The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-09-04
TIMES NEWS NOTES.

.ora Mass into obscurity For some time past
the wires have told US nothing about the 10
ings Of John l.. Sullivan.
The young ladies' out in Kansas may soon
be expected to levy the bachelors tax ana al
on account Of the refusal OF the young iuen
10 exercise their inalienable right TO propose
marriage.
Carl Hagenbeck. the Snowman, known as
the German Barnum. is about 20 oulld Pei-
ace of glass and iron in a central part OF ber-
lin. within which 10 maintain permanent
menagerie.
1t has finally been decided at the Census
Bureau that this great and glorlous country
has G2 622 $50 inhabitants within us oroau anu
fertile domain. However. everybody KNOWS
that the census report Is little better 'n"u
shrewd guess
The report Of Secretary Hester. OF the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange. Just com,
pleted. shows that the total consumption OF
the Southern mills for the commercAl JesI
was Goa .GGl bales, against H6o9i Hast year, an
increase Of 57.767 bales.
If this be authentic it s news Of con-
siderable importance. The Qulntaro lbrs-
zoTia county. Tex. Times says that no mat
ter who is elected at the special session OF
the Texas Legislature TO succeed heagan ID
the Senate, Mills will be elected for the term
Of six years nj the next regular session.
time. but she occasionally gets her eyes open.
The Philadelphia Press commenting upon
New Yorks projected highest Office building
in the United States. says editorialy: hey
are only waiting now for some Chicago man
to come forward and put up part of the
money
In July. 1881. the steamer City Of Winno-
peg with several barrels OF prime WHISKY IN
her hold was sunk in Lake Superior Just OPP
pOsite Duluth Captain Lloyd Is now raising
the vessel. and he has invited party OF bo
som friends to be on hand when she reaches
the surface in order 70 sample the whisky
that has been in cold storagea at the bottom OK
Lake Superior for ten years
-Russia's action in insisting that the OAR
daneles shall be- q passageway for her war
ships T. the Mediterranean Is causing consld-
cradle uneasness in Europe. England
especially must look upon it rs menace to
her interests in the East. Lord Salisbury has
long been credited with an intention to keep
up a vigorous foreign policy, and 1t seems as
though he would have an early opportunity
of showing what no can dc.
The Tennessee Legislature is now fairly
at work on the cOnvicJ-labOr puzzle. Cover
nor Buchanan has called its attention 10 the
circumstance that reputation of the con-
tract with the essees will necessarily mean a
very heavy increase in taxation. One of his
suggestions IS that the State buy or lease
tract in the mineral region put the new
prison in the centre Of it and set the conwcts
to digging coal iron, ETC.. for the States
benefit.
An individual described as a gentleman
Of the old school, sab" past through Rome.
Ga. last week He was long, bony man,
riding a tall. black mule. He wore new
suit of thunder and lightning" cloth. made
on his own loom. and big white sOmbrero
with leather band around it. A yellow
e.. flHH.
pommel Of his saddle On his back was strap
ped long, old-fashioned fowling piece, and
pack OF dogs followed at his heels
1t is estimated that nine.tenths Of the
women of the globe spend their time IN max
ing ornaments and fancy dress fabrics for the
remaining tenth 20 wear. There are thousands
of women lGce-makers. weavers and needle
women who never wear particle Of the work
upon which they spend their lives All tho
delicate garments which they make are des-
tined % be worn by others more fortunate in
the distribution of riches. 10 IS regarded as
proof OF wOmans great vanity this fact
that 30 large population of the globe IS kept
busy making clothes for the few fortunate ones
10 wear.
Eugene Field takes up the cudgel in favor
Of pet names for girls. When. ~ he says, AN
American calls Ellen Nellie, he obeys noble
manly instinct he loves TO regard his mother
as little mother his sister as little sister,
his sweetheart "a little sweetheart. his daugh-
ter as little daughter. and this tender and
beautiful sentiment he expresses when ne en-
plovs the diminutiyes Nellie. Carrie. Susie,
Mamie. etc A powerful argument in favor
of the custom Is the fact that the girls them
selves approve il. ! believe in and stand for
everything that shall show % the world that
our girls our sweethearts, our wives and our
mothers are pets and are petted.
-Thrty-seyen years ago'a Yankee fishing
skipper Solomon Marshall, of Ninalhayen.
Me-. courted Deborah Snoles, q pretty maiden
living at Upper Port La Tour ~ ). When
he left her one autumn 10 60 home he brought
a lock Of her golden hair 20 keep him com
pauy through the long winter Before long
CAPTAIN Marshall heard that Deborah was re-
ceiving the attentions OF bluenose gallant,
and in his anger he bored a hole IN "a white
birch tree put the lock OF hair IN the cavity,
and drove a pine plug in after II. Hemarrled
Deborah in triumph. however, the next sum-
lneT and brought her home. He died few
years later, his wife married again IN Lock
port, n. S., and the lock OF hair was entirely
forgotten until last week when a man who
was chopping up whlte-birch tree for flre-
wood laid bare the golden tress, which was
covered with three inches of solid wood.
The plan deysed1by some of tie South
ern party managers for getting nd Of that
ANNOYING factor in modern politics tho
Farmers Alliance Is quite as absurd and
likely 10 be quite as ineffective As the method
adopted by their Northern brethren. ia tho
North the word has gone forth 70 ignore the
Alliance wherever it can be ignored and 10
abuse Il wherever il can't In the South
there seems 10 be a general disposition 10 re-
vive the old-fashiOned mode Of removing a
troublesome adversary under the forms OF the
code duello. la my Judgment. says Kate
Fields Washington this week both means arc
undenifed and unworthy Of the era IN which
we live. This is an age OF reason. There are
absurGties in abundance in the farmers pro-
gramme for righting the wrongs they believe
they have suffered and the way 20 combat
such fallacles is 10 show them up in the clear
light Of logic. Nobody ridiculed the farmers
into Joining the Alliance. or forced them into
il ut the muzzle Of the pistol. 10 IS equally
certain that nobody can drive them out OF it
by.abuse or violence. Indeed. it Il the his
tory Of every great politcO-s0cial movement
in the United States that the more this sort
of tactics have been employed 10 defeat II, the
moro il has thriyed.
TUE CITY,S HEALTH.