The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-18
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
,otes OF Isterest w Wire and Mail Fron
EeVond the Sea.

SIR EDWIN CHADWICK, known in ing
land as 1.-THE father of sanitary science in
recent interview said: II do so believe in
fresh air. Ny pet project, at which a cor
respondent in the papers laughed some time
ago. is 10 build great towers in our cities
and uunp down the ozone from above.
There is a wonderful American machine for
pumping which actually makes i.2WreNolu-
| lions i'm a second Well. that would soon
purifv "A neighbOrhOOd. Al the base Of II.
| Paul's there is no ozone, there is at the sum
nit. How often my government clerks
have asked leave 10 take home their work.
finding II Impossible 10 do anything IN the
poisoned air Of the great public Offices.
/ This system. about which have consulted
NJ. Eihel himself, who thinks very highly 81
/ the idea. would effect revolution IN Inc
health OF oar great cities. On very small
scale il has been tried apd found 10 answer
perfectly upon some OF the great liners at
sea-
WHILE some merry French people were
banquetmg % the beach at a point near
Touon. the other day, a foreign gentleman
approached and asked if he might taste The
shel-iish, peculiar 10 the locality, which
| formed part OF thei; feast. They welcomed
him to- their board, wher0un0n ordering
champagne from the neighbOFing inn, Zee
called on them 10 drink a tOast-"Russia
aud France friends now and friends for
an time" 1t was The Grand Duke Nladi-
mir, and the Continental press IS much eN-
cited over The incident.
CRIsPI, tie Italian Premier, who is al
WAYS at war with the Pope, sometimes gets
'yor ted. The lease of the apartments
which he and his family have occupied in q
palace belonging 10 the Propaganda ride
for the last sixteen years in Rome runs out
this month. So. three months ago ne APP
piled for renewal. "No; we have decided
that we don't want such tenants as YOU
was the answer, and ont goes Crisp, De
cember 81. lie is enragcd.
The final conference Of the Committee
for the Revision Of The German Bible Will
take place on the 10th and 18th Of January,
and will be preceded on the sth and 9th 10y
a conference OF delegates from The German
Bible Societies 10 discuss the question OF
school Bible. with which the Revision COM
mittee has nothing 10 do.
SYBrK SANDEKsOs, the most brilliant,
and certainly one Of the most beautiful Of
the Younger American singers abroad just
now, has been driven from the stage OF the
Opera Comique by the prevailing influenza.
The manager gave her ten days IN when 10
recover. Half the actors and actresses ~
Paris aye III with this same mysterious IN
iuenza,
COcNr HERBERT BISMARCK, during ms
soioum in the Orient, learned new pro
verb. which he repeated in recent speech;
There are three things with which no man
should play: The fire, because II can burn
him: the viper. because II can sung MN,
woman, because she-can love him.
siNrfes students attending the Military
Academy Of Medicine ia -, Petersburg are
TO be expelled from that establishment for
attempting 20 have Requiem Mass cele-
brated Cor The rcpOse Of the soul OF icher-
nschewsky, Sihilist writer, who, shortly
before his death, was amncsiled.
Tmg Queen leaves on to-day for Osborne
TO spend Christmas. Ii is expected that
they will have merry time with mild pri-
yate theatricals and aesthetic poses plasti-
qucs or tableaux yiyants by the young
princes and prlncesses, ot whom there is a
small army.
TnE Eiel Tower Company has now
paid TO the stockholders more than the er-
lire outlay.