The sun., 1892-09-22
EUNBEAMS,

Daniel Wilson OF Harpswell Ne, was queer sort
OF crank Being dspeased with his wife because she
went often to church he tried to strangie
cd In this performance. when she and tho children
deserted HIM he committed suicide by shooting.
An immense four-whesled truck for carrying very
heavy pieces of stone or metal astonshes pedestrians
on Fifth avenue once in awhile Its hind wheels are
at least ten feet in diameter On of the great
tnbers is the namo Baby" Everybody who sees Il
for the nrst time smiles at the pleasantly of tho
"a novel spectacle of . steam vessel being stoksd
with bank notes was witnessed recently At Meditsr.
ranean port. Fortynve sacks of tho apparently vau-
able paper forced into the Of tho vessss
boiler under tho eyes OF tho sokers who de-
srs to possess themselves of at least handful Of whas
they somewhat inelegantly styled "rum fuel" me
notes were cancelled documents Of tho Bank Of ~
giers, whose manager watched the combustion
Tho new British House of Commons 10 much older
than the that preceded it, that Is tho average age
of its members much greater Tho ages range FROM
20 to 90 1t has two members only - years OF aga
and Mr. viers again tho father OF the House. being
30 years of age. Four other veterans are Mr. Isaac
Holden. S5 Mr. Gladstone. 81. and Mr.. c. Wright, 81
It has 40 members whose ages range from ~ to so
I%3 from 81 80 1877 from ~ to 60 173 from 81 70
90 rs from 81 to 10, and from 81 to 30.
She is only years old. this all New Yorker but
nourisIed in free thinking family she has absorbsl
the agnosc theories o: her elders opinions
OF in short is an outandout small atheist For
time past she has been much Interested In little
companion recent acquaintance but to tho surprise
otthe family. recently she positively refused to accept
ateap party Invitation from the child Being pressed
for an explanation she ut last gave lit SWELL III tell
you why. Just cannot play with her. She's one Of
these common kind OF children who believe in hell"
One of tho finest Gins within twenty miles Of Nav
York Is in tho yard Of private dwelling IN Fourth
avenue. Mount Vernon Tho tree measures At least
four feet in diameter At tho ground and nearly seven
feet at the point from which tho main branches shos
Several branches are two and half fset In diamss
each. Tho spread OF the branches must cover clreO
consider rahly than 100 feet In diameter large
pavilion has been erected beneath tho tree. with
stairway leading up othe gres brsnches has bees
necessary to hold tho branches together " means -
stout iron bands.
-Th.rs seems to b, ,omo mitigation Of the elm
scourge this year The beetle which attacks the leaves
before midsummer aud relurr'msny or them 10 mere
skeletons has tccn nj WORT for several ysArs RsA Its
rayngcs at rSt directed a!lhst the EngHsn elms.
which more less tender IN this country but II
time the pest reached tho native elms Trees within
the city limits and especially in tho small parkS have
suffered most this year Those In Central Park have
been less affected whI!s those In the suburbs have
Jared better stilL Young Gins recently transplAntsd
have BEEN especially damaged
-tarrier pigeons p.ay"i interesting parts In size
ne work OF tho recent elections in Great Brit
ain Important csnlaines'n out OF tho way country
d,a,rc,s poorly provided with isicgraphc facilities.
Mr. Gadstone's Midlothian district. were accompanied
in their tours by newspaper mon provided with
rer pigeons Tho reporters who went with Mr., Glad.
stone had regular pigeon man" with them. whsn
Mr. Gladstone delivered speeches frog ms carriage the
reporters wrote their reports on thin tissue shsets
"nimsy," aud passed them to the pigeon man. The
sneets were attached to the pigeons legs By rubber
hands and BIRDS set free. Tho birds performed
co!lent service in carrying the matter 10 uoghborpg
cities telegraph centres they had been trained.
ON several OCCASIONS however, on nne. warm days
tho birds aghlcd roofs and summed themselves for
an hour or So while the pigeon man tried TO coAx
them In so TO Mo hts cory. aud the matter tssy
carried had 10 bs left cut os the latest edition