The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-03-28
SUNB EAMS.

sold daily In Paris.
Wide awake farmers planted potatoesl
in Nantucket last week.
Capt. Patton, the English pigeon shoot,
err won the grand prize At Monaco, worth $4,000 ana
then los; II all at roulette.
A man Mt Goshen. Ind, has made sf
chair which he claims that he has used 1903 diner.us
kinds Of wood
Some English sparrows Mt Richmond.
va. have butt their IN TIC nostrIs OF the horse
on which IL placed Crswford's statue OF Washington
In Great Britain in 1s14-'75 the fines /,
for drunkenness imposed upon soldiers amounted 70
the sum Of E17e3e from the army md 5000 from the
militia.
"A revival Of more than usual interest,"
is in progress in Williams College. The s,udcnts hold
MONDAY prayer meetings. and the conversions are nu
merous.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra Cocswell OF Branch, :
hich. were to celebrate their god'n wediln on the
7h Inst. but In the morning the good wife was found
dead In her he'd.
In the six principal markets OF thiti
country tho number OF hogs packed this season.
amounts 20 3210coO. decrease OF nearly 100000 a.
cor'parct with last year.
The glass dome of tho Centennial ars
gallery win be lighted by e0oo gas jes. The dome is
oGs feet above the level Of the schuylk. VIII b.
visible AZ night all over Philadelphia
One OF the first fugitive slaves that
EnEa OF "Unce Toms Cabin" who crossed the Ohio
on floating ice, died In oberlin a short time ago.
The pupils of the Providence public
schools arc drawing maps. VIII ch will be sent to the
Centennial Exposition. one OF them. the son of an
oyserman, has drawn the map Of Rhode Island inside
the two halves OF clamshel But then Rhode Island
n not large State.
"A new conner Mt the city prison IN
Berne, Switzerland, having told his mates that pds
oncr had escaped from the Zurich Jail by cutting QUE
wooden keys. number them set to work and sctu.
ally succeeded IN getting out the zane way few
only being recaptured.
MIR. George Carter Sleut, an English.
man living In Shanghai has Just published a coectos
Of Chinese ballads. one OF them bears the 90
"ChaDg Liangs Flute. and according TO tradition a
melancholy induced 5000 soldiers to desert their
camp for their homes in slrgle night. 4
-Married-In Troy, on the Goth. John /
counor to Mary Burns, both tramps. They had honey
moon spree, and on the next we're sentenced to
separate imprisonment Thercupon Mary accused John
OF being the of their misfortune. and gave him
terrible whipping in the presence OF justice.
The Rev. A. b. Earle, the revivalist. ~
conducting 10 Clinton, NY. lie insists upon his
congregation all kneeing and praying audoly brief
PRAYER which ne gives out. Then he them arise
and stand and answer questions, sometimes all in .
body sometimes singly. This he calls "a foot ana
ank e.bone meeting"
Two drunken hunters in Nevada saw
hGhnamAn washing gold aust IN creek, anu fnan5
target q him with their rifles. ono nred and missed
VOC always ought TO aim above the when rs 90
far or" said the other sec how do It." He wrs
correc; In his theory. and .sful his illustration
The Cinnamon FELL mortal } wounded.
"A cat race was instituted Mt Nege re-
Gently. In which 81 competitors were entered. They
carried far out OF town and liberated at two in the
afternoon. the agreement being that the cat arriving
home nrst should have the pr Tue lucky grmaikIn
won in cantor at 6:is p. w. the second best ~
| pearing until a:2i the next moraing.
| Use the boy what did the shootin'."
The speaker, Young negro, sat on doorstep IN New
| Orleans, and ADDRESSED policeman. "Yes, you
thoughts well arrest me, for I've shot stepdad. He
euffed me. and took sudden notion to kill the ois
fraud Guess he's passed 10 Tore his time" He was
| right. HIS stepfathcr was delu from wound indicted
| BY the stepson.
| The Hofburg Theatre of Vienna cele-
brsted its centennial recently, which occasion rs
director Dr. Won Dingelstcd raised to the rank %
baron, It's three stage made Knights %
the order OF the Cross OF Francis Joseph the four esd
nc sectors and actresses permitted TO style them
selves hereafter royal imperial players" and all
the attaches received decorations or GIFTS OF money
| "A New Orleans merchant was induced
by woman told pitful story OF poverty. TO give
her t14 with which TO bury her dead husband before
giving the money he went to the house and dis
colored corpse that he thought ought 20 have been
buried days before In his hurry to away from the
place he forgot his umbrella. when he returned for
he found the corpse sitting up and counting the t1-
AT the Davenport Navy Yard in Eng
land, the other day, further experiments made
with Lieut.. Mackaron's patent safety coio mats tho
result being entirely satisfactory. Several vessels, az
ter having received such damage rs would otherwise
have proved fatal have already been saved by %
this invention. together with thousands OF lives Tho
Imperial Rrsian Navy. In which service the inventor
holds commission as acting lieutrn INT, has usod
this Invention for some years ct.
The largest armor plate ever made was
produced March l5 the Cycops Works Of Messrs.
Cammell Co., In shs nled. England. The thlckest
made previously fourteen inches. but the plata
made on the 18th was TWENTY-FIVE inches thick II 10
one Of several Intended for two war vessels
struotng for the Italian Government. The plato
which weighs thirty Ave tons viii be tested by 100
gun. Each vessel will have two turrets, and eacs
turret two guns. The plate was very successfully
rolled.
Among the stories told of Finney, the
reviyaist, is the following He passing irou
foundry when the In full blast and heard .
workm' swearing terribly. young man." said tho
rcvvalst, addressing the swcarer. "How not do you
suppose hell lisp" The workman recognized his ques-
TONER and placing his arms aKimbo, and looking him
tquarely in the face, said, Well MIR. Fnney, suppose
IT'S hot there II somebody brought You spoou-
full Of melted iron you'd swear twas ice cream" Mt.
Finney had nothing more to say.
The Augsburger AUgomeine ZcittnD
publishes the following recently discovered letter. writ
ten by the Infamous Lucrezia Borgia her husband.
the Duke OF Ferrara on the occasion OF her mother.
Vsnnozza's, death; any august Lord, l thank your
HghnCss Infinitely for the coincidence You have eI-
pressed in letter. IL has much diminished tho
little grief at times, and digr6 felt at the desth
Of my mother, the more learn, TO my greatest
10y that your much longed for return Is imminent"
This epstle Is dated the 2d Of January 1919.
The German General STAFF has pub
lshcd report the trials made 1871 with regard
| In Iha mn nx1Y al n.
All attempts to direct balloons have failed. II hoped
that for mounting and descending without
throwing out ballast letting out gas and for renew.
Ing during the voyage by chemical means the provision
of gas, will shortly be discovered Balloons should not
be too large and the covering should be dense md
at the same time light possible. The experiments
for discovering the means to direct balloons being
continued The questions OF the most suitable proper
ton between the diameter Of the and the height
of the balloon, of the best shape to no given 10 tina
wing, and Of the number OF tho wings, also being
| studied.
The use OF the phonetic alphabet was
ably discussed before Polytechnic Society at Cooper
Institute Thursday evening last by Mr.. Leland s
Andrews, and Prof Boynton OF Syracuse. Mr. Andrew