The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-09-09
TIMES NEWS NOTES.

| tor Ills ngh church learning ana lOuNless ~
what Bishop Potter humorOusly calls An
gican raImentn had left his people UMPIRE
pared Tor anything SO unconventional
"A Washington special ssys that rich
man proposes 10 develop intelligence IN the
lower animals by founding and endowing an
institution for the education or monkeys.
The bright ones are TO be sifted OUT ana inc
best of their young again siited OUT, ana 80
on, until. by selection and after due training
and careful breeding. IN the course OF years
the product shall be an animal OF culture
whose intelligence is expected 10 tar exceed
the present range.
Artificial frost prevention is now suggest
ed as an outgr0wth of Senator falWell ;
scheme for artificial rain production. MI -.
c. Kniien. OF Chicago, has written letter ~
Secretary kusk on the subject. HIS theory -
that clouds OF artificial mists prevent the "a
diatlon of the heat from the earth. lie SUE
gests that the machinery and tools used py
Colonel Dryenfurth in causing ram ne testeu
as q means for bringing the clouds closer 10
the earth and Of creating n sort OF Toe. when
viii be preventive against the rayage5 o.
frost.
At the recent meeting Of the French So
ciety OF HypnolOgy IN Paris DIR. berillon
astonished his hearers by stating that almost
all children could be hYpnotized except those
| who were idiOtic or hysterical. The idea thht
there is any connection between hystera ana
! hypnOtism was strongly disputed. one phy-
stefan alleged that he had hypnOtZed sixty
nine patients out of seyenty-two under ms
care for various diseases IN q hospital. ana
said it was absurd 10 believe that so large a
proportion could be hysterical.
Every housekeeper who founditnecessary
| during the past six weeks 20 add 20 her stock
OF glass fruit lars got excited when she went
20 make her purchases. Last year she couid
buy az many lars as she wanted at - cents q
4 "a. 20 too
| times as much. The Whitney Glass WORKS,
Of GlassbOro. \. j.. the largest frllt-Jar
| works in America, has full control or the
! market and prices are being doomed As
never before. The concern Is credited with
having already Taked IN nearly SZOO,OOJ III
profits.
The one hundred and fifty-seventh ami
versary Of the landing Of the Schwenkfel-
ders will be celebrated on September q,
as Is the custom. This year the celebration
! will take place at the meeting house OF tho
denomination in Washington township. Berks
! county. Pa There are only five congrega-
! tons Of the chWenkfeiders ~ the United
! States; the one above mentioned IS Just over
/ the Montgomery county line IN Berks county.
another Is near the line Of Montgomery and
Lehigh. aud the other three are II MOntgom-
cry county.
There is q question raised rs to whether
! Grundy upon the occasion of one or his re-
! cent galantrles. 4 young woman who was
! presented 20 him begged 10 be allowed 10 KISS
| his hand. oh no: the hand Is not good
| enough for so charming damsel,' exclaimed
! he And forthwith the gallant old fellow
| gave the young lady q smack. Probably the
! Young lady liked 10. Maybe she didn't care
7 for the tobacco and lager beer which usually
goes with mans kiss when he hasn't made
| special preparations beforehand, but 10 Will 10
| something 70 tell about as long as she lives.
| And then you know. her grandchildren,
years from now, will be able 20 tell about
How Bismarck kissed grandma"
The old Boston Farmers Almanackn for
! 1886 thus describes the farmers girl of that
day: Give me one Of your ruddy farmers
! daughters. who thinks moro Of the yellow har-
/ vests abundance than OF the spring pOses -
/ good. buxOm country lass, who knows how 20
! boil n potato and can tell q mealy chenangO
| from blue nose. one that can make good
brown bread and is never afraid 10 be seen IN
! the dough. Our genuine farmer girl Is modest
/ but has no affectatiOn. She Affects not % be
| delighted with the efiluvium OF "a margOld
! nor % he Disguised atthe sight If q COW. She
I can make butter as well rs eat 10. She can
} ride q trOtting pony without being strapped
on. and. though she never cut pigeon wing
or whrled in the may cotillOn, yet she can
leap q fence Ike q foxhound and dance good
old Rural Felicity to a charm"
--"Baboo- English" as.it is contemptuously
called affords occasional food for mirth
among us but sEnglish papers appear 90 be
not alt gether barren OF ike entertainment
for the Baboo mind. An Indian journal points
ont that the rejoicing of an English clerical
organ over what ~ calls the welcome news
from India that three Bengal regiments have
been converted together with its observa-
tion that providence has. indeed. blessed
orr work" comprises d double mistake.
First. the regiments referred 10 are not
Bengal but Madras regiments and, secondly,
conversion" is in this case simply q techni-
cal term implying that the regiments referred
20 have been abolished. Another home
journal las, 1t appears. described the late
Senaputty % a person whose civilization -
still so rudimentary that he feeds on insects
This mysterious charge having been investi-
gated by our Indian contemporary. 1t turns
out that It's sole foundation was the fact that
the Senaputty was accustomed % chew betos
that is betel nuts
There died in Mobile. Ala. day before yes
terday. William 4. W. SpOtswo0d. horn IN
Virginia in 1906. and a veteran Of three wars.
After his graduation as physician he was
appointed IN 1899 90 the navy. and served as
post surgeon in Florida during the Seminole
war lie then served on the United states
slOOp st. Louis on the cost Of Peru and was
post surgeon IN New York city during and
went through q season Of yellow fever az Pen
sacOla, and then as feet surgeon served on
the coasts Of China and Japan. lie was IN ser
p vice next in the Mexican war. and was 40 the
siege OF Vera Cruz and was twice wrecked
on the Mexican coast. In January. 1861 he
resigned from the navy and was appointed
tull srugeon in the Confederate service and
stationed at Richmond. where be remained
with distinction throughout the war. His
lie was one of unusual adventure. lie was
t. man Of great physical strength and of fine
character HIS father was General Alexander
SpotswoOd. and much-przed - c IS a sword
of elegant workmanship presented IN 1895 %
General SpotswOOd by General Washington AS
evidence Of the high esteem in which his
services during the Revolutionary war were
held.
The advantages which people who live
exactly on the line between two countries
have IN escaping the customs and other regu-
latiOns Of both countries. saws the Tombstone
Inspector. have often been reeounted Prob
ably the most picturesque and innocent in
stance of this kind Of evasion comes from the
Western town Of Nogales. which lies exactly
on the boundary between Mexico and Ari-
iona. On the United States side OF the line
In this town eggs have been rendered dear by
the new tariff upon eggs. inasmuch as the
hens of that region are chiefly owned on the
Mexican side of tie line and fed 10y the
peasants on cheap Mexican gain. Re
Gently Maine Yankee arrived in No
gales with an eye 20 business. He was con-
WINGED that his opportunity lay IN tho high