The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-05-31
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| "iV ioO connected with
the British Museum N
-Egypts public debt, consolidated into
STOCK bearing seven per cent. interest amounts IA
about s,OOO0OOoo '"iO~''' "
-lhe British and Foreign Bible Society
sueu xoSS leS copies Of Bibles, Testamens and Dor.
iions OF Scripture last year.
"A fund OF 100000 has been subscribed
In Heu Hampshire. the nterest to be used I'm prose.
| cuting violstors Of the liquor law.
The new Massachusetts liquor law Hncs
or impnsons persons who knowingly let buildings for
| the Illegal sale OF Intoxicating drinks.
| The Prince OF Wales took home from
fnoa 600 snmsis they are to be added to ths
British Geological Garden. making that menagerie The
nnest In the world
| Nearly two thousand buildings were
erected In San francisco last and
tand In Oakland Only forty Of those In San Fran,
| cisco Of brick.
The tusk OF mastodon, seven feet
long snd eight inches in diameter hss been unear,hed
in Yolo county California II s OF ivory. excel
lent preservation. and curved almost in the shape Of
crescent.
-Teunyson's "Queon Mary" has been
withdrawn FROM the Lyceum Theatre, London where
failed TO draw. During the last Of te run the
house was not third full The acting was good, but
tb play was duh.
Copenhagen affords gratuitous teohnl-
cal education TO even the youngest chill Of both
had IN saving, turning carving polishing. &C. and tha
little Danes can be admitted at seven years Of age
"A New Orleans correspondent informs
us that ia one parish In Louisiana there thirteen
negro schools supported by taxes paid almost excm.
siveiy by the whites ana no white school, because no
one neghborhcon can furnish twenty-five white scho-
ara, the number required by law
Mr.. Donald Mackenzie and his party
VIII leave kngland on their adventurous Journey to
northwest Africa about June 40. lie win be acconpa-
MED bv en- gentlemen who equally anxious with
himself " ascerain whether the inundation of tho
desert Of Sab "a ia practicable undertaking.
Patrick McNichol, a witness In Phila-
delphia c. ur touched lie II T. the Bible without
smacking them and the opposing lawyer insisted upou
agenulne kiss. "Do you want me to open my mouth
snd swallow 7" asked Pat. kiss you would klss
your Wife," said the lawyer but Pat said that hsd
never kissed anybody. The Judge kindly illustrates
how the kissing ought to be done. ana the witness
initiated him.
"A singular accident has happened 40
Nuneaton, IN England. while fourteen persons were
rnkne In the psrlor at the white Horae Inn the
occasion Of the kuneaton fair the entire oor Of tho
room In which they sitting suddenly gave be-
meath them, precipating the whole Of the company,
together with bes chairs jugs and glasses into tho
cellar below distance Of about eight feet. Strange 70
cay no injured.
An orDithologst observes that in tho
northern countries OF when the after the
breeding season, prepare TO migrate souhward, they
make flights to test the capabilities Of the young
TO accom- psh the Journey When any one found not
" possess the requi ite strength, It deliberately put
TO death by the other. storks feed principally on
frogs, aud the mothers know that the would
die Of hunger n left behind.
Some Chinese miners employed near
Gold hin, Nevada hal atten led Christian meetings,
and thereby gained conception Of the orthodox hell.
one day they were at work IN a shaft which passed
through layers OF sulphur. stroke OF PICK released
A quantity of nj a m q
fame up the shaft. The smell Of burning sulphur, the
heat snd the glare the Cinnamon that they
had broken Into he'll. AID they made haste to escape
Not all of the reputed centenarans are
genuine Especially the ages Of negroes exagger-
ded. but John IT, Dahuan, who hs last died IN MIL
waukee, was undoubted los wears OLD. lac was born
In Westphalia In l771. lie almost Invariably to
bed at nine O'Clock. four nve. took nap
OF an hour every afternoon During the last ave years
Of his life he discarded the spect cles which for The
previous nfty years he had u. d. his eyeht becoming
~ good as IN youth.
All residents in China know well the
term applied to the madeup or aduerated tea which.
with singular trutifuncss, Is ied "ieca" The pro-
corsss In collecting the used exhausted leaves
thrown Nay from the tea gardens public drink
ing Establishments. and pu Ting them into bags with
certain proportion OF charcoal They are then dred
nre and when turned out OF the bags are found
TO have black coating resembling the Congou brand.
which 10 very popular te N England.
A Russian journal gives n detailed ac-
count of Thomas Danilov. peasant from and
non. commissioned officer OF the Third Battalion OF
the Turkestan Tiraileurs. VIII, was captured b,t~ecn
| Taschkent and Namangan. ana taken to Puit Khan
Abcul.Manin actin Tor the Khan, offered Daniloyser
vice and rewards II he would embrace lslamism, hut
told him he should be shot n he refu ed Thc soldier
did refuse and shot, declaring he would die true 10
his faith anu to his Sovereign. He has left widow.
John Ruskin has put on his scoldlng
cap again. Being asked TO address a society OF hdy
sunday school teachers, he startled them by deciarns
"At present you keep tho dancing to yourselves AID
gaciousy teach your scholars the catechsm Suppose
you were 20 try for little while lear ling the citcc ism
yourselves, and teach them TO dance" And when solicit
ed TO preside at the opening exhibition OF the sh ed
Society OF Artists he declined. saying that no -rst
worth sixpence day would consent TO i've Ia such
town, beneath canopy OF smoke, and lover OF art
would take up his abode there for a million ycr"
| A curious scene is described IN the re-
| Gently published History Of the Royal Company ot
Archers" Queens Body Guard for scotlandl, whc 4
took place 1918 At the Edinboro Archer. Hail. ~
party Of American Indians who were giving an enter
inment at the theatre invited to display tner
skill IN archery before the Royal Company The rFeas
and Secretary frst shot before the lndins Gts
ionrinch paper one hundred feet distant hitting 10 M
the second shots hut the astonished Indians coui not
equal this performance ahou n making good practice
At short distances. II olly when they tired Scotch
bows aid arrows that they hot well AZ long distauc
| A good story has come TO light about
| Isaac Van OstIand, popular representative OF New
Jersey. at the Island OF Tahiti. OF the South
group. without his knowledge the local French Gov
eminent Mt Papeete appointed him Judge Advocate Iua
civil c Use q considerable mportlus The suit
be opened on tn 10TH of April, but "van." who
his plantation. did not reach Papece until the I'm,
ana then only by chance. Immediately he was handed
an onncal document IN Tahiian French, informing
him that he was nned {a5 for contempt OF Court. IA
he nothing OF his appointment Of legal procedure.
OF the case the ptics IN II, he refused pay, hut
as Improvement the only alternative, he snappsh-
ly planked down the money, and then consigung Gov
Pierre, French law, and the entire Government to
Hades. he eapei upon his hor,e and dashed out OF
town before the astonshed Court could summon
posse to arrest him.
The avowed policy of the Hampden
Negro Institute, Virginia is TO teach the students
practical religion distinguished from the purely sen-
timenta religion that southern negroes have 10 gene>
ally Illustrated. Gen. Armstrong the head OF the IN
ututon, says that he knows negro who stole Atut or
clothes 20 wear communion service ana that the H.
cident fairly illustrates the kind Of relg heretofore
prevailing In thai neghOOrho0d. The Rev Mr.. To man.