city are flooded.