The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-03-18

LONDON thia season.
Edwin Booth cleared $4,000 by his
Southern starring tour
Vermont has a state Association of
Of Breeders OF ST. inish M'rino Sheep.
A native Greek declined the most OF
Minister to England because the salary. $1,000 wa
TOO small
There are 10000 fruit trees in San
Diego county. Cal. Including 1900 orange aud 1900
olive trees
There is enough lumber lying at the
wharves Of ST. Johns New Brunswick, to load forty
1000 ton vessels.
Fifty million feet of lumber has been
cut on the Kennebec river this season. only half a.
much as last Years yield.
There is ScotcAman in Hartford who
speak fourteen lang and he gets his living By
performing on musical glasses.
Prominent ladies In London are en-
deavorng to modification OF the rule by which
shopwomeu are compelled to stand during working
hours.
Mr.. Lee Craig, n mining engineer of San
Francisco been engaged by the Car OF Russia
make a series Of explorations Of the mines throughout
Russia and siberia.
"A statistical genius estimates the cost
OF the United states at $500 100000, and
their annual repair depreciation. and interest GU nrst
cOst at t4OO, 100000
The last OF the thirteen IS ton guns has
been sent from wooiwich to Cork The wnoc of them
will be mounted either tho COAT defences VI Ireland.
the western Eng,h coast.
"A Nevada miner fell down n shaft, q
distance OF 10 feet, but was only cut little about the
head insisted In working out the remain Ter Of his
"shitt before having his wounds dressed
Thirty OF the workmen recently dis
charged from rrouty & Co.'s wire mills q, Spencer.
Mass, are forming party to to the Black HiiH.
The organization cooperative each man paying $50
into the comm IN fund
An Englshman has analysed the causes
OF railroad accidents and to the conclusion tbat
human machinery ia responsible for Al per ~nt. Of
them defective signals for % per cent? defective road
way per cent? and defective rolling stock for -
| per cent.
The people Of Great Britain consume
on an average Eve and a half bushels of whe annually
per individual The number to be fed about 33O0OOO0.
crop past estimated at 900 600 bushels
This opens demand for about lOO0OOOOO bushels from
| other countries
A committee has been formed at the
| Hague for tic purpose Of erecting statue to spi-
| noz, the two hundreith anniversary OF whose death
wi occur March. 1871 Associate committees have
been formed In other countries. Among the members
OF the English committee are Huxley, Max hullers
/ Tyndali and Herbert Spencer.
| Tho right to print aud sell the official
catalogue OF the Centennial Exposition has been bought
for siOOO $40 900 ia paid for the right TO establish
restaurants in the main buildings soda water privileges
bring the finance s5e,OOo cigar stands tisoooi
and II 10 estimated that with royalty on beer OF "
| barrel $4,000 will be realized.
The claims of Mrs Bissel upon the YER
mont Central Railroad Company for damages for the
oss OF her and IN the recent acrdent a.
South walngford to be contested on the grounds
that the sou was travelling free pass and that the
father to his death while trying TO save Ills son,
and not Us result of the accident.
The Royal Commission on Vivisectiou
does not recommend its total Adjustment. as many
necessary experiments would otherwise have to be
made on the human body Sir James Pagets authority
for the necessity administering poison 20 animals eI-
permentaly ia declared to be the only possible means
Of nneinx an iiote for snake bites
| "A Santa Cruz county mans house was
recently robbed by three tramps, who took quantity
OF clothing. He followed them several mites into the
nOuntains overlook them, and started them back.
| becoming tired of watching them, he tied them to
trees gave them a sound shrashng. aud then turned
| them loose. one time. and went home rejoicing.
About 10000 900 tons of coal are mined
yearly in PENNSYLVANIA. In the mines. unwrought II IL
| worth dtty cents ton. or 100000 mined and
brought TO the surface It is worth $50 ton or $500
OO0OOO ground broken and placed on the ears, IL 10
worth $3.50 a ton tjO.OOO.OOO delivered at the
boundaries OF the State on shipooari l. worth on
al average $500 OF $40 900 which the
r ally pald to Pennsylvania Tor coal.
Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler writing
about visit the studio OF the Scottish sculptor Mac
Donall. in Rome, says: Il remember tue beautiful
costs ono Lady wapoe's feet. which were ia pure
% ndturahbas anu admirably formed, mlte lveri on .
mon OF clay reposci another pair Of Sonderfuly
exquisite feet, duly CLOTH In stockings and Shippers
which were Lady Covcntry's beautiful cN,romities.
Macdonald was an ilfu.c friend OF hers, ard during
h,usi,a,. IN the r-.azzj Barbcrni col''nty spent
his evenings tlcre and occasion when she was
nd.posrd nud lying her sofa he copie her ieet oI-
a,t ~ they rested on tAc cushion u her couch Ihty
10 | certainly were vegY Lively"
I AT the last meeting OF the Royal Soci
| ETY. Of England Mr.. Scmcns exhibited ~. lev inTru
men for asoeranng the dcph Of the sea with lui using
soun aug lne. He calls Il blthometer. II consists
essentially Of vertical column OF mercur, cjnainet
In steel tube having cup ike cXtensuns a; both ex
tremiics, 80 As to increase the terminal area Of h'
r, mercury The cup l. closed by means of CORFU
gated diaphragm of thin steel plate, ana the weight
column OF balanced IN tle centre Of the
10 diaphragm by the elastic force derived from two care
l. fully tempered springs The instrument Is suspended
a short distance its centre OF gravity ON un
yer.a Joint cause It always to retain it, vertical pc
u suion II been tested IN voyages across tn
il Atlantic in the Flraday, and found very accurate
u -BlunQui, the notorious French revolu
" ZIONIST died IN his cell at Ciaryaux the other da
~ WOUNDED in 1897 when he only twcnty.'wo yea
W. old In the affair the Rue ST. Denis. he fous again
the famous days Of July 1880. Since then revoluo
i'd take place IN France with AZ the Intervention
BanQui. HE biography consists Of q con.i.n' succc
sion OF tue scfsame facts: his participation in son
X insurreconary movement his escape his capture,
OF trial. his conformation his imprso nmeut IN foftres
IS his release under a successful revolution and then
~ gins the sequence Of events. In personal appea
~, ance Danqui little old man with Wzcned fac
~ boobies and euAcaed. His eyes had lost All expire
and stared banky into space, and hs voice was
Vt Whisper which uttered Us few words as possible
re The Paris journal OMcid, cautionin
le amatcurs against the ndscrmlnate purchase OF relic
"a says that IN the East principally In Egypt and sJri
"a the r'nic In antque'' such as statuctes IN bron
81 and stone OF heather dNnites, arms vases made
a. pottery or glass sarcophaguses medals &C. has Of
assumed great extension. Pottery vases stNueues
" | Egyptian and PhTncmn gods, monumental stone
~ with Hebrew. Samaritan, Arabian Greek and all kin
,ie OF ancient inscriptions medals with Hebrew chars
es ters &c have been initiated to wonderful exaetne
mt An antique appearance given them by the aid OF
yers which enables fraudulent dealers to pa
my them OF az objects many centuries old The manui'
nj OF these sham antiques are very Ingenious
he the aid OF certain liquid, used In Egypt and BY
icy they manage give the bronzes, pottery and mari
ng the most decevlng colors. They have thtr Agehu
s' many Eastern towns, notably at Cairo AleNanar
Beyrout and Jerusalem ana are IN constant relasio
with number Of the Dedouns anu fellahs scatter