The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-08
SCNBEAMS.

According to a recent report OF tho Inspector
Mines. 6,llo women are employed at coal mines In
| Great Britain. No women are employed to work
low che surface but of the number named $50
women are employed in the actual handling of coal
The Severn Tunnel has effected great revolution in
railway Affairs in England. according tho superiu.
tendent OF the Great Western Railway Company He
the development OF traffic by the route which
saves 30 much time and travel. has been wonderful
From 1900 to 1+Oo wagons with coal and general
freight. pass through the tunnel In u day.
Tho trade OF tho British colonies known the Straits
Settlements, which include Singapore, Penang. and
Maacca, shows very heavy decrease both in imports
and for the last quarter OF 1891 to
reports Just issued The total decrease In imports a.
compared with tho same period In 1890 was S. s<b.
900 in total of less than $40 ono 600 Tho exports
decreased s3,lS7o 900 IN = total Of little more than
$4,000. 900.
During the May term OF the Superior Court At Car,
bou. No.. number Of aliens naturalzed, among
them an Irishman. when the clerk put tho question
do you renounce all allegiance to the Queen Of Great
Britain and Ireinndt" &c. the Celt replied I'm 90 back
on the Queen; but. young man. III never 20 back on
Old lreand-never' The lawyers smiled. tho specta-
tors Uttered and Judge Robinson laughed outright
The candidates conditions were accepted and he got
his papers.
The Dean OF Gloucester claims to have discovered
that the remains Of Osrc. King OF Sorthumbria who
was buried A. D. 100 lie beneath the shrine erected to
his memory In the lannon's old Abbey OF Gloucester
The shrine was erected In the days OF Henry WILL and
was supposed to be merely memorial II the claim Is
proved gives TO Gloucester tho distinction OF contain
ing the Oldest known remains OF the Saxon Kings.
Fragments OF the remains OF two other Saxon Kings
are in Winchester and Durham cathedrala
Hosts OF unemployed men and OF others seeking
temporarily to better their condition are fockng to
the Delaware peninsula now to pick small fruits for
the markets Of Philadelphia and New York The fruit
growers erect rude sheds in the open fields and hero
the berry pickers eat and sleep while tho season ass
Tho earnings OF berry pckes are considerably above
the average pay OF farm hands Later In the season
come tho peach piucks." q race OF trAmps from all
parts OF the northern Atlantic slope feared by the
tive farmers and hated as competitors by the negro
farm lAhOrers
The Rich brothers. who are known throughout
Name as the crazy eVanRets of Piscataquis county
have been landed IN Bangor AIT on May 40 they broke
up religious meeting Sangeryile because the expo
son OF the gospel on that u"Gas.dn Was not accord
ing 10 their ideas and day Two later at funeral
when the officiating clergyman remarked that the do
ceased WAS good woman and was then In heaven. one
OF the brothers jumped M aud declared that she had
gone IN an entirely different direction. That was the
last straw, and the cvaugrss VIII suffer sixty days OF
martyrdUn In place where more attention 10 paid to
the making OF brooms than t" theology.