The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-15
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

New York Sun.
| The new physician in ordinary to Queen Vic
| toria is Sir Edward Henry Lleveking.
| The sale of Zola's LA Terre" has been for
| hidden in Berlin. Munich and Dresden.
| The oldest English surgeon, Mr.. George Syl
| vester, born March 10, 1888 has just died.
| It will take 10000 to break up the Great East
| ern which was sold recently for f16,000
An Amatie violin that belonged to Louis XIV
/ was recently sold at Buda Pesth for 97OO
| Two hundred thousand infants under two
years old are believed to be farmed out in France.
| A football player at Abercarne recently
| struck in the abdomen by the ball and died in
stantly.
Pauline Lucca has announced her intention Of
| taking up her abode in Vienna and giving sing
| ing lessons
| Prince Henrichs XIV. of Reuss, appears as
| a composer A symphony of his has been played
| at Hamburg.
Mile Van Zandt has tried her voice in Pesth
with Hungarian company, and has achieved
great success.
The castle of Chillon is to he thoroughly
stored by the Swiss govern ment and made q ma
tional museum.
The Germans are organizing a considerable
establishment of falcons to catch the enemy's
carrier pigeons.
Alphonse Daudet has just finished novel
titled ''Immortel," ridiculiDg the Academy and
its forty members
Goldmark, the composer of 1.-THE Queen of
Sheba," has gone to Milan to direct the
hearsals of his work.
The price of pedigree short-horn cattle has
dropped in England from an average of ESQ,
which it reached a few years ago, to EFT los
Buffalo skins have become scarce that the
Earl of Dunmore is going to try how the shaggy
Highland cattle will thrive on the Western
plains
fancy dress ball is to be given at Cannes in
the second wesk of February by Lady Murray.
The costumes to be those of characters in the
Arabian Nights"
life of the Gar was founded upon the fact that
a secret door was discovered beneath the i'm
perial box in the Morie Theater.
Charles F. Barker, the American champion
Martins the English champion. in Glasgow
Wyllie, the champion Of the world, is absent in
New Zealand.
The Minister of Mines in Victoria Australia
Mr. Gilles has calculated that Australian gold to
the value of e., ITO, 6l3 was mined last year, at
an expense of 60, 1856. $50. The profit in gold
mining is small as the profit In other things
The new building erected for the occupancy of
the Leipzig Conservatory of Music has been
formally turned over to the governing powers of
that renowned institution. 1t is situated di-
rectly opposite the new Gewandhaus, on Grassl
strasse.
The gold pitcher and basin which the Queen
sent to the Pope for his jubilee was made by
Ellington of repousse work, and bore the in
scrption: ITO His Holiness Pope Leo XIII,
from Victoria, r. l." 1t was presented by the
Duke of Norfolk in full robes.
During the last three years the Paris Grand
Opera house received 100000 francs from
sixty-four performances of Massenets lie
Cid" 729, 462 francs from forty-fou of Pala-
dilhe's .Patrie," 5l5,053 from thirty-three of
.Rigoletto," and 764, COG from ffty-three of
Reyers "Lieurd"-the latter Galllcized version
Of die Walkure."
The experiment of giving half-penny dinners
at the Birmingham schools has been SO success
full that farthng dinners have been tried and
nearly succeeded. Two hundred aud twelve
Uiv los
attendance at the schools has been greatly in
creased and the good effect upon the temper of
thu children has been astonishing.