The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-03-08
sUkDEA MS.

A Norwegian expedition to the Arctic
seas Will start esriy this spring.
The Patent Office ut Washington dur
Ing its business hours last year granted patents At the
rate OF one every twelve minutes.
South Kingston, II. l.. oan't exac,1v n.
c"Ien growing town. The population IL only 1ugs
more than It was In 17eo aud Is az les an II ,.s in
! 1900.
A Philadelphia firm estimates its salcs
Of fags on the 2ist OF February $500 an hour; nd N
WI. also estimated that 500 900 worth ~ s.nrs and
stripes Heated la the city on NsshingtOns Btn
| Two fell, ws tried to chloroform n do.
nation party In Mora,i, Michigan, By scattering the
drug profuselN on the floor. Several we're made
insnsbie. and that PROBABLY amused the wavs more
than did the ten days they subsequently spent prison.
A number Of tipsy men at Durham,
England. Themselves with q spelling una,cn
came to loEgerhcads about the spelling Of the word
"Hibernian." The quarrel led to nght between two
OF the men, one of whom fatally injured by having
his skull fracturei
"A Lynchburgh negro about to die. con-
fcssed that three years ago robbed and hi ed man.
lie declared that almost nightly since the lnuruer hs
dreamed over. and the horrors Of remorse are SUP.
posed to have brought the fatal Illness lie died
praying for forgiveness. >
The father of oil newspapers is tho
venerable Pckn Gd=e,te, whch 1000 years ola-
II l. ten.pagc paper, with yellow cover has no
stories. no ais" marriage death notices edi.
notices Of the Government
One of the French academ clans,
Count Louh de Carne. died the other day. lie was .
contributor to the RcUae des DeUx Monde, follower
Of Quiet in thought STYLE and when ee TO the
AGA lemy In 1853 considered to be worthy Of the
distinction from the value Of his works politicsi
history.
The Rev. Adirondack Murray said In,
his sermon week or two ago. Heaven Il not popu-
lated with singing thieves. or pam-bearing oankrupts.
who settle with their creditors at TWENTY-FIVE cents
the dollar WEDNESDAY and ride church the Sab
btth IN thousanddosr coach, with man In Mycry on
the box"
The Independence was the first steam
boat to make voyage rom Cincinnati 20 New Orleans
consuming eight months IN her downward and upward
trips. She was furnished with rudelyconstyuctcd
Rine, and pressed into service by Gen Jackson.
comma nder Of the Americ forces. to in the
battle OF New Orieins.
The color OF soldiers uniform IL
showa to be not much matter OF taste as OF vital
Importance. Experience proves that men are hit IN
battle according the color OF their dress Rcd tho
most fatal; the least fatal Austrian The proper
lions Red. twelve rife green, seven brown, slx;
Austrian blush gray. nve.
An excited supernumerary in theatre
az Shields England aimed nts musKet close the face
of the bandit hero OF play and the heavy charge OF
powder aud wadding hurled the actor from p torn.
The audience applauded what they took to be
monty good acting snd astonlshed by the
nouncement that the bandit was dangerously hurt.
"A collection of Cremona violins belong-
ing to Mr.. John Thornley, OF Lancashire recently
sold Ia London. Twenty-six Instruments and three
bows brought 81 1877 6s 6i the most valuable being
Anonius Srlduarius Of 1884, which for GI17 l2s,
Nicolaus Amau OF 1891. els los.; another Of the
same make. tl2O 15 and Josesp Guarnerus e7b 12s.
1t frequently hnppens," wrote trav-
eer IN the wlds OF Buenos Ayrcs, "that the wner Of
a thousand oxen and horses. and ave time as many
sheep has not bed In his house. and s too Lazy to take
the wool from the Sleeps back to spread the ground
beneath him. The skull Of an serves him for seat,
and horn for cup. this Is all his housciud
uiture."
M Johansen, editor OF the Flensbor0
Ar6 and NJ Modt, the editor OF the DyIgDsi Post.
both undergoing a sentence OF two month";
| imprisonment In 4 Pru fortress account Of
articles claiming the return OF North sleswick Den
marx. while teacher at public school IN ia ersleben
has been dismissed because he had walked with his
officer in the Danish Dragons In the streets "
| the town.
| -Sophocles's tragedy of "Antigone
recently pro Iuced che Theatre Roya ia Dublin
with Mend,ssohn's music and the gallery
well pleased that according their custom they do
mauded a sight OF the authCr. Bring out sapher.
Glaze" they yelled. Tue mansvor explained that So
paoees had been deat two thousand years more ana
| couldn't well come Thereat gamin shouted, Then
| chuck us out mrs mummy"
| "A writer in q leading German quarterly
|
that the pessantry of Russia in condt
t0n they when Alexander H. abolished serf.
dom fourteen years They do not live wen and
idleness, drunkenness, tramplng. boodshed and
have increased to frightfu extent. The writer At
tributes tins result 20 the bad management of the Gov
| eminent. The peasant IA the slave OF the Commune.
which controls his ana his property such way
| as to leave hun no liOerty. The commune more dee
| Dotle than the master usel 60 be.
la Princesse de Hohenlohe sera chez
ALA IL a
thus ran the invitations to the great ball German
Embassy 1 Pari. last month. The Duo de MacMAhon
and the Duchess arrived little after TO- and they
soon followed by the eX-Qneen OF Spain, the Orieanst
princes, Lord Lyons, Baron Rothschid. the Persian
Minister, and May other distinguished ons, ncud-
ing the prominent repre- entatives OF the Ameri.
| can colony In Paris. The hall was unusually pleasant,
aud the last Of the guests 81 not until O'CLOCK
In oxford, n. Y, there is a revival of
large dimensions In progress, which the lea iess call
| Highway and hedge revival" A scotchm, Ill by the
name Of Patterson IL the leader In the movement and
the services consist chiefly Of song with very little
preaching. Twenty song meetings held each week.
at points miles apart ami the people attend them IN
great NUMBER. rain or shine. Mr. Patterson san
keys songs and solos " his own. which he sings with
great effect. The converts said to include arge
numbers OF the profane Sabbath breakers GAMBLERS
| scofiers. and skeptcs"
Brother Moody has q score of police
men 10 the Ilppodi ono, when a lfdruukcn noisy
fellow dsturbs the worship the policemen hustle him
| out. Harrison Parkinson, the Weehawken canal boat
rcvivalst had no policemen In his craft anl when tho
other day bOlsitrOus sinner disturbed hi tho
evangelist coared anu q 'cei HIN. For this he
arrested. convicted, and fined Ave dollar the charge
being ASA At He hal bren out OF fall. and
had expended all his tor religious tracts die
tribute among his fellow boatmcn He did have nve
dollars, and the Justice refused accept mortgage
on the canal boat. Parkinson there to
JAIL ana there he must remain thirty days uniess thu
| nue Is sooner paid.
Prof. Croolles of London has actually
succeeded IN weighing TIE hight of candle although
hight has hitherto been considered imponder ,ble Tue
principle OF his delicate and complicated runent
based ON the fact that nae thread OF gas nspended
end may turned round twenty thirty times
without breaking and has tendency 10 untSst itself
By fastening such threld In tube, and throwing
Of light on the Interior II has been found possible
with the aid Of other scientific appliances TO register
the revolutions and caused by Iucton
OF the hight OF candle into the tube, result OF which
IL that It weighs about 000172S nearly two thou.
sandth parts Of grain. Taxing thls as An approHl-
mate At rtinP Doint We And that light