Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-03-08
THE PLANET
ODDS AND ENDS.


In Scotland it is said that 20 rock the empty
cradle will insure tho coming Of other occu-
pants for it.
London university has now on its rolls
Z LADY masters Of art, 147 bachelors OF art,
doctors OF science. 81 bachelors Of science and
ladies holding medical and surgical degrees
Swallows and BUTTERFLIES made Of jet, gold |
tinsel. and beads fly across the skirts and
bodices of some Of the latest fashionable even
ing dresses of English ladies' and it is predict
ed that the new style viii drive out flowers as |
n trimming.
A Russian government committee has pre-
pared a plan for the through Siberian rail-
way, to be completed i'm ten years The total
length Of the line is to be 4, $40 miles and the
total cost $50, 900 rubles.
Do you think you can read all the new
booksa In England last year the books put
lished numbered 6,067 or them 1913 we're
now editions and 1904 new books Add to
this number the new publications of Ger
many, France and America. aud you can
readily see how impossible it is 70 keep up
with the press
The revival of trade, noticeable through
out the whole OK Europe, has not been with
out its effect i'm Austria The settlements on
the Vienna bourse i'm 1889 amounted TO
S,S0S. coo 90 forms. as against ,0i5, 600, 900
In 1883, and trade and industry generally
shows a similar I'm provemene.
There is a curious enactna-... "a. S,vvedtss
In regard to cocamercsel travellers. Any
foreigner or Swedish subject residing abroad,
who visits Sweden for the purpose OF trade,
must give a declaration to how long he
indends to stay, and must pay a tax OF about
Is los a month for the privilege Of being al
lowed to conduct bis business
- - -. . - $1,000 So. f1,osx
dresses have reached such an extravagant fig
ure that az least one well known actress has
refused 70 continue her engagement because
she could not afford to buy the dresses needed
for a new play that was about TO be produced
Her salary was 81, 900 per year, and her dresses
alone had cost her 5000 during the last year.
although there had been but TIRES plays. .
Il was the goddess Strenna (strengtb. who
gave her name 20 strenna, the Italian for
New Years gift, whence came the French
word etrenne. which means the same thing.
On the FIRST day of the year, In the earliest
Roman times, champion wrestlers used to be
conducted amid music and dancing to her
temple. and there crowned with verbena--a
plant which had the reputation of giving
strength to those who inhaled it. For that il
was planted all around Strenna's temple. and
also in courtyards and gardens.
Among the indications of decomposed fish
are external and internal bleeding and clot
ting, WIFI CLOTHING is intensified by cook
ing, and is frequently seen extending along
the back bone of cooked fish; cloudy
OPAQUE, sunken eyed; dry looking gilIs
habby, soft, ipsipid flesh; fshy smell
loss OF brightness and brilliancy about thu
scales; any luminosity or phosphorus
cence in the dark When cooked. a sour q
acid taste, with darlened clothed blood, indi
Gates decomposed fish. The darkening OF
silver spoon indicates sulphur, product o
fish decomposition.
A specimen Of the species Of acacia, com
monty called the angry tree. was brough
from Australia and set out at Virginia, New
When the sun sets the leaves fold up aud th
tender twigs coil tightly, like little pig
tail. n the shoots are handled the leave
rustic and move uneasily for time. II tn
queer plant is moved from one pot to anothe
Il seems angry, and the leaves stand out /
all directions like quilts on a porcuPine.
most pungant and sickening odor, said to n
senble that given of by rattlesuakes whe
annoyed, fills the air, and it Is only after a
hour or 80 that the leaves fold in the natnr'
way.
The recently opened electric tramway col
Meeting Clermont- Ferraud with Royat Is on
milo and, a half long, but on it are thirtes
stations The generating plant comprises
$50 horse power Faroot engine and a six po
separately excited Thury dynamo, giving 3
amperes and 800 volts al $40 revolutions IT
current is taken to the cars by an overhe'
conductor, the rails acting as return Ea,
car Is driven by 40 horse power Thury m
tor. The normal speed is eight miles an hou
The names Of the principal mountains In {
world are nearly all suggestive or descripti
Of their snow covered SUBMITS. The nam
Of Showdon, Ben Nevis, Mont Blanc, {
Sierra Nevada, Snafell in Iceland and in {
Isle OF Man, the Sneeuw Bergen at the Ca
OF Good Hope, the Sneehatten IN Norwa
and the Wesshorn, the Weissmiss and {
Tete Blanche i'm Switzerland, White mor
tains In New Hampshire, AS we'll as the me
archaic or more obscure names of Leblanc
of Caucasus, and of the Himalayas, are
pellations descriptive, in various languag
OF the characteristic snowy covering OF tn
lofty SUBMITS.
In. lSSS the total imports OF. ivory into Fl
land weighed 1857 hundredweight. T
would mean NJ least 60 900 tnsiSs and the
struction Of 10000 elephants for this mari
In these supplies, but they also obtain i've
direct, more especially Germany One
thority reckoas the annual mortality of Al
can elephants as high as 65;000 for exp
alone. besides which there is large consuu
ton in Africa itself, the chiefs in the cen
keeping the choicest tusks for the decorat
of their temples, houses and graves
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