The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-08-23
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twelve tons Of curranrs 10 New YORK this season
Lord Lytton's health Is very moor
INDIA. and he VIII prooaol return to England.
-Ofenbach Is writing a book on Anne,
CO. ich will publishei IN this city next month.
Six thousand millinersand dressmakers
supply London women with hcadgear and CLOTH o.
A Liverpool lawyer has been compelled
to pay damages for having given bad professional al
There is q mill at bingham Harbor.
Mass which was built in 1913, and is still in runn,ns
order.
"A beggnr ate dinner at Connections
farmhouse, and then inquired where he could BUY
bottle OF whskey.
The Forrest Home for Aged Actors IL
ready for occupancy but the rigorous regulations are
hkey to keep II empty.
The mother of Lieut.. Sturgis, who waf
killed the Custer battle. has become fnssne from
grief. He was her only son.
The entire coffee crop OF the world lash
wear eOo,oOooe OF which the United statee
imported 300 600. 900 pounds.
Smallpox IL becoming scarce In Eng<
Land. The last annual gave only 800 fof
the whole Of England and waies.
England has waged forty-nine wars
since 1900 France, thirty.eght Russia twenty-five
Au.ula Twelve; and Prussia. eight.
Boston Is having the same trouble
with Its Mystic that we orr Croton The pa
pers are all tai sing about fungus"
French oyster companies declare that
In short time they viii be able supply eo.ooo,oot
oysters per annum to the English markets.
of the 1.05O convicts at the Tennessee
pencniary. geo hired out paying contractsan
s30 are engaged In industrial WORK in the prison.
East st. Louis, beng unable to collect
taxes in consequence Of informally In is a.
sessments, mas discharged all It's salSred officers.
The oldest locomotive engineer in tho
country Ia probably Isaac Hull lie was born in Lam
caster county, Pa 1908. and has been railrosdinA
since 1894.
At the meeting OF the American Social
Science Association Depart ment OF Health, In Sara
toga Sept. g. DR. d. y. Lincoln OF Boston, and DR.. r.
o'sulvan Of New York will discuss the spread Of dis
IN schools.
1t IL said that King Alfonso is an early
rser hard worker and close student. particularly
Of French and Engiiah history. His amusemen.s are
rdiug and hunting.
"A New Orleans 'longshoreman, Tom
Coz BY name. has saved eleven from drowning
in two years HIS last exploit rescuing woman
and two boys whose sklf upset some distance frors
the shore.
The united glass makers of Germanv
have give Herr P,per $4,000 for his patent for tens
pering and rdenins glass which is done by submit.
ting the material while at neat to the action Of
| super.heated steam.
Two ladies strollina on the beach al
Tybee Island, Ca thought they ladys cloak Yah
ashore and on approaching seized by the FOOT
bys strange OBJECT, which. when assistance arrived.
| proved to De 3oo-pound turtle.
The dividends OF San Francisco moor.
porstions amounted th.2s4 800 last month t6saeed
more III IN July. 1875. The mining comp mics paid
GOO and the savings banks t24Se,3Oo. against
N.S6i,soO ana se.44O3OO IN July last year.
A two-and-a-h alf-year old Bostonian,
Jealous Of his woweeks' old brother when left alone
he FAINT lugga fin % 1afth
giving as reason that he going take him back
| TO grandpa; he didn't want MIN any more"
"A curious chart has been placed on ex-
hbition 10 the agricultural building OF the PhadeI.
phia Exposition. Is 90 feet long 2< feet wide,
and presents In unbroken line the complete history OF
man. including the record Il every nation, from the
garden Of Eden to the present.
A Constantinople correspondent writes
that not long the sultan borrowed a large sum Of
money some Jewels which he desired have photo
sraphed before ring with them but when the pho-
tosrapher rived with his ana materials. tho
guard thought he was an assassin with internal
chine. aud the man had hard prove his
| nOcence.
| Thomas Winans, OF Newport, r. l., Is
having an organ built That has some novel devices IL
10 an openair church organ. the forming
eon shaped house, with three windows with suffers
that can easily closed and opened increase or de.
crease the volume = sound The wind lie supp led by
steam engine. and the entire connection between,
pipes and KEYS electrical The wind power is tarea
times the ordinary pre- sure Morse telegr lph con-
meets the organ with Mr.. winans house. assistance Of
$50 feet.
| "A new swindle consists in writing 10,
some welEnown actor IN New YORK iequesting loan,
forging the name Of actress to tue let.
ter. and SWING as an address a place where the sup
posed beggar I, not staying. rhe actor IA New York
recognizes the name that Of casual stage acquaiu
ance and sends the money The swinder gets the re.
mttancc. and the man romsn whose name has beeu,
| surrepitlousy used never knows OF IL. Aiexandev
Bafoui Of Cnciun III hu been arrested for obtaining
go from W. j. Florence In that way
The Vasco de CANA the first iron-clad
ever owed by the Portuguese Government, has lust
made her tiai trip successfully. Her dimensions are
Displacement tonnage, 2i7o tons length over ALL 2lo
fleets oresdth, 40 feet Depth % feet. The nominal
horse power of the vertical twlnscrew engines Ia $50
they developed 1925 in the trial She Is armed with q
RAM and has In her nxed octsgonal battery two rned
steel Krupp 400 Founders There 10 also q "stern-
chaser" that throws shell OF 10 pounds The lrou.
clad VIII defend the Tagus and Lisbon harbor.
| by the will of Henry Raine, a London
| brewer fund VAS some time since established to
provide for the marriage OF poor maids" Before his
death he established an asylum where 40 Young girs
are trained for domestic service On arriving at the
age OF 81 any girl who has been educated In the asy-
um anu can show at she has behaved well m y be.
comea candidate for marriage portion OF 1900 for
| which SIX girls are allowed 70 draw twice each year,
the lat OF May anu the 9th Of November The portion
drswnin May Is given, s'tera wedding on the 5th Of
November and he November money 10 given IN ikd
| manner on Aay-day.
| Many years ago Florentine gentle.
man had mule vicious that his groous ana servant
could hardly approach II without receiving kicN or
bite. ls master. after employing In vain every mean.
TO render It more ,ractsble resolved to expose thu
creature TO the Wild beasts 10 the mcnagere Of thu
Grand Duke lion was accordingly let loose. iose
roaring would have frightened other animal, hut
the mule wisely retired withou; showing any sign on
Tear u CORNER OF the court which he could ONLY be-
attacked from benin where greatest strength lies
ana there awaited the attack Of ts enemy, observing
MIN an the while from the OF eye, and pre-
senlins LIS crupper The Hon. sensible OF the difficulty
OF the assault employed all his address TO catch his foe
at Of advantage. At length the mule found an oapor.
unly to give him 50 violent Kick that nine or tea Of
his teeth were broken. the fragments flying in All arcc.
tons The king Of beasts acknowledged a deteai An
retea'ed to bis den' leaving the muis n,;sr Of III.
ned. "'"-'s' VI "'a
a Partisan banker has the misfortune
TO posses a wife who Is addicted to gambling Yeas
Al IA gna -.