The sun., 1891-10-28

--One OF the Poor Commissioners OF Pawnee county
Kan stops at the poorhouse instead Of hotel whom
business calls him away from home. lie hotel
hills and has time to investigate the panpers
or the TonNAwat only seventy eight remain TO nero
tate with the Cherok ee Commission They occupy the
set apart the Nsz Perces having been
moved there whom the latter tribe went to Idaho II
embrace. yl 700 acres. OF which about 1900 will he
required for aoments The rest will! be available for
honestcais. The Commission II now on the rescrvs
ton and will negotiate with the roncas, okoss
and Pawnees.
M nathan Harris of Rich Valley. va. has a
daughter ~ years old. who IL onIv too feet ten inches
in height and weighs just forty and half pounds
IL well proportioucd and intelligent and her hair
sweeps the door when she stands erect She s the .ld
ca, Of four children She has lived In the Valley all her
life with her parents but very few have known Of
existence until recently her parents not desiring noto
riety.
--su gilshmen were much puzzled to md In scotrs
journal the expression mos porns natanus ~" How
we apples swim." and there was = grave discussion Of
its In famous literary weekly until finally
an army ocer to the rescue with the fable from
which the phrase s taken Then came two letters from
New York saying that the writer's had known the fable
from boyhood and marveiiine that 1t should be un-
known to any civilized human being.
Mnssachusetts has FREQ circulating and refer.
eDce libraries than any other stato It leads tho list
with 10 free libraries and IL reference libraries I
nois has 81 free circulating libraries. New Hampshrs
81 Of both New York 35. Rhode Island 81. and Mcht
gan al Neither Delaware. Virginia. North Carolina,
South Carolina Georgia Florida. Alabama, Mississippi
louisiana Tennessee. Kentucky has free circu.
lnng library. although each mas one or more free ref.
crence libraries.
Lower Broadway was FOOD deal interested the
other day In Tyroean peasants. verabls forests
clad all in sagegreen clothes and with darksreen hats
and stont hgh.heeed boots. Each wore birds wing
cockade and brazen Austrian eagle held each
cockads In place. The two walked sturdily along the
street. apparently unconscious Of the interest they
cited The sight Of Italian selling those pssteboard
monkeys that mado to climb string stirred the
two mountain TO contomptuous mirth.
vorAcous Harlem goats scale tho steep rocky walls
OF Morningside Park and walk down the nearly
perpendicular buttresses supporting the roadway
above Their favore food is the ampelopsis Japan
ese ivy which has recently been started 10 running
over tho rocks Whom tho rock wall II too steep b.
climbed the goats of the leaves Of the ampelopss ~
high they reach by standing on their hind legs:
SO that only little fringe Of greensry 10 loft along the
rock front at about tho height Of ordinary mAns
shoulders.
"A missionary who has Just returned to England
from Central Africa says English ladies' have gone 10
Tanganyka with the notions Of the
OF existence they must lead there. He says they are
fairly dismAyed when tho truth At last dawns upon
them that they must do without afternoon teas that
they cannot In society and that they
eat their breakfast without the morning nswspA-
per- Some American missionaries have gone to Africa
without tho slightest notion apparently that . good
deal of that land Is not regarded ~ very saubrious
The Established Church Of Scotland has . hymnsl
most admirably adapted to the physical needs Of the
singers The music as In all hymnas 10 on the upper
hall of the page while the words the lower half;
but between the music and the words the page cutn
two horizontally that the music half may be turned
ependently OF the rest OF tho page Thus whom the
page a. the words on o." the singer turns
the page numbered 40 at the top for the usic and
to that numbered 81 At tho bottom for the words II
this system In use In this country It would help
both chors and congregations.
The Rev. Peter Thompson. an Englsh missionary
who is explaining his work In Whitechapel and the
East Of London to American congregations. TALL
broad looking and very impressive and earnest in
his addresses lie preached four times within fifteen
feet whero the body Of Of the whitechape VIC
tins lay He says that the place 10 hell made vslber
and that few persona realize tho helshness sud
absolute naked. wreched dspravity" Of the courts Of
the End The miserable creatures be saved he
believes only by good and good women going
there live with them and treating them brothers
and sisters.
livery sunday morning for some weeks there has
been procession Of canvas-covered family carriages
up Fifth avenue. Each carriage has the boz
servants not In livery. and the whole struggling
procession has . smack OF eighteenth century Gus
The carriages those Of Eevports fashionable
residents. and dozens of these squipages crowd the
great Sound steamers late In the season. Sunday
morning bs chosen the time of arrival. BE-
the journey up town IL attended with hess dim.
Guilty on that day than on any other. There 70 . vsss
Of hurry and hustle when the boat srvss and
the traditonauy protAne groom 10 pIeseus sno IN nns
action.
Those oddookins long.spouted seed vessels Of The
otos ooki ng like tho sprinkler of gardeusrs wstse.
ing pot, contain great many nutlke seeds that juss
peep OF their hiding place and remain safely housed
until the seed vessel 10 ripe and dry The sssds them
solves are little smaller than basel nuts almost pa.
fectiy round hard thick shelied. and mouse ooiorsd
II dropped Into the of lake In this latitude thsy
produce plant that flowers At the end Of three ysar
There several bushels OF otos seeds mp In tAs
sprout. The lotos Is uncommonIy hardy and pro-
Life needs attention whatever and II drives
out other plants thstit may md In its way.
The Sultan Of Morocco has been empsyins the vials
of his wrath upon tho BENZ Mir tribe who had d.
cined to pay tribute. After Furnishing them severely
in sharp battle about 100 OF their women Int
camp the sutans pardon and humble thsmsslvse
before him For hours they sat before his tent weep
ing and crying for their faces unveiled In toksa
OF deep contrition They asked the Sultan 70 have
mercy their husbands, their brothers. and their
children. Tho next day they continued their ptssus
waing. and In the evening the Sultan bads thsm ~
their homes and sond their husbands into camp
He comforted them with the assurance that tAsiS
tribe obeyed him and rsfrainod from highway robbery
he would not attack them again.
Tho English laws. or rather magistrates punish
offences against property severely than offences
against the person The stealing Of any article how.
small 10 punished often With several mopthC inr
prisonment at hard labor while the oostsrmoussr fog
jumping on his mother" gets but . few dsyC tlosf
ceration. minus the hard labor Wife beating favsH
s practice among what termed the lower elAsssa
s scarcely punished at sll unless the wife dsA Eva
then unless death immediately the brute Of
husband receives but . comparatively Light sentence
On tho other hand deliberate murder psrpssSatsd
with deadly weapon or BY poison 70 followed By the
hanging Of the murderer within few weeks. Recently
murderer hanged and buried within fortniEhtof
tho death and burial Of his victim.
Tho life of elevator II one such man Il to b
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