The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-29

Presidency in the Republican national con-
vention in 1850 and was later Haycs's Secre-
tary OF State and still later a United states
Senator for New York. very frequently quoted
Cowper's lines:
Absence OF occupation is not rest.
a mind quite vacant Is a mind distressed.
According TO some physicians lying IL n
disease with some politicians: also with some
politicians sawdust il digestible.
Sherburn VI. Becker. the young Repub-
lican Mayor of Milwaukee,. introduced n
new style of campaigning when Just before
election day he distributed 5000 corncob
pipes and as many packages OF tobacco
ReiRning queens by the rules Of etiquette
must make the proposal of marriage to their
consorts-clect As a young woman the
late Queen Victoria of England was en-
barrassed at the prospec OF proposing 10
Prince Albert. This is how she arranged
matters: She sum moned Albert TO her
boudoir, where he found her alone, After
some desultory talk due to her shyness, she
| suddenly said:
Could you forsake your country for me?"
The Prince answered by clasping her In
his arms.
The number and the nationality of labor
immigrants to Hawaii from 1852 TO 1908 were
az follows: Coreans, 6o0s; Chinese, ii,4"+;
| Japanese. lll.l37; South sea Islanders, las
Norwegians. 8l5: Germans. i,279' ltalians'
81: Austrians. 372: Portuguese. LAO: Porto
Ricans. 5000. negroes. 200; white Americans.
100; Russians. ITO. Total, lsi.lsI.
A British commission has just issued a re-
poTt recommending the passing OF an act
declaring trade unions TO g legal associa-
lions and strikes legal. unless accompanied
A.. -. 80 hraaph If annfrnnf and llSn
declaring that persuasion TO strike, apart
from procuring breach Of contract, il not
illegal.
T g senior Republican United States Sen
ator for Ohio is sometimes spoken OF as joey
Bagstock + raker.
T:ere are 10000 Americans in Mexico.
Speaking of b. b. dell, Jr., Of Newburgh.
one of Gov. HigginsS friends said at Albany
yesterday:
O course. nobody cares to have a personal
difficulty with "A ,ea one"
One of the recently used by a
New York Republican to Senator Thomas
C.. Plat in a futile effort TO reconcile Mr..
Platt with b.. h. Odell, DR., was that the Tioga
chieftain had overlooked difficulties In past
years with Representative j. Sloat F%assett.
tN-1tDTtStnldllNf IEtlliuci ~ Suibb oiNa
John +. Milholland.
That's true" replied Plat, but then
| Fassett. Quigg and Milholland never lied
to me and never deceived me. They fought
In the open like men. 1 repeat 1t, my friend.
80 that there shall be no misunderstanding
Fassett, Quigg and Milholland never lied to
me and never deceived me"
The cornerstone of the Tammsny wigwam
In Fourteenth street was laid July 4. 1867.
The cornerstone of the first Iammany build
ing was laid May u. 1911. twenty-one years
after the organization of the Tammany
Society or Columbian Order.
John Burns, ex-workingman. now a British
Cabinet Minister, once commended publicly
that 40 mans work is worth more than 81 800
a year. Yet Burns has accepted an oficc
which pays 10000 Il year.
Governors will be elected this year In
Twenty-Five States-namely, Alabama, Cali
! iornia, Georgia. Idaho. Iowa. Kansas. Maine,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota. Ne
! braska. Nevada. New York, New Hampshire,
North Dakota. Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode
! Island, South Carolina. South Dakota. Tennes.
see. Texas. Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming
Joseph W. Singleton. formerly OF Louis.
vile. ST. Lawrence county. N. y. has jus,
/ lN'tl tltNA''i lNlIl il'''' N'"A' "NAS Nv ia
Claire. Judge Singleton went to Eau Claire
In 1892, and two years later was made chairman
of the Democratic city committee. He was
next appointed city Attorney. and aftel
serving two terms was elected for six years
a Democratic alderman in a heavily Repub'
lican ward.
Sarah Herring Sorrin OF Tucson. Ariz.
has been dmittcd to practice in the Supreme
Court of the United States. She makes tn,
twenty-nrth woman admitted to practice II
the court.
New Jerseys Forest Reservation Com,
mission reports that there were siXty-si,
forest fires in the State in 1902 that burned
over 9S, so acres and caused a loss estimated
at $3.50, 1928: in 1909 the number of fires wal
scventy-niue. the acreage burned IS, o46, anc
the est imated loss $780,. 744.50 and in 1870
there were eighty-one fires. the acreage
burned $3.50. and the damage sla3, 4l3. Fo
the three years the total stimate damage
was S88s. 4s0.50,
Speak every day to some one you kn oV
is your superior. said Edward Everett Hale.
The terms Of thirty United States Senator
expire March 2. 1897. az follows: Russell A
Alger of Michigan. j. Frank Alice Of Della
ware. Augustus q. Bacon Of Georgia, Josepl
W. Bailey of Texas, James II. Berry of Ar
kansas, Joseph G. S. Blackburn of Kentucky
Henry f. Burnham of New Hampshire,
Joseph II. Burton Of Kansas, Edward W
Carmack of Tennessee. William 4. Clark o
Montana, W. Murray Crane of massachusetts,
Shelby NJ. Cullorn Of Illinois. Jonathan p
Dolliver Of iowa. John +. Dryden OF New
Jersey, Frederick T Dubois Of idaho. Stephcl
b. Elkins Of West Virginia. Murphy J. Foste
of Louisiana. William =. Frye Of Maine
Robert y Gamble Of South Dakota. IohI