The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-10-21
General Foreign Notes.

The newest example OF Sir Moses Monte
flores liberality is a gift OF 500 To the Lon
don SherliI7s charitable fund.- that sum re-
presenting e1 for each year Of the giyer's
age. Nearly fifty years ago Sir Moses held
the office OF sheriff for London and Mid
dleseX.
During Prince Bismarck's recent stay at
Gastein his dog RechShund. which nearly
killed the dog OF Prince GortSchakoil at
the Berlin Congress, made a savage attack
on dog that belonged to a Gastein house.
holder and finally killed him. Bismarck
witnessed the affair and punished his dog
severely. a few days aiterward Inc called
on the owner OF the dead dog and not only
apologizcd in person for the Outrage, but
promised TO replace the slain animal with
a still better one.
There is a fairer prospect now than there
has ever before been that a suitable bullding
will be erected for Mr.. Ruskin's art trea-
sures ut Sheffield Ill success heretofore
has attended all movements in this direc-
ton. The result Of an appeal "to the
people OF Sheffield" was d subscription of
less than $3.50; but the ladies OF the town
have now taken the matter up, and intend
10 raise a substantial amount OF money to
form at least a nucleus for fund that shall
be sufficient to erect a suitable building.
An organ which has Just been built in
Germany is believed to be the largest in eX-
istence. II counts Ia registers, and is
worked automatically by an Otto gas-motor
Of four-horSe power. it, height is 20
metres, its width II. and it, depth 10. Its
largest wooden pipe is 10 metns long and
! OF cubicll capacity OF 1000 litrcs. The
instrument is to be set up in tile Cathedral
OF Riga. For the It. Stephens Cathedral
OF Vienna the same builders lare soon to
construct still larger organ The we'll
known organs OF Boston. I'm. and st.
Petersburg were built by the same men.
Items in the expense accounts OF the
German national monument an the Nieder-
wald include the following: The pedestal
! proper, 337.700 marks; the Watchman's
house. $4,000; the ornamental garden
grounds, $500; The candehbra and in
scription-pateS, 5000: the salary Of the
supervising architects. 81 ,O0d; the models
for the foundrieS, 100000; 1.-The statue Of
Germania, l75,7jO; the ligurts OF War and
Peace. 10000; the group Rhine and Mo-
selle, $4,000 the escutche0If, l0.sSO; the
eagle and wreaths, 2G, $50 \ the great re-
lief, 5l,300; the two minor teIiefs, Il 300
The total cost OF the statue s. it now stand,
has been l,192,000 marks.
There has been published letter from
Tureenietf, i'm which is combined an inter
esting account OF his metlpd a. "A writer
II is addressed 10 an Engjishman. and in
part is rs follows: "You Know better than
| can tell you that an author does not clotht
premeditated ideas in Picturesque CARDS: il
all grows spontaneously, hill unconscious.
ly. Ii should give the trle reason for my
activity should perhaps sly have written
because it has given me pleasure. Ny own
people, human life. human physiognOmy
these are the starting points the author
makes OF them what he cab, or rather what
he cannot help making them. This l. I
very vague theory, but i is the only on,
that | have. The thought that | hay,
brought my country lltle nearer To tn,
European public is the happiness OF ny
life."
Professor Lanciani, the arch9oIogist. hai
drawn Il comparison between ancient Rom,
and modern London, founded on his owl
examinations and on history. in which h,
calls attention 10 their similar situations on
4 river and to the respective heights o
their soils. Rome, he says. had hel
"city" in the sense that London ha
hers, and when Augustus rcOrganiZed toe
municipal administration the limits Of TIE
town had 80 much exceeded the circl'
made by the walls OF seryius Tuliius tina
four OF the fourteen districts into whicl
the city was divided We're entirely outsid
the walls, but in spite bf thi, the names o
the old gates survived D. similar names nov
survive ia London. " hch has also lar tx
I tended itself beyond 4 early borders. a
one time the bmldingt Of Rome occupied
space OF about the u nc size rs is coyere
in our day by the bul dings Of London.