The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-01

Inc nlRn WAFER IutiIA was eNHeN4A'DN o."
various feats, episodes and events noted
throughout the country. ranging from
the grave to the gay and from the ludlcrous
to the grotesque.
Chicago produced the prize villain. n
man who was accused in court by bis wife
sister and employer with desertlon IN
gratitude, theft, lying, intemperance' pro-
family and singing -Bedelia' when the
neighbors wanted 10 sleep. This champion
simply failed to live up to his opportunities
OF he might have posed az the much-wanted
Pat Grove and the man who struck billy
Patterson.
A Pennsylvania farmer won medal
from his neghbors by having his VIE
arrested for cruelty because she insisted
on working a photograph overtime on
the torrnenting air -Hiawatha,' in spite
Of all protests. o.
In st. Louis a thirsty man drank nine
quarts Of whiskey in twenty-four hours
and died. Even the Prohibtionists must
now admit that rum has some value
The classic town Of Evanstown, the seat
of Northwestern University, developed
tho biggest pie eater Of the year rive
thick. Juicy pies a Ia mode-smothered In
ice oream-devoured at single sitting
was tho new record SET by Ed O'Laughlin
in a contest with Lawrence English, who
lost by half pie.
But in the drinking line Harry z. Vale
OF Englewood a Chicago suburb, seems 10
have taken the bun.
He, drank up our bakery said Mrs.
Vale. in her suit for divorce. 1t was
pretty big drink, but he swallowed 1t In
short order.
Checks to saloon keepers aggregating
several thousand dollars, showed what that
big drink had cost.
An ambitious Missourian wrote 4o'OsS
words on postal card, feat in chirog-
raphy almost az difficult to achieve as wouio
be a sane explanation as to VIII he did IT.
During q FIRE in New York hotel woman
dressed herself in less than fifteen minutes
This record is likely to stand for at4east
century.
NEW CHAMPIONS.
Percy r Bennett is a man that New
Jersey Judges called the champion long
distance pianist Of the world-without wait
ing TO hear from all the young ladies who
are practising The Maiden's Prayer
In a Newark theatre he battered out Fare
well, My Lady Love" dc. for twenty-four
hours at a stretch. when compassionate
friends interfered and dragged him home
bodily. though he threatened another e1-
plosion
One hundred and ten times in seven years
was tho moving record of the Whelan family
Of New York, and moving tale 1t furnished
in a Harlem court when Mrs. Whelan testi-
fed against her husband for non-support
and drew weird word pictures of his no.
madic habits.
Mr.. WheIan looked az II still another
move would have cheered him up some
what when she told the Judge the only
way she could get money from her rowing
spouse Was To take it out OF his trousers
pockets while he was asleep.
sosiR OLD PEOPLE
Moses A. Cleveland. said to DO a cousin
Of the ex-President, set new pace for
octogenariaus At Worcester. Mass, he
and another veteran OF the civil war, each
being so. ran a hnlf-mile foot race, Glove
land won the dash by several yards, and
box of cigars into the bargain, whereupon
he challenged any man Of his age in the
world with no takers, at last accounts.
While the exploits Of the old boys are
under review. those OF the girls should
not be forgotten. and Mrs. Margaret Black
Of Greene county. Pa. deserves first men
ion. At the celebration Of her ninety
third birthday in August it was announced
that she had never been fifty miles away
from the place of her birth and had never
ridden in n railway train. nor ever seen
one. vet this remarkable old lady's de-
soendants include six children. forty three
grandchildren, 1io great grandchildren and
% great peat-gandchildre
A RECORD IN sPELLBND1Eo.
Sbrnvd glIe-s.-rs naturally would pick
Indiana as the scene OF the latest record
breaking in political oratory. In the last
campaign Congressman lands delivered
sixty speeches in less than a month. This
long distance spellbinding produced two
results-his own reelection and throat
affection which temporarily looked his
jaws.
Miss Maggie Albany's remarkable achieve
nent as a Sunday school pupil brought her
a gold watch early In 1904. For twenty
eight years without a single dereBcton,
she had attended the services Of the Eben-
ezer Methodist Sunday school IN Phila-
delphia. She began at the age OF years,
III die at 80, she said proudly, 1t Will
be a seyenty-seven years record
AMBITIOUS WOMAN.
Miss Annie S. Peck of Chicago returned
from South America with new laurels as
mountain climber. Among her feats was
the ascent Of Sorata, tho Bolivian noun
tain. from 10000 to 5000 feet high. She
SURPASSED the best previous marks by going
WITHIN 600 feet Of the top. She had many
narrow escapes, but next year will go climb
ing again.
Nothing on earth too high for an am
bi,io,,s woman" she said.
The largest bottle ever blown was made
last year at the Illinois glass works at
Alton. II was wine bottle seven feet
birh. and was made for a wine exhibit.
GIANT PHOTOGRAPHS.
In the years harvest OF oddities two
enormous photographs cut no mean figure.
One was a picture Of the Gulf Of Naples,
made by a Berlin company and shown at
81 Louis. II was thirty nine feet long
and FIVE feet hgh-the largest photograph
ever produced in the world.
The other was a photograph OF the
Chicago Board OF Trade, showing the bulls
and bears olamorng In the pit at fever
heat. Twelve pounds Of fashlight powder
was used by the operator this powder
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