The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-08-22
SUNB EAMS.


The potato raisers in New Jersey have got in
their last rows OF
A 5000 ton haystack Is announced as an
agricultural wonder in lllir ois
The product OF pins in Connecticut is esti.
mated TO be 10. 1ie 100000 annually.
New England comp lains greatly Of a recent
and unusual invasion Of mosquitoes.
American female authors are more shy Of
giving their ages than their transatlantic cousins.
The fifteenth of August was not fete day
for Napoleon, this year, as usual, but fate dav.
Masks are worn in the surf at Newport To-
preserve such compilations ~ viii not wash.
Gen. Spinner Is called the man that writes
name on the greenbacks that looks like q string Of
eels."
Dickens used to accuse people who criticised
his guady waistcoats, Of interfering with his vested
rights.
Small women seldom dress we'll, and tho
is that they imagine themselves as tall as any
one else.
Buffers Dutch Gap Canal breeds mutitudcs
OF frogs which are becoming fayorIte article Of food
in virginia.
The youth who cried "Exccsior" didn't
know that he was naming We ont OF every six saloons
in the country.
Some one has made the estimate that there
arc twelve deaths from coal oil explosions each day 10
the United states.
Honorable Artillery Of Boston their camp In Boston
Oh the 9th OF September.
AT late fair in Nantucket, two huge sperm
candles were exhibited In the art department q,
monuments Of Greece"
The withdrawal of British troops from Cana
da will necesstate augmentation OF the war appro
priations OF the Dominion to about 100000 year
What matters Z" the light Of other days."
about which poets sing much, 10 view OF the light Of
all days which everybody recognizes In THE SUM-
-Er glish sportsmen, instead Of shooting IN
Scotland where the privilege is dear, are now going 10
Tunls Trlpol, where game is plcnty and shooting
free
While Mr.. Greeley is guided in all political
matters at present. by his favorite shoemaker Mayor
o'Hhl makes no move without consulting with hp
tailor.
The greatest length Of New England is about
$50 mics. and iis creates, breadth 800 miles. Is
rowest part between Boston aud West stockbridge
1856 miles.
Mile. Olympic Audouard, the brilliant advc
cate OF "womans rights has volunteered for the pur
pose Of nursing the sick and wounded soldiers Of tns
army OF the Rhine.
A stranger lately went TO the village Of Storm
Lake, Iowa, to inspect HE purchase OF section Of
land and found that It located In the centre OF the
lake. lie had paid $50 an acre.
An Illinois paper regularly appears with
three blank columns which headed thus; especial
kOtlcfs-lhcte Cnlumns Fcse4NCl IDT INost nut
| chants who ought to advertise"
The New Orleans police are distributing
poisoned among tho dogs OF that city, Aspeeisl
order prohibits them nom administering sausage"
to any dog who has paid the tax.
| from statistics recently published il appears
that reducing currency gold the average rate OF
wages paid in the United States In 1861 was 1885 yer
| cent greater than in Great Britain.
The largest room in the country IL in mill
on the shetucket River n l. II Is 10 Zee long ny I!
| wide The building Itself not yet quite completed
will be 9iUO feet long IL wide, and four stories high
There is a strange story afloat that DR.. fiv-
inrston has been compeed 70 marry native princess
IN The interior OF south Africa aud Is either ashamed
to return home or is not allowed Iy his iatherinawt to
leave.
A woman not far from Atchison, No, whose
husband had just been b1ricd by the Masonic fater-
nifty said 70 q friend IN giving account q the ohse.
qules "oh. yor ought u have been thor.-ge lad q
splendid time"
-reunsyhnnia il vigorously enforcing the
law passed by its ast Legislature prohibiting persons
who have not graduated with tho degree ot " D. or
who have failed to take out county license, from
| practicng medicine.
To what extremities the confirmed runstoI
is sometimes driven may he seen by ~ '1wi1si
Consider the house r structure; oon.il'r tho house c
shelter; considcr the house home; ard Wcui . then
consider the Eousatoricl
A lonr-coninued drouth in View England
recalls thr story OF minister Of New Ham shire, Who
prayed for rain in Tins fashion: 80, Lord prny foi
ranl Not trsrin duy NJ rain, such Is rlers az Tie
fnce Of natur hut zu sozzn' ran, such % asu
. All cay ami pre- ~ muca a.. r-ht."
"A census has Just been taken Of the town
! | and island ~ Nutrr,ct Macs, s0owr; i,s!i Taos
and aso7 fcmalcs, n - il9l persons. IN" nnmh'r Of
inhabitants In Is wac ie'9 Dccrc1s' IN ayc years,
ssactly ijo The mos. significant fact how yer aoout
tho present census Of tie island Is that &c shows the
females to pre9ondetate the males TO the numoe'
? | Of 40.
e The New Bedford people must he very for
giving md patient gentleman in that city svsr,
m and four sections OF street have been boarded NJ
TO make the quiet Fences put across where
. | people are comfortably sick" and recently In the
north part OF the city two sections OF street were
closed four weeks bccause woman had very severe
boil on her neck. which possibly dangerous few
days.
The doors Of Dckens's library nj GodShill
are covered on tho nsdc with imitation covers OF ODD
imacirary WORKS. clristenc1 in merry mouen" ~
himself and klndret sriri'si "Catrs Iv's.' III nn'
! | volumes; "Lfe ~ Zimmerman by him'clfi " Gaia
osues Of statues 10 tho DnSe OF Wellington y large
vols 1.-THE orli" one very thin svo.i Hanging th'
Best Policv"by Our WISE Forefatncrs; a 9l'f AntN
" biography" lsr-cGuartos; Eucyc oprll 1t knowt
/ edge" A skeleton nnodecmo ;" Peep at the iyIa
3 uids"5 vols. rive Minutes in China gigahu
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