The sun., 1889-12-07
Foreign Notes OF Real Interest.

According to official statistics MarseilssS traffic has
nearly doubled since 1870
The British Admiralty has contracted for four new
armorclads of 1909 tons each
large tract OF tea land in the neghborhood OF Can
ton this year yielded one thousand dollars in
tea leaves of the finest quality.
Tho FdrJula, Rome weekly. says the establishment
Of United states embassy at the Vatican in the
future is regarded as probable in Papal circles
There only twenty nine free traders in the French
Parliament the remainder of the deputies standing up
Stouty for the protective home industry creed Of the
Theirs school
Tho trecensement figures dow the population
ofBerlin I.I73 s53 and of Vienna at 764 steady
advance being made by both capitals through ad.
ditiOns from small towns throughout tho two empireA
Premier CrIspi is TO- and his King, Humbert is AZ;
Bismarck is rs, and his Emperor, William, is 80 Dutch
King Wilhelm Is the oldest and the Spanish baby Al
fonso, the youngest OF Europo's crowned heads and
both are in the hands of guardianA
Tho main entrance OF tho Monte Carlo gambling
house which was closed all summer, was reopened q
week ago. new wing. which will bo filed with more
tables has been added and tho vestbue and smoking
promenade have been enlarged, and lifts have been
built TO take people up from the railroad
Tho new oiicRl report of tho condition of the Eng
lsh beer-brewing industry shows that Great Bhaiu's
la65s brewers produced IS GA beer in
the last hscal year Eight brewees produced between
100000 and $4,000 barrels between 200 600 and
800 900 barrels three between 500 and 1000 oo bar
res and one moro than l.oOO OOo barrels
The Phiatelsten Club of Vienna is arranging for
international postage stamp exposition there year.
The year 1890 chosen because It will then be lust
nifty since postage stamps introduced forty
years since they came into use in Austria and ten
since tho club founded The exhibition will
take place in the Austrian Industrial Museum.
nittoo Of I'VE Is organiEingit
The French professor OF chemistry De MllsfeurS
Gently exhibited before meeting Of Partisan scientists
several bricks Of petroleum which he has discovered
how 10 soidify by original process. The petroleum
bricks were hard enough to bo handled without incon
venience yet soft enough to be cut with stout knife
They burned slowly when touched with lighted match
hileneurs they plosiys and mex pensve
Russia 10 quietly using every peRcsable means to
strengthen her influence in central Asia According to
Russian dailes the Khan OF Rhya ssade, has been In
vito to tho frat few weeks of at tho ST.
Petersburg court in a peremptory manner which
cludes all possibility OF his refusal The Emr Of Box
hara also has found expedient to consent to lot his
join the OF pages tho Cars court The young
sprg Of Oriental royalty will be taken to ST. Petersburg
by special embassy In January.
Ono feature of the French republic seems to have
been tho thinning out of tho cOusseS OF the opera
no longer tho rendezvous for statesmen and men OF
fashion. Tho ballet dancers also have become
served Instead Of congegang In tho yer de Ia danSo
they stay In their dressing rooms where thsv receive
few very particular friendA Those who still arc ad
dctsd to the cousses called tomptHS The tOmpns
are rather second class 0omneUs.
NJ. ZolR describes his mode of working thus: lam
as regular as clockwork. Every morning write four
pages of manuscript no more, less That makes
about SO1 words and is all do in day and do IL
well ASI take year for each one of my novels ysu
have plenty OF time at that or largo
part OF my work has been done before take the pen
and what write the nrs time TO the printers with
few No. never dictate. but write every limo
OF my books with my own hand. ike this rOyeE rOuSE
small row is going on between Murray and Basdo.
ker the guide book question Murray accusing
Baedeker of plagiarism. In BRedekers contributions
to The controversy he shows the importance attached
elaborate complaint he affixed to the name of hotel
In Nancy the words "cOmpained of" the hoeIGer sued
him for damREeS and the Court while admitting his
good faith and right OF criticism in the interest of tho
public, condemned him to pay 800 francs damages and
the ground that the description and
not directly based on his own personal experience