The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-02 00:00:00

(From Judy.)

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What the Greek Government must teach the brigands—
The Grecian bend.

Have Rimmel's perfumed playbills been found to
answer ?—Certainly they have—they always give a scent.
THE (RAILWAY) TICKET. —An important meeting of the
ruling powers of one of the principal railway companies
was held last week, the object being to decide upon " the
best means of developing the passenger traffic." One
obvious means of doing this does not seem to have sug-
gested itself. Let these dignitaries think less of their
dignity and more of their charges, and also, just as an
experiment—lower both. The result will follow.
VERY LITTLE.—The Fenians are, it is said, up to
another move. This time they are "moving on Canada,"
though where they are going to move it on has not yet
transpired. The Canadians, however, are quite prepared
for these enterprising gentlemen, who must make up their
minds, if they are prospecting on future occupation of
Canadian soil, that the present possessors are quite deter-
mined to see them hanged first. In that case, very little
indeed of it will be sufficient for their requirements.

(From Fun.)

TIED TO TlME.—Watchmaker's apprentices.
Why should the Suez Canal improve the visionary
powers of Africa ? Because it makes it an eye-land.

PUTTING THE DONKEY BEFORE THE BARROW.-At a
meeting of the Golden-lane Free Ragged Schools and the
Mission to Costermongers, Lord Shaftesbury is reported
to have said :—" He saw they had a ,Costermongers'
Donkey and Barrow Club, which he thought a very good
idea, and it would give him ranch pleasure to become a
member of it."—His Lordship did not say in which capa-
city he was qualified for membership. As an Earl he
cannot claim entrance as a barrow-night. What then ?

GOING TO SEE.—" Why, Mary, my dear, how is
this, I find you sitting here so comfortably with your
husband ; you told me this morning you had quarrelled,
and he had gone for a sailor ?" "I, father ! I told you
nothing of the kind." " Oh, nonsense ! lam sure you
had some words together." " Yes, father, so we had. He
asked me what o'clock it was ; I said I didn't know • and
so he left the house, saying he was going to see. Vhat's
all I told you."
THE SAPPHO'S VICTORIES.—A second naval
victory has been achieved by the American yacht Sappho.
This time it was an easy triumph, for she scared the Cam-
bria off the course, the race being over almost as soon as
it began. These two victories recall the proud times of
the America, and revive memories of the yacht building
genius of our country in the days of George Steers. They
were the days when the mercantile marine of the United
States stood without a peer upon the seas. We had the
most splendid clipper ships, the fastest and most complete
ocean steamers, the most superbly-modelled yachts, the
ablest and most accomplished seamen, and an aggregate of
mercantile tonnage that soon after stood at the head of a
list embracing all the commercial nations of the world.
Since then (and it was but a few years ago), what a vast
change ! Now comes this agreeable indication that
another forward movement has perhaps begun. Are we
to date the revival of our ocean supremacy from the
Sappho's victories, as we formerly dated from the America,
the Collins Line, the Flying Cloud, and the Great
Republic ?—Philadelphia Ledger.

At midnight, in a street in Omaha, a black horse,
bearing a ghostly figure clad in white, with long hair
streaming in the wind, recently appeared. The few
pedestrians in the streets fled at the near approach of
the apparition, save one, who at length mustered cour-
age, and, seizing the bridle of the coal-black steed, en-
forced a halt. Then spoke the " sheeted dead," awakened
by the stoppage, and explained. She was a somnam-
bulist, residing near the corner of Eighteenth and Web-
ster-streets, and having escaped from the precautions
which usually interfered with her sleep-walking tenden-
cies, had actually saddled, bridled, and mounted her
father's horse. Having explained, she hastened from her
interlocutor, not exactly putting spurs to her horse, since
that was under the circumstances impracticable. liy the
time it is supposed she had returned to her father's
mansion, the other pedestrians again made their appear-
ance on the street, armed with sticks, stones, and brick-
bats, with a view of attacking the ghost. The explana-
tion repeated by their braver comrade was ungraciously
received.

VALUE OF MINUTES AND PUNCTUALITY.--The
shocking casualty on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, near
St. Louis, the other day, by which nineteen persons lost
their lives and about thirty others were badly injured,
appears to have been caused by bad regulation of the
watches of the conductors. At the moment of the colli-
sion the watch of one conductor was about five minutes
past five o'clock, while the watch of the other was twenty
minutes past five. On a single track railway such dis-
crepancies are fatal. There was more than usual neces-
sity for uniformity of time with the conductors' watches
on this occasion, for one of the trains was behind, time,
and trying to make it up. The lost minutes and the
variation among the watches resulted in a list of casual-
ties as large as those shewn by some of the battles of the
Revolution. It is a satisfaction to know that the great
railways leading from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, 13alti_
more, Reading, and New York are free from this risk of
disaster, as they are all double-tracked, so that trains
running in opposite directions cannot run into each other,
even if the conductors' watches should disagree,__
Philadelphia Ledger.

There is a field for missionary labour a long way
this side of " India's coral strand." That is, if the Rev.
H. G. Bays, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
and his accounts of Logan's Chapel, near Marysville,
Blount County, Tennessee, can be depended upon. He
says he went thither on the Bth inst., in a buggy, with
another gentlemen and two ladies, armed only with the
weapons of spiritual warfare, and intending to preach
in the church. He found the edifice barricaded and
barred. A crowd of about 40 ruffians surrounded the
buggy, armed with knives, pistols, and bludgeons, yell-
ing so as to frighten the horses and the ladies. Their
leader, William Goddard, brandishing a formidable stick
declared he would kill Mr. Bays if he attempted to
alight. Finding the crowd deaf to remonstrances, Mr.
Bays turned his horse and withdrew. This splendid
opportunity is now open to missionaries, with a fair
chance for the crown of martyrdom, declined by the rev.
Bays.
ACTUAL GASLIGHT OR THEORETICAL MOON-
LIGHT.—The present position of this question of light on
dark nights is rather obscure. The Finance Committee
of Councils are in favour of light in and after 1871'; but
seem to think we can get on well enough without gaslight
on the remaining nights of 1870 when the moon ought to
shine, according to notice in the almanacs. It is not easy
to understand why this year should be kept in the dark,
after it is conceded to be necessary to have light every
night in future years, unless it is a question of keeping
appropriations within the limits of the tax levy. This,
we presume, is the case. It is a good rule, but the tax-
payers would like to see it applied more frequently to im-
provident appropriations, such as those to supernumerary
supervisors, &c., and less frequently to essential reforms
like this question of light on dark nights, the only effec-
tive way to ensure which is to have the lamps lighted
every night, as they are in all well-regulated cities of
the rank and importance of Philadelphia.—Philadelphia
Ledger.

DIE OLD PARIS STORY. —lt will do no good; it
will not prevent the same thing occurring again ; but I
must tell the story. An English lady living in
Paris on a very convenient income for one who is
not likely to be troubled with a husband, gives musi-
cal parties with propriety, ices, and tea. Foreign
nobility honour her drawing-room, and she, becomes
intimate with a gentleman connected with a banking
house," and who is the younger brother of Count C--,
one of the oldest families of France, as the lady informs
her friends. One day the banking gentleman observes to
the English lady, " My dear Mdlle. K—, why do you
not keep a carriage ? " " Carriage, indeed ; my fortune
does not permit me to do so." I am not going to tell a
long story. The lady places a certain few thousands in
the hands of the banking gentleman, sets up a
carriage, and receives for two years a magnificent interest
for the money she has placed in her friend's hands "to
turn over and negotiate." One fine morning she is told
that unfortunate speculations have occasioned the loss of
her property and more. The descendant of one of the
oldest families of France is off to Baden ; the lawyers can
do nothing for her ; she must give upher large apartments,
&c. This is no new history. Now, ought single English
ladies of any age to be allowed to come abroad alone ?
They always get into trouble if they do so. They marry
a foreign scamp ; they turn Roman Catholic ; or get done
out of their money. Something of the sort is pretty nearly
sure to occur. —Paris Letter.

SINGULAR CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.—
At the annual vestry meeting of the Stockton-road
Church, Sunderland, on Monday, the Rev. Canon Cockin
(rector) presiding, Mr. Henry Ritson stated that on
Easter day he observed that a sufficient quantity
of the elements in the administration of the
Eucharist had not been provided, and that
the rector, to make up the insufficiency, cut the
bread with a pocket knife ; the rubrics provided for
such occasions in a short reconsecration service, and
sooner than submit to a repetition of such an outrage, he
would move that proper implements be provided for the
purpose. The rector, in reply, deeply regretted that so
serious a charge should have been brought against him at
that meeting, and that an individual should have occupied
himself during the solemn celebration with closely criticis-
ing what was being done. He explained that he
generally estimated the quantity of bread which would be
required for the Holy Communion, and that on this oc-
casion there were two pieces short. The general practice
was to break one or two pieces, but that was attended
with inconvenience ; so he retired as privately as pos-
sible to the Table, and cut with a penknife, as Mr. Ritson
had said—two pieces into four. It was a very extraor-
dinary
proceeding to have brought a thing forward which,
in itself, he conceived to be perfectly harmless ; though
he did not mean to say he would do it again if he could
Irelp it.