The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-05-30


one TO his satisfaction.
The total number of American news
papers has grown from 5.3ls TO DOOS
during the past twenty-five years.
Mayor Gilroy, OF New York, says that
reckless bicycle riding must cease. he
will employ mounted policemen to arrest
offenders, and have the aldermen pass
new regulating ordinances, IL necessary
The British Admiralty propose dis
placing the six-inch gun batteries OF the
majority of the new cruisers by six-inch
rapld-nre guns. The cruiser Spartan Is
now undergoing this change.
Jonathan Stanhope. OF Wayne county
Indiana who IS eccentrically enthusiastic
over the celebration OF the Columbian dis
coyery. proposes TO paper his parlor with
1 and 3 cent Columbian postage stamps
at a cost OF $4,000.
The new 14.sOO-ton British battleship
Ernnress OF India is said to have passed
through her machinery trials without the
slightest hitch The average speed re-
ported, obtained under natural draught,
was Is "a knots per hour
More relies of George Washington have
turned up. This time the articles are
two army pistols that were presented by
the General TO Kosciusko. his Polish aid
The pistols are in the possession OF DR..
Edward Thomas. OF Vienna.
The appropriation Of 81, COO for the pur-
chase of Valley Forge Park has passed
the Legislature finally, and will now go
TO the Governor for approval. There is
little doubt that he will approve the
measure, for 1t is one Of manifest pro-
priety.
A strange fatality has seized the family
OF c. T.. Cohen, OF Gadsden, Ala. About
two weeks ago the oldest daughter died,
and a few days later Mrs. Cohen died.
Several days after Mrs. Cohen's death
Mr.. Cohen departed. and one Of the sons
is now critically I'll.
Frederick j. de Peyster, president Of
the st. Nicholas Society. Of New York,
the quintescence Of Knickerbocker gem
tility, declares I'm a recent interview that
Il is more important 10 be a member Of
the ST. Nicholas Society than to control
100 900 miles Of railway.
The Royal Observatory at Copenhagen
will be fitted with a new Photographic
telescope, similar TO the one recently fixed
at the Upsala Observatory. I'm Sweden.
II will be a double telescope. optical and
Photographic. having two parallel tubes
connected with one another.
Ex-President Benjamin Harrison is al
ready at work on his course of lectures
on international law, which he will de-
liver at the Stanford University, I'm Cali
fornia, next October. When completed
and delivered the lectures will be printed
as text book on the subject Of which
they treat.
Not far from Oak Bar, Ore. a woman
lately made heroine Of herself with her
little gun i'm front Of a child-seeking
panther that her dog had freed. on hear
ing the growing and the row, she dropped
her stitches. picked up a rifle. took
good aim, and at the first fire brought
down the brute.
South Carolina IS the largest producer
Of phosphates in the world. leading with
her 10000 tons; France and Belgium next,
each $4,000 tons; Florida next, 100000 tons:
Russia. 1900 tons: Spain and Germany.
5000 each; Dutch West Indies. $1,000;
English West Indies. 10000; North Caro-
lima, 1900; Algeria, $500.
There are no Sunday papers in Japan,
and the principal reason appears TO be
that the working force needs one day OF
rest out Of each week. The American
custom Of changing about and having
"on days" 20 the end of having a full
not yet been adopted there.
II is rumored that in spite OF his lavish
expenditure Of money William Waldorf
Aston is not getting all the recognition
he would like I'm England. Mr. Aston $
literary tastes have nothing to do with
his social credentials. and as there are
hundreds OF Englishmen who write bet
ter than he does he has not yet set the
Thames on fire.
Some notion Of the vastness OF the
Western freSts may be lad from the
fact that rev logging camp just estab-
lished at the headwaters OF the Skagit
river. In Washington, is under contract
10 turn out an average Of about a mil
lion feet every month. Five camps on the
Skagit will turn out 100000 feet Of fir
logs alone this year.
The ibis. the sacred bird OF Egypt. IS not
peculiar TO that country. but is found in
considerable numbers in the South, in
Florida especially. In 81. Augustine and
other coast towns IL Is no unusual thing
10 see an Ibis perched on the ridge pole
Of q house or stable or stalking sOemnly
about a yard, for the bird is easily tanned.
and seems TO be fond of human company.
The Columbian stamps are really steel
engravings and form the third special
issue Of stamps in the country. The first
Of these was a 15-cent stamp representing
the landing of Columbus which was is
sued In 1862 and the second commemora-
ted the 1876 centennial by a souvenir en-
velope. with n shield-shaped Scent stamp
In the corner, having at the top the figures
l76 and at the bottom 1876.
Professor Barnard, OF the Lick obser-
vatory, expects that three years will be
required TO complete the series of pho
tographs he is making OF the Milky Way
The work is proceeding rapidly at the OBJ
servatOry and the astronomer is conf
dent that when HIS labors are finished
the result will revolutionize the old con-
ceptions OF the Milky Way. He expects
10 reveal the presence OF at least 500.-
900 900 suns.
There is a three-toed rhinoceros, be-
lieyed TO be hundreds OF thousands years
old, in the American Museum OF Natural
History. The relic. according TO palaeon-
tOlOgists who have read its history, is
the only one OF its herd who escaped
mutlation by the crocodiles and alliga-
tors OF his time. when he was deposited
after death I'm a lake which existed In
South Dakota, near what is now the
Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
The sofa on which Generals Grant and
Lee sat together when the latter sur
rendered TO the former was placed on
exhibition in the West Virginia State build
ing at the Worlds Fair recently. The
sofa. together with the secretary on which
the papers OF surrender were drawn up,
have been loaned by Henry +. Stilman,
who came into possession OF both arti-
cles by marrying Mrs. McLain's daughter
shortly after the close of the war.