The story of the Sun, New York, 1833-1918 / by Frank M. O'Brien.

" THE SUN" AND " HUMAN INTEREST " 315
pieces of cannon at the siege of Sebastopol. At the
close of the Crimean War he went to London and became a member of the staff of the Pall Mall Gazette,
reporting for that journal the French side of the war
with Germany in 1870-71, and the atrocities of the
Commune, over the pen-name of " Azamet Batuk." He
reported the Carlist War in Spain for the New York
Herald, and then came to America to lecture, but Dana
persuaded him to join the Sun staff. He contributed
to the Sun many articles on foreign affairs, including
a series on European journalism; " The Stranger's NoteBook," which was made up of New York sketches; letters from the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia;
and the Wall Street letters signed " Rigolo."
In the " Sunbeams" column were crowded the vagrant wit and wisdom of the world. The items concerned everything from great men in European chancelleries to organ-grinders in Nassau Street:
The mules are all dying in Arkansas.
A printer in Texas has named his first-born Brevier
Fullfaced Jones.
Real estate is looking up at New Orleans.
Translations from Hawthorne are becoming popular
in France.
Venison costs six cents a pound in St. Paul.
Queen Victoria says every third woman in Cork is a
beauty.
Goldwin Smith is coming to the United States.
The Pope denounces short dresses.
The same terseness is seen in the " Footlight Flashes,"
begun in 1876:
Clara Morris takes her lap-dog out for a daily drive.
Miss Claxton is meeting with indifferent success in
" Conscience."