The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-11-06
PERSONS AND THINGS.
News Nctes Compiled Prom the Times
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housewife who reads the papers remarked
at the tea table. I'll see that Miss Caldwell
il not to marry Murat Halstssd after ALL"
TnK Philadelphia Record suggests that
an international postage stamp, good in
every country that belongs TO the Postal
Union, would undoubtedly be = great con-
yenicnce; and the adoption Of such plan
would not necessitate any elaborate lesisla-
ton.
A QyER. decision by a New jersey justice
of the peace il reported. John WoI put
stuffed wolf at the door TO represent his
name. A dog destroyed the sign, and the
Justice holds as the stuffed well represented
John Wolf, the dog IL guilty Of biting the
man, and his owner must pay 20 damages.
Ir il difficult in deep-sea fishing to land
your fish after you have caught him. All
this trouble will soon be obyiated by the use
of the electric fishing line. A small battery
1T the end Of the pole will respond to the
slightest touch and Mr.. Fish will float
quietly TO the surface, very much shocked al
such proceedings.
Az American orator az dinner at the
Grand Hotel in London recently made use
of the following metaphor in his speech
II. ct the Russian bear put his paw upon
the fair land of Australia, and the BRUSH
lion. the American eagle and the Austria
liam kangaroo will rise up as one man and
drive him ignomini0usly to his lar.'
SHERIFF FLAck, Of New York, says that
he believes the Bookstavcr divorce TO he in
full force and valid, but the other side will
l. Il. ~ al oflerll N
certified checks on Wednesday. OF course,
If the wife should now accept the divorce
as legal, the prosecution, from which such
important results are expected, would fall
to the ground.
BLAKELr HALL and Leander Richardson
are reported to be the largest two men in
New York journalism. The latter is six
feet one i'm height, and tips the beam at 200
hounds. His head il unusually large, and
requires Il. hat TO cover ii. Blakeiy Han
is built on even more. generous proportions.
He is six feet three and half inches tall,
and his weight is $50 pounds.
GERONIMO and his renegade Apaches
will remain at Mount Vernon Barracks,
Ala, durin. the winter. Geronimo has be-
come quite civilized. He has learned to
twang the banjo, and his old surly manner
has left him. II is not probable, however,
that his education will go very far. lie
would rather play cards than learn to read
and his former fOndness for frewater re-
mains.
4 PARTY Of forty miuels from Alaska,
who lately arrived at san Francisco, say
that the outlook in that region il not very
inviting one, and il will not avail a person
much 10 20 there without capital. Many OF
them were ut FOrty-mile Greek, and travelled
1000 miles down the Yukon river 10 81.
Mchaels 10 take the steamer for civilization.
They had no difficulty in getting supplies,
such as they were, on the trip, but the prices
were very high
THE Ibsen cult is only in its infancy AZ
vet i'm Boston. but there are many of the
Browning disciples there who are eager to
be indoctrinatcd into il. A portion of them
re- out at the recent performance OF me
DOlrs House, and were good deal over
come as it progressed. They are right on
the eve Of the gushing period ana VIII soon
be as fully en- rapport with lsben IN the
drama as they have long been with brown
ing in poetry
CHARLES ROzELI, JR., died at his fathers
house in Litchfield, Mich, October "a, aged
forty years. This man was born without a
spinal column. and had been obliged 10 lie
prone upon his back all his life. lie never
walked "A step, and lived most of the time
i'm "A room built and adapted especially to
his peculiar necessities. lie could tax ana
feed himself. but was not very bright IN
tellectually. SO that hi. life was almost as
blank a. that Of mOllusk. Few but ineill-
bcrs of his family have seen him.
THE Century Club in New York city,
which has been housed for 50 many years
in the modest mansion in east Fifteenth
street, will soon remove to its new building
| in FOrty-thiTd street, west OF rim avenue.
The new house is more like the Pail Mall
Clubs than like most American structures.
The principal apartment, ~ the character
of the club requires, will be the library, a
yery spacious room, occupying hall the
INNER part of the edifice. The Century has
had six other homes since its organization,
but the first five changes were made during
the first ten years of its existence.
THERE is something intensely weird in
the recital Of the cruise of the Thetis, which
has been where no American vessel has
ever been before, and where no vessel has
been at all since Mcclure discovered the
Northwest Passage in 1891. On the SCUM
side of liorscheps Island the crew OF the
shin came upon a deserted village, OF when
history furnishes no account. On the graves
were laid guns of long obsolete pattern. and
birds had made their nest. in the skeletons
of the brave men who had given up then
| lives there. Who were these unrecOrdcd he
rOes.
/ .1anfri litflfs "a safe
guard against fire They have been thought
So but that reputation has been made shaky
by an incident recorded in the Toledo pa
! pers. An Illinois stranger at the Toledo
| hotel unfamiliar with the electric light,
| tried TO blow il out. No use. Next he tied
knots in the string by which II was sls
pended. hoping 20 choke OF tho light. Thai
failed. and then he wOund a towel around
the bulb and went to bed. After he was
asleep the towel ignited and set the room
ON ire. The house was saved from con
migration by the timely discovery Of tn,
nieht-watchman. This is u warning TO no
tel-keepers.
FISHING in Louisiana may DO pleasant
but il has lis drawbacks. The New Orleah'
Times Democrat says: "While Mi. Eva
tiste sanchez was seated in his canoe fish
Ing, near the Patin Dixie, in Pointe Coupe
Parish. last week, a large alligator, said L
he twelve feet long, attracted, no DOUBT, Dl
the smell Of fish, hove in sight and b0r'
down upon the canoe in manner winch De
tOlened that he meant business. Mr. san
chez, having no weapon but light nshini
pole, sought safety in flight, padding to tn
shore and crying 10 some enc n the Dank u
bring him gun. The gator overlook nm
and swan around the boat several times
crashing its jaws and otherwise giving ven
To its anger. MIR. sanchez finally tosse'
overheard bag in which he usually put IN
fish. and while the monster was uisposih.
of il made his escape TO place OF safely
BURGLAR, who was endeayoring to en-
ter the residence of Mr.. George NJ. High II
Chicago Monday night, met with rattle
startling surprise. Seeing some one ap
preaching. as he supposed, he drew his re
yolyer. The other man aid likewise, an,
soon the pair were blazing away at eacl
other with precision that was hard ON IN
mirror. Mr. High and his family were a