The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-19
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The New York Worlds Fair COMMITTEES =
men on art have picked out three hundred
paintings.
Wilmington. Del, is making great prep
arations to receive Moody and Sankey or
Saturday
Threats to kill Banker Robert Scheel, OF
New York, with dynamite, landed George
| Fuller. negro waiter, in Jail.
New York and Boston capitalists have
arranged TO start u big spirits distilery
at Louisville. KY. In opposition 20 the
| trust.
A scheme for n second National Park is
shifted in the withdrawal from the market
by the President of the land around Crater
Lake and Mount Hood.
Chicago Presbyterians will reinforce
those of Cleveland, o.. in a demand that
the New York Presbytery drop the Briggs
case and save the Church from a split.
Master Workman James Hughes must
| serve out his years sentence at Rochester.
| n. Y. for levying $1,000 blackmail on l..
| A. Alder. Brothers & Co. in settlement Of
| a boycott.
| There is talk In London Of the possible
| appointment of Lord Woseley 10 the post
| of Governor General Of Canada. He is
! said greatly to desire the place. Lord
Roberts is just back from India, and
there is difficulty in finding a fitting post
! for him. The suggestion is made that
| Lord Woseley may be sent to Canada.
| thus leaving the chief command in Ire
land for Lord Roberts.
Mrs. Elsie Digges says that her first
| husband. Thomas Piper. was disabled in
| the army, but died before getting pen
| sion. In 1887 she married Digges and he
soon died Rut T1tgDea wac not a soldier
| and she must have a divorce from him
| in order to get a pension as the widow
Of Piper. Accordingly she has applied
| TO have her second marriage declared
null and void, and she alleges that on his
death bed Digges confessed that he had
| another wife living.
zone year" says a Florida orange grow
er to a representative OF the New YORK
Tribune, when few of my trees bore
much fruit on account OF insect ravages,
| secured a large crop. I induced the ants
10 frequent my trees by Swinging the
trees with a strong solution Of syrup and
water. The solution dried leaving sac
charine substance adhering to the leaves,
twigs and branches Of the trees, in seek
ing which the ants killed the insects
which infested the trees"
Despite the excitement over the Panama
scandals. the people Of Paris are finding
time to express their opinions upon the
revival of the crinoline. Anti-crinoine
leagues are being formed and platform
and press are being brought into use to
check this movement of fashion. Those
who haze looked through the old prints
when the crinoline was the proper thing
will not wonder at the earnest protest
which is being raised. As a contemporary
says, let Paris do its duty, and America
will be spared an unpleasant struggle.
The rupture of commercial relations be-
tween France and Switzerland has led to
considerable increase of the customs
force at Geneva and the suggestion IN
Swiss Government circles that a special
room at the customhouse be set apart for
the reception Of goods from France. A
comical feature of the situation is re-
ported from Zurich where a body of fe-
male school-teachers solemnly resolved
that until France shall resume fair treat
ment of Switzerland I'm the matter Of GUS
toms duties they will not speak another
word of French
Mr.. John Woodwork, OF Charlotte.
Mich. was lately presented with clock
which Is quite a curiosity. The time
piece is a very small one and it is set
in a cluster of Colorado minerals. Among
the minerals. it is said, which make mp
the framework Of the clock. are gold,
silver lead. copper. and peacock ores.
iron pyrites. fiuor spar. moss agate, Jas
per and ofal wood. chalcedony, agate,
petrified cottonwood. cedarwood, crystal
lied palmwood, smoky quartz, quartz.
crystal. Iceland and pink satin spar and
Amazon stone. All the minerals are nice
ly polished.
Romeo" the dog which made a IA
nous reputation in connection with the
~, a 4 a.
animal was noticed extensively by the
newspapers for his work as a rescuer in
the disaster. particularly for saving the
life of Mrs. Kress. the wife Of his master
She was washed off a roof on which the
members OF the family were ahOat, and
would certainly have drowned, had not
the dog swan 10 her aid; and, Selling her
skirt in his teeth. regained the raft after
n desperate struggle. For some time past
the dog had been blind, and had been
cared for as tenderly as though he were
human.
Neither the Due dOrleans nor his
cousin. Prince Henri dOrl cans. has mani
Fested an intention TO try to restore the
old French MOI archy; but the BCnaparte
family has claimant in the person of
Prince Victor Napoleon. son IF the late
Prince "Plon-Plon." He lives in Brus-
sells; and while devoting himself TO liter
airy and scientific studies, has never aban-
doned the hope OF restoring the Eml ire.
Price Louis studiously avoids politics, |
and has broken Of all relations with the |
friends Of his father. He is colonel Of |
the Nijni-Novgorod regiment in the Prus-
sian Army, and is at present stationed In |
the Caucasus.
A lady at Ashford, England, has just |
rct eiNed a bequcst of $4,000 from an old |
gentleman. an entire stranger. for n small |
act of kindness rendered to him five years |
ago He was in the crowd outside Buck |
ir CHAM Palace watching the arrivals at |
one OF the Queens drawing-rooms when |
he became faint and staggered helplessly. |
The crowd jeered him, shouting that he |
was drunk and commenced to jostle him |
rudely The lady saw he was i'll, and |
helped him through the crowd TO a seat |
in a park close by. He soon recovered, |
asked her name and they parted. and she
did not hear Of him again until two weeks !
ago, when his solicitors informed her of
his death and that he had bequeathed her
the sum named.
The wearing of birds feathers on fe-
male headgear is so common that but few.
realize the immense slaughter
Of the bird tribes which 1t necessitates
for meeting the demands Of fashion. IN
idea Of the great extent Of this destruc-
ton may be derived from the fact that
one dealer in London is said to have re-
ceived in single consignment 900 dead
humming birds. $4,000 aquatic birds. and
$4,000 pairs Of wings, which latter are
often wrenched eff during life. leaving
the mangled birds TO die slowly OF wounds
nd starvation The nbOVa WIS only one