The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-09-15
5UNBEAMS.

Inc outhiue
The theatre Of war is about the only one
where back seats desirable
An enraged man tears his hair; but an en-.
| ragged woman tears her husbands.
Thieves don't have = very quiet life Of 70, uota
withstanding they take things so easy.
Tho Chlan Government have abandoned the
| attempt to conquer the Araucanian Indians.
New Orleans complains Of a glut in tho TO-
bscco market, owing to tho having prevented or.
| cgn purchased
"A Western contemporary annihilatcs Ma.
polcon by calling him tho dragged somnambulist offs
| crumblng dream"
The young ladies Of Rondout, n. Y, arc or.
| gsnizng a"soccty for the Encouragement OF Young
| Men Desiring to Marry"
| I'm Germany the coal mine owners hs-e
agreed to continue paying the wages OF their eoiors
| who are serving In the army.
| Richard Wagner has declared his intcntio,
TO write no moro operas lie says the Mestersngos-
| lie his last eft ort at stage music.
"A vagraut who had been fined reguarfN
week for begging, requested the magistrate To-
| me him by the year at q reduced rate.
"A singular coincidence was noted lately I'm
wcstford VI, the bell tolllng for tho death Of an M
FAINT year old and, within hour for old pcr
| son Of 100 living IN the next house.
That was q cheerful Fifteenth AmcndA
ment" who, when he arrested for stealing half q
carcass OF mutton from stall, put in defence thss
since he became voter he ought 10 take sides soo
| where" A
| A Western merchant is down on tho nova
| papers. He says; Thur amt sens in noospapes
advertising so long man is smart enun to tend "a
his bizuiz. and kin stand ct the dors and hoiief
| the fclie in" -
| The Washington correspondent Of the Pitts.
burgh CAroaicle explains Mrs. Lncoln's financial
barrnsmens by saying that she went largely 10 debs
without her husbands knowledge. during their rcstN
| dence in Washington
| A PRESBYTERIAN and Methodist had spire
| ed controversy in which the former quoted Largely
from the Epistle Romans "Ah," said the Other,
paul snvs So know, but then always thought thn
| he leaned too much toward Calvinsni."
| The old cathedral OF Franlfort-on-the-M Main.
which was destroyed by IRE few years ago, is TO b
rebuilt at n cost of nearly million of guilders. rns
King Prussia has contributed the sum Of two hun
drcd thousand guilders for this purpose.
Paris is without music. The majority Of The
chief musicians left their posts TO Join the army and
their brethren who remain In the capital seen TO %
chiefly employed in giving performances In aid OF @
| Patriotic Fund for the Sic< and Wounded
Miles Van Luyen, Of Madison, Mich, went
| home drunk last Friday, ana attempted TO heat hn
father. The Old gentleman. however. got the best d
him. whch mortified the young man that he 40
TEMPTED = commit suicide BY cutting his throat Wits
razor.
A short time since Mr.. Knott was tired il
an interior county OF ,orta for violation Of law,
The verdict Of tn Jury was We md the defendant
Knott guilty" Tho juiu" vas loss whether TO se-
tcnce Knott to sentence. lie took time 70 cons
| slider
| Tie average age OF American clergymen Al
death l. fonnd to he sXty-four years. which Is iouI
yoars more than the longevity the next most favor
ed class years than in the other professions.
aud from twelve nineteen years above that OF mo-
chaulcs artisans miners and operatives ct
A colored poet of Memphis has reduced the
1 NFuf,rA MN A
| rhyme az follows;
| crime to cut throat ,-
From putting in his vote"
The San Francisco butchers use no ice fui
their meat and need nome In that dry climate meal
keeps long time without Ice. and improves rapidly
long II remains sweet The consequence H. the butch
ere can keep their days before exposing
tor sale, and 1t is then tender and in the best possible
condition for the table
"A gentleman residing in Maine says that
when a boy he pleasant afternoon lay down bss
meath the shade OF large maple and fell asleep Hs,
baefootcd and judge Of hls horror upon awlking'
to discover that large striped snake had swaowcd
his great toe probably mis.akins It for toal. Hs
4 | snakeship was made to disgorge.
A transcendental sheet published somewhere
in new England Ia OF the opinion that gifted Oil
dlvney inspired when he conceived the dcs
Of his great Boston Jubilee. For .P. S. Gilmore
I but the hitting instrument or means used by Hghd
4 Power the universal omnipotent Father Of harmo
= MES, TO place before us this divine enjoyment"
Martin O'Connor was shot tn rough the sidi
by his sister.lnlaw. at Galesburg H., last Monday
n evening Mss spaudng the girl who shot hin, vas
In love with young man by the name OF Warvick,
who WAS at the house OF oConnor. The two men quar-
relied, and oConnor having got the best OF warwick
latter told the girl to take the revolver and shoot
), OConnor, which she did
/ Generals Barnard and Wright and Colonel
Niche, U. 8. Army, now at ST. Petersburg St
Il special commissioners from tho War Department to
examine and investigate Into the use OF iron TO cover
fortincations The commissioners have examined
Cronstad; and other works and have received eyery
4 attention from the Russian Minister Of War and nom
General Todleben.
y A patent medicine vender in a country via
lage was dlating to crowd upon the wonderful Gu
n cheney OF his iron bitters. why" said he, Steve
jenkins had only taken the bltteu week when no
wasthoyed into prison for murder and what does Steve
do but open vein In his take iron enough out
e OF his blood to make crowbar. with which he pres
II | the gates open and let himself out. Fact"
q An anecdote is related illustrative Of the sly
meas OF the Bohemians compared with the simple hon
T. esy OF the German and the candid unscrupulousno>
OF the Hungarian. In time three soldiers OF eaci
a Of these three nations, met in paror OF inn, oye
. the ch'mney-pece OF which hung watch. When hel
had gone the German said. "That IL a good watch
Z. wish had bought It. 81 am sorry did not take H.
Y, said the Hungarian. ~ have II In my pocket" sI
y the Bohemian.
n. "A Michigan census taker found colore(
1 family named Jones which had chrisienet the chdre
"Whte Eagle" Polly" jay Cooke" Tempest.
and "Gad TidinGs" It occurred 10 this way The
:. were fugves IRON the South early In the rebellion
~ and settled in one OF the towns on Lake Erie. Wher
"a child boru they would giyeit the name u IN
nrst steamboat propeller or vessel that arrived IN or
ID thereafter.
y -Troyis uga'cd by the singular disappear
| n a The husband. induFt on