The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-21
PERSONS AND THINGS.
News Note. Compiled From the "rImcs"
Exchanges.

Exchanges,
A sALLow-FAcED man. with heavy ex-
preston Of countenarcc. dropping ewes. and
manner Of great boredom, stood in front
OF pclmonico's. New York, yesterday. rumi.
mating upon the chances OF entertainments
- nave hnaliy. he said, "made up my mind
10 remain in New York Cor the rest Of he
season. For ten years / have left America
ABOUT this time every year for Monte Carlo.
new orleans, Paris, or some other place
where the cards ran well and there roe
more OF less excitement, but have coine 10
the conclusion that New York il about the
most enhancing city Of any place | know
OF. STAND around on street corners half
the DAY whenever a lincman goes up pole
ana am watching my chances on the street
cars. The diversion the weather amounts
10 something here. but il is nothing 10 the
plquancy which cnyclops a man who lives
IN a town where death by electricity is a
daily occurrence and likely 10 wind up the
career Of almost any man in town. no mat
ter how placid and innocent his methods OF
life may be-"
THE lates, idea Ia the restaurant line is
the placing in "stand-up-at-the-countor"
lunch rooms Of big wooden arm chairs with
broad, nat arms that look like those built
LOT the piazzas Of country houses. One Of
lhc arms Of these chairs, however. is wider
IMAM the other, and there is depression in
II large enough TO hold the bottom Of p COZ
lee mug ana deep enough 90 Keep the mug
from upsctung, The customer. after get
ting mis- order of coffee and his slice Of pie.
dish Of pudding or other tOmestible upon
"a plate at the counter. rctircs 10 one Of these
chairs, puts The coffee down In The place f0r
10 on the arm, finds room enough len there
Tor his plate, and so fixed eau lean back
comfortably ana enjoy his lunch without
danger Of siilling il or having il jostlcd out
Of his hand IN the pressing of crowd about
q counter. The reclining chair lunch-room
is popular.
Not sycry one knows that the Hon.
Chauncey NJ. Dopew has brother who is a
prosperous business man in Detroit. There
This brother is aaociionately known to every
one as "i0rry,' and for the same reason
that some one was called Peter in one Of
6ilbert's comic poems. because Peter was
his name When The father Of the two
Depow boys had planned 10 give them both !
"a collegiate education, the idea was for
them 10 lay the foundation Of the higher |
Studies in the local academy. AT the end
of thc FIRST term tho father got q bill for
thauncey's tuition. bat none for Larry's.
Lawrence had not been TO the academy at
an. II was found that be was clcrking in a
store in the village That ended the attempt
AZ far as Lawrence was concerned. He was
permitted TO stick 20 business.
JsOBRs sLAroN, who died last week in
Fayeitc county, Georgia. was a remarkable !
man in many respects. He was eightY-one
years old, ana had lived i'm the same house
for siXty-One years. 49, his first wife hc
had seventeen children and by his second
fifteen. Around his bedside when he died
were seventeen Of his nineteen living
children. lie had grandchildren too hume
rOus 90 mention he had given nearly
every one some of the land which hc owned. |
and his children always lived close about
him. lie was six feet i'm height and had
been sick only a few hours before death.
THERE are women who look picturesque
I'm almost any kind Of dress. They have in-
yariably we'll shaped heads and graceful
outline. fiat shoulders and "a pretty lire Of
arm and shoulder. They seldom have very
small waists, but possess very beautiful hair
i'm great quantities. Their eyes need not Doe
very large. but they must De- well set. "put
i'm with dainty fingers as such setting has
been described: and though the complex
ion need not De perfect. 10 must be natural,
and the nose unaccusi0med TO the powder
pun. Such women look poetic. and inspire
the poet, the painter and The sculptor.
THE Jews are said 20 bc rapidly incrcs,-
I ing ia numbers. wealth and influence i'm
/ New York. -Four new synagoeues were re-
Gently opened within the space of ten days
and the city now has lOuy-scyen of these
places of worship which Is "a larger num-
/ bcr than can be found i'm any other city inI
the world. The Hebrew population has
/ doubled i'm ten years. some trades they ale
most entirely control.
Mrs. FLORENCE ELIZABETH CORY, oil
Brooklyn, it is said. was the first industrial
designer in this country. She made designs
! for carpets. MS well as taught the art Of de-
signing after she had mastered it herself
She is well paid for her work.
THE trial of colored deacon who was
arrested at Wichita, Kan. for stealing coal
was advanced on the Justices docket al his
request in order that he might iii an en-
gagemcnt 10 preach on the day originally
set for hearing.
THE Rev. r. Dewitt Talmage has secured
a cornerstone for his new Brooklyn Church
from Mars Hill, from whose top he recently
preached % the AthcnianS.