The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-12-14
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

fUREltN NUIES Vf ifiLhLoi'
The new English powder for small
arms Is white aud almost smokeiess-
One OF the pretiiest weekly publica'
tions IS Paris 49ustre Il Is In English.
Sindoua Is the name OF a new tenor OF
great promise promised for the LONDON
season.
Mrs. Besaut and Mrs. Ashton Dilke
have both been elected 10 the LONDON
School Board.
The largest organ la the world Is now
being built to London for Sydney IL
viii cost about $76 600,
The prize fora new front for the Milan
Cathedral 40 900 lire, has been awsEaeo
to ~ Brenism, q Mil4nese.
The Hon. Lambert Tree, our Minister
at Brussels, Is about 10 leave Tor ~. Ie'
teisburg, where he will be Minister 10
Russia.
The grea, crIcks,er, w. @. Grace, has a
son who Is ssfd to possess much or bis
fathers talent, and is about ready 10 oiS-
play it.
The Dapuhe's fsmous Iron Gate is to
be improved out OF existence, u 9 ulil
introduced In the Hungarian Parliament
goes through,
Mr. Robert Stevenson, engineer, OF
Glasgow, is the last one TO claim an IN
venli0n which will drive ocean ships up
70 forty knots an hour
In singing the role OF juliet In French
her first attempt Of that sort, IN faris re,
Gently, pailis accent was pronounced
almost faulless."
An advertisement IN a lady's ioornal
reads Wanted, good corsets (l9 or lessl
by a lady reducing. her waist. Must DC
well boned and suited for pulling
A ship building feat never before sp'
preached was lately performed by n the
Fairfield Company on the Clyde. a oOoo'
ton steamer for the German line TO New
York was launched on Saturday which
had been built in less than four months
Recent elections in England aud Wales
have place. medical men at the head OF
the municipal government In the towns
of Hull, Bath, Marlborough, Wolyer-
hampton, Liskeard, Morpeih. Godalming,
C0ngletoH, Calne, New Romney ana
IeoYl.
The cause Of Nine Boulanger's desire
10 be divorced from her husband Is stated
10 be that the General wanted her TO
leave her retreat u Versailles and come
to live with him in Paris and that he has
also sgusndered her dowry. The real
reason "a that the General is too gay.
The last new conner TO the Theatre
FrancaIs Is girl named Bertlnz, aged 10
She won the drst prize at the ConseFVa-
torie this year, ana there was considera'
hle hesitation about letting her appear on
the larger stage. But she played Cecile
IN "Il ne iaut Jurer de Rien" with great
success.
The coolest sort Of competition is
that to come of am ong the young women
OF the Bath Philharmonic Society. Tney
viii sing behind curtain, so that they
cannot be ssen, and The judges will have
10 vote on the number Of the singer.
Each will sing one sacred song aud an
English ballad.
The severe and perfect style which has
always characterized the dress OF men
and women riding In the Row Is passing
out. For women the tall hat and per-
lectly fitting dark habit and plain linen
collar and cuffs have been succeeded by
conicgl aud soft and TyrOlese hats, some
times even decorated With ribbons and
feathers, and a'so gray tweed caps and
other styles. A well. dressed man on
horseback Is rare.
". Paulus, the French cafe cbsntant
singer, who helped to make Boulanger
by singing I'm Revenant de Ia Revue"
has been IN London, where he is pro-
nounced "far more artistic than our
comic singers and more amusing, because
he produces effects with far less move
ment or broad farce" He has an excel.
lent baritone voice ft for the operaiic
stage, but he thinks tt better to stick to
the profession that made him
Ferret breeding Is a new and highly
profitable branch Of farming in Australia
and New Zealand One frm that has
commenced the business on a large scale
has contracted to supply $4,000 ferrets
per annum for three years 10 the Govern
ment a, 7s. Cd. per head, the creatures
being delivered WHEN they are three
m0nihs old. Their stad consists OF 200
ferrets, and thirty rabIts and the milk of
three cows are required every day Tor
their food
For an Empire dress there ID q dis.
ilnciive way Of dressing the hair and this
IS il A few curls fall on she forehead,
the hair Is thence drawn fat to the ex-
tremc top point or back of the crown,
and there "a formed into large double
how. OF close, high cluster OF loops. A
dat bandeau OF gold, OF OF velvet with a
diamond star on Il, can then be laid
across the head, or tiara may be worn
or string Of pearls may be twisted
along the base of the bow OF hair, or q
small hali-wreath OF flowers can bt
placed in the same situation.
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