The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-01-12
sUNnEAM1

overneau troiiey electric street -
England s under construction in the suburos Of LssS
| by an American company.
The citizens Of Toronto have voted against runn,s.
street sunday The returns with four dyi,,o,.
not computed show e.sas for and 1901 asain., thu
| Sunday running.
| The Congress Of Nicaragua has ordered tina, "a.
young men, to be selected from the different
OF the republic be sent to Europe TO be educated a,
| expense o: the State.
a law 10 to be passed In Costa RIGA making m. eat,
to foreigners Of Indian antiquities collected In ,h. n,
| public a crime punishable with severe penaltis,
| similar law is to DO passed in Ecuador.
| --sehor Mota. n moral reformer who 10 Mayo,,
Mosquera town In tho United States Of Colombia b..
decreed that women arrested for disordery condu.,
In his bawick shall have their heads shaver b,fo,.
| they are set at liberty again.
a postage stamp OF tho original value Of sbon, s,,
teen cents sold by auction in London recently "a,
| &2lO 1t q Moldnvian echtv.one parAs po,,,,.
| stamp. Three years ago copy OF tho same st,m,
| realized at auction only $50
| An Indian Territory newspaper hA, the folor,..
item from Atoka, atown In the Territory nj. ,,is
prose pastel and nero pleasantly, II Ia to We hop,d
mr.. All onicer solved the problem who wa. IN.
smartes attorney In the town last week by pulling Nm
| stakes and leaving"
| The wedding dress in which Princess MARY OF r.,,
IL to be married TO Prince Albert Victor Of wae, ts
be entirely OF British material and British mako M,
be made OF silk fabrics and presented rrinc.,
by the Ladies' Committee OF tho National Silk As,oe.
| ton Of Great Britain.
| -The nlRner euucatou OF women IL making RreA
progress In sweden. The number ot women student.
in the universities there is now large and 4, con-
rtantlv increasing There are eighteen studepts
IN the upsaia University. thirteen in Lnnd and e,vbt
| women nre studying medicine in the Caroin.ke
| In this plain Official statement from an Enris,
Government circular is material for pleasing relies
tons: MIR. Wychcrley, the Postmaster Of whtchutch
SHop has retired upon his earned pension II $50 ma,
anuum ard hns been succeeded by hts wife" III. ,,l
airy of the Postmaster now OF the ros,mstre. is 1.-Two
| per annun
| A movement to abolish the Annoying aascb,cn
| ism OF churchbe ringing is take Of in San Fran
cisco The ReJot Of that city contends that the
| have as good a right to usc steam whistles A, IN.
churches have to bells esp .caily a. III. th.
| aires would not in announcing their performance.
| awake people before day light IN III. morning.
| Nearly all Of tho football associations IN Enr,na
have placed soldiers in uniform the free list, AMI
Tommy Atkins. who il usually great lover OF sport,
will be able to indulge In the without cost, Tn,
Welsh Football Association will admit all soldier,
| In uniform below the rank Of sergeant This Scottish
Association. however says 1t has no power to gran,
| such privileges.
An experiment ia being made in shipping rre,a
salmon from the Pacific coast to Europe II 1t h. sue
cessui fresh salmon will he shipped hereafter in,,..
| Of canned salmon Thirty thousand pounds Of fresh
| salmon were shipped in a car from the Frazer River
last week. going by way OF the Canadian PacnG to New
York. and thence in the cold storage German
| steamship. to Hamburg.
signor Succ the fasting freak expects to outdo all
previous feats Of fasting The achievements OF Alex.
ander jacques in Ion have pqned Succi and bs i,
going to Guido the Frenchman by fasting for nftytwo
days. He started In about weeks ago the Royal
| Aquarium London weighing l4s pounds ounces lie
staking only water and the elixir" about which 10
made . much fuss during his fast in this city.
There Is a unique item in the report on the vital
statistics OF the Delaware and Hudson Canal Com.
panys Pennsylvania division Of Its railroad system In
the twenty years that part OF tho road has in
operation not single passenger has been killed. On
fha rprfru IT, trSAN h..t
population OF tho country there having been chit
dren born on trains over the division. two OF them
TWINS The four living and ono is in the employ Of
| the company.
An electrical pool table Is the latest electrical novel
ty Contact buttons are SO arranged in front OF the
pockets that when ball rolls into the pocket strikes
the button and the point made Is by
ctator on the wall OF the Tie prtn cpe has
been applied to pin pool table Push buttons are ar
ranged In place or tho pins on an ordinary pool table
and The balls passing buttons record counts
the annuncator. and the kept Automatically
and accurately.
A bottle nlIed with whiskey bya New York liquor
dealer and carried to sea by New Yorker bound for
Europe has reached tho liquor dealer again many
months and through n strange channel. A friend Of
traveller arms that the bottle emptied of its
tents. was thrown overheard whls tho ship still
far from but the liquor dealer equally positive
that the bottle came back to him in a Of rum In
| ported from the West Indies.
| The cold weather and heavy snow storms In New
Mexico this winter have been unprecedented. Many
ponds in Grant County have been frozen over. some
thing which has not happened certainly In nine ten
years Many fat antelope have been killed near Max
well City the animals being unable get away on &C.
count OF the deep Heavy storms have been
general in the Wett In parts Of the Rocky
taiuS tho regular roads. has drifed to depth
Of thrtyhve feet and moro. Snowslides with loss Of
life, have been numerous,
An elevated railroad is TO be built in Rio Jan.ro
soon The official permission has been granted and all
preminaries for the construction have been arranged
Its kind Of belt line route going way and return
ing another It's said that network OF elevated roads
is being planned for Rio which will embrace the whole
the federal district of the city service conem
plated is TO reach the outer points every hour
points every twenty minutes still nearer everyten
minutes and in the heart Of the business district
are to be run every nvo minutes
Some interesting and rather surprising statistics
tho use of tho telephone in European countries have
been collected In London. the greatest commercial
city OF the world, only Is persons In 600
phone. The telephone il used countries
the service Is owned or controlled by the State 10
Germany. Switzerland, Norway and Sweden from 100
to 400 persons In every 100000 Of the population
subscribers In Great Britain only os persons in 1907
ooOuse the telephone. In Berlin II. and in Paris ~
out OF every 600 Inhabitants use the telephone.
--ofncers Mt tho Custom House were suddenly called
upon not long since to decide the proper ta the
Popes blessing. A New Yorker while abroad bough.
two rosarics ut 81 for his maid servants anl then
III E0NlnR them sent Rome Tor the FoIes
blessing ON reaching New York the honest importer
explained he whole matter the customs officers and
said he was willing to pay duty the full value of the
articles. Accordingly he assessed 40 per cent.
rosaries as such and 80 per cent the Popes besv
| Ing a. an article not otherwise provided for.'
Anew Yorker. lately returned from the new city Of
Huntington. ". Va. named in honor OF Coils
Huntington related to actor AcQuantan As
curious matter. the fact that tho Huntington OperA
House is blessed with two drop curtains one peimr
nent. the other temporary. when the permanent
curtain rises the temporary curtain bearing
= small central picture. surrounded by the busnei
cards OF Huntington merchants The actor owned ha!
he had never seen anything OF the sort America but
affirmed that the device was common enough n
second.rate theatres III some parts OF Europe.
| Nellie Farren. the lively leading actress OF the
| Gaety Company. made a tour of Australia recently
and when she left sydney for England nm AUSTRALIAN
admirer presented to ber fine specimen OF that ugr