The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-04-06

The divorced wife OF Brick Pomeroy.
now actress has married again
A child two years old at Leeds, In Eng.
land, suocated death the other day by aeatyS,
on its face when asleep,
The duclling mania has revived in tho
hinly settled parts the South Tits regarded "A
a preventive against overropuauon.
The legend runs that n st. Louis direc.
tory ventures to pass through Chicago lie
ways gets out Of the cars and walks round IT.
The little island Of St Bartholomew in
the West Indies having been bought by France from
Sweden Tor s7OpoDo was formally coded March ~
Norfolk, Va, has largely increased in
wealth since the war through an energetic handling Of
oystcrs. aud the cultivation Of fruits and vegetables.
The Boston newspapers say that a house
in that city bore Tor many years the sign. MADAM ReA
tell physician" This was branch Of the New York q.
tablshment
After July next kilograms through.
out France to cost "a traction less than
cenU word, but those containing less than ten word.
will be charged ten sous
AT the meetings Of the Fraudulent Cab
met the members can generally tell when Lawyer Evars
going to speak by his taking the to lock the
door ard put the key in his pocket
The Boston Society for the Elevation Of
the stage started its mission with loud blarc II
trumpcts, dramatic performance the purpose
OF raising money to pay expenses and then dsbanded.
There is a dog at Swift Falls, Mimi,
that kcens his masters family supplied with nsh lie
has been known to take out many thirty pckorcl
day When lie espies hsn he will make dive and bs
sure TO bring it out
Emily Sharp packed her clothing and a
bottle OF strychnine in trunk and quilted her no ne in
Buffalo, leaving note in which she said that she had
gone to hni suitable spotin which to poison herself
detective was sent to hnd her.
An association of rich business mon OF
Phadelph pension OF literally Tor life any old mer.
chant who may al. unless fraud is involved The names
II the pensioners kept secret and the public suppose
their wives TO have small incomes wealthy relatives
Tho editor of the Detroit Record has
summoned witness In the United states Cout
YHnkton Dakota, to testify to the sale Of pineapple
biors without a license The editor eonfesses that he
tasted Of the liquor but thinks 1t hard TO travel LOO
miles to tell what he knows aboutit
The people dwelling on the Boulevard
Saint Gernain Paris. the other Sunday surprised
b. an unhcralded irrupdon OF officials who changed all
the numbers the houses Next dav there the
widest confusion among strangers visiting the quarter
and among the residents much nrumbiIs.
As freight train was passing around
the Lookout Mountain In Chattanooga OF the
brakcmon discovered tramp in ar load Of mules
The tramp astrde OF the animals and was asked
what he doing there Driving mules TO Chat
tanooga" was The laconc response. as he yelled out
whoa" TO the animal
Madame Adelina Patti has sung the
" sonnambula' twice at the Scala. at Milan and has
Diminished her sadly because she lowered
Rondo nnac whole tone The theatre has been badly
attended and the managers have lost thousands francs
nightly having 70 pay 1000 francs for each performance
TO Madame Patti and Signor Nicolini
-Shakespeares iavorite flowers were the
violet. pansy. and cowsip. Tits within cowsips bell
that Ariel hides. and cowsps Tianias prisoners on
whose the fairies hang pearls aud when the
fields Of France desoated. the freckled cowsipr
does no, there any more, and the mole on mosens
Lr asst is like the crimson drops the bottom OF
slip"
Pope Leo XIII. has given orders TO sell
the elaborate carriages and large black horses which
have long been maintained by the papal establishment
They have been used by the employees OF the POpes Sec
rotary Of State for transportation to and from their
homes but his Holiness suggests street omnibuses
these should not prove acceptable he thinks the
ployecs had better reside near the Vatican.
The Earl of Beaconsheld chose a bap
painter when hc selected Herr Won Angel The picture
is feeble in realization aud shallow composition and
conception Even the eyes not in drawing look.
ng one way and another His Lordship, who has
passed the F'amists limit is portrayed cidevant
YOUNG man. instead ofa statesman with the experience
and responsibility OF government on his brow.
1t is now the fashion In Paris to wear
real flowers balls. and apropos OF this. ladies who
have good taste have decided 10 the flowers pecu-
liar to the In the summer daisies In the
tumn. hehouopes. ivy or holly in winter. Flowers
reared ~ hoholscs will also be worn. and that dia-
monds placed everywhere small ones will represent
the dcWdrops ON these natural flowers They are hxed
on the petals with wire BY a,,ot.Ts
In China, as in all other countries mar
rasc i, looked upon the principal social event in the
life of man Not that regarded A. the seal put to an
engagement guided hy Affection Tor where marriage is
Arrnnlct by gubctwccns and where coucuhnagc exists
affection between husband aud vie becomes matter OF
secondary Importance NcSt to being chiiless. the
greatest misfortune which oyertake married couple
| Is todic leaving their sons unmarried
| - II.