The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-03-30
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many OF them wonderful pieces OF mechanism Engsns
furnishes the rag DOLLS and Germany the wax and chin.
heads.
"A ranchero' near Santa FL own.
10000 head OF cattle. which he pastures on 10 MO an
joining sections Of land. one hundred vaqueros ana
one hundred boys take care Of them.
DIR. Harlan. q Methodist preacher. has
been expelled from his church for lying vugarity and
railing against his brethren. But was out in Ns.
brasks, where they hav'n't much true inwirdness"
The troop ship IIimalaya, the largest
In the British navy, has been to Bombay to bring
none the numerous horses tigers and elephants pre-.
sented 10 The Prince OF Wales during his recent tour
"A drunken herder near Fort Kearnev
killed man last fan. The murdered name wife has
sued The saloon keeper that sod the liquor 10 the herder
that killed her husband and will probably make a case
Dion Boucicault Is going to erect n
fountain at Huntington and the grammar school
build ng outside and inside, memorials OF nj. con.
who was killed at the Abbots Ripton Railway COLLISION
Basil Hayes of Lawrence county, Ky.,
was born 1904. lie 10 the father Of twenty sig
children the grandfather OF nnetyciRht and the great
grandfather Of seventeen, and SIN does good days
work every day.
"A French surgeon, noticing that tho
foot and does not attack cattle anected
with cow-pox vacoinatcd twenty-five oxen. rnd not
Of them Lad the disease, though living with animals
largely infected with Il.
-Deethovens Ninth symphony was re-
Gently performed NJ Brighten. England, as duet for
two pianos, one Of the players being boy OF I'VE years.
This beats the Arrangement Of the fourth act Of the
"Hnguenots" fer flute ana banjo.
The $l00O0OO0 in silver bullion which
Flood o'Brsn intend to exhibit at the Centennial
would maze a solid block ten feet long, ten fee, hick
eight aud onctenth feet high containing cubic
feet. and would weigh nearly 2ol,1 tons.
BY an agreement between the two coll
leges, Julian Kennedy, the Yale osrsman who won the
snglcscull race At Saratoga last summer, and Mr..
James, member Of last years Harvard crew, viii
In the eshtosred race between Yale and Harvard next
June.
"A Cincinnati veterinary surgeon has
succeeded In remarkable experiment. He has "httsd
awind.broken horse with silver throat" An incision
was maze in the wndppe, silver tube inserted and
now the animal breathes easily aud seems TO suffer
inconvenience.
Michael Rigney, having prospered in
the United state lately returned to Kings county Ire
land, and elected some relations from farm they had
taKen possession OF. His dead body has been found
with bullet In the had but the perpetrator Of the
murder has not yet been discovered.
"A. L. Robinson of Evansville, Ind. Is
the kind OF this country needs He held an ONCE
as customs appraiser, the expenses OF which were
5000 more than is receipts. He wrote to the Score
tary Of the Treasury that his office snecure
Between the years of 1865 and 1874.
1869 men enlisted IN the regular army or these
aOdG were born In the Unied STATES 9s40 In Ireland
23.1s7 In Germany, 9037 In Englapd 47O9 In canada
246d In Scotland 1893 IN France 1902 in Sweden 10
in Denmark, 5sl IL Austria, ON Africa, in Arabia, and
10 Of sea.
A dog got into hydraulic pipe in
Nevada City recently was forced through hyeinch
nozzle and landed az inst enhancement several hun
dred feet The journal that records the fact
adds In his canine Mont Chinaman was knocked
into ths current, and both animals pefshed smulta
neOusy"
Vienna uses 10000 pounds OF genuine
meerschaum, worth 900 yearly and 100000
pounds OF meerschaum chips. which ground aud
compressed and made into imitation pipes aud cigar
holders. The imitation Is carried to such perfection
that the best Judges often puzzled to distinguish Il
from the real article
Bee culture Is spreading rapidly In
California. The Los Angeles Hrrdid says that,
rate In four there viii be oooO0O stands
of bees In that and the adjoining counties,
ducinE annually 100 100000 bounds Of honey, which
more valuable than the sugar and molatses crop Of
Louisiana Texas, anu Florida combined.
The force of example Is newly exem-
plined by the Glasgow magistrate, who at dinner
Gently raised his right hand his habit the
blessing. and astonished his family by saying You
promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, ana nothing
In your ain words. aud be as brief a. ye can"
"A China jewel case one hundred and
seventy years old, which exhibited Bermuda
ing late industrial exhibition, had its embellished
lid this stanza;
Fear God,
Honor the king;
Aud kiss pretty girl
That's no SIN.
A man in South Africa has lost his pct
ostrich and thus advertses $40 reward Loot tame
Said trfeh w mis- hav-
ing swallowed certain pieces OF machinery which one
OF the ladies OF the house cleaning the front
verandah at the time. The above reward viii be paid
for the return of the pieces The parts wanting are
face plate needle bar and shuttle OF asewng machine
Am not particular about the Ostrich"
The new German torpedo boat Zieten
has been launched at the Thames Iron shipbulld
ing Works. near London. She draws only eleven feet
of water registers S72 tons ana calculated to make
sixteen knots hour. The vessel is unarmored,
has specially built test the efficiency the
Whitehead torpedo, the patent right Of which has been
purchased by the German Government.
If we are to believe the Dublin CORE
spondent OF the London Times criminal law dead
letter In Ireland lie states that the Irish have
almost ended for the season. and In instance
has the Crown obtained . conviction on capital
charge. although score OF lives have been sacnnced
through murder He ascrOes this state OF things partly
to spurious compassion on the part Of the jury.
Tue seuutc JOHfJLut uCS DCDdS tells
wonderful story from Andennes Belgium whore an
express train struck wagon laden with powder and
exploded It. The shock was tremendous, hitting the
whole train up into the air but Il fortunately fell back
on the rails and sped toward It's destination. Not
single passenger injured. but all the windows
smashed and the curtains snged; the were also
seriously damaged.
The kettle drum-the instrument-not
the "aBair"-i according to paper recently read be.
fore the London Musical Association, the only musical
instrument OF the drum family. kettle drum should
never be more than twentynine inches In dian eter.
tension of thirtyseven hund weight gives the octave
| OF tension Of eleven hundred weight The proper
place TO strike kettle drum IT, not In the centre but
at point about one third of the diameter from the rim
"A fox at Reese river had always eludod
the hounds, the scent invariably being lost near nut
In the WOODS used for storing furs one day whe tho
hunters were resting their horses tniS nut after
hard rum the oldest hound In the pack door
and tried 70 Jump up the wall THIS attracted atten.
ton, and Il discovered that the old fox hang
ing BY the tail to nail in tho wall keeping very quiet
and looking very ike the other pes hanging tho
wall 1t was evident tnat this was the way m which he
had heretofore escaped.
| "A linen merchant of Rc.,a,t.,o,,,,,