Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-09-09
Men, Women, and Affairs.
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N"' ohth, Huu hunffs.
Springfield Republican,
some idea Of the educational influence
or the British Museum can be gathered
from the fact that over 1900. 900 persons
visited 1t last year. The Sunday attend
ance of about 5000 fully iustines the in
novation of Sunday opening.
The bones Of Joachim Murat. the inn
keepers son, who was put on the throne
Of Naples by Napoleon and was shot on
the sands at PHO In 1915, have recently
been exhumed by the Italian Government.
ana VIII be placed in a handsome mauso-
ieum. which the Marchesa Ill POpoli is
having built mt Bologna.
The Emperor OF Austria has recently
bought Frohsdorf, where the last head of
the elder branch Of the Bourbons so long
resided. 1t Is a handsome but not osten-
tatlous country seat. within easy distance
OF vienna. 1t Is understood that the En-
peror Is 10 present il TO his daughter, the
~Archduchess Valerie.
East London has been suffering from
another water famine. The mains are
smut Off during the greater part OF the
twenty-four hours. and I'm the short time
left the inhabitants are allowed only what
supply is absolutely necessary. And. what
Is worse. no remedy for this appalling
state Of affairs appears to be in sight.
II is singular that the Prince Of Wales
is the third Of his family TO suffer from an
injury OF the knee. The Queen was hurt
by a slip about fifteen years ago. and ever
since has had to restrict her walking, and
the late Duke Of Albany suffered for years
from a similar injury. The knee Is the
weak point in the human anatomy.
Sir Thomas Lipton's admirable scheme
for free restaurants has led to a move
ment I'm London I'm behalf Of similar in
FOR Jewish w~Orkingmen, who
certainly stand In need OF such help. They
70 choose between going 10 an un-
Gentle clearinghouse and paying
extra prices at a clean, or Kosher"
Jewish restaurant.
Some Of the Swedish war booty cap
tured by GustaVus Adolphus has been dis
covered in the Kremlin at Moscow by
Martin, a Swedish scholar, II
photographs will be taken OF the most in
teresting relics. Among them are many
valuable silver vessels made in the IA
nous workshops Of Augsburg and Nurem-
berg, and richly ornamented.
Managers Of moving picture machines
IRE advertising pictures Of battles taken
With "long-distance lenses" They were
ong-distance-about a thousand miles,
considered one way; a few feet, taken the
)tner, for the naval battle pictures are
most of them made from small, moving
models. the entire battlefield being about
4 feet long.
While Corporal tanner rushes TO the de-
'ence OF his dear old friend. now Secre-
airy OF War, he takes a side whack at
eminent officials subordinates. All
he trouble rests with inefficient subor-
says Tanner in a way hat would
those numerous underlings as mad
S March hares. III the fire gets too hot
or Alger perhaps his apOlogists will de-
lare that he has had no control at all OF
he department during the war.
II is a sad establishment to find that
income OF the Duke OF Westminster,
Yhich is the largest received by any Bri-
peer, and which popular report has ,
Ell down as 100000 a year. is really only :
half that. He has written a most Z
nusing letter TO a Liverpool paper 10 cor '
sct this error, and also 10 deny that at {
,hOol he was called Jack Sheppard" be- :
iuse OF his ugliness. his close-cropped !,
air, he declares, hg"ing been the only !,
Jason. :
An interesting story is told OF the land Il
~ of the horses Of one OF the cavalry Il
at Slboney, There was no way I,
walk them ashore, and with pricks OF :,
Iyonets the horses were made to jump y
5erboard. In the water they were con- =
not knowing which way TO go; Is
me swan out TO sea and others in All Il
but the one wanted Finally q
IA trumpeter on the bank sounded the
II STABLES" and every one of the
winning horses pointed his nose to-
ard the shore, ana was soon safe on a
"
OF Bismarck continue to &C. y
mulate, and Sir Charles Dixie Is re- =
onsible for a story Of the great states |"
ans visit to London in lS3. While there u
visited a famous brewery, and as his Ell
D~utation az a beer-drinker had pre- -
ied him, his hosts presented him a n
tankard OF old ale, which they felt n
nident would floor him. II seized the >,
lkard," Bismarck told Sir Charles, -
nd / thought OF my country and drank ~
and tilted II till IL was empty. %
| thanked my OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 81
/ h%Ope-and succeeded In making W
way as far as London bridge. There 10
at down In one Of the stone.r ecesses. or
q for hours the great bridge went -,
md and round me-" y,
yhen people talk OF bicycling In the ~
- N such places, they really mean SC
king. and why any sane person should la
te a bicycle to the Alps II Is not easy ia
see. The "round-the- world" cycle trips. 81
/, are largely pedestrianism. For ex- n,
pie. the 'cycllst. Frazer, who has just :,
urred TO England after a ~two-years' ",
r. about the world, gives these sug- .
remarks on nina: western VII
ma IL not a good place TO 'cycle in. IN