The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-19
PERSONS AND THINGS.
News Notes Complied from the "Times
Exchanges.

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Fifty thousand women are reported
as having voted ut the recent school elections
In Kansas. Many women were elected on
the school boards.
In about a month from now General
liippolyto will proceed TO elect himself
President OF lfayti, and there will be no
going behind The returns.
Major Page NJ. Baker, managing
editor OF the New Orleans Times. Demoeras
ana Miss Mary Constance Fell. Of that city.
were married In New York Saturday last.
Eugene Semple. who was appointed
Governor Of Washington Territory by Mr..
Cleveland IN April. 1887. and displaced 10y
Mr. Harrison In 1859, is the Democratic
nominee for Governor OF the new state.
The tallest chimney in this country is
tho now stack OF tho Clark Thread Company
Al kesrney. near Newark. y. J. Itisa clrcu-
lar shaft 335 feet hight AM PSI feet in diam
eter az the base. This chimney cost $4,000
and contains .G97 900 bricks.
The Boston letter carriers have taken
tho initiative In favor Of collecting funds for
monument for the late = :. Cox. The plan
is 20 assess each carrier ia the country s1.
and, MS sherc are more than 1900 OF them.
tho result would be "a sum sufficient TO raise
a respectable monument
Mrs Grover Cleveland attended the
International fair al Buffalo, Friday. and des-
pitc her desire 10 be unObserved. She w0s
Immediately recognized and followed about
greatly 20 her discontinue. Mrs. Cleveland
remarked 10 a friedd that She was tired OF
This sort OF thing which was hard enough
when She WAS the Presidents wife, but was
doubly uubearable now.
Quite a costly accident has been met
with IN the ordnance foundry nj the Wash.
ingion navy-yafd. In putting one Of tho
large steel hoops on a ten-inch brecch-load-
ing gun the hoop caught before II was fully
adjusted n pllce and before 10 could he re-
tight % the gun. All efforts 10 remove u
have been in vain, and 80 VIII have to be
turned Oft.
Los Angeles, Cal. feels the collapse
of the real estate boom. and the property
owners have petifioncd the state Board o.
Equalization TO reduce the assessment Of Los
Angeles county 20 per cent. ono piece OF
property That was sold for sl5.sS5 two years
ago has been returned TO tho owner for &c.
600, the face of The mortgage. ON sixty town
sites that were then laid out there are now
but 235 Inhabitants.
Findlay. o.. is cited as an illustration
~ what the incipicnt development Unnatural
gas has done FOR the localities that have been
able 10 use IT, IIndlay has i'm less than three
years grown from population Of 1900 10
$1,000 and there are thirty-nve factories
there. against two beforc The gas was intro
duced. The reason is found IN the fact that
enough natural gas to run glass factory OF
thir'y-three pots can be had nj q cost Of 81
cents a day. other towns have enjoyed SINH
Oar prosperity
The Washington Press hears that Mrs.
Harrison. Mrs Mckee and Mrs. Wanamaker
''haye formed "a combination 10 effect some
thing offs change in social customs in wash.
ineton next winter. COnvcrsaziOnes. read.
ings of popular authors aud literary discus.
sions viii. % is said. 10 n certain extent, take
The place of lunchcons. dinners and balls
II isprcsumcd that thcrcwin be a iacit un.
dorsiandug that no alluslon 70 the fashion
or the style and cut of clothing shall ever be
alluded TO I'm Mrs. Wanamakcrs presence
T. Yamagati. Japan's Minister Of the
interior has returned 90 Philadelphia from
Washington 90 consult quaker city phvsi-
clans. Tie has been in tais country several
months at The head of commission invosti-
eating the progress and achievements Of
America. Count Namagati Was taken in in
Philadelphia a short time ago, but recovered
and went 10 the Capital HIS Illness has
worried bis companions good deal. who
seem 10 feel that q man who can manage the
Interior Of Japan ougntto De able toiake care
of his own.
A writer in the Syracuse IN. "
Journal, who went 10 the bottom Of tho
Grand Canon of the Colorado last winter.
SAYS. 81 have been an through the Rockies
from Montana TO Central America. and
know what chasm is but the sight Of that
abyss took my breath away. From the top
to the bottom IL is fully 6,OOO feet. over a
mile below You can zee the river teariAg
through the gorge. but not sound can be
heard. it IS so far away. From one hanl, to
the other il is apparently not over quarter
ola mile. bat as a matter OF fact 10 is fully
nineteen miles,
Another murder mystery is reported
from Birmingham. Ala. The dead and partly
dccomroscd body of a well-dresscd white
man was found floating i'm a water tank at
the Sloss furnace i'm that city Tuesday mom-
ing. The man had evidently been murdered,
as The head had been crushed by a blow from
some heavy instrument Tine body must
have been placed I'm the tank last night, as IL
could not remain where 30 WAS found many
hours without discovery. Tho coroner Inn
pancled jury and commenced an inycsiiga-
ton. But so nr the body has not peen iden-
titled OF amy ciew 90 the murder discovered.
John Williams. an engineer. has been miss
INK flr week. but his friends say this body
is not his. The murder is q mystery.
Sir Edwin Arnold. abiding to his
coming visit 10 Boston. said TO % New York
reporter "ln Boston / am 20 deliver two adj
dresses al Harvard Univefsity-one on the
.Upanishads' or nuptial treatises OF the Hin
docs. and the other on the 'Mahabarata, the
great epic poem OF India. wit readings from
my own ira nslations Of them. Let me say
here that my poem. the Light Of ASIA Is not
"A translation, as SO many in America as
sumo. but All entirely original work. From
Boston 20 across the continent IN route 10
Jaran. China. India and Pers a. MY Journey
is a recreatlve one, but send notes OF travel
20 the Daily telegraph, and cannot certify
that after my return the impulse to
write something more on my Avoriie
oriental subjects may not take possession
Of me-
Tanning hides by electricity is the
latest industrial sensation. The process as
described by those who have seen IT, II "a
very simple one. The hides are placed In
larsc cylinders. which revolve upon horizon
falaxies. Tie drum Is filled with decoc-
lion oftannin and closed. Prov Is made
for the passing Of current Of Gle c'riciiy
through the drum. The drum Is Kept slowly
revolving until the process OF tanning is
co,npietcd. The length Of Time required
varies with the nature OF the hide. FOR the
j I."