The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-13
fNBEINS.

| --There comes echo OF the football discussion
from far Peru. Au American now A. Lima sends bous
literal Translation Of u Lima news apers account o.
| tho last great football NtN YorK The core
ppondeut the editor and his readets shat hom
eide IL In;tequeut feature Of the sport and BIDS
American critics OF tho spanish bull light Keep seno.
hereafter tor very shame
-POwertul and large A. are the greatest Of modern
United states war SHIPS they are alt Of low stature
compared with tue covering structures OF sx;y or
seventy year, 1go. Inc I. :. Pennsylvania built
about ~s and supposed at the time be or the
largeswHr SHIPS ever launched was 30 feet long and
- feet broad She carried 20 gus end lowered aof.
VITA ave decas. Her complement ot men was LOO.
Not only does vine breed good fellowship but
snur taking also The other night Jolly German
ont us suuhhoN IN an elevated railway train and
treated hmsrlrto pinch. passenger opposite asked
for the freedom II iHc 'nriboS. aud snsezed nightly
when he hal nSAi,ei htn,a' Of u. Tue Jolly German
!aughrl ~ erriy. and passed his sautiooS around to
other pls~-nrers vino asked for ptnca. soon all a.
tla' eul o, the sociabe term
It was The distinction OF the kearsarge TO be known
to more navAI officers and sailors than almost any
other active employed ship Ia the navy. Although
size had begun 1" be Old fashioned while she
her prime she was convenient ana safe boat with
good deal OF room inside fair speed AMI excellent
reputation rs seagoIng ship. she Nas consequently
almost constantly in commission. ami during her III.
OF more than thirty years she must have housed
several hundred officers and some thousands Of men
oue OF the strange sights a; the hotels OF New
York Is the man VINO sits down to a table with tn.
whether 10
eats much or ht:le. and tries to the worth of
money by ordering n little OF everything n hill OF
fare numbering scores OF dishes Tho waters
rural hotels. however are asOnishsd At tho wbs
picks daintily from a long bill Of fare breAkfAstor
fruit oatmeal eggs aud coffee. while every around
him is having three kinds OF meat potatoes and hun
bread in three or four shapes.
Farmers in Maryland and Delaware slowly and IN
willingly rennQush the idea OF growing wheat aud
corn IN competition with tn. West aud half sorrow.
fully admit that their lands must in time come to
form market garden for the great cities OF tho Al.
lRntic sesboard There is an od.rSshinued notion in
Delaware and upon the eastern shore that It is more
respectable to grow wheat in s,xty.scre fields than
half dozen vegetables small plots aud the minute
peasant farming or France EegIum. and Holland has
NO attractions for the occupants Of 3OOacre fRrmA
American workingmon are more lightly shod on
the average than those Of Europe and nothing exctes
more scOrn and in this country than the
heavy boots and shoes brought over by immigrauis
shoes thcE!y studded with honAs last perhaps three
tunes as long as tho lighter hut the American
work would feel hi nssf cogged ham persd
by such foo; weights The immigrant quickly learn.
that with such hand he compete with tn.
spry American and he adopts the OF tho coun
perhaps before his heavy imported boots are worn
An EnglishmAn gin the South come ysar.
age was interested when chance acquaintance at a
hotel said to him, II have some OF LongfsIIow's
hair Then he drew from his pocket little box aud
exhibited quantity OF coarse black hair "Oh." SAID
the EngshnAn with surprise ~ should have thoayht
It would have been white" NO" sad the proud pos.
SCISSOR OF the relic "iis al right. In the stAbls
myself yesterday and this where he'd switched ts
on against tue side OF his stall" 1t that the
EngIshman first learned that famous horse had
been named for the poet
sable Island. whence a carrier pigeon recently
brought news OF the wreck OF the schooner Robert j.
Edwards, - famous throughout the Canadian mari
time provinces tor its Of wild ponies The uIts
creatures were originally placed upon the island in OF
der that they might furnI-h food for shipwreckea
grass OF the island Is cured aud stacked in summer
time, aud upon this the ponies feed all winter nis
said that they eat their way deep into the stacks and
thus ma their only shelter from storms. ThersisA
tradition current that they cast upon the
shore Considerable droves OF the ponies ara takento
the mainland in early autumn. and they in The
Halifax market
1t has long been the custom OF ships lying at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard TO discharge their powder as pre-
caution against accident and tho regulations Gu
tsTiu2 man'UfwArs powder magazine OF the
most stringent character IL sometimes happens that
single catastrophe ~ responsible for extra preeau
tiOns that Become permanently EMBEDDED IN naval
regulations and doubtless ths drsrucuon Of the
frgAtr Fulton the Brooklyn Navy Yard siItysix
years ago responsible for the sErngency dis
charg powder The Fulton vas temporary ressiv-
a gunner entered Tie magazine without proper pre-
cautions Tie result was an explosion that blew up
the sap aud ki! forty out Of 100 persons board