The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-05-08
SUNBEI uS.


Work has been resumed on Strnsburg
Cathedral and the restoration may Doc completed this year
A iirst-clnss club, the ParthcuOu il to
be started in London in which no liquor. WILDE allowed
When the Princess Of Wales went to
open hospital IN Norfolk n tine middle Of Apnl, snow
ghtinchcs deep was wing the ground
A portrait, said to be the missing ono VI
Shakespeare. has been discovered at sydney It has
been despatched to England. insured for s2t.unp
An inquiry into Irish endowed schools
has elected the fact that in 1919 school at Rat,y
Carlow was endowed with si5o1p under The will VI
Benjamin Di.rach, broker in Dublin
The cx-Emprcss Carlutta was pleased to
hnd in her palace portraits OF her husband aud
family, and Is particularly delighted with splendid
lection Of arnor which is placed there.
Tho London Queen says that the funda-
mental principle good in dinner giving Is nc,crto
attempt to do In this sort OF csuvity than can he
met bya gentle expansion Of our daily resources Of
kitchen aud service.
One European country Is absolutely set
ting the example Of reducing ia military expenses The
Swedish legislature insists that these expenses weigh
down the country and must reduced and the Govern
ment is compelled 10 consent
The Duke of Edinburgh came up OK
pressly from his country for the Tc Dcum at tho
Russian Chapel In London Tor the o the Car and
was received by the Russian CHARGE dAnaires The
Turkish and Austrolungarian Ambassadors, and an
Attache Of the German embassy attended.
-" am struck with one thing in connec-
ton with colonial farmers" writes an Australian
respondent, their appearance OF being amid plenty
dreadmly poor and overworkcd II is the exceptonto
find who would compare, in appearance at eastO
general comfort. with the average British farmer
The Mliado Of Japan. who has reduced
his own expenses lately entertained his Ministers Ht din.
seized the occasion torcprchend their luxury and
extravaganza. The Prime Minister has in consequence.
issued order enonng strict economy In departments,
and stopping further expenditure on public works
1t is singular circumstance that
though any number Of crowned heads have during the
present injury exposed to the attacks OF asAsns
the only head OF State who has fallen in that manner
the President Of republic-Gncoln, aud the only
monarch put to death in the century was executed ON
American soil-Maximian Of Mexico.
The ebb and flow of opinion is curiously
exhibiting itself in England now reaction against
examinations. Complaints made that real educa-
ton Is swamped by preparation for examinations And
It is conended that the bea and enda OF school and
university is nowadays not the acquisition Of
learning but perpetual Examination which is injurious
to real thought and study and learning for its own sake
Seven hundred thousand Professionals in
ireland hold the University u Dublin. with its magnh
cent college. library Of two hundred thousand printed
volumes and thousand seven hundred manu-
scripts. richly stocked museums fully furnished bo
tanic garden and hundred thousand Of landed
property. Four millions and half OF Roman Catholics
have their University for which they have taxed them
TO the amount OF two hundred thousand pounds
but the State they have not received fartlng
| and its very existence Is ignored
| In an English county court last month
lady brought an action against a country lcwcllcr to
recover money paid for ring containing stone which
she had bought diamond, but which proved to be
what several experts designated as Cape stone,
| falsely called a diamond" These persons added that
Cape diamonds" were comparatively vaueess, AMI
lacked lusre hardness and color the essential qualities
Of the Brazilian stone. Judgment for the paiuun,
but the 10 be appealed and the matter Is likely 10
much excitement In the diomond dealing world
The Grand Opera at Paris, which has
been failure with little more look back It's
opening than the Of grand staircase and the adj
miraton country cousins aud foreigners l. TO he man
aged In the future after the plan Of the hrs Napoleon by
the STATE instead OF private individual An admins
trAtorgenera nominated by thc President aud assisted
by council will manage 1t under the Minister 0i Fine
| Arts 1t is to receive subyenuon Of stntOM. and
besides 1872 regular performances yearly 30 extra repre-
sensations Of experimental character are 90 he given
A hardy sailor, Valentine Roper, is the
only survivor the OF the schooner Golden Gae
whish sailed san Francisco northward three weeks
The craft waterosgod In gale. ana siN sailors
were Immediately drowned, while seven nshed mon.
selves to the rigging The former were uckicst TOY te
others all died OF starvation by except kol,r
They had nothing To eat few raw potatoes that
aoaied up from the vessels stores. and several d'h
caught by hand cabin hoy held out LONGEST OF those
who died Roper eleven days without food, and,
when picked up, was raving maniac.
In 1858 n certain monk, named Pcrignon,
was made c,larcr OF the Bcnciiounc Abbey OF Haut
vilhers little hamlet the banks o the Marine, about
nye miles from Epernay, who was perfect soiscnd to
the Winc-bbbng world. lie the first To marry the
produce Of vineyard that OF another To hni out
that white wine which would Keep good could Doe made
from the blacklist grapes instead of dcecucrauug lke
that obtained from white grapes and To substitute cork
bottle stopper Tor flax dipped u oil just az the close
of le his
ot producing e0crycsccut champagne. Why It spurkcl
be knew not bat the secret spread tie country n
al In 1875 the official return of the manufacturers stocks
n the Champagne district ~ given by uic Chamber o
Commerce Rheims is 7OleJ.-,gi bottles Ia England
the taste for dry champagne became general nearly
hundred wears ago. and the demand was then as now,
for Shery Russia takes 1t sweet and strong and the
French and Germans like sweet hight wine
Lady Strangford, writing to the Edin
burg Sot,gla the condition OF the Bugariaus says
The most salient characteristic OF the Bulgarian every
where. the educated aud unoduca ted alike Is what
vulgary called check, the most offensive seltconh
donce, the most superb selfe smaton Their nature
present at very low level the bulk OF the nation
profoundly ignorant brutal, AMI untruthiu thcl
particularly anccuonatc or amiabIe Yet notwithsaod
this unlovabe character there is Of solid GOO
stun which be carved into virtues by and bytha
Is. with time. patience and discipline These thcy mus
have; these they must be taught Unlike the TURK u
Bulgarian Is not at all lawoying." lie can be bcato
into submission however, by his new masters who haN
already silently sent two large patches of Bulsarau'
whose patriotic aspirations were little too lofty To t
mines Of siberia. When occasion requires the whips
the Cossacks are freely Piled upon the backs ct IN
newly liberated and the common phrase of the RUSSIA
officers in speaking OF their prottst. is We hav
got these Wigs, and We mean TO drive thcm'
An expert amateur seight-of-hand per
former tells the Philadelphia Tunes that uoboiy. cXccI
IIcor, has OF late made profit in the business in chi
country. Hermann, Bit. and Anderson became wpaiu.
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