The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-02-05
STRAY eITs.

Geneva Is is said 10 be tho cheapest city In
Europe for permanent residence.
lt is said that tLsro ars forty-eight Ian
ruages and dialects spoken IN Mexico.
Three French papeT IN Montreal have do
clared im favor Of a Canadian republic.
The youngest officer in her majesty's serv
ice is a second lieutenant Of exactly IS
The English board Of trade reports 800
strikes during 1855. with $1,000 strikers
According to the propaganda in Rome there
are 2ls. $4,000 Roman Catholics 10 the world
a cave discovered near Chico, Cal, is said
10 rival the famous mammoth cave Of Ken
lucky
A l7-year-old girl recently performed the
remarkable mountaineering feat Of ascending
Mount Ararat
While a man out IN Missouri was blowing
40 stumps be unearthed a can containing $40
~ gold and silver coin.
At present prices It Is estimated that the
ivory collected by Emin Pasha would be
worth million sterling.
A man Of Van Vert county, o., on bet
wheeled barrow containing $50 cats three
miles through q muddy country road.
There are more newspapers published in
Pennsylvania than m ali British America
and a million more English speaking people
In the basement Of the White House Mrs
Harrison found two old mahogany cabinets
which were used in the mansion when it was
llrst built.
A medal Of honor has been struck IN Paris
% be given 90 each person who had TO DO VIII
the erection Of the machinery palace at the
Universal exposition.
San Francisco has 5000 Chinamen, 5000
Of whom are cooks and servants, 300 make
ladies' underwear and mems clothing, and
1900 are cigarnakers
The first sawmakers anvil used in the
United States is in possession Of E. Andrews
Of Wniiamsport, whose uncle imported Il
from England Ia isl9
A young man plowing on a ranch near
Gait Cal, found over $1,000 His employer
kept all but $50 Of il, and left the plo"man
20 plod his weary way in the field
r. is estimated that there are 100000 peo
ple who walk about London's streets daily,
and in so doing wear away ton OF leather
particles from their boots and shoes.
got including Alaska, Brazil is larger in
extent than the United States lt possesses
within its limits an area Of 3,2s7,Hi square
miles. with a population OF l2,;sj,2'o.
Nothing that has happened Of late in Con
stontinopIs has excited 50 much comment as
the action Of the sultan In driving about 10
an oDen carriage with the German empress
A monument has been erected at Anger
70 honor GO republican volunteers Of the wal
in La Vendee who threw themselves from
heirht into the Loire rather thar surrender
70 the Vendean army.
A cork tree at Visalia, Cal, was trans
planted 10 the court house yard recently. Il
was planted from an acorn IN 1891 IN vacant
lot and has grown 70 be thirty feet high ane
twenty incaes through the butt The bark
one inch thick.
Rev. John W. Farnham, the minister o
fha colorel Methodist church az Charlotte
\ q wears a boot the size Of which Is 5ol
which nece.s..tates a sole of twenty inches u
length and seven inches broad. iseY. farn
ham stands feet 10 inches in his sizabl
stockings. and weighs 40 pounds wheI
striped Of his impellments.
The boys Of the College for the Blind o
Worcester. England, indulge in cricket, an'
are reported 10 play a very fair game. In
ball used is made OF wicker, With a bell nisid
Of il. which rings when IL Is thrown. ia
wicket keeper claps his hands behind th
stumps 10 guide the bowler, and so expert ar
tbo bowlers that they can hit the wicket Will
three balls out OF SIX.