The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-25
CUT DOWN TO PLAIN FACTS.

The agricultural experiment station ut
Garden City, Kan, has been abolished
There are now 1l,630 letter carriers in
the service of the postoiiice department
The king of Denmark is the only Euro
pean sovereign older than Queen Victoria.
w. w. Scott, of North Carolina, has been
appointed chief of division, first auditors
Office.
Tie tomb of Mohammed is covered with
diamonds, sapphires and rubies valued at
sl0.0000O0
The civil war in Honduras is now over
and the country has instead an epidemic
Of smallpox.
The president of Salvador has been
granted 100000 in gold for trip to the
Worlds fair.
a public reception was rendered the
duke OF Neragua at. independence Hall
Philadelphia
Austin Gibbons is to attempt to knock ont
Bull McCarty i'll a four round fight in
Philadelphia.
Ambassador Bayard and Mrs. Bayard
were received at Marlborough house by the
princess of Wales
Congressman Tom l.. Johnson is being
mentioned as the possible Democratic
nominee for governor of Ohio.
The Munich garrison has been visited
with an outbreak of typhus, more than 400
eases of the disease having been reported.
President Patton of Princeton college.
and family, have started FOR the Bermuda
islands, where they will spend the sum
mer.
The Norfolk and Western has contract
for shipping 40 car loads of coke daily from
Roanoke, Va, to the Illinois Steel com
pany ut Chicago
Mr.. {. Il. Riggs, of the Princeton class
OF w, Will soon sail for Constantinople,
Turkey. where he will enter upon his duties
as instructor in the Roberts college.
w. O. Tucker, postmaster at Cody post.
office, Halifax county, Va, was arrested
charged with using, i'm payment OF postage.
STAMPS that have all ready been used for
the like purpose.
The golden rose has been duly forwarded
by the pope to the queen of the Belgians.
1t Is placed in q crystal vase, with raised
figures i'll the style of the fourteenth cen
tury. The dedication is engraved upou n
gold plate Mt the foot Of the vase.
Hon. John NJ. Laugston, the colored
Virginia orator. delivered lecture before
the lycenm of Mount Olive Baptist
church. He said all the signs of progress
were hopeful, and he predicted bright
and prosperous career for the colored race.
The millionaire Baron Hirsch is prcpar-
ing to make IL visit to the Argentine Re
public, where, for two years past, he has
been striving to establish Jewish colonies
and where he has purchased good deal of
land for colonizing purposes.
Bishop Charles Joseph Won Hefele. who
played prominent part at the Ecumenical
council of 1870 as II :rso.G;e opponent of
the dogma of papal infal!ibility until it's
actual promulgaIinn. died recently at Rot
tenburg. the seat of the bishopric he had
held for n years.
Senator Hill says in reference to the let
ter he is said To have written to Mr.. Dolph
at Cincinnati that he simply directed his
clerk To forward that gentleman printed
copy of his February speech, and that the
publications. purporting To he /, letter from
him is simply garbled extracts from it,
There is IL project for printing the Tai
mud i'll the English language Rabbi Isaac
Nj. Wise believes that Il translation of it
could he made and an edition of il printed
for the sum of $l00,OO0 This rabbi saws.
however that, as there are only 4, 900 words
in the Hebrew language, any person can
acquire full knowledge OF il in six wears
by learning 20 words of it each week.