Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-14

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NAN 4 mad Just left 70 write un the socte,,
az the usual rate.n w WV swiftly
BEARDED WOMAN.
- ~ IL too late for a story Of tho woro,,,.
Oohgress at Washington last spring, IT.
sorry didn't hear IL sooner. ="
Agreat number Of women were opar,or
~ u5Iiug the meeting at the RIGGS Honse
Wnieh naturally had little room FOR enest.,
VI MD Ny bearded ai sex during their STAY.
~ 'n She conference was about al an
Sn1 aWslter came one dav TO one of tbo
Iadies and difiidently suggested tbst !,
..ulght DE appropriate to take up n coiisc'
ton for the barber. =" ''''oO'
ter amazement. '"'S III Ut
49,. i,esspum yo'. see they's been no GEM
men mean, and the babbah. he---0
=. but we've all been shaved. once n dav
az .N0aSSV interrupted the lady.
., Why-why ?" stam,nerrd tho 40, .,
liam, looking at the ladv's chin With ~ IN
tefest. How can that beY"
faNlng hve cents each for tyyo-cont
swerable reply. ~'''' u''''''
HEB VOICE BROKE A LANiP.sHApE.
Mrs. Edmund Russell. the apostle "A
aesthetics, has a voice when would hrooI
a lamp-Shadc. "'"'" "Ieah
nus ~, remark is not meant 70 be impolite
hnU II ought TO be true, for the lady her.
sen is authority for the statement
:, ~ was IN Boston," she said. 81 waa
taking with famous voice-teacher about
tones ana vibrations. and we both sounded
certain note IN unison. We must have
hlJ the exact unit of vibration Of an eipnt
inch shade, for near where we were stsnd
ing the crystal globe about gas let auiy-
cred and snapped. We looked at il. and q
broken it," "''' '''"
rms IS rather an unusual incident. cor
fanny, but theprinciple is familiar epoucb
Jog trOttlng across a foOt-brldge can
oreak 1t down If he happens TO hit the unit
OF vibration, which, Of course, differs
with the length Of the bridge. It's GOOD
military rule TO break step when a com.
pahy walks across bridge-unless it's IN
usually strong. But a woman's voice
THE MERRY MoNARCH's PALACE.
There's ona point of resemblance be-
tween Nine. Patti and that other singer.
less sweet but nearly as prosperous, Francis
wilson, the Merry Monarch. which really
ought to be pointed out. PATHS castle at
Crale-y-Nos, Wales, has an opera-house
attached 20 It, and in the third story of
wilson new country cottage which is now
being built at Pelham there is complete
theatre for private performances. IL will
seat a hundred admlring auditors. and the
mimic stage IS about twenty-five feet wide
and twelve feet deep The walls are ex-
qulSltely panelled IN hard woods, the seat
ing arrangements are luxurious, and the
stage has curtains. flies. and scenery com
piete tor giving comic opera reasonably
well.
BY the way, comic opera must be pretty
good business If II enables man whom no.
body had heard Of in 1883 TO build q sum-
mer cottage As big as "A church and fine
enough for millionaire IN 1891.
SHE FORGOT $500.
/ know a woman who was very much
astOnlshed recently at receiving a notifca-
tion from a savings bank TO the effect that
there was upon its books the neat little
sum of $4,000 to her credit. which was
likely 10 be outlawed if she didn't step up
and claim 1t pretty soon. She was utterly
astouuded and hadn't the rcmotest rcco-
lection of putting any money in the bank,
but the books showed that she must have
deposited 800 and forgotten all about IT,.
The rest was interest, which had acCumu-
lated for twenty years.
Very unusual. you think? Not bit Of
IL. A savIngs-bauk man told me, when
was speaking 10 him about this case, that
a large part of the banks profits came
the deposltors, though It IS not usual for
so large a sum as $500 TO be forgotten.
Such a bank Is the Dry Dock. III the
Bowery, which is largely patroniZed by
sailors, of course profits most by this care
lessness. as the depositorS often drift to
other ports and forget all about their
savings III New York before they get back
II they ever do.
CIGARETTES AND NEWSPAPERS.
There has been good deal of talk re-
Gently about this man and that man with
drawing from the Recorder and selling out
his stock IN panic haste, but there IS no.
thing in any such stories. None of the
stockholders have sold out because there
are none. Mr.. Duke, the Cigarette-man,
owns the entire concern. If he ever gets
tired Of running a newspaper he can pro-
badly sell II, for he has already secured for
il a big circulation. There was an impress
sion at one time that Howard Carroll, the
eX-edltorial director, or }. Z. Knapp, the
former business manager, had a financial
interest IN the venture, and probably
knapps father and CarrOlPs tather-ln-law,
Starln, but that seems not to have been the
case. / shared the impression with other
outsiders, but was mistaken, that's all.
NEW YORK IS SLOW.
BROOKLYN enterprise has recently estab-
Gsbed a permanent exhibition OF building
materials and architects supplies and New
York IS soon to have one. 1t IL rather
strange that this has never been before,
but New York Is accustomed to Tagging
behind smaller cities IN adopting good
ideas, as the long delay IN opening the
museums on Sunday shows.