The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-02-04

The general staff Of the Russian arm,
lately ordered tsnOOo worth o champagne from Pans
Miss Esther A. Mciklehum, the great
granddaughter OF Jefferson is siO clerk in the ln,e
rior Department
A Chicago German. who wanted to- add.
postscript to letter after he had mailed found ,.
ing to lig up the lamp post
A young lady in Wisconsin refused an
offer Of natfage the ground that hor father was noa
able to support LANCER family
-COwansvllc, Ont. boasts Of bride who
recent, led to the altar for the fourth time and who
Is not over eighteen years Of age.
The body Of Victor Emanuel was inn
mcrscd los twelve hours strong solution corrosive
sublimatc previous to being eu,balncd
"A Madrid priest has been severely cen-
surcd by the Archbishop OF Toledo Tor permitting .
requiem Tor the soul OF victor Emanuel
BY friendly agreement between all in
tercst,d, the reading Of the Bible has been dispensed
with In the public schools of NEugatuck Conn.
Father Sccchi, the astronomer, has made
the discovery ., Law by which high baroneticI
pressure In England 1, italy In two DAYS
Lieut.. Flipper, tho only coorcd gradu.
ate OF West Point Is to he appointed military insructo,
Of the colored branch the Agricultural and Mitary
College OF Texas
The investigating committee in a spirt-
usl seance In llavcrhin Mass stationed n man with
revolver to shoot at the ma,eai1cd spirits The appa
ritions failed to appear.
1t is proposed to lay pipes up and down
the bay gu near Franklin La through which syrup car
be pumped any distance from any sugar house 10 til.
huge factory on the Tcche.
At sale in Paris, KY, of ful-bloodcd
bulls on the 25th OF January. thc Fourteenth puk. q
Thorndale which eleven months ago was purchased fol
si7ep. was sold for s233a
They usually omit when I can read
my title crar when the family sing hymns together
saturday evenings at the White House 1t done cut
respect to Rutherford's feelings
The new King Of Italy took the title Of
IIumbert the First There have been three Duke. sa
voy vi that name KIM llumbcrt, either
the savoyan dynasty, or in the annals Of Sardinia
The total specie value Of our exports
last year WAS according to the Bureau Of Statistics
sG6s 535 40. and OF our imports, t5beii4 against
total expectation in 1870 Of s5i7oli O and imrorA
ton Oi SOL ,sis.4s9
-Ganbetta's recent visit to Rome was 10
see there any hopes detachins italy from her
close relationship with Germauy lie was cordially
ceived but for all business purposes found himself nt
land Vi MscchiavellL
-Lcbbcus Quincy, aged "A, and Melvin
Reed aged a. participants IN ploushng match al
south Arlington, Mass on The 10Th vi December Tie
horses respectively "a and ~ OF AMI
the plough made forty years
The explosion In Prof. Mowbray's nitro.
glyccrne works IN North Adams. Mass was tle tri
within esht years small amount OF the explosive
material was the budins yet the only man near by
was blown INTO minute fragments The shock tn
twenty miles away.
oil has been struck nt the Black liills.
100 miles south OF Dcsdwood Tho oil wells OF caaria
rapidly increasing IN number and the production ts
gins be- OF importance The oil II claimed g. he
many respects better than that It roun-N wanna
instance It be used Tor lamp. Just ~ comes un tie
we'll
Very few decoration of the garter have
fallen to tn, di-i osal OF Lori aconsnoi hut ono now
vacant The Queen can give one more prgri OF a., al
mrsuon she Is supposed to entertain for her Prime Nan
i.lcr by insisting his taking the distinction Perhaps
DIZZY practising with his pen. Earl OF Bcaeonsaed.
| X. a.. ant thinking Il looks decid 'diy nice.
| In 1880 a writer in London periodical
proposed political union between England and Ireland,
and adluccd a. AN argument therefor that la the opn
ION OF many persons it is no ser, d.,u matter to,crl
the from the narrower part of the Irish channel
near ror, Patrick and JOIN scotland and Ia iAnd to
settler" The distance Is tie as hoween Dover and
Calais ant the strait be tunnclcd the other may
come TO Dee tunneiled too
| The whole sum expended on the London
Metropolitan Police Tor the year eniins March 1876
sj63oUpi The estimate for the Tars police for s7s IL
about sp1 90 hut this includes great deal whf.h IN
| London would not como und,r the head OF police ex
penses In actual police duty there are employed IN
Paris d9a persons pen~e OF about s2OoouD THIS
Exposition expenses have probably swollen the estimate
tor 1875.
| "A llulfil LOT tpillnf'N7lip l'l WIZ liilFiy
brought "a the notice q the exhibition OF sanitary
ulances Manchester. Ensand. 1t oompre,-,- the
loc-e leaves OF tea into cnc ui Of their original huls
and in breaking the nbre of the leaves opeus The small
cells which have been closed by the process OF DRYING
and which not thorouph, opened when merely liz
nIscd an boiling water The result gain VI nom forty
10 aitN ptr cent. IN strength.
Probably the only horse that served
hroulh the late war ant wound mp his campa % with
visit ON duty 20 the plains. was Old Bill Voc roam
chargoroi Col 4 rhlut. ol ule Second So YORK
Cavalry. In camp on the march he slug h. hut
under Hro he hryed the slhe.i touch oi the rein.
would jump any tng, pant NO attention 10 pistol hnGg
hi back aud could be turned loose with the certainly
that he would not stray away lie was IA more than
twenty engagements and Wa only wounded lie
| has Just died Mt Ioosick Fails
The Prussian fleet consists OF eight
ironcad risates OF which unfinished. i've iroo
clad coryctcs, OF which three unfinished besides
sixteen wooden corvettes and nine eunboats. TIE de-
fence Of the coasts Is lot % two smaller roncad sven
ronciad gunboat- SIX torpedo boats ami four smaller
gunboats whAe Prussia IA the ~ 1864 nna.s
prevent the German port, being block add ~
the Danish feet her Meet wond only be able .
defend the coasts but misht proceed 10 Copcnhaacr,
lombard the town. and dictate the conditions OF
The municipality Of Rome has voted
$4,000 toward grand bronze column. surmonnted by
statue Ut victor Emanuel to erected on the rcrmia
square tho Baths OF Docctan. The other ciies ID
tie peninsula have subscribed literally to the
ect a. also private individuals AT home and abroad, =
that there will be lack OF funds The iuouuur 10 u
10 bc ater the style OF Traian- column su s =" recon-
twinlng bas relief the royal deeds behalf of nc unit
hcauon oi Italy ON the assembling OF Parliament, on
Feb L.. bill b, to be passed unanimously ~ pay III
Kings dcbts, amounting to s60""O
King Victor Emanuel WAS especially
fond OF hsht At the battle of Go,to. IA i~,l t'
charged at the head oil s,sn,ni an Au-tnan nattfF
and showed ho same courass during the ~ he'n h'n-s
strife at Nu,ara ON travelling one gay ln sc"rr'se