The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-03
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EMPEROR Eco" Is the latest nAme giyer
to Kaiser Wilhelm II.
ROBERT BROWNING and Lord Tennysor
will publish new volumes Of poems next
month.
TnE Sultan Of Turkey has added to hi,
harem French operate singer who recent.
" appeared In Constantinople.
THE French taxes produced a,ccc,coC
francs less last August and 100000 franc.
less las, September than In the correspond
ing months Of last year.
RUSSIA is q little ahead Of us. In one Of
her law courts there l. case that has last
ed four hundred Years. The Atlanta CON.
st'tUfton thinks that the reason why none
OF our law suits are 30 venerable Is because
we are young In the business.
DURING the last two years the Italian
army has been Increased by 10000 men. 2Oc
field guns, and 5000 cavalry. Never was
the army 50 numerous or powerfully organ
lied a. ~ present. w"def the attempt 10 keep
up with oerhany's military step.
For two years past there has been an in
surance company against bur.laries flour
ishing in London. According 10 the regu-
lar rates one con insure the contents Of a
residence, or the damage 10 IL through
| burglary. or any special article desired.
II has often been reported that the British
army is largely composed Of understood
| boys. instead Of stalwart men. but the re-
turns do not bear oul these statements. OF
81, ,Sl men, only 1895 are under nineteen
years OF age, while % per cent. are over live
feet eight inches in height.
THE debt Of the city Of Paris amounts to
100 francs for every man. woman and child
within the city limits. In Frankfort the
debt is equivalent 10 81 francs per head,
in Milan 20 ~, in Berlin TO lji, in III
Hague 20 1875, in Brussels, The most heavily
! indebted Of all European cities 10 1868.
THE Empress Of Austria has been yacht
ing the Mediterranean tor some months.
She has transferred her fondness for horse
back riding 20 sailing DER the sea. Beng
AN invalid. She is unable 10 take equestrian
exercise. and, having "a love Of adventure,
found Yachting the most available subsu-
tute for her former fad.
QUEEN VICTORIA, it is said, has num-
her OF unpublished manuscripts in her pos
session which may see print after her death,
Their nature is not known. but il is Under
stood that poems and short stories form ia
bulk Of the collection. NictOria's books Of
travel do not Indicate that her pOsthumOus
publications will be Of great literary value.
DURING Sore maneuvers Of the German
cavalry al Brei. woman and her little boy
got in front Of a regiment Of cuirassiers
charging in full gallop. The leading officer
shouted 10 her 10 lie down, and she did, ~
Ing upon her boy. The whole regiment
passed over without injuring her, every
horse in whose track she lay having been
made TO Jump over her.
TIE Emperor Of Germany recently sent a
specimen rifle to the Emperor Of Austria.
the barrel Of which does not grow hot. Az
ter 100 shots had been fired the barrel war
merely warm. The magazine" of this rifle
is in the stock, and the load consists vi
twenty cartridges. 1t can be reloaded in
five seconds, and can discharge sixty shots
a minute.
BERLIN now has 4 system Of large pOsta
wagons-with sorting tables, stamping AZ
engagements, and everything else used in
preparing mail for transportation-whi
operate on all the city mail routes. About
two hours Is thus saved in preparing thc
city mails for the teams, as the clerks 90
all the sorting. stamping and bundling
while the wagons roll swiftly along.
ENGLAND has been agtating the question
Of a Shakespeare festival, and tho project
was making some Roadway until actors and
authors began TO quarrel for precedence
over il. Then Mr.. Irving frONned on The
scheme, and it was abandoned. The bes
authorities admit that there would be 80
much quarreling as 10 make a scandal of
the colossal series of festival performances
which had been planned.
THE birthplace Of Alexander Graham
Bell. the inventor OF the telephone, is a white
frame house, with faded green shutters and
wide yeranda. in the little city Of Brant-
ford Ontario. IL was in this house thai
Prof. Bell perfected his invention, and there
the first experiment Of talking over Il w.r'
was made The distance experimental on
was two and a half miles, and il was thor
Oughly successful.
The Prince Of Monaco, who has been
STAYING. since his marriage, at one of the
splendid country houses which he owns in
France. has now returned with his bride TO
Monte Carlos shady groves and rugged
cliffs. and his subjects have given him
splendid series OF fetcs. The army OF
thirteen men was on hand TO welcome him.
His delight is little tempered by the fact
that the receipts from the gambling house
have greatly fallen OIL lately.
EMILE ZoLA, who has become fabulously
wealthy for an author. even in these flush
days OF authorship, was extremely poor
upon starting out and before he secured a
place i'm llatchett's book concern; while
writing his first r0mances he was often re-
duced to bread and water and playiully re-
marks that he was compelled TO play
Aran." or to stay in bed night and day be-
cause he had no clothes.
MIR. GLADSTONE said in a recent address
10 "A workingmen's organization: 1T was
not extrayagant TO say that although there
were but 100000 people in the thirteen
American colonies AT the time of the Amer
lean revolt. Vet from among those 2WO,uOO
Of people there proceeded at that epoch
grOup of statesmen that might DEFY We
whole history of the world 10 beat thenffn
any one state and AT any one period OF time.
such were the consequences OF a Well-fesu-
lated and q masculine freedom
LORD ARMSTRONG says, in reference 10
the recent criticisms Of the great guns thai
the llO-ton gun, principally considered, has
been unfairly tried hy the British Govern
ment, rs il had been fired with charges
amounting TO over a thousand pounds OF
powder. or more than the maximum charge
calculated for "A battle. lie does not say
that the great guns are judicious weapons.
but the injury that would incapacitate
them will come from the erosion Of the bore
from the excessive p0wder-charges rather
than from the strain Of the explosion.
The Orient express train, running be-
tween Paris and Vienna, seldom has an ap-
plicant Fridays for the thirteenth compart-
ment Of the ladies' Pullman sleeping-car.
The cars are always reserved beforehand,
but the numbered tickets are only DIS
Of tho la lnom4pf In smile of