Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-04
CURRENT NOTES.

Drunkenness is spreading so much in
Germany that new measure for it's pun
lshment and prevention is being prepared
for presentation to the Imperial Parlia-
ment.
holdings are now being taken of portions
of Amiens Cathedral, one of the finest
specimens of Gothic architecture extant,
for the Museum of Comparative Sculpture
about to be opened at the Trocadero. The
main portal, the statues of the Virgin
and the twelve apostles, and several other
pieces of sculpture, have already been re.
produced, and ere long most of the mold
ings will have been placed in the new mu-
scum.
Amerhest College has concluded that its
students are men, their ages averaging
%, and will, therefore, no longer subject
them to discipline as boys. They will
hereafter be held responsible for their
work, but not for their personal conduct,
unless it interfere with their duties. This
has long been the rule in German UNIVERSE
ties, but has never been fully tested in this
country, though Harvard has, to limited
extent, adopted it.
A splendid picture, which will not fail to
create much sensation at the coming Salon,
is that of Z" LIE Drapeau," by NJ. Georges
Bertrand, the author of the "Femme rOm-
brelle Rouge" so much admired last year
for the brilliancy of it's coloring. The
standard bearer of the Cuirassiers has died
at his post of honor, killed by a bullet.
His companions return with his body still
on horseback, and holding the colors they
have fastened on his breast and saddle.
A gloomy, wintry landscape is the scene of
the episode.
Two sisters were the only eye-witnesses
in homicide case at Little Rock, Ark,
One gave truthful account of the tragedy
and the other false one but which was
the perjurer was so difficult to determine
that the first jury disagreed, and the
| second rendered a compromise verdict of
granddaughter. George Boyer was killed
by Charles Lee. His wife and her sister
were present. The wife swore that the
deed was entirely unprovoked. Her sister,
who was Lees sweetheart, swore that he
acted in self-defense. Neither was shaken
by cross. examination.
The chamber of the House of Lords ia
more gorgeous than the House of Com.
mons, but IN respect OF acoustics it falls
far below it. There are, perhaps, not
Hore Inan uoZeh peers whose speeches
| are audible in the Press gallery. But
since Lord Beaconsfeld, Lord Granville,
the Marquis of Salisbury, the Duke Of
Argyll, Lord Cairns, and Lord Selbourne,
and in less degree Lord Derby, can be
heard from the gallery, the wisdom of
Lord Cranmore and Browne, Lord Strath-
eden and Campbell, Lord Denman, and
other hereditary legislators, is left to take
its chance.
The city of Paris having for the second
time awarded prize for the best musical
competition, the jury instituted for the
conconrs received eighteen scores for ex-
animation. The first prize, to be given by
the composer who would receive eleven
votes out of the twenty, was awarded to
M. Duvernay for his composition of the
Tempest words after Shakespeare. An
honorable mention was conceded to the
"Argonauts, words and music by Miss
Holmes (of Irish descent), who had re-
ceived nine votes, and, although she there
fore could not be awarded the first prize,
the honorable mention was made by seven
teen out of the twenty cotants.