The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-04-23
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and brirsndAre, in Erypt OF late years.
Mary Burton, q coy maid Of lo1 sumnsrn vsr
married In the orimsby. England. parisA church tws
weeks ago.
Fourteen minor planets we're discovered during -
month, bringing the total number q ANAL planets
Known 20 376.
The drummers Of the Austrian army have been armed
with the regulation rins This ADDS 1904 aysiIASas
| fighting men to the ARMY.
Anew postage stamp win b issued By the fsaNsn
Post once on the silver veddinR DAY Of the King ~
Queen. bearing portraits of the King and Qusen.
Frau Cosima wagner was stricken with spoplsxy q
Bayreuth ten days ago. She 10 recovering slowly. tus
her condition At last reports was serious. She b enlr
81 year. old. ,
An Irish woman named Mrs. Todd died recently q
Donaghmore, Newry, AZ the age of ITO ysars- she wei
remembered many Of the stirring scenes Of the rr
beiiion OF l7es.
For three years there has been IN Enriand an annual
"literary ladies, dinner" This year the sams lsdisa
will sit down TO q women writer's dinners M
cha re 10 oricial
During 1892, 37< 600 tons OF nsh, other than shsn
nsh. were landed from the nsh.riss Of the United King
dom. valued at "a. s2e, 600. The value OF the shell nsA
landed was f35 1000.
Tho French senate has thrown ont the proposal. r-
Gently passed by the lower House, to tax pianos tsn
francs q year. and has also reduced by half the tax %
cycles making IL i've francs q year. 20
Tho revenue returns of Quosnsland and western
Australia for the quarter ending with March show. 1.
common with all other Australian colonies 20 far r.
|, ported, q decrease, compared with last year.
| Emperor william did not Telegraph conHTatulAttonnt -
Bismarck on his birthday, though the Empress Rrsdsr
lex and several Princes OF the Prussian ROYAL Nsus>
Joined with tho thousands OF royal, noble, and notable
persons who did an.
second.clas carriages will he abolished on the Cam
brian railways in wales on Nav 1 next, The oniy
classes after that date win be frst and third. Ths
abolition Of the intermediate class 10 becoming esnsrsa
on railroad. in Great Britain.
The British Royal Commission on Labor says In Q r.
cent report that tho annual rate Of remuneration Tot
farm labor In thu I,nitsd States IA R1Q1 eounnaraA
with 500 In Great Britain, Sl25 In France. 500 in
Holland, 500 in Germany. 500 in Russia, $50 In italy,
and $50 In India.
Among tho 400 candidates already announced for the
eighty aeats In the Paris municipality 10 Nina. PAuis
Mink. tho Polish vito OF q French Anarchist She en-
ters the lists As woman. mother. Socialist. and re-
pubiican.' She Is best known as tho mother Of . ohila
named "Lucifcr Satan vercingetorix Mink" -
Latest statistics concerning the GothenburR systsuA
Of dealing with the liquor trafic show that the city ee
Christiania. with 10000 Inhabitants. has now only
tweuty-seven cate-restnurants. shops. &C.. retailing
liquor: stockholm. with 26o,ooo Inhabitants. has las
such places: Gothenburg. with 100. OOO. has 90.
Tho present Gar OF Russia revived this year Al
ancient prohibition against theatrical performances In
the Russian language during Lent. and. as . result.
many Russian actors arc In dire poverty. The decree
was unexpected and they were unprovided sEatnss
forty days of enforced idleness. in other
languages were not i%ntcrfered with.
During tho football season Of 1929 in Great Britain
there wero twentysix deaths on tho nsid or resulting
from IoOtDah hCCucutA knitty-nlno broken legs. tWelvo
broken arms twenty-five broken collarbones, and sew.
~enty.fve other injuries. Football Is much moro general.
~ played in England than here. and every village aud
hamlet has its team or teams, anu seemingly its killed
or injured.
A resolution favoring intercolonial free trade in
Australasia, through the Establishment Of . customs
union. with n uniform Australian tariff against the
outside world. was adopted ut a conference Of the
Chambers of Commerce of tho colony of Victoria two
weeks ago. 1t Is hoped such an arrangement will
expedite tho Welding of all tho Australian colonies int
one commonwealth. '.i;s.&
II Is reported that tho strikers at Hull rssortsd re-
Gently to the methods Of tho Homestead strikers
against the non.union laborers. A score Of laborsrs
who went to work OH q ship which the union workers
had deserted were taken violently III after drinking
some coffee served out to them. Investigation showed
that some acrid purgative, probably oroton oil had
been mixed In the coffee.
Adecree has been issued In Belgium forbidding any
Belgian to capture or destroy frogs. to consign thsm BY
any conveyance. to expose them for sale. or to buy or
sell them. either whole or In part. Scientific men may
buy them for experimental purposes, and in certain
places, where frogs are reared for the French market
they may be exported to France. King Leopold II de-
termined his subjects shall cease to be frog eaters.
A Misunderstanding concern In Birmingham. England.
drives something OF n trade In crowns. They are real
ones. of solid gold. with cap OF crimso velvet. incrustar
tons Of garnet. topaz. and other kinds OF cheap bus
SNOWY stones. ana are supplied to the kings Of Africa.
OF whom there are several hundred. at . highly sAtte-
factory return OF ivory and other merchandiss. The
time has gone by when an ancient plug hat. adorned
with turkey feathers. suficed to impart . halo OF maes
nincence to Ethiopian royalty.
In 1892 tho total number Of persons employed In au1
ABOUT all the mines in tho United Kingdom was TIL
Buy. OK whom doaV wero females, working above
ground. There were S62 accidents during the year.
occasioning l.oS+ deaths. ono death Tor every d7e per
sons employed, As against ono Tor every b6S In the pre-
ceding year. Tho total amount OF mineral wroughs
was leLoof.soS tons. OF which 16l, 76o,SIl tons was
coal There was a decrease In total production otb.
1888, BSi tons COMPARED with 1871, When DrOt0ctOfR IA