The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-29
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| To fight John Cudaby trying 10 restore
! Cincinnaus prestige as a pork centre,
| the Union Stock Yards will erect
| 81 100000 packing house.
Shut in a blazing baggage car which
had rolled down a bank near Huntley,
| H., Baggageman Brown and EXpressmajl
Snyder were badly burned.
The estate Of the tate Henry Thomas
Coghlan of England. valued at over
Sc 900 900, is now in litigation. No will
has been found and the next of kin are q
brother, a sister and a cousin. Miss
Rhoda Broughton is first cousin once
removed.
Miss Louise Aldri,h Blake, eldest
daughter of a Herefordshire clergyman.
has just achieved the highest distinction
as a student in medicine ever won by
woman. She has taken a double first"
in the examinations at the London Uni
versity.
Verestchagin. the painter OF military
scenes, has been sharply criticised in
Russia for the appalling honesty with
which he has portrayed the realities Of
war. His pictures Of battle fields are
thought to be reflections on the inhumanity
Of Russia.
Sir Halliday Mccartney, secretary of
the Chinese legation in London, went to
more than thirty years ago. He soon
afterward entered the Chinese service.
He is a mandarin Of the second class and
talks Chinese like native.
Boatswain Thompson, who has just re-
tired from the United States navy after
fifty-two years of active service and TAX
ing his share in the Mexican war, will
probably receive as a pension not more
than one-half as much as is given to
bounty-jumpers who claim to have fought
the Southerners.
Montague Marks. in the Art Amateur
calls attention to the fact that at Dry
Earth the Indian women on the reserva-
ton are making lace, and states that the
introduction of the industry has had an
unlocked for result in making them very
neat, lest much of the market value of
their labor be lost
James Hand and his son George parted
twenty-eight years ago and did not again
see or hear of each other until two weeks
ago. when they discovered one another
in Seattle. and learned at the same time
that they had been living within a few
miles of each other on Puget sound for
many years past.
Mr.. Saxton has presented in the New
York State Senate a memorial from
Andrew II. Green, one of the executors Of
the will of Samuel j. Tilden, in favor Of
the bill intended to remedy the defects
in the existing law under which Mr.. TIL
denis gift to New York city was held by
the courts to be invalid
One Of the Oldest officers in Her Ma
jesty's navy is Sir Lewis Tobias Jones.
who, on Christmas eve. attained the age
of ninety-three. having been born on De-
cember a. 1893. Sir Lewis. who entered
the service at a very early age, "smelt
powder at the battle of Algers In 1876
where he was rather severely wounded.
1t is computed that all the locomotives
in the United States would, If coupled to-
gether, make a train 800 miles long, The
passenger cars would make another train
of about the same length, and if all the
cars of every variety in the country were
coupled behind the engines, the result
would be a train just about 1000 miles
long.
Five hundred thousand lizard skins
were shipped fl ON the State Of Tabasco,
Mexico, to the United States last year
Thousands OF the skins are marketed in
Mexico. while large quantities are eX
ported to Europe 1t is estimated that the
number of lizards slaughtered for their
skins in the State of Tabasco last year
was 100000.
Senator Kenna Travelled a part Of one
season through the mountains Of West
Virginia with a circus. Every evening
and afternoon the young candidate for
Congress appeared in the ring when the
performance was about half over and
made his speech The combination proved
a great success, both for circus and can
didate. The novelty attracted people till
they had TO be turned away, and Kenna
was elected by a great majority, though
he had to fight boiling candidate
Marshal Augereau, who was Governor
OF Wurzburg under Napoleon l., was
lover of wine and women. Before empty
ing his glass of wine and mineral water
it was his habit TO say "Toujours Tam
ourl" The good Wurzburgers used TO
initiate their Governor. But the nearest
they could get 10 1t was "Touschourla-
mour" In time they said Schourlamour
and at last Schorlemorle, which TO this
day is the name by which the Wurzburgers
know glass of wine mixed with mineral
water
Arthur G.. Leonard, private secretary TO
II. Walter Webb. third vice-president OF
the New York Central railroad. has in
vented watch which is said 10 enable
the holder to measure the rate of speed
at which he or she may be travelling on
a railroad train, a steamboat or any
other conveyance. 1t is thus described;
In the hands Of a person on a swift NOV
ing train the watch may, by pressing a
tiny lever, be started at a given point, |
say a mile post, and when the next mile |
post is reached a quick pressure on the |
lever will stop the hands of the watch |
on a figure which accurately indicates |
the rate of speed per hour at which the |
train is moving.
Interesting experiments have demon |
strated the relations between red flannel, |
monkeys beer and rheumatism. Two |
groups of Gagged monkeys were given all |
the beer they could drink. one group hav- |
ing been clad in red flannel, while the |
others were left naked. All the naked |
monkeys contracted rheumatism. while |
the fiannel-clad monkeys suffered no in |
convenience from their debauch. A few |
days later. after the rheumatic monkeys |
had been cured the conditions were re- |
versed. and again the naked monkeys |
were attacked with rheumatism. while |
the others remained unaffected The ex- |
perimenters hold that all of the monkeys |
were subjects for the rheumatism while |
intoxicated. but that the flannel. in keep |
ing the cold air from their joints, pre- |
vented the development of the disease.
The Durham papers tell that n darkey |
went into the little shop of one Louis |