The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-09-06
sUNBEhMs.


Arkansas gardener has raised sweet potstoe,
three feet long.
Milwaukee is said TO be the large.. gram
| market in the world.
| Topeka, Kansas, contains sixty six gambler,
| and four policemen.
An Ohio youth 10 years old has been LODGED
in Jail for whipping his mother ana little brother
| "A nephew Of Baron Won Motkc is said 10 h,
soldier IN tine United staes Army. at San Antoido
Texas.
Somebody has discovered that in forty wear,
ssnufteker devotcs twenty. four to blowlp,
| his nosc.
Good Health remarks that what people call
"bte" is generally HOLSTERS. clans, some lndlec,L
bic food.
The papers Of New Orleans are complaining
OF the heavy crops OF erase and weeds growing in
come OF the streets.
The smoke from the burning woods In Ore.
gon dense interfere with the navigation Of
| the Columbia river.
The average wages Of ell tho laborers EN-.
poyed in the coal mines Of Belgium, includIng women
and children, are MY cents day.
English journals boast that their navy 1,
stronger than has ever been since Great Britain
was nrst called the mistress OF the seas
Some frenzied Frencbmen in the department,
OF Dordogue burned death inoffcuxve young
man suspected OF being Prutsian spy
A cargo Of tea is now sent from Shanghai or
Foo Chow TO New York. via san Francisco, In afty
days, o cost OF only % % per 100 pounds.
A tombstone in Maine graveyard, cree ted
TO the memory Of wife, bears this inscription;
Tears cannot restore theei therefore weep"
Every lady who educates her servants into
greater truhfulness, fidelity selfrespect, and orderly
ways of life is doing missionary work OF the best sort
The progress OF virtue in England Is Illus
trated by the decreasing amount Of conscience money
annually RENTED to the Chancellor OF the EIcheQuer
Coffee leaves are now extensively sold in
London for tea leaves, and AFFORD not unpleasant and
innocuous beverage, very grateful to tho palates Of
the poor.
"A young man in q Western town lately OPEN
ed a clothing store and was sent to Jail for H. Tho
clothing store should be mentioned belonged 70 an
Other man.
The London Saturday Rcrieto says that,
waving prejudice and principle II is inclined 10 hold
the profession OF spy preferable TO that Of
rcspon 'ent
-vincland, y. j., has a distillery, but no
lanois allowed TO be sold IN the township vrta-
v,neland,
"A Southern census taker says that they gen
orally have to guess at the ages OF the negroes Tho
freedmen date their by family events the time OF
~ Inch they cannot rccolec
George Augustus Sala, who knows whereof
he speers Says: a drunken cannot enjoy cigar
ut all and a sober one cannot appreciate any wine
save thin clarct while he smoking"
-Lcayenworth is said TO best OF man who
50 tail that ms Likeness cannot be got Into tie.
ture local artist hns rante hts head and shouldcr
aud announces that he will be continued next week.
--" SIR" said the astonshed lnndidy TO
traveller who had Just sent his cup forward rog the
seventh time, lyon must be fond Of coffee"
'Ncs madam, em." he replied, " or should never
have drank 80 much water TO get little"
They have turned up an ancient grissh0n.
per IN Missouri measuring four inches IN l.noth m
inch the back md having hmd lcgs tlt'r md
one hiatt inches Ia length It Is supposed b, The
gra' chopper mentioned b the preacher a8 .a,y "
become a Ourucr.'
1t having been stated That sparrows viii
hunt mosquitoes well as worms, chap over Jcr-
fey procured couple, put them In his bedroom, sad
told them to hunt H. was somcUhat d..spstCd, whoa
he returned to the to nrd that tho u'-quii0es
had swallowed tire srarrows instead OF the vice
| 1t is reported that the neutrality Of Belgium
has been violated by quantities Of wolves and via
boats living before the r.ussans into the AItcnhcs.
Tie inhabitants Of the frontier town, have fucceetcd
DO 'o''r'3i"H s.tp. Yin" q.'r''y "'g"r'" IN on"
instance many NJ hfccn Wild bOars old Iul HHAg,
were killed 10 a few hoGf5
"A prominent Legislative lobbyist in Clicaco
has sued the Illinois Central RAILROAD Copp,1, for
professional services In securing the pasagc by thu
last Legislature OF n bnl IN which that Company was
interested. The lobbyist CLAIMS that he was he paid
nye thousand dollars Tot his service and the Compquy
having failed to keep ITS lie comes mo court
| foTGediese.
A man in Harrison county, Mo-, put an end 10
his existence the other In q novel manner In his
| travels he came to farm where men were pr'.hing
| out grain, and asked leave to drive the 100 clue.
Finally he got permission 10 feed IT, and hay FED ior
time nodded the driver to put on moro w,r.
Standing stil until the cylinder was dying around sta
rapid rate and every hal become alarmed NJ tho
swim motion, he jumped head foremost against the TUT
| Of the cylinder and was instantly Killed.
| The Turcos, who, by the way, have been
pretty nearly cleaned out in the recent battles IN
| France, are said by NJ. About to be "belul fll as
| night" Writers from the German side decrjbc them
| ne "black rs Erebus and ugly as wildcats. Their
manners not engaging. II 1.-THE Of the horrors
related Of them by number OF independent witnesses
be true their fcrocity bestlal, their employment
IN this war should be much cond emned that OF thu
Ipdians by England in our war OF Independence.
One Gearing, of Frankfort Pa, died re.
Gently, md his father and three brothers, Of Pus-
burgh, went to attend the funeral The latter and tie
| eNton were In the cemetery selecting burial loo
| when thunder storm came up, and they an sought
| shelter under one umbrella. A bolt Of Lightning de-
sccndcd, killing the sexton and two OF the and
prOstatng the father and the other son ono OF thu
sons was terribly mutt atcd. his left side being tom
open Ihero were four funerals instead OF The next
| day.
| A Quaker maiden Of Indiana, who had rcach'
ed The age ofsxty. accepted matrimonial Offer
man who belonged TO the Prcsby terisn church ara
began to prepare for hei wedding Asuulla Go'. atom
OF Friends waited on her, and demonstrate VIII Lor
Tor marrying out OF meeting. The bride ,.cct hoard
the visitors patiently ana said LOOK here i've h"
whiting Just sixty years for the meeting me.
and II the meeting don't want me nafr, out ONT,
whc don't the meeting bring along its boys The del
efat on departed IN oicncc.
The ST. Louis RtpuJlicaR gives the origin Of
Mr.. C'ementsS nom de plume OF MARX TWAIN tNus;
Clements used 10 write up.rver liens aud occasional
flF Inc nd hnu