The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-01-23
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
News and Comments of Various Kinds
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News and Comments Of Various Kinds
Brought by hail and Cable.
COMMENTING ON the Canadian immigra-
ton policy. the Toronto Globe observes: st
is. perhaps, deemed unwise 10 make any
elaborate provision for immigrants who too
commonly make. Winnipeg a mere stopping
place on their way 90 Dakota" The Do
mini0n Governments generous policy Of
encouraging immigration has been response
bic for the coming Of good many foreigners
who, after a brief experience Of Canada,
have slipped over the line into the United
states. But worse than this, from Cana
dian standpoint, is the circumstance that
the United States has attracted good many
hundred thousand of the best and most enter
prising native sons Of the Dominion.
THE prize medal for Observation-Disclosures
during lectures must be awarded 20 a Ger
man professor named Johannes Amer, who
recently died in Vienna. One Of his pupils
has list Of his remarkable sayings, among
them the following. Julius Cesar, dis
guised as a slave, swan naked across the
Tiber.r Alexander the Great was born
in the absence OF his PARENTS "Ihe Swiss
are "A mountainous nation, but in Scotland
the climate does not begin till October"
Hogs were invented in Asia Minor
sThus arose a general war on page o."
covered with countless wounds Caesar fell
derd near the statue Of POmpey: with one
hand he drew his toga over his face, while
with the other hand he called for help
A NEW fad for American girls is TO maze
pilgrimage 10 the graves Of Abelard and
lleloise and try their luck at pitching flow
ers so that they will fall directly between
the two eiiigies "She who casts a flower
upon the tomb so that il finds Judgment be-
tween the figures, shall be happy in love-"
saws the fad. Only the other day an Amer
lean girl stood for hours trying 20 pitch a
big red peOny toward the stone lapel Of Abe
lard's coat At last she tied a small thread
10 the much-damaged flower and landed it
right on the mark.
A HONOLULU paper describes a curious
substance thrown of by the molten lava
and found close 70 the lakes Of fire at the
volcano: 1T clings 10 the adjoining rocks in
ibre-like threads OF a flaxen color and has
the appearance Of human hair; but mixed
with il are sharp particles Of black lava.
Considering that this substance Is min
eral production, it is wonderfully flexible
amp tough, bending easily but.not ductile IN
us lltNtUl Nltl' hl.NAlANii VI n'iA- i'hrAA-
ened. 1t is peculiar 20 this Volcano
MADAME DE sEvIGNE remarked years
ago that the dahha would be the queen Of
flowers if it only had a perfume. This was
before the rose assembled the floral throne,
where by right and common consent she
wears the crown. A Frenchman. however,
has discovered that by watering dahlias
with tepid water delicious aroma is Sc
cured.
THERE is a collection Of postage stamps
in Germany, the most complete in the
world, which is valued at more than a mil
lion dollars. This appears wild talk, but il
is true, if reports from abroad can be de-
pended upon. There are several collections
in England which are worth $4,000 in the
open market.
BROwNING's crave was made about tour
feet deep, like the others in Westminster
Abbey. The soil is dry, red sand, the cof-
fins are placed in the earth and quantity
Of charcoal il added as a sanitary precau-
ton. One OF the traditions Of the Abbey il
that nothing but handful of bones remain
after seventy or a hundred years. The ac-
tual decomposition is accomplished in fifty
years.
The infant industry, Of catching "min-
niesr will now take a boom. A sardine
trust has been formed in London, and the
price Of that delicacy has gone up high
enough % justify the honest fishmonger in
packing anything that has fins In oil and
labelling the same with the most popular
brands for sardines,