The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-03-09
All Sorts.


II is estimated that at least go 100000 of
the Governments paper money has been lost
or destroyed.
Ii matter of record that 1880 dollars
we're coined in 1901. yet only eight samples
are known 10 exist. and those that are IN gOod
condition are valued at sl.OOO each.
The extent TO which base-balls are manu-
featured in this country ~ indicated III the
information that two Philadelphla factories
use one hundred horsehIdes week to make
into baseball Golfers.
Nestor Gianaclis is q bright young Greek
who some years ago moved 10 CAIRO ana en-
gagged small army OF dark-skinned Egyptian
men. women and children 20 make cigarettes
for Americans to smoke
There is On immense garden in China that
embraces an area OF $4,000 square miles. IL
is all meadow land and Is filled with lakes,
ponds and canals. Altogether II Is as large as
the States of New York and Pennsylvania
combined.
According TO trustworthy correspondent
OF the London Times the average village
priest Of the RussO-Greek Church IS often
drunkard always uncultured. uneducated
and unrefined. As rule lie - hated by the
peasants. whom in turn he treats with IN
difference and contempt.
The reed swamps of the Guadians river, in
Southern Spain. are all alive with migratory
birds In November. and the water fowl OF
Northern Russia winter On the shores or the
Caspian, where snow storms may occur now
and then. but where water birds are. on the
whole much better OIL than on the desert
coasts further South.
During the early part of this century aud
previously the official tax-gatherers on the
island of Hawaii. in the Sandwich group. did
all their accounts on Il rope 2,4OO feet long,
which was divided into lengths. each cores
ponding 70 "A district Loops knots ana
feather tufts along the rope served as memo
randa for the hogs. pigs ana pieces OF sauual
wood collected from taxpayers.
A sewing-machine has been invented
which stitches easily and rapidly through lay
ers OF leather fiye-eisht OF an inch IN thick
ness. this having been accomplished on
first exhibitory trial. In a second trial
stitches were made evenly and rapidly
through a piece Of birds eye maple three
eiohths of an inch thick. and in third test
the still more remarkable feat was achieved
viz. that of sewing through layer OF brass
one-eighih of an inch thick. placed between
pieces OF leather.
Important discoveries of prehistoric re-
mains have been made near Brunn. the capl-
tai of MOrayia. which are likely 10 attract the
attention OF pal8 ontologsts all over the
globe. As canal was being dug four and a
cephalous dong headed character, and of
an exceedingly low stage OF development.
The same place contained bones aud teeth Of
mammoth rhinocerOses and reindeer. Close
TO the skulls lay more than 800 fossil snails,
several calclnous stones with holes IN the
middle q rude figure cut out OF mammoth
tooth with a hole running through the mid
die.
A curious lawsuit has been instituted in
Shenandoah. Va. few Sundays ago the
wife OF David Jones brought their infant child
10 the Episcopal church 10 be baptized. Be
fore the ceremony began Jones arose and ex-
claimed: Hold on If you christen that
child you do II against the wish and religion
OF the father. | ain an English Baptist" The
wife said 1t was her wish to have the child
christened. and the minister proceeded with
the ceremony. The husband then had the
clergyman arrested under law which states
that father has the spiritual and educational
control of MS child until II arrives at the age
of maturity The case has been sent to court.
where it will be tested.
Turkish and Persian pipes. it Is said. are
difficult 10 manage. They require the fra
grant yellow tambake. that must DO soaked IN
water. wrung out and put III the bowl with u
live coal on top. The pipe is now reegated
10 the elders, Tor the younger generation in
Western Asia smoke cigarettes.
chiefly found in FIVE locSities-the West In
dies. Bengal Bay and the Chinese coast,
north of the equator; and IN the South In
dian Ocean off Madagascar and the South
Pacific. near Samoa. In the Antilles there
are not half q dozen on the average every
season.
In the magnificent court of the temple Of
Medinet Haboo the traveller will see score
of columns, several of them bearing Greek
inscriptions. and III the chambers on the
northwest side of the temple he will see
crosses designed TO consecrate parts Of the
building which had previously been devoted
to pagan uses.
A Montana man has invented ranch snow
pillow. 10 be used IN scrapng the snow off the
ranges so that the cattle can get at the grass.
II IL reported that the machine works very
satisfactorily. Thousands OF cattle perish
every year and the number this year has bee u
more than usually large from starvation on
account OF the deep SHOWS cutting of the
food supply.
The single tribe of the Betsi Fanea. in tho
Congo country. according De Braz "a.
numb0YR over z 600 mn souia TIL az -, nax d.,