The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-08-30
StN BEIMS.

Edward William Lane, the translator
OF the Arabian Nights" Is dead.
A beautiful Partisan girl, worth $4,000
oOO has found man wiling to marry her.
"A young seal was shot at Middlebury,
VI. the other day. which people believe escaped
from Darnum's show.
"A woman who has hitherto been "a
leading Methodist In jackson, Miss. has publicly be-
come an adherent OF Judaism.
The Rev. VIM. A. Cornell, of Freedom
Plains, n. Y hanged himself because he had lost his
voice, ana compelled to stop preaching.
The champion whittier lives In Michi-
gan. He has whitfield for three months. ana now has
chain feet long made from single pine stick.
"A factory for the manufacture of sugar
and syrup from watermelons has been established
Andres Island California, in the san Joaquin river
Mystic Lake has delivered to Boston
aud its suburbs during the last year daily average OF
100000 Hons water. Thl, is 100000 gallons
more than the daily supply Of London.
-Lstz recently played one of his own
compositions for American musician named Bo,.e.
ana Bosses criticism Is. He played It IN way calcu
lated to make ones hair defy hair OIL"
Wild animals are getting thick in Now
England. bear seven feet long was shot the
Twin Mountain House the other day. ana Dig panther
Ia soaring Toe people y, Springfield VI.
A Kentucky farmer says that his old
SOW Is in the habit ofchevins of erapevues thai
mouth, swinging the fence into a cornnod.
A granite block weighing thirty tons
was recently taken from the quarirs IlalloVel.
Nc Another block weighing forty tons soon To D.,
brought out. Il VIII require forty oxen 10 movc II.
The Oldtown Indians, who live near
Bing r. Me- nave Law requiring everybody to he ~
home by o'clock IN the one ~ the lndianl
was caught out at 10 ococS other nisnt ana sent
10 jail for thirty days
There is Il cavern near DEBORAH. Town.
called the Ice cave. Its 200 feet deep ana In the ti.
mcr the water which dtns from the &c 80 frrz,s - Il
fals. The strlnge tmns is that Ia winter no c forms
IN the cave. oven that OF summer disappearing
From -tAAe- oAalnpa4IIla ronnt:y comes
the welcome Intelligence that owing TO uninterrupted
hot and nne weather, and not WIN tniing par cal
favages in some vineyard lr-trtie harvest OF the
grape Welding the tavor,e sparkling wine
Work on the tunnel across the British
Channel Is to begin on the Is OF July. 1877 The
melting machinery used can n drir nine feet
in diameter across the hannel III year. a of
tioo0Ooo. -Four years more aud additional olt!ay
of s2oooO'ooO viii complete the tunnel.
When Mrs. Patience Remington OF
North smlthneld, Com. celebrated her ninety NTH
birthday recently her three sons-trplets Minis
wears old, were present When they were born Inelr
father offered tloo name them Abraham Isaac.
and Jacob but his patriotism was greater than hs
avarice, and he named them Washington Jen' on.
anu Monroe
John Anderson, the first man who as
cendc the great south Dome IN the Yosemite Va lev
lives alone IN small house the saddle If tbs
dome. lie Is hard work construct ting staircase oit
thousand steps up the dome. r. hopes 10 have
vator running In time. and is also worklng moucl
OF steam car that s4all carry passengers ~ he a.
most perpendicular walls
"A Chattanooga farmers house was
roboed. Next morning stranger called and .sil that
he was one " the robbers and he showed irck,t.
The farmer said that he valued the licAct becau- 10
md been by dear child. Here It IT, SAL mo
rubber. s,eninsly affected. Let me make rc.tlu-
uon. Hero are go for your little fon He handed TO
farmer counterfeit s5o nil. and received ESQ change
When the FIRST short railway In China
opened at Shanghai IN June last immense crowds
~ hcted 10 witness the wOnterfni spectacle. ma
peasants suspended WORK all along the line O. woosunR.
but Gi not eyinct slsn of the promised hostility.
Tina "a essentially model line 60 show the natives
what railways are and can do. The gauge In two feet
ia inches and only -four and half miles were opened
The English Court Of Chancery BUDGET
for lsii75, Just published. eKceedn ly Interesting
document. The enormous sums admini.tered oY tha
court annually Increasing The aesrs In cash ana
securities e37 OOOO)0 mostly In three per cent
securities aud Oauk stocks. The American securities
amounted TO t5OOOJO. AmOug the accounts IL
long array OF boxes with lewelry SC, lodged for
greater security In the vaults OF the Bank OF England
A London correspondent recalls the
that city She before the Londoners ss mss
| hi0Ds In Dickcns's Barnaby Rudse" . character
well denned for excessive scrawnness of person and
yinegarness OF voice. DetYng well settled out
lines, ana relying on her own plump prettness NJ Tar
more acceptable. Mrs Wood dressed herself IN her
dainties costume and went the stage pretty as
| picture to play Mas A,06s. The critical audience was
| shocked by an innovation 40 unwarrantabe, And 10
lieu of acting out the bittertongued h0os In the man
ner Indicated by the author, she made of arnccs
successfully employed In burlesques-the smile point
blank TO the audience the talk right the ootss
In the style Of the comic singer Of the present d, aud
the Ike The audience Kissed her from the stage snd
would not permit her 10 return the play wound Ny
| without her
| TRUTH AND POETRY.
| The lightning of Reform has shot
| Corruption dead upou tie spot
| Ana everywhere reycrberatcs the thunder,
| In the all. eryadinG storm
OF mi, sweeping, great Reform
| n,auo, stand, Sc Grant Republicans, from pooHI
| For samuel J,
| And Thomas A.
| VIII VIA the dAf
| Despite tho cay
| Roauee md kiupa tho other