The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-09-24
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fected.
-Embezzlement has become n favoritS
crime. We now have one Of the Oneida Commune,
indicted for IT,
The young ideas in Middlebury COL
lego, Conn., ore to be taught how 70 shoot praeucsix
rife team lie being organized.
An English company has purchased n
large tract Of land In Russell county Knsa near thu
Victoria colony, for agricultural purposes.
Miss HOsmer, the American sculptress.
proposes sending from Rome to the Centennial mas,
bic group representing the emancipation OF the sar,
The Board Of Trade of Baltimore il
about to petition the Legislature Of Maryland TO ens>,
law by which breaches OF trust shall be punishcd
larccnies
The oil springs of Pennsylvania wer,
known to tho whites as early 1920 but the full ssef
and value Of petrol um were not known for 200 yeau
afterward.
Out Of $4,000 Chicagoan., only 5OOs
go to church The others merely hang their harp, o,
the willow, and don't the water Sundays O,
any other days.
Genoa is the most devout city OF ItoIv
Every street has Madonna two painted on its vslh
and each street claims the greatest miraculous powers
for ts own image.
Cincinnati claims to be the headauar.
ters Of the nne arts In the United States rcpu.
tstion ~ such IL growing Europe. Art and homipy
flourish size by side very well.
Tho Detroit Free Press says when an
old veteran In Cairo was asked to split his vote he "a
plicd: now could face the Judgment Day with them
angels known that I'D gone pacS on the Democrat,
party2"
Two antique chairs, ono formerly in
the possession Of Louis XVI. and the other brought
from Venice In the seventeenth century, were cold a
Boston Wednesday, the former for 1850 and the nA
ter for si15O
Tho California wine crop is increasing
tsc OF ~. .tgo
gallons. In few years a large number Of vines vii
bearing, Increasing the present prodh ioI
almost one.haf
--"Oh, my friends" exclaimed an ora
tor that had a window in my heart, that you might
all look In ana the truth of what tell yous
Wouldn't pain Ia your stomach do Just wOr
asked a small boy.
The Archbishop Of Toulouse, in pas.
issued against spitu lists, adms the power oft
medium 70 converse with SPIRITS hut that thef
are spirits Of Satan Even this Will please the splrA
uai.sts better than 10 recognition.
-PicrccVllc, Pa, Is excited over the
fading OF i've human skeletons, which uncartael
Dy a party hunting wOOdchucSs. They bclicyc1u
be those ola family named seares, who started fa
New York many ago, but never heard from
Prof Marsh has in his possession n fcs-
Gil bird found Ia the West, which has teeth. He
clud,s that the intermediate form 10
tween the bird and the r,puo. and that ss dscOyeu
tullles ono OF Tue MlttlLs INKS III the DafNlAll
theory
The giant grape vine at Santa Barbara
Cal, Is supposed to be diing Is owner has accedcdu
numerous fequests and Intends transport IL 20 Phi
adelpha Tor exhibition IN the California department Of
the Centennial II scientific treatment keep II alive
long enough.
The Norristown Herald knows Of an
old woman IN Bridgeport who has pasted nearly Gu
thousand medical recipes In book during the past
forty years but has never seen sick dag her lis
She Is growing discouraged BONE people boiuh
NJ luck, she says.
Said a distinguished politician TO his
son Look a, me! began alderman, and hereI
am at the top of the tree aud what my rewardP
Why when :dc my son will be the greatest rascal In
the city," To this the young hopeful replied "Yes,
dad, when you debut not TIL then"
-Sam-"I say, Jim, how docs you like
my new sweet OBJ clothes2' Jm-"sweet OBJ clothest
Go long. You mean suit Of clothes" SAM Go long
wld yer ownself you black ignoramusl Don't folksu
knows Fret Gu say sweet Of rooms2 Wen, de same am
applicable to clothes. Go whltewash yersefr
| The Shelbyville (Ky.) Republican says
that the worst Of senshncss that has ever been
permitted TO present to the publlc emanated from
youth who complained because his mother put biasss
mustard plaster on his younger brother than she aid on
hn after they had partaken Of melons aud hard apples
"A Fort Lincoln, Dakota Territory, al.
vertisemcnt reads thus
Hoi ali yc that hunger Fort Lincoln Restaurant -
HAVING Discontinued my neySsPaper, l will hereafter
tor can mud e awaya ready to eaer 70 Their tastes.
| market affords. ". s. ltEssRGGEv.
-" Papa did you see those nice little
guns down the store ?" asked little six year old boy.
"Ycs, Harry saw them. But have 80 many childfea
TO feed and cothe that cannot afford to GUY you one
replied his father seriously. Little Harry glanced 40
the baby the cradle with loving expression his
face. Finally he said "wcn. papi, IN tell you whaa
you can do you can swap little Tommy Tor "A gun"
"A petritcd body was eXhumed near
| Bangor Wednesday The head body and the greater
part VI the limbs were transformed TO substance
semb!ing chalk. and retained their original and
appearance The hair which long curls, eombed
back, looked almost az wnen the body laid out for
nterment The grave clothes entirely gone with
the exception of silk neck tie, which IN perfect
stale OF preservation.
The imprisonment OF journalists in
Germany for refusing to reveal the authorship Of ar
cles is elicung condemnation from many quarters.
The Justice Committee Of the Roichstag. the German
Journalistic Congress, and the Jursts Congress have
demanded an alteration Of the law. Notwithstanding
this unannity OF opinion, the editor and three conrb
utors OF the ~ dHlrief zeiui0 are stlll detained N
prison for their so.called contumacy Between Apris
and May 81 that paper the subject Of less than
hirty-,even sunmonscs. Judgmente, Sc. thu
maker W aud proof reader ueng required TO syc IN
formation on point which obvious quite out Of
their proyincc. Herr sonnemann, the editor although
Mtmutf OF int hcchstas ana OF the lfahAioIt NUM-
cipalty, apprchended half hour aftT his return
from an eight days absence professional dutca
A method Of rapid transit, not FOR pas
sengcrs hut for timber has into use In Calior'
MIA and is found not only effective, but cNccc lnsY
cheap where the requisite conditions at han hesd
are a wooded hill or mountain anu supply Of water.
nume is constructed the side Of the dee viz.
and the lumber Is noated down There are many Of
these fumes the Sierras. OF the largest running
from the vicinity Of Lake Tahoe down 10 the line OF hd
railroad The san Francisco BuAttl Gays that in e-uh
Cruz county company has constructed narrow ''u-a
railroad from the besci at Santa Cruz SIX mo. aQril
ery 10 the town OF FELTON,, whore It connects WIN
huue which extends up the valley q thc SAL L.r'4o
hiteca miles to q DO ~ OF redwood umncr when va
heretofore b'tn practically Inaccessible. steam aA'
have be, erected az the upper terminus 81 thr -'
and Their products sent down TO the railroad, By sH
It can be chcapy tran ported 10 sable wafer L--
Der, ricaood. poats, tti.c, ami bars can be f.t'1
down mis- Auc, the cost OF Nhch s.1 at hair rf-.
as That u harrow gauge railroad running over icyaI
ground A moderate auo cunt Of wafer thus uti.4ed
wll carry downs great quantity of lumber,
BROOKLYN BRILLIANTs.
Hail TO the quceny city entnroned upon the t.i-'
LenowueI Tor situation aud large assessncDt D.. st
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