The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-12-30

NeWs OF III SORTS.
CALIFORNIA; wine crop this year will equal a
quart o. every man, woman and enid II the
United States.
The first iron mined in this country is gen.
orally supposed to have been III Saugus'
Mass, about lGi3
Great Britain poured nearly 10000 immi-
grants into tie nited States during tho
first seven months OF tie present year.
1t is reported that few days ago an Iowa
preacher broke q hole in the ice OF river
and insisted in bapt!zing lady IN spite OF
her protests
Two bodies recently disinterre1 in an old
cemetery in Allegheny. Pa. were found to be
petrifed One had been buried five years and
the other two years.
English capital to tho amount of S5,000.000
will 90 into the establishment of a bank at
Columbus. ). c., OF which the Earl OF Dun
more will be president.
Clara Barton president of the American
Red Cross Association, is negotiating for tho
transportation 10 Russia OF grain contributed
to the famine sufferers.
Paper properly treated with chemicals and
then subjected to great pressure IS being used
for flooring material and for general use III
building Us tire-resisting substance.
A North Carolina man claims to have been
twenty-seyen children, and although but
ffty-fye years old las decentralization.
Mrs Mackav has been giving a dress con-
cert in her London house. which for It's dis
play of lavish wealth. distinguished company
and high-class music has taken the town by
storm.
At the conclusion of mock marriage cere-
mony in Paterson. y. j.. last week the girl
declared that she did no regard the matter as
Joke and stated her determination to COM
pei the man to carry out to the letter the pro-
visions of the marriage.
A Providence Or. L. woman was married
few days ago 10 her seventh husband. Her
first was killed in row. the second aud
fourth died natural deaths, the third was
bigamist. the fifth ran away and got divorce
and the sixth committed suicide. Her seventh
husband is a brother of her first.
Mrs. Harrison's plan for enlarging the
White House IS now before the Senate IL is
generally believed that if the executive man
sion can be made large enough for the Harri-
son family It will afford ample accOmmOda-
ton for any future President. unless q Nor
mon dynasty should come into power.
Frank Monalk. a Pole twenty one years old,
after working hard all night at the Chicago
Steel Company mills il. south Chicago, lay
down in warm place behind blast furnace
and fell asleep The next morning his COM
pauons went 10 arouse him and found MIN
dead. He had been asphyXlated by the fumes
from the stack.
Professor Gary. Of Baltimore, is said TO
have effected number OF cures Of deafness
with the phonograph, and IN speaking of tho
results Obtained he expresses the belief that
certain kinds OF vibration. suitable 10 the diff
ferent cases introduced into the ear by
means OF the photograph, Will in the future
constitute toe most important part of the
treatment OF the deaf.
II is a matter of speculation how great an
estate Senator Plumb left though he has
always been rated millionaire. Senator
DOlph says that the dead kansau made the
statement q month ago that he was ''on bis
uppers. and would have 10 60 West 10 raise
some money. There was a story some time
ago that Mr.. Plumb clipped the coupons
from rO50.0OO worth of Government bonds
and IL addition he had bank. mining and other
stocks in the West.
A Minneapolis dispatch says: In two or
three weeks the MINNEAPOLIS flour mills will
have TO shut down IA account OF tho scarcity
of freight cars and the inability Of the trunk
lines east of Chicago to handle seaboard bust
ness. The situation here has not been as
serious as il IS now since the four new roads
tile Kansas City, Burlington. SoO.' and
Wisconsin Central-were built, about eight
years ago. Before that the local millers
had trouble occasionally. but not so bad as at
present
There is bear skin on exhibition in Hud-
sons gun store that takes the cake. says the
Portland OregOnian. II is q feet in length
and feet across in the widest place. The
bear that wore this skin was grizzly, and he
lived IN far oil Alaska Judging from the
size Of the skin he must have cen as large as
two ordinary cows. and could not have
weighed less than 1850 pounds. IL is by far
the largest bear skin that has ever been seen
IN Portland. and even old bear hunters who
are told Of It's dimensions shake their heads
IN an incredulOu manner until they see il
with their own eyes.
"Sobbing stays" or corsets a sanglots. are
French addition 10 a mourning outfit
With his knowledge o the nlceties Of his pro-
fession the French dress-maker understands
that when "a woman sObs unrestranedlv her
frame undergoes certain phys cal cOnvou-
lions that mieht he detrimental 10 her toilet
If stiH unyiedlng STAYS were her support. To
permit. therefore. madames grief t. expend
itself naturally and still protect her costume
from any danger resulting thereirom these
stays are provided. 4 Triangle Of elastic is
set IN ut each side, which gives with every
violent OutDurst II grief and 10 harm is
done Tie art OF tie French man-milliner
approaches subhm!ty.
Henry George Is singulary absent
minded and pre0ccupiei man so much so
indeed, that be frequently passes acquaint
ances by without seeing them, though he
may seem 10 DO looking them straight in the
face. At the same time no is often infinitely
obseryant and when anything unusal at
tracts his attention he Is prompt with
query lie reduced harmless young Eng
snman TO state OF painful embarrassment
amid the crowd Of London drawing-r9om
by looking hard al his monOcle and suddenly
saying DO YOU wear that because one eve
Is different from the other"
Washington was called by many sobriauets.
He was first of all Father OF his Country"
Providence LETT him childless that his conn
try might call him father" Sigourney calls
him 'Pater Patri1.n Chief-Justice MARSHALL
the American Fabius." ord Byron. in his
ode TO Napoleon" calls him The Cincin-
natus OF the West For having a new world
on MS shoulders he was called the Atlas OF
America Tho English soldiery called him
by the sarcastic nickname of Lovely
Georglus." Red Jacket the Seneca Indian
chief, called him the Flower Of the Forest
The Italian poet, Nittori Alfieri. called him
,Deliyerer Of America" In the Gazette OF
the nlted States" lie was called the Saviour
OF his Country" His bitter opponents sar.
castlcally called him the "Stepfather of his
Country" during his presidency.