The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-04-08
SUNBE1lIS.

NOW JhAcS, 10 Jllc amount Oh HlOU,OOOOOO
Ayear. have been imposed on France since the war
The Cincinnati Gazette learns that there
is strong demand for married coachmcn In this city
We'll bred fox hounds arc very valuable.
at Lord Pomorcs sale in 1870 forty three hounds pro-
duced over $1,000.
Last year it was estimated that there
at least casks Of dcwbcrry wine made in Point
Coupee Parish. La
1t was a tough gardener OF 10 who fell
from New Haven tree and smashed an iron fence but
was not much hurt himself
Eighteen valuable beasts have died Mt
wilngdon in England, in consequence Of eating
branches probably through scarcity Of or.
binary green food
Contributions toward erecting school,
house somewhere in the South have ceased In Braue.
boro VT since the eloquent lecturer got drunk with the
money that he had obtained
The London Economist thinks that Mr..
waddngton too English in his ways to obtain much
hold over the French Chamber. lie is Of AFFAIRS
rather than man of politics
The author OF tho San Francisco passion
play has decided to put on the stage again. and contest
legality the ordinance passed by the Board su.
poryisors prohibiting such presentations
Toledo has wealthy and fashionable
shoplfcr An argument in her defence as a klepto-
maniac is that she had prayer book in hand when
caught, with stolen piece Of silk in the other.
The speed OF East Indian cyclones sell
blown across Mount Washington at the rate OF 1872 miles
r.tb-n s-~>--.ss.s'sss--G Cyl - stand Cst q
doors during these gusts
A telegraph operator sent message
from Boston to Springfield for accommodations for
twenty prisoners" instead OF persons" and the
sequence was that travelling dramatic company was
received at the railroad by party Of deputy shcrinA
"A Bridgeport woman declared that she
would whip girl with whom she caught her husband
walking In the street and did it. She also said she
would scratch the husbands eyes out, and tried to do IT,
Then she started Tor the water declaring she would
drown herself bat didn't dot
1t Is remarked-and this Is q curious
commentary the alleged prosperity OF France. upset
ting the hitherto generally accepted yews-that at
period did the French marry so little they did last
year The average for the halt century 90 per 100
inhabitants. while In 1877 it was only O.75.
An Ohio farmer was lately annoyed by
the inroads a sheep upon his grain field and raised the
height Of his fence the only one Of the flock
that could then leap it, but he enabled his companions
to do by placing himself alongside and Offering his
back for them to jump ON before clearing It,
Engineer Shillinger was buried under
the wreck Of his locomotive the Lehigh Valley Rail
road Crushed by the Of iron and scaded by the
steam he pleaded to be shot and cursed the spectators
for refusing put him out OF misery. They worked hard
but he was dead before they could get him out
"A committee Of the British House OF
Lords inquiring railroads The representa-.
tive OF 10000 cabs bitterly denounced the damage done
by "uamwaysn as at present laid lie said the
wheels were sometimes wrenehed OF and the tires
stantly injured, aud estimated the increased and
tear to cabs In consequence from Is to ~ per
Cincinnati has a Citizens Committee OF
Moral Reform which has been questioning the three
candidates for Mayor to whether they will close tho
places Of amusement on sundays Mr.. Harris replies
that he will make promises and that taken TO
that he would interfere with the theatres and beer
gardens Mr. Jacob and Mr. ogden unqualinedly pledge
themselves to enforce the Sunday laws
Cincinnati policemen thought they rec
ognizdd escaped convict in the person Of big Ken.
tuekian and tried to arrest him lie slipped out Of his
coat ran to the river plunged into the icy water and
started swim his State, but his strength
gave out aud he nshed out II turned out that he
was a remarkably innocent rustic and had fed from
| what he believed was murderous assault
Mrs. jefferson Davis is described by
correspondent OF the Boston H,rad years the
junior Of her husband maronly in appearance and in
| tcllectually remarkable woman She spoke more
hopefully than her husband did OF the Southern people,
especially Of the negroes for whom she said that eduea
| ton would work rapid Improvement She regards Tree
labor a. better than slavery Tor all concerned
| David Snodgrass the only lawyer in
Farmngton. Va. became counsel for some very doesta
bic criminals The people OF that village indignant
aud secuted the idea that the worst Of culpr
tied to legal defence. Then he grew angry his
noghbors their business rather than 10
his That night Mr. snodgrass taken out OF his house.
whipped, tarred. feathered and ridden on a rail.
In Bombay when you pay your faro in
street car you receive ticket that entities to
chance ina lottery which is drawn every month. An
American gentleman writes from India 10 TuF sus and
expresses the opinion that beats an the bell punches
aui passenger registers that invented Posi-
bly the managers OF street lines ANA elevated
roads who soloitous about the moral welfare VI
their employees, can devise some similar and equally
effective expedient
The total amount Of salt sold in the
.t,-a -l.tar
3.o75,5s3 were imported About 900 made in
the Saginaw district Michigan about 434ooD IN tho
Syracuse district Of New York $4,000 in Ohio ana Nf.
gina and the rest at other points The imported salt
chiefly comes from Liverpool but Trapani in Sicily CadA
IN Spain Hyeres In France and Turks Island aud Cura
Goa in the West Indies furnish large quantity As tho
domestic manufacture yearly increases the imports nat
| urally decrease.
The Prusslan Minister of Public Instruc-
ton has laid plan before the Society OF Medicine
cording 10 which the regulation OF doctors fees Is to DO
done away with. There is to be tariH by which
Judge can decide when applications made III court
but in general doctors to demand what they like.
The tarG In question is two marks or 80 cents for rs
visit and one mark forovory successive Visit when
situations are held doctor is 10 Eve marks Tor
the first time and three marks for the succeeding In the
physicians house S7's is the charge for the nrst
consultation, and IL cents for every succeeding one
An cdiiicc now building ON the banks OF
the Avon, at strauord. contains small theatre for the
this will be subsequently added dramatic library and
picture gallery The ground around will be laid
garden. The inauguration will take place on Shakes.
p,ares birthday, the 23d OF this month celebra.
ton will continue for four days Mr Barry sullivan Msi
Helen Faucit Mr. santley, and Sir julius Benedict viii
Giye their this occasion As most people arc
aware, shakespeares family long since became extinct.
ana the family OF Lucy Of Charlotte, with which his
strauord hfc $50 closely associated. represented only
IN the female line although the name OF Lucy sro,anci.
Tho Earl Of Lousdale, the sale of whose
effects recently noticed is m his 24lh year and has
conriycd, since attaining his majority. his sien'
din estates IN Wcstmoreiand, yielding revenue q
SO1oueoh year into debt and TO spend S75luuu ready
money besides lie married, a short time since, uio
beautiful Lady GLADYS Herbert sister OF the Earl ol Penn
broke and daughter Lord Herbert OF Lea better known
as Sidney Herbert an eminent British statesman TIE
marriage was the ladYs own choice, being asu, The
wish OF the family. and her brother refusing 90 attend me
wedding on account OF Lon~alc hahitua incompetence
and srendthrt habits In TWO months Lady Gladys had
u return TO her mother and her husband committed me
dgraccul act of announcing IN the papers that he would
| not be rCsuOnsihle Tor her bills.