The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-29
PERSONS AND THINGS.


TWO chimneys IN glasgow. scotland. a
higher, one being IA feet and the other 4
feet.
An attempt was made In Boston Satu
day evening 10 anger John l.. sullivan, q
him to attack one Of his gang Of tormentor
and then shoot him in alleged self-defens
The plot failed because the champion s.
down IN a BARRIERS chair and fell aslee
but two members Of the gang got To fightir
among themselves and one Of them slash,
the other with razor.
A NASHVILLE druggist prepared r;
paint made Of a preparation Of phosphorl
Catching rat he painted him with the pr
paration. aud after dark, when the roder
was cleaning like a fireball. he turned hiI
loose to mingle with fellow-rats. Dire col
sternation came upon them when he al
peared. and they incontinently fed. th
pho-phorescent rat bringing up the rear.
THE Atlanta Constitution remarks tina
Colonel Elliot +. shepard. Of the NdH an
Express II New York. is admitted TO be III
most essential and irredeemable fool /
America. not technically classed rs an in
beetle. Commodore Vanderbilt. his father
in-law. said of him: '.Ife is more kinds of
id fool than any man ever saw''-a re-
mark the verify Of which should excuse tn
profanity.
THE Grand Army Of the Republic is cele
brated in many ways. but Of late the organ
ization appears to be achieving kind 0
notoriety which is unenyiable. The Balti
more Ucr0id expresses the opinion that tn,
action Of the post at Hartford. Conn. in re
lecfing the application Of a cOlored man
simply because he was cOlored. and that nj
the post AT Pittsburg in laying structure.
upon the Maryland COnfederates for raising
monument 10 their dead at Gettysburg i,
deserving Of the contempt Of everybody.
\ CITIZEN Of Eatonton, Ga, smokes
about twelve pounds Of tobacco yearly in a
pipe that he declares is over 200 years old
This leads mathematical person to calcu-
late that iff that were the average amount
used in the pipe since its first day, 40,
pounds Of the weed have been burned in it,
bowl. and if the first Sl2 had been put out ai
compound interest at the rate of 10 per
cent. II would now have grown 10 the sum
Of Sl.1jj. i43, 200. just how this would have
benefited the first owner Of the pipe does
not appear.
lr has been custom in saltwater. Mimi.
for several seasons to 20 goose hunting down
Lake Il. CroiX with boat fitted with an
electric light. one evening last week a
party started out. The lake was covered
with fOg and smoke. They came on a
large flock Of geese. which rose. making
straight for the boat. driving the men on the
upper deck below. Several Of the geese
struck the whcclhouse and other parts of
the boat. some twenty We're stunned by
colliding with the smOkcstack and rigging.
and six were captured. while the others got
into the wafer. Not 4 shot was fired.
T. \. LoNG and wife, Of Alto. Ind. are
the Oldest married couple in that state Mr..
Long, who was formerly an associate Judge
was exactly nincty-thrce years Of age Octo-
Der 18TH last. His wife j. in her ninety-first
year, and they have been married almost
,cyenty-One years. They settled in Indiana
IN 1876, coming from Kentucky. I'm 1910
Nlr. Long removed TO his present farm.
icing the second party 10 locate inside the
Indian reservation. Here he worked in the
sunsmiih business. and was known among
he Indians rs "Old >pccks," on account OF
wearing spectacles. His place was great
'amping ground Of the tribe. aud there still
emalns on the farm an Indian spring
vailed up with stones. besides several large
Ink-holeS. all in line, two Of them perfectly
ound and each exactly 80 feet across
While a third. that j. OblOng. il l2O feet
cross and on high blum. These sinks are
'elicycd 10 be the work Of mound-builder-.
WILLIAM GERHARD. eighteen years old.
he inVeteratc reader Of tragic dime novels
Who blew ont his brains with revolver in
Jew York few days ago. was butchers
oy. lie spent all his leisure time reading
heap novels. He frequently told his boy
rlends that life IN New York was too tame
)r him. and that he would soon either run
Il West or commit suicide. He tried to join
circus, and failing in this, at
mptcd 90 run away 10 Texas. lie was
aueht IN Jersey and brought home by his
iihcr. Then he bought a revolver and q
ull pup. and became the leader of "A band Of
Ouid-be boy outlaws i'm the Harlem GOAT
istrici. lie told his pal lit wouldn't work
= had got To die" 20 he locked himself in
is room. made a will disposing Of his S4.5I. |
nd shot himself in the head. His employer
'und him dead in bed. \ wheelbarrow load |
the trashlest Of cheap novels We're found |
his room.
\ NEW YORK dispatch describes how
80 men quancled Saturday in the post
lice Of that city over u one-cent postage
amp that lay on the floor. each claiming
As his own. From words they came f.
oWs. and IN the scrimmage their hats
il of. one of the cOmbatants had q
lOd bat and the other a dcpraycd looking
IT,. The latter getting the worst Of the
rht. picked up the formers hat. and put
NJ II on his head, ran rapidly across City
all Park. When the victor took in the
luatlcn, after examining his new but old
QUESTION, he started after his hat. follow
10y a shouting crowd. These were rein
reed on the way by many residents Of the
Irk. who cried. ">tOp. thef - Whether
q victor ever recovered his hat no one
lows. but an industrious ncwsbOy picked
) the stamp that caused the trouble ana
Oh charge OF 1t.
An effort al kidnapping child was foile
Il saturday al Geneva, y. Y. \ stout
iy. Of uncertain age. and bright look
(. slender girl about twelve yeers old.
ardcd an castbOund train nj Geneva. and
fore the train had proceeded far il was
ldent 70 the passenger, that the little giri
Is going with her companion against her
II. When Waterloo was reached the
lid made an effort 10 leave the seat. out ,
= woman held here. Then she began 1
eping and struggling. II want 10
OF here at Waterloo she
ed. You said you'd let me of here"
INTO the passengers she screamed: "She's I
aling me away; | want 10 get OF here" o
nry Douglass. of Waterloo. recognized O
child. and Fastening into the car he lib C
ted her and took her from the train.
usiass said the girl lived with his sister =,
:. Gillian. in Geneva. The woman who '
led herself Ella Burns, declared that the I
was her daughter. She said she lived a
'yracuse and that she would put the case q
be hands Of ;he police a. soon as she got q
ne. She admitted that she was unmar- j.
AJOE \. o. BACON. Of Macon. Ga. was u
he New York Hotel Saturday. say. the IL
York star. lie Is a tall, broad-should- I'll
man. with silyery gray hair and "A luz
mi black mu,tache. Major Bacon has ~
his eyes on the gubcrnatOrial chair i'm
state for several years. and he was Gov II
n 6ordon's opponent when he made his
canvass for the office. The campaign
one OF the most interesting ever ~
lessed IN the State. Both Governor L..
Ion and the Major had daughters IN
the same age, and the Young Pc