The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-03-31
TOLD Nv A FEW WORLDS.

New York has about 1900 physicians,
| only 600 Of whom are native Americans.
A memorial tablet has been placed on
Lawn hank the Hampstead VILLA wnere
Keats wrote his lode TO a Nightingale
A seventy. voar-ola citizen OF Ellsworth
Falls Ne has had severe attack OF
whooping cough during the last week. ana
Is slowly recovering from IT,
George Joachim Goschen. first iord OF
tho admiralty. is at work on lie OF ms
| grandfather, the Leipzig booAselieI' - -
schen. the friend and publisher OF Goethe'
| Schiller. Weiland, and Herder.
Hopkins county. Kentucky, is experenc-
/ Ing a notable religious revival under me
preaching OF "A woman evang list, Mrs
/ Nunu. of Nadisonyllle. In hNe weeks
tour Of the county Mrs. Mum haA
| preached sixty sermons, nettih5 il' eV"-
versions.
Forty thousand acres OF virgin forest IN
northern Idaho will soon be turner over
| 10 the axemen of a big lumber syndicate
IT IS expected this area VIII yield mere
than 400,000,Oo0 feet OF white ana yellow
pine. red. and white fir, cedar. and taina-
rack.
Scotland Yard. London, has issued an
| order TO the police force 20 the effect that
| II a constable sees a drunken man ap-
| preaching "A public house he Is 10 prevent
| his entrance, and If drunken man docs
get inside IA public house the policeman
| DIS % call the landlords attention TO his
| condition.
Rats have invaded Reeds island, at the
| mouth Of the Humber England, which not
| long ago furnished grazing for thousands
| OF sheep ana cattle. and have turned II
into a desert Shooting, ferrcts. and ter
| 81. "a 4lglt
their numbers. and the island has been
flooded with little effect.
Tho Sultan has presented TO the Louvre
| museum the celebrated Ie.lo SILVER az c.
III was discovered in lsso by NJ. he Sai 70
| during his excavations on the site oi NC
antique city Of sirpoula. II Is piece OF
| Chaldean fabric OF the most remote anu
| ouifv and one Of the Oldest examples
| known of engraving on metal
Al the international Medical Congress
ia be held I'm Moscow in 1884, French VIII
De recognized as the official language.
Papers may be read In other European
languages, but the discussions must ne III
Russian. French, or German. rms decl-
sion has made English doctors angry, ana
they talk OF not attending the congress.
There are i'm Arizona l0o0"0 acres ol
desert land capable Of reclamation 10 asti-
] culture tllOAEn llllHttANiis ~fAA'N'-
gsi. 900 acres have been reclaimed, ana are
hearing profitable crops Of various kinds
AID various enterprises are now under
way. which. 10 is expected, VIII IN the next
two years insure the reclamation OF almost
100000 acres more.
The bridge to be- built over the Tenne s.
see river at Knoxville is TO be a remark
able structure in many respects. II is 10
be entirely Of pink marble from near
cuarrics. 100 fect long, with one aFch q
2iO feet. twenty feet longer than any other
arch ln the world. AT its highest point IL
Is 10 be- Jos feet above the water ana IL
is to have a roadway nifty feet VIDE
The late Carlo Giuliano. Of Plccadilly.
has bcqueatned TO the south hensinsloI
| museum a very valuable collection or
| Jewels. consisting for the most part OF
gold ornaments. decorated with minute
| granulations after the Greek and Eirus-
can fashion. one of the necklaces has
hny-two omphora-slapcd pendants, and Is
most dolicatcly enriched with no less than
1850 tiny gold granulcs.
Chloroform and ammonia killed a cent?
| ped. and saved cat az Springfield tht
other day. The cenupede dropped from a
| bunch of bananas upon the cat, ana al
once buried its poisonous fangs In the
animals legs. It's mistress with rare
!
the insect. which succumbed, and then she
applied ammonia 20 the cats leg. 10 VA
triumph of presence of mind, apparent
ly.
The medical students Of Paris are still
on the Warpath against those Of their
fellDw-studcui who come from foreign
parts. and are circulating a petition ir
the hospitals requiring the minister OF
education 10 exact from the strangers
before receiving their degree qualifications
OF the same value as are eXacted from
themselves. IL the strangers do moi
possess the qualifications they should, th'
French students maintain. only be granite
honorary diplomas.
Tho class I'm zoology at Cornell IN
other day was studying the brains o.
rays or skates. Some OF the student
made hasty drawings and seemed 10 thnl
that nothing more was 10 be done. In
stead OF trying TO convince them OF thei
| error pIOfes -0r Wilder remarked that Fl
the summer OF 1861 be had sat al th'
table ~ the late Professor Louis Agassi.
while the htter pored for hours over jus
such q BRAIN which he had exposed witt
"a knife given hm by the poet Long
fellow.
Pearls are found In all waters wher
oysters or mussc.s abound. Iley hav
|
j mon mussel IN many rivers Of the United
States. The most extensive pearl usher
les, however. are those IN the Red sea
in the Persian gulf ana ia the lnd.al
ocean. of the island If Ccylon. Tn
product OF thc Red sea and Persian gui
does not cut any considerable figure D
the worlds supply. which comes mainl
from Ceylon and toe Indian coast, wher
pearl diving IS regular business wit
thousands of men.
Steel-coated rifle bullets for the new
magazine guns cause very little pain
says Or. Deiorme. surgcon-in-chief or IN
, | French army During the riots at -Four
! mics ono man was wounded so badly a
20 be paralyzed. but lid not suspect tina
Dee had been shot throegh until bee say
blood-stains on his clothing. one. sho
through the leg only felt q slight shiyer
another, shot through the arm, felt hi
j elbow tWitch, and closed IS fist mechani
| cally. At short range the bullets, like tn
new bullets OF our own army are ap
TO explode and do serious mischief.
Japan's industrial aWak ening abou
! which some manufacturers Ia this coun
, try appear u be alarmed. Is responsible
for the closing up or an old-time industr
at Milford, Conn. For a considerable pc
riod a big straw mating manufactOrl
was in operation IN that place. shor
time ago 81 was determined 10 remove
the entire plant and business TO Kobe
Japan. where labor ana raw material ar
10 be obtained al an enormous discoun
from the rates prevailing IN Connecticut
Last week the anal step In the remova
was taken. and the Milford Industry wa