The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-02-07
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
News and Comments OF Various Kinds
Brought by Nail and Gable.

Brought by Mail and Gable.
PROF. HADDON. the English naturalist.
who has just spent some months on the
islands south of New Guinea, says there
will never again De so good a time as now
% study the natives and make anthrop0lOg-
zeal collections. az the Papuans there are
dying ont fast. and still more rapidly dis
cardin. their native arts, preierring 20 buy
the merchandise that the whites bring
among them. Recent travellers in the Congo
basin say the introduction Of European man
ufactures is playing the mischief with MAJ
tive handiWOrk DR.. Wolf observed this
fact far south of the Congo. and said that in
some places the natives, who have acquired
foreign jack-kniTes and other hardware, are
liable 90 forget the art OF iron working. Mr.
/ HOre. ON Lake langanyika- deprecates the
importation OF any merchandise that Will
ruin native Industries. There seems 10 be q
tendency in some savage lands 10 accept the
white man as a valuable agent for the pro-
motion of laziness.
ONE Of the most intrepid explorers Of the
day is a Partisan lady, Nine. le Ray,
mother Of the Due d'Abranles, who has been
for several months engaged in Eastern
/ travel. After having visited Babylon and
Nineyeh. she traYer-ed the Persian deserts.
amid terrible prlvati0ns, i'm order 20 reach
/ India. For five days and five nights her
/ little caravan had 10 cncamp in the Wilds
without meeting living soul. or even dis
covering the slightest trace of a human
/ being. During all this time the cold was so
intense that Nine. le RAYS fingers were
/ frOstbtten and her guides became serious
/ ~ ID. She managed, at last, 10 reach the
Persian Gnlf where she embarked for
India,
MARRIAGE and geography have no very
obvious connection, but the ingenious maid.
ems Of Paris are complaining that they can
not get married by reason Of geographical
difficulties. When the Opera COmique.
which was burned down some time ago,
was in the Rue fayart, it was a fayorite
marriage market. Mamnas with bloom
ing daughters We're wont 10 arrange meet
ings with eligible gentlemen during the
entr'actes, and many were the matches that
were thus arranged. The temporary Opera
COmque is i'm the inaccessible Place du
Chatelet, and potential sons-in-law decline
% 20 TO such an Outlandish place. Hence
there is an agitation for the rebuilding of
the theatre in the more fashionable Place
B0iedieu.
A CABLE despatch from Berlin says: The
Emperor William attended yesterday
drill Of the cadets al the military college at
Lichterielde, near Berlin. In an address /
% the cadets he said "Olicers should be /
distinguished by the simplicity and mOder- |
alton Of their lives and their manners.
Complaints are heard from various parts Of
the Empire about the men being treated
with undue severity. Officers should not De
oyerbearing and harsh in dealing with
their men. On the contrary. they should
exercise great patience, and demand Of no
one more than be is able % perform. Alta
time when the monarchy is much and fre-
quently assailed il is the duty Of all officers
10 give II the support Of the most exemplary
conduct"
DURING recent German manouvres Il
was found that with bodies Of troops 400
yards apart, one body in the woods. the
sound Of their firing could be heard. but
here was not smoke enough 10 locate them
accurately for a return fire % be effective.
L Is suggested that the balloon will become
necessary for reconnaissance in such cases !
when smokeless powder comes 10 be gene
ally used.
Ink new British ironclad Vulcan, which !
S being built now, Is having put In rud, /
Ter weighing twenty-five tons, the largest C
yer put on British vessel. II