The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-10-20
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Among the exhibits at the Fryeburg. No. fair last
week plough that has been in for lie yesrs
and picture framed In board cut from pine log 12o
years ago.
tame crow. which accompanies them whenever they
60 to the city on Sundays market days. flying above
and little In advance Of the horses.
Tho chute in logging camp at Clifton. Or, is three.
quarters of mile in length. and 10 of tho longest
chutes in the world Tho bottom Is shod with railroad
log slide the whole length In twenty seconds
Stephen A. Wilcox of Prescott Ne. IS years old. 10
Of tho best farm hands in that town. This year
work ed for the seventyfourth consecutive In
the hay field. His wife 10 living and they have been
married sixty years.
Tho deputy marshals, OF Alaska have consider.
able trouble with Indians who Illicit stills for tho
manufacture Of vile and vicious decocton called
hoochinoo which creates in the native breast decided
longing for somebody's blood.
ANEW Jersey landholder who IL striving to make
city Of his farm by selling on in building lots in order
to advertise the scheme sont balloon. from which
the decd of of the lots thrown and tho person
who got the deed In the scramble down below was Al
lowed TO keep It and to own what II represented.
Since the Blaine cottage at Bar Harbor closed.
few weeks ago. the flowers and shrubbery around IL
have suffered at the hands Of relic hunters TO such
extent that there will DO big job for the gardener
next spring. Slips from the various plants have been
gathered by hundreds. one man carrying Ivy slip
away out to Indiana.
-DelAwarsans used to be good deal amused by the
custom tho old Junction and Breakwater Railroad Of
sending brakeman through the cars at intervals with
tray OF ice water. The superintendent Of tho road
was New Highlander and he brought tho custom down
with him from Yankeeland. Hstil prevails on parts Of
the New York, New Haven and Hartford road.
Mr.. odeu the agent for English irm at BatanE
got into surf boat months for the purpose Of
boarding the mail steamer. After an absence oftwo
he to return home for vacation Tho surfw
heavy, the boat capsized. and great commotion
Gudt Anv nhGe In thA
in that neighborhood days later his thigh bones
and part of his watch were found on tho beach.
Tho Melbourne Geological Gardens wanted an
American bison and purchased one from the Geological
Gardens. London. The bison. which was IL months
old died few weeks ago its way to Melbourne. 1t
was regarded as the most valuable specimen in the
consignment OF animals with which II was going to
Australia. The father Of this young animal died In
London last white. The bison had 1t lived to reach
Melbourne would have been great curiosity. as Aus
traia never saw q specimen OF the bison
photographer frames all over this town present
an uncommonly interesting photographic study. Any
man acquainted with the distribution Of nationalitiss
throughout the city could guess in which part OF tho
town he was II he were led blindfolded 20 aphotogra
pher, frame permitted to unbandage his eyes only
for the purpose of looking at the photographs Tho
Bowery shows photographs Of all nations: in the cen
European quarter east OF the Bowery and south o
Fourteenth street the prevailing types arc Jewish ana
German Blocker street has dozens OF negro photo
graphs Tho photographers however, prefer w pa"A
out pictures OF their mulatto customers and some OF
them uncommonly handsome.
In these days OF low freghfs AMI too frequent long
passages old sailors Ike To dwell upon the big money
that earned and the quick trips tina. wero made by
American clippers OF Inte'bellum days. ease IN
point is that of tho Bath ship Champlan. 300 tons
commanded by capt. Woodward. 1hs Champn'h
went from Boston TO Savannah In ballast during tho
summer OF 1880 making the passage in four days IN
twenty days discharged part OF her ballast anu TOOK
in cargo OF cotton and In eighteen days she Was
at the dock in Liverpool la twenty days at LiFsrp"'
she her cargo Of cotton and loaded genera
cargo aud eighteen days later she was III her beTh d"
boston The whole tap 'upi"d tnI cigh'yd"F anu
In that time thc SHIP earned une'haf Of her c"t''
Many persons in this town have been considerably
Interested in n sngaese man and woman imported anu
kept on show as Advertisements OF n ',Sioh CONGO
house The man nifty but was probably not ABOVE
thirty while the woman, who looked twenty was
probably IN her early teens The sinaa'ess are ah'''
people with short lives Gr!s begin to have lo'e'Sa
an age when girls In other countries are stl l'sphs
the nursery. American Captains tell Of seeing ssf
les. girls of eight years carrying ncr infants ~ 'h'
arms Girls of ten Utmost "p'n'y soh h' '''' ~
,Dis Ia Europeans, Whll. ilrir Hiu.t ylGia FrW'"H
tue SingAiese women are cNiroEiry pr"''N anu '"''
complexion. although almost exactly OF 'he 'o'o'
chocolate. 10 beautiful by reason OF extreme smo'
meas. The sngAiese girls look Ike badly saasa sAN
slightly 0vaySsMR tAlSsh -