The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-05-19
HERE AND THERE.

| violin made OF clay IL now on exhibition
| I'm Berlin II is said to have a strong and fun
| tone.
Tlehuman heart has to do as MUCK work
i'm twenty-four hours as a machine would TO
| lift l2j tons Of iron
In the grand court Of the Kremlin at Mos
COW there Is about to be erected monument
in memory of the late ear which will cost
$4,000.
A barber at Suez, 4. T., while shaving a
man was seized with an attack OF homicliai
mania. and cut his customers throat from
ear to ear.
The largest tree in the country east OF
California is gnarled old sycamore that
stands in Upper sandusky, q. 1t is forty
feet IN circumference
The word Birmingham, 50 common In
naming town aud cities, Is compounded OF
three words. which together mean ''the hill
which is the home of the broom, an English
shrub.
scientific Journal says that there IS no
prOperly recorded instance o: a railroad loco
/ motive ever attaining a speed greater than
| eighty miles alt hour, and that higher speeds
are mythical
! Chrome yellow Is getting itself into dIsre-
pntc i'm Baltimore too IL has been discovered
that the poisonous compound is used there III
coloring candies, though it appears not TO
great extent.
4 well read man Of fair ability is said to
use from G,OO0 TO 1000 words, and to be able
70 define and understand from 1000 10 30
900 Shakespeare vocabulary contained
about Il, 900 words.
Chicago has had seven Of the national con
ventions of the two great political parties,
/ Cincinnati four, Philadelphia two, and st.
Louis two. New York, Baltimore and
! Charleston have had one each.
4 Methodist church at Augusta held
'hard boiled egg festival" for the purpose of
raising money. Each lady attending was ox-
pected to bring hard boiled egg the pro
ceeds to go to the purchase OF an organ.
Two milkmen in Upper Saltwater, Me,
| have quarrelcd, and their customers arc
highly pleased, for cut rates have followed,
and now customers get milk for two cents
quart, aud those who agree 10 bay for six
months can get it for that period for four
cents.
Constant U.S. having worn away the front
leaves Of the Bible employed in Brunswick
| GA for swearing witnesses another copy Of
tine Scriptures has been purchased, as the local
| LAWYERS were i'm doubt whether an oath
made on a Bible minus its first four chapters
| is binding
I'm the heart of a large white oak tree re
Gently fcllcd near Coeymans a dozen large
bullets were found. They look ike the bul
lets used in the old style fintlocs mJskots
and are supposed to have been shot into the
tree during some skirmsh Of the Revolution
or the war OF 1872
a California tramp has 4 novel method Of
getting money He fixes up his arm with
CASTLE soap and caustic to represent a scald,
and begs for aid on the ground that be just
met with ali accident. lie is said to have
worked this game successfully for four years
in various parts OF the state.
Several enthusiastic Boston gentlemen have
invented a new method for using the surplus
In the United States treasury. They propose
TO abolish usury or interest by having the
government establish depositaries Of money
at all necessary points, to loan money with
out interest to all who can give security.
Absinthe was introduced into western civil
lzation by French soldiers after their return
home from the Algerian war Of 1874. 1t is a
product of North Africa, and the soldiers
mixed it with their wine Us a febrifusc It's
manufacture is now one of the largest liquor
trades in Europe 1t chiefly made at Neuf-
chate, in Switzerland, where 100000 gal
Ions are produced annually
An inventor has completed experiments
which, be says, show the practcability Of
making stone type. They are, Of course, OF
large size. 70 substitute wood letters. Tho
material IS an artificial stone, pressed into
molds. and then hardened, afterwards being
polished on tho surface There viii be no
warping and no expansion or contraction,
and each font will DO exactly the same as
that preceding.
Sho Nemoto, a japanese student in the
| University of Vermont, gives some interest
ing facts about his country. The japanese,
he says, read more American than English
books. Last year s. 600 English and ll9,00O
| American books were imported. Until re
Gently all the editors of all the newspapers
were men, but in March last temperance
paper was established in Toxic by Miss Asai
and Mrs Sasaki, the secretary Of the Toxic
Woman's Christian Temperance union.