The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-20
CRISP CONVERSATIONS.
Lexington. Ga. did not have a Gre for
twenty years until recently.

twenty years until recently.
A Thirteen club" ont In Tckarnah.
Neb., has gone TO smash II was com
posed entirely Of bachelors aad they all
got married
Another Chinese belle has arrived in
New York. She is only lG years old. and
has feet au inch and palf long by half
AZ inch ia width
Nearly all the old black 'mamnics" in
New Orleans are expert nurses in yellow
fever, and the city is said 20 owe its low
mortality in cpidemics 70 their care.
A Connecticut man has invented an
elastic hat He spent all his life trying
10 invent q compressible head. and only
al the last moment thought Of the elastic
bat.
For several days tho church clock at
llarpendcn. England. refused 10 work
On an inspection being made II was found
that swarm Of bees had taken TAP their
abode in the machinery
Bob Ledberry, Of Waco. Tex, tells a
story about n colored child, 4 years of age
that goes every afternoon 20 a bridge over
q gutter aud calls a snake. which comes
out and feeds from the chid's hand.
4 Mrs Manning. Of Paris. HIS, who
died few days ago took 70 her bed nine
years ago, declaring that she would never
leave it, because Lor son married a giri
She didn't like She kept her word.
Calvin BowlIer. who has just resigned
his place as postmaster Of Savoy Hollow
Mass. was appointed IN 1871 under Presi-
ient Tyler. ana has held the Office con-
.iuuously ever since. lie is 50 years old
A Texas man was fired az and the bull
Jet was turned aside by pack Of cards in
his breast pocket - it was % new pack,
with Inc ace outward DO can bc said that
the ball came within Az ace of killing
him
The king cruiser o. all viii be the last
ordered by the British admiralty. to- be
named the Bicnheim Sic viii be- Of 5000
tons. with twin screws. engines Of 10000
horse power, and a speed Of twenty two
k.o's.
a puzzle to the city Of Galveston is
how Mr.. Gicmpczynski escaped from an
asylum 70 which hc had been sent as q
lunatic. Perhaps he unbranded his name
and let himself down from a window
with it,
Ten COWS belonging to Farmer Green,
Of North Danville. Vt, huddlcd close to-
gethcr under some trees in violent thun
der storm. Lightning struck tho trees,
and passing downward, killed every COW
in the drove
Four young men at Ilonesdalc Pa. g,
loved the same girl and met and fought
TO see who should marry her. After they
had blackened each others eyes and
skinned each others noses she shook the
crowd and married tailor.
A Kansas City woman was travelling
with her husband and when the conduc-
tor came around after the fares he found
the husband cold ia death and his wife
talking to him She had been carrying ON
conversation with dead man for at
least two hours.
Two men in Seattle. W. r.. evidently
DO not believe I'm compromise. They
bought All iacent pieces Of land. 4 house
stood ON one lot and 500 worth of the
Building projected onto the other lot.
The 500 man employed carpenters TO cut
oil his end of the house
The longest through car service Of any
railroad line i'm the world Is said 10 be on
the Southern Pacific road. between New
Orleans and san Francisco iej miles
The fastest through train on this road Is
timed at ll3 hours - minutes, or at the
rate of twenty miles an hour.
Denis Donahuc of Oregon, Wis,
amused himself and friends by swallow
ing several cigars. taking for dessert "a
small bottle containing "a stick Of fused
caustic potassia Emetic, were promptly
given and his life saved ili- stomach
now contains several jackknivos. lead pen
ellis and other choice articles of food swal-
lowed last spring
The Birmingham AZ, tells cf a Redding
man WHO has had his enidencc IN blood
hounds cruelty BETRAYED a negro stole
pair Of trousers from Linn. and ho lot
loose three bioodhounds and started in
pursuit The gro baoktrackcd. tine
dogs .Jst his trail and took after the pui
suing white man. whom they finally freed
and kept him in that preaicameut from q
clock in the afternoon tii 10 o clock the
following day.