Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The population of Malta. about 2o0.ooo.
relies wholly for its milk SUPPLY on inc
goat.
cats and other beasts Of prey reflect
NV times as much light from their
eyes as human beings.
The tonnage of merchant ships In
course of construction in Great Britain
is less than at any time snce 1880
On a diet IF carob beans, a little, and
provide. four and a half to five pints OF
milk daily.
Because he found it utterly impossible
to please everybody with his decisions, q
Mayor OF the little French town OF St
FINLAND hanged himself with his scarf
OF Office
\ woman's right woman. wearing
roughly handled by Welmar Germany
policeman, who thought her a man III
worlanS clothes.
Fish were contained in net suspended
across the church at the Thanksgiving
service for the harvest on land and sea
held in the Church OF 81 Mlchael S
Mount, Cornwall.
Water IS so scarce IN the Japanese
Island of Oshma that 1t is the custom
for bride to take a large tub OF drink
ing water with her to her new home as
a kind OF doWry.
An American firm IS putting in q. sys-
tenn Of electrical fire alarm apparatus
for the city OF Hanover, and has under
negotiations contracts for installation
in other German cities.
John Clinton Gray, elected Justice of
York on the Democratic ticket, did not
spend q cent in securing the nomination
or election TO the Office.
Ocos, formerly one OF the principal
Mexican ports on the Pacific coast, has
almost completely disappeared in the sea.
owing to the sinking of the harbor bet
tom after an earthquake.
\ rattresnake that is five or six feet in
length will yield tablespoonful of venom
two or three times month. II takes its
poison sacs at least a week to fill again
after they have been emptted-
In the Punjab the biggest medical I'M
dertaking the world has yet seen has
begun. The whole population OF 10000
Orders for 5000 doses day have been
given out.
On March 50, 1900. a law went into ope-
ration in France limiting the hours Of
labor to ten hours and thirty minutes
day in all factories employing mixed
help-that is to say, employing women
and children as well as men.
English trades unions are for direct
I
S-hour day; NATURALIZATION Of land, rail-
ways. and mines: old-age pensions. tenn
perance reform. and courts of arbtra-
ton are among the principal demands.
A tunnel under the Thames for the &C
comnlodation Of pedestrians has been re-
Gently completed and opened to the pub
lie. Il is tube Il feet in diameter. l.217
feet long, with the top thirteen feet be-
low the river-bed. It is accessible by
electric elevators and a spiral iron rail-
way at either end.
Theodore Hansen, the new first secre-
tary of the Russian Embassy in Wash
ington. is master of the piano. his touch.
technique, and expression being almost.
If not quite. equal to- those of the great
professionals. Mr.. Hansen is particu-
larly happy In his rendering of works
belonging to the modern school.
4 phenomenon OF the volca mic destruc-
ton of st. Pierre still unexplained is
the instanta neousr d1sintegration OF all
metals. The market, a large hall cover
ing 1000 square metres. which had been
entirely and solidly rebuilt Of steel after
the s~vc1ona Snf 1891 SUaS anuihfJa with