Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-09
Curious COMBINATIONS.
(Pittsburg Dispatch.)


co plant.
A Chinaman eats twice as much meat
as a japanese.
In the whole Of Greece there are only
l52 newspapers.
Bootblacks are seldom seen on the
streets of Berlin.
Silver money 80 years old is still In cir
culation in some parts of Spain.
A map of Jerusalem in mosaic, over
l.5OO years old. has been found in Pales-
tine.
Governor Black, Of New York, has
signed a bill to prohibit the sale OF liquor
in department stores.
Massachusetts contemplates the expen-
diture of 81 900 for the illumination OF the
dome of the State House.
Ii is estimated that at least 1.cOoVO
pounds of rubber is annually used IN the
manufacture of bicycle tires.
The average duration of human NE In
European countries is greatest in sweden
and Norway and lowest in Italy and Aus
tria.
Admission TO Holyrood Palace ana
chapel will hereafter be free, the BRUSH
Government having decided to discontinue
the taking of fees.
Berlin bakers now wrap up their leaves
so as to avoid the dirt that comes from
handling the bread.
Bombay newspapers are responsible for
the tale of a local crow which has built
it's nest of Spectacle frames stolen one
Inv one from the stock of Baboo optl-
clan.
Italy has followed New Yorks lead in
fighting the splitting habit. Notices in
many streets and railroad cars request
passengers to abstain on the grounds OF
decency and health.
Southampton harbor now has war
boom said TO be the largest In existence.
1t is Clio feet long and is held up when
i'm position by five gunboats stationed
across the channel.
one French citizen Is doing his best
TO save his country from depopulation.
A new recruit in Paris startled the En-
rolment Board by announcing that ne
was the thirty-fourth child of his father.
Munster, in Westphalia, has a pubic
school which has just celebrated the
,lC0th anniversary Of its foundation. IL
is the St. Paul Gymnasium, and was
originally a convent school.
Mr.. Lea. of Northumberland fame,
left an estate of S5,S5OOoO; his partner,
Perrin, left nearly as much. They began
49,
English country town.
In Germany $1,000 workmen were en-
ployed in bicycle-factories in 1896. This
does not include those making only sepa-
rate parts, such as rubber tires, etc, who
would probably bring tho number up to
10000
Hunger stones" have been seen in tn"
Rhine this winter. They appear only
when the river is very low, and the date
Ct their appearance is Their cut INTO them.
They are believed TO forbode a year of
bad crops.
In Cyprus the first article of gold of
Mycenean workmanship discovered on
the island has just been found. liz Is a
pate of gold 3 inches long by is inches
broad. and on it are the figures of a
sphinx and two beardlesS warriors
iThe German Society of Milwaukee,
Wis, is raising a fund for the compilation
and publication of history or the Ger
man people of that State from the time
of the first settler up to the present.
The compiler has not yet been selected.
During the academic year 1861 the
q German universities granted 2.3n
doctors degrees, l.lS7 OF them in medi-
cine, $40 i'm philosophy, S35 In law. and
~ i'm theology. ErlaDgen seems to be the
fayorite place for the final examinations,
| 332 degrees having been taken there.
England has learned a lesson from
the jameson raid. Mr.. II. Cavendish
who was making preparations TO lead
a large and heavily-armed scientific
| expedition into the country on the south
| crn border of Abyssinia, has been noti-
! fled by the government that II Is advisa-
| Bile for him to postpone his project.
At Roubaix, one of the Socialist strong
holds of France. the ll.0OO public-school
| children receive free food and clothing at
| the expense nj the town. Their dinner at
| school consists of soup, bread vegeta'
| bles. meat, and glass OF beer. AT the
| beginning of the summer and OF winter
each child receives a complete SUIT ol
clothes.
Gambia has q fish known as the pro-
! topterus or komtok. which burrows in
| the mud at the bottom of the stream II
| which IL lives at the first promise or the
| approaching dry season, ana remains
| hurled for weeks, sometimes months,
| until the rainy season begins. During this
| period II lives quite without water and
| with very little air.
| .Whuppity Scoorie" was celebrated AZ
| Lauark on March LIST, as II has been Tor
| 200 years past. The schooi-boys gathered
| at the burg crossing in the evening Wit
! their caps tied 10 piece OF StrlAs' Al
! O'Clock the church bell rang wheh they
| marched around the church three times
| and then made rush Tor the "ehsate'
| where they fought the boys of New
| ranark. using only the caps as weapons
and later driving their opponents back
| marched through the town chanting al
| ancient song of triumph
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