The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-07-24
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needs longer cooking
According to Mr. Wilfrcd Lawson lin the
IIo0sc OF Commums. 35OVo persons taken up Tor
drunkenness IN England AMI scotland last year
The perfect imprint of tree may DO
seen upon the breast OF Thomas Briggs of wellsburg
West Virginia. who struck by lightning on July T.
Thirty years ago scarce native family
existed in New Zealand but had pleasant trophy VI
prowess In the shape Of cncmys bone worked upasa
bracelet earring. or hsh hook
Fireworks and fire signals were In use
In Japan and China centuries ago. and Yokohama hasa
pyro,echnst today In the person Of IIirayama Ginia
who l. likely TO become worldamous
The Aylesford- Blandiord scandal has re-
viyed the erumbnng in England against the pension
s25ocO year 10 each Duke o Marlborough seeing that
Lord Banliord will, nhe lives. enjoy IT,
Lord Russell said that Chatham was "en-
dowcd with qualities to capuva,e Il nation and subdse
popular assembly" THIS would apply with equal force
to the Prime Minister ut England today.
The Minister OF the Home Department
In Japans hcncciorward to have the power Of suspend.
Ing OF supprcssnc entirely, any periodical whoss
existence * injurious TO the peace Of the country
The Maharaiah Of Mysore is reported to
have sent messengers all over India to bring together
many native astroloecrs eau be found, to read the
olncns Of the stars the occasion OF his marriage.
A clergyman of Bath created constcr-
nation at funeral by praying earnestly in behalf Of the
bcreaved husband and the to who shall nl tho
place made by the death OF deceased sister"
The cotton crop Of the present year will
be the largest since the and is estimated at i7JoOOO
bales In is,eGD the crop amounted to Asoi ooo baes
Is7O-7i 4I37 100 bales 1850 IUi2 UOO bales. iS7G7
4.t7IOoo bales.
The project OF q railroad across New
foundand is said to be attracting attention In tue London
financial world which Is the more amiable In view VI
the dismal dividends paid by the Grand Trunk aud Great
Western OF Canada.
The French of the Duke Of Wellington
was by no means perfect Rachel the actress Jag
spoke him u her ailments and lac told her she should
take baths OF eau sale dirty wa,er lie should have
said eau sale" salt water.
The Cologne gazette says that the Prince
Imperial OF Gcrmanys eldest son student Bonn
rows every evening the Rhine in handsome two.
Dared boat, present from Grandmamma Victoria, with
fellow student friend. native Of HAMBURG.
Mr.. Whitehead, while fishing in the Eden
with rod aud line at Applcby. England. hooked four
trout at one throw md succeeded In landing them The
largest at the end OF the line weighed Ia pounds, an
the whole were little over ga pounds in weight
Lord Essex having in the last twelve
months lost Of 800 deer In his park, had "
the examined by experts, who found that the
animals had died from apopexy the result OF oyereed
ing The same thing has hapI ened twice before.
The engagement OF Miss Minnie Stevens
20 one person or another has been announced tho
average once IN six months for several years mast II be-
gan with Lord Walter Campbell some months since IL
was Mr.. Bass, the brewer ami now 1t is Capt Paget
The Duke Of Montpensier was opposed
to the embAlmng OF his daughter. the late Queen Vt
Spain. and she not embalmed The King VI Spain
himse closed his eyes and then took her wedding
ring and for time would none but an old servant
The anniversary OF the death OF Theirs
will be COMMUNICATED In the church OF Notre Dame.
Paris sept 3. IL Frdnc, after general eulogy VI
him. observes that he the only President Of the Re.
public who had not consprcd against IT, This was not
complimentary TO MacMahon.
In many parts of rural England there
| prevails curious notion that bread filled with quick
silver and thrown into water will indicate the spo, where
body il lying The Annual Register for 1897 records
case where loaf thus filled suddenly tackled about aud
swan across the river" where the body was found.
A stroller in Westminster Abbey lately
discovered two hne bouquets Charles Dckenss grave.
together with a handler yet more touching tributes
little posy wild flowers which bore evidence OF oiS
distance and hot unglovcd hands just what Dickens 10
low would be pleased 10 have placed his tomb-per
haps by an unknown Little Nell"
As the arm OF the colossal statue "a
Liberty, by Barthodi has been placed pedestal 1:
Madison square OF this city has the head been stint
| larly erected in the Champ de Mars. Paris A French
paper that Barthodi reycls In the enormous and 10
not satisfied unless he create statues In which
whole family can live in the nostris
English political prisoners were sold
into slavery three occasons-by Cromwell the
Bridge and by James H. after scdgcmoor when Jeireys
sentenced sii to be transported to ue West Indies and
sold lie estimated that they would fetch $50 SIS
apiece sum equivalent to above thrice much now
The Northern Wing says. Among tho
recent promotions the Royal Irish Constabulary we
read Acting Constable Sir Thomas Echhn Bart This
mean. that sir Thomas is serving common police
man" He might do lar than belong 10 this splen
did corps, where required to have sound CHAR
acter and sound body SIR Thomas "a The baronetes
dates from 1921.
Mr.. Orrell Lever, protector Of the extinct
Galway American line has plan for reducing by nearly
third the distance between the mouth Of the Thames
and London Bridge by a canal II would cost tribe Vi
nifty million dollars lie proposes raise the money by
rate OF cents IN 81 and claims that the value OF land
would be immensely increased and the business Of the
| port OF London quadruplcd.
Hair powder was introduced by ballad
singers at the tar OF ST GERMAN lG4 In the begin.
ming OF the reign Of George only two ladies' who
quently attracted much attention. It In 1895 it
calculated that there Great Britain 5000 hair
dresscrs and. supposng each pound Of
day this would, at the then rates. have amounted to
fi ,2io,i2i ayear rightiul waste in starving days
There is a story abroad that Tennyson
awaited himself while visit To great astronomer. Vi
look through his telescope and at length put down the
glass with the words II don't think much Of county
families" This seems merely prose paraphrase u bid
famous lines;
From yon blue heaven above US bent
The grand old gardener and his wife
Snc at tile claims Vi long descent
Prof Virchow, the distinguished physi
olorist and leading member at the forschriu party
the German Diet has announced his intention Of reurnl
from active political lite, because 1t uterferes with hi'
scientific pursuits Perhaps lac says in his aIlressn
his constituents. you think me good enough politician
but Tor my sell hiuk am better savnnt am con
WINGED that in this my real province can be useiu
than in the Reichsmg.'
A question which is exciting much in
tcrcst IN the English banking world is whether the ac
counts Of the bank OF England ought To bs periodically
published Prof Bouamy Price says yes and Mr Nor
man high authority IN his evidence before com
mice OF the House of Lords commercial distress Ia
lsis said that although the publication may have ~
nconyenences 1t j. best upon the whole to let the exact
truth he known ON the other hand. Mr.. Gibbs, ex
Governor of the bank il OF contrary opinion banks
Is O~' Jd,io disqualified u he Governor of the Bank
The Rajah of PoOrree, convicted of tor
turing 10 death llndoo asccc has been sentenced Il
imprisonment tor HE, amt many Ensh,hmcn want
know why not sentenced 10 death. The excuse seem
10 be that his Is one OF the very many crimes eommitt'
In the name OF religion The Raah is the hereditary
unI usH lVad nj he