The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-01-18
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
Interesting Notes of Occurrences con thu
Other Side of the Atlantic.


Other Side of the Atlantic.
Mr.. John RYDER, the celebrated Shake
spearian reader and actor, has been seriously
i'll. He is premier elocutionist in the world.
THE queen of Great Britain and her daugh-
ter, Princess Beatrice, have made Berlin wool
quilts for the wounded soldiers at Netley
hospital.
HOVE, little town near Brighton, has just
erected a city hall costing $4,000. This is
not a solitary example of the public enterprise
of English cities.
THREE whistling cranes, the rare and cele-
brated "cygnus musicus," have appeared at
Aldeburgh. Two were shot and weighed
about twenty-five pounds each.
EGYPT is paying dearly for order in her
land. 1t costs about $4,000 to defray the
monthly expenses of the English military con-
tingent there, and Egypt has to Payt the bill
THE monetary receipts of the Salvation
army is something unprecedented. The Of
fertorieS alone, according to "General
Booths statement, yields 100000 per year.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Manchester to
purchase the inimitable sketches of John
Leech, the celebrated "Punch" artist, and to
present them to the Manchester and Liverpool
art galleries.
PARTISAN ladies are adopting 'ornithologi-
cal toilets" their dresses being decorated
with the plumage of beautiful birds. The APP
pearance in many cases is beautiful and etiec-
tive.
A LARGE number of the English aristocracy
are now decorated with the temperance "blue
ribbon" Whether they keep its obligation is
quite another question, butt is fashionable to
wear it.
THE London detectives are of opinion that
the many recent fires in that city have been
the work of Fenian incendiaries, and are bus
lily engaged in tracing the offenders and IN
protecting other buildings.
WILLIAM GALIGNANI, the celebrated Partisan
publisher, is dead. He died at the advanced
age of 81 years, and was the last of the old
family who established ''Galignani's Mes
senger" and "PariS Guide"
THE Liverpool emigration returns for last
month show a decrease of nearly three thou
sand from the corresponding month last year,
and that most of them were bound for Canada,
not for Texas, as was the case last year.
THE Sultan of Turkey is a most unfortunate
individual. In the midst of all his political
troubles treason has risen in his domestic
harem, and he has been obliged to ship one
hundred and fifty of its fair inmates to Irebi-
zond.
IT Is scarcely credible, yet it is none the
less fact, that voluntary prayer is offered in
the Egyptian mosques for Queen Victoria,
who is described as the "mirror of justice"
This is an instance unparalleled in MoSlem
history.
ARCHER, the English lightweight jockey,
last year scored 2Io wins out Of 564 mounts,
and his earnings were not less than 500, 600.
For winning the St. Leger race alone he re-
ceived $4,000. These figures do not include
presents.
A CLERGYMAN in Lancaster, by mistake,
published the bans of marriage for certain
couple for the fourth time. The amusing part
Of the incident was that the couple thus pub
lshed, had been married and were in church
at the time.
"THEY order these things better in-Eng-
land" the American Sterne would say when
he heard that $4,000 was required
fora Liverpool hospital and that $685. 900
was collected by public subscription at one
meeting in furtherance Of the object
In JRwELRY the coin craze is rampant in
England and France, everything being in the
form of coins; even monograms for note paper
are sunk into coin-shaped dies, and are of an
elaborate description. The principal royal
families of Europe have adopted this new form
of die.
THE Princess Victoria, daughter of Princess
Alice ofHesse, and granddaughter of Queen
Victoria, is reported as being on the point of
betrothal to Prince Frederick William Of
Baden, eldest son of the Grand-Duke of Ba-
den. and grandson of the emperor of Ger
many. She is 10 years ofage and is said to be
beautiful ard accomplished. II. RI.