The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-23
srSBEAMS.


| This IA n rceord.smashng year. Mrs Georgia A
Brown made notable divorce record in OAKLAND few
DAYS ago She ed her complaint on Tuesday morning.
the summons was served on Wednesday. on Thursday
her husband put in a frivolous answer and Friday
the answer stricken out. Tho case was referred
testimony was taken and the decree was granted %
the same afternoon. Time. three and half days.
A granite monument Is soon to he erected in the
cemetery at Fort Yates tho graves Of six Indian
policemen who killed In the attack on sitting Bill
The monument will be erected by friends Of the dead
Indians. Tho Government has taken no part in the
matter md some Of these friends say the public not
given the Indians the credit due them for their bravery
French Canadians who tho border into
New England usually Ang,icizo their names In the
course OF n generation or Dubois becomes Wood.
pes Ruisseaux and Lariviero become Rivera 40. 90
casonay curious freaks In appelnton result from the
practice. Not long ago French Canadian named Nosi
Rocquette took out his naturalization papers a. Christ
mas Snowshoe
According to . Government reeuIsoon No rr<,sm
trains are to be despatched Sundays and holidays In
Belgium after Oct 20 next Tho regulation went into
partial operation last June but It was only to Be opera
tive at the discretion Of tho railroad auhoritea The
idea mako the innovation gradual but AFTER Oct
20 rigid adherence to II will be exacted. Railroad
employees are tho objects OF the Governments solicit
tude In this matter.
Here's another exasperatine dev siopment In the
working OF the Chinese Exclusion act Chinaman In
Jail in Tucson last week explanation Oft ~
tempted exodus OF Chinese from Mexico into the United
States He said that ono ChnAman who was recently
arrested for illegally entering the United States fon
Mexico and taken TO San Francisco had nrst sens
home all hts savings Of several years work in Aexioo
and then deliberately crossed to tho United statss that
he might be captured and sent homo to China ~ the
expense of the United States.
1T Is interesting to SEQ tho fish in Onion square
fountain receive their daily ration Of crackers at
O'Clock every morning They know tho hour and the
hand that feeds them. and the big goldfish 3uD MP 70
snap piece OF biscuit from tho fingers and Cash away.
friskinR their tails merri,y. The small boys there
age to yet nibbe once IN while. Only DAY or two
ago boy slyy dropped into the water bent PIN with
bit OF dough for bait: then quick o. wink he pulled
up sood.sized goldfish and darcd across to Sixteenth
street and away into the wilderness OF the east side
Tho nsh voracious BY nature and bite like pcfersl
Something new in school book literature appeared
short time ago in Berlin II 10 sycophAnts history Of
Germany. which begins with tho reign Of Emperor
william II. a. the most important period in German AZ
fairs and backs down to Frederick the Great and other
correspondnsly Insignificant predecessors OF the pre-
ent sovereign Tho order OF events IL therefore
what like this: workngmens insurance. revolution Of
1s4S0 reforms Of Stein, Prussan serfdom, and on
The introduction Of this unique Bit OF literature
fusomo eulogy OF Emperor William H.. which leavss
Emperor william L. tho Frederick. and the Great
Kector very small parts In the background fos
the present regime.
Tho yellow lotus plants in the Central Yarf co.
servatory pond natives Of FLORIDA, and pro-
duced from seeds brought hero by resident Of that
State who In turn hns succeeded in successfully
ing at his home tho blue Zanzibar lily grown from
soeds that rpened in Central Park waters None Of the
lotus plants II beautiful tho lily Of INDIA and the
Nile golden cax and radistins fronds typical
Of the and whose leaves shaded from rosy red
white symbolic Of tho dawn. and thus for
its In tho old Egyptian worship OF osirs me
from eighteen inches to two feet long. and
shape like green banana but when the ends out
Of pipesem This Il the edible part Of the plant and
It is not unlike the ordinary potato.
small section OF the old stuyvssans farm that has
yet escaped the hand Of improvement may BE- SEGA
Fourteenth street, Just west OF Second avenue.
willow tree or two and an American poplar await the
woodmans axe and clusters Of morning sloriss and
sunnowen await the autumnal frosts There touch
Of oldtme simplicity in the little old cottage Of sin.
gle story and its bright lawn. but viii vanish
the contractor comes along with his permit
10 cover the seven eight lots with modern abom.
ination In the shape Of apartment house. That viii
complete tho triumph Of bricks and mortar In that
ton and make Il even more difouH to realise that IN
1885, when Frederic Dc Peystsr built and entered his
uptown homo on University place. near IhirsssntA
street. there but sinss house 70 intsrosps his
Wow Of the East River.
Tho members Of the United states Coast and &C.
dso Survey party who Alaska 70 sstabHaA tAs
northeast boundary between Alaska and Canada, and
whose iabors resulted In giving 70 Canada the Yakoa
rich placer gold dissinss discovered in Arctic prov
ince during the last two Dr.. kinssbury the
surgeon Of tho party said the othe. DAY: AN Aasks
10 now at fever heat over the discovery Of sold The
placer mines on the upper Yukon oM miners who
have worked In the California and South Africa mines
tell that the Alaska strike IL the richest they have
ever The country along the upper Yukon ID fast
nlng up With people who have the gold fever and the
miners already there excited With the prospects
Of fortune that they will Leave the hsds even -
buy their n m Alnak O..
prove ono Of the richest mineral possessions Of the
country"
Aged tnplets coming to the 'front.' lndisuspona
claimed last week that Adsla Frances Almond vfanh.
n and Almore Frankford Young Of Winchester county
Ind the Oldest trplets in the country They we've
born on May II. 1867. They An ansctionass THE
and astonshngly alike in features and general -
peArance Adalia weighs 1873 pounda Almors loA -
breadth-o feet and inches. All are hsalshy anA
happy Cortland. N. T. Il said 70 have triplsts ban
two Year, earlier They are Alice n WlIhs and
Willard Stevens. AL three are married and hsvs
families. The boys weigh about $50 pounds each
and the girl 100. They. too healthy and hearty
Torrington village Conn.,. will out on seps 10 .
help Matthew. Daniel and william Grant eeIsbr.ss
their 10th birthday In hitting styis fhs village win
honor tho aged trio with public ceremonies the Town
Hall They arc all good Democratic
Awoman who for the nrst time visited vo,s osorr>
At tho extremity OF Amsterdam avsnus asked her -
cor ~ she gsxed inQuirngly around whers the fort
was He told her that she standing top Of the
earhern ramparts and pointed the sAcs the CON
tour OF the earthworks and the remains the star
shaped redoubt At the west OF the main fertilization
never should have thought Of noticing thi" she ~
Piled "Ithought was natural until you pointed u
ont expected to . buiidins Of brick OF stone"
This 10 tho case with most visitors The path q the
summit of the HILL trodden bare Of grass BY myrads Of
feet each week follows tho top Of the rampant and not
one In 10000 visitors takes any notice Of the earhsn
lines that were laid nst by the arterymen Of young
Alexander lismlton's command. and completed after
the disaster at Fort Warrington and the American ~
treat into the Jerseys by the royal engineer under the
command Of the British Major Montrsssor.
"A young man Of 20 years who 10 native Of chioaso
was taken by New York friend To see the samss Of
the Manhattan Athletic Club Saturday He failed 70
grow enthusiastic and presently expressed . wish 70
forsake the grand stand and s fashionable throng for
the rocky heights to the west Of the FIELD where hun.
dreds OF unlimited visitors perchsd on boudera
looking down upon the human beehive with grsat ap-
parent interest His guide did not fancy the trip bot