The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-01-11
SUNBEAMS.

cense fee for commercial travellers
Tho Rev. Thomas X Bcecher Is PresI.
dent Of an Elmra cremation society
In Boston, fifty years ago, lottery tickets
were sometimes given as school prizes
Alabama clears $4,000 by hiring out heu
sonvcts. and Keeps only few in the pcnitenuaries
The Almanach de Gotha for 1879 has n
fine picture Of Pope Leo XIII from recent photograph.
New YORK has thirteen sugar rcflnories.
Boston four. Philadelphia three, New Orleans two. an
Baltimore 81 Louis one each.
The court society Of Copenhagen, fash$
toned altogether the old school, is considered the
most refined and polished on the continent
1t Is now proposed to abandon the Gov@
monopoly Of tobacco culture In Great Britain. ia
order give employment to inland people Of
"A Scotch baronet, Sir Hew Pollok has
been sued by his housemaid for breach OF promise-
Damages laid at g. 800 but the ultimately
compromised for esoo and expenses
-"What Is meant by consclenco?' askcCt
English schoolmaster OF his class "A Inward mons
itor" And what do you understand by monitorw ~
hironclad." replied the intelligent youth.
St Louis has seven hundred lawyorS
and this year the law them s95 per head thua
utilizing class hitherto considered utterly unprontablo
TO the finances OF the city and its dwellera
"A Naples journal asserts that there ara
members Of the parliament at Rome who literally do
know how to read write and that corruption ana
mediocrty the characteristics Of the entire body.
-AuSJTHlld IL likely bOOu W hhNt duObueE
cable to be heavily subsidized by the Australian colonies
essages will he transmitted at 90 cent?
and press at Is cent under the usual rates.
In Cincinnati on Dec 0 1t was necessary
to light the gas NJ and by O'Clock the street card
were lighted Cincinnati claims to resemble Paris aud
at this rate WILL in December at rate bear considers
able resemblance to London
Tho pate de foie Ords business Is estit
mated to give employment at sasburg to some $50 PERI
and there 20 firms in the trade whose annual
sales $4,000 Small quantities Of Anhmony said
10 be mixed with the food To swell the liver
Hans Makart, the painter OF the picture
which excited Anthony oomstocks ire, "rhc Eury u
Charles into Antwerp" has been named Professor ia
special school historical painting Of the vennd
Academy VI the Fine Arts
Having secured an ever-increasing mars
ket for their horse flesh, Kentucky breeders have I'D
cided go into the raising business large3
scale than ever Kentucky horses now stand very high
IN the estimation Of connosseur in England.
-Conceiving the idea OF soldering her owu
unware lady OF shelbyvie. Ind placed cartridge %
the melt The timers do her mendns now, ana
she relic Of her exploit In the shape Of scar ~
her forehead about inch and half In length
Some OF Mr.. GladstOnes admirers hat1
arranged to present him on return home Dec 2g
with Of ebony and silver the counterpart Of It'd
American he ordinarily The blade Is scribe9
Presented to the RI Hon. W. L. Gladstone by feV
admring friends"
being constructed island in the Lake Of chemseo
at the foot Of the Bavarian Alps. The 500 workmen ivd
In barracks the island which lighthouse is also "a
be erected. This palace Is sheer extravaganza, tho
King has several already.
Tho CONGRATULATED, pointing 20 tho
fact that gentleman who had lett large charitable ben.
efaeuons horrned to hnd that the million which hd
had allotted to discharge such requests had .hnnk by
million, earnestly advocates that people shoald iuakq
haste to give while they've got the money
There are now In this country 10 Roma1
Catholic Archbishops an.55 Bishops ayainst Ut the foe,
and "a OF the latter In 1850 The number presta
then 1900 and OF churches lob; while there
1904 priests and 55ts churches The college. havo
increased from II to ~ and the Roman Catholic popula
ton has doubled.
Tho Danes, to man or woman, cherisH
personal dislike for Prince Bismarck. and wherevee
they are met travelling, is to hear from them
FULL account OF the Princes brutal dongsn In Den.
mark In 1884 On his side the Prince fails when
opportunity occurs to abuse the Danes and makca
secret OF his desire to their little kingdom.
"A remarkable legacy was that boz
queAhed by Capt Philip Thicknesse. In his will founds
July % 1893 leave my right hand to be cut on aep
death to my son Lord Audey. and desire II may ba
sent him. In hopes that such sight may remind him Of
his duty TO God after having long abandoned the duty
he owed TO afather who aecuonately loved hm.p
Tho perfume manufacturers in tho de-
rartmont Of the Maritime AIMS consume annually eoou
hundred weight Of and the neehborhood
and Cannes Is thickly studded with farms ono
hectare OF two and half ~ 90 bushes planted
single bush yielding for twelve years single heciaro
In good cultivation will net average proht OF ny,
four per cent per year
An attack by wolves in the streets OF an
American village Is an unusual occurrence but thu
experience OF Mr. Miner Of Joselyn MINI Five ut these
animals sprang his horse and tried to get into h9
wagon, hut his dog coming up diverted the "a
the animals who Immediately seized and devoured him.
His wife and three children, who with him N
length brought assistance by their neessant shouting
Tho Portuguese Government Is so
alarmed at the OF the phyoxerA in the Dourn
that II has directed local commissions formed Of no
chief propretors to make careful Investigations and
s,ruc vine the best modes neutrahng thu
attacks u this terrible The commissions will Pc.
rodicay report to headquarters All this ms 10 POND
70 an unwonted wakcninoss in the Iberian peninsula
Every event which happens in the royal
family q England has its traditional souvenir IN tla
memory Of the London tradesman when the Prince Of
Wales was thought to he near death than OF
the great London shopkccpcrs while mourninr with thu
rest Of the people. still amid all his managed TO
secure in case Of the Princes demise gigantic
ment OF black gloves. The Prince happily recovered,
and the poor shopkeepcr was welnigh ruined
Many years ago Punch depicted n lady
who Is saying to the toyman, II toy
| with which my little boy can play on Sunday" "Wcl,
num- saws the man ~ might suggest 1t would be
bark Noah you sec, being mentioned in oywrt" Gaic
| ~ the bark" comes up again IN the paper Wy
| little boy wishes for Noah's ark. Have y.u ou,f'
NO. nuni we've given mp keeping them since The schuul
boards come In, You see they too douounau1naL"
| AT last an explanation Is given of tho
true ihwariness of the stamp collecting mama. In ito
oh"i Standard We read Persons having any cancelled
postage or revenue stamps will please send them 20
| Mother Angela, 81 Narys Academy, Notrc Dame T..
o., Indiana. The Sister sends them to Pari. whence
they are forwarded to PAGAN lands Tor the missionaries
there to give away I'm exchange for little h,aton cul-
| drcn Good Catholics save the old STAMPS and hDg
propagate the faith" It's in order to inquire how many
| stamps 30 for one little heather
1t is a great misfortune In Eyynt II tho
Nile does not rise % certain point and Do l,Iuu' 100
great one H. rs has happened this year ri.. aNrto
| that point The river nowadays oycrAows mHrh moro
than formerly. In consequence of the deposits which 7
certain parts have filled in the cavities ot the bod AZ
| the hrst cataract of Assouan the bed remains 40 tho
ori-nal depth hut m the Delta has coni rray
in the past century Between 1890 and 1870 hr prcass
h'-ht attained by the water was only twcut,our -
but lS7i 1t was twcnty.six and ahalC
1t is said there are nine estates Of tho
Carpenter family now held by the Court of CHANGER, "a