The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-23
ODDS AND ENDS.
Black coffee is now suggested as .

Black coffee is now suggested as ;
cure for consumption.
The gold of the world in coin ans
wares is II, 900 tons, worth 81, 700, 900,
| GOO. The annual loss is two tons; thu
mines yield yearly 121 tons.
At ST. Malo, France, between ant
A o'clock in the afternoon, many per
fectly reputable inhabitants saw three
suns, all in row, above the western
horizon. The sky was very clear a
the time.
To buy mine for a bad debt Of So
and sell it within q dozen year. TO
81. 100000 sounds like story of thu
old bonanza days. 1t is the fortune
which came to the Montana man wht
owned the Lexington mine.
An electric railway in Siam has beer
Incorporated aud will be built at once
from Bangkok to Palsnam, a distance
of thirty miles. This road is to cos
100000, and 6iamese capital vii
alone be used: An electric light com
pany has also been organized and th'
plant ordered for Bangkok.
A new miners electric lamp, weigh
ing only three and one-half pounds
and capable of giving one and one
half candle power light for ten hours
has been made by an English inventor
The accumulation of four cells is con
tanned in a wooden box five and one
half inches high, in front of which, il
strong glass dome. is the lamp bull
and reflector.
A New York philanthropist has in
vestigated $50 complaints against ga'
companies, all charging chicanery o.
dishonesty, and he reports that he die
not find one single instance where ;
company willfully sought to defraud
He adds that no business in the worlc
is conducted on more straightforward
principles.
4 young Chicago man whose firm
sent him to Louisville to look after
sheir interests afteN the recent cyclone
there returned last week. In his eX
pense account was an item that reat
like this: Carriage, $45.' The young
gentleman felt embarrassed when {
member of the firm asked: What die
you do with the carriage1 Did you
fetch it home with your
The trunk of q rose bush growing al
Ventura, Cal, is said to be three fee
in circumference and the first branch
it throws out is twenty-one inches in
circumference. 1t runs over lattice
work, and though moro than wagon
load of boughs have been removed il
covers a space of about 1000 square
feet. 1t yields thousands of flower:
and is ii years sd.
Some experiments by Professor
Haeckel, of MarSeillcs, show that kola
is drug of extraordinary power Of
stimulation. The colonel of a regi
ment at Perpigl,an, dosed with kola,
made the ascent of the Canigon noun
tain, 9,137 feet, and felt quite fresh
after his climb, which lasted twelve
hours. He only halted once, and fol
twenty minutes, and ate nothing.
Cock fighting in this country never
produced such & big affair as a recent
international cock fight at Roubale,
Belgium, in the beginning of April.
Thirty-eight Belgian and French
sporting societies made entries. The
bird of the Society La Pate Cassee,
from Emilgten, Flanders, won the
first prize of LOCO francs. 1t was the
seventh victory of his career. The bird
of the Society Salcmbier, from Belle
gagn, won the second prize of SOC
francs and three other Belgian societies
won 225 francs.
\ passenger car on the Louisville
and Wadley railroad performed a
new feat in railroad running by run
ming on two tracks at one and the
same time. While drilling the train
the front trucks jumped the switch
and took the right track, while the
rear trucks failed to jump and took
the wrong track and continued on the
main turnout until both ends of the
car were nearly even. When the con-
ductor called halt he found his car
in rather an awkward position.
The subjects of the King of Daho-
mey are bigoted and superstitious PEG.
pie, and all over the country there are
innumerable 'fetiches" consecrated to
some pagan deity. individuals who
desecrate these 'fetiches" by TOUGH
ing them are invariably put to death,
but before they are executed they have
to undergo the most painful fortunes
at the hands of the Amazons, those fe-
rocious female warriors who consti.
tute the nucleus of the kings army.
The vapor of glycerine has recently
been used by French physicians when
ever distressing or frequent cough
has had to be alleviated. The remedy
is very simple in application. About
fifty OF sixty grammes of glycerine
are heated in a porcelain capsule by
means of a spirit lamp; large volume
of vapor is thereby disengaged, and
should be breathed by the sufferer.
Glycerine in which carbolic acid has
been dissolved may also be employed,