The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-12-12
SUNBEA MS.

Inc oyster business Oi virginia Just now
employs ioOoj men IN catching. opening ami sliptin,
During the last three years more than
s3.gnOu has been sent to the Mansion House. London
Tor various charitable purposes
The Russian Red Cross Society has so.
ciicd permission OF the British Government to oa,t
medical assistance to the Aighans.
DR.. Henry Blodgctt, missionary in
China, estimates the number of deaths by the recent
famine in the northern provinces at lo0oOOl
The fifth publication Of Benin aud Waa.
ners estimates OF tie population Of the earth lately 4.
ucl puts the increase since the last issue at i5OUu,
DO take me TO Jamrach's, young ladies
in London say to brothers and lovers Jamraeh is the
great wild beast dealer in the East End. WHO ha, All
sorts Of awful anl wonderful animals
A meeting has been held at the Mansion
House Dublin to take measures Tor giving an Irish pre.
ent to the Duke Of connaughton his marriage.
American street ears are now running In
nearly every large city in tile world, and horses con
unuc to be exported from this country to Europe
The Russian Government has appointed
a commission to test the electric lisht, with view on
Introduction into the iortiaeauons or Cronsialt and int
naval vessels
Complaints have been rifelin Darmstadt
Of the adularauon of American tobacco yellow straw
paper sAturae with cxtract Kentucky leaf and dried
has been found In cigars.
~ Jew by birth aud Christian by nc.
ciGcnt. y MI hcnfl DuhckleNs tdit0r Ol The kndur
Manchc stcr paper description IN the Nassa oary Of
the British Prime Minister
In accordance with a request from tho
superintendent the Pihic Library the police Of Boz,
tn will hereafter furnish information In regard To- the
character applicants for hooSs when they can do 90
without intericrns with regular police duty.
Prof Schin. the great vivisector Of Flor.
sacrifices average two DOS day In the In.
forests u scaucc IL being reported that he had thus
destroyed 400 dogs in the LAST years the humans
society has utcricrcd. and Uuys w all stray cur,
| ami puts them go death panlos.iy
Richard Olmstead wandered away from
hunting camp n the AdrondacAs got lost aud a week
aucrwah WAS found dead having starved 10 death. Il
| is supposed that he was overcome with ffisht AMI
fatigue hc had gun and ammunition and game vas
pcnty. TINT there should have been lack Of food
The commission appointed 10y the French
Government consider aud report uion the mole Of
carrying out sentences Oi capital punishment has ununL
mousy recommended that executions should take place
m the Interior o. prisons and there be little doubt
that this fecommc ndaton will become law It's proposed
to limit the number ofnewspapcr reporters 20 twenty
The Troy Grand Jury which indicted D.
Thomas Vail She swindhng Presideu. % the Merchants
! and Mechanics Bank. busy aud fearless bOdy.
B, sides their action AGAINST Vail, who had powerful
friends 70 hsht for hn. they indicted several members
OF the corrupt political RIM that rules the city. and the
President Of the Board VI Aldermen for drunkennesnt
meeting or tile Council
Candidates for employment as teachers
I IN the san Francisco public schools compelled 5
undergo an examination. Printed questions given
10 them simultaneously, and they in theory made
write ont the without previous special prepare
ton. Il traus;ircs that copies Of the question
have been given beforehand TO such candidates a.
ployed certain prepare them the exanina
ion. The price was SOD
A tramp going by the name Of Franz
Wat on, who was mansled by railroad train in Ken
lucky. proved 10 be a woman IN mans clothes Tie
frequency OF such cases indicates that Is commit
thins for pass for men. the usual object beni
TO get work more readily and gher wages Ills sal
that robust often work in the Pennsylvania
mines In male attrc. but without taking the trouble v
pretend that they are men.
The Rev. Henry Morgan, Boston's Tai.
mage. preached sunday last his second sermon on
Boston's wckedness lie was especially severe against
liquor trac. OF his assertions being that large
percentage OF Harvard graduates home with the tani
Contemporaries He attacked the city Government iof
IT. encouragement OF drunkenness. and showed riai
within eight Years 1t had expended $4,000 Of pubhs
money for alcoholic banquetS Recently $500 worth d
champagne was drank dedication q graveyard
When the British naval ship Emerald
sailed Tor Western Australia last she received
orders call at the island OF Tristan dAcunha to learn
how the small colony Jared. and To inquire for ship
wrecked passengers also to land OF cats sent out
by the Admiralty consequence OF reports that the
islanders received their visitors cordially. and The
books and newspapers brought mos, wei
come. but the present cats caused amusement and
dismay. It was true the island was overrun BY mice but
IL also swarmed with cats and IL doubtful which
the greater plague The mice destroyed every green
blade the island the live friendly temi
with the nice. and dsdain TO eat them, preferrins
prey young birds and chickens, therefore cats arc
trapped and destroyed by hundreds
The author of the following Fable IL
the Eaai.T-r z,itg has been sentenced tor writing
to one months imprisonment. 1t being offensive &c
Prince Bismarck " There u schOolmassf
who used II great many and much given &c
putns his pupils In solitary confinement once the IN
spcctor called him and found the school In very bsd
state Ny friend said he yoa have unlimited control
everything here. how l. It that your school set'
worse ami worse every year, An. replied the tyrAnt
have wicked, wild lot to rule give NE another
bundle OF canes and build me one or two mere
cells for the confinement of the refractory, or really
cannot answer for the consequences why exclaimed
tile inspector, you already give ten times a. many ho
pinss as any OF your colleagues II logging were We
remedy the vlc-t aler would be the best mentor ana
your school an example for the whole world But ne
stuck is the measure VI your pedagogy and whaty0s
ought To have taught you have still to learn Nhen we
pupils Nc Tor nothing that shows the teacher - h'''i
nothing, So be good enough 20 march ont What we wa"
is schoolmuster who has need OF canes AMI Is sah'
fed Win one CELL"
The October Anndlcs of Lonrdes. France
record twenty-one great pilgrimage In September ING
nrst grand that OF Jonchiue pcau aged ~ ~
lsc5 cholera elt her large aoscc'- IN tie nsN leg anu
SHE nrthcr had "luXHtou" OF the bay Joint CAUSING
cluh loot But the Countess Lmmerghe. who kindly SA'
her TO Luufdcs sure of Joaehine- cur uAl 'us
shoes aud stockings (which Joaehue had been ioi
= wears compelled 20 dispense with Nt her. on sept 70
aud ~ -e batucd eight umrs yet without l'inI el's',
but al the ninth hath the news OF the night eAsAs1
u sharply, and SHE tainted wish pain ON coming To- Wv
u exclaimed 81 am cured The club foot ha1 ue'h !"
storrd To natural Shape. The contracted muscles hA1 "
laiu,d their normal action and the immense uevf nav
healed w IN moment leaving ouly rrdne'' to 'n0"
where It had been such, o. east is the account sN'
Ina the London h4eL nui yet stronger case Is VA
of Sister MARY OF the ANGELS She WAS land DOWN WIN
IS Chapel of the Giotto alout te time that te b'hoPo
Asen came in to give nj, blessing 10 the mlrrm' i'ol
70 hs ducrso NJ sooner had hc bc,,rd sister MARY N'
without any hathius az aIl. she was 40 aui N'N'S
" heg convent where She NOW performs all her dH'N'
IL A well-drcsscd man lately presented
, himself before commlssary Of police in fari' "'"7
that h., father while galley slave at Ionon sa'"s
the friendship OF II man WHO hld murdered a." W.
diamond dealer and his wir. AMI htt hidden s~'o''
diamonds and cash, winch Do had stolen rom "tu
hc man oNpectcd to dl, ami revealed 'he 'o''t