The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-01-13
STRAY BITS

The number Of mems linen collars made IN
this country every year is 100000
a newly fallen meteoric stone weighing
i4Opounds has been found 40 Ellsworth, Wis.
Although italy has the highest murder rate
of any country IN Europe it has abolished
capital punishment
AT Victoria, b. C., thirteen and q half tons
Of barracks and shcl fish were scraped of
the bottom OF single yessel-the Olympian
Tn the trunk Of "a tree cut down near
Hanna Ind a fow days ago there was found
a stone jar filed with Spanish coin worth
5000
The birch rol used Boy tic first teacher in
a Vermont sh00llouse, over 100 years ago,
is said TO be nailed over the present teachers
desk
Among the Chinese heaven is odd, earth is
even. ana the numbers I, 8, ., 2, belong TO
heaven, while the even digits are Of the earth
earthly
Sacramento. Cal, has passed an ordinance
making it unlawful for any person under u
years OF age to smoke cigarettes within the
city limits
Quick firing Armstrong guns, thirty-siz
and 100 FOUNDERS, discharging ten and eleven
shots a minute, have been finally adopted 10y
tho British army.
A little girl Of Poulan, Ca, raised enough
peanuts and sugar cane 20 pay for five and "a
half acres of land, and She had enough money
left 90 fence 10 with.
"If You don't want TO buy, come In any
way and pet our cat, is a friendly invitation
which sign in front OF o Sedalia, No. store
holds ont TO passers by.
a curious sight near Elliiay, Ga, is the
grave of a mountaincers wife, which Is pro
lectod from the fury Of the elements by a
number Of lightning rods
It has been computed that the power re
quIrcl % drive the tenpenny nails contained
n a fal keg would draw wagon loaded
with q ton Of coal ffty-two miles.
According 20 experiments recently made,
tlo tensile strength Of "a wet rope Is only one
third that Of the same rope when dry. and "a
rope saturated with grease or soap is weaker
still
Every French bank has a photograph Of
every employc. aud in tho case of the more
responsible ones they are under the sur
VIGILANCE Of private detectives most Of the
time
Col Stewart, n prominent resident Of Ne
braska City. has made his viii and provided
init that his body shall be cremated and the
ashes dumped into the river at midnight.
A book published IN 1892 describes the devil
ish as "a n.h from ten % thirty feet long,
with single horn on either side Of the head
The real monster had not been seen up %
that date
One Of the latest wrinkles in Photography
IS tho "ghot" picture, in which persons
Likeness taken by an instantaneous exposure,
wIth result 90 shaiowy that the back
ground. bjcctei Co "a longer exposure, can
be seen through the ghost
10 is chained that mixture four parts
sawdust. two parts powdered fro clay, one
part powdered glass, one part cotton dust
and six parts Of sea sand VIII, when moist
cned and fred at red hest, yield very per-
manent and porous msterial for lamp wicks.
A new dynamo with "a capacity 20 run
eight incandesceut lights has been invented
by Vermont electrician. IL has some novel
features. one being slow current obyiating
AN danger. while one light can lie shut of
without affecting the Others on tho same
circuit