Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-02-25

form are denied admission to the Uni
versity of the Pacific at San Jose, Cal.
Ram fighting is said to divide with
cock fighting the affections of those OF
sporting blood among the natives Of
Ceylon.
1t IL said that during the twenty
years from 1867 to 1887, q per cent. OF
all the county records in the United
States We're destroyed by fire.
A bundle of spider webs, not larger
than a buckshot and weighing less
than drachm, would, il Strengthened
out and untangled, reach distance of
$50 miles.
a French woman has got up a pub
lie contest, the proceeds of which are
to be devoted to the relief of the suffer
ers from the Antwerp fire, in which
the prize is TO be awarded to the wo-
man who speaks the most words in
one hour.
The Kings College School Old Boys
club wrote asking Mr.. Gladstone to
become an honorary member, and re-
ceived postal card written by him de-
clining the honor The club promptly
put the card up at auction and got six
shillings threepence for it.
The total of the royal game bag of
Prussia for 1SSS-S9 was 16, 932 head,
as follows: Red deer, 1929; fallow
deer, 2,546; roedeer, PIG; wild pig,
942; pheasants, 1858; hares, 1904;
cartridges, 1859; wild geese ducks
and snipe, herons, ETC., TAI; foxes, 230;
martens, SO; polecats, 120; weascls,
100; hawks, $40; various, LAC.
In the newly discovered tombs near
the Place de Ia Constitution, Athens,
upon a skeleton was found a golden
ring with a precious stone and gol-
den earring. In another tomb was
found leaves of gold.
a new submarine ram vessel has
cylinder Is feet long and 12 inches in
diameter, the piston of which cousti-
tutes the ram proper and is driven by
steam with 100 ton blow. It is sup
posed to be able to punch hole in
anything aaoat Tbe boat i !ss ,g e.fe:5
Dc De eal FED upon the deck of man-of-
war.
A new calculating machine has just
been invented in France and obtained
gold medal at the exhibition. The
inventor is NJ. Bollee, of La Mans, a
clever machinist, already very favora-
bly, known by other useful inventions.
The machine does addition, multiply
cation and division with astonishing
rapidly, and all by the turn OF the
wheel. NJ. Mascart recently gave an
account of the invention before the
Academy of Science.
An article called "cayassa starch"
is attracting considerable attention in
the Florida sub-tropical exhibition. A
local paper says: Northern men can
hardly believe it is Florida produc-
ton, and when they learn that it was
raised on a small garden plot and pre-
pared by a simple, crude process, and
learn how enormously it produces,
and further, that it is an article not
only for man, but for animals, they
open their eyes in wonder"
The government of India has been
compelled by law to purchase three
copies of each new book issued in the
country, and it has been discovered
that practice has grown up of print
ing new books simply for the sale of
these three copies, for which any price
within reason could be charged. A
change is about to be made in the
law, and hereafter the publishers will
have to present the copies to the gov
eminent,
There are many curious customs OBJ
served by the Brazilians. Funerals
are notable in that for a young mn
married lady coffin, hearse and the
livery of the driver must be bright
scarlet, the four white horses drawing
the hearse must be covered with scar
let nets, and scarlet plumes must deck
the horses heads. No women go to
the cemeteries The mother, the wild
ow, must not exhibit her grief in pub
lie.
On removing granite block at st.
Fabu, Finnisterre, Roman Hanged
tile was Observed which had apparent
ly served as a cover to box of wood,
now fallen into decay. Inside was
found over 10, 900 small plated Roman
coins of Valerian, Diocletian, Con-
stantius, MaXimus, Lucinius, CONTAIN
tine the Great and Constaninus IL
They are all well preserved, and date
from 200 to 300 A. D.
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