The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-01-10
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in New EnGl no. this year, combine to play havoc win
| the temperance societies.
The Iowa Supreme Court decides that
woman In State may dold any office except tbo.s
| OF Judge and member OF the Legislature.
| There have been an unusual numbo~
OF po ching prosecutions ia England this season. Its
likely that sfore long the laws Will undersoA
rcvsion. ncrc Is great discomfort among farmers.
more especially Ia Scotland
| The Japanese Government have fold
lowed the suppression OF the last nsurrecton by sen.
fencing twelve lie ,ders to capth punishment 23i 10
hari labor for life aud fourteen to forfeiture OF rlne
and estate large number pardoned and lgd
committed hari Sar
"A man VINO has spent twonty-four
years with She Comnnches Ia now in Omaha lie sayf
that he was captured VII n h. was SIX years old ani
that he grew up member Of the troe. lie Ia unable
to speak English. has no relatives other ties TO At
tsch him CIVILIZATION. aud nKes wild life so well THAI
he viii return to II.
Tho University of Oxford sent an ex-
pert to examine the collection of Hebrew manuscripa
collected from Kaiatc synagOgucs IN Egypt and Meo,
potamia for the Imperial Library Of St. Peter sourgf
and he reports that the manus rips Of the gre
value and contain ocer texts Of the Hebrew BID than
| any heretofore known.
William NJ. Evarts has now upon biz
farm at Rutland. w. consisting OF nearly so acfes,
200 sheep, 10 horses and colts, 10 head OF cattle In
Guiding 90 cows 10 cilyei. very valuable three
Old Durham QUILL anu % swine. lie averages 200 tons
OF hay yearly from batch aud last 22Jd
bushels OF corn on another
One of the feas usually performed BY
japanese usgers 4 20 wnl long string around TOP,
throw the top Violently aud make IL spinning
hi' hand by Jer Ing tn strng when 1t has almost
wound. Ian Bushnell tired itin Baltimore theatre,
and the TOP ~ returning his he ri that Ia
was knocked into insenslDliiy.
-Baron Won Mlundorf, the responsible
editor OF the Uitrimontanc Austriin journal. tho
bppn In mOn
onment ana nne Of 600 forms for publishing an arr
tcle abusive OF the jews Of Aus ria. AMI declaring
them the OF III the msorules Of the country,
and asking why they ao we'd the right Of suffrage.
The points in a Saratoga county love
story that Frank discard by Lisa In obedience
to the diving INF mother that thcy parted
at the gate of the cemetery; that she grauiy pned
until the point Of death that sent for Frank
but he his aeath bed with fever; and that they
died tie same day, ana their bodies were stimuli
taneously carried through the cemetery gate where
| they had parted.
Gun cotton Is about to be utilized fog
signaling purposes by the Trinity House In England
On point at the northwest Of Hegoland, 105 feet
above the level Of high water. fog signal has been
estahl.hed. When the weather T. foggy explosion
Of gun cotton will take place every fifteen minutes,
making report similar to that OF gun. II this
pertinent answers. cotton Will doubt be hence
forth extensively used for coas. warnings.
The dangers arising from Irish wakes
have seldom been more clearly Illustrated than by DR..
Goldie. the medical officer OF health for Leeds. Eng,
land. IN report presented by him to the loo authorL
ty. lie says that every Of thirty people WHO az
tend the wake OF irish girl who recently died In
that town from typhus fever. have been prosrlcd by
the disease, and that fewer than nine OF thu
cises have already had a fatal termination.
1t has long been supposed that the vol.
luminous ami very interesting correspondence OF
Chopin. the composer lost destroyed but It has
nat rhn In ht
last illness ha,tenel from Warsaw to Pan. 10 nurse
him. has ever since mad N Ter possession carefully pre-.
served. nearly 800 Of hr broth RS lstters music
pub sher OF Dresden ms obtained the
and VIII soon issue a German translation OF It,
Ex-senator Revels, now President OF
the Acorn UNIVERSITY uis,. Dcen called on to say
how hi race in the sontl regard the separation OF
whites and bilcXs In Methodist irship He replies-
"Ihe Masses OF the coOred members, they being
ignorant aud more or iess unthougntfu give them.
selves little the matter; ana, IN
deed II NAV be correctly affirmed OF Of this class
that they woui prefer separation II ter thousnt than
their excited and peculiar manner Of worship would
otherwise be interfered with"
"A notable result OF the recent judica.
ture acts IN England is shown In the recognition OF
Arabic numerals In afilayits taken In the courts OF
common law. Until late n cures we're not allowed To-
such documents but In November last Judge reading
an affidavit IN which the written length
exclaimed, "why do you not write figures? You can
do 50 now. They are so much easier to read" And
the precedent was established. Numerals not yea
allowed IN deeds, on account OF the with which 10
is supposed that they can De flashed.
Tho anti-vacclnation movement ia
England has already produced ITS martyrs. The town
OF ke ghluy is Of the gho Is Of the Antyao
cnation Society. and some lime ago the Inhabitants
elected Board " Gu rdians, 10 NUMBER on thu
express understanding tht they to Ia Se adyan.
tage OF their official position to hnier the operation Of
the act True to tAelf promise, they persstcnty re-
"A 1Esl he Al
VINO neglected. to hnve their children viccin ed and
after deiyng the warnings OF the local and dse.
riding a mind mus s-uel from the iecns Bench,
thcy were arrested for contempt and committed Ia
prison Tor month When the time was ~. IN Decem.
Der last th's M begged tor mercy gave bonds 10
5000 each for the proper performance OF their duty
In Cincinnati street, just MS an audis
ence from theatre matinee was dispensing brunette
ana bonde. equally wei dressed and ladyxe In Ap-
pearance. suddenly fell upon each other In the way
thus described IA the Enquirer: 1.-THE tiny dark wo.
man MADE grab at the brunette's duck OF bonnet,
ana dslodsed handful OF artificial lilies OF the VALLEY
and tubcros"s from the siie next to Koehlers drug
store. One woop Of the blondes on claw stripped tho
brnete head o as b. iutul set Of halr as was cyef
b ushi at a store. Then they stood glazing At oae,
other like nghting cocks for ten seconds when tho
blonde said 'nah.' and started westward. The bnE
nctte drew up her little form MI It topped tora
h's, and In a voice that vas grand with emotion
cliimed; 'YOu-you-yon--.' She, too, started og,
after thus having relieved her mind"
The town of Gheel. in the province Of
Antwerp has been FOR centuries an lode OF admen.
There are 1000 inhabitants IN the place. they have
charge OF 800 lunatics from abroad are among
the famils. and treated with great consideration.
The children from youth famlarzed with The bust.
ne 8, snd all the people know how. TO manage those
committed to their charge. One OF the greatest local
punishmens that be inf ted on a family 10 de-
clre tbs II Is uuht to receive such boaricrs Thd
lunaics are disposed of among the inhabitants accord.
inS to their wealth or stations, the better famcs re.
ceiying the weather patients. The cures acreage IN
tad, from 90 TO 10 to the hun1red. Guce is divided
inu four dis ricts each WITH It's aud
Large sums Of moacy are spent IN the ny he pa'
uents and families generally are DESTROYS OF having
one or more lunatics on their hands
The civil engineers OF Chicago, after
discus ing the Ashtabula disaster. became convinced
that the bridge was strong AS It's builders expected
TO be. They think that the trein ran of the track
broke the lateral bracag and thus tipped over the truss
es instead Of breaking The confidence Of travels
lers VIII not DO strens'h-ued BY tins statement oya