The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03

The reports to the British
Famine Government from India
;. show that only 100000 per-
UllueI sons are now receiving re-
Control lief from the regular famine
relief fund, of which number
1877 900 are in the Bombay presidency. This
is wonderful improvement over the con-
ditions that existed a year ago.
The rusty old ships that
War could neither fight nor run
and have therefore been kent
Vessels for anchored in the Bosphorus
T,.kou are to be replaced by some
VI NY more formidable war-vessels.
The Sublime Ports has just ordered Sl2,-
100000 to be spent in naval orders. This
is a remarkable feat in high finance as
the Turkish treasury is empty.
The introduction Of a pos
tai rate from England to
PennV New Zealand of one penny
two cents has been made
TOSldSe' the occasion of great rejoic-
ing in New Zealand. Mr..
Ward, the postmaster-general, was pre-
sented with a gold stamp for which 10,OS0
people had subscribed one penny each.
Australia refuses to accept New Zealand
letters with penny stamp.
Mr.. Kenrick Peck writes
80, this interesting letter to the
Old Age London Times: THE follow
in Engandwaggeerr '1 made te1 by me py year
ago, may interest some Of
your readers The wager was that 1
should find recorded in your obituary
columns for the year 1900 Il daily average
of five deaths of persons who had attain
ed the age of eighty years or upwards.
f,,. + I,,a T fv,I
1,SS2 instead of 1860. An average rather
exceeding six, instead of five. The pro-
portion of these deaths to the total num-
Der Of deaths advertised is somewhat be-
tween fifth and sixth. The chief death
tally occurred in the early months of
the year-viZ.: January to May. BY far
the most fatal month was January
Strange to say, the June and July totals
exceeded those of December thus, appar-
emily, adding another nail to the coffin
of the now discredited adage that a green
Yule makes a fat churchyard' y
The wonderful feat accom-
American plished by the Pencoyd Steel
Bridge ara fridge eN in twents-eight
Qn;lJo.o days showed what American
Ou''u't o. mechanical energy could dc.
Another example is given by the Gokteik
viaduct in the Shan Hills, which is the
highest railway Dr10Se IN the world, ana
has been successfully completed by the
Pennsylvania Steel Company, and was
formally handed over to the Burma Rail-
ways Company on December 18th
Osman Pasha. who is now
refugee in Europe, is new
USilldll ertheless a sufficiently inn
portant parsonage to send
fdSlld, cold chills up the Sultan'S
spine by threatening that as
soon as the season permits he will enter
Kurdistan without any one being able to
stop him and will unite both Kurds and
Armenians under his banner, and, with
out separating Kurdistan and Armenia
from the Turkish Empire, free them from
the demoralizng tyranny Of the Sultan.
The Sultan may well fear this threat, for
in Kurdistan and Armenia at present
murder and brigandage are recognized
forms Of industry of which the people
are getting very tired
A case of interest to the
Scotch legal profession has been
,aj raised in the Court of Ses-
women sion, Edinburgh. Margaret
,uuvorc Howard Strang Hail.. be-
La" oio' longing to Kim, in the west
OF Scotland, applied for admission to the.
law agents examination. The Court or
dered the Incorporated Society Of Law
Agents to lodge answers to her petition
If they had any; and the society in their
anSwars stated sthaf no lady had ever