The sun., 1890-06-07
Foreign Notes or lsea, 1ntero,,.

Mrs. oshea has iled her answer to Capt o'shea and
| denies misconduct with ParneG.
Tho Income of the University of Oxford for tho nrea
ont year about f6e 2OO During the last ar the uni
versity has Increased Its capital by nearly flsooo
College undergraduates of old. school proponsties
may learn through lecture by Andrew Lang on The
Natural History Of Society" that relative of Eublo
Khan chief whose bad luck brought him the sen.
tence OF death by his tribe tossed in blanket till
| he died.
troupe OF about nifty Persian singera dancers wros
tiers boxers conjurors and eQuestans nearly all Of
whom have been forced from their native high.
| waynanry are about to mako tour through Rurope
starting from odessa Their performances are said to
be quite wonderful
| The telephone must have q r0le Of usofulnes
scored for It Sir Humphrey de Trafiord near Man.
chester has perhaps the finest kennels In England the
kennelman's house adjoining them From each kennel
| q telephone arrangement leads to the ksnnelnan's
room that when any dog noisy night keeper
speak him bo heard without leaving hts
room.
1t will be seen how dangerous Il may bo for untidy
children to scratch each other through the report Of
seventy eight examinations of the impurities under
hnEer nails recently made In tho abo.
ratores of Vienna The CIVILIZATIONS produced showed
"thrty-six kinds OF mcrococcL eighteen baoL three
sarcine, and various variees tho spores OF common
mould were very frequently present"
The latest report OF the Birmingham Free LibYares
Committee shows that tho book readers OF the past
year divided rs follows; Scholars and StudentG
1892; clerks and bookkeeperS Ilss; srrAnd and oieo
boys sol teachers 29s shop assistants 200; jewsle
2l0 compositors and printers ls2 miners dress.
mAkerS 1859. Almost at the bottom of the list come
Journalists 0: news agents. and reporters a Is this
because they have libraries of their because
the people WHO write in newspapers lose the for
reading bookBf
At ofon. In Hungary woman has died who had not
for thirty years gone outside her house She was the
daughter of we.to.do parents Thirty years aKo she
about to be married. Her lover to test her obed
love desired her n feas dayn mt
into tho streets she agreed but broke her prom.
Se and went into tho town. Tho next day her lover
broke the engagement and thereupon she made vow
that never again during her lifetime would she leave
her house-and she kept her word.
For the decade lseoeo tho duel statistics of Italy re-
cord for the entire kingdom 275s duelS of them
military. The hotter the weather the more dueS while
In very cold winter spells the figures apered on Thus
eRhts of tho whole number place In summer
and one.eiRhth in winter Only nifty deaths resulted
out OF all those duelA ninety of which were fought
with the sword 24so with the sabre aud the rest with
the pistol Ordinary quarres produced 7sO: press and
political discussona 1922; love. ls3 religious ou.a
tons 10 Most OF the dues took place Naples and tho
fewest at Venice.
For six years Greece has been searching for an oxs
cutioner The ONCE Is looked on with peculiar Gbhor
renee in that country and tho present difficulty is 10
new development Tho last capital execution occur
red In 1881 also after long wait for individual who
was willing to perform It, A man named MeSaenior |
who had killed his wife, offered to serve the State H
eIecutioner for pardon and he Euotinsd seventeen
murderers, the accumulation OF hve years dearth of
an eIecutioner There arc now nve murdsrers await,
ing tho penalty in Athens and eleven others I'm
the rest OF Greece They all will before long sp1.r
death at the hands of a pardoned assassin pamod
KoukS tho Athonian conycts being attended TO nrst
and then the executonsr embarkng on a ma war
Tor voyage along tho coast stopping here and th.ra
for journey into any interior town needing hs a.
vices 30 uncompromisng 10 tho national detrStntion
of executioner that tha in An Of war RorLi
wi" DO protected from furtive assaults by the crew Ly
being housed In an iron cage
BY unanimous judgment the HonAe or Io,ds b.ss. |
Versed judgment (also unAnimou of the Court Of An
peal with regard TO responsibility for collisions At s.a
One night In March 1897 sailing yeaaels IN. civ
OF eorihth ana tho Tasmania were approaching each
other In the English Channel Tho City OF CorIntb was
running FREQ up ChAnueL Tho Tasmania was going
down Channel close hauled the port tack In these
circumstances tho ordinary rule required that the
Tasmania should kssp her and that the city OF
Corinth should keep clear OF her. In the dArknsss
nothing could DO seen but the Lhts and the Cap
tain OF tho Tasmania seeing red light on his port bow
thought that all was right But as tho vessels neAred
inc red light was shut out and . green ono came
into Wow. This showed that the City of Corinth was
coming across his path The nrst thing he did was TO
send a man forward TO soc that his own lights wero
burning brightly and thSn he called the on to tho
poop to watch with him what the green light did. 1t
as not I'LL the other vessel oomod into sight that he
altered his course and tried bring ship round
was then late She had only lust begun TO answer
her helm when she struck tho City Of Cornth straight
lmdShipA and sent her to the bottom. only two OF |
ler crew managing 70 scramble board the TasmAn
IN the litigation which followed Mr. Justice Butt threw
he ontre responsibility for tho accident on tho City OF
joTinth, but tho Court OF Appeal thought that
lie Tasmania was also 10 blame, The green
ight Was a certain warning 0: what was 20,
nR to happen, and In sending to look after his
Wn lights and In calling he mate his side the Cap.
ain OF the Tasmania wasted time, In tho opinion Of
no House OF Lords the indeciSon OF the Captain
ot unreasonable and ihs judgment Of Mr. Justice Butt
rho had thrown the responsibility solely upon the latter
hiR was restored