The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-05-31
NEWS NOTES or INTEREST.

NEWS NOTES OF INTEKEST.
a typical Southern womal. highly
educated and accomplished, and belonging
TO one II the first families OF Mississippi,
was the first 20 successfully ship roses
to the North Finding that early vege-
tables bring high prices, she turned her
attention Ia the more practical SHE OF
horticulture. BY keeping herself informed
OF all the discussions in the horucni.lraI
conventions and by promptly planting
those things which are not specially ad-
vlsed. she is always sure OF what WIN
be I'm demand and is never caught On
an oyer-supplied market.
The Duke des Abruzzes. one or the
princes OF the Italian royal house recently
paid q visit 10 Monte Carlo with disas-
trous results lie lost every cent IN his
royal pockets, and, failing 10 take warn
ing by that run Of hard luck, played on
until he had drawn checks ON his private
banking account I'm Rome TO the amount
OF 10000 francs, which represented all MS
.1io,,ld assets" Then he decided that he
was not destined to be bank-breaker
and went home and confessed his folly.
Sir Charles Russell, OF the British coun-
sci before the Behring sea tribunal, who
Is now winding up n six days speech at
Paris is better known as a divorce law
yer than as an expounder OF international
Jurisprudence He has appeared for one
side or the other in most of the causes
ceIebre i'm the London divorce courts for
twenty years past, and was engaged in
the baccarat case, wherein the Prince or
Wales, Sir William Gordon Cumming,
Lady Brooke and others Of 'the set
were mixed up.
Hanko. a Turkish woman has lately
been discover serving in the Fifteenth
regiment Of the Sultans army, under
her brothers name, where she had shown
herself a capable soldier, and for the
period of three years her sex was cot
detected. Her reason for serving was 10
save her brother, who was the only sup
port OF their widowed mother. The Sui
tan, on hearing her story, and also the
fact that her conduct had been In every
respect without reproach. sent her home,
bestowing on her the Schefakat order
third class and life pension
There are stlll on the pension rolls
twenty widows and two daughters OF the
Revolution. the last two survivors OF that
war having died I'm 1869, aged respectively
i05 and l0g There are 165 survivors ana
G55 widows Of the war Of 1872, and BID
survivors and 1882 widows or the Next
can war This leaves 5S1,S52 survivors ana
| IS SOB dependent relatives of the war OF
the rebellion. with 426.39S claimants for
pensions for that and earlier wars on the
list for consideration besides 96l653
claimants for increase Of pensions.
OF all races Of people now inhabiting the
earth the Caucasian places the least esti-
mate upon the value Of life. Scientists
agree that suicide is on the increase
amoAg the western nations. The exciting
cause or mysterious impulse 10 end life
| by self-yioence may not be accurately
| defined, but undoubtedly in this country
| the high pressure and rush In mOney-get-
| ting and undue qualification Of the senses
| I'm every conceivable way, has much to
| do with il. IL cannot be attributed wholly
| to atmospheric stimulus for men kill
| themselves in Europe and Asia.
A visitor at the Worlds Fair whose
| name is legion is the English sparrow,
| and he has become such an intolerable
| nuisance that the authorities have de-
| termined TO destroy him. The sparrows
| have built nests up among the girders
| and in many hooks and crannies Of the
| big buildings, and sally In thousands from
| their retreats 10 forage among the food
| exhibits and pick up the crumbs that fall
| from the restaurant tables. It's singular
| that the restaurant keepers do not utilize
/
or something of that sort of him, as they
| do in New York.
Among the interesting houses which will
be offered for sale in the course OF the
| present season is No. % st. James Place,
| known 10 all OF the elder generation as
| for over half a century the home Of
/ Samuel Rogers, who died there in Deem
| Der, 1850. 1t may be said that there Is
| scarcely a single representative of lite
nature who during the first half Of the
| present century was not guest within
| it's walls, from Lord Byron, Shelley and
] Samuel Taylor Coleridge down to Thomas
| Campbell, Sir Walter Scott, Moore, sgd
ney Smith and Mrs. Norton, and there
| Is scarcely a single celebrity OF that age
I'm whose memoirs the hospitable break
| fasts Of Sam Rogers and his constant
Table Talk" do not stand recorded. The
| house is small and unpretending In com
parson with some Of the neighboring
| mansions.