The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-08-16
sun BE4A MS.

"A. s. Abel, proprietor of the BaIti.
more sum- is seventy years old and is said to po.sea
100000.
-Rockport, Mass, appropriatcs the pro-
cccds Of her tax on dogs to the OF books for
her pubic library.
Another mammoth hotel Is to he erect
ed at Saratoga for the entertainment Of guests Of
mo deratc means
The family tree OF n Texas family
shows branch on which several members have beer
hanged for ste ling horses.
A Guernsey bull, on his way home
from an English fair, where he had taken rrst prIza
gored his owner to death.
Peach pecliugs, heretofore n waste pro-
duct o. the canning factories. are now employed In
dsrllery near Baltimore IN making brandy.
A Vienna tailor seeks to entice Rnglisll-
speaking customers by this announcement in mis- wins
dow; "Inlin1ish and outanlsh suits alwiys ready"
The Rev. MIR. Tton has just graduated,
at the OF nifty years. at Dartmouth College lie hal
before enterilg been Biptst clergyman for nfteen
| years
Upon the basis of the vote cast ut tho
last election, the Dsnvcr puts the population OF
the new state Of Colorado at one huadred anI nfty
| thousand.
Mr.. Longfellow has been chosen poet
ami ex.Gov Seymour orator for the Centennial ccle-
braton OF the surrender Of Bursoync saratoga on
| Oct. 49, 1877.
A valuable mine Of the best quality OF
fedspar has D fund In XII ,edet, Conn. I'll, ais.
covery Is important rs all he best fldspar has hereto-
| fore be n imported.
"A Louisville, KY, hooking bird can
whistle correctly "Diue" "st Patricx's pay Ia thu
Morning." "over the Fence Out" "old scissors to
Grind" and Yankee Doodle"
Nearly million volumes were drawn
OF the Boston Public Library and its branches last
| year, and ouly hundred missing when the
annual report prepared.
| Of nj rQhasp1
years ago by California fruit grower Tor tioo now
yields It's owner 5000 year net proht TIis years
| crop Of fruit Is estimate at 100 ions
Manchester. n. H., claims TO be the
only manufacturing city OF New England where thu
mills have been operated without interruption on fuu
time and without reduction In wags.
| "A twelve and half cents" note OF the
Pho tx Bank OF Hartford. dated February 1915, aud
payable 1.-TWO We rs after the war" offered In piY
ment at the Hartford C0rdnt onee last weeS.
| Three theatres in Yokohama, Japan.
are dcy otei q performance, In Eagisa. At the las.
account comeiy company occupie one burie'qla
company another. and a variety company the third.
1t is said that no Chinese bank has
failed during the past nvo hundred Telrs When thu
last up" the heads OF thc Officers came OF.
thrown into corner with the other asaetsl
-" What kind of II picture would you
| prefer, ?" inquired a Newark photographer ofs
lady customer. "wei." was the reply TAX me vita
| an expression as II were writing poeu on the Cen
| tennial."
The introduction of female clerks into
the goods oi,es Of the London AMI Northwestern Rail-
way at birmingham has proved successful thitths
directors have been Induced to try the experiment
other large centres OF traflc.
The salt Lake Tribune asserts that
wnen the Mormon Bishops o. san Pete heard that Gen
Custer and his soldi r. mad been mastered by thu
Sioux they sent band Of music to serenadc fet
lodge, % Indians cimped near by.
Hr | obi in Gu, I,,-,t,
cisco demanded hill Of particulars Of the phY'elaa
who sued him for services amounting to $4,000 aud
got one specifying 301i visits extening over perot
OF twelve years aud eleven mOnths.
-Gamekecpers in England are backed
generally By influence OF titled employer, aud con
sequenty MT careful OF the lives OF poachcrs. A
nght at Washington between members OF these opposing
classes resulted In the loss OF three lives
The Lexington (KyD Press priuts tho
announcement Of the marriage of youthful couple
that city and follows II with the expression Of hop
that their i've, VIII De long and happy the orih
was tasteiuly and handsomely arrayed wedding
\ DIR"
-"Steam is n great thing" remnrkedt
traveller IN railroad car TO his rsduis. $50 it's
was the repy IL owe my fortune e. IT," "Mons,cn,
Is manager Of company" NO" IAN engiuee,
perhapsT mo. l have Loot number Of relatives b.
railro ID accidents"
"A storekeeper of Eidystone, Olt., re-
centy charg'i one o. his fem s cler<s who hal rid
! w" WIN MN t'''bpnrS' hnf csnts Tor the rds AMI
my cents forlos time. Tue yolns w1mia I'm nslf-
aelvgot even VITA hun BY havins MIN nled 40 and
costs Tor carry n passengers witlOit a lac MS.
a society has recently been formed in
81 Louis to support hospital Tor reforming an re-.
STORING 10 health OF mind and b1dy su,h persons -na
are addicted to drinking using OPIUM or other mar.
co'ler a. may voluntarily come to It or awfuly ba
committed oft.
Buddhism in Japan is declining. In n
single district ken seventy one temples have since
1873 been Converted into dwelling houses or used foY
other secular purposes. During lie, six years 10.
ward OF 800 temples nave tus been Inverted taer
Original object.
Stuart Beverley desired TO travel in thu
West with dramatic company. ani one Of the essen
tlas OF his enterprise was WARDROBE. lie had ue
M 'ncy, and his mode OF surnoultns that DIM .ulty
was to order the article, 10y express ont of,ns.
way places, and then steA them from tle nseats Hs
| Is now IN penltentitry.
-" Already SAYS the venerable pater
| Cooper according to corresp lndent Of tn Bostoa
| frdre.sr ." have sent out nv own individulieI
pense, through the mails. 2olODl pamphlet. cnDoly
ing tue views o. the lndspcndent party d. not lie.
sire the position Of Presid only desire ne gJoi u
my country"
The late Mr. Baird the iron founder.
who left by viii Slo1bolp 90 the CAurch Of = ot4nL
has also b.ducathed tlDJO)l elci to thc Tliver tie,
OF Edinburgh ald Ga.sow. Tie ht4 eft fnn Is inrl.
dow two chairs OF architecture an one OF eco.
osy N glasgow University, aad to est-DlsnaplplAr
ectureshlp IA natural sclcno,.
Mrs Alma Van Wmkle has Tor several
years been con,pcuoas ia Chic4Sl as leader 40 ne
Noman's Rights movement. sAsmlIc q per,i,.,atct
Tor, u nave woman appointed assistant snpcrlteu
eht Of the public schools. for the sake 80 SIN .fl u
tie help th1t On" example wouli oe TO thecr-. SOW
comes an exposure Of an attempt by tier i'', sl0JJ
from the woman for whom the ed)rt was mat.
1t has just been discovered that thep
Is no "a" preventing minor or:cv,n an ant ron