The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-01-02
SUNBh.fAfS.

| "A Chicago paper publishes weekly all
marriage licenses, with the Of both the male and
female applicants This Is not looked with iavorb by
| the parties principally Interested.
| The most elaborate recent wedding in
Nashville that u couple, J. G. Napier and
Nctue Langston. The BRIDE wore an imported dress q
silk and fine lace aud many u the guests
atrod with equal cost and generally in good ste-
Joseph Beckert of KilbOurn City, Wis,
married young pretty. aud accomplished widow. The
match In all respects fitting except that the husband
Roman Catholic priest He has not waited TO be
disciplined by his church. but has resigned from the
| priesthood
"A donkey may be made an actor II the
right incentive be given Joe Emmett introduces IN
"Fritz" that brays every evening at exactly tho
proper point in the play THIS is accomplished by show
ing the donkey bunch Of carrots Of which he is inor-
dinately fond.
Lawyer Eager started temperance So
ciey his In Cleveland. employed detective TO
catch vioators Of the liquor laws and began DrOsecu-
tons but discontinued them receiving 500 In each
This was thought to be Matchmaking, and Eager
has been disbarred.
May Fiske Is an actress OF the vigorous
sort both on and on the stage In Montreal she
offended by agent She threw water pitcher at his
head but he lodged it, Then she scratched his face.
pulled his hair. and trying TO throw him o1t Of
window when the bystanders rescued him
At tho German embassy In Washington
they say the Connaught will next year become
vceroy Of ireland; that the Prussan Princess who
Is TO be his Duches 50 is In addition being pretty,
agreeable aud amiabe. and like the Prince himself uu
liberation and without an atom Of religious bifotry
There has been the greatest difficulty in
inducing the Duchess of Edinburgh to 90 and ako
up her in England even Tor few weeks. though
the Queen had ntmatcd the proprey and reassurins e
feet OF such measure She hoes her father. aud does
not love English Court The latter FULLY reciprocas
this sentiment
There il every ground for the statement
that Queen vctora's views continue thoroughly IN ac-
with those Of her grand yzier aud that Lord
Beaeons6cd lost io,a Of the confidence -he
rcposes in political wisdom Neither Queen MIN
lister share respecting the by which
others tormented
In 1923, New York, with population OF
| 10000. had 30 newspapers It estimated at that
time that the United States had paper In every 1880
OF populations England IN $3.50, France. In $500;
Prussia. IN 5000 Austria, In 4ODOoO Russia, in
e72 GO; sweden and Norway, In 1900 Portugal, in
| 2O7,0oO. Spain In ses.ono.
| The Prince OF Wales stayed last month
at Luton Hoo celebrated seat in Bedrordshi belong
ing enormously wealthy widow. Mrs Gerard Leigh.
on these the list ~ company selected il SUBJ
med to the Prince. who is invited to make any atera
tons he may please II included at Lnton three Amer
lean ladies, Niscountess Vaudeville, her sister, Mss
NAuka Iznaga; and Mrs RonAldS
Henry Porter sat next to disordcrly
man In a Nashville theatre, and laundering usher
elected him well as the real offender Porter in
censed a being made unpc asanty conspicuous before
|
derson who the stage the Of the trouble
to publish card generating him They refused lilo
then brought suit for damages and attached the bag
Of the actress whercupon his request granted
There are bitter complaints In Philadel-
phA Of ~ behaved young who the theatre.
In full evening dress long after the has be-
and by ttterng and talking annoy everybody ese.
Al the South Broad Street Theatre the other night the
chief lady performer stopped and looked toward tho
offending box. aud the leader OF the orchestra turned
In l.ust anal
kissing put end To the annoy ance OF which there 10
| far too much In New York also.
One Hermann Shulper was lately en-
gagged to marry young gir In the envrons OF Baden.
| Germany who had a dowry OF s23 900 All the prerm-
| mary fornalucs having been carried out, the young
adys father connded the dowry shulIper the day
before the wedding, that he might invest IN project
| which he seemed enthusiastic upon The result that
shulper bought steamer ticket for New York and de-
camped by railway that night for Havre BY meanE u
| the telegraph he arrested at Strasbuurg.
| A proposition has been made in the
French Chamber OF Deputies to exchange the rcd
sers OF the army for those OF darker color III urged
that red is very clearly by enemy ana anonl.A
good aim. The objection TO the change Is trou-
traditional with the French army. and associ.
ated with its glory Tie answer 20 this is that they
adopted only about forty IN the reign Louis
Philippe and that their traditions connected with bus
a small proportion Of the battles fought by France.
There is a strong desire in English royal
circles to give permanent vceroyay to the Dominion
OF Canada the idea being that years
may little further. and the NORTH
America become independent kingdom. But there IL
no intention of making King Campbell or even Of oav-
ing the Marquis OF Lornc longer usual five years
in his transatlantic veeroyalty It might have been
otherwise # tile Princess Louise had family II pro-
posed TO pu,h the Duke Eiihnrph forward for the
subordinate post four or Ave years hence and
his chances of kingship might become.
bosnia Is not at present very valuable
appAnage. sexoort trade is confined to small number
OF cattle and the horses bad be useless oT
military purposes. AMI worth only $40 apiece.
Pigs and sheep, Of which there together 3u'DooOtO
population Of iOOOOOo the chief wealth II on
yeys idea Of Bosnian roads that sccai
correspondent Of the Vienna Fo, Pas lately tclographrd
that he actually i've horses sink into the mud up 10
their heads and thus lose their lives The country
no other means Of conveyance ordinarily than Tack
horses. for the one railroad is halt under water
The latest novelty in London is a Tonga
Islander, one Mr.. Mpopomhaha lie is nearly 80 wears
age Of mud and prcpossessins appearance. reinark-
ably intelligent and practical Christian The Captain
who abducted him had HIM instructed. and remark.
ably docic and gifted was hc that he is occurring.
His lectures accounts Of life in his native
lani and are said to be highly Interesting one great
personal attraction about HIM is that he admits that in
1890 when he u cannibal Of canuhas Dc and his
family ate New York missionary lie offered part ot
his earnings as lecturer lcnsaon for this uncanny
banquet. but relative has Ms vet come forward
claim the dividend.
-Clergymen are sometimes unjust in their
efforts to point moral. but We have
error than is contained ina statement attributed by tho
Rochester EYrts to the Rev. H. l.. Morchou~. mat
preacher is reported having said. ina sermon that
"couugal fidelity was never dreamed Of among tho
Greeks and among the Romans matters were stiil
worse ON the contrary, cowuga mddchty was -
known in Sparta, one OF the two leading staR
Of Greece, until comparatively late period IN It's lis
tory, aud the Athcnans extremely thcir
punishment f Bccchousm and AN that that word implies
Asior the Romans no instance ofd'occ occurrci among