The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-27
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
Notes Of Interest by Wire and Mall From
Beyond the Sea.


Notes NJ Interest by Wire and Mall From
Beyond the Sea.
Tur sultan Of Turkey is threatened with
nervous prostration.
CHRISTMAS cards have already appeared
in the shop windows Of London.
Tur Prince Of Wales. on behalf OF the
Queen. will bes,ow on the Crown Prince Oh
Greece the Grand Cross Of the Bath'
kISG kALAKAuA, Of the sandwich 'sland''
will come TO the Worlds Fair Of 1897 II he
can borrow the money.
PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES j. the Only
member Of the English royal family VINO
speaks the language Of his country with a
foreign accent.
prHrxG his visit 10 Greece. Emper'
William will spend considerable time study
ing the batileliclds Of Marathon and Their
mopylr.
II j. stated that Louis kossuth. the Hun
carian patriot. will become naiuraliled
Italian citizen. and that he will be noIni-
mated for senator.
TIE condition Of otto, the insane hing OF
Bavaria. i. precarious. He is unconscious,
and his PHYSICIANS are able to administer
nourishment only AZ irregular intervals.
PRESIDENT CARNoT and Minister Eeil
have become warm friends in Paris. II j.
rnnorcd that the former has promised To
visit this country under the guidance Oh MI
| Reid at some future time.
Tur spiked helmet is showing above the
horizon in Luxembourg. Herr hrupp has
u.t bought fifty acres in the little country
and is Going 10 set up foundry there. Lux
cmburg will soon be q Prussian province.
Tnr coming solar eclipse will he obser' ed
l,v three oxpcditions sent out 10y thc'lsoyal
Astronomical society Of Great Britain one
ai Salut Isle. French Cayenne: one at Irini-
dad. and the third al Il. Paul dc Loando'
| Africa.
Mr.. TE.IrwEILER. chief engineer Of the
Hrunie railway. switzerland. has applied
for a concession for an underground railway
ND the Jumgfrau Mountain. |: j. proposed
| 10 reach the summit OF the mountain u!
means of a tubular tunnel.
THE marriage of Miss Gwcnd0line cald-
we'll to General the Prince Murai l. an
noupccd to take place at the Papal Nuncia'
tnre at Paris on Tuesday next. The Bishop
ofsa has been "sEga d to o' ,6e iene
dicifSn.
Tnt Queen Of Roumania, who write
Nfdcr the name of Carmen sylvia J.
about TO publish a volume of NOVELTIES
1.with'the title Of "Who knocks" French
TRANSLATION by VI. Robert ~cheilcr with
preface VI. Pierre Lott, will appear simulta
neOuslv.
CARDINAL MANNING. at the PROF. attic
dral. kcnsingtOn. in recent brief bul
energetic address on the temporal power
stiematizod what he called the stealing o
fine city of Rome" by Italy, i'm $50 ~ 1.-THE
most complex, complete. and universal
sacrifice that the world has ever witnessed.
Az interesting representative Of the ole
order Of political affairs in Germany dice
lately at the age Of lightweight. Prince
Gnnther Won >chwarzburg->onde
| was a survival of the time wheh every Yen
acre lot in Germany had a prince or Junkc
of H. own. He Wa. noted for his ccctn
tricitv. and was often guest AT the cour
nf Frederick William v. who liked Inn
ON account of his odd savings.
TIE Romnanian army has now becom'
an object Of great interest to foreign mill
tary men. II j. in splendid condition, AM
this j. recognized a. being due mainly {
fine kim. who has shown rcmdfkanl
talents i'm adapting tine organization oi I'D
German army, i'm which he was trained. Il
: the requirements Of the li0umanlan habit
and character
Is France. if patient who j. under chic
e reform shows signs of heart failure, tho>
in attendance hold him head downward
fiji he is restored. The method j. said neNo
tn fail: and so convinced are some surgeon
| of it, efficacy that they have operating u
hlcs made in such a fashion lh'l one gu
, can be elevated at a moments notice, AN
the paiient bee practically made 10 stand %
q his head for an instant or two.
C The Austrian and Hungarian govern
ments have approved of the resolution
T the railways of the two parts of the empii
e to odopt the universal day rcckoncd on III
; basis If Greenwich rs the prime meridian
Tho difference between Greenwich time an
Nustro-Iiungarian railway time II exact
= one hour. The definite introduction oi III
| system is. however. dependent on III BEN
D accepted by the German railways.
4 DIR. krKENruAL. who. with Dr. Waite
has been away this summer making c'
Z vibrations i'm the Arctic regions roun
I ~pitzbergcn. has Just returned To Biemel
!. and has reported 10 the 6eosraphici
r society of that place. at whose expense "
: cvun.ition he commanded was hitcd on
that he has discovered a new and lmporial
= ocean current flowing through the VINO
y length of the Olga strait from north
c south.
" PRINCE Jo>Eru MARIA >tLkous IN
whose escape from an insane asylum III u
neighborhOOd of Vienna created such a Sc
4 sation few months ago, is still the suble
J. of possip i'm Germany. Despite the Ia
: that the physicians declared him perfect
IS sane al the final examination. his Wilc' WI
is has designs upon the estate, still Keeps Ia
n confined in the private asylum near hoiil
This. however. will not be the ease mu'
&c longer. as his own family in Austria ha
~ decided to return him 10 hi- estates.
v TuE explorer Wissman seems 10 ha
a been using vigorous tactics in Africa, !
4. he boasts of having killed seventy inst
ID cents" i'm single encounter. or more IN
C. STANLEY and his companions killed III th'
he first journey down the Congo. me he'
y, from stanley does not Indicate that I
:: Great explorer will reach Europe this 4
10 tlmu. as he had contemplated. Probal
n Il, will come back during the course Of
winter.
Mrcu TO tn worlds surprise the sw
l,u5oet shows "A deficit of 100000 franz
,a inst how such a thing could happen III IL
e. practically conservative and debt hat
M country is one of the problems await
solution. though il is stated that III adNal