The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-16
SUNBF1 Ms.


| Will go to :" see the Centennial"
! There arc sixty-fve glaciers in Cali
| fornia, according 10 the State GeoloRist
| The King of Bavaria has offered n
lamp.
Chang the Chinese giant, has been re-
ccived the baptist Church at shanghai Insn.,sns
| ia z feot inches.
Under new ruling Of the Buffalo
| School Board, married are hereafter to ba
| employed as teachers
| The Prussan mines produce about
5000 900 pounds OF IRON ore per year which are
| worth nearly 10000 thalerS.
1t is now the correct thing In Western
journalism TO say thata person who been shot In
| the head has been Carruthed"
Petitions have been presented TO the
| Prussan Parliament asking the Government to secure
| to the working classes their sunday for rest.
"A Lowell saloon keeper recently adver-
Used free lunch. and LADY took number Of hungry
children to his oouuter, demanded obtained
| free meal for all OF them.
"A citizen of Orange, Mass, nearly sew
enty years oii and worth $500 refused pay tsdS
taxes few hours In the county JAIL however, caused
| the old gentleman 10 "shel out"
| The inventor of oxydized buttons and
cisps so fsshonabic Of late years in ladies' dress.
was French officer under Macmillan In Mexico, who
shared his masters unhappy fate.
| Frost, the Petcrsham murderer, lately
complained to his juler that the occupant Of the
Joining cell disturbed his sleep by "unumey and OBJ
| streperous devotional exercises.
| "A series OF six important lectures on
Alcohol ana ite Effects the Human svsiem IL to
be crculstcd by the National Temperance society. DIT.
| willard Parker furnishes tho Introduction.
| The Russian Government il about to
print facsimile in photo photography Of the famOua
BapJlonAn eodex, Ia the Imperial Library at ~.
Petersburg, which contains all the latter prophets In
| the orig nal He brew.
| The men and women dress so much
alike In Cochin China that IL Ia dangerous to slap man
on the shoulder and remark Come. Old fellow, letn
drop In here and indulge in smile" 1t may be tho
old fellow swfe. you know.
| The Province OF Ontario, Canada 10
fact becoming Of the great cheese districts the
| amount Of cheese made there during the past year
would bring OF nearly millions Of do iars
at the price of ten cents per pound.
"A Frenchman who has lived in Ameri-
ca for several yesrs says, when they build railroad
the FIRST thing they DO lie to break ground. This dono
with great ceremony Then they break the soc khod-
ers. This Is done without ceremony"
The Sanitary Record says that the du-
ration Of life In this country Is longer than Rngsnd
and that the immense prohts OF the life insurance bust
ness here are explained by the fact that rates " IN
suranee are chiefly based upon English tabular est.
mates OF life.
-" These are pretty hard times. I can
teh YOU SIR explained tramp, drawing the back OF
hs hand across his eyes while he the other upon a
donation Of ten cents. Lots OF families who'd never
thought that they could NIX 10 biscuit With
out cream nov use water"
History relates that in the twelfth oen-
fury a. nna resort against their devasaons cater
pillars and field mice we're accommodated IN the
teenth century weevs dealt WITH and IN The
sixteenth century the CATERPILLAR Why not try Il on
now with the grasshopper and potato beetlep
AT a recent lecture of DR.. ii. Sandwich.
g. b. In London t transplred that least OF tho
great water companies OF that city their supply
direct from the polluted Thames, and that not only
great Inconvenience out alarm on the score O.
inadequate water supply NJ nres. London being stun
without permanent supply system.
| An ex-member of Congress from the
West came to this city year his family TO hsv,
little recreation, putting up at the Fifth Ayepus
Hotel. He was suddenly taken III, and died without
havin seen physician. His family impIorcd him to
take medical advice. but he very facetiousy replied
| mo let me alone. wish to die natural death"
The Russian peasants generally believe
In imaginary beings called maid
ems who charm the ueKy oy their songs ana
allure him into the river. These Russian Lorees ara
supposed TO be the souls nbapzed children and Of
girls who commit suicide they are the goddesses of
the Clouds and appear IN the form Of butterfly VI
| pun Of smoke.
An indianapolis cat got TO playing
with small turtle the other day ana was having nico
time tumbling 1t around. when suddenly the ,urtles
jaws closed the cats tail. There was some very
lively tumblng then the part OF the cat 10 an ac-
compartment OF her own selection. Two hours after
she was seen examining that tail enderly evidently
| wondering II the piece woulu grow out again
"A singular difficulty has arisen at n
court martis in Aldcrshott Camp England. An ofnctr
ofthe Twenty nrs Hussars reported himself IN 10 tho
court bet was told by the military surgeon major thAo
he not sick. In, officer applied to three civilian
physcians. who each granted certificate OF sicsness
and inability to attend the court martial. The .sue Of
this medeomi narI conflict looked forward TO With
| interest.
Hereafter German war ships will be
named by rule Armed irlgates sfter princes armed
corvettes after provinces, unarmed spar decks wiz
bear the names OF German victories; smaller vessca
those OF generals annirals. and statesmen arincI
gdnooats will be named after reptiles other gun.
boats after birds aud wild beasts transports after
rivers and torpedo boats after cavalry officers Tho
Emperor " III name the yachts himself
| The Post ONCE Department has select
ed the desipn tor atnreeceu stamped envelope to ba
used durng the Centennial Exhibition. The stamp VIII
be in the form OF ashcid having at the tor bottom
the dates 1870 and 1870 Beneath he upper figures VIII
he tie words. L. = Postage" and a. the bottom oe
the shield VIII be the words, Three Cent?" Upon tho
face OF the shield VIII be post boy and work OF
telegraph pole, aud wires aud beneath, an ne An0
postal car.
The procurator or abbot Of tho
famous monastery OF La Grande Chartreuse France,
| died recently. From business point Of view. thu
| name q GARNER was worldwide known trade mark
| without hs autograph bottle OF the renowned
iaueur known as hartteusc-grccn. white. or low
couli be deemed 'nuino and by tn saie of ts sauO
cordial the brotherhood Of Ia GrRndc tmftiere have
conlrved, II sad. realize for a tong past
net income OF $50 oOoa
Ezra w. Miuslow, the Boston forger,
comes Of fanny Of disso ute characters and law
| breakers. who were wet known years ag1 IN ana
around Barre, Mass. Thomas win,loN was repeatedly
arrested Tor couutcrfruus at last a box OF had
bils found m his ,e lsr HIS Marx was ~
81 the most noted counterfclters the STATE. AId
ended his NE 10y suicide rather serve out srn.
tonoe Of twelve Year,. Edward another brother, fo'
lowed the same trade and spent Al out half his NJ.
Jail. Lucretia sister, In the gang ana sned
the bills. AUerWard, removing TO PennsS lyann thd
| became the reputcd wife OF a who WAS presently
hanged for murder, and had herself narrow escape
from conviction accomplish. sti g.rrac 'iuci
stroling thestuc company ami died at ihe south.
She was person Of tul. nt ana Vinug mAungr', DuA
| OF no principle. Two 9th si.Ic VI the Ninslowa