The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-28
FOREIGN Note, or Renl 1nt.re...


Tostors Krsutzer Sonata has been forbidden in Aus
triA az dangerous to the State"
The newest German idea is TO make north AlsAoe-
Lorraine an Independent duohy.
The cabrioot In nifty sixty years ago has reap
psAred Hyde Park including the tiger at the baok
Six dollars and quarter q MONTH " with the priv.
leEe of dining in tho house" were the wages paid to
Rovernoss In Yorkshire.
The Pope has authorized the drawings for his own
sarcophaEus for the Church Of st. Giovanni to be
erected three yearB after his death II will DO Of italian
porphyry and cost $25, 600
During tho financial year closing on May the Ger
man Government received surplus Of 5000 900 from
the Imperial Postal and TeleErapho Department. and of
S350OO0 from the Imperial Printing orioo.
German named Lnienthal. after experime ting
for twenty three years with artificial wings has suo.
cseded in raising himself weighing 100 pounds with
tho aid OF q counter weight lifting eighty pouuds
How raise tho other eighty pounds still beyond him
sazburE will shortly BIO the city Of Mozart, Bay
reuth 10 the city of Wagner An opera house. In which
only model performances of Mozarts operas will be
given, has been planned tho money for building II
been raised and before tho structure will
be we'll under way. 1t will seat 1000 persona
Last year Franco herself produced only % 600 900
hoctolitres OF wine and she alono consumed As ooo
600 hectoitres As to how the necessary amount for
expectation Is made the foreigner console himself
with tho fact that he Is apt good wine than
the FrenchmAn the genuine article standing exporta
ton mnoh better than authorizations
Cooperation has not been successful in Berlin.
Thirtynv cooperative societies have been organized
there for manufacturing purposes since 1893 Thirty OF
them wound their Affairs after average existence
OF years each Five still exist Tho various
for disseminating business were lack OF funds, differ
enees Of opinion among members and dwindlinE away
OF membership,
In 1899 there were in Germany s7aes4 marriAgsA
1921 S79 birthA and Be Deaths in France 276 ete
mArrAges ss2 63s births and eS7 s87 deaths The In.
crease of GermanyB population therefore ole 59i
n aRainBt 1855 1887: Frances ncreAGa OF
population 4,772 In 1898 against SO. $50 In 1887
Prosper Crabbo whose really important collection of
pictures was sold two weeks ago, began life AZ .
porter tho Independence B.0e Tho editor told
him that no never would make living AZ . Newspaper
man, and he became a stock broker and died worth
30 900 francs in money besides his other properties
The two highest priced pictures At his sale Della
oroiK's Tiger Hunt" 900 franco and RombrRndtB
Portrait of an Admiral lO6,5Oo frAncA
Itmay come to pasA said British lecturer lately,
that some African may In centuries to come. point
out how OF EnRishmen once dominated tho West
Indies AMI improved of tho face of the land"
Such fears are real enough. In 1883 there were in
those islands 500 Europeans to 1900 Africans In
1900 tho numbers $1,000 Europeans and 800. COO
AfricanA In tho last census the figures IA +3s
EuropeAnE l0a S46 colored muattOeE a. l66 Afri
cans and l2,2+O ABiaticA
The judicial error of which the man named Borras,
now liberated, was tho victim in France has brought
to the front old custom OF tho courts OF Venice
There. whom prisoner is about to be condemned to
death tall and ghOstly looking individual, dressed in
long black gown walks maiescAy TO tho centre OF tho
court room. bows Soomny to tho judges and in
ernous voice pronounces tho following not overEart
ling words Remember tho baker, Then he bows
again and stalks away Just three hundred years
baker executed in Venice for crime OF which he
not guilty. Whom his innocence was fully Ostab
lishsd the Judges who condemned him gave a sum Of
money to tho CITY the interest on which was 10 be lie
voted TO the setting and perpetual burning OF lamp
known Is the lamp OF expAtion," in tho palace OF
the dogeA IT'S still burning there
On March 2, 1913, when Robert Browning nal pro.
duced tho Pied Piper Of Hamelin" his father wrote
this note to hs friend, T. Powell. D'Ir N"' hopo
you viii pardon the liberty tASo in senlns sto you
but tho case Is rather singular Before knew that
Robert had begun lis story OF the Rats had contem-
plated 4 the subject and proceeded with 1t
as far as you see" lie say that hndinR his
had similar tale in hand no desiNte anu should
be sorry his know anything about II that he de.
pended on Powes ST. ence and hoped that when he had
read he would throw it in tho hro k"ut fortnight
Afterward however he sent Pow ell the complete story
about aO) lines Written amidst all tho hustle and In
terruptiOn OF tho CousIl utHrs uianA OF EnE!and),
March II, 10 10 1919" Tho opening lines Of this Pied
Piper pOem werei
There Is at moderate distance rom Hanover
MI Es'gr Gt;nsT ar G a.. rats often ran ovsr
Hut though rspor' VARIES
AZ. all IN one story i @Ir +. ing re ns+ 3sms
Tho place, without battery
whore the rats came I IN no mortal could says
Hut for one plt to nght
And for ton over ugH 'ere were twtn'v nsNt day
Mie SoHS, s n. n n "T M a Sn % a
| Unless these inIr lers wrr. driven away,
And X%it ths Sy' .hya d niI' stay