The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-17
PERSONS AND THINGS.
News Notes Compiled from the "Time.'.
ESchances

news Notes Compiled from the "Times''
Exchanges.
NhhKAskA calls attention 10 the fact that
she produces this year 10000 900 bushels of
corn without any special effort.
iiiE Washington Press speaking of the
recent anarchist demonstration in Chicago.
very rightly suggests that every part Of the
nited states should be made too hot to hold
men who hiss the stars and Stripes.
EASTERN capitalists have bought 900.
o." acres land from the Northern Pacific
Railroad in Washington and Montana Ter.
iitorieS. They will irr.gatc aud open the
lands to settlers.
IN is reported from Birmingham. Ala.
that scotch chemist named Archibald
has discovered a process bv which all ph0s-
phorous may be- removed from iron. and the
ore converted into Bessemcr pig at cost Of
hity cents ton. The process is said 10 have
been successfully tested.
inE "stan Of life" down in Maine ap-
pears 90 Dee tobacco. \ contractor who has
employed crew of twelve men for six
months on settling up with them found
That ten Of them. who are tobacco chewers,
had consumed S1 worth Of tobacco. besides
cigars. and that the cost of -four for the
whole dozen was only SOL.
GENERAL ELL =. PARKER. an Indian.
formerly of Grants staff. and the man who
copied General Lees rough draft of his
formal surrender % Grant. now holds u
municipal Office In New York. He j. the
chief of the six tribes (lndians) in New York
state. There are seven hundred of these
Indians now organized into small govern
mcui~. something like townships. General
Parker secs them all once year.
THE southwark navigation of wild geese
iu Connecticut begins rather early this fall.
Dig flock passed overhead along the Con
uccticui river. one day last week. and the
.rlllci old weather prophets over that
way. notw outstanding the mellow horoscope
of The goose horn. declare that cold weather
is close at hand. and that the winter will be
''pretty snug and snowy now yc hear me.
QUEER scene is being enacted in the
Reading. Pa. Jail. Nine liquor dealers
were recently committed for violating the
sunday law. The wives Of these men have
agreed 90 make the prison life rs pleasant
Ills possible They resolved To furnish their
husbands substantial dinner day, leaN-
ine the prison authorities 10 furnish supper
and breakfast. one wife cooks and pre-
ufrc- enough for one dinner for the nine
men. and she secs that the food Is safely
taken 90 the Jail. The next day another
wife prepares Tine dinner. and So on
WEDDING was 10 have been celebrated
ou sunday evening in New Durham. y. j..
The guests were an assembled. the wedding
supper prepared. but tine bridegroom did
mot put m am appearance az the
hour set for the ceremony. The friends
0f the bride and several of the rcla-
tive~ made "a search for the missing
bridegroom and found him soundly asleep
100 his residence. lie expressed great re-
-rot 40 his failure 10 appear ON time. and
explained that ou the previous evening he
hud been celDhratin. his approaching mar
ria-e. Another date hats been nNcd.
pnorrs~oR EBEN j. THOMAS. who will
accompany the American solar eclipse eX-
petition to south Africa on the -loop-of-war
Pensacola. to assist i'm both the Astronomical
and natural history work. has been forty
wears n tine Nuuftc0i iiW0H0c office al
Washington. and has made computations
boo every astronomical almanac issued 10y
this Government. Ilp has been observer in
other fields also. and u 1879 hc discovered
flU remarkable circummutation, on leu-iihe
EXPANSION. nl the English maidcn-halr fern.
which Professor Asa GRAY OF Harvard. con-
-dDrrl One Of the most wonderful OF
botanical phenomena.
AwRirrE ON architecture has made the
deposition that architects afiiN their names
% buildings. just as painters sien their pic
fure-. The building. being real estate or
property immONahle, runs no rl9k OF being
shipped 90 another country and a clever
f.r-er, substituted for 10. as has occurred So
often iu Italy with paintings. There seems
fn h. nO reason. hc SAYS, why an architect
Nh0 desires 10 should Dee refused the pri'i-
Ie-e Of carving his name legbly ON some
pant 90 the buildin. be- has designed. 81 long
a- fhe signature does NOT ohiiu0c ltsch un
duly 0r interfere with the look, and dignity
10 the structure.
Mrs. GROVER CLEVELAND spent last
Monday 300 her own home. $40 Madison ave
nun. with her maid and q stah of decora-
rive artists and upholsterers. I'm the hail
Mere piles nf rugs. carpets. pOriltlc~. cur
niu-. and fl-tcniugs. Mrs. Cleveland fol-
lowed the men from room tO room and took
ID personal interest i'm everything they did.
Most 0f fhe floor, are laid with hard wood.
and over their polished surfaces ru->o Ter
siam. Turkish and Dagha~ian looms VIII be
.d fine ball, viii Dee Moorish ~ iuini-
t.r.. -he dmning-roOm English. the draw
.n..r..n french aud the chambers "a
J.ii ,hfiIli mixture Of French and American.
Mrs Cleveland delights in ",nu4-c1cs.
.f..f lII gee llIfit nl lilt
corners. where hcr guests ON itcelll"
ui-ht~ and afternoons can Withdraw HUN
tle crowd for e tete-a-tetc.
Is Newport may Dee seen two pretty little
-r. named andcrbilt Some day each OF
these children will probably have fortune
fiat least SiO.0nu.0 600. and when they max,
their deiuf info society they Will eclipse an
other hcireSSc. of the time. Both girls are
ALWAYS simply dressed. pretty ginshams
trimmed with white embroidery, rusee'
shoes and biz il0wer-trimmcd hats lor inc
morning and soft white mull- and muelin-
with broad sashc,. white hats ana me
black stockings and patent leather ties Ton
flc afternoon. They spend their DAYS
nia,me tennis. horseback riding. driving
ihcir ponies t0 little light wood doscaiis
and going 10 dancing and swimming
schools.
A PRETTY little bird s<ry comes from
Clinton. Massachusetts. \ Wild partridge
Heu upon the piazza of a house ON the edge
Df the town where two little girls were al
play. The, called their mother 90 see the
strange visitor. ard she succeeded m coax
me DO toward her, the bird FINALLY permit
tin. itself go be- taken i'm her hands, al
though showing uneasine-s ai the act. The
bird WAS kept ON exhibition Ia cage Tor "a
daN. and then SET free to return 10 H. native
uluut- The partridge afterwards repeated
lis visit. and has since been seen number
of times in the vicinity. such iameness
900 a Wild fowl j, very rare, and the lady
whose winning tones ONcrcame lis natural
-htucs, can congratulate herself on beng a
bird charmcr of the first order.
lri,uot generally known that the father
n-law oithe late ThomasJ. >tonewall )
jackson. the Rev. Dr Il. II. Morrison, Of
North Carolina. had son named after the
eminent English statesman and philanthro-
ni-t. William Wilbcrforce. This son j.
lead. he resided IN Washington for some
wear, after the war. DR.. Morrison was a
leading minister of the southern Presbyte-
...... l.r.I Ike Madison. Jefferson.