The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-01-29
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22as,ioo to an area Of o,iio,oi2 square miles
| Tho Scientific American estimates tb,.
| the East river bridge will cost twenty millions "
| Tho Sheriff Of Marion county, Iowa "a 4.
trouble through hell ping murderer to cape from
Tho Court Of AK, France, has inst 90
aside tho will Of laiy on the ground that She wss
! believer in splritualism.
| Tho Dramatic Ne,cs says that Mis-
jeanette Bennett has decided not to enter eonven, -
| smatrimoniay engaged.
The dial for tho now clock on tho Crvs.
tai Palace, sydenham, IS forty feet in diameter H.,
| length Of the minute hand is nineteen feet
Mr.. Alfred Tcnnyson il coming 10 Tow.
don for the spring. and has taken house in Win',
street. which is the long unovely street in whicht
friend, Arthur fallaln. once lived
An advertiser at Hayward's Heath. Emo,
| land offers a lady comfortable homo "for only n,
shnss week. provided she will sleep with the pnau,
in school. and teach plain English two hours daiiy.p
Tho London World statcs that in tho
archives of the British Colonial Ofec il letter fra,
BENJAMIN Franklin asking for an appointment as d,,
ributor OF the very stamps which brought about the in
dependence of the United states
Twenty-Five of the statues of tho old TTo.
tel dc Vlc in Paris, have been restored, AMI Will b,
placed the cdhcc They include thosc o Button
DE sully Mansard. Debrun. votairc and Vincent ID,
Paul Fourteen, which were too much injured Tor rcs,j
ration. will he replaced by new.
There are three superior officers in tho
German army who have served for more than seventy
ycars-thc Emperor who received grade during chill.
hood Marshal wrangcl. who rcckons eighty years %.
service, and Lieut. Gen Malis1ewsk, commanding Ito
mvaidc- who has served scveniytwo years
The number Of sheep in Australia mt tho
Close Of i-71 was G3.s45.7a, Or more than double tho
number ~ Great britain Tho cattle 1884, also
much Larger number than the M lther country pos'
The horses had increased 20 million and ulleg
mi lHu " n IA lfufqN txaf UIiqrr
A Sheffield, Eng, boy, nine years Old
t,kns care Of his onc-year OLD sister, while Tho mohr
ont, first tried 70 set her clothes nro GHn. n
which he began cutting her throat with a carvnf knife
Interrupted by neighbors he attempted TO hang btns a,
and was nearly successful beng quito black in he l,
when cut down.
More recent experiments with tho groat
Italian gun have established important fact. It i,
now placed beyond doubt that given thickness o lrnr
offers greater resistance when solid than if dirI.Iino
plates with tax layers between. A 2,pppolnl saot
nrcd from the iD1ion gun penetrated nearly rtvons
inches into snniwchcd target thirty four nchs. thl
and only fifteen intoa solid plate twenty-five inehos'ik
The inhabitants Of the Scilly Islands be.
rich under the benevolent lospotsm Of their lac
landlord Mr. Augustus Smith. who held the scy sl.r
along lease from the Duchy OF Cornwall but today
they rich no longer. having been 50 silly Co put
Northumberland Boy supplying the London market
with carly vcsctabcs-nto the bonds OF Honduras Costa
Rica, and Peru, which are nearly worthless.
The London Standard points ont ne
curious coincidence that exactly q century Warren
Hastings tdunrhci over his enemies at The Council
Board ia India, AMI rued ,orling to hso'vn .rl.
ton the l777 was IN fact, crisis in te htoryof
British Inlia 1t IS Lord Miciu.ays opinion that lf
Hastings had been wor.tel ia hs -iru.sle wu, Gen.
Cayorinr and sir Philip frani' the Inlan aal An.u.
can empires would hlNn disappeared niioe'hcr
-Consilorablc ind gnation is felt tYw1rn
railway dir. 'tor in Ent1ui who forced DTS INTO
The room Of the Hon Mr. wlshoue. who MAJ Ii. b,en
seriously in urci In the Asey accident AMI crnqass.
toned her {, the cNeut oi tie damage She lti
coiycd Thsisnowo thtuthe action OF the Pfo..rt
ofone of our horse railroad companies, who, IT'S sa
iit.r accident invites the injured party Go .,.n
ntnot 90 so. IN return ora small sum ofn'ny
The journal des Dcbats says that VI
wdlnston the French Minister Of Education, has 1e,a
fortunate cu1u-h to meet with general appreciation 30 d
numcrou'pro of university sanitation wArhlo
has prepared to retrieve higher education in Frame
from the dccadence into which his predecessors had pre-
united it to fall It is curious that these tasks sholl
have fallen to one who Arnlls pupil at Rugby aui
took has degree at Trinity College. Cambridge. Madame
Waddlnston daughter Of the late President KING q
Columbia College, is a lady Of unusual aiiainmcnts
One Machand, in 1872 was conlemnedl Ia
Paris 70 years imprisonment for swinilins, he ltt
France, wandered did the Centennial returned 10 his
native land, wclllrcssei AMI accomplished. Tie uai
only solicited, under assumed name, empoymentiaa
shop. but succeeded by has elegant manners IN w.nnn;
the proprctors daughters hani. few days a-o 10
wedding guest, assembled the bride IN ue 0rani
flowers youth Innocence, AMI smiles; tho party va
preparing 90 set lut for the Mayors 1n whom $50 e.
tecu,cs arrived. hauIcufrl Che Bridegroom, AMI .I lin
oh topur-s hi. contempt 90 the MaNs prison
A correspondent Of the Ea9tsh Nchni
| insists that mu-.-h sounds stimulate tAe -r.Nh 4
plants lie give. an instance BOO p1ut Ina l44icu .,s
uon OF Portugal hc huiita small conservatory, aud ,s
ieayured TO cultivate roses ami other flowers upr .ab