The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-20
ODDS AND ENDS.

In Victoria, 3. c., no mason or
stonecutter will work on building
where Chinese help is employed.
The Canadian labor unions have
recommended the government to es-
.ablish a scheme of compulsory in
,urance for the working classes.
A 5-yearold child in Lafayette, n.
J.. was so deeply affected by the death
last week OF his grandmother that he
cried almost continually for four days,
when he burst a blood vessel and
lied before medical assistance arrived.
The famous diamond cutting estab-
,ishuents at Amsterdam are closing
one after another, owing TO rise IN
the price of raw diamonds. Ten thou
sand Jews were employed in this in
.lusuy, and 1000 are now out of work.
The secretary OF the English mis-
sion to lepers in India intends visiting
India shortly, with a view TO promot-
ing the establishment there OF asylums
Tor leperS, as well as of homes for the
children of leprous parents, that they
may be early separated from the dan
ger of contagion.
The most fashionable street Of Ber-
lin, the famous Inter den Linden, is
aid 10 be now tho best iighted thor
9ughfarc in the world 1t has three
ines of electric arc lamps, which are
separated by two rows OF lime trees.
The wires which convey the electricity
are underground.
To give vividness to 1000, 600 years,
Darwin, in Origin Of Species, page
269. gives this: Take narrow strip
u paper, IS feet 4 inches in length,
and stretch ii along the wall of q large
nail; then mark off at one end the
.enth of an inch. This tenth of an
inch will represent 100 years, and en-
ire strip LOCO, 600 years.
President Henry Rice OF the United
Hebrew Charities says that $4,000 He
crews have come TO this country an
nuallv for the last four o. five years,
Of these 1900 or $4,000 came from
Russia, and only 600 or 700 from Ger
many. Not many of them were
skilled mechanics, and very few en-
cred lines of business.
\ petition is being circulated among
he students OF the Georgia State uni
-ersitv, the object Of which is TO
.hange the custom of making Satur-
lay half holiday and carry on the
,egyllar recitations through that day
md make Monday a holiday instead.
AS it is now, students ale compelled
study on Sunday in order to pre-
oare for their Mondays rccitations.
ADutch retired captain named Tin
lal has presented 10 the chamber a
memorial calling attention to the peril
ous position Of the Hague in case Of
var. 1t IS SO near the coast that 1t
:ould easily be bombarded by a fleet.
The Hague, which is az open town,
.ontains the ministry of war, a cannon
oundry and q garrison OF 10, 600 men.
The Portuguese government has
)ydeyed by a decree that saccharin,
whether alone or mixed with any other
product, shall be sold by chemists only
N the prescription of a legally quail
led medical man. Every contraven-
ion of this enactment, as well as the
employment OF saccha2in in the manu-
acture of sweetmeats and drinks, is
made punishable by definite penalties.
A new departure in the salmon
rade is reported from the Pacific
coast, where German firm has con-
racted for forty carloads of sailed
ialmon for shipment to Europe. The
ish will be treated with just enough
alt to keep 1t in condition during
ransit. On arrival in Germany it
will be freshened, and then packed in
ms for sale on the continent.
Those who find it difficult to keep
polished hardwood floors spotless are
advised to keep number Of broom
covers handy. These covers are made
Of outing cloth or canton flannel
,ough side out, and are simply bags a
little longer than the sweeping part of
he broom and slipped over it and tied
With draw string snugly about the
handle. a rufle, both for looks and
rs dust catcher, is set III across the
bottom.
A woman missionary on the Congo
writes that the Sunday service lasts
rom two to three hours and the little
children, getting tired, run outside to
,lay, disturbing the worshipers and
cultivating irreverence. One of the
royal princes at Mandalay, before
Theebaw's downfall, would know how
% sympathize with these little black
ssolks. He was asked what he thought
Of church dedication he had been
induced to attend. WELL" he re-
piled, 81 wish they had cut it in two.
1t was very long time to be without
cheroot."
a conference held in Berlin has de-
sided that in Germany children shall
lot be employed under y years of
age, and then only for six !. IS q day
Up to fourteen. Women al ahildren
IRE not to be employed in mines, and
working on Sunday is to be prohibit
I'd for women and children. 1t is
probable that the continental work
people of both sexes will be greatly
benefited as result Of the confer
ence.
The most northerly railway in the