The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-01-22
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
News and Comments Of Various Kinds
Brought by Nail and Cable.

Brought by Mail and Gable.
THE French Anti-Tobacco Society has
just issued a work calling attention to an
alleged new danger attached 10 the use Of
the weed Experiments have been made to
determine the effect of tobacco smoke upon
meat and vegetables ready for cooking or
prepared for the table, and the result has
indicated that the smoke under such cir
cunistances deposits all It's poisonous quail
ties in the food with which II comes IN con-
tact. 4 piece Of rare meat, after being e1-
posed for some time in tobacco smoke, was
offered to a dog, who refused 10 touch IL. 10
was then concealed in some palatable COW
ering, aud the dog ate it, and died in "A short
time. An autopsy showed nicotine poison
ing 10 have caused death.
AT little dinner at a restaurant one Of
the members Of the party iished out from his
pocket an ingenious contriyaDce, which he
said considerably lessened the miseries Of
life for moustache men. The affair had q
steel shank about three inches long, which
fastened by a spring 10 the handle Of his
soup spoon The other end Of the shank
supported "a silver guard, which lifted hs
long. heavy mOustache and held il out Of
the way while the contents of the spoon
were emptied into his mouth. A touch Of
his finger on the handle end OF the shank
lifted the whole affair 10 an upright position,
if he wished. so that the guard was not sin
the soup" at all. When in place IL was con-
nected with the bowl Of the spoon, but was
held by the shank about an inch from the
edge.
THE London Truth vigorously denounces
fayoritsm in the British navy. IL remarks:
.'The manner in which officers who have
served on board the royal yachts are favor
cd by the admiralty Is perfectly mOnstrOus.
Captain HedwOrth Hampton, who has just
completed his time as commander Of the
Osborne, jumps over the heads Of dozens Of
high deserving senior officers, he being one
OF the youngest post captains in the ser
vice and quite az the bottom Of the list. In
order 10 take the command Of the Warsprite,
the new flagship on the Pacific station. II
is less than twenty years since Captain
Lanibt0n entered the service as naval ca
Diet, and he is certainly very fortunate
young officer; but such gross jobbery is
most disgraceful 10 the admiralty"
A BOMBAY paper relates an incident illus
trative Of the sagacity Of the elephant. A
batterng train had TO cross the sandy bed
Of a river which ri the time contained but
a shallow stream Of water. An artillery
man who was seated on the timbrel Of one
Of the guns accidentally fell of, and would
have been run over by the wheels had not
the elephant, which was stationed behind
the gun, instantly, without warning from
its keeper, lifted up the wheel with it,
trunk, and kept IL suspended till the CARR
age had passed clear Of him.
Tn. l.,.,,,..h fr.r,oTs ,r, ;Ila1 ,,.;.h a.
counts Of the great strife between Bougue-
reau. at the head Of one clique, and Meis-
sonier, at the head OF another. over the |
question Of exemptng foreign artists who |
had medals at the Universal Exhibition /
from competition at the salon. There are a /
great many sympathizers with the B0ugue- |
reau faction; the French are very anxious
10 excel in art, but they do not want the for
eigner to exhibit too much among them.
A PARIS paper recently offered an eminent
Frenchman $1,000 for his autobiography.
He accepted this offer, and after getting a
check tor the amount, sent on his biography.
which was as follows: IL WAS born an
lyons in 1889, and since that time can re-
rave not been killed in any Of the upris-
nss."
A REMARKABLE little animal has been
dded TO the London Zoo. ID is a deer.
hough in size but trine larger than a fun
rown cat. The cloyen hoofs proclaim its
osition in the mammalian world beyond
0ubt, but IL has no horns. In the male two
ing canine teeth project from the upper
ps, and these, perhaps, serve IN their stead.