The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-09-08
TIMES NEWS NOTES.

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-Muldoon. the wrestler. is 10 take Tn
management OF the BLACK Masque." heay
| ily-aden. red-fre melodrama. written by
New York police reporter. Perhaps Mr.
Muldoon is strong enough TO carry the at
traction.
Emperor william and the King Of Saxony
with their suites wearing Austrian uniforms
visited Archduke Albrecht on Sunday. Arch
| dukes Charles, Louis. William and Rane
were also present. The most cordial greetings
were exchanged.
All the American bound ships are crowded
with returning tourists, and berths are az
| big premium. As high rs 200 premium mas
| been offered in London tor a berth. Western
spectators are anxious 10 get home to real
the harvest of the grain boom in the stock
| markets.
The Institute of international Law
which opened It's congress at Hamburg yester-
! day, VIII discuss the legal aspects Of lnterna-
| tOnal Transportation, extradtlOn, the expul-
sion 81 foreigners. and kindred subjects.
which have especial value by reason OF their
! tmeliness.
The first performance OF Bill Nye's new
play. The Cadi. at the New York Union
Square Theatre september Zlst. IS % be Wit
messed by an unusually interesting audience.
Nearly every box and many seats have been
taken by persons prominent III literary. social
and business circles.
By placing two iron bars at seven or eight
yards distance from each other. says New
lork's Sun. and putting them IN communlca-
ton on one side by m insulated copper WIRE,
and on the other side with telephone, 1t Is
said that storm can be predicted twelve
hours ahead through certain dead sound
heard IN the receiver
The Odd-F Fellows Of Chicago are going to
erect building $50 feet high. 1t is 70 DO IN
the form OF a cross. with four wings twenty
two stories high, the central structure 10 be
thirty four stories high There are 10 be 900
hnely-htted Offices. and the building vii ac-
commOdate 5000 people The cost OF this
modest little air-castle is 20 be s4,OOO.OOO
The telegraph brings this sad commentary
upon the lot Of the b0aFder in the village Of
Nisalia. Cal One Of Mrs. McDeumott's board
ers, having taken ofense AT the landiady,
poured large quantity Of croton oil into the
ice-cream freezer Mrs. McDermOtt frOZe the
oil and. alas her eleven other bOarders ate
heartily Of il and were made deathiy sick 10
is impossible 70 imagine what Mrs. McDer-
mott had been using - flavor her ice-croam
with.
Chinese enterprise and industry On tho Pa
clfic coast, and especially over the Canadian
border is not confined 10 the laundry bust
ness and where circumstances are favorable
and prejudice not prOhlbltye the Celestials
are making showing that IL surprise and
shock TO some precOnceptiOns Of the eau
casian. Two Chinese capitalists, Chu Laiiand
ING Sun, who arrived in Victoria, b. c.. from
Hong Kong last week. are 90 erect big sal
mon factory on the Fraser river.
Tho st. Paul Pioneer Press thinks it has
solved the objections of the Indians 20 tho
proposed colonization scheme by which l00.-
900 negroes are TO. invade the Cherokee strip.
This action, Il claims would be q slap az the
scalplng industry of tine hOstlle5 The first
Indian who tried to scalp q c0lored brother
sawed away until his knife wouldn't cut
butter. and all he had for his pains was ia
blood blister on his good right hand.
One of the most serious things that have
agitated Paris for some time was the c0mmo-
ton that was raised last week over the
instability Of the Eife Tower. The residents
of the Champs de Mars. anywhere within
reach OF where the tower would be likely TO
fall when II comes over have boon ia a
panickY state, owing 10 the report of 80 emil !
nent engineer. who recently made some pro |
found and careful calculations showing that |
the tower was tottering and bound 10 fall.
Tt is asserted " said Judge Wallace ia his |
charge to the grand Jury in San Francisco last |
week that AT the late session of the Legisla- |
ture the county Of Colusa was terrtOnaliv |
~ the result OF legislation pro- /
cured by means Of bribery. and II Is rumOred. /
indeed become notorious. that 90 the same |
session corrupt combination "a trust WIS /
formed 10y majority OF the mombers Of the /
Senate of the state % sell the legislation OF /
that body 10 purchasers for q price. and that
a like combination for "a ike purpose was
organized IN the Assembly"
Captain Doubasof of the Russian navy.
who is travelling in this country is quoted by
the Pittsburg Dispatch as expressing the
opinion that the building Of heayy-armored
ships is a mistake. In the first place be is
quoted as saying the prOjectile is fgI SUI
DerlOr in effect to the best defensive armOr.
md think, always will be: and in tie next
he big ships are always 40 the mercy OF the
orped0 boats. j had personal experience OF
his IN the Russo Turkish war of 1877. when
surrounded and blew up several Turkish
monitors III the Danube with the aid of torpe-
10 boats. For coast defense the torpedo boat
ND gunboat carrying few heayy-hring guns
re. IN my opinion. superior 10 tho heavy
hips now building"
There is one luxury in which the poorest
lillian woman will indulge. Whatever else
nav be wanting and that is a stifilv-starcled
White petticOat. says q correspondent of the
'ittsburg Dispatch Though her dress may
e ragged. her feet and head bare. she would
10 more do without IL than a Nantucket skip
er would dispense with his pipe J have seen
hem splatterng around in the mud. dis
laying beautfully-lAundered white skirts !
trimmed with hand-embr0idery or crocheted
zee a quarter of q yard deep The first es-
entails OF dress for a ROtO woman. young or
ld, are a voluminous white pettic0at "a black /
lanta, cigarette and box of musk gown.
hoes, and other tOggery being mere accessO- /,
es
Queen Victoria intends 10 decorate Presi-
emit Cannot with the highest grade Of the
rider Of the Bath. Tho old Order of the
ath IS supposed 10 have been instituted nj
le coronation OF Henry ~. in 1899 Al that
me the candidate for membership was put
to bath the preceding evening 10 denote a y
lrlhcation OF 6bsOlutlOn from former mis-
'eds and that lie was now 90 commence "A q
Wv life. But the new Order of the Bath was
stitu,ed by George l.. IN 1925. I'm spite of
moist name, II has really nothing % do 7
-th baths. The member must keep right on
th the same life he had before III Pre--
NO OarnOt goes through the initiation an
sht he will wear q golden cross OF eight II
'ints. with the lion Of England between the
ur principal angles. and having IN "A circle q
the center the rose. thistle and shamrock o
tween three imperial crowns.
-iiimuHng is the outgrOwth of q religious II
reiD luv. says hate Fields Washington. and y
IS always been q fashionable dissipation e
eeks INDUCED n it and the Romans We're {
eat gamblers. AS early as Nartlals time
ming bad attained the dignity Of T. science "a
q books were written thereon. Justinian e
-tade public gaming in the sixth century.
Z, Ike al prOhibltlOnlsts he reformed no. +
dy. ia the Middle Ages the clergy were
satly gwen % gambling. and an abi ess OF
e fifteenth century was tried for having svs- I.
naticaliy gambled IN her convent. Sine q
8 allowed TO 20 UNPUBLISHED on promising
SIN no more. Cards came into wanna ~, | "a