The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-08-29
PERSONS AND THINGS.
news Notes Complied from the Times"
Exchanges.

one OF these days an ocean gre,
mound viii crowd on lust a little too muc
steam IN trying 10 break the record and wi
make the fastest time ever made TO the bot
tom OF the sea.
Unknown 70 many OF her friend.
Nlrs. James q. Blaine. Jr.. has been lying I
lot ten days AZ The home OF Mrs. &. 4. Dor,
mus, at No. ~ Lexington avenue. New Yorl
suffering from innsmmatory rheumatism.
As fast as the forests are cleared ava.
around and near Seattle. Washington. IN
FARMERS flock tn and improve the land Thu
same soil that grow trees ten feet I'm diam
eter ana two hundred feet hiah will ais.
grow the best hops. fruits corn. potatoe.
pears and currents
Florida sent New York city 300 900 O,
her production Of 100000 5o1os Of orongc,
laat season. The lemons which come 10 Nev
York are nearly an from foreign countries
New York handled last season 10000. oot
pounds of domestic dried and cvaporated
fruit, valued at s2.0oO,OOO.
At the close Of 1855 the Southern
states bad 3s 252 miles Of railroad. ms against
2',10@ in 1850. Since lsst Jauuarv aloui
600 miles MIRO have been built. milking
The gain since 1850 about is zoo miles. Al
present tho Souihis building more railway
niicaeo than any other part of the county.
Buffalo BIZ las rival i'm Buffalo
Jones ~ Kansas. lie has devoted twenty.
years to the study and rearing Of buffalo
calves. and has an immense range Inn Utah
and one in Kansas. from which ho supplies
parks and private individuals. lie SAYS that
Ibis large, line bruitsorc free nom the de-
leclcd appearance noted n circus animals.
The floods of this summer have shown
how great protection against the inroads o. Z
water 20 TOW of willow trees may be. The
engineer boo charge Of the Potomac river inn
pioVemenis says that whore willows were
planted The land was protected from wash-
ing ANA practically no damage was done
while BOO the improved land not so protected
horcwas great loss
Farmer Stanley house and farm
were ruined by The CleIry-mountaii land
Slide. in Sew Hampshire. lie Thought lac
was ruined man. but the exhibition of the
devastation 90 sisht-scors. whom hc charged
for the sight brought him enough money
with which TO buy small farm ln Jefferson.
lie has Just sod This farm % "a hotel company
40 % big profit and invested the proceeds in q
large farm not far from his ola home.
Miss Marie Wainwright appeared as
single star in the production of Shake
spcares Twelfth Night 40 McVickcr's
Theatre. Chicago, Monday evening. before
crowded audience. Miss Wainwright was
called before the curtain several times and
overwhelmed with flowers. The play was
ana beautifully staged. and
long ana successful nun for Twelfth Night /
ls prcdictel by tine critics
The Providence Journal, which is an
ultra fanid Radical paper. gives this sdvicc /
to its friends the ncuots: "Norih Carolina /
negroes should emigrate tO California Last
week The nuit dealers dumped 1--WE
thousand nne fresh melons into San Fran /
.sco Bay, $50 as 90 prevent Cutting the mar /
sct. Before the dumping the price was % /
'enis pei crate, after the dumping 80 was 40 /
cents.
Steve Br0die maintains that he can !
ilat over Niagara Falls iu his India rubber
u.t with impunity. bat lie has postponed the
uempt because the hotel proprietor az tho
ais VIII not make up a purse of over $1,000
lr him. lie expected that De could easily
.et p purse ofs3.OOO. but the Niagara mon are
fohuiy afraid they might in That case {
.eid as accessories after tine mct.
A party of fossil-hunters are having
God luck iu the Nofth Fork country ~ ore
on. They have found the bones Of small +.
Dises with three toes ON each foot. rhiuoce-
Ys skulls. and other bones. that show. as
beg tnink. thnt Oregon bad tropical Gle
ate before thc glaciers came down from
be north ANA covered the land miles deep
ith ice.
There seems to be no end to tlsons
ieenulty. nssays: OF anu now at work con-
D. invention which Will allow r. msn in Wall
rectnot only TO telephone 90 nman in Gene ;
ai Park, bat fo see That friend while be- l~
iattug telcplonically with him." This ,
ohs impossible. but then. Ellison is % con. .
leror ofimpossibilit.cs. iffhc great invcn- 7
Dr. can really enable q man 90 "scc man. 4
hen they are three OF four miles apart. IL is o.
b wonder that bee has been decoiatcc.
Clinton a. Snowden, of Tacoma, saw q
.es going snd coming from hollow tree. r.
'bult fire, smoked ont the bees. and cut u
.wn thc Tree fO ger thc honey. he found a D..
cat lot of BE-; but. better stlu, % large guam Il
y of gold was in the hollow trunk. 10 lad ,
identity been deposited there by nature. n
d the wise mon ont there thinl, that it, was 4
udualiy washed up every year by thc flow ID
.I..f
toa solid mass" Mr. suowdcn got .oyer f,
900 for the gold.
Says correspondent: Miss Jean
tte Haiford daughter Of the Presidents
ivate secretary, is ono of the most popu-
D young ladies at Ieer Park this season. =.
% her company is sought after upon AN oc- -,
ions. Miss Ilalforj's musical talents lshe a,
proficient upon The hanlol and her ~
lht. accommodating disposition render -.
p attractive in any society. Her advent ~
one next seasons debutantes will prove "a :.
irmiug addition To- the list 10 was the -,
Jfoguph ofthls young lady which has got
sarette firm into trouble. Il.
The most remarkable of recent strikes \,
just ended az Jacksonville. Some one
ldrcd amt fifty ciear-maler- had been ON .t,,
nike. and despatch from Jacksonville d..
s thai they have come 20 am agreement III.
int the offer OF Manager Cato 10 pay on ,.,,
1ush window cut n the side of the D..
rway is am the concession that can roa- III
ably Doe expected This concession irac- -,
.l the spine of the strike. The New York nj,
awaits with eagerncss some explanation In,
Ae reason why weeks wages is any a..
GO II paid through a widow cut in The a..
of stair than if paid anywhere else. ...
robably few persons know thar IN
ue TO Columbus. whose memory is now in
rsOng reluyeration, was erected in TO ,
lmore more than century ago, and is her
there. being said 20 be the oldest monu- 9Th
70 in existence in the United states. IL ces
cs in the grounds Of the samuel Ready ,
um. upon property which has change
efs foar times since the statue san
erected 10 was dedicated Cc- HIS
18TH. 1881. by the French ma
.ul. General de Amamor, who had re- '"''
ied in Baltimore, with perhaps hum w..
French officers and soldiers, after the oo'