The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-05-20
All Sorts.

/. All Sorts.
The Imperial Crown Prince OF Germany
was ten years old on Friday. ON that day ne
was officially promoted to the rank OF lieu
/ tenant and took part in the parade OF troops
/ and other functions IN honor or the event on
/ Saturday.
The deepest mine in the world is the rock
salt nine az Spezenberg near Berlin. A'4i7
feet. The deepest perpendicular shalt Is IN
the Nuremberg mine, IN Bohemia. 3.lIo feet
deem The deepest British mine IS the Ash
ton coliiery, $50 feet.
Toa waiter belongs theploud distinction Of
uttering what IS probably the most ungrain-
rnatical sentence ever evolved from the brain
! Of illiterate man. An old man took his seat
"a the table and gave his usual order 20 new
and rather case.hardened knight OF tho nap
LIN Waiter. - he piped as tho dishes were
siammed down before him, TINS beef Ism :
srficientlv uuderd0ne" With n smile OF
contemnt the servitor bore the viands back
70 the kitchen window and returned mo-
ment later without having changed them
''Vm sorry. sir. he said, 'we ain gotn beer
what's no underdOner."
Mr. Gladstone was one OF the most eager
and industrious readers IN the British Museum
on three or four DAYS OF last week IN the inter
walls of his parliamentary labOrs fokestone
preparations and a few dinner parties. lie
Is busilv preparing for his Temperatures be-
fore the University Of OXford IN the autumn
as the first lecturer on the newy-tOun1ed
Romanose Trust. The occasion IS wholly
non-uolitical and the general election per
hitting. promises to be one of the higest IN
terest. The subject is Universities IN the
Middle Ages and the eminent lecturer is'
il Is understood. in particular preparing an
elaborate comparison between those OF Paris
and Oxford
II has been stated that Baron IIirsch las
devoted all his turf winnings of last SEASON.
amounting 20 Z ,009-tO charities. ms
hardly conveys the truth. says vanity Far
The Baron did win s3j. 900 last year but they
were gross winnings, and the subtraction
therefrom OF forfeits, payments TO Jockeys
and trainers. aud other expenses, would leave
a balance on the wrong side. And what Is
the more worthy IN this matter IS that the
money is % be divided quite irrespeotYely oi
creed or religion. The Baron. IN fact, asked
q hospital treasurer 10 dispose OF his WIN
nlngs" Tor him. with the result that the
Northwest London Hospital is 20 have $1,000
and FIVE other London hospitals .3, yUU each.
Tho surplus is as yet andisposed OF.
The Crown Princess of Sweden. who has
spent the winter in egypt for the benefit OF
her health. Is q out % return 90 her northern
home Her sOjOurn IN the country OF the
pyramids has benefited her condition.
although il is not probable that she Will ever
overcome the tendency TO consumption,
which She has inherited. The Crown Princess
intends 10 pass some time with her parents.
the Grand Duke aud Grand Duchess Of Ba-
den IN Carlsruhe before going % Stockholm.
lhe brother of tie -uture Queen OF Sweden,
tie Grand Duke kerelitary OF Baden. is also
consumptiye, and IS obliged 20 live almost all
the time IN tie south.
English service journals are calling a.tena
ton 10 the fa-. that the Russian Black Sc
feet Will soon mum er SIX first class hne-Of-
battle ships. eight gunDOnts. two steel tor
ped0 rams hfty-oue torpedo boats. and with
the hrst-cass steamers belonging 10 tie Rus
sian and Trading Company, nearly
twenty cruisers. Tho United Service
Gazette says that Russia does not 70
ours this great Increase IN naval strength
10 protect her Limited coast line.
and adds that the amount Russia is believed
10 he spending IN the increase OF her naval
establishment would many times over buy
all the merchant ships nylng her iag. Inc
Gazette sees no purpose this naval force can
serve except the ACQUISITION 81 Constantine
pie ana urges the admiralty AT once 20 set
about putting ia hand a new and large ship
building programme.
II was recently in Japan. says an Ameri-
can. "and met there several American and
German doctors who we're getting rich by
Strengthening the slant ia to japanese eve 20
make il look like the beloved Caucasiaus
optic The japanese. you nnOw, show the
traces Of their Monaghan origin more plainly
i'm the shape or their eyelids than IN the color
OF their skin and those who can afford 10 are
Riding themselves OF this ununstaka b
evidence OF their depised ancestry by
submitting 10 simple aud mparatiyely
rainless surgical OF Grafton, which consists IN
the surgeon Sitting the outer rim Of the eye
lids in a straight line for the barest infnitesi-
NAL part of an inch. The wound is then COW
cred with IA thin piece OF chemicGlly-pre ared
sticking-ulaster. the faithful subject Of the
Nfikado goes on about his business az IL moth
Ing had haDrened and in few days tho
wound j. healed. and he looks on his obvious
fellows through lids as straight as the Ameri-
cans"
ron Joso Jesus Pico who died at San Luis
ObispO. Cal. recently. accompanied General
Fremont on bis celebrated ride from Los
Aneeles 10 Monterey aud return in
lsl7. The distance trayersed was $40
miles. and u was done in seyenty-hve hours
of actual riding. Pico had another e1uegi-
ence with Fremont that threatened at one
time 10 terminate disastrousy for the Mexi-
can. With q number OF his countrymen he
was made prisoner by the Pathfinder dur
ing the stirring period preceding the conquest
of California Pico violated Lis parole. aud
was sentenced 70 DO shot Some American
women on the coast interceded IN behalf Of
the VI .xlcan. and Fremont gave Plco his life.
Thereafter they were fast friends.