The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-02-09
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST.

yentiOn, at Newport. IL. L., was cdptufeu
In the act Of burglarizing private house
The new twin screw cruiser Detroit will
be given a trial trip next week. and her
sister. the Montgomery, on March btn. In
Chesapeake bay.
A Baltimore and Ohio train instantly
killed two colored laborers. William New
ton and Tilghman Waters. on the Patap-
SEQ Farm at Halethorpe. Md.
L. L. Lorillard has sold to II. Ray Mil
Ter. OF New York, large part Of the as
tate on Ochre Point. Newport. r. l.. in
herited from Catharine Wolfe.
Ex-Governor Foraker has been nomi-
mated by Governor Mckinley as a success
sor to ex-President Hayes on the board
Of trustees Of the Ohio State University.
At the annual convention Of the Master
House Painters and Decorators Asocia-
ton. at Cleveland. O.. George Butler. OF
Philadelphia. read a paper. in which he
said many goods things for the employe
OF the old prison pen at Andersonville,
Ga, there remain hut few halt-rotted
posts 10 mark the lire Of the stockade
and a few low earthworks where the gates
stood. The grounds are now the property
Of the Grand Army Of the Republic
Police Commissioner MacLean. OF New
York city, has drafted bill making IL
mandatory on the city authorities to hire
one or more buildings for municipal lodg-
ing-houses This is intended TO do away
with the police-station lodging-houses.
In ST. James Protestant Episcopal
church. Chicago, on Sunday last. an
American congregation prayed for the
Queen Of Great Britain. The recently-m-
ported English curate, MIR. Clarke, forgot
for the time that he was not In the pulpit
OF an English church.
Florida people are telling Of an orange
tree in Dr. Abernathy's grove at AL
toona which has borne during the past
season 1900 oranges. IL Is seeding
twenty-five years old, some thirty feet
high. and has received only the ordinary
grove care and culture.
The students at Harvard University
have reorganized the Harvard Electric
Club. Pro mirent electricians Will address,
the club and members will read papers
before It. The club is not 10 be purely
social organization but its object is 10
promote knowledge Of electricity and
kindred subjects.
New Guinea has the credit OF produc-
ing the only venomous bird known to
ornthoogists-the Rpir NDOob. or Bird
Of Death" There is no antidote to the
bite of this bird. which causes excru-
ciating pains in every part Of the body.
loss of sight, commissions, lCckjaw and
certain death within two hours.
While a trapeze performer was swinging
on the ropes in the Grand Opera-H House
at Reading Tuesday night, his pistol was
discharged. A tack had mysteriousiy got
mixed with the powder and this queer
missile struck Mahlon Bortz in the neck.
The blood spurted forth and the wounded
falfan the hOGnifal and the
tack removed.
Since the Introduction OF electricity on
the street railroads in this country the
Industry of raising large horses in Canada
is said 10 be disappearing. because there
is no demand for this kind or horses.
The change has reduced the price OF
horses In Canada one-half, and has de-
pressed financially many who are engaged
In raising horses.
Queen Victoria and the Princess or
Wales, when importuned 10 give the
weight of their influence aginst the threa--
ened crinoline invasion. discreetly refused
to say yea or nay. They probably re-
cognized the fact that fashion reigns su-
preme, queening It over queens az over
other orders of womankind with unchai-
lenged and despotic sway.
4 daughter was born TO the wife Of a
~
three weeks ago who weighed but two
pounds at the time OF her birth. Several
days ago the baby was placed in an In
cubatOr, with the temperature at 80 de-
| grees, and she appears 10 be perfectly
healthy. The infant is too small 10 be
dressed, and is rolled in cotton.
Castle Garden. in the Battery, New
York city. once the home Of grand opera,
| and the place of a national exhibition
and afterwards the landing-place OF mil
| lions Of immigrants, is now TO become
an aquarium. The park board has ap-
proved a bill to be introduced in the
Legislature appropriating $4,000 for the
| establishment OF the aquarium.
4 New York artist has spent two sum-
mers among the Great Smoky Mountains
| Of Tennessee because. he says, he gets
| the same kind OF subject there that the
French painters find around Barbizon-
the same rudcness Of Implements, the
same simplicity Of habitauons. even the
same hluc clothing. Il don't see Why 50
many Of our fellows go to France said
he, for we have everything that we can
want I'm this country"
Creole, Colorado. the wonderful mining
| town which attracted 50 much attention
about n year ago, is by no means dead,
though its remarkable boom has long
| since waned. The idea was pretty general
that Creole burst with the boom but that
Is not the case The solid business men
Of the town regard the coiiapsing OF the
! boom with all it's spectacular features as
n very good thing for the business in
terests OF the place.
The city of Lubbock, Germany which
will shortly celebrate it's 753d anniversary
has rather an interesting history. The
city was founded In 49, was coded 10 the
Dukes Of Saxony eighteen years later, and
in 1921 was taken by the Danes. II was
made a free imperial city I'm 1926. when
the Danish garrison was expelled, and in
l2n il became the head Of the Hilseatic
League. Butcher took refuge IN Lubbock 10
avoid the French army, when 1t was car
ried by assault and suffered three days
pilage in November 1906. On November
u. 1870 the city was annexed 10 the en-
pire. and regained its freedom In 1913,
after the battle Of Leipsic.
They grow large eagles in Wisconsin.
Not long ago a man saw big bald TEL
low sitting on a lofty elm at Concord,
In that State. and discharged both barrels
Of his shotgun at II. The bird flew a
few hundred feet and fell dead. 1t
measured seven feet three inches from
tip TO tip and weighed eleven pounds.
The talons measured along the convex
surfaces, are nearly two inches In length.
on the same day the man shot his bird
a sixteen-year- boy captured a golden
eagle near West Bend. The bird was