The sun., 1884-11-20
General condensataons.

September 8, 1860, the steamer Lady
Elgin, having on board large number
Of excursionists, many from the South,
collided with the schooner Augusta, off
Winnetka, north of Chicago and sank;
2S7 persons we're drowned out of the
885 on board.
The tobacco crop of this country,
which in 1864 was but 197, ,0O0, ,00C
pounds, promises in 1884 to be between
600. .000. 900 and 700, 000, 900 pounds. or
more than three times that of twenty
years ago. The acreage, which in 1854
was 239 ,S26, has jumped up to nearly
100 900, while the value of the crop,
which in 1864 was $50, 900, 900, will
probably reach $4,000, 900 or $50
/ 900, 600 in 1884.
John B. Cough is of the opinion that
the way to c1re sleeplessness is to pitch
in and work it off. He says that Ly-
man Beecher Gather of the Brooklyn
, orator. had load of sand in his cellar
and after evening service he would
shovel it from one side to the other, and
by this exercise he could tone down the
fever of his brain. Then the old man
would get out his violin and soothe
himself to sleep with amateur tiddling.
Lady Dufferin, the wife of the British
ambassador at Constantinople, raised
SIC, 600 for charity in a single year, and
m naged its distribution. She devotes
nearly all her time to work among the
poor people
The elaborate gold cup won by James
r. Keene's horse Foxhall a. the Ascot
races in England nearly two years ago,
and which has been in the hands Of
United States customs officials since,
has been officially declared to be tro-
ply, commemorating particular event.
and therefore free of duty, under Sec
tons 2,499 and ?, 502 ofthe act of March
3, 1888. An order has been issued Civ
ing Mr.. Keene his cup without payment
of duty.
Paper bottles are now made on
large scale in Germany and Austria.
The following is said to be a good re-
cipe for the paper: Ten parts of rags,
forty of straw, fifty of brown wood pulp.
The paper is impregnated or coated or
both sides with sixty parts Of detibrin-
ated fresh blood, thirry-five parts of
lime powder, five parts of suiphate of
alumina. After drying ten or twelve
rolled leaves are coated again, placed
over each other and then placed in
heated moulds. The albumen in the
blood forms a combination on pressure
with the lime which is perfectly proof
against spirits, &c. The bottles are
made in two parts, which are joined to-
gether.
Marriage in Pennsylvania is simply
a civil contract and can be entered into
just as any other civil contract can be
assumed. Neither priest, minister or
civil or other officer is necessary to a
marriage in Pennsylvania Parties
may agree to become man and wife
with or without officiating officer and
with or without witnesses. They may
privately agree to become man and
wife, and if they publicly assume the
relations of marriage before the world
and confess and present each other as
man and wife, they thereby impose up
on themselves the marriage tie that can
be dissolved only by death or divorce.
"There are still 33O, 900 900 idols wor-
shipped in India-more idols than there
are human beings" says the Rev. Den
mis- Osborne, the native Indian mission
ary. More than one idol per capita is
pretty good figure. It mast be ac-
knowledged that Christianity has made
but small progress in India under Brit
ish rule. Mr.. Osborne can only claim
500 900 out of vast millions of Indians.
As for the idols they are manufactured
in Birmingham, and probably in other
business in the making of these gods,
which they ship over to the heather.
This is one way of making the natives
acquainted with Christianity Can the
paucity of conversions be wondered at
whenEngland herself provides the gods ?
Our Minister to France gets S17, 500:
England pays her Minister to France
$50, 600 and gives him palace to live
in. tbs United States pays its Minis
ter to Eng4and SIT 800. England pays
her Minister to Washington $50, 900
year, and gives him a great mansio1,
fully eq1ipped and furnished. and &c.
900 year for entertainments. Eng
land pays her minister to Persia $25,-
900 year and gives him palace. We
pay our Chief Justice SO, 500 year
and our Associate Judges $4,000.
Chief Justice Coleridge gets $40, 900.
The other eight Judges of his court get
$25, 600 year each. Even the Eng
ish Consul at New York receives sal
ary of over $40, 900 a wear. Ge1.
Sheridan gets something like $4,000
year. Gen. Wolseley gets about s40,-
900. 5.-..-
Professor Forster, who rscently died
at Aix-la- Chapelle, was one of the
greatest European entomology SITS. He
has left a collection of insects which
from its rare perfection and beauty
stands almost unrivalled. And move
ment is on foot in England to buy it for
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