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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-26
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Mother policeman wife)-Willie, I've
been shouting for you this half hour.
How is it You are never around when
you are wanted:
Son-Well. mother, suppose inherit
it from lather.-Boston Courier
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steady market. Unchanged market, but
tone improved
Buckefs-Painted, two hoops. Sl.lj
three hoops. $50.
1dfioW--ic.
Ldrd-Pure. Ne: pressed. &c.
WoioSseS- Extra, hOgshead. ~ 10 lJc.
barrels. - to ICc.; genuine golden syrup.
per gallon. =, TO 32c.; New orleans prime
10 choice. 81 Ia Doe.
Soop-Washing, 81. to ic.; per pound.
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baltimore Narlket..

bN ItItsIuUH.
BALTIMORE. MD. October Cotton
quiet: middlng. 1920. Flour quiet and
easy. Wheat southern dull; Fuliz. l6D
Sic: Longhorry. 7lQ sjc.
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Grain and Cotton Exchange.
RICHMOND. Va, October -. ltss.

OFFERINGS.
Wheat -3j4 bushels.
Corn $40 bushels.
Oats 3. l2> bushels.
Rvc-l Us bushels.
SALES EEPORIED To- SECRETARY.
Wheat -InehpTv. 10 bushels very good
M &c.: Is bushels good at Njc. Mixed. -
bushels GOOD at So. ~hOrtberry. - bushels
prime ON private germs: 30 bushels good al
Sc. Total sales of IS heat 80 bushels.
corn Mixed. .21D bu~hel, very good on
private terms.
Rye 3 bushels very good al SOC.
COTTON REPORT.
Market firm.
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JOHN BOWERS,

Y o. 6ONt IlOI = IItCL =.
MARBLE AND MARHLEIIED SLATE
MANrEI.~;
FINE WOODEN MANTElS.
SLATE ANDTILE HEAKTH~.
CRATES AND FENDEltS:
GAS CHANDELIERS AND SHADES;
HOT-AIR FURNACES AND FIRE PLACE.
STOVES:
4 large variety OF HEATING STOVES
RANGES. AND COOKING STOVES:
Fine BRASS FENDEE> AND FIRE SETS:
The GRAND OIL STOVE AND AURORA
NApOK COOK STg\E~ au Ian
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WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.

Quoiofions. Niddling. loi.c.; low mid
ding. g7,c.: good ordinary. &c.
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II your druggist does not have III MI
az 1'I- KHIt MAIlC CURE bob stock make
him order 10 ioryou. Price. 90 ueruottle,
SO bottles for 5000.
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Reported by John J.. Williams X son
bankers and brokers. No iii Main street.
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PRE- STON BEL V / N,
FINE ART FU RNII LIZ
No. Is Governor Street.
DEUGs. MEDICINES. &c.

1T is wonderful that from the bosom ~
Mother Earth flows streams for the healing
OF her chlldrcn.-S. \. .. l..
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OWENS & MINOR DRUG co.

N|HTTW N-"TT7- I"NTITTT- y
1907 MAIN STREET. OpPO. PO~IOFFlCE.
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"Why are these envelopes blue on the
inside7' was the query put to a stationer
the other day.
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THE MILITARY GIRL.

The military girl, who has been the
theme of college verse and the admiration
of the college student, is now per-
manently established institution at the
university. She is made so by the regula-
tions published in the university catalogue
issued this morning. "The course is to
be compulsory during the Freshman year,
for all students who enter the collegiate
course in the future, and all are expected
to provide themselves with uniforms. !"
That is the provision of the calendar.
The uniform, too, is prescribed. The
material is to be dark navy-blue flannel,
trimmed with light gray broadcloth. The
skirt is to be plain, full, just five inches
from the floor and gathered at the waist,
"that the main fulness may fall behind. !"
This is to compensate for losses in other
directions. ''Bustles, stiff waists and
reeds are prohibited" The neck shall
be finished with sailor collar and the
sleeves are to be straight and full enough
to allow free movement. The military
girl, with her majestic walk, unconven-
tional costume and little wooden gun, is
the latest innovation of the West upon the
old and grown customs of the East.
-Msnaaeapolis Journal.
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Ancient Laws About Suicide.

The Grecian Areopagus and thesmagis
trates of the Island of Ceos had discre'
tionary power to permit suicide "a
Justinian said it was lawful to commit
suicide, provided the State or public
treasury was not affected thereby.
In Thebes no funeral rights were
granted the felo de Sc, and his memor,
was branded with infamy.
In Athens the hand of the self muir
derer was cut off and buried apart from
his body, which was also immediatel,,
buried without being burned.
During the reign of Tarquin, the RoI
man authorities exposed the bodies of sui
cidcs upon crosses for birds OF prey e
feast on.
A standard authority on ancient Jew
ish law says: eff any one shall commit
suicide, there shall be no mourning, moi
keriah (rending of garments), nor any OF
fee performed in honor of the dead.
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Dairy Business Of the United States.

"There are 81, 0OO, ,5OO,OO invested
in the dairying business in this
country" said a citizen with predilec-
ton for statistics to Philadelphia Press
man. "That amount is almost double
the money invested in banking and
commercial industries. It is estimated
that it requires Is, 600, 900 COWS to supply
the demand for milk and its products in
the United States. To feed these COWS
100000 acres of land are under
cultivation. The agricultural and dairy
machinery and implements in use are
worth over S2OO,OO0,0O0. The men
employed in the business number 750, 900
and the horses over 100000. The
COWS and horses consume annually 3d.
0OO,0 tons of hay, nearly 10000, 900
bushels of corn-meal, about the same
amount of oatmeal, 275, 100000 bushels
of oats, 100000 bushels of bran, and
$4,000, 900 bushels of corn, to say moth
ing of the brewery grains, sprouts and
other questionable feed of various kinds
that are used to great extent. 1t costs
$3.50, 100000 to feed these COWS and
horses. The average price paid to the
labor necessary in the dairy business is
probably 500 a month, amounting to
$3.50, 900, 900 year.
"The average cow yields about $50
gallons of milk year, which gives total
product of $3.50, 100000 gallons.
Twelve cents gallon is fair price to
estimate the value of this milk, a total re-
turn to the dairy farmer of $50, 900, 900,
if he sold all his milk as milk. But So
per cent. of the milk is made into cheese
and butter. 1t takes 81 pounds of milk
to make one pound of butter and about 10
pounds to make one of cheese. There is the,
same amount of nutrition in 81 pounds Of
milk that there is in one pound of beef.
A fat steer furnishes so per cent. of bone
less beef, but it would require about 25,-'
600, 900 steers, weighing 1900 pounds
each, to produce the same amount of
nutrition as the annual milk product
does,n
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The SargasS0 Sea.

The name Sargasso Sea is applied to q
region of the Atlantic covered by pecu-.
liar floating seaweed, sometimes in tangled
masses of wide extent and sometimes only
in scattered plants, says the Chicago In,
ter Ocean. These fields of seaweed were;
noticed by Columbus on his first voyage.
to the alarm and amazement of his COM.
panions. Since that time observation has
shown that the number of these plants
and their geographical position are prac-
tically unchanged. The principal bank
of these plants, as located by Captain
Leps, of the French navy, one OF the
most accurate of observers, IS between
latitude 21 degrees and % degrees north
and longitude 20 degrees and 45 degrees
west. A smaller bank lies between the
Bahamas and the Bermudas.
The Sargasso Sea corresponds to the
great centre or eddy of the North Allan
tic system of currents, of which the Gulf
Stream forms so important part. Con-
cerning the plant which is found grow
ing in this curious manner, it may be
noted that it is usually four or five inches
in length, with main stem branching
into secondary ones, and there is no trace
of root in the plant. Between the long,
pointed leaves there are small round air
vessels about as large as currents, sup
ported on short stems. These air vessels
were at first thought to be fruits, and the
plant thus received its name from Portu-
guese word meaning grapes, but investi-
CATION has shown that these small bub-
blcs are meant to serve the purpose of
floats, as when they are cut of the plant
sinks. Examination of several thousand
specimens under microscope also shows
the plant to be as absolutely destitute OF
frua1lcation as of roots, and it is now ac-
ceptAas a fact that the plant propagates
only by division. There is Sargasso sea
in the Pacific Ocean, north of the Sand
wich Islands, but very little is known
about it.
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The Ro,rance Of Chess.

The great game of chess has its tender
its romantic, side, as no game can haye
at which more than two people can play
It smiles on lovers, and can even be th9
cause Of love. Only few years ago. &
chess player condemned to live in the
country solaced his solitude by playing
games by correspondence. Post cards
daily brought or daily took his naoye.)
His antagonist was lady; before the
contest was over he had got to know thia1
lady, and their acquaintance ripened
into intimacy, intimacy into love, and and
love was crowned with marriage. And
this couple, not unmindful Of the kindly
influence which had brought them sto-|
gether, determined that the very rites Of
their marriage should something sayor
of the game. So they invited from Lon1
don certain clergyman whose genial
face-"the front of Mars himself H'--iaI
well known in chess circles; none but q
chess player of his eminence should cele1l
brate their union. And when bridegroom
and bride rose from the wedding break
fast it was only to sit down'to game o
chess-the first of their welded IlneI
All! happy, happy pair, under wha1| what
happy auspices did you start on the high
way of marriageI What a fine air Of ro]
nance, of sweet tenderness, fingers round
these lines of Lord Lytton:
ssMy little love, do you remember,
Ere we were grown so sadly wise,
Those evenings in the bleak December,
Curtained warm from the snowy weather.
When you and played chess together,
Checkmated by each others eyes?
Ali still I see your soft white hand
lowering warm DER queen and knight"
And so on to the sad close, when thd|
poet laments:
'oThat never, never, never more,
As in those old still nights Of yore,
Ere we were grown so sadly wise,
Can you and shut out the skies;
Shut out the world and wintry weather,
And eyes exchanging warmth with eyes
Play chess as then we played together,
-Gentleman's Magazine.
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A Quintet of Ancient Indians.

Before United States Commissioner in
Chancery, at Los Angeles, CAL, evidence
was taken recently in the suit of the
United States with John Marcngo and
other Indians, as nominal plaintiffs,
against John North and Richard Gird,
over a tract of 10000 acres in San Ber-
nardino County. The Government claims
the land belonged to the Potrero Indian
Reservation, while the defendants hold
the title through the Southern Pacific
Company. For the purpose of establish
ing the Indian claim number of ancient
aborigines had been brought into court.
Four had seen century of life and all
had outlived the Scriptural life-span.
Erect, 1.-THE and active these old warriors
who had been unearthed after diligent
search in Yuma Desert belied their ex
trcme age. Juan Saberia, the eldest,
whose chronoscript points at 125 years,
saw the old mission church at San Gabriel
built in 1888, when he was just emerging
from boyhood. Juan Cahuilla, with
weight of lis years, looked sharply and
brightly about him. Next to him stood
eighty -ycar-old Harabasio Cahezon, the
chief of the Mission Indians, and a son of
the redoubtablc former Chief, who got
tired of life when 140 summers had rolled
behind him. His neighbor, Francisco
Apache, whose surname is due to his hav-
ing secured a hide from the Apache
camp, with which tribe he had been on
the warpath, keeps the others company
with a record of 105 years, and perhaps
more, as he insists on having seen the
mission church go up. The last of the
quintet, Ramon Largo, puts his years
modestly at 104. The testimony of the
Indians was that from their earliest recol-
lection and from tradition the land in
question had been in undisputed posses
sion of their race.-Glo5e- Democrat.
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The First Bridges.

The first bridges were Of wood, and tn
earliest of which we have any account
was built in Rome 500 year B. G. The
next was erected by Julius Cesar for the
passage of his army across the Rhine
Trajan's great bridge over the, Danube
477O feet long, was made of timber, with
stone piers. The Romans also built th'
first Stone bridge, which crossed tn,
Tiber. Suspension bridges are of remot'
origin. A Chinese one mentioned b.
Kirchen was made of chains supporting
roadway $50 feet in length, was bull
A. D. IS, and is still to be seen. Th|
first large iron bridge was erected over th'
Severn in 1777. The age of railway
has brought remarkable development il
this branch of engineering, especially II
the construction of bridges of iron and
steel.-Mail and EppresS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-03
HOY Hot Water Saves China.

The entire absence of sanitary arrange
ments in Chinese towns and villages
being we'll known, it goes without say
ing that the laws of hygiene are utterly
and entirely neglected. There is no
isolation of infectious diseases, and no
attention is paid to causes of death un-
less there is supposition of violence.
According to our ideas, therefore, Chinese
cities ought to be hot beds of disease,
subjected regularly to those terrible
epidemics which, with us, are invariably
associated with the neglect of sanitary
laws. Strange to say, such is not the
case. Epidemics come and go without
any apparent reasons, appearing, per-
haps, suddenly, causing heavy mortal
ity for short time, and then as ssuddenly
disappearing again, thus affording an
endless field of speculation to the foreign
savant. But, speaking generally, Chinese
towns enjoy an immunity from these dan
gerous outbreaks almost as complete as
that of well-drained European communi-
ties, and the cause of this puzzling and
curious phenomenon has been yariously
explained. The fact is all the more
striking when taken in connection with
the contaminated water supplies of Chinese
towns, the effect of which on Europeans
has been manifested over and over again.
in the heavy mortality which overlook
them previous to the adoption of precau-
tions enjoined by modern sanitary science.
The healthiness of Chinese cities has been
ingeniously attributed by some people to
the universal habit of tanning, a practice
which is said to keep the atmosphere in
constant circulation. How far this ex-
PLANTATION can be deemed to suffice we
must leave to experts to decide, but, so
far as a contaminated water supply is
concerned, We believe the real secret of
immunity from its evil effects to lie in
the universal custom of boiling all water
intended for drinking. AS a matter of
fact, the Chinese never drink cold water.
The national beverage, which, in true
sense, may be said to cheer but not in
ebriate, is tea, and this is always "on
tap," even in the houses of the very poor.
The native aversion to cold water is unz
doubtedly carried te> extremss,, and Ger
tai9lyI induces diseases which might
easily be avoided by judicious system
of outward application. In the matter
of ablutions it must, however, be ad-
mitted that the Chinese enjoy facilities
which, however little they are taken
advantage of, are far in advance of any
thing within the reach of the poorer
classes of our own favored land. Every
little hamlet in China has shop where
hot water can be bought for a tri-'
fling sum at any hour of the day or
night. Even in a small fishing village
on remote island in the Gulf of Pechili,
where the writer spent six weeks under
very unpleasant circumstances during a.
severe winter, this vas the case, and
great convenience it proved.-National
ReuieW.
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"Home Sweet Homes" Birthplace. .

One by one our cherished traditions ar
destroyed. Among the latest to go is th|
beautiful legend that John Howard Payne
wrote "Homc, Sweet Home" in a London
garret as he pined for his beloved America
It turns out that the immortal song wal
composed on the bank of the Potomac|
in the suburbs of Washington, and thai
Payne reclined on rustic bench, beneat1
a chestnut tree with mint julep by hi|
side. The tree still stands, though it hal
been severely hacked by relic-huntersI
the bench is preserved in Washington
residence, but there is no trace of thl
julep. 1t probably disappeared befor|
the poem was half done.-Aacon (Ga.l
Telegraph.
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Garfield and Mrs. Cleveland. - Washing
tom Press.
INDIAN WOMAN AND BEAR.

Richard Powless, who spent his time
logging until school could be given
him, writes that he is ''trying to roll the
logs of knowledge into the children's
heads as we'll as he rolled the logs few
months ago into the river" and we have
no doubt he will. He also encloses an
article giving an account of the brave
deed of one of his neighbors, an Oneida
Indian woman, whose courage seems only
e9ualed by her pride of race.
Driving into the fields one day where
her husband and others were at work,
she encountered log lying across the
road in such way that she could not pass.
AS there was no one near to help her, and
the log was beyond her strength to
move, she proceeded to cut it in two with
an axe she had in the wagon. To her
surprise she found she had disturbed a
mother bear and her family of cubs. The
bear more frightened than hurt took to
the woods, and the woman walked in
search of the men and their firearms.
Finding them, she conducted her relief
party quickly back to the log, to find
that the bear had also returned. When
all were stationed ready for action she
again used her ak on the log and the bear
made her second appearance, this time
angry and vengeful. The man who stood
ready for just this emergency, missed his
aim, dropped the gun, and with all his
other masculine companions took to his
heels. Left alone with the infuriated
beast, with only an ak for defense, the
Indian woman coolly waited until the
bear came near enough, and, letting the
ak fall with all her might upon its head,
killed it with that one stroke. The same
weapon applied to three of the little Or
phans effectively prevented their ever re-
alizing their loss, and the other she kind
ly adopted and carried home with her.
Reaching her home she found her hus-
band, son, and others assembled there,
anxiously specializing as to what could
have been the result of the encounter they
had failed to see ended. Standing. be-
fore them, with the cub in her arms, she
scornfully surveyed them from head to
foot and exclaimed. "Cowards, you
have no Indian blood in your veins !"-
Hampton (Na.) School Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-03
THE CzARrNA MAKES HERSELF SOLID.

The Empress of Russia has been earn
ing great popularity in the army by the
following gracious act: On recent
morning last every soldier in the Guards
in Petersburg received handsome briar-
wood pipe, silver mounted and engraved
with the Czarina's initials, as a present
from her Majesty. Nor were the soldiers
wi YES forgotten, and each received an
elegant kerchief or coiffure, such as
Russian women wear, in the imperial
colors. The acts of pure kindness on the
part of the royal lady are, of course,
being sneered at by the Radicals, who
say ''no Constitution, but pipe for
Michael or kerchief for Michaela. -
Times Democrat.
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BULLS AND BEARS.

The farmer with the banker ranks;
He's notafraid of 'bulls and bears;"
He manages substantial banks,
In which he holds advancing shares.
Tender his lambs, fit for the slaughter;
sIiyelyn the stock he has to water.
His banks are banks of loam and clay,
he shares his plough-shares in the mould.
Nature he trusts, and gets his pay
In dividends of green and gold.
His margins" are in fields grown over
With crops, and he can 'slive in clover"
His stock if down" is sure to "rise'
When he ''calls'' ''white face" ''spot" and
''roan;"
And he is ''cute" and worldly wise
When spectators ask loan.
He prospers well at money y-making
Fen when his richest banks are breaking.
Tie farmer with his spanking" team,
"Lightfootr and "Swift" can sweep the
plain.
His splendid sorrelr and his cream"
Will take no dust" with might and
name;
They speed in triumph fest and faster,
Uphill ard down without diaster.
His face is bronzed, his hands are brown,
But on his name there is no stain.
He sleeps well when his stock is, down,
For well he knows twill rise again.
And when time brings fate's rainy weather
He'll discount what he's ''put" together.
In field and orchard we behold
The plowman's promissory notes.
His green backs are redeemed with gold,
And not with ''stuff" the broker floats.
His best protection his good sense is,
Nor bulls nor bears break down his fences.
George ". BuaeaH in Ha,pe1's Weekly.
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F.! The fourteenth
igrotesque long -pointed s4oe.l
had been extended by fashiS
that in the days of Richard ii. t6S
secured to the knee by little ch
The church thundered against thi3
isurd and useless fashion, but almost
out avail, for it held sway for 200
or more.
! In 1853, however, so much hdadSsy
had been gained against the mode that q
decree of the English Parliament was OBJ
tanned to oppose the decree of fashion.
An act was passed prohibiting shoemak-
ers from making points more than two
inches long for the unpriyileged classes.
Henceforth the long point became q
badge of the criminal class. But 9 reac-
ton came, the long point went ont Of
fashion, and people went to the opposite
extreme. The toes of shoes were made of
grotesque width.
This absurdity was carried so far that
Queen Mary felt called upon to issue e
proclamation restricting the width Of toes
to six inches. If there were any of her
subjects who had natural spread Of the
toes greater than six inches they had K
60 barefooted. 81
In the sixteenth century boots were
generally worn in England and France
and the boots of the cavaliers were made
with enormously vide tops that were
15led or folded over. After the Re49ra7|
tion the tops of the boots were ornse
mented, at least by the fops of the day,
with lace. %, ~ s.3S4
The simple form of shoe which has :
held its own among Europeans and Amer
leans to the present day made its appear
ance in the seventeenth century. This
shoe has undergone several notifications.
Washington Star.