The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-07-20
HUNBEAMs.
"A fool and hi. hair are soon parted

Only three daily papers are published IN
Arkansas.
Senator Sprague, rumor says, intends trying
Chinese labor in his mills In Rhode fslano.
The Chinese influx has given way IN impor.
lance in the Pacific states to the grssshopper and
cricket immigration.
The absurd whiskey meter having Just been
abolished, all our drinking songs will probably he %,
In future to " common meter"
The entire police force Of q Pennaylyanis
resigned in body the other day, from lonesome
ness. II was man named Jones'
-Pullman's palace cars now run no further
than ogden on the Pacific railroad Reason. guard
with the Central Pacific Company.
The lady passengers on the Natchcz were 90
overcome by the defeat Of tina, steamboat by the
Robert K. Lee that they wept profuSeiy.
The Cncinnstians are furious because q
country club from Illinois tied the fsmo1s ID stock
ings 10 game OF base ball last Monday.
Attempts are being made to turn the tide
Of summer travel toward Lake wnnipsc ,yee b. tell
ing ofthe capture OF 2oX.po1nt trout thcrs.
"A boy in Allegheny, Pa lost hi' speech on
the Fourth OF July BY the explosion OF nrc.crlcSeL
which had been accidon ally thrown into his NTH.
"A man and his wife recently celebrated their
silver wedding. week later they quarrc,d over the
presents they had received. and the husband applied
for divorce.
One Of the most successful journalists a
Philadelphia was glad few years ago write tn. scr.
mon. OF clergyman In West Phis eiphia for Ave dob
lars week.
--vincennes, Indiana, has organized a brass
baud OF which the local paper says It IL composed
entirety OF young mon VINO have no knowle ise what
ever ofmusc."
The great success Of the poem celebrating the
"skoodoow abskooSsls," river OF Mane has melted
a Down Easter to produce some rival sta1zs' on the
" Jimskttcook."
Madame paren, Roaa Ia thirtv.one vears ~
age She made her FIRST appearance In oH'ra on tho
island OF Malta, as Appina In "sonnamhuli," when
only seventeen years Id.
1t is estimated by some mathematical genius
that would cqulre q canal nve miles lo1; nf feet
deep md two hundred feet broad. to hold the beer
annually con .umcd In Europe.
A negro poet in Kentucky has written an
epic OF two thousand verses on the robslon. and N
travelling about singing parts Of t to procure monei
whercwlth to publish It comp lete.
I'm 1852 proposition prohibiting negro suf-
fragc carried In Illinois by = majority OF 1900.
Less than 5000 votes cast against the negro suf
rage clause OF the new constitution in 1870
"A Berlin correspo dent says that elf you
to hear the Prussians talk you woad think them
all Americans In their progression and sal1 AL Ike
our countrynea they believe Themselves uylnci
ble."
AT Cinci matt, one Of the singers Of the TO
cent saengerfest ling shown ab out deaf nd dimD
asylum by MS entertainers, sat iowa Icll aHltfp
Being walked by attendant, he ordered -four oeera
and was elected.
Two hounds in Middletown, Del, recently
took after fox for their amusement, au after Iona
chase run the poor follow down and killed aims then.
lying down railroad to rest, were run over and
| killed In their tara.
The English woman who writes under the
| name Of ouida Is described NJ q nne locking and
styii.n woman between thirty and forty she dresses
with great elegance, lets her bacs hair now loose
| over her shoulders.
| "A lady in Michigan writes TO the New Bed.
ford Shipp'sg lie, ,or information Of person wbs
"saled from somewhere II whaling voyage, between
1876 and 1893" She supposes the port either New Bed
ford. Nantucket, or Ncwburyport.
The editor Of the South.ra Chu,rhman maker
the following extraordinary threat othr Rltualiss
"For evident II some OF US going 10 use copss
AMI Others OF ne nothing bat SUPPLE a. Others OF 10
will discard tAe u.s. OF Q II garments whatao'ver!"
Philadelphia papers are grumbllng because
the Quaker CITY can't have Battle OF the Boyne. Our
ncighbors should be tent TOR the present with the
engine nehts and wait unit, they attain to mctrooo-
tan greatness Tor the larger enjoyment OF rcglouI
riot
Alta recent Sunday-schoo, concert speaker
askei the little boys which they would prefer 70 do
steal dollar, or have dollar stolen from them2'
immediately hand raifed, and little urchin can
>didly answered, please, Sir, I'D rather steal .
dollar"
The new anGsth-iic hydrate Of chloral is az
almost miraciI"ds remedy In delirum tremens. Or.
Ge"--e Balfour, OF Edinburgh, has tried 1t in
which was one OF maniacai violence. Two hafdr'ehm
doses hours interval produced sleep, aud cured
| the patient.
"A teacher, wishing TO explain to a little gn
the manner In which q lobster casts Its shell when II
has outgrowu IT,. said; What do you do when you
have outgrovn your clothes2 You throw them aside
don't you?" "o, no." replied the little on; I'VE let
! ont the tucKs"
A party Of Yale students are exploring
Western Nevada and the Rocky Mountains for fossr
remains. The young gentlemen need not have gone -
far for the purpose. The two promin ent pohtes
organizations OF the country afford fossil remains II
alum dance nearer home.
An American making the tour of Ireland
stepped into a school OF forty child in tn
Black Valley. and IN the midst OF his taiN WITH the
children, asked ,hem what they expec,cd to 40 wnen
they became men and women, and with ono Inspiration
they responded, 90 to Amer lea"
Mr.. Bessemers plan for obviatng sea sick
ness, by means OF m oscilatng chamber upp red o.
bearings similar to those OF compass will shortly b
put to practical test chamber Of this description
is in course OF cons tmctlon in England and Vii
be nted when completed. TO steamer OF about ~
| tons
The editor of an Augusta ARK paper saw
Jer Davis the other day at a hotel In Memoirs lie
says; 1.-The last time We him down 10
Georgia, rid ng thlny By our thin lines, reviewing
And there he sits eatlng-a grayhcaded Confederate
postage stamp He wasn't lnsurlng lives when We 10
| longed 10 him"
The Sultan has ordered the Grand vizicr 70
appoint acommis'on Of three members u Immediate
y visit France and England q study the svst'm Of he
ructon OF houses in Paris and London m order 10
Adolf for tho Iurssh capital ga mode OF aiding
which will AVOID for tue future any recurrence "
CONFIRMATION"
"A Chicago paper is responsible for the story
that few days since some boysin inst city dropped
anvil weighing 200 pounds out OF fourth story window
on the head OF an African who posing ana he hsd
them arrested. H. ead he willing to let the b6yt
have Fun but when they lammed a ge mmans," hai
down his eyes and spoiled 1t IN that way, the lsw
must tax. It's course.