The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-28
PERSONS AND'THIN0s.
News Notes Compiled From the Times"
Exchanges.

News Notes Compiled From tho ''Times"
Exchanges.
THE McGinty gag sent John Dram, n
Mexican war pensloner, aged cighty-two
years, to his last account yesterday at New
town, Ohio. The old man had drawn his
pension and began early In the morning
making the rounds Of his acquaintance,
wishing them "A merry Christmas. Some
mischicNous fellows sent him from one
place TO another looking for McGinty, who.
they said, had valuable present for him.
Dram was finally told that McGinty had
plunged from the county bridge into the
creek. wearing his best Sunday suit and
with the present in his arms, and II he could
find Mctinty he could get the present.
Dram had been drinking some, which, added
10 his childishncss, led him TO 90 10 the
bridge. Carefully emptying his pockets Of
All bis papers and yaluables he placed them
in his nat on the bridge, and telling some
boys who were watching his actions that
he was going 10 the bottom for McGinty.
the old fellow leaped hcadlong over the side
of the bridge into the shallow waters Of the
creek fifty feet below. lie was instantly
killed.
THE girls say they never know what 10
give the fellows, says the Buffalo Courier,
and the fellows are sure they don't know
what 10 give the girls. Well a man will
take anything, slippers or gloves or hand
kcrchiefs or mistletoe fruit, with delight.
But, singular as 1t may seem, not one wO-
man in ten can pick out for a man q neck
tie that he Will dare SO wear in q place
where he is known. The ncckties that q
woman picks out are enough 10 make man
shudder. unless she confines herself TO plain
colors without pattern; and the man who
has the bravery 80 pick ont wearing apparel
for his lady friends NAV be sure that in nine
cases ont OF ten il Will never see the light Of
day after it is presented. OF course, lift is
a camcrs hair shawl O: n seal sacque, that's
different. You can present any girl with
one Of th0se-and if 1t isn't right II can be
changed.
The most careless observer Of theatrical
matters must have observed that skirt dane
ing is gradually being pushed by daring
managers to q point that borders on the in
decent. The process is simple. skirt
dancer is theoretically within the bounds Of
propriety, because her garments are sewn
together in such a fashion that anything
approaching On exposure Is Impossible,
and hence the public sanctions very wild
and yiyaciOus frisking on the part OF the
Young woman. The new departure leans
in the direction Of the gown. The skirts
are gradually heightened and heightened
until when the dancer is in repose her skirts
are within a few inches Of the floor. There
is a wide difference between dancing III
long skirts and dancing in short ones.
MR.. THOMAS ADAMS, JR., whose fortune
was made in chewing gum. has no sym
path~with Thomas cats. On the top Of the
back fence that separates the yard Of his
new BROOKLYN mansion from that OF his
neighbors he has had an electric wire
etrling At one point there is break IN tue
wire three inches long. The cat walks
along the top of the fence on the wire, ana
As he steps across this break and puts one
foot tnistfully down on the wire again, II
completes the circuit. one somersauit anu
a dead cat falls over the garden wall. The
measure is an extreme one. but Mr. Adams
has sworn tina: "there shall be 30 eat carni-
walls on his back fence, by gum.'
A YOUNG pastor AT Newark. y. j.. has
lust been forced to marry young Southern
lady whom he once thought he loved, but
afterwards concluded that lie didn't. A
breach-of-promise suit and personal chas-
tisement by her big brothers were the alter
natives presented 50 him, so he broke ms
engagement with the Organist OF his church
and renewed that with the Southern girl.
f II il a wonder that the latter still wanted
him: that's the funny part Of the affair.
Ir would now seem that if the Imam
Line ocean greyhound, the Getty Of Paris,
is TO maintain her proud position as the
/ fastest passenger steamer afoat, size has
some very difficult work ahead. No less
! than six fast steamers are in course Of con-
s,ruction. all of which promise 10 be as me
as a shipbuilder can produce.
The Cocoa (Fla.) Spirit remarks: "ln adj
dition to the usual Christmas fare our In
dian River people many Of them' viii have
w Id turkey, fresh yenison, snap beans and
Gu numbers fresh from the vines, pine aP
ID - cut from the stalk, bananas ditto, irish
aud sweet POTATOES fresh dug, fish ana Ot-
sters right from the water.
An Illinois woman who broke her wrist
while irving 10 raise window III a railroad
car has lust received sl,635 damages, and
Wisconsin man who broke his thumb ih the
same endeayOr is suing for S5,OUO damages
! The car window is the leading nuisance OF
America.
Now that the year is closing you mao
better take down that dusi-coyered diary
which YOU began on the first OF last Janu
ary. and read over tine few entries you mad.
in IL. They will strike you as being eilhel
very funny or very pathetic.
AT Chattanooga Christmas night William
Graham. Of Gainesville, Ca, stenographei
of the Cherokee Judiciary circuit, married
Anna. Rev. sam Jones' daughter. The
bride is seventeen years old. The parents
opposed the match.