Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-23
ACROSS TIE ATLANTIC.

Permission has been obtained from the
German Emperor for the opening of an.
other Cologne Cathedral lottery to raise
money with which to purchase the houses
at presentincumberingth cathedral SQUARE,
1t Is the intention to demolish these houses
IN order to afford a free, open space Of
proper and worthy size for the cathedral.
which is the noblest gothic monument in
the Emperor's dominions.
NJ Erckmann, the novelist, has been i'll.
and So seriously i'll that his life was at one
time In serious danger. He was first at.
tackled by jaundice and then by gastric
lever. Since the annexation he has lived
away from Alsace, although, should he re.
cover, 1t is his intention to pay his native
country visit next year. His colleague.
M. Chatrian, was in Paris fortnight AGO
experimenting the rehearsals of 60 adam..
Therese."
forfy-two OF the most important light
houses on the French coast will, it is de.
ciared, be lighted by electricity. To eouip
them with this system will entail a cost of
sl'ooO,OO which is to be spread over eight
years. For Immediate expenditure $50.
GoO has been voted, and it is expected that
next year demand will be made in the
Chamber for $40. 000 The house of Cane
Grisnez, between Calais and Boulogne. will
be the first taken In hand,
The small Province OF Hohenzollcrn. with
apopulation of only 81, 600, is the champion
consumer OF beer in the entire domain of
Prussia. BY the statistical bureau, while
an average consumption of beer in the
whole country for 1881 is struck at S4 3
hters, in Hohenzollern the average ON the
same basis reaches l53 lisers. These 81. 900
inhabitants of Hoheuzollern spent for beer
in the same year /, POP, 46S marks above the
normal average for like number of people
elsewhere in Prussia.
During the month of August So vessels
with emigrants on board sailed from the
harbor OF Liverpool. OF these emigrants.
IL, 452 were English, &c Scotch, ], 0S4 Irish,
D, 400 foreigners Ito the English) and 552 of
nationality that was not known. OF the
50 ships, 80 were bound to the United
States, with Is TAG passengers II to
Canada, with 1902; 2 to Australia. with
As; to South America, with los 7 to
India. with so; 3 to the West Indies, with
%; to China, with Is. and to the west
coast of Africa, with II.
The Italians are already making prepa.
rations for the celebration in March, 1883.
of the 400sh anniversary of the birth of
Raphael. At Urbino. on the square in
front of the Palazzo Ducale, a monument
is to be erected, the particulars of the CON-
petition for which have already been pub
lished. It will be of white Carrara mar.
bic, with reliefs In bronze, and so, 900 lire
have been fixed upon as the cost of the
whole work. Prizes of 1900, 1000 and
800 lire have been offered to the competi.
tors.
The name of the Russian actress who
committed suicide in the house of the Due
de Morny, thoagh spelled with more let.
tiers. is really the same as that of Dickens
Fsgin. The literal meaning is figs. Mile.
Feyghine's funeral was held in the Greek
church il Paris, the Russian priests &C.
cepting the medical certificate that she
committed suicide when of unsound mind.
The chief mourIer was NJ. Perrin, of the
Theater Francois, behind whom walked
the Due de Morny and his friend the Prince
de Sagan and Prince Murst. The remains
were buried at Pere la Chaise.
DIR. Lamson had his life insured for
$1,000, and prior to his arrest on the charge
OF poisoning his brother.in-law onlv one
premium had been paid. Immediately be.
fore his conviction DIR. Lamson assigned
the policy absolutely to w. A. Mills. the
solicitor by whom he was defended, and
directed that the mony be used to cover
the balance of the costs of the defense.
Some years ago the House of Lords decided
that under circumstances like those of the
Lamson case policy was void, even though
the policy provided that death at the
hands of justice shall not vitiate. In spite
OF this, however, the company has decided
to pay the full amount of the policy, al.
though there seems to be no doubt that
they might have successfully resisted pay.
ment.
Some one in Germany has taken the
trouble to collect the statistics of Shakes.
pearean dramatic representations in that
country during the two years and a half
from July, 1879, to December, 1851. They
show pa performances of works by Shakes
peare on different stages of the city of
Berlin alone, viz, 70 at the Court Theater,
63 at the National Theater. 81 at the o..
tend Theater, IS at the Victoria Theater.
at the Belle.Alliance Theater, AID 5 on
smaller stages, making an average of one
Shakespeare performance for every four or
tive nights. During the same period all
German theaters together represented
Shakespeare S34 times. The plays most
in favor at Berlin were "The Tempest" AS
tlmes), Midsummer Nights Dream" ga
tinnes), and 90 Hamlet" (23 tiues)
OF iron men named krupp there are two
in Germany having A. for their sole initial.
Both originally belonged to the same firm,
and how they became separated forms an
interesting story, which has just been told
IN Paris, where Herr Arthur Krupp re.
Gently arrived. in 1855 the Krupps, by
being thus associated together, took to cast.
ing guns at their factory, and in 1868 made
the weapon which took the first prize at
the French Exhibition of 1867. Soon after
this the firm proposed to Marshal Mel and
General Won Moltke to cast for both their
Governments respectively, an offer which
was the cause of the retirement of Arthur
krupp, who founded thereupon an iron
foundry at Berndorf, in Austria, and left
Alfred to conduct the works at Essen,
Arthur's foundry, outside of Europe. if
often there, is not heard of, but Alfred's
gun business is the wonder of the world
as the statistics will show that it ought to
be. The population of the Essen works is
10, 700, and the number of boilers and en-
gines is as follows: 429 boilers, 453 steam
engines, with horse power of is, 500: 50
steam hammers, 1855 furnaces, of which
IA are high furnaces. producing 800, 900
tons OF steel and 26, 600 tons of iron yearly,