The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-20

Twenty people were bitten by "ao
dog In SprinRfieid q.

| York has closed FOR lack Oh auu'1"''
The new Calling gun run by electricity
and firing 1000 shots minute VIII pe
tested by ordnance officers
ST. Louis is threatened with water
famine equal to that which caused mucn
suffering and inconvenience In lSoi
BY n hook and ladder overturning and
an engine and street-car colliding. az
Evansville. Ind, Firemen Jacob Webb
and John Walsh were fatally injured.
The Swedish Diet vas opened We1nes-
| day. In the speech opening the session
King Oscar asked the Diet to grant credits
for increasing the navy and completing
the Northern railway.
The Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mittee has, by vote Of six 10 five,
finally rejected the railroad pooling pro-
vision In the Cullom bill, and will report
the bill as thus amended.
| At charity bazaar In Vienna, an Eng
lishman offered 5000 for single kiss
from the Warehouses Pallaviccni. He
got 1t and planked down 600 Bank Of
| England note TO pay for 1t.
Senator Turpie, who has been reelected
| by the Indiana Legislature, is said to have
| eight languages at his tongues end. He
reads Latin, Greek and Hebrew almost as
readily, it is averred, as English, and
he has a fluent command Of French, Ger
man. Spanish and Italian.
The Baroness Won Levotzow will cele-
brate her ninetieth birthday February 4th
at Irzivolitz Castle, in Bohemia. 1t was
she with whom Goethe fell madly In love
and she II was who refused him. AT her
great age she is in excellent health. and
| looks as young as she did at fifty.
John Spaulding. a millionaire bachelor.
Of Boston. has just given a total of $4,000
to eight servant girls who are employed at
the United States Hotel in that CITY, The
gifts were in the shape of eight packages
Of stock Of the Revere Sugar Refining
Company. Of East Boston, which is
quoted at 800 per share. He said 1t was
deferred Christmas present.
Probably the .only woman customs
broker in this or any other country is
Miss Huda eraser, of Cincinnati She
Is only twentyone years old, and at her
fathers death, a year or so ago, she de-
cided to continue his business. She made
the acquaintance Of her fathers old
patrons. and now. after a hard struggle,
controls a large and profitable business.
The heavy snow fall has brought a
calamity in a curious way TO the Chinese
pheasants that are to be found in some
parts of the Northwest. The slect and
snow stuck 10 their long tails i'm such a
way that they were unable to fly. The
country boys captured the birds by the
dozen, and as they are said 10 be worth
so pair alive and in good conditi1l,
some Of the boys consider themselves very
wealthy.
The death is announced of r. ID. Darby
shire. one of the most famous of the OK
ford stroke oars who won the long sue
cession Of Victories over Cambridge be-
tween 1860 and 1SlO. He was stroke also
Of the crew which defeated the Harvard
four upon the Thames, and was chosen
for that position on account of his in
ability TO row very quick stroke. II
was expected that Harvard would run
away with the lead. and Darbyshire could
be depended upon TO row waiting race.
as he was incapable of rapid squirting"
When John Jacob Aston died in 1913
worth So. 900 he left 100000 more
than the richest American before him
But in the last ten years at least two
men, ". II. Vanderbilt and the second
John Jacob Aston. have died with fortunes
twice that size, and John ID. Rockefeller
Is ordinarily estimated TO be also worth
500, 900. 1t is estimated that there are
only seven American fortunes OF over
s3O,OOO,0OO, Huntington. Sage. William
Rockefeller. Stanford. Mrs. Green and
William Aston; six over $50, 1000, d. o.
Mills. Armour, Searles, Charles Crocker's
estate, Henry Hilton and the l.. S. IIiy-
gins estate. or fortunes over $40 OOO,0 900
there are seventeen.
Mrs Phoebe A. Hearst. widow of the
late Senator Hearst, of California. has
decided to establish near San Francisco
a home and school where boys from eight
TO sixteen years OF age can be reared and
taught a trade She will devote TO this
purpose a farm Of $50 acres. not far
from the city. which was bought by the
Senator for his racers. Mrs. Hearst will
give in addition $4,000 to erect a large
building Of stone and brick. This philan-
thropic work will not interfere with Mrs.
Hearst's design of erecting a great free
museum in Golden Gate Park. San Fran
cisco. The body Of the late Senator will
rest near the site of the new school.
When Queen Victoria dies her mortal
remains will rest in the gray antique
sarcophagus with the late lamented
Prince Alberts ashes. Underneath the
arms of the Queen and Prince Albert on
the monument, is inscribed: Farewell.
we'll beloved. Here at last l will rest with
thee. With thee in Christ / will rise
again" The white marble recumbent
statue of the Prince Consort is in the
uniform Of field marshal, wearing the
mantle OF the order Of the Garter-this
is on the right; the left side of the lid
and unoccupied space is where the Queens
body will be laid. Bronze angels, with
outstretched wings and flowing robes,
are at each corner of the tomb.
The approaching session of the British
Parliament promises to be one Of the
stcrmiest on record. 1t is certain that
the Home Rule bill will be introduced
at the earliest possible moment and there
is now no doubt that on the plea of gain.
ing adequate time for the consideration
Of the bill, the second reading viii be
postponed long enough TO enable the Gov
ernme mt TO bring forward in the interval
the other measures of their programme
These, Of course, will be opposed with
all the skill and vehemence of which a
determined and inspirited opposition is
capable, and with Sir William Harcourt
as leader of the House-for Mr. Gladstone
cannot possibly sit out the long debates
the result will be a period Astounding in
scenes as exciting as modern times have
known.
Russia is so vast and includes so many
races, says the American Register, that
IT might seem well-nigh hopeless to de-
termine its most ancient inhabitants.
Nevertheless, this is a problem at which
Professor Anatole Bogdanov has been la
boring for the past twenty-five years
and which he attempts TO solve In paper
read before the recent congress of an
thropologists at Moscow. The kureans or
tumuli OF Central Russia contain the
relics OF a tall, strong, doichocephalic
race. with light brown hair as well as a
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