The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-08-05
yrWySoTEs OF INTEREST.
Nav Mexico is enjoying the first rainy sea
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Nav Mexico is enjoying the irst rainy sch
con Ii has had In four years.
tfIondon's streets were put end TO end
they would reach from that city 70 ot. re-
tersburg.
A how near Grand Rapids. Mich, is raising
crickets by thousands and Sells tneh 10
anglers for bnit.
There Is n race OF pigmy cameis IN fersia
who are reputed 10 be but twenty-five inches
high and weigh but fifty pounds.
When an Mpena Mich man, is arrested
FOR being drunk ne is sentenced Tor sixty
DAYS to a gold-cure establishment.
After a search Of thirty nine years son
found his father in the Allegheny mountaIns
iniNew York living the life OF hermit.
A street letter-box. charged with cleo
tricity from crossed wires. gave severe
shock 10 Pittsburg letter carrier recently.
A woman residing in Jasper county, Mo-,
ia reported 10 have been made deaf and
dumb by a lightning stroke during TO
cent storm.
The ANALYSIS by chemists at the State
Aericultorai College OF sugar beets raised IN
Iowa shows i4.4i per cent. OF sugar whlch
is not often excelled in the best beet-groY7
ing countries OF Europe,
The young negro who is the Republican
candidate for auditor of Kansas has issued
circular letter 10 negro voters. in which he
appeals for their SURFACES on the simple
ground of race pride.
John Prinkney. in Springfield township,
Pa. caught a bald-headed eagle in a trap
he bad set for sheep dogs. II was the first
eagle Of the kind ever caught there and 1t
measured six feet from tip 10 tip OF its
wings.
They have sheriff out in st. Louis
county Mo-, who has killed an antagonist
in private, personal quarrel, but who re-
fuses 10 resign his Office. As matters stand
he will be obliged 10 hang himself If con-
yicted.
At Luthiar, in Montgomery county, Ga,
while Daisy Johnson was seated on the
ground at a picnic. Winnie Davis walked up
TO her and threw the contents Of a bottle OF
vitrol in her face. Jealousy over the atten-
tions of a young man led TO the act. Miss
Johnson Is disfgured for life, aud may loose
her sight.
In New York city Monday Emil G. Babel
twenty-five years old. a waiter, died sud
denly from heart-failure. Babel had been
an inveterate cigarette smoker. often con-
Stunning ten packages day. dc had been
in poor health of late, and it is supposed
that his death was directly due to his ex-
cessive smoking.
Samples OF tea grown and cured al Sum
merville. s. c., have been received IN Bal
timore. which expert tea dealers have pro-
nounced superior TO any tea thus far cured
| Ia America and surprising the average tea
| grown in India. Its drinking qualities are
| said 10 be excellent. The tea was grown by
! Charles A. Shepard, at 'Pinehurst," near
| SummerYille. and is said to be the first tea
successfully cured by machinery in this
! country.
There was story afost in Wall street
that Jay Gould had become so fright
| ened by tho sinking Of the Vanderbilt yacht
! Alva that he had ordered his own steam
! yacht ATLANTA to be sold. According 70 the
/ story. Yacht Broker Hughes, of New street,
! had received Mr.. GOuld's order from Idaho
/ 10 place the ATLANTA on the market and TO
/ reduce her price from $3.50. 900 10 5000 600.
| Broker Hughes saws that it was true he
| had received orders TO sell the ATLANTA,
| but the order was given weeks agO, before
/ the sinking OF the Alys.
The San Francisco Call says. few days
ago mention was made IN this column OF
| the alleged disappearance in an earthquake
| of the principal island Of the Sangir group,
| in longitude l25 degrees, midway between
| the islands of MiudanaO and Celebes. News
| now comes that a Dutch skipper sailing
| along the northwest coast OF Australia re-
| ports the disappearance Of Expedition
| Island az the mouth Of Collier bay, In West
ern Australia. The island is almost exactly
| in the same longitude as Sangir Island, and
nearly 20 degrees south. As the sea IN
/ which IL lies Is unfrequentsd by chipping II
| Is quite possible that its subsistence, II II Oc-
| Cured. was simultaneous with the submer-
| sion Of S8ngir below the waves.