The sun., 1879-01-13

-In0 HOfLuRutSe AlTlCdu eAplOTeTS nave
experienced great trouble from the attacks OF lions
King Humbert's face has just made its
appearance on an Italian coin nve franc piece.
Before 1870 Germany had only seven
railway bridges the Rhine; she has sixteen.
A vacuum automatic brake lately tested
IN England will stop three hundred yards train run
ming at sixty miles an hour
1t is proposed that the Irish present TO
the Duke Of Connaught be hunting lodge near the Cur
ragh Of Kildare. worth siOOOO.
Consul Mosby told one Of his Warrenton,
Va friends that his main object in going to Hong Kong
was to study the Chinese language
The value Of the money and securities
In the English Court Of Chancery Is reported by tho
Auditor. General as being c72 2540602
Two boys recently found in the gem dis
trict Ceylon blue sapp ire weighing less than two
pound. in the rough. and valued at s5ooo
A colossal flower has been lately found
In suinatra forests which has average diameter OF
thirty. three inches II s called the Ttanum.
A new opera by Offenbach, Madame
Favart" was produced Dec 20 in Paris and bids fair
to equal in popularity any oi his previous works
The annual value OF silk ribbons OK
ported by Switzerland to the United States has falenin
the last i've years - 90 900 To about OOOO.
-Indianas school fund amounts TO
sgOooOOO. and e4,oooOo given every year by tho
people to keep the schools while the school property
Is valued atti2.OooOD
-ItHlult HIllSlh UIt luNduluk llt uOIuulU
of artin France In formidable numbers In 1874 there
were female exhibitors at the Salon; there Sl1
In 1875 $40 In 1875; 8f- In 1877. and 702 in 1878
Berlin has 1905 flrst-class and 2,o62
class cabs 1852 omnbuses and 22i street railroad
In ALL 300 public carriages course " In q
second drosky ~ cents for two miles
Tho Wcslcyans % England have de-
tsrmined build In parts Of the country
hundred ohApels per year for the next ten years Tho
o tJ25 90 has been subscribed for the purpose.
james Garland, Judge OF the Corporas
uon Court Of Lyncbburg, Va, Is the Oldest American
Judge In active service. lie will be 81 In June waksto
and his home, aud Is never absent on court days
Tho archives Of the Parisian Court OK
Cessation we're burned by the Communists in 1871 and
now the authorities solicit by advertisement particulars
on divers points connected with the annals Of the court
The death is announced OF Field Mars
shat Airodi nAnve Of BresciA who served under Ma
poleon III 1914, then entered the Austrian service. ana
on the abdicAtion of the Emperor Ferdinand was
pointed his Aide de Camp.
OF the many laborers who went from
the United states 10 work on the hamore Railroad in
Brazil seventy remained at last account The resa
have scattered. owing to the heat the mosquitoes the
unhe althiness and the laborious work
Y-The Social Science Association of Boston
publishes the startng II true, statement that several
mills In New England grinding white stone into pow-
der to be used in adulteraung soda and -four.
The locations Of these mills are not given.
-1nefG Is u ftHuTkuDlt JtMlNH hyUU@
goguc in the ancient city Prague with walls thick
with dirt as to be absolutely black. local tradition
says that somewhere its walls the name JehoyAhM
inscribed and Il believed that the walls cleaned
the name will be efaced.
An important picture by Meissonler,
Les Curassiers "-shown the Universal Exhibition
has been bought by a Belgian amateur for s''uuo 10
Of the conditions of purchase that the name q
the purchaser should be unknown Les culrassers" ~
a largcr picture than Mcssonier usually pants
London has lately lost one Of the greatest
book collectors haever had In the person ~ Nr Henry
HUH. wealthy merchant Though valnng his books
most fondy, he extremely kind AMI uuseldsh In
placing them At the service OF scholars and hutaew
months lent total stranger volume which had
cost him nearly thousand pounds
The eruption of mud at the foot OF
Mount .Etna continues. and smoking lake ct steadily
increasing dimensions has been formed Prot silyesit
there two kinds Of eraters-one IN constAni
activity. emitting muddy and oily water with exhalA-
ons OF carbonie acid the other intermittent ISSUING
with subterranean noises volumes Of thicker mud.
The area OF land in Germany upon
which the tobacco plant is cultivated exceeds 5000
acres Prussia, Bavaria, the Duchy OF Baden. Alsaes.
and Lorraine being the c"unties which grow the mostS
and average yield Is 1890 pounds Ia tie
with thi. crop 5oUo Of leaf and 80 u
srcpared tobacco imported yearly the exports barely
reaching tour thousand tons
The South Carolina Legislature has re-
pehtd tle dlNotct enacted IN thc
abolished all process obtaining divorce In haS
State and passed law providing that Bcecherism shall
be punished BY fine Of not less than SOo thaa
sSo or by imprisonmeut Tor not less than montho
more than twelve months by both such nne and
imprisonment at the discretion OF the court
In the course Of a recent lecture on Tho
Abuse Of Books" Mr. Frederick Harrison, the emincnb
essayist said that he was inclined 10 think the most
| m part OF reading was TO know what 20 AVOID. Tho
enormous multiplication " books is not favorable 10 tho
reading of the best There never time during tho
lastthree hundred years when the dicuue in the q
making efficient OF books greater than day.
The justly named "agony column" Og
the London nnes for Dec ~ contains the following;
Dear H. Ientreat you to help in this my time %
deepest trial Ill aud riendess can look To bus
you Tor assistance. BY the memory OF the past, im-
plore your aid. or know not what shall do My lass
shilling is expended on this advertiser Remtmh,P
me at this season Of happiness and reunion. have
home now so please address" etc. Miss Braddon eoud
| invent nothing more thrilling OF its Kind.
| AT Nottingham, Surrey, England, bull
batting was kept up until In Isa2 when the Anti
Cruelty 10 Animals act passed II was decided by
porauon TO abolish the custom. and the Alderman with
his officers walked IN and soemny pulled up
the bull ring, which from time immemoral had been
nNed in the market place. The the two animaO
st apart tor the batting was however distributed a tho
same In 1885 the mob seized Of these animals AnL
| baited him In the market place. but Mr.. B,rrh wil
be glad TO learn that the rns leaders in this entcrn
| were sent to Reading Jail
A young man in Boston received n bes
quest OF SIS 90 lie had been poor and the sudden ae'
QUESTION OF wealth rather turned his head iic began TO
spend the money in reckless dissipation in sIis Of o
efforts OF his father TO restrain him. and uuul
only sil,Opo was len. Tie father begged that this res
mander might be given TO him for safe kcepnt and tho
son, being then III from long drunkenness and very poni
tent readily complied The father put StoHip into n
pocket In his shirt and started to tho other $50
IN arohc. That night he slept on bench harroom,
and In the morning every cent OF the money
The Rev DR.. Bartlett OF Dartmouth COL
lege urges In the Gy, .giioal that the ~ geon
Is becoming deeply concerned in the question MINIS
tena standing 1T has become possible" hc avs "iy1
reckless clerical adyenurers to range almost uunerc5
from place 10 place corrupung and harAssing c hck"
lie gives the following within his personal kuoWl
edge student was expelled from westcr ,heologi'
cal seminary for vusauty obscenity. ycs
he went directly 10 New England was oriautd and
made pastor A Adissouie young pastor in Sew England
was formally turned out OF the ministry; but within
year he wasin charge OF church In distant sate Al
Eugishman came over with forged crcdenu., and al'