The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-02-05
From EoRElGN LANDS.
News and Comments Of Various Kinds
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News ana comments ~
Brought by Mail and Cable.
A BOAT builder on the St. Lawrence, who
has been in New York taking orders for
the past two or three weeks. remarked that
the English custom OF living in households
was taking hold here. All up ana down
the Thames" he said. "there are lots oil
these pretty little cottages built ON ioais
and named households. They are lowed
about through tse canals and up and down
the easy rivers Of England, and people PFC
mic aboard them I'm great shape. About hfe
years AGO / received my nrst order LOT
housa-bOat here. Since then ] have built a
number. and the orders are Increasing every
weak. some Of them are used on the smaller
lakes. at Penn Yam, Watkins, Geneva, ana
SD on. and there are quite q number Oh
houses about I'm odd hooks among the
thousand Islands. They are 4 great
delight % the children. and are OF
sborr distance. from home. IL L.
not difficult thing YOU know 10 pole one Oh
These boats along the margin or lake OF
even to paddle 10 three or four hile5 IRON
tine home dock 90 some sheltered nook where
the ricniciug party can De entirely alone.
I'm England trey usually have steam or
naphtha launch in connection win the
boat. so that short excursions can zee taken
from headquarters. The launch is also use
ful in towing the hOuse-boat aions' III -
practically canal-b0at built above water.
rhe bouse-boat fever will never rage over
here fO any great extent, because there are
tides ON most Of our sheets OF pleasure
waters. and then. TOO, we have pest IN
the shane 0f gnats and mosquitoes Oh me
banks of our canals. rivers, and lakes Wnlrh
make the hOuso-bOat life more or less OF "a
torture. None of these Disadvantages are
10 DE encountered where the hou7e-Dodl
nourishes n England"
THERE is q great cutlery in England over
what is said 10 be the most pestiierous and
indecent result Of American interyiewcg.
The achievement which has brought this
out would not be regarded as of the slightest
importance in America. but It seems 90
have created no end of Indignation there.
some newspaper, with an idea OF getting al
the inside facts, and remembering that no
man Is "a hero 10 bis valet, promptly inter-
viewed the man-seryant Of the poet brown
ing Immediately after the death Of that dis
tinguished man. This interview was pub
lished. and 10 called forth an altogether abb
surd degree Of abusive comment. \ care
ful reading of the interview does not dis
close the fact that the servant was al an
indiscreet. He told the world what Mr
Browning liked for breakfast; that he
breathed regularly in his sleep, and that DE
had a gentle and amiable manner with his
personal attendants. The pestiierous ELECTS
Of these disclosures are not exactly PLAIN %
American eyes.
TuE'foreim trade Of the United King
dom during the year 1850 was the largest
ever known in the whole history OF the
country. Never since trading first COM
menced between alien nations has there
existed a nation which transacted so enof-
nous business as Great Britain did with
the rest Of the world during the past twelve
months.
AMATEUR photographers will be pleased
TO learn that their interests are 10 be furth-
cred By the publication Of a new periodical.
Messrs. Kegan Paul. Trench * Co., the Eng
lish publishers, have issued the first num-
Der Of q quarterly serial called the sun Ar
lists. which will devote itself 10 the purely
artistic side autobiography.
BUFFALO Bull has applied for permits
sion TO use the Coliseum in Rome for bis
"Wild West Show" when that institution
arrives in the Eternal City" and there j.
every probability that the request will be
granted.
A NEW kind Of shoe is being tried in the
German any. The sole consists Of a sort Of
wire trellis, while the spaces between are
filled up with gutta percha ari resin. This
new preparation il said 10 be cheaper. more
durable, and more elastic than leather.
A COMMITTEE composed Of artists and
literary men has been formed in Paris for
the purpose of organizing a sale OF works Of
art and theatrical performance for the
penedt Of the three children left by the late
Jules GARNER.
TUX Russian authorities now forbid
strangers 10 soiourn more than three days
in the Crimea, or within any part Of The
Black Sea.