The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-05-26
HERE AND THERE.
Berlin is TO have a new cathedral.
BROOKLYN has an Anti-Dyspeptic c

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confessed that he had not washed himself IN
/ fifteen years
The new Virginia code that went into ef-
feet May requires every officer TO take an
ironclad anti -dueliDg oath
There were 2G.glj students in the twenty
/ German universities during the last session.
/ Or these ,Gi3 were foreigners.
/ Strawberries In England have been costing
sixpence apiece peaches half guinea and
I cherries have sold at about their weight in
gold
The head gardener at the Allegheny City
park has planted in a bed there a portrait of
Mr. Lincoln taat is strikingly true 10 its
great original
/ san Francisco is to have n crematory.
company has been formed which owns "a val
liable lot, and soon work will be begun upon
the furnace and chapel
In 1850 there were not more than 5000
Jews in the Holy Land Now there are more
than $1,000, Of whom considerable number
are wealthy or well TO do.
For the past ten months the railroad acct
dents in this country have averaged ono for
every five days, and two-tbirds Of them have
been the result OF carclessness.
judge II. f. Packer, of Mauch Chunk, Pa,
has in hisdining room a sideboard which cost
$4,000 It covers the whole side OF a room
and is model of elaborate and beautiful
carving.
Yale's new college library Building, tie
gift Of S. b. Chittenden, Of Brooklyn, will be
the largest in the country, and probably tlo
finest. II will cost Sl2j. 900 and be ready for
use next fall
1t is said that the Chinese remedy forsmall
pox is to make the patient beat drum. II
Inc can do it he is all right. Formerly they
used 10 beat tho patient TO care him, but
civilization PROGRESSES even in China.
In New Haven. Conn, a runaway mustang
leaped clear over a baby carriage without
harm to Us little occupant, bUt foil aii a-hcap
rs be- struck earth again, and was caught by
half dozen men before he could rise.
4 UNIQUE bushes, card j.. that of Frank
fort ~ ~ stove dealer. On one side j. tho
following inscription: GLOW $1,000 vas made
$1,000 by attending 70 your own business;
5000 by letting other peoples business
alone"
The Indians on the San Carlos reservation
in Arizona are cHtravagantly fond Of
sweets Sometimes in one store a barrel o.
SUGAR will be sold IN day in quantities Of
five and ten cents worth, just enough TO
serve the Indian for candy
Mr.. H. q Marquand. of Now Work. pos
lest billiard table on this continent The
piano, the caso OF which was designed 10y
Alma Tadema cost SlG nl0, and tine billiard
table represents an investment Of $1,000
1t is not an uncommon thing for immi-
grants 10 land at Castle Garden with tami-
lies Of nine or ten children, AMI recently a
husband aud wife with thirty-two children
disembarked there. 1t is only fair, however,
10 mention the fact that the woman was the
mans third wife.
The British museum is about 20 f-ue tho
first part OF "A series Of fac-simile rcproIuc-
tions of some Of the best OF the drawings 10y
Old masters in IFS collection. The publication
Is intended for free distribution TO provincial
art museums and galleries, and the British
treasury pays the expense.
Miss tare Button, who died in Oakland,
Cal. a few days ago, at the age OF So Years,
was Forty-niner She went around the
Horn in that year and established a board
ing house in san Francisco. and when she
died she was worth over 100000 Sine was
New Hampshire spinster, and her property
will 20 to some relatives there.
The price OF supper at poverty BALI mt
Bath, Me, was placed al thirteen cents. Tho
following was the bill Of fare. Beans, dried
beans, baked beans, pork and beans, yellow
eye beans, pea beans warm beans; bread,
brown bread, cold bread, rye bread; twisted,
moasses, round and sugar doughnuts; black
coffee with molasses, coffee without mills,
dyspepsia coffee and cold coffee.
Some one has got up an alphabet Of
precious stones as follows: Amethyst, beryl,
chrvsoberyl. diamond. emerald. fields par. gar
net, hyacinth, idiocrase jasper, kyauite more
commonly cyanite, blue mineral. lynx
sapphire, milk-opal. natrolite, opal. pjroPe
quartz ruby, sapphire, topaz. uranitc, ycsu-
yianite "a species Of garnet. waterslpphlre,
xanthitc. yttrum, zircon IA Cinsalese stonel.