The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-12-23
STRAY BITS

One acre in Wall street. y. z, Is wor1i
tl4, $4,000
The new English powder for small arms 3
white and almost smokeless
There are only about 9, 900 eleysants in tbs
world, and the number Is decreasing every
year
A man killed thiry-ons snakes near Syl
vzuia q few days asa They had made theil
home 10 a iog.
a Pennsylvania eli expert says there Il
more oil under the soil Of California than IL
al Of Pennsylvania
Capt John Miller, who recently died In ths
Indian territory, aged 10 years, had taken
thirty scalps during his evontful life
Mr.. Robert Stevenson, engineer, OF Gas
gov, 10 tho last ono 70 claim an invention
which viii drive OCEAN chips up 10 forty
knots an hour
Charles jackson, q Virginisn, has spent
thirty-two years looking for q buried treas
ure, and is not discouraged yet. Ho says all
things come 10 him who waits.
There ars fourteen different towns and
cities In the United States named Augusta.
and there is never q day that freight and
NAL matter is not going wrong
Carbon was shown to BE- a distinct element
BY Lavossier in iTS5, who proved the diamond
70 BE- It's purest form, and converted 1t into
earbonic acid gas by combustion.
Mis Addis Herndou, Of Erin. Tenn.
dreamed recently Of digging up $500 in gold,
and the next day she went 10 the plaza visited
In the dream and she did it in fact
Last August there were killed IN New
South Wales the following "noxious" AMI.
mails: 59,5o6 kangaroos, $3.50 wuiltbies.
1ela hawks, 81 ems and ass native dos2
Eleven hundred and forty-ave writers
have contributed articles for the ninth cd!-
ton Q: the "Encyclopedia Britannica the
last volume OF which has just been issued
The largest continuous sleeping car service
In the world Is that on the Santa Fe system.
which runs through kleepers from San DIEGO,
Cal, 10 Chicago, distance Of 25ll miles.
The pronunciation match promises TO be
one OF tho diversions OF the winter. It's
even more exciting than the spelling match.
and rather more destructive to tho lines Of
cofnbatenD
In arswcr 70 the question, "yghut becomes
Of al the cracked and used UP billiard bal.sg'
New YORK contemporary says that those Of
real ivory are bought UP and cut into dice
and Other small articles.
There Is no theatrical bill posting in Mexico
sad tho newspapers print theatrical advor.
EASEMENTS free. The newspapers do not a.
sale accept tickets but subscribe for the
nannef desired for the stan
The leading English winning sire this year
y 62iopln, with upward Of SO. Voc. Of which
Donovan won 2lC.5Q0 Isonomy Is second
With ks7.ooo, Of which e20.0O0 was won by
ssa breeze. Bend Or is third, with 81. OO9
1he abutments Of a bridge over river In
Austria have settled twenty feet in toe river
bed slice 1854 As the settlement PROGRESSES
u nsscnry Of tho bridge is built % CORN
spondingiy 80 - to maintain the same road
lsvsi
African teak wood weighs from a. pounds
70 ~ pounds per cubic foot, works easily, bat
rsais away tools rapidly on account Of the
quantity OF sick in IL II contains an oil
wh'oh prevents the iron IN Contact With Il
1r>n r1zting
a bodybuilding fea, never before ap-
prooched was lately performed by the Fair
I'D compeny on ths Clyde. 5,Oo5.ton
Gtoomar Tor the GessnAs line 30 New York
~ launched recently. which had been built
n 1of> th1u four months