The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-11-01

! maculatc Conception
AT the end of 1876 England had # .aS,
Scotland 2,726, and IRELAND , i17 miles Of railroad
both in respect of age and date of oloc.
ton Theirs was the t,V'n OF tho French Acaicin,
Tho Partisan turtles are rather nroud
Of their British brethren having hired sai,.,.,
famous Frcuch stallion. for the season
"A direct descendant of Martin Tutbo,
died recently in Berlin. at the age OF scventy,nc ia
was schoolmhster named Erne It Luthor
Tho vintage has boon excellent md
abundant throlfhot The south Of Europe this season
Fewer vineyards mole sied BY the rh,iioxero in,
than for years
Charles leslie has CHALLENGED Franz
SNYDER to a duel They are Baltimore actors Nob,,,
surroscs that they want N nght they have heen an,
under arrest as precauuon
The loss of human life during the prcot
nood in Bengal following cyclone OF Is7e has ia,e
been ascertancd to have amounted To i65oOo Itwn,
estimated at uc time at near 3OUiro
The public library of Victoria. Australia
has 5000 volumes, the library OF Parliament 1000,
the university library iocJp the Supreme Court 7so,
and 1870 other public libraries have IA
"A chemical laboratory has been cs,ah-
shed IN Paris by the Prefecture Of Police for anal,a,
Of wines which have been declared suspect by She n,t
ers II has cost SOM aud will he put to use At once
The Chateau de Nodes built bv Comm
lie Norny In the pslmy days Of the Second Empire ha,
had the fate which Invcrary Castle barely cs,n,.d us
other day and lies in ashes ucost proriigous sum
An Oshkosh, Wis, genius solves the re-
SUMPTION problem Asrold Is only worth three per cent
premium let the Government he says stick tire, cent
postage stamp on each dollar bill and the thn dono
A dog bit over twenty persons ia Chloa.
go. few weeks ago. AMI one Of them a iit. .rl h,,
Just died ofhydrolhohia The rest are cour. terribly
frightened. aud have put themselves under t care If
physicians
Tho Boston Theatre Reform Association
stolesin it'work By i.'Hns circulars wnrnne t,ople
against such play. ~ deemed Immoral Al,ii,r in
The movement considerably says, I'VE shall not dctata
to the managers"
The Italian army is thoroughly equipped
ana prepared for mobilization aud the coasts AID ior.
tressos are In state OF defence. Iho-c havo
been completed during the present year owing torgont
military advice forwarded to Rome by the Berlin Cahnot
The remains Of the Emperor Louis Of
Bavaria have been discovered In the excavations now
proceeding under the church of the Convent Of tho
Ausustines at Munich. The Emperor buried after
embalmment, and now turns up rrst-class mummy.
The city authorities of Leipsic, In Ger
many have imposed fine OF not less than
than ten marks upon any woman who may wear trailing
dresses In the streets The police orders to arrest
hom and their names arc to be published each week in
the local papers
The Grand Duke Nicholas was vcrv
much inccned by Mr. Forbess structures on the head
quarter, stan and Its Imperial chief acr the last failure
at Plevna The disgrace into which he had tall had
more to do with this correspondents departure nom tho
seat OF war than brok, down health.
Tho value Of the ore reduced and mar
ketcd in the Black Hills in 1877 is estimated at 5Douo
The yield OF the placer claims has been loss than last
year and will not probably exceed 81 OUpD This
makes the total product OF the Black Hills 1877 about
one.fourth as much as nat Of Co orado.
The coast at the Port Said mouth of tho
Suez canal j. advancing outward II rapid rate csi.
mated al nfy yards per truly alarming state.
mon whi,h only half correct, will involve extensive
dredging operations every year The general love, ofthe
Mediterranean Is said to have fallen four inches
since the canal has been opened.
During the late combats before plcvn1
the Russians lett scattered about the field large yuan.
uiy Of bank notes which Turkish money changers buy
from the Mnssulmcn soldiers at the ccntsa
roubc the roublo being worth seventy Ave cents Rus
sian nu,kes gathered on the field sell Tor Twelve
cents each and rcvolsers ol about the same prie,
ireland and Scotland are only separated
at one point by - miles OF water and III years neo u
was proposed to divert the the para
1.-THE Irish channel near Porpatrick. aud
tries together. when, 1t ontended every objection
against union would The proposcr OF opin.
ion that at might completed In one summer hy Anew
regiments of soldicrsn
Charles Lockwood broke out Of the I.it4h-
field, Conn, jail, and a policeman looked all over tho
prisoners house for him. when about u give ~ tho
search. the officer, who was standing in the cellar
aths feet human nose sticking out Of the carth 70
was Loe kwouds AID the policeman was statdIn- onhs
hreast as he lay buried under nearly foot o earth lie
was speedily dug ont and returned 10 Jail
Tho eXpedioncy Of opening up trade
with Japan hal been IN England A. far Lack a.
l'+s IA which vear sponicnt wrbs to English
masalnc pointing ont how profitable the trade oud he
'nd adding The Dutch have cnsro,scd a. tlpm.,l,ei
the trade of Japan by means OF u ceremony wh % e. re-.
qmrcd o all who 20 tothat country thc uoad- un he
cross thing which no other Europeans bee asyet