The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-15
PERSONS AND THINGS.
News Notes Compiled from the "Timss'
Exchanges.


season. They should also have large sprigs
Of flowers n In Pompadour
BEAUTIFUL spring Of crystal water.
where the people Of West Chester. Pa. were
wont 10 tarry. has proved to be the outlet OF
a filthy sewer. the water being purified by
percolation through the soil.
Ia j, reported that Thomas \. Edison has
grown leshy Of late. His hair j. much
raycr than IL was two years ago, bat his
face is ~ Youthful and his smile mas the
same cheerful character that it possessed Of
DID,
THE California vintage is a partial fail
ure This season. Much Of the wine will be
converted into brandy and the balance il
estimated at iO.0O0.OoO gallons. The pro
ductiou of raisins is estimated at over !. 30
900 boxes.
1nF Houston CreXas) Post says: "North-
em Republicans and interested manufac-
tuners tell the South and Central American
delegates the South is very sickly at this
season. II is beginning 90 make these
Northern manufacturers sick all the year
round"
Iuf longest draWhridec in the world was
opened ON October 10 to public USE on the
lime ~ the Boston. New York and Proyi-
dencc Railroad The bridge is across the
Thames river az GrOtOn. Conn. and the
draw gives two clear passage ways oil -
feet each for vessels.
a MAINE MAN presented a bin Of 80 10 a
railroad company i'm that state for lost
h0N. Later the box was found i'm the Ban
.or depot. and contained a peck of peanuts.
20 m0nkcy-wrcnch. and "a Jack for lifting
wagons: only these. and nothing more. lie
NOW feels like kicking himself
THE dinner TO the bankers Of Kansas City
last week cost $1,000. Twenty cooks pre-
Dared tine feast and 300 walters served il.
Among the articles of diet consumed were
5000 Blue Point oysters. 600 prairie chick
ems. and Loo quail. The soup was made
Of two green sea turtles weighing uW
pounds.
PRINCETON COLLEGE some months since
sent ont a party 10 explore the John Day
Lake region of Oregon Among the strange
remains found were little threc-toed horses
hardly larger than d0ukey-. rhin0ceri. cam
.i~. ueccaric-. and "a great asseinhlage oil
larecand cccat-like. doe-likc. and hyena.
like animals. NOT 60 mention hosts of little
rabbits and squiwcl-like creatures.
A REMARKABLE feat ha- just been com
plcted hy Juliu, G.. Ellin-cr q cooper Of
Alieean. Michigan. making 10000 barrels
in fort, weeks. working eight hours pen
1. ..f I.sftsr I'll d
n. iu the United states. Every -taNc. head
noon and nail must Doe handled separately
and some slaves from one ~ three times
ln making lO.uuO barrels 10 takes liuWh
slaves. $1,000 pieces Of heading. CO,Om hoop
and l~u. OpO nails. II would require ten bon
ear- o. carry the timber and MY 10 carry
Oboe finished barrels.
OIp ~Amt Polly" Grifis, of Chnch coun
ty. Ga.. died az the residence of Mrs. Joe
Grfi-. her granddaughter. ON Wednesday
september 18th. nj the great age of lV2 years
Sine was the stepmothcr Of Mr.. Berry Griiiis
fOlineh. who il now ~eNenty-nNc years old
Mrs. Drifli- has many descendants. but none
living except in tine second. third ana iouri
..nrrlfi0n AT Of her own children have
/ I.us since passed away some with old age
she WAS kept ont Of the grave three daNs
according 90 AN old custom m the 'riih
family. When She was put IN the comm TN
body was a- timber as "a babes.
A~NN FRANCISCO special says that th
order from the treasury aholishms thu
stamps ON opium boxes. ISSUED last yoaI
has been productive u much harm in sal
Francisco. The stock Of Struggled opium
has ,a-tl, increased. large stocks hayin
been brought in from Mexico. from Births
Columbia and other places t0 which IT ha'
been smuegicd while the stamp restriction
WIS still I'm force in California. Fully
million dollars worth of the drug has bee
sold bon san Francisco within the last cigll
months. and the smugglers have cut Oh
price down below what the legltimatcly ln
! norted article can Doe prOtitably sold for TIA
collector of that port declare, that STAN
-. we'll made that IL cannot Doe cOuntcrfcltc
should be put on again at once.
A~rEyANrgirl Neutrality-suspicious.
.,i,~ the .lpolVsf, died suddenly in a.
eailcpioid dt. and tine evidence given bcior
il.. coroner r-pcctn. her death attribute
flD fatal ISSUE 90 a.phvNia. due in a grea
measure. 90 the fact that both neck am
waist were uuuJturally CONSTRUCTED bN Doc
clothing. the former hy tight collar On
/ LATTER Dos 20 belt worn under the stays. ID
f.ffu.f SAWS: There D. n0 organ of Do
/ body whose free mON cmcni l- at such time
more important than the heart. The tish
corset and the high heel still work miscll,
600 fhe bodies OF their devoted Wcarcre.
would strongly impress On all this class On
fact that beauty is impossible Wilhou
! health.
A Boston paper IrSulrccts a rather cur
oi.- bic of history TO show that negro wa
once elected to Office m Massachusetts
This occurred as far back 90, $780, in th
little townof Townsend. At the town meet
m. about twenty aholitionist- held the ha
Huce of power and would vote for ncilhc
part, candidate Finally bolts Wings AM
! Democrats got mad and united % clcci
negro tu thc Legislature in order to punis
! fla alolifioni.i~. But though elected. ih
negro did mot take hi, seat. Public sent
mDnf would NOT allow him 90 do 80, ioWi
send went uurcprcscnicd in the Lcgl,idlur
fhaft wear. There is good deal that IL ii
-fncfilc about this incident. The -piri
/ thsf dictated the election of Il negro as ih
Greatest possible insult that could be- pa
upon political antagonist, sill lives even il
Massachusetts.
ACTING RcurAdmiral Nalkcrh has ordefc'
fle purchase % libraries for ten Of the new
ships of the navy for the especial use OF Tia
enlisted men on board. They will be- place.
first on the four vessels Of the Euyopea
squadron under his command. and then oil
tine other six IT, fast as they are needed
These books are generally novels Of the bet
Ger sort scott. Dickens. Ihackeidy am
( ihc like and miscellaneous works ana AT
intended for tho entertainment
ihe men in the forccasile t"her
they Will bc placed when %
duty. Each ship VIII Dee provided WI
about three hundred volumes in all, "A yer
/ mir library. When Acting Rear Adnlr"
/ Walker was placed al the head Of The h'
ram of Navigation. about eight years as'
! thc usual ship, library consisted. he say
of Bible. praycr-book. almanac, diclioI
4r,. and one of $50 works ON navigator
/ half "a dozen all told. From time 10 tmc j.
hns added to these. until H0N - ships
lrar, ranges from thousand 10 hfteen hui
drrd volumes. nll valuable.
THE irony of faie has again been illu'
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