, 1881-05-08
PICTURES SOLD.
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Special Gable.
PARIS, May AT the sale Of the Hart
mann collection to-day, twenty-one pictures
and drawings by Theodore Rousseau and ].
F. Nillet fetched nearly $4,000. The prin-
cipal dealers Of Paris and New York were
represented N. TurQuer the Secretary
Of Fine Arts, purchased for the
Louvre. for $4,000, Kousseau's superb
picture, I'm A1arais Lans les Landes."
Loud cheers greeted the announcement of
its destination. Millet's we'll known picture,
1.-THE CRATER" brought s2G, ,Oo0. Mr.. W. Il.
Vanderbilt bought Aiillets "Water~Car-
1ier for Sl5,G00. The Benrnonyil1e collec-
ton is now on exhibition previous to sale.
TREATY OF COMMERCE.
10 the Western Associated Prrs1.
PARIS, May 7.-l1r. Kennedy, who has
been here to discuss, on behalf of England, a
new French tariff and treaty of commerce,
has returned to London after series Of con-
ferences with high officials. Negotiations
will be resumed in London. After the pro-
mitigation OF the new tariff the Sth instant.
all treaties Of commerce will be denounced
oil the saule day. The present tariff will not
be i'll force after the Sth of November next.
Several Governments have given notice of
their Intention to send delegates to negotiate
new commercial treaties
AT THE MONETARY CONFERENCE
to-day II. Cernuschi, the French delegate,
and Mr.. Dana Horton, United States dele
gate. proposed that the representatives at the
Conference should furnish statistics Of gold
and silver coined in their respective coun-
tries. The proposal was adopted. Mynheer
Pierson, representative Of Holland. made
striking speech in favor of bimetallsrn. N.
Pirmez, Belgian delegate, replied, urging
the maintenance of the status quo, II.
Pirmez having insinuated that the States
which had forced paper currency favored
himetallisln as means Of extricating them
selves by the adoption Of the deprecated
white metal, Signor Seis1nit Doda. the Ital
Ian delegate, replied that Italy, in sending
4delegates. had no idea Of doing stroke of
business. but only of furnishing her quota
fof experience toward the settlement of a
Question which concerned not the present
moment only, but the future of a wel1-organ-
fzed international currency, accepted by all
Hhe States.
: The next sitting of the Conference will
take place Tuesday. The delegates will visit
President Greyy and the Bank of France on
Monday next
:. JOHN SELDOM DIED IN 4 woRKHOUSE-
A dispatch from Bolton, Lancashire, says:
"a family named Seddon have had a windfal1
of PROPERTY valued at e, COZ, 900, which had
been in ctancery since 1871. The property
was bequeathed to John Seldom, who died
in the workhouse. His heirs inherit this
Tast fortune.
THE DIFFICULTY WITH TTS1s.
/. PAEIs, May st Iilaire, Minister Of
Foreign Affairs, Informed the Budget Com
mittee that the impending conflict with the
Kroumir would end the military part Of the
Tunis difficulty, and would be succeeded by
diplomatic action. France, he said. was
bound to protect her interests by imposing
substantial conditions on the Bey.
EXPERIMENTS WITH THE TELEPHONE.
LONDON, May IA Paris correspondent
sends the following account of the latest
scientific sensation: "a remarkably inter-
esting experiment has just been made at
Calais and Dover, between which places con-
Tersation has been kept up viva voce by
means OF a new kind Of telephone. which has
been patented under the name Of the electo-
phone. Not only were words whispered into
the apparatus at Calais distinctly heard at
Dover, and, Of course, vice versa, but the
listener at one end was perfectly well able to
distinguish by the mere tone of the voice
the person who was speaking at
the other end. It should be observed
that while the human voice was
being transmitted through one of the wires,
the other wires were being employed for the
transmission Of ordinary telegraphic mes
sages- Moreover, experiments were con-
Quoted between the hours OF 10 and that
IS in the busiest part at the day, when the
Tites are in unceasing reonisition. The
:Toce Of the speaker was distinctly heard as
soon as the wires were joined to the appa-
1atus, and conversations were carried on |
Without interruption in the presence OF conf
petent specialists. Experiments with the
Same apparatus were then continued with
the same results, and i'll the midst OF the con-
1nsion produced by the simultaneous |
Working of several machines at
Tie London terminal station, the. voice |
otthe speaker was heard plainly as though /
DC had been in the same room. There: tan
no longer be any doubt that 1t is perfectly
pacticable to converse across or rather
under the sea by means OF any submarine
cable. The inventor maintains that it is Just
Seasy to talk across the Atlantic as from
eae room to another.
EMIGRANT HORRORS.