The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-02-27

l,fbiVD
The anti-Chinese agitation in Australia
n on the Increase and the Government called upon ia
restrict coolie immigration.
Worcester has had an angry discussion
asto whether negroes should he admitted to It's skating
rink but the color line has been wiped out
Tho Bishop Of Crcmona has prohibited
his flock from reading the lbera' papcrs Vt the town
including those previously furnished with special permits
The statement that the British Cabinet
intends giving Hcroland back to Germany is regarded
as uufounded 1t Is merely. the telegram says the 70
susctation Of an old rumor
Tho Paris journal ONciel has had Ia
threaten with expulsion from the Legion Honor cen
tain exhibitors who have paradcd their decorations Ia
their shop windows printed it ON their wares
A long-existing dispute between Swift.
erand aud Baden has at length been settled by the ae
ccptance by the Grand Duchy OF the present frontier
the TO which 1t had previously made 'hiccton
Two men quarrclled i'm Pine Bluff Ark.
while playing faro, and fred pistol the other
who would have been kiilcd il the bullet had been
stopped by the ivory chips that he had thrust into h
waistcoat pocket
There arc published in Sweden 300 papers
and periodicals. Of which ~ appear in Stockholm
There are only daily papers. or which are pub
lshed in Stockholm; while in Norway there are i5ia
Denmark 10 and in Finland o.
The Government Of Uri have given final
orders the demolition Of Tells chapel the Lake
the Four tnntnns tne rtYnrH VIII Nrst De carefully
photographed aud the walls On which thew painted
removed and deposited IN some public building
Not many years ago the value Of the
silk manufacture OF France was Tar IN u, thatd
worstcd. but the latter Is OF more value than the
former The total value OF the wor-cd industry 10
France l. $40 on nearly half OF which Is exported
Prince Robert Lichnowskv. Prclate of
the Popc's household and Dean of Olmuu Cathedral hm
bequcahcd his immense fortune to the Pope. On the
other hand. the tn. states thata recent coll elton
Peters pence in all the churches Rome did not pro
duce the expected result
Gen Grotengclm, the Russian COM
mandant OF Fort Petro-Alcxandrovsk near Khva hat
received nstruc tons to institute census of the Khan
ate with view to the Introduction Of compulsory mill
tary service, based upon the Russian model, into Tie
Khan of Khiva's dominons
Michel Vincent, formerly famous In
France and this country the Iron Man died lately
san Francisco His strength enormous. OF his
eas being to lit 100 pounds the floor his -houI
der but he too often raised glass Of liquor from bar to
his mouth. and finally dicd Of intcmperancc.
The number Of those who in 1877 IS died
Of starvation In Brazil is estimated 10000 exclu.
sve Of deaths Indirectly resulting from IT, Fnghuul
havoc was also made by smallpox. which carried %
2iOO persons There have been few periods in history
more fertile in famine than the last lu-trum
During an operate performance i'm Bal
umore, telephone placed by the side the prompt
ers box. the wire leading 10 several blocks dis
Wnftf eeNffhl persons lrencu 10 the music Every
sound was clearly reproduced even the AUDIENCES ap
plause and the promptcrs words being distinctly given.
Spain boasts Of % dukes, sec marquises,
632 counts, 90 vscouut aud rs barons be sides ~
nobed foreigners Two dukes 81 marqui.es 30 counts
vicounts aud harons have been created by pres
ent King The University students this year number
io.S~a, Of whom o.s13 studying medicine and
6.foo law.
Rice Ferguson, the postal agent in Phila-
delpha, was caught stealing money from letters Iii.
reputation had been good and the exposure
prising TO his friends crushing to him lie
wrote letter saying that he did desire to live dis
rractd, aud swallowed Of prussic acid which
Killed him instantly
Levi Wagenseler Of Philadelphia whila
eating dinner let his false teeth slip part way down his
throat A physician told him to drink a glass Of gin,
which might make the teeth and their rubber plate pass
into the stomach where they would remain until dis.
solved; but they only went little further down and
lodged immoyably. IN such way prevent any thing
passing into the stomach He lived weeks withou,
food. AMI died Of starvation.
England continues 10 be the terra incog-
n,a Ut French writer's The Rri1~' announces without
the slightest expression OF surprise that the Duke
connaushtis about to his niece the daughter Of
the Crown Prince OF Germany; and book just pub
i-'' '..-- '''~ nils ni Chez les Anslnis. by N.
Depret. dcvotes chapter TO Lonefclow whom the an
thor evidently takes for Enshshman Just as the Il,
| takes VI Waidington Tor an American
| Nine. Grevy Is the daughter OF NJ
frasse one Of the richest merchants of Nancy ana Al
the time Of her marriage her relations thought she
might nave done better than marry ". Gtevy Mile
Efevy is an only daughter and some sixteen or seycn
teen years hgo. when She in her teens used 10 ae
company her father in his shooting excursions IN tha
wild parts OF the Jura She was then as good shot a,
ne Is She is landscape painter of rare excellence
Father Hyacinthe opened his Galican
Catholic church at Paris on Feb 8 Long before tho
hour for commencing, the little building was quite full
am hundreds OI persons unable