Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-14
FOREIGN NOTES.

the vines.
The correspondents in Berlin very gen.
orally remark on the growth of Socialism,
notwithstanding the apparent quiet, and
speak OF more rigorous laws for It's repres-
sion as in contemplation.
Professor Nordenskjold is to call at
Naples, in the Vega, on his way home
from Behring's Straits. This will the first
European port touched at by the Vega
since she left Norway, Is months ago.
The North German Gazette denies that
Prince Bismarck ever wrote letter about
disarmament to Signor Jacini. The I'm
periai Chancellor has, the Gazette says,
never been in correspondence with a per
son of that name.
A man recently escaped from an English
Police lookup by going up the chimney
from the room IN which he was confined,
and down the chimney into the room of
the Chief constable. Then he unlocked the
door and walked out.
The Commission of Cardinals at Rome
recently gave judgment in the Princess of
aonacos divorce care, annulling the mar
rage, but pronouncing for the legitimacy
OF the child, and his education according
w viz WISHES VI Inc ldDuer.
1t is stated that grave digger has lust
been arrested in Prussia on a charge of
roasting the bodies confided to his tender
care, Tor the purpose of obtaining the fat.
which he sold to some dealers in the sub.
urbs OF the town in which he lived.
The ex-Khedive is again in trouble. He
wished to borrow from the Bank of Naples
zoo, 600 francs on the security of objects of
value, but the bank, In conformity with its
regulations, would only lend 500 900 francs,
which sum the Khedive refused to accept.
A correspondent in Iceland mentions
tive.act tragedy which he lately read,
written by peasant named Arr Jonson,
and entitled "Sigridur Eyjafjordarsol."
He adds that great interest is awakening
in Iceland for the drama, which is all the
more remarkable considering there is not a
theater in the whole island.
Count Paul Ignatieff, father of the we'll
known Russian General, died recently at
the age of 81. He was at the time of his
death, President of the Ministerial Com
mittee, a member of the Council of State,
and held many honorary positions. His
first commission in the army dates from
1877. He was made a General in 1885,
and ennobled III 1877. In the previous year
he was decorated with the Order of st. An
drew with diamonds. He was a man of
great wealth.
The following incident of the severe
weather in Paris is related "On Sunday
evening more than 100 workmen appeared
In body at the Police Office of the Palace of
Justice, most of them leading by the hand
wife and children, and stated that, having
neither work, food nor shelter, they wished
to be detained as vagabonds The request
was refused. They then proceeded to
Commissioner of Police, who acknowledged
the justice of their plea, and granted their
request.
The London Times Paris correspondent
telegraphs GA shocking murder is re-
ported from Stuttgart, where few days
ago five persons out OF a family of six were
in the morning found dead. The neigh
bors heard no screams or other indications
OF the deed. The family consisted of the
parents and four children. The survivor,
a girl Is years of age, accuses an uncle,
who had been at their. house the night be-
fore, and who had been in violent dispute
with her father, of having perpetrated the
crime. The uncle, who was found drunk,
has been arrested"
A prominent civil engineer in London,
E. W. Ives, has submitted to his profess
sional brethren, at their request, a re-
port on the Tay bridge disaster. Mr..
whole bridge was of far too light
and fimsy character, especially the
piers, which also he considers to have
l.. i -, 4 l.
pressure to which they were subject. He
believes that every thing was sacrificed to
cheapDess and facility of construction, and
that, in fact, the outlay was pared down
to the lowest possible point.
The Paris police lately captured French
"Fagin, who was the guide, philosopher
and friend of band of young thieves in
the neighborhood of the Place Maubert
He is Belgian named Norman, aged 50,
and the room he occupied was ware
house filled with stolen articles which be
sold for his neophytes, six of whom are
also arrested. Moernan is discovered to
have sold in wine-shops of the neighbor-
hood 80 knitted vests and 100 silk handker-
Chiefs A truck-load of stolen property
was taken from his lodgings, the plumber of
diapers shops in the quarter.
In the journal Paris MUrcie Adelina
Patti describes her emotions when she
sings in public. When she sees her name
on the bill she becomes nervous and agi-
tated as the fatal hour of the performance
approaches, the fever of the footGghts
gains upon her more and more,
and at the last moment when she
is about to quit her dressing-room
tie enter upon the stage, she is dominated
by one single sentiment terrible fright.
The charming cantatrice cannot pursue the
analysis of her feelings any further, but
she gives us to understand that she feels
queer throughout the performance.
"There lives an old lady at No "a Nor
timer street" says the London World,
'twhose great talent as an amateur painter
is scarcely known, and surely forgotten
by those who did know it, There is, how
ever, one pupil of hers whom, when he
was little boy, she taught how to sketch
flowers, and who has made little way in
the world. His name at that time was
Johnny Millais; perhaps you may have
heard of him since. Only this much let
me tell you, that on the back of his picture,
The Huguenots, are painted the first
roses with which his kind teacher was sat
listed. | wonder whether he has forgotten
his old friend, or whether, as is much more
likely with his grand heart and the remem-
brance Of the smallest kindness he received,
he can call to memory her name"
a few days ago, says the Liverpool Post,
little boy named John Sullivan was found
in state of senseless drunkenness on the
quay Of the Clarence Dock. The police
took ont n summons aoaiust him and as
the small inebriate failed to put in an ap-
pearance, warrant was issued, and he
was taken into custody. Mr.. Raffles
granted the warrant under the impression
that John Sullivan was grown-up person
and probably an old offender. The Court
was yesterday surprised to find that the
delinquent against whom these formidable
processes of the law had been put in OPP
Grafton was about IL years old, and hardly
tall enough to be visible above the wooden
casing of the dock. Under these circum-
stances Mr. Rafiles sent him home with
noliceman uhn Hyas instructed to convey