The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-05-03

Br. Rudolph Lothian. OF Vienna, says this
year Us tie nth century OF the playing
card He SAYS the first game OF card, ever
played was lar0k or NALL. in which every
gree OF knowledge or one OF the power ruling
human eklsteRce.n One of the paste boards
was named I'll blserO doubtless our knaye.
and was easily involved IN all sort of uapeas-
ant complications. IarOk has been revived
in Paris. where tie search for novelties is SO
reentiessly prosecuted. even at the expense
of the Old.
young woman living near Elston, Md, 10
learning a bitter lesson OF the danger OF Sc
cret marriages. On June 14th OF last year
she claims % have been secretly married
Recently the man 20 whom she says she was
united denied tho marriage. ON making
search for proofs % uphold her claims 1t is
ascertaned that the minister who Is said 20
have married them became insane shortly
alter the alleged ceremony. and therefore
made no record OF II. 10 has also been slOWa
that the marriage license. which was found
among the papers OF the clergyman, WAS
forged.
The cambridge GA Democrat tells of
l0sgerhead turtle that drowned u COW. The
COW had gone 10 "A stream o. drink. when the
loggerhead seized her by the nose and held
her head under water until she was suiO-
Gated. A bulldog isn't in IL for grip when
the lOggerhead Is around. The toe of a South
Jersey farmer was once seized by the ampu-
tsted head OF a lOggerhead that had been ly-
ing by the wOOdpile all night. and It's Jaws
had 10 DO pried asunder before the toe could
be released
Joel Laytham. a prominent farmer Of Mays
vile. XIV. missed one of his horses ten days
ago. and alter much searching aaally dis
covered the animal buried beneath rick of
hay. IL had been there for eight days. lying
on its side, a storm having blown the hay
over on It while sleeping. When taken out 10
walked of and commenced eating grass as
though nothing unusual had happened, 80 a
dispatch reports
Richard Frazier Of Hoodsport. Wash, is a
genius with cabinet makers tools he is
engaged M making caDinet-slzed picture
frame which Will be composed OF 1890 pieces
OF native wood. The work is 50 carefully
done that the Joints are almost invisible.
Frazier has been Onered $500 for his picture
frame. but intends sending IL % Chicago.
The remarkable birds OF Manitoba are de
scribed IN the now volume OF the Proceed
ings of tine nited States National Museum
In the spring season OF the wear thousands Of
prairie larks there salute the day by bursting
all together into a splendid explosion Oh song.
pouring out their rich, strong voices from
every little height and percn. singing with all
their might. They sing all day and 10 night /
ioyously hail the moon.
s notable case of mislirected energy was I
that Of Levi Atkinson. OF Buston. Me. who /
died recently IN the State asylum for the lu- /
sane. Atkinson was an industrious and pros I
porous farmer until he became possessed of /
tie idea that he could turn the Saco river /.
through his rarm by digging canal ~ ACCOM- /
modate the stream. ie spent years lu digging /
over bis farm. aud II now looks like tie /
evacuated position Ola bes.eging army. Itwil +
take the new owner OK the property an entire /
season al least % oil up the numerous trenches .
on the land.
4 curious and hitherto scarcely knowa
statue Ot the great Napoleon has beeu ac +
luired by the French Government lt is by .
Rude. and Is q plaster model. representing |
the emperor lying at full length dead. tLc T
head crowned with % laurel wreath unl M.. .
5nyelOped lu tue slroud which covers t.-
body. The bronze casting OF this important .
wOrH is set up DID tie grounds o. 70 family
iwe!ln- ncar Dlon. defendant. oft one az
Nap0.eons officers. WHO himself ordered i Ot ,
-he great sculptor. Rude was IN the Labit of
destroying his models after they had been OK
acuted in tier haai shape. hence this e1ccp-
lonaiiy preserved model IS regarded with
special interest.
4 ScOtcnmau one evening recently sat
oOking at some nice An Idea struck him
lie decided 10 set the little thieves AT spin
ling yarn. and II was probably q very as
Onshed pair of mice that found themselves
ew days later working A small tread mill in
! cage like those IN which rats aud other
mall animals are kept. but without the
highest idea that they were paying their
board ~ this way. An ordinary mouse can
visit over hundred threads on reels every
lay. although to DO this lie has 10 run ten and
hal miles.
Mrs. Sarah -Blumfeld. an Ohio fwoman,
'ho has recently taken mp Dakota claim.
nd incidentally interested large number Of
dakota bachelors. rashly tells "a friend Of her
rst Western proposal. IL was an elderly,
'ealthy and influential citizen who stalked
lto the lady's little kitchen one morning.
'ithout The formallty of an introduction aud
luried; Say. miss YOU don't want 10 get
larried. do you 2" NO. sir: / don't - en-
hatlcally. No Tense. I hope. mum"
None 1T all. sir. Good morning.
Ra' phi Il. Pise, treasurer of the gainesville
ank that tailed recently. pleaded guilty yes
srday betore Judge Hamilton TO having
orged two notes of $4,000 and $4,000 respect
rely. He was then remanded TO jail and will
. sentenced TO the penitentiary in few
ays.