The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-01-24
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
News and Comments of Various Kinds
Rrourht by Nail and Gable.

Brought by Mail and Gable.
IT will be just as we'll 20 keep am eye on
the Mexicans hereafter if the report is true
that they have coined 100000 bogus silver
dollars and palmed them or ON the conhd-
inc Wcaterners who live On the border. The
scheme was worked by the establish
mcnt of one or more "Danks,' where
the coins were made. They were then
exchanged for American goods at %
profit of about 2s cents ON each coin.
The operations have been going ON
for about two years, and are 30 simply
conducted that wonder is expressed that
c0unterfeitng was not INDUCED i'm before
by Our ncighbOrs. The fact that 5.OOOOOO
bogus silver dollars are i'm circulation 10
likely % interfere seriously with the plans
of the silver men for getting Congress 90 in-
crease the government coinage. and when
man gets a stack of nine Of them, with 2
silver half and q quarter, i'm exchange for
two cigars and $40 bin. be Will bee likely
10 ieel as IL bis smoke may be an expensive
luxury.
THE way the Russian Minister Of the In
terror moves against an unsympathetic
journal can be seen from a ministerial or
der which las lust been issued, 10 the fol-
lowing effect. Whereas the European Mes
songcr in whole series OF art cles con-
ducts itself i'm mo- other way tnan in spirit
of condemnation of the most important
acts of tbe government, and that the ar
hclos of H. s0legie0 published In that Pc
riodical. entitled The History of Russian
Conscience and containing eNasperai-
ing criticisms directed against the
Russian Church and state, in
their historical development inculcaie
nd 90 uI. 10.
ra.roct for lie principles of their iounda-
tion a.l for the principles Of Russian na-
tioualitv I'm general. the Minister Of the In
terror announces q Hisi warning 90 the cdi-
tor of the European Messenger, 40 the per-
SON of the actual State Councillor Michael
stasooiC.ich.'
A PROPOSITION 80 aid young authors I'D
France by having am annual state competi-
ton iof the best works, 20 DE submitted TO
iurv. and 90 have these best works publish
ed at the expense of the State. is exciting
much criticism in France. About one-hali
of the popular authors are IN FAVOR Ol 10.
and great many express themselves de-
cidedly against %. Ihe young authors
themselves DO MOI appear ~ care for such
state intervention.
THE toys that please children tine most
af. uearlya as old as humanity itself Egyp-
tian scholars have revealed that in the time
of sesostris the children bad balls covered
with leather, upy crocodiles ihat opened
and shut the mouth; a,tenlaled dOlls ana
puppets that became as lively a- defiish
ON pulling "a string. In the tomOs OF the
early Christians there have been iound tops
hoops. petty earihopWare utensils etc. An
ancient Greek invented q wooden dove that
rose In the air.
Tag oa.cial journal Of the Congo Free
state at Bussais publishes DEGREES grant
ing civil status in legal matters 70 Catho-
lie and Protestant missions IN that country.
King Leopold has contributed a sum OF
money for establishing at MOanda, in the
CONGO country, a sanitarium, In which AMI
can explorers and others in need OF rest
and mcdical treatment may be received.
THE Persian Prince Ee.kubah Dechman
Mira. a cousin of the shah, has ,Gs; been
convicted Of counterfeiting in Moscow, Rus
STA. and Las been condemned TO five years
OF hard labor In siberia.
THE vale Of Ayoca has been bought by
az English company, and the woods will be
swept away IN order 10 make matches.
There is great CONSERVATION In TIE district,
where the memory Of Tom M0ore Is cher
ished with feryency.
THE statistics Of wild beasts in India for
1883 SHOW ;aet they do not grow any less
deadly. twenty-five ,Aogsand nine hun
dred and seventy persons were Killed IN
1885. an increase Of six hundred
4 NEW coniiiyance has been applied 10
watches called an appointment. reminder
A small Gial is set into the wqtch's face,
upon which one can set TIE hands at any
hour required.
THE oldest woman in Vienna is Frau
Maedslena Ponza, who celebrated her llith
birthday last Christmas. She is cared for
by her eighty-year-old daughter.
AN agitation has sprung up in Belgium
for the ae epactment Of capital punishment,
in consequence OF tbo alarming increase Of
murders within the last few years.
4 sssTEG Of Keats, the Fanny TO whom he
was 30 sendery attached, died IN Madrid
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