The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-16
SUNBEAM

"A man in Americas. Ca. is plying the business Of
peddier under tree license granted by the state 10
wounded Con erate soldiers and eking out subsist
ence with pension he draws as an exUnion soldier
An order OF tho Sisters Of Football" has been
formed by the girls Of Gardiner Me and hasa goodly
membership, They are not. as might be supposed,
banded together like the Red Cross Sisters to anoint
the players wounds and bandago their bruises after
the battles by their local clubs but to help in arousnE
an interest in the game and In paying the expenses OF
| the team.
-Watchcocks are those queer ornaments usually OF
carved brass with which the cases of old watches
used to be adorned. They arc now bought by dealers
| In curios and sold to Young women who have the m
made up into bracelets The decorations upon these
bits OF brass greatly vary in character and crit but
some are really clever and bracelets made from watch
cocks are yet unique
Most of the signs of nm early winter have appeared
in Maine. but the weather that should accompany
them has been switched of somr where Snow hunt.
inks came down from the frozen north some little
time since, and the snowy owl has also appe AIRED
month earlier than usual but the snow storm that 10
supposed to accompany these birds not appeared
There have been some shat p frosts however
Cupid played some quaint pranks in the Midway
Paisance at the Chicago Far odd combination in
conjuRni contracts were not uncommon toward the
close OF the Exp 'iiion Anew days ago Ton Malt ,s
and samus watanabe - years old. two Japs applied
for licenses to marry respectively two Egyptian dam
selsJuanita ChorbR of ~ years ono of tho boaute,
Of the Midway and Cora ReRab FL years old. Both
couples will settle in Chicago and into with
their prohts from tho Fair.
IT c. h. Howard. commander of Maryland's oyster
navy. conccals beneath his triple Initials the names
Thomas Contoe Bowie. and comes of three or four
famous aryand families no have given tho State
Judges and Senators He had much I'll luck In business
down the Eastern Shore. and being . stout fellow
with youth and pluck he obtained a little craft and
turned oysterman. He was good captain OF his bugsys
and some years since his friends had him placed In
command Of that odd little Institution the Maryland
NJ at matt h. ti.I
Football kickers and kckeis against football may
both fnd interest In tho fact that in England $50
years ago King James l.. by decree did "debarre all
rough and violent exercises tho football for
tanning than making able tho users thereof" Waller,
the English poet. says of the game that the players
"sauto SO ruiely breast to breast their encounter
seems too rough for Jest" The game not in favor
at court three centuries before King James for Edward
Ill Is on record As preerring archery to football
the more useful and warike game But neither Of the
two Kings named ever saw really scientific game
such as they might see IL they privileged on
tho bleaching boards at Manhattan Field these daya
The tanning powers OF prosperity shown in the
case of Herbert Ward the African explorer who lem
these shores three four ago newy welded to
. millionaire's daughter but determined to write
amply OF his travels and to mako yet other plora
lions lie has since lived in palace travelled In no
foreign parts and published. besides few magazine
articles for which lie was under contract only single
volume L. J. Glave, his Old friend and companion in
Africa, has In tho same time mndo two notable jour
neys in the wids of Alaska written vast al about
those and other explorations and undertaken an i'm
portant and porilous expedition into savage Africa
Yet Ward quito as much as Glave is born wanderer
Tho past seasons successful VIII aling In tho Arctic
Ocean and Behring straits and Sea has broken the
record of all past and whaers ray there won't
be any money in the business for years to come the
price Of bone will go low. When the bark Alaska
which arrived at San Francisco last week. left the
grounds Oct 8, tho total catch had been 1858 whaes
Four steamers took 27 OF this number vessel TAX.
ing "a whales and another o.. and another "a whales
In twenty days Tho sailing vessels not in Il.
Eighteen failed to land single whale. Tho steamers
winterng as they did in the Arctic the ground
able 10 take advantage of the nrs OF ice
Tho steamers made attempt to save oil. Tho head
cut of the whale tho bono secured and the great
carcass allowed to go adrift
The army of unemployed is owing eastward from
tho Pacific in regular military fashion Three hundred
Ell route to New Orleans. camped outside tho city
limits, ran up an American flag pole. md sent Q
delegation into town to ask for rations Tho were
OF good appearance clean and orderly and evidently
were not tramps. These parties OF unemployed are
organized into companies with captains and regular
roll calls Tho officers n day all shar-
Ing alike when there is to share Tho citizens
OF Cotton gave this particular party 100 pounds of
bacon. piles of bread and several sacks of potatoe
beans and other provisions. Tho men wanted food to
last them across tho deserts Of Arizona and New
Mexico. The southern Pacific Railroad ia permitting
tho bands of unemployed freight cars
over tn rOau-