Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-04

had "A fair wind. The Captain thought he
made out the name Nellie Gordon OF Bos-
ton on the bow of the small boat, but we
were not sure Of that"
Drinngs.
Certain taxpayers of the town of Lake,
recently annexed 10 Chicago, have filed a
bill for an injunction in the Circuit Court
praying that the Chicago Board OF Educa-
ton and the city be restrained from taking
possession of the school property of the
annexed town. James Kelley, an lndl-
vidual citizen of Lake. has also filed bill
in which ne asks that the city OF Chicago
be restrained from taking possession OF or
annexlng the town itself.
There is no doubt that Queen Victoria
is in very bad health. Her rheumatism has
defed treatment, and she has grown very
feeble. II is asserted that she wishes TO
Law her official duties aside. Should she do
SO the Prince Of Wales would read and sign
the State documents. In this case he would
assume the title If Prince Regent, and
would enjoy the use OF Buckingham Palace
and Windsor Castle. Victoria would retire
70 Osborne and Balmord.
A dead oak tree was taken up on Wragg-
mall. Charleston, :. C.. last week, and I'M
der the roots. about four feet deep, was
found an l3-pounder solid shot. apparently
from a seige or ships gun. The tree was
thirty or forty years old. and besides no
such shot fell In the city during the last
war II Is, therefore, relic of the Reyo-
luton. fired probably during the serge OF
Charleston by Sir Henry Clinton, and
from a battery near Haddrells Point.
Says Philadelphia newspaper: " 1t has
become q subject Of remark among George
". ChildSs intimate friends that he Is CIV
ing more time 10 recreatng tins summer
than ever before Week before last, 1t is
said, he wasn't at his Office at all. This
week, If he adheres TO his programme, the
Jelqe- building will not know hiss cheery
presence at all. There's no telling what
all this means said n waggish friend Of his
recently. Childs is certainly disslpatinS
to an unusual extent"
According to returns recently made the
number Of field officers Ia the japanese
army "a 1865, including l general. II
heutenant-generals. Is maior-generals, SO
colonies. G. leutenant-colonels, 29j colo
ncl-majOrs. ,O4 captains, l.lS9 hrst-claSS
sub-captains. and 1905 secOnd-class sub
CAPTAINS. The number of non-COmmis-
stoned officers and file il 2l4,24-i9,29t
soldiers. and ~ engineers IN service, and
1l3 O65 soldiers and % engineers IN reserve,
and 81. 66l soldiers and l engineer IN second
reserve.
John Grouse. Syracuse millionaire
grocer who died recently. was laid in what
is probably the most costly tomb IN the
country. The structure * of solid granite,
every stone being perfect. The stones run
through and through the walls, and each
has been fitted 10 It's place with mathe-
matical precision. The masonry outside
a. well AZ in is as delicate as the joiner
work in the strictest sense. Nowhere IN
the roof is there a vertical JOINT exposed
10 the sky, thus preventing any possibility
Of leak so often found in such work.
The Journey around the Congo cataracts,
which now takes between three and four
weeks, will be made IN two DAYS by the
trains of the Congo railroad. which is now
in course of construction. The lOcOmO-
tives will weigh thirty tons each, and the
speed at first viii Toe about eleven miles
per hour. Trains will be run only during
daylight. There will be three intermediate
stations on the 225 miles OF track. The rail-
road is expected 70 pay expenses from the
start. rs the OUTLAY for carrier service over
its route already exceeds S45O,OOO year.
After separation of forty years Jacob
Haverstraw. of Salem, \. j., has met his
sister, Mrs. Rebecca Johnson, of PayOnia,
\. j. Although they have been living
within twenty miles of one another for
years past. they did not know each others
Whereabouts until recently. Mrs. john
son, being in Camden on visit, heard q
Young man called by the name Haverstraw.
Thinking she saw family resemblance,
she addressed him, and found he was her
nephew. Jacob was told of the discovery
By his son. and the family are again united.
A novelty IN the way Of labor-saving de-
vices is about To bee put upon the market
by ". b. Martindale. of St. Louis. II IS
called the electric date ard time-stamp,
and 10 is thought that It Will soon become 4
necessity % bus n"5s-men, railway and teie-
graph companies and Government officials.
The stamp. which, like the ordinary stamp,
records ones name, address. business. and
the ike, Is peculer in that IT also stamps
the correct date Md time of date to the
minute. II works automatically, in syn
chronism with any clock, by means of an
electric-battery and circult-clOser, which
are attached 10 the clock. No electric
stamps viii be sold by the company which
manufactures them. They will be leased
to subscribers like the telephone.
Sheriff Curry, Of Missaukee county,
Michigan, had two ways Of prisoners in
his jail While NE was attending plug
horse race the Other day those two chaps
succeeded in getting hold Of long piece
of wire. On the end of the wire they made
a hook, and after working for about an
hour succeeded in fishing up both the keys
10 the cells and TO the jail. They then let
themselves out. starting at once for the
race-c0urse. The gatekeeper demanded
paw from the men, but Of course they
were unable 10 put up the collateral. Not
10 be dismayed by so small thing as that,
they went TO the other side of the grounds
ard sneaked in. The sheriff was completely
dumbfounded when the men presented
themselves 10 him and requested that they
be taken back TO Jail and locked up. After
the races all three returned, afording
much amusement to everybody IN Lake
City.
Augustine Birrell, who recently entered
the British Parliament as "a member Tor
Fifeshire, does not seem to have high
opinion of parliamentary life. In chap
ter Of an additional volume Of "Obiter
Dicta." Just published. he SAYS: The ava
ricious man commences politician IN the
hope of getting a place; the loquacious
man. in the hope of getting hearers; the
handsome man, in the hope of getting ad-
mirers; the inconveniently rich man, IN
the hope Of getting rid of some money {;
the man who likes good feeding, In the
hope of getting good dinners; the man
who is bored by the domestic hearth, IN
the hope of getting his evenings out; the
high-born man, in the hope OF getting Ia
vorably compared with the other sort Of
men; the lawyers who cannot obtain briefs.
in the hope of getting CONDENSATION Tor
failures To which class does Mr. brreii
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