The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-11-26
PERSONS AND THINGS.
News Notes Complied From the Times
Exchanges.

carrying gold at the rate OF S5o.oee ton.
was taken from the main shan OF the Mich
igan gold mine Friday night.
On the las, day Of the Paris Exposition.
Worth. the famous dressmaker. gave each
Of his employees so 10 spend and closed his
store nj noon. This act Of generosity cost
him 5000.
THE quantity of oIeomargarine Is greater
this year than last. there is AN Increased
number Of persons engaged IN its sale, and
there is an increased consumption both at
h ONE and abroad.
IL A weIl-known gaInbling-housc in New
York two hands are nailed up over the
mantels. They are the six, seven. eight,
nine and ten OF diamonds and the same In
spades. These two hands came together
and caused the division Of small fortune
between the holders.
The word cyclone. We are told, was iirst
proposed by PddingiOn. in 1878 to describe
the violent hurricanes Of the far west in
which the wind rotates, in the northern
hemisphere opposite TO the hands OF a watch.
Francis Galard, in 1863. 10 represent wind
motion in the opposite direction.
rHK citizens Of Windham, Me-, are laugh
ing at 4 newly.maTied man Of that town
who went 10 Portland shopping, taking his
bride with him. but who forgot her wlen he
started for home. and had nearly reached
Nindham before the uneasy consciousness
that he had forgotten something finally re-
solved itself inte the realization Of the fact
that il was his wife W 10 was left behind.
4 CLAIM for damages is likely to be made
against the elevated road in New York city
by the friends Of Mrs. Helen Lee, who sus
tanned injuries from which she died by
being pushed forward by the crowd Of
passengers descending the stairs behind her
at the fifty-ninih-streei station. The charge
is that there was VIGOROUSLY insufficient
accommodations.
In a few DAYS we shall learn whether the
Portuguese Of Portugal mean to initiate the
Portuguese Of Brazil. who are copying NJ
in 50 many things. and seem 10 covet close
alliance. There be those who think that
New York and Lisbon are destined one day
to he much more closely connected than az
present by commercial currents. COM
merce to and from the Mediterranean can
centre at Lisbon.
GREAT BRITAIN has become alarmed al
the inadequacy OF the defenses on the
Canadian Pacific coast, and proposes 10
send military force there which shall be
paid and sustained By the Dominion gov
ernment. but controlled by the Imperial
authorities. The Dominion refuses, however.
" submit 10 any such arrangement, ana IT.
/ sists that Canada must control any force
which il has to maintain. The Canadians
are Perfectly right in assuming this posi-
/ ton.
THE oldest officer III the United states
army. In age and by entry into service j.
second Lieutenant Michael Moore, of ihe
retired list. He was bsrB in Brooklyn in
| 1896. and enlisted at Governors Island in
| 1872. He enlisted As "A drummer m ibo
Thirteenth Infantry From 1871 uniil leW
/ he WAS Ia charge at the music boys Oh boy
errors Island. where all infantry recruit,
were sent IN those days. lie was appointed
second Lieutenant in the Ninth Infantry IN
1859. He was retired for age in 1919. lie
lives with married daughter ia BROOKLYN.
Mr.. MARYLAND, Of the New York Metro
politan Museum Of Art, complains that
Gainsburough landscape which came &c
him through the cusi0m-house was SO exc
crablv tire, ted ia examination that IL was
half ruined. II came 10 him with great
scratches and rough holes in IT, showing the
most brutal treatment and carsiessnes"
THE packers.n SAYS Mr.. Marquand. "who
are chosen 10 do this work are given ihrll
places, doubtless, on the strength ol iheii
polifics. and treat all things thai come ia
Them rs they would SO many barrels OF
pork"
THE commerce Of Lake superior. amount
ing TO over 100000, ooos annually, may Ice
said 10 hang by thread, and that thread &c
the old 500 canal. An accident TO that lit.
tie waterway demoralizes the business al
the whole lake. Whereupon the Nebraska
Sfafe .JOnrn0f suggests that this matter j.
of 80 much importance that the commercial
bodies of the Northwest are very general,
petitioning Congress to make an approprla-
ton for the early completion OF the new
canal The Northwest feels any INTERRUPT
ton Of lake commerce keeniy, ANA liz ~
aue-t for setter canal facilities sh luld r.
ceiye the early attention of Congress.
TIE oceanic steamer Zelandia, whicl
arrived from sydney and Auckland ria
Honolulu on Saturday. reports that a sh'
was entering the harhor Of honolulu on
| November 10Th Professor Van Tassell. thi
ballOonist. made an ascension nom TIE
shore and dropped from the balloon IN
parachute. lie fell into the ocean abon
Two miles from shore and one mile IRON lh'
steamer. He was seen no more. anu u
was supposed he was eaten by sharks. Nai
Tassell left san Francisco few weeks ag'
for Honolulu and Australia, where be eN
pected to give exhibitions.
In is interesting and might be important
remarks an exchange, to keep watch of lh'
sufferers from electric shocks who have re
covered and been declared well. IL would
be strange if such wrench to human
nerves should leave no lasting harm. The
human nervous system is capable Of resist
ing prolonged straips, sometimes without
great injury. But when tremendous eur
rent from dynamo has twisted every nerve
fibre until agony has ended IN insenslblliit
and recovery has been slow and painful, II
seems inevitable that time should develop
some weakness caused 10y the strain.
A GREAT many Of the roulette wheel
and poker tables in use nightly in the well
lighted gambling rooms Of New York il
the winter time and in Saratoga during The
summer time, are manufactured within q
stones throw of police headquarters in New
York. and It il understood that number
Of them are established in the small town.
in Connecticut. along the line Of the New
Haven and Hartford Railroad. These man
ufacturers do not sell directly to the gam
blers. Their goods are handled 10y dealer,
I'm gambling implements uptown. and q
some extent by furniture men and drum
mers, who drum trade through the country
and carry photographs Of goods with them
IN order to take the third degree in the
Ancient Order OF United Workmen. and
secure policy on his life Of S2,OOo, John Coe
night Waterman at the Warsaw Salt
Works, did not 20 on duty saturday nigh
until near midnight. shortly, thereafter. ia
crossing over a grdiner through the fOg O
steam which always surrounds them, b,
stepped of into Vat Of boiling brine. IL
saws the boards upon which he usually
! walked had been taken up ana not rclaid
lie crawled out alone, and when found WAS
terribly scaded about the body. his head
and breast escaping burns. lie lies wound
with strips Of cloth soaked with four gal
Ions of sweet oil. TO which is added little