The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-03-09

There were 1900 exhibitors nj tbe
Paris Expedition Of 1867 and ~ 40 Il Vienna
"A pine tree was recently cut on the
Menominee river, Wisconsin, that scaIeo /. 400 ,so,
"A man IN Northampton county. Pa.
has contracted to ship $1,000 SC 10 i sletes to lan,n
There are 5000 persons employed In
watch making In switzerland, Of which number one
tniru are
"A lump of crude iron was recently
rolled into leaf so thin that four square inches only
weighed one grain.
Much valuable information IL expected
firm the "spontsneous Combustion in Coal Cornmis-
| sion" now sitting IN London
-Glasgow claims to be the second city
in the British Isles. It has a population Of 6l76os,
against the 47S,4o5 OF Liverpool.
A Persian proverb says, "There are
onytwo dsys for which to feel anxious One 10 the dag
that 10 past. the other "a the day to come"
An extensive vein OF amethyst has
been found near Monticello. Ca. Some Of the stones
are very large aud brilliant, and sell for t1O0 pouud.
The chaplain of a workhouse in the
suburbs Of London has resigned ocause the inmates OF
the housewere forever singing the Moody and sankey
hymns"
"A single English firm has built 10000
Iron bridges for the Bombay Bsroda Central India aud
other East India railroads. The last one sent to India
Will be zoos feet IN length.
They have got boy In Binghamton
nve years old who Is physically perfect healthy talks
distinctly very active. and weighs only nine pounds
He ia twenty-three inches nigh.
"A Charlotte IN. CO. man two years ago
gave two pigs caiomel for cholera. They recovered,
but stopped growing. They died recently pigs IN sss
but covered with very long hne bristes.
In the old record book of u Connecticut
church dated 1909, Ia tins item For making morse
In church, Ann Bolton spinster. to cit three days
the poor p,w, ann pay nDe Of i've shiinngs."
n no oo
horse cars. red hot 100 pound shot placed u Dox
under the car. with registers T. admit the heat Five
Of these will heat railway for four hours the IN
vcntor says.
A vote on the liquor question recently
obtained by the temperance societies from the large
cities OF 1reland-namey. Dublin. Belfast Cork, Water
FORD anu Limerick-resued m 6g270 temperance
out of 7sS6 SOS being untavorapie the movement.
AS Raleigh Judge was sitting in his
hotel writing TO his wife last Sunday afternoon.
church bell began to ring. Grasping his papers, his
Honor rushed down stairs and to the Court House,
TO md the doors closed and to realize that Sunday
A man, who said he was very poor,
nearly blind, and unable to work. whose appear
snce justined mis- Words recently In London nned
az cents and two shllings for sending son
to school, He was unable to and sent TO jail
for Ave days.
Castle, the tenor, was trifle too real
istc Ed0drdo In Lucia" recently Instead OF lab
bling his dagger under his sappns Il up against
hs breast accr ing TO the approved stage manner no
really stabbed himself, the blade penetrating bis breast
nearly an inch.
The Nagnsaki Kissing sun SAYS that tho
BUDDHIST religion is fast declining. In Yamashma Ken
alone seventy one Buddhist temples have been ah,n.
doned since 1873 and during the past eix years na,y
200 TEMPLES have been converted to other purposes
than those for which theS built
A young man IN London having trod
on dogs toe, was bHen so severely that hve
days tcrward The relatives summoned the proprietor
OF the animal before mag trate rendered the re-
marsable decision tina ,tlcre being no evidence that
the dog tcrocious before being rod upon he must
dismiss the PLANT.
Japan has n Bible-in-the-schools con-
trovcrsy the Buddhis endeavorina to have the read
Ing Of the Bible In the Christian school In K,oto ro
hibted 0y order Of the nperor. The Buddnlsts are
very Influential, ana favored by the Emperor but
his chief counsellor d The Minister OF Education are
friendly to Christianity
"A deputaliDu of the London Trades'
Council recently urged the Duke u Richmond mem
Der o. tie Brush Ministry, the Importation
duty foreiyn cattle which k,tps the pnee Of ueat
On heh in the Metropolitan but Grace could
hold out no hope 10 the applicants that the Govern
ment woui resort TO measure dcteroratng the value
Of home cattle.
The Melbourne Argus says that large
quantities of Jewels have recently imported there
with the intention OF evading the duty The goods
were trsnehipped from Europe Sidney, where there
Ia no duty on jewery, unpacktd there ana brought
back TO Victoria In portmanteaus personal baggage
large arm which haas been detected In the practice
was mucted In $1,000.
When Missourian was recently on
trial for murder didn't say he was insane but sim.
ply said III yer Honor please ! am guilty. kined
the man because he took my gal from me. she vss
about the only thing had an didnr want 10 live
after she went AMI didn't want him to live neither.
An should be obleeEed to Yer Honor ~ you would
IA ma agnAn .tlla
A writer in Mdcmtudn's Mana tine
gives some curious Illustrations OF mistakes arising
nom writing from dctation. Among them these:
1a ne H WAY was ons The wind wac cold,
Hard by, h'sher block had laid his vttles down
Nhgin.us caught tue Nittes ~ and hid IN lis
gown.
"A Hungarian chemist, DR.. Won sa vic
zewsky has found that the best 10 preserve reh
meat TO subject to temperature of 80 degrees be-
low fire. zlng, and then seal II In alr.ght lns Meat
thus treated appears, wnrn unsealed fresh Ia aste
and color as when nrst killed. German Government
commission have made careful sfu en- peri
mens, with the object OF supplying two corvetcs OF
the German navy which are about to sail the
world with large stock Of the frozen meat A large
factory Is being erected in Hungary for ts PREPARATION
The Philadelphia North american
makes great ado aoout new process OF making no
asses from corn. which As been successfully tried In
al
ago the process was discovered by a German cIctn.
ist In Buffalo he came down here and sold his patent
for more than half million to great sugar relners
In this city. They thought they we're going 10 make
sugar by II but II turned out they make noting
but moasses Thep concluded that they had lost their
money anu have never tried TO do anything with the
patent.
On Sunday, Feb. 20, the carnival opened
In me under glorious sky. The Corso was brilliantly
decorated. The pavement, the balconies the windows
aud the roofs were all thronged with spectators
ing many foreigners The famous Corsa da Barberi or
race OF rderless horses revived this year out the
revival was attended by tad results Three accidents
occurred at one point alone horse Infatuated by the
shouts OF the multitude, turned back, and knocked
down several persons IN its Wild career. one WAS
benagliere, another an old man. and tho third child
The ehild' srm was apparently broken, The bersag,
here was Carried away, senseesh and profusey Diced
ing in a. cab. q
According to the Paris correspondent
OF the AoHred! Herald, Eugene Sue derived his plot OF
" The Wandering Jew from . similar incident IN tho
career of Paris druggist who many years ago bought
piece Of woodland at Saint Acheul built an enclosure
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