The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-21

in addition to a coal famine.
Statehood and the opening or indian
lands aggregating 100000 acres were
rtked by q convention at Guthrie OKia'
homa.
Ex-Treasurer Burke, Of Louisiana, is re-
ported as prospecting in Honduras, aho
likely 10 return and make good MS oe-
falcation.
Natural gas exploding wrecked Tnomas
C. Crabb's house at Richmond, lnd'' IN
turing his wife, child and mother. the
latter fatally.
According to the census Of 1890 the
whole number OF males In the united
States Is 49, $50, and the whole number
OF females %, $50.
over $1,000 Parisians, It is said. earn
living by picking up and making use OF
what other people throw away-Fags'
bones, metal and such refuse.
DR.. Randall and c. b. Welson got hye
years each In the penitentiary at ot'
Johns, n. b., fer swindling United states
benefit associations by graveyard in
surarce.
Miss Emma Theis and Reina Rehm, OF
Cincinnati. who quarreled on their we'd
ding eve fourteen years ago and sepa-
rated. met by accident In Oklahoma and
will be married.
The Car OF Russia recently decorated
n ballet dancer. He conferred a gold
medal upon Mile. Marie Ogoleit, to be
worn with the ribbon OF st. Vladimir, for
having saved the life OF peasant girl
who attempted to drown herself in the
river Ordeja.
There has been piowed up In Andrew
county, Mo. an ancient Roman sword,
It is reported, which is believed to have
belonged 10 some member of De Soto's
expedition, who were exploring in that
part of the country in the middle Of the
sixteenth century.
A telegraph operator at Sedalia. Mo-,
Is said TO be deaf and dumb. He deciphers
the messages he receives, II is said, by
reading the movements of the relay arma-
'ure The manner In which he receives
the dispatches is TO put his head against
the instrument at which he is working,
so that he can feel the Earring Of the
sounds.
A gigantic gorilla, measuring seventy
inches around its chest. was recently shot
by Lieutenant Morgens party at place
twenty-five days march from the coast
OF CAMERON 1t required sixteen men to
drag the creature to the nearest station.
These facts are reported to the AnthrOpo-
logical Society of Berlin by Lieutenant
Morgen.
The editor Of the Lumpkin (Ga) indie
pendent evidently has been in n contro-
Versy. He remarks as follows: Do not
blame a fool for not agreeing with you.
He cannot help being a fool. Besides,
YOU may be a fool yourself. in which case
il would do the other fool no good to come
over TO your way of thinking, but make
matters worse.
Il vas learned in Boston Thursday
that the Henry Sumner who died sud-
DERBY in Hartford, Conn, last Tuesday in
a cheap clearinghouse was the pcssessor
in his own right Of $4,000 and that he
was a cousin Of Charles Sumner. Before
the war he held the Office of Superinten-
dent of Schools at Fall River He was
a graduate of Harvard.
Hon. John Yaryan, senator from the
county of Wayne. in the Indiana Legisla-
ture, is. without doubt, the oldest iegis-
lator I'm the world. He passed his
ninetieth birthday November q. 1892 hav-
ing been bora in the second year of the
century He is fourteen years older than
the State, and IS older than its present
boundary line. If not Of the territory
formed in 1900 which included everything
west OF Ohio.
On Thur sday night six young men called
George Rankin out Of his house, about
five miles from BrattlebOrO. Mass, tied
him TO a hitching post and wore out sew
eral hickory switches on his back. Ran
kin has been paying attention to Miss
Ella Pratt. He gave her a sleigh ride
Sun day evening, and when several miles
out from the town popped the question.
Miss Pratt rejected him and Rankin made
her get out of the sleigh and walk home.
The whipping was the result.
Ex-Consul Alexander r. Webb, who z
preraring 10 preach the true faith Of
the Prophet Mahomet to this Occidental
nation, is personally a very genial and
cOmpanionable man. He is polite, affa-
bic, witty, and makes friends as he goes.
Mr.. Webb has progressed from Presby-
terianism through materlalism TO Bud
dhism, and now to Islamism. He is a
ready speaker an amateur actor and
clever newspaI er man.
England. It IS said, can furnish In
stances Of child marriages. as young as
any to be found in Eastern countries. A
daughter of Sir William Brereton, in the
sixteenth century was united in the holy
bonds Of matrimony when only two years
of age to Bridegroom who was her
senior by only one year In this case the
children were carried into church. and
their elders spoke for them. Subsequent
~. " hen the pair reached the age OF ma
turity they ratified the tie.
The richest people i'm the world are
said to be the Usage Indians, of Okla
homa. The tribe now numbers some l 800
souls, and il has to its credit in the United
States Treasury the sum of sS.500000 in
cold cash. besides 10000 acres Of choice
land, worth, at the least computation. IS
an acre. Eight hundred thousand dollars
of the money in the Treasury is interest
fund, and the National Council of the
tribe wants Uncle Sam to she'll II out
that they may be able TO pay their debts.
The moustache is becoming very fash
iOnable I'm France. Parisians have been
hunting for the origin Of the custom OF
wearing this adornment. and the legend
of most popular acceptance just now
ascribes it to Spain. At period after the
Moorish invasion, when the Christian and
Moslem population became so mixed that
it was hard TO say which were Moors
and which Spaniards. the pious Spanlards
hit upon the moustache as a means OF
Identification. They permitted the hair
on the upper lip to grow. and also a tuft
on the under lip. an outline Of the cross
being thus formed. Thus, say the
Parisians, the moustache became a SYM
Dol of liberty equality and fraternity.
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