The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-15 00:00:00

PRICE OF GOLD.

me quotation7ol gold at Paris Is about at par, syd
tae short exchange on London is tat. 15a. ver mterilug;
On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of
rre..lo4d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that
gold at the above price is slightly dearer in Yetis than 11'
London

BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.—News ha 3 ben
recsived at New York of the total loss of the ram Atlanta'
sold to Salnave's Government. She was wrecked near
Fortune Island. It is believed no lives were
Five small business stores in St. Joseph, Mobile/
were burned on Sunday morning, January 23d, and
William Foster, brother-in-la er of ex-Congressinaa,
Loan, perished in one of them. While a number of
firemen were trying to rescue Foster, the walls fell upo°
thorn, killing two and injuring five. One of the injured fa
not expceted to recover.-The Association for the Pre-
vention of Gambling in New York city last year expended
$18,150. The number of persons reported as frequenting
gambling- houses was 768, and the number of plaees closed
through the instrumentality of the association wa*,
230.-One hundred and fifty babies have been found
iu the little basket crib at the door of the NOR
York Foundling Asylum since the 20th of last Novera'
her. - Here is a " Personal " from the New York
Herald. "If ' Personal' of the 18th of January is from
thee, my Charlie, give me the first initial of thy next natne;,
and make sure that my poor broken heart can yet revive.
-A trip round the globe in 77 days and 21 hours is rub-
lished by the Erie Railway, the trip beginning by a jour-
ney over that road.--Young New York has bad but
single day's skattng this winter.-An Indian chief is the
most popular preacher on a Wisconsin circuit.-Montana
has a new paper called the Pick and Plow. It is published
at Bozeman City.- A Polish Count and an Austrian
General were among the lodgers in a New York station-
house on the night of the 25th of January.--A new paper,
called The Knife and Fork is announced. Let us hope that
it will be both sharp and pointed, or its readers will he,
apt to stick at reading, and cut buying it. -Punch an:
Judy.-The Apaches are industrious in Arizona. The'
have lifted the scalp of one out of every nine whites to
the territory.-At the recent Fat Men's Convention a!
Lewiston, Maine, there were estimated to be 50 tons of fat
men.-The latest theatrical sensation in New York is en-
titled "Buck, Buck, How many Horns; or, Gold at t65."---
A Chinese idol merchant has appeared in New York<
A, Berlin professor says that all children are born withbli) eyes ; the darker hues come later.- Wisconsia
has a weekly newspaper called the Lean Wolf.-TI
following is a suggestion of an American paper WI
it overloGks the fact that there can be no taxation,`it!!
representation • - There are 6,000,000 dogs in the United
States. A tax of $2 a head will produce $17,000,000. Off
with the income tax and on with the dog tax."-The fire
department of New York costs $1,000,000 per annum; °f
Boston, $240,000 ; of Chicago, $300.000 ; of Louisville/
$85,000 ; of Cincinnati, $3b3,000 •, of Baltimore, $95,549'
New York has two engines more than Philadelphia. Th°
discovery fs reported of a bed of pure sulphur, 135 feet if;
thickness and about 530 feet below the surface, on an island
in Bayou Choupique, in the delta of the Mississippi, withir;
ten miles of the soa.-lt is stated that the Government wfh
not only prosecute the father of the Welch fasting o'l
but also the committee who combined to keep her with'
out food.