The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-10-26
SUNBE.fMS.

lT5 feet 1t passes through brown sandstone
The people OF Hoxic Kan. wh!sh is nbou, zoo mis-,
east of the Rocky Mountains. saw the mountains In .
| magnificent mirage just before sunrise Recently
--one Of the three crate factories in Marlnorogvh
Y. made 200 900 gift crates this year IN ,ii,on .,
the large number intended 20 be returned to Tho ,
pers OF the frui, crop OF the Hudson Valley
In view CT ths number OF churches that bnvr ,..,
erected In this city within the ras: years and ,,..
now building IL seems safe To say that Now, w..
ought TO bc the most religious city in Chfisteuuorn
| 1t has been announced with cbN.lietabe s,.,,,.
tIon TIM: the enlargement c the jail IN Cuc.o rr, ,
make room tor tho advance Of civilization Il. rropr,,
Ing rapidly. and that il viii be rc,iy f,r orcnp.uc
| soon.
An inventor in Roscoe y s. ha, perfected ,c..,
| that ran be nsei TO cotfne cows hnrsrr tbs,, =.
children within certain limits. Tie IN Others IN Mdr
town. near by. are inratientiy awaiting hi. a,r,v,
| with tc.hers
| Two young Armenians applied for amnrrsss IL
otnse in Kansas city aud signed their names IN q.r
characters on the application blank. The ylrl va,
bright and good looking Doth were well dressed ,r
| said they intended to remain in the West.
| The students in the Kansas tnversty were 4, 81,
thnsasc at Chancellor SHOWS annual recon- on .l,,
year that they unp!nned their class colots and deco
rated the breasts of the professors with them ,n.,
! their waiscoats were like sections of crazy Quilts.
| "A rack railway seven miles in length is unlc. cor,
s'rncon on the rsni Mountain Japan to conncc, III,
| termini OK the State railway at Yokohama and
Earnisawa. There arc twenty zone ;unncl, J.. ~, r,
III Ri0nR the line, anu the scereSt
| is one to fifteen.
| --Cocsspur thorn apples ripe AMI they are u,.
commonly good too. There trcc full NJ the trru
near the green houses in Central Park. AMI oil,v
enough the tiny red apples were permitted rren AMI
fall TO the ground apparently because the Harlem boys
| did not know thnt the fruit was edible.
One OF the oiest Dutch honses in fGa,Su.h w,s,,d
the other day, and w.h it went fine oil carved
doorway rs this region has to show. An arts hl,,t.
ing cottage for himself up in westchcstcr copu,,
nr0hf IN, luy M St.ss
part OF his new house, but the owner dec,nel to.en
An odd localisn. possibly of English prorincn,
origin. Is heard occasionally from tho lip. ~ old.
fashioned people even in New York. It is the word
| "foof.," which seems 10 be as nearly rs possib,
equivalent to the Southern pronunciation Of titn>
save that It IL applied to things rather than to rerscn.
| It sounds like corruption OF " futile
I'm Galveston, In sinking artesan we'll which 4.
now o4o fee. in depth. gray and green clay mixed
with wood, lime generations and pebbles were found
ut depth OF 1.Jlo feet The age Of the wood i.
estimated at 200 600 years by Prof singey and in Tn,
stratum which is 100 feet in thickness he found seed,
resembling apple and blackberry seeds.
OF some specimens Of the lacquer tree that were
brought from japan sixteen years there are now in
the Botanical Gardens at Frankfort onhe.Man thirty.
four healthy specimens thirty feet in height and two
feet in erth yard from tho ground. Some OF the
juice OF the trees has been sent TO Japan used BY
Japanese artists in lacquer work. who will report IN is
illness
More letters go to the Dead Letter Office from sar.
toga during September than from any Office
in the United States For nine OF the wear the
postal business there is TINT Of ordinary town hut
during three summer months the business that OF
city OF more than 100000 population and when Wis.
tors leave the hotels they neglect to leave addresses
which letters may be forwarded.
Seven new alloys have been invented recently
They are nickel aluminium. for decorative thresdG
znc.nckel, for q pigment nickelhardIcd for type;
patinide. composed Of platinum. nickel gold and iron
for crucibes and chemical utensils roseine COMPOSED
OF nickel. slve.. aluminium. and tin. for jewellers
work: sunbronze. composed OF cobalt aluminium and
copper: netaine composed Of cobalt. aluminium. iron
and copper
Check cutters OF stained ivory and silver are now
made for those that pay $3.50 such trfes
few rich men. and perhaps good many rich women
delight in costly appointments for the writing desk
and to meet this demand those that to the ~hms
OF the wealthy have taken to overlooking all sorts OF
stationery articles with costly workmanship. A fully
equipped desk OUTFIT OK this up into the thou.
sands OF dollars.
The faith in human AMI nature that is cxhio.
i'cd by housewives who permit the leaving Of bread
milk. and newspapers from. steps and in vestibuies
long before they awake has been partly shattered
in household in San Francisco. Vow tho baker, with
stout blow. impales loaf nail in the jams Of tho
door just above the lock. hungry tramp get it
there easily AS on the duorstep but for the tine
being dogs have been thwarted.
No vegetable has underground greater deveopins m,
in the last generation than the tomato. Persons
rti esteem themselves young well remember the timo
when the only tomatoes to be were the small
ronnd oval called love apples and deemed IN.
edible They to have been appropriated for ta,s
first in this country for Old European traveller
tells how he astonishei his fellow diners Cont.
mental table ihote by eating the toma toes placed
table purely as garniture.
The natives OF Mnnipur, india where several Eng.
iish officials were massacred recently. have pecriia,
custom that Is no: to be found elsewhere India
asystem OF labor based on the assumption that 1t is the
duty OF every man between the ages of !. AM! 8oto
place his services at the disposal OF the State
tain number Of days every year. The State about
800 miles northeast of Calcutta in a saucershapcd va.
ley of the Patkoi range which separates India from
Burmah. The population Is about 10000
Tho water In the great lakes along the frontier
been so low that dam Mt Niagara Falls has been sag
gesed for increasing the depth, but Government en-.
gnesr in Chicago says that il dams be used they
must be placed at the inlet OF each lake tina, dam
Niagara Falls might raise the water in Lake Erie
feet but the effect on tho upper lakes would not exceed
two inches To raise Lakes Huron and Michigan dam
across st. Clair River would be required The only
feasible way to get more water In the lake channels
to dig deeper.
The Gilbert A. Robertson Home a. Scarborough hss
just closed for the and successful has been
its first year that the trustee has decided to double "
capacity between and the time for reopenng the
home next spring By the terms Of the vii! Of Naval
Paymaster Robertsons widow this home is to be main
tanned as summer retreat for poor families Fifty
Amles or ABOUT SOO persons Werc entertained al inc
homo last summer and many more sought admit
lance. Each family IL entertained for two weeks and
for that time all enjoy the pleasures OF summer oa
Ing free OF charge.
"A clnomctcr is an instrument for measurtnsths
rolling of vessel al and is usually in the cabin
conpanonway. When II indicates hftyhve degrees
any easily understand that something unusual
has happened. The clinometer in the steamship Elsie
marked roll to that extent on the latest from
Funchalto Baltimore. Near Bermuda she was stTnrk
by hurricane that shifted several times and made
heavy. confused Daring tho most violent rolling
. glass dccanter the cabin table turned bottom
up elnptied. and cracked from the base up without
having been rolled off,
The undergraduate students in the Michigan Uni
versity younger By full year more on the Az
erase than they were twenty years ago. The sbiyto
enter the university ut an earlier in spite OF M
ased for admission, Is due President
ANGEL says to two The schools are better than
they and the more prosperous condition Of the
parents makes II less generally necessary than was
for youth spend years In earning tho means 10