The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-01-21
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
News and Comments of Various Kind
Brought by Nail and Gable.

/ says the London Daily News, have Just
formed a new "Work and Leisure Court" Of
the Omitted Sisters Friendly Society," of
which Miss Morley acts as one Of the trus-
tees. This society is formed ON the fedora
tive plan and It's membership is confined
solely 20 women. 10 was founded four years
ago by the Rev. j. Prone Wilkinson, rector
of kilvingt0n, Motifs, and it new has
branches In many parts Of England. 10 Oc-
cupies comparatively new ground in being
q benefit society adapted 90 the needs
Of women. The ordinary benefit societies,
which count their members by millions, do
/ not admit women 10 membership, yet lt Is
EASY % see from the census tables that, both
i'm numbers and in their peculiar liability 10
distress and want, women need some pro-
vision Of this kind even more than men.
/ Friendly societies for women are not ex-
| actly a novelty. but their scope has been
/ largely extended by this latest organiza-
/ ton.
The society Of shepherdesses was founded
thirty yoars ago i'm the Midlands. "Ihe
/ loving sisters" Of Glamorganshire has eX-
/ listed for fifty-One years. But these and a
few others Of the kind are mostly local in
their application, while "Ihe united sis
tiers seems 20 be designated 10 meet a
more general want. There are four tables Of
contributions drawn up by competent
actuary and giving sick allowances varying
/ from eight shillings per week 10 twenty shll-
lings, and death allowances ranging from
tG 10 fl2 i'm return for subscriptions
ranging respectively from one shilling and a
penny 10 two shillings and iive-pence per
month. This rate of subscription Is for
members aged from sixteen 10 twenty; FOR
/ older persons. Of course, the amounts have
/ 10 De increased. For "A payment Of two
shillings and eleyen-pence per lunar month
a person joining at eighteen may become
entitled 10 a sick allowance of eight shill-
lngs per week for six months, and four
shillngs after. TO an annuity Of ten shillings
per week for life, after the age Of siXty-hYe
and to 80 at death.
WILLIAM GILBERT, father Of William s..
| Gilbert, the author OF "Bab Ballads
'Pinafore" and many other operettas and
plays. died at his home i'm Salisbury, Eng
/ land. January ID, 40 an advanced age. IN
/ his Young manhood he lived i'm Italy. ana
was a student Of Italian art and music. In
! 1858 he published olives and Lazarus,
gnd later Margaret Meadows, a Tale for
the Pharisees," on which Tom Taylor found
ed the play Of "Mary Warner in which
Kate Bateman acted i'm England and Amer
lea. a dispute arose about BIT. laylor
claim 20 the authorship of the play. and the
! late Palgraye simpson was made arbitrator
/ lie decided that the work was substantially
Hr. Gilbert's. and directed that the sum Of
81 900 should be paid TO him, ana
/ that Dir. Gilbert's name should De
printed as Joint author on the play
| bin. The latter part Of the Judgment was,
at Mr.. Gilbert's demand, never carried out.
Other books written by Mr.. Gilbert were
.sDr Austin's Guests and Shirlcf Hall
ASYLUM. SAYS the London Daily News:
I L. Ts.rs. ~ fuff u
fantastic element i'm Mr.. Gilberts talent,
which kis son. Mr.. W. $. Gilbert. may be
said 10 have inherited with new develop
ments. When not occupied with ms man
sublect-the suierings Of the p0or-he OBJ
served with keen interest the shadOWl
border line which separates reason from
unrcasOn; and his stories of maniacs, mono
maniacs. and men with simple craze,
possess scientific as well as literary value
ONE of the German medical journals re-
lates a remarkable instance Of the effects Of
nervous excitement. An engineer Of a pas
songer train, on rounding curve suddenly,
saw "a train about sixty yards ahead ana
stationary With great presence Of mind
he reversed his engine, signaled for the
brakes 90 be applied, and vigorous action
prevented a disastrous collision. Inc eN-
citement of the moment was treVendou7'
but only a violent trembling Of the legs re-
manned, and he continued al his post. But
great mischief had been done. After nNe dals
he had TO relinQuish his duties' ana nc
gradually became uuiit for all work. once
"A robust. stalwart man, he has become very
thin. his gait is slOuchng and t0ilsOme and
his speech slow and stammerng. lie is
suffering from what is known as railway
spine.~ a most distressing disease. His d.
gestiOn. memory and ability 20 sleep are in-
haired. and singular diminutlOn OF nefN-
ous sensibiitv has taken place over MS
whole body, so that be scarcely leeis the
prick Of "a needle sufficiently deep 10 bfins
blood. His legs are also benumDed up 70
the knee, and altogether the man is wreck
In may not be as widely known as IL de-
serves to be writes a correspondent OF the
British Medical JOurnaD, that twenty grains
of salicylic acid, given in liq. ammon. acct:
three or four times a day, will so far cOntroi
n cold that the aching Of the brow, eyelids'
etc. will cease i'm few hours, While the
sneezing and running from the nose VIII
also abate and Will disappear in few days
and. more fortunate still, the cold VIII pass
OH and not finish up, as is customary, Win
cough.
TwENTY-EIGHT million tickets were ac-
tuallY SOLD az the ldIl7 LApo7i''""' CIV" '''N
managers. who expected 10 have at least
eight out Of the thirty millions left on their
hands, are iubilant. This exhibition mas
cleared eight millions profit, while thai Oh
ISIS ran nearly twice as much behind. Inc
expositi0n lust closed was installed LOT
nearly three million dollars less than That oil
1878.
OCT at Bombay a movement has been
started to reform certain Hindoo marital
customs. BY it no sons are permitted 10
marry under sixteen, and no daughters UNI
der ten. No man is TO marry after MY
mr. marry "a second wife during the lifetime
N the first. lie Is also not TO drink spirits
save under medical advice. Marriage eN
penses are also 10 be greatly reduced.
SIR Arthur SULLIVAN will lead the
orchestra in Chicago upon the first presen-
tation of his new opera, The Gondoliers.D
Vow If Chicago gets the Worlds FAR she
viii want the world moved and located as "
suburb.
IL the wonderful wine cellar under the
HOTEL d. Vile, in Bremen, there are twelve
cases of holy wine, each case inscribed WIN
the name Of one Of the apostles. ms an
Gent wine was placed in It's present rest
ing-place PCS years ago.