The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-28
TIMES NEWS NOTES.


Jersey favors State laboratory tor the supply
OF cheap drugs for tho people. The New Jer-
| sey undertakers are said 70 wink at each other
whenever they meet, but have not yet openly
| come out for the scheme
To such persons as use salt-sfters II is re-
! commended To mix cOrnstarch with tho salt
| In the proportion Of one teaspoonful Of tho
former 10 five OF tho latter. This will pre-
vent packing in damp weather, as the starch
absorus the moisture and retains II away from
the salt
The London Times aces big difficulties in
the way Of tho construction OF tho intercon-
| tinental American railroad but. doesn't feel
| itself quite prepared 70 say positively that the
| road will never be built. IL has learned 20
| exercise iudicious caution IN pTophesying
about the States"
Before we find too much fault with the
| English for their devotion to royalty, advises
| Miles Ryan in this weeks issue Of Kate
| Fields Washington, we should lie prepared TO
set them an example ls there, in orr treat
ment of the crowned heads Of the Old World,
1.-THE OF the vulgar contempt which we
shower on an unpopular American IN high
station?
The expression cattle car" used 10 be
| employed 10 designate the cheapest and
| toughest kind OF car in railroad service. After
awhile II may become synonymous with palace
car. The Canadian Minister of Agriculture
| IN announcing that American cattle are % be
| permitted to enter Canada 10 be slaughtered
| at certain designated points said that they
would DO carried in vestibule cattle cars"
"A poor benighted Alabama receiver has
! brought suit against the directors Of a corpora
| ton IN that State for causing Dy their negii-
| gence It's collapse. He has evidently not
heard of the decisions OF the Supreme Court Of
! the lnited States. which so LUMINOSITY rules
that directors can never be guilty Of negli-
gence for the all-suiiicient reason that they
have no duties which they are bound 10 per-
form.
In his Vermont speeches 5fr. Harrison has
had much 10 say IN deserved praise Of the
women Of Now England. Unfortunately he
has uniformly afrcDted their dignity and be-
Titled Their womanhood by speaking OF them
not as women but rs 'ladles'-as callow
youths at dancing-schoo do under the mis-
taken impression that the term is more re-
spectful than woman" The President has
missed an opportunity 90 render a service 70
good Engl'sh and good manners.
Few people know of little romance con-
nected with tho early life Of Emperor Fred
erlck, in which ltaly's lovely Queen, Mar
guerite figured as the heroine It's said that
IN his youth Frederick formed deep attach
L1ent for this magnificent woman, then
Princess Of Savoy, and. she being Mt the time
engaged 20 DmbertO. II was never known
whether OF not the love was reciprOcated; but
ia later years. and q short while after the
Emperor's sad death among his private Of
fleets was found carefully put away crumpled
piece OF lace, said TO nave been q fragment Of
the wedding gown of Marguerite torn from
her robes while dancing on her wedding night.
I'M. Young. The owner Of Marion c., the
winner OF the Chicago Garfield stakes gave
successful mount. Such gifts to Jockeys are
much more common IN England than hero,
and there are many cases on record where the
owner of a horse has betted the stakes
against sovereign with his Jockey, which
practically means that If tho Jockey wins he
will get the stskes for doing So. IN the case
Of q Derby mount where the stakes are worth
over S2500O this 10 Z big inducement 10
Jockey to do his best and shows that his
employer is racing for honor and the bets
and can afford to let the stakes 90.
The Richmond admirers Of Fraulein Adele
Ans der Ohe will be delighted 20 know that
the fraulein assisted ut one of Frau Nagners
recent sOirees, scoring colossal hit. She
played LISTS "RhapsCdle EspagnOie' in
way that made Frau Wagner declare that she
had not heard such playing Of her fathers
works in years. Royalty and aristOcracy
were both present and joined in the verdict.
Frau Wagner musical evenings have become
tho accepted thing, and those who arc 80
fortunate rs 10 be invited t. one OF them have
something L. go away and talk about and re-
member for years 10 come. Nahniried will
be famous In musical history rs having been
tho scene Of some Of the finest musical en-
tertalnments Of the day
-Children's play rarely indeed has more dis
tresslng results than IN the tragedy which oc-
cured IN M Ohio town last week, when three
children were smothered in a chest. At first
there was "a suspicion that some hent IN hui
man form had thrust them into the box. but
it turns ont that they were put there bv
thor playmates III pure sport, and then for
gotten. Such a tragedy IS without single re-
leying feature II recalls 10 mind the pathetic
story told in verse by Samuel Rogers Of the
bride who nysterlously disappeared on her
wedding day and was found fifty years after
i'll a chest in which she had hidden. when
spring-lock that lay IN ambush theretastened
her down forever"
Chinese superstition is said to have effect
ed a reform that American civilization has
been unable 10 accomplish. When attempts
were made 20 put up telegraph wires IN Chlua,
the pole system was used % q matter ~
rOurso until the native opposition became TOO
strong. and then the wires were put under
the ground The Chinese bury their dead
on their premises. and il is considered M IN
sult to cast "a shadow on the graves on one
ancestors. This the telegraph ilnemen were
unconsciously doing nearly every time they
put up q pole and the resentment aroused by
the shadow was sufficient so cause the re-
moval Of the substance OF q great nuisance.
in this case. narrated on the authority OF
ineman engaged IN the Work, there was
distinct gain 10 the Cinnamon from tAeH sh-
perstitious reverence for their dead.
Since cycling has become 80 much the
rage for women, who find 1t more convenient
20 ride a bicycle than % indulge IN
other forms of exercise. many efforts nave
been made to secure q skirt that should
be comfortable and pretty. and az the
same time answer the purposes which are
required for cycling suit 10 must be
Of material suitable for ram or sunshine
il must IT, and yet not be too tlgnt, u
must be well sewn, and yet. like =
riding habit be able TO give III
case Of accident 20 the rider and
withal II must be becoming to her when
seated upon the cycle ready for action.
practical go-ahead sort Of cycling suit Just
brought out is made Of light WOODEN fabric
and has divided skirt. which however, Is
sufficiently full 10 look like an ordinary walk
inc dress when the wearer IS standing or sim
uly seated upon the cycle. The hem IL cut
ont in Yandyke tabs and braided. The bodice
is q locse-ftting jacket and IS worn over
pretty silk waistcoat OF q blouse
To Sarah Bernhardt belongs the credit Of
projecting the most audaciOus theatrical
scheme on record. says g San Francisco tole-
gram in Yesterdays New York Herald. II
,n,cht Ia oloesed among her MANY fanclful