The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-02-01

| Arkansas timber thieves In ambush have
assassinated United States Deputy Mar
shall H. N. Falkinbury near Batesville.
Nine Dalmatians. evidently under con-
tract to work in mines near Pittsburg.
| have landed and been detained In New
York.
| An exploding palace car gas tank. at
| Toledo. o., probably fatally burned Dennis
| Sullivan and John Fink, Lake Shore en-
| ployes.
For over 100000 the weyerhorser syn
| dictate has bought 500. 100000 feet of Mime
sofa pine lumber, planning to control the
market.
England received 10,657,600 letters from
the United States last year, Germany
received 5,s5S,OO0 letters, and France
1,SSi,000.
While j. f. Langdon and Miss Ella ].
Sherwood. Of Baltimore, were being mar
rled, the brides father for Directing, was
locked up for disorderly conduct.
On awakening the other morning a
farmer who lives near Shelby. North
Carolina was much surprised on seeing
seventeen rabbits huddled together In
corner Of the room. They had entered
the house to escape the cold.
The salaries paid to persons in the civil
service of the United States amount to
$50. 100000 annually. This seems like a
tremendous amount, but when IL Is borne
In mind that this sum pays the wages OF
10000 persons 1t need not appall anyone.
The average is only $500 a year.
Nikta, ruler of the Montenegrins. is
said 10 drive a thrifty bargain with such
of his people as need loans. the interest
being anywhere from is TO 80 per cent.
The fact that he is about the only man
.hA hoc In lar
sums to loan keeps many OF his subjects
In his clutches.
The late NJ. de Quatrefages, the French
ethnOogist, said all mankind came from
a central mass in northern Asia, and that
there were three fundamental types
black white and yellow. These three
types scattered over the world and inter-
mingled, forming, in course of time,
seyenty-two distinct races of human
beings.
Theatres In Spain have no programmes
A bill in the lobby sometimes gives the
dramatis personae OF the play. but most
OF the actors remain unknown by name.
The curtain, as elsewhere In Europe, is
devoted to advertisements; and in the
Madrid theatres advertising cards are
affixed. with the numbers, on the backs Of
the seats.
~ tIlllC declares tfdt NJ. 1lDOt TeSem
bles the late Lord Beaconshed in his
fondness for picturesque phr; SEES. He can,
when he chooses. be very ironical; but |
his gestures somewhat spoil the effect Of |,
his voice. He may often be seen running |
about with a great bundle of docu nents |
under his left arm, his right arm swinging |
like a pendulum.
Up in Barre, VT, lived many years ago |
a man and woman who believed in free |
love. and began living together without |
ceremony beyond mutual promise Long
afterward the man fell in love with some
one else and asked the woman to relieve
him from his promise. She wouldn't
Still later the woman found her affinity,
and preferred a similar request. The man
in turn refused Thus they lived to-
gether without any tie except mutual ha-
tired for years, never conversing.
A reproduction I'm salt of the Goddess
OF Liberty on Bedloes island is being
at the offices of the Salt union
in Winsford England, for exhibition at
the Chicago Fair. The statue itself is five
feet six inches high and it will stand
on base seven feet in height 1t will
be carved out of solid white salt, and
the sub-base will be Of amber colored
salt to initiate the rocks of the island.
The base will be highly ornamented with
holdings, panels and inscriptions.
Exploration is improving the popular
knowledge of the Sahara. Instead of
being largely below the sea, the greater
part of it is from 5000 to 5000 feet above
the level; instead of being rainless. show
ers make it bloom and cover it with green
grass for a few weeks every year; large |
hocks and herds are maintained upon Its
borders; the cases are depressons where
the water can be collected and storel |
AID ere villainously unhealthy in hot |
weather because of this stagnant water |
and the filthy habits OF the inhabitants
There is one gentleman in the Legsla-
ture at Sacramento, says the Grass Val |
ey Telegraph who missed his vocation. |
He was never intended for a senator. He |
should Immediately resign and enter the |
II is Frank MCGOWAN. OF Hum
ooldt. When asked to have his brother |
appointed to some position he replied: !
Not while / am senator" Again, Sena-
or MCGOWAN would not take his salary |
'r mileage during lis absence from Sac
when 1t vas proffered him, and |
Fas rightfully his according to the rules |
lie requested that II be donated to some |
charitable institution in Sacramento.
Dueling on bicycles is reported to be a
lew diversion In Spain. Two members OF
he bicycle club of Granada recently met
n knife duel, which is probably the
rst duel ever fought on wheels. Ac-
ompanied by their seconds, they wheeled
nut some distance on the road TO Malaga |
o secluded spot. There posted zoo feet
part. at a sign they wheeled for each
'ther, each directing his machine with the
eft hand and brandishing with the right
he terrible knife of Spain, the navajo.
It the first clash Perez pierced the left
rm Of Moreno, but at the third encoun- !
er Moreno thrust his knife into Perez's
light breast In few minutes the latter
led of internal hemorrhage.
More and more the plantations, grape I
les and Grange groves Of Florida are
assing into the hands of Northerners |
nd Englishmen, for an enervating eli I
nate will destroy local energies in time. | S
he crackers" or native population, are | I
under education. but they do | e
OF grow fast mentally, and their farming | +
J confined to little planting near their e
abins. Naturally they are a simple and |
ospitable people, with a speech some '
hat tinctured by negro dialect Be- @
des fruit, Florida has a vast wealth in b
er phosphate beds, which are OF I'M Il
leasured extent, but one capitalist SAYS d
nat since the investment OF $50, 900 in o
hosphate In the South the business has &
cen overdone, and there is no demand for n
hosphate land at present. C
There is a large trade In alligators'
eth In the South, for they are treasured
; mementoes by tourists. In Jackson =
lie one may have them mounted with | ,
minimum, gold or silver as Vinaigrettes, | y
nd they are sometimes prettily marked h