Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-10
Curious COMBINATIONS.
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Pittsburg Dispatch)
Opium is considered three times as
deadly as alcohol.
In Baltimore n horse died a few days
ago aged 10 years.
4 kaiiirs religion consists mostly In
singing and dancing.
Honey will turn 10 wax il left I'M
touched for some time.
In India there is a fly which attacks
and devOurs large spiders.
The maximum temperature of the Gull
stream is Sc degrees.
4 recent shipment Of malt from Mil
Waukee amounted 10 3,4OOJJ pounCS, ana
filled 100 cars.
Having been surprised by the police,
Montreal burglar jumped 40 feet from
window into a sn0wbanE.
The population of Palestine is IN
creasing rapidly. Ten years ago there
were only j. 900 residents in JANA; to-day
there are nearly 5000.
In q recent test Of speed at Gibraltar,
the British Channel squadron succeeded
in putting In 5000 tons OF coal and getting
ready for sea in IS hours.
II Is under contemplation TO attach
phonograph department 10 the British
Museum, in which VIII be stored IN
cylinder form the voices of great people.
The popping sound OF bursting bottles
led TO the discovery OF a ire that mad
started under the shelves Of closed
drugstore I'm Amite City, la.
Ii all tho spaIrOWs in Britain were eX-
in about thirty years the country would
possess as many sparroWs as ever.
The Maine Ice crop Tor trade outside
the state, which is put up almost entirely
on the PenobscOt and Kenucbec rivers
is estimated at about $1,000 tons.
The river Jordan makes the greatest
descent in the shortest distance Of almost
any stream. During its course Of lU
miles II has tWenty-seVen falls, ana de-
scends 3,UoU feet
A scotch tea planter in Ceylon, Mr..
MalcOlmson, is going % start plantations
in Mexico, and is now negotiating for
the transport Of so japanese coolies 10
In PaIestins the swallows are allowed
tho freedom not only of the houses ana
living rooms. but Of the mosques and
sacred tOmbS, where they build their
nests aud rear their young.
In 1850 the talleSt building in New York
was only five stories high, and the church
spires were conspicuous above them. Now
there is only one splre in the city is nlSn
as the tallest building.
Opponents Of High-Church practices,
who have D0en making trouble III -.
Ethelburgas, Bishopgate, Tor some time
past. are preparing to make similar dis
turbances in the other rituallsuc
churches Of London.
Strange as II may seem, the origin OF
the mitre is to be found in Acts H., ..
And there appeared unto them cloVeh
tongues like as Of hre, as II sat upon
each Of them" The mitre IS supposed 10
be a representation of these cloyen
tongues.
The proposal was made. at a recent
meeting OF the London Methodist Council
that the beginning of the twentieth cen
fury should be celebrated by that body
by raising a fund Of GLOpOO from LCUOtV
Methodists in the United Kingdom.
Ten sheepmen of Drews Valley Lake
county, ore. each agreed 10 pay d neigh
Dor - cents for every wildcat, cougar, or
coyote he killed in tho vicinity of Drews
Gap. and within three months he made
nearly 500 for himself. besides making
the surrounding country safer for sheep,
and then he doubled his earnings by
means of the public bOunties.
According 10 recent statistica, returns
the total number of women over the age
of is employed in factories and workshops
in the British Islands is q little over 1000
600 of which II per cent. belong 10 trades
unions. Most Of these have a membership
in common VI th the men. but there ar,
some separate WOmen's unions, organized.
differed, and conducted exclusively by
female members.
At AdIia. in the italian Province Of
RoyigO. eighteen miles from the Adriatic
Sea. two ancient vessels have been found
which. from the thickness ~ the plauks
must nave been used in seafarinE Vases
bones, and other objects were found In
them. The nails used were OF iron, with
broad heads. one vessel is 81 feet long
and 10 feet beam. In classical times Adria
was "a seaport, but the Adriatic has stead
lily reCeded
Rome built roads and bridges to last.
The new bridge across the Danube be-
tween Turn SEVERN, I'm ROumania. and
kladOYa, in Servia will be built on the
pillars Of the old bridge al the same
place erected by the Emperor Trajan, the
Roumanian engineers having found that
the old Roman work Will stand the strain
after ! 80 years. y statue Of Traidn will
be put up in the middle of the bridge.
british responsibility has been defined
IN Il ..ffF
charged with begging, and the definition
seems TO have been accepted by tn,
Magistrate. for he discharged her. Sh,
said. I'm respectable WOman-a tai
loress. Why, ] make trousers for Mr.
Newton-Mr. Newton. the Magistrate ]
mean. If I'm respectable enough 10 make
q magistrates trousers I'm good enough
for anything"
New Orleans street-car conductors have
a champion in northern woman. who
entered car, and. kicking off her muddy
goloshes, placed them beside Aer feet. Tt
her great surprise the conduo&r produced
a newspaper. and. with the air OF a gal
liant gentleman, asked that he be per
mitted 10 wrap up the overshoes for her
He made a neat package. and now she
says that New Orleans street-car con
ductors are the most polite she has ever
met.
This month the order Of Cisterclan
Monks celebrates the SOth anniversary
OF its foundation by the Benedictine Ro-
bert of Molesme. at CtteauN, I'm Bun
gundy. I'm 1898. In the thirteenth cen
fury the order possessed 2000 monasteries
i'm EuroDe. Its most famous member Is
st. Bernard Of Clairvaux. The Templars
and the Knights OF Aleantara. Calatrava
and Montesa in Spain and of Christ in
Portugal obtained their rules from IL
The Trappists are an offshoot OF the
order.
4 steel arch Is TO be thrown across the
NIAGARA river near Clifton. which will be