The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-07-14
NEWS NOTES or INTEREST.

| w. hDIES or IN fEhESIs
1t IL proposed in Paris to hold a show
| OF "old men and women" at the Palais
de r1ndustrie. in the Champs Elysees. on
July 18th. The minimum OF age will be
ninety
Just before the drop fell at late Mis-
sissippi hanging, Caesar. the hero If the
| occasion, who had killed a white man,
expressed his regret that the audience
was 50 small.
| Naltkenhoff, of Geneva, says there are
| 3l1OO0 blind persons in Europe, mostly
! from fevers. and that rs per cent. would
have kept their sight had they been pro-
| perry treated.
In Paris there are several women who
| are empowered by police permits TO wear
| masculine clothing These include a ia
nous artist and several whose profess
/ sionai duties are arducus.
! japanese native newspaper COM
| plains that many ladies belonging 10 good
| families I'm Toxic live alone in lodgings.
walk unattended in the streets after dark,
| and play cards together at the tea houses.
There are forty-seven Chinese temples
in the United States, valued at $4,000,
| claiming 100000 worshippers. Forty OF these
! temples are in California. four in New
Count Raventlow. an officer in the Ger
man army mot the gentleman Of the
same name who is TO be Danish Minister
at Washington however, has been max
ing a critical examination Of West Point,
Of which he says that Europe contains no
| better military school.
Baroness Helene Reden. aged seventy
nine years, was sent 10 the Vienna work
house as n vagrant last week. says the
Evening Telegram, upon her averment
that her relations would not support her.
She is the widow Of a millionaire and
mother Of the Privy Councillor Baron
Reden.
NJ. Turpin. the inventor Of melinite, de-
clares that he mas invented a wonderful
gun which will bech forth 100000 pro-
jectiles an hour, and that no fort OF iron
clad can Withstand II. lie will give no
details Of its construction, but says that
il is operated by electricity and is very
simple in its mechanism.
Turpin. the inventor Of melnite. has
submitted to the French War Office an
electric gun alleged 10 be capable Of dis
charging 5000 projectiles In i've minutes
and to have a range Of several miles. The
apparatus is comparatively light In
weight. so that IL can be drawn by two
Mime. Tel Seno is the only woman law
yer In Japan. She was educated in the
United States. Aside from her profession
she IS active in endeavoring to ameliorate
the condition OF her countrymen and has
founded a training school for women in
her native town. The class she reaches
IS the highest in Japan and one 20 which
the missionaries cannot gain admission
An invention, designed To facilitate
the immediate stopping Of a vessel moy-
ing Ia dangerous waters, or in danger OF
colliding with another vessel, has been
patented by a Peruvian. 4 vertically Slid
ing frame on a post at the bow OF the
vessel has on its sides piyoted wings
adapted TO expand transversely to offer
resistance TO the forward motion OF the
vessel in the water when the frame is in
its lowermost position.
diamond now being cut at Antwerp
is with one exception, the largest in the
world. II now weighs 474 carats. but will
lose "a in the cutting. It will still, how
ever, hold its place as second largest cut
stone, being exceeded only by the Per-
sian Great Mogul. which Weighs 2SO carats.
The Koh-i-noor weighs only 1O2 IL carats.
The Antwerp diamond, when cut, will be
about as large as a pigeons egg, and will
measure .7S6 inches each way.
bliss Anna Gould. the youngest daughter
Of the late Jay Gould, and one Of the
richest heiresses In this country of heir
esses. sailed for Europe last Saturday,
having completed her education at
fashionable boarding school near Phila-
dephia. She has enough money to make
her selection from among the gang Of
impoverished but more or less noble FOR
tune hunters who are constantly lying
In trrrff rfI a.. for al nv
young American women. AS she comes
Of a hardheaded family, however. she
will probably return home fancy-free and
marry IN American sovereign.
jewelers. in New York are frequently
asked 10 value pearls discovered in the
ordinary oyster or clam. and in 90 cases
out Of 100 the pearl submitted is value
less. 1t is a rare thing 10 find really
lustrous pearl in an American oyster,
but great many such pearls are found
in the common fresh water mussel. The
pearl-bearing mussel IS distributed over
a wide area in the United States. and
extremely valuable mussel pearls have
been found in New Jersey. Ohio. Ten
nessee and several other States. An oc-
casional black pearl OF some value is
found In the native oyster.
The sudden mania for athletics In
France" says the New York World.
has led to the performance Of many odd
feats, but none Of more singular nature
than that Of NJ. Grlndin, ex-may)r Of
Saint-Germain. who has set out % walk
from Paris u the Chicago Exhibition.
The part OF the trip from Havre TO New
York NJ. Grandln will naturally accom-
plish by the aid Of al ocean steamship.
but even while on board the vessel he
hopes TO walk a distance Of Twenty-Five
miles day between stem and stern the
weather and his stom ich permitting"
Or. Koch, the renowned bacteriologist,
nearly lost his assistant. DR.. Freymuth,
In the cholera laboratory at Danzig the
other day. He was poisoned by accident
ally swallowing some cholera baccilli. He
fell sick exhibiting all the symptoms OF
Asiatic cholera, and his life was saved
with great difficulty. IL appears that af-
ter handling cholera baccilli all morning
he sat down 10 his lunch without going
through the formality OF washing his
hands. Three days later the symptoms
appeared-chllls. stomachache. dizziness.
etc. The physicians OF the laboratory at
once took hin, N charge and In raIv naved