The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-08-20
PERSONS AND THINGS.



Exchanges.
Sarah Bernhardt is free ne more.
and is an interesting widow. Her husband
". pamala, died saturday Of cerebral con-
gcsiion.
The Venetian engineers are the pro-
ieciors Of q ship canal across Italy from We.
nice o spczzia, % connect the Adriatic sea
and tle Gulfofocnoa.
General +. Z Spinner. for so many
years treasurer of tho United States rs ia a
critical condition from cancer on the face
lie is cighty-sevcn years old. and has been
living Of late at Pablo Beach. Fla.
Liquor saloons opened in Rome, Ga.
Friday last for the first time I'm two years.
The license has been liked by The city Coun-
ci at ~ 600 Lines of men, white and col
ored. stood waiting and bought their first
drinks in turn.
Ihirty-iour thousand men will take
pant m The autumn manmuvres OF the
IF.cnrharmy. which Willie held in the eastern
provinces. The grand review Will take place
sepiemhar 1911. Officers from the armies OF
all nations VIII Doe present
Two Mormon elders. named Deyair
and shinn. attempted 10 hold n meeting al
Pine Grove. near Enenboro West Virginia,
last Saturday night The crowd attacked
tle missionaries with clubs stones and rot
ten eggs and they were badly beltenand their
clothes ruined. Shlun has severe cut on
the head.
The length Of North America is near
ly 5000 miles DTS greatest breadth about
5000 miles and IFS area about onc.sixth Of
tne land susiacc of the globe. Greenland.
more tnau J.. 100 miles long. is probably the
largest island ln the world. Some geo
ulph.is think it isa cluster of islands fro
zen together
s rabbit is said TO have killed a snake
ut Senaca. Ca. % few days ago. The snake
hal caught % young rabbit and was trying 90
swallow u The old rabbit rushed hy the
snake and hltit in passing. % then ran by
/ The snake again and biz it and repeated the
/ operation several times. The reptile finally
dropped The rabbit, ciawled away a short
distance and died.
There are about a hundred species of
mosquito boz tie world, occ4rnne IN ali
climcs. England has eight or ten species.
for mosquitoes, as wen as Hessian hes. are
as common n England as white butterflies.
Most ID not an of the British species bite I'm
very hot weather when. apparently, like
their hcitIs. they require more liquid re-
freshmcui
The New Orleans Times Democrat
publishes llsi OF statistics in which 10 is
shown shat tie co.orcd people OF q certain
county lu Georgia outuumber the whites al
most Two to one. But the white people own
property 90 the amount of 81 900 each, " hils
tle negroes possess only s2l per head. From
this thc Iimes-D aaocrm intimatcs that those
who pay the taxes should vote and run the
affairs ol tuc State.
ir Edison, at the Paris Exposition,
recently SAW q chlsel worked bs hydraulic
pressure. Chat" said he "will save me
sG.OOOa year. lie is much struck by the
u1lUcsA a. thc Partisan life ''Oncsees Moth
ine bat elaborate loanne." he remarked.
"Nlen DO they all work? The glory or The
e. aei Tower is only ln the magnitude of the
conception ami the nerve in executing; the
rest is only bridge building. We Will do one
hundred per cent. better than Einel.
The rumor concerning Stanley
march toward Zanzibar with Emn and nine
thousand men. is quickly contradictcd. We
are told that Doe is on the east side OF
Lake Nyanza and that Dee VIII not return 10
the coast for many months 90 come. Nothing
is said OF Emin Iasha. who rs doubtless re-
naming 40 DIS post. Nor does 30 appear that
Stanley himself is 40 present in trouble or in
want. since hc WAS able % succor g white
man possibly mlsslonnry-w be had
met
There is o remarkable specimen of
defom,d humanity 40 raradis in the
northern part of Clay county. Mo. His name
is Joseph Jesse. lie weighs 200 pounds. has
n1 hands, feet. elbow Joints or shoulder
blades but Notwithstanding these draw
blcks Dee enjoys liis immensely, walking
about ON his chair. talking well, writing with
pen boo hi- mouth. singing growing. bark
ing. and. in mcf. constituting an entire
museum in himself lie has a wonderfully
d Nclopcd chest. and can hold his breath for
three minutes without amy apparent ncon-
vca.encc.
mo NliailNl RAu l'.NNh SOt hA't
Thursday 30 Mount Holly. y. j In little
cabin on thc outskirts of thc town. where be
bad lived ion years. Ills name was Joseph
Qlccn. and. according 90 d record in ana Old
family Bible which hc always kept i'm his pos
session. Dee was born in Virginia I'm 1757.
cold Joc" WAS runaway slave and came 20
Sew Jerscyin 1877. and an old resident or
Mount Holly WHO remembers his arrival
states that he was well alo-g In years then.
For years past the townSpeop.e have kept
him 100 comparative comfort, and now pro-
pose 90 erect monument TO his memory.
The New York Tribune is evidently
getting tired of the vast and ever increasing
army OF pensioners ON Uncle sans bounty
Atnnv rate 30 is offered 90 pToionging their
lives. 10 may boz seen by the following ex-
tract from IT'S columns: "1hc awful sug.os-
tou ismade tlat Brown-Sequad elixir OF 4
if. may bee administered 90 our vast army OF
pensioners. Tie country is grateful 10 its .
defenders and wants 90 treat them literally
but the prospect that they may live two or .
three hundred years. drawing their pensions +
every quaiter-day with all their visor OF
youth. is enough 10 turn Tie hair Of the tax
MAYER gray. NO. u the pensioners are inocu-
la,cd. thc rest ofus must have q double Dose
Henry Seymour, an aged miner OF /
Nevada CITY. was vigorous but wanted iohNc /
forever. 50 le tried AN injection of the Elixir
Nitr. made from the blood of pix. Al niht
The man did not suffer any Inconvenience.
nor did hc feel in any way rciuvcnated. Al
ter "a short time the noighhorhood Of the IN
iecfed pall became much inhamed, ana Oh
the third day the swelling had spread
down 10 the hand and mp 10 The shoulder.
When last seen The miners whole arm had
swollen terribly. II had a purple color and
gave him the most intense pain. The fingers
of the hand were double their natural size
and 10 is impossible to pull coat over Tie
ann. Doctors who have been called In en-
terrain gravcst doubts as 10 the mans
chanc, OF recovery even II his arm Is am
puiated.
4 special to the Herald from Atlanta,
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