The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-06

Uses vol to become as dangerous rival
to India III that branch of industry rs
in tho cultivation of tea. Wages is
even lower there than IN India,
Among the large estates three adver-
tised for sale in Queensland may be
considered. The first has an area of
Asa square miles, of which the rent is
81, 500. The second has CAB square
miles and the third 553. The one most
advantageously situated is within 100
miles of railroad"
1t has been lately observed that
water purified as much as possible, and
standing only short time in contact
with the air, showed next day con-
tinuous decrease of conductivity, which
gradually disappeared, giving place to
the normal unavoidable increase. Pro-
lessor Pfeitfer concludes that this is due
to heterogeneous coming into the
water and absorbing the conducting
substances present.
Distracted parents who lose their
children in the crowds at public resorts
on holidays would be glad if curious
Berlin custom were adopted. At tho
Berlin Geological gardens any keeper
finding a lost child takes the little one
in charge and blows n trumpet. Hear
ing the note the mother or father in
search of the missing goungster at once
makes for the spot and the search is
ended.
A very influential committee has
been organized in New York, with DR.
4. L. LOOMS as president, to preserve
the Adirondacks from further destruc-
ton by reckless tree cutting. 1t is
hoped that the state may be induced
to purchase all rights, and to convert
this beautiful region, which is highly
spoken of by New York physicians for
its healthgiving climate, into a Estate
forest park.
1t was probably known to very few
among the multitude at st. James hall
that the arrangement of the platform
and gas proscenium under which Mr..
Irving and Miss Terry stood-what is
technically termed the fit up'-was
the actual one under which Dickens
delivered his last readings quarter OF
n century ago.
China is said to be spending this year
about SIS, 900, 900 in the effort to regu-
late its hayward river, the Hoang flo,
which has recently caused such terrible
loss Of life and property. A part of its
waters are to be permanently diverted
into the Tu-hai, river north of the
Hoang Ho and almost parallel with it.
The ingenuity of man has not yet de-
vised effective protection againt this
most troublesome of rivers. The gov
ernor of Shantung reports that he needs
in his province alone at least s., 600, COO
to prevent the recurrence of tie floods.
A Greek woman who died ut Limfer-
opol, Russia, lately, IS said to have
been 112 years old. She was working
lin her garden to The. llas.----
s y, -i-.-,-paII Yesterday .s.r.1ssussaa-fisA
coiqH71s tired she lay down to rest, and
passed away without struggle. There
are many centenarians in the Crimea.
Three years ago there was in kerteh
an old soldier whose dismissal from the
army dated from the time of Katherine
II, and whose authenticated creden-
tials put his age at 12S years.
\ little 2-year-old girl of Brooklyn,
while playing on the second floor,
managed in some way to fall out OF
the window, and would no doubt have
been severely injured but for the fact
that she pulled two pillows with her
that were on the sill She turned over
in the fall and struck with both pillows
underneath her, After short cry she
got up and resumed her game, this
time, however, in the street.
Although Rev. Sam Small is D. D.
and the president of a university, he
can't get certificate of church mem
bership. He lost his membership in
the Methodist church when he joined
the Episcopal church, and then he lost
his membership in the Episcopal church
when he went back to the Methodist
church. Consequently he has no pa
pers OF any kind to show, and may have
to join the local Methodist church in
Ogden, Utah, on probation.
The Albert medal of tho English So
ciety of Arts has been awarded to DIR.
w. Fl. Perkin, T. f. S., for bis dis
covery of the method of obtaining col
oring matter from coal tar, a discovery
which led to the establishment of a
new and important industry, and to the
utilization of large quantities of a previ-
ously worthless material. :"
A pretty story comes from England
about poor shepherd who was also
geologist. geographer and an admirer
of Stanley. Stanley's publisher met
this man while walking on Beachy
Head, and was charmed with his learn
ing. The shepherd offered the publish
er pound-pretty much all his hard
earned savings-and asked if it would
pay for Stanley's book, promising to
send the balance of the money as soon
as possible. The publisher says the
shepherd shall receive his money back
again and copy of Darkest Africa"
with stanley's autograph in it.
Women Who Make Harnesses.
Mrs. Caroline Overst stands at the
head of the women harnessmakers.
For the past twenty years she has lived