The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-01-02
PERSONS AND THINGS
News Notes Compiled From the "Timess
Exchanges.

AS The population of nc country becomes
more dense thc number Of Enoch Ardens
and Rip Van Wrinkles is increasing rapId.
~ Men disappear from sight and are losi
20 memory for years, only 10 turn 40 In the
course Of events and create CONSERVATION
among The people they len behind. rivf
years aeo John Linck deserted his wife and
child, who lived in bridgeport. Conn. Moth.
Ing WAS heard OK him. and the wife obtained
I a divorce on the ground Of descrtiOn and
! 'Hmarried. Linck was amassing wealth In
| the bOundlcss West lie has rcturufxi
broken bread with his fermer wife. her new
! husband. his old mother-in-law. and his
own daughter. lie has made them an
presents Of diamonds, AID be has returned
% the waste places Of tie boundless West 4
sadder but a Wiser man.
FLORIDA may be a good place for invalid,
but doesn't seem 70 be foi doctors. A Kiss.
imme correspondent Of the Florida Times
Union writes as follows: "There Il q inl
| opening here now for a physician, as there
Is petition being circulated for one 20 come
mere, the petitioners obligatng themselves
20 give their patronage 10 one Who will come
/ that is well acquainted with the diseases Of
this country. The opening is a big one, ne
SIX physicians have fallen through il i'm IA
past three years, but there is plenty Of room
for more"
DIR. SARGEANr, professor Of physical
culture at Harvard, does uot believe in too
much exercise. A man can BE made cour-
agcous, active, vigorous, and selfreliant
boy appropriate PHYSICAL training. he SAYS,
hut the men who Kick footballs are the very
men who have % lay of after the season f0r
rest and recreation. Those who have been
the most successful IN heavy gymnastics
are the very uncs Who are subject 70 nervous
complaints.
MR., 5LAINE's new house i'm Washington
is about completed, and il is said 20 divide
the attention Of the public wi,E the White
House. 10 was in this house that the at
tempt 20 assarsinate Secretary Seward was
made To wipe out the.mem0ry Of this deed
Mr.. Blaine has hads the partition taken
down between the late secret ary's bedroom
and the room adjoining il and has thrown
them into one, which he has made the draw.
ing-rOOm.
MICHAEL HILL, Of New York, is a man Of
remarkable courage. Theother day be saw
a mad dog chasing people IN thestreet, and, ,
tackling the beast alone. captured it, but
not until the raDid animal had bitten him
in the hand. Then, instead of killing The
animal. he took 10 % the statiOn-hOuse, % De
shot boy an officer who had license 20 Kill
dogs supp0sing that an ordinary citizen had
no right TO sheet even mad canine.
A WRITER in the Atlantic Monthly shows
that Milton stole hundreds Of lines Of his
Paradise Lost " from Ayitus, Bishop Of
Vienna in the fourth century That il an
right. The world owes Milton a debt Of
gratitude for preserving some good poetry
which would have been forgotten if it had
not been borrowed by the blind bard.
THE Rev. Robert Collyer. who began
life as "a blacksmith, andis now one Of the
most popular living preachers, has just en-
tered his sixty-seventh year. 81 have never
been sick as much as one day In my life"
he says.
COL. Hollow Horn, the eminent Sioux
lo9ler who has been visiting in Washington,
does not seem TO have made a social hit in
that city. The fact is, a horn, TO command
recognition at the Capital, must be reason
ably full.
AGNES and Timothy Freeman, aged re-
spectiyely sixty and sixty-fye years, after
nearly forty years Of married life, are in the
divorce court at Kansas City on account Of
nc0mpatibllity OF temper
ELDER HENRY PREBLE, an aged timer
ant preacher, Of Wateryille, Ne, in the
prosecution of his calling has Travelled 90
900 miles by team.