The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-22
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Mary O'Neii the young girl who terribly
burned at her home In Ansonia Conn. day or two
tina: she died Of her injuries In the hospital thera
orphan, Ia years old and one Of the survivors
OF the great Johnstown Mood. The food killed her
father and mother but she and younger sister were
rescued
Tie large yield ana high price Of wheat will tits
estimated and expected make this seasons Dakota
crop equal TO those Of thu five preceding Yeas This
will III" farmers hve years income with years
expenses. and they reasonably looking forward
owning the country pretty without the aid OF the
Farmers Alliance.
One Of the curiosities OF old Maroiehead Is q bank
building which s an admirable sample OF Colonial arch
itecture An interesting peculiarly OF tho house
peat twosory hall papered with eighteenth century
wall paper. whose figures represent Roman ruins shop
herd maidens and the like Vandal tourists have car
ried the paper OF bit by bit until the walls
sadly d!shgured.
When the teacher In tho Holloway country district
Conn opened the schooihonse there tho other day
discovered that caller was ahead Of him. At some
time in the summer vacation q thunderbolt went
into she house. tore up tho oors knocked the desks
into knd!inH wood went through tho whole curriculum
OF studies IN geography. secondchss reader Dabolls
arithmetic. grammar and spelling. and graduated
through one OF the Windows taking part Of the sasA
along.
A few summer visitors at Gloucester Nass havS
Ind the good luck get into sail lofs OF that town
and TO see I'm uncommony interesting collection OF
Hogarth engrav!ngs early impressions. There are
nearly score in all! many Of them from the idle ap-
prentice series. The engravings have hung their
present. pldce for nearly century and the Of
the loft Inns refused 500 for tho collection mo other
the room are old theatre posters and early
newspaper cuts.
What the great and growing. but somewhat eros.
southwest most needs IL contact with the refining In.
Guences Of our more advanced EASTERN culture and II
10 pleasing to note where Eastern man has eivsn
points to our Western brohera Mr. Marcos exandss
OF Bro"hyn who recently moved to Tom Green county.
Tex receives this tribute local newspaper of that
region: MI Alexander alo ed the honor Of pub
ling the badger in n dog and badger night matched At
tho Stock Exchange saloon Saturday night and did his
duty in such a graceful manner as to mako many
friends"
The growth Of the Argentine Republic In the past
thirty has been remarkable According 10 recent
statistics the population OF the Republic Ia on.
600 as against 100000 in 1851 There : 900.
600 acres under cultivation where in 1851 there
but 10000 and while in that year there wer. but ls
miles Of railroad in the country there
1000 miles in operation and 1900 mor. Including the
great transcontinenn route in Of
The pubic debt has grown pretty vigorously. too how
ever 1t has increased from ST. 900 900 $4,000.
GOO.
CLOSE to the circular boundary tina, separates Psnr.
sy!vania and Delaware is the graveyard in which
legend locates the famous "trking " tho
graveyard OF the London Tract Quaker Meeting House.
known In local par.ance as the London Track The
region was settled than 200 years ngo by usk-n
from London. The present meeting house goes back
well into the last century The tombstone. according
to local legend gives forth constant ticking sound
The possibility is that the ticking IL caused ny the
trirking of suberranean stream along a hidden Do
post Of limestone.
- Water situations" arc much coveted on the
shore OF Maryland. water situation IL homestead
whose rear garden lawn shapes to the edge Of tide
water stream, some Of the loneliest Maryland homo
steads are 40 situated IT'S popularity of III. larger
Underwater streams that empty the Chesar4ase that
their waters ar" extremely clear dead low t'ts
Its an interesting fact too that the smaller streams
are properly called "creeks" and not "cricis"
~ in the provincial dialect. common further north
Many "f the niceties Of English speech keep hold upon
the popular tongue on the Eastern shore
Few persons suspect that the has4 you,h 40 familiar
In this decade of the nineteenth century WAS known 10
the early Puritans Of Massachusetts Bay but he wss
and Mt least one 81 the species lies buried in Salem
churchyard as tho following epitaph. copied from bis
tombstone, abrndantly proves: