Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-13
MINOR AFFAIRS ACROSS THE SEA.

There is now building at Nice hand
some and extensive pier for use as pub.
lie promenade and pleasure resort. 1t
Garden and extends out into the Medi-
terranean a distance of 400 feet. There
will be at the further end Of it an orna-
mental building of large size for use as
concert ball, reading room and restaurant,
with kiosks in it's roof and dome SO
feet in diameter above the hall. Spa
cious swimming baths will be set apart
for ladies and gentlemen beneath the
head of the pier.
Some notion of the lax system of gov
eminent which prevails in and around
the Tunisian capital may be obtained
from daring exploit recently performed
there by band of mounted Arabs. In
broad daylight, to the number of about
500, they came from the Kerouan dis
trict to within six miles of Tupis and
two miles of the French encampment of
Manouba, and carried away some 1000
camels belonging to the Bey. They ap-
pear to have made the entire journey
without being discovered by any one in
authority. Some of them We're bold
enough to appear at night under the very
walls of the city.
The English publishers of Lord Beacons.
fields works are about to issue new edi-
ton of them to be known as the Hugh
enden Edition" Each volume will have
vignette chosen from some point il or near
the manor house from which the edition
takes its name. One will be from what
are known as ''The Golden Gates" Sur.
prise has been expressed in England at the
comprehensiveness of the recent sale of the
dead Earl's effects. Many articles that
have been disposed of ought, it is felt,
to have been preserved as family treasures
but, instead Of this, the orders appear to
have been to sell everything.
Travellers who go hereafter to the Uffizi
Gallery in Florence will have access to
very useful catalogue, which has been re-
Gently made, of the prints and drawings
in that noble storehouse of italian art.
There are in all about 10000 prints and
drawings, the chief of them being in that
long room which leads from the Uffizi
across the Arno to the Pitt. 1t appears
from this catalogue that the bulk Of the
collection was presented by Cardinal Leo
poldo del Medici, who had purchased them
at the sale of the Libro del Vasari An
important addition was made to the collec-
ton in 1866 in the gift by the sculptor
Emilio Santarelli of the II, AGO drawings
which he had brought together originally
for himself.
Sir Gilbert Scott, whose name is so
closely associated with the preservation of
Westminster Abbey-particularly with the
Chapter House-and who lies buried with
in its walls, is not to fail of an appropriate
memorial One has already been COM
pleted, placed in position and unveiled.
1t lies in that part of the Abbey nave
which is Immediately in front of the pull
pit, and close to the grave of Sir Charles
Barry, the architect of the House of Par
lament. In length it is nearly feet, in
width feet 6 inches, and IN thickness
about S inches. Its surface is nearly
covered with carved figures and inscriD-
tons in the brass Dean Stanley was
lying low in his last illness when the cere-
mony of unwilling took place.
Rome is making tremendous strides in
the effort to place herself among the mod
ern cities in spirit, outward appearance,
and institutions and now that she is to
have her Derby, the city on the Tiber may
fairly be said to have realized an important
point in her ambition. However, it is in
every way proper that Rome should be
city in which horse-racing is favorite
| pastime, for without it she would not only
be unworthy OF a place among modern
capitals, but would preserve and foster but
| imperfectly one of the chief elements in
her early fame. King Hubert has founded
cup of "a, 000 francs, at his own expense,
and the first race is set down for 1884.
No horse will be allowed to enter except it
was born and trained On Italian soil.
Young Lemaitre, the Partisan youth of
Is years, who deliberately murdered with
knife, some months ago, lad of 6,
named Schener, has been found guilty
and sentenced to the maximum penalty
of 20 years at hard labor and 10 Of
olce supervision. His own story is
that the crime was the result of an ire
sistible impulse to take somebody's life.
For the time being he saw everything
red" With his arms folded, and man.
ner entirely impassive and without the
least bTavado, he gave to the Court a
full account of the dreadful tragedy.
Lemaitre is described as a lad of good
appearance, his complexion being dark,
his mouth small and in no way cruel,
and his eyes intelligent and sympathetic
On the eve of the crime, he saw French
adaptation OF "Jack Sheppard" and in
his possession were found several juvenile
romantic stories and copy of Bulwer's
"My Novel" He was fond of plays, and
criminal trials had an especial interest for
him.
It is a narrow circle at best to which the
fame of an accomplished librarian can ex-
tend itself, and it is misfortune that more
has not been known of the eminent one
who died few weeks ago at Oxford, in the
person of Mr.. Coke, the librarian of the
Bodleian collection. He was a man into
whose long and honorable life there had
entered, besides wide and surprising
knowledge of books, q large element Of
kindness and forbearance TO all men, par
ticularly to all who came into his library,
and few men in Oxford enjoyed wider or
more deserved popularity. He lived to see
during lis own administration what it is
not given unto all head Librarians of great
collections to see-the beginning and COM
pletion Of general catalogue This cata-
logue comprised 723 folio volumes, and
enumerated more than / 900, 600 separate
works. Besides this, he had had the salts
faction to see in finished form, the cata-
logue of the Rawlinson manuscript and of
the Syriac manuscript; while catalogue
Of the Hebrew manuscript had got COM
pletely into type before his death, and one
OF the Persian collections was ready for the
printers. For the last % years Of lis life
Mr.. Coke had been, in addition to his IL
brary duties, the Rector Of the parish CT
Wytham.
Corstantinople has a tragedy which, in
any other city of Europe, would be looked
upon as far out of the common. A Cir.
oassian slave, who had been so ill.treated
| by Ali Bey, Turkish official that the
marks of his violence remained long upon
her face, sought refuge in the house Of
Christian lady who belonged to a consular
family. Though Ali Bey had clear right
in the eyes OF Turkish law to prevent any
Interference between himself and one OF his
slaves, he said not word against it, fear
ing perhaps that an exposure OF his case
might injure his political fortunes, and the
girl accordingly passed under the lady's
protection, living in her house as a servant
When the Turkish authorities became
aware of this, they took it to be very
wrong that Alussulman woman should
live in a Christian household, and proposed
that she either he Transferred tn tho hnuse