Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
LATE FOREI0N TOPICs.
Gossip a ths nay In London and Othss
Large Cities.

Gossip q TIE nay IN London a.a oths
Large Cities.
now wnsTNINsrRn ABBxY HAS BEEN caowDKD-
PATTI BRxAKs HKR xSaAaEMRNr IN RUsslA-
EYRAuD's LIFE nsuRANcE-pARKxrss AND
COLD II PA1m
Dunlaps Cable Dspssch to rhs Evsnins Star.
LONDON, Dec. 2.-The Westminster Abbey
commission has just published . report which
furnishes some very curious information,
especially with regard 10 the burials that have
taken place within 1.-THE abbey wallis" II ap-
pears that during the two centuries from 1900
to 1900 loss, more or less, celebrated people
were inferred in the national walhalls. Then
the authorities began to recognize that such
Wholesale interments would very soon use up
all the available space and they determined to
draw the line more closely, 90 that between 1900
and 1868 only 10s people received the highest
post-mortem honor which an admiring coun-
try could bestow, and during that period two
Of the most Industrious sons of England. the
greatest sec captain and general Of their day
Horatio Lord Nelson and Arthur Wellesley,
Duke OF Wellington, the Iron Duke-were
buried in the crypt of dingy st. Paurs. From
was still slightly reduced, as only twenty-one
bodies were admitted to the honor Of burial
there, among them being Charles Dickens, in
1870 while in the nine years that have elapsed
since 1888! only six Of England's greatest dead
sleep in the hush OF its hallowed precincts
In st. Paul's too, which ranks after the alb
hey in the national estimation as an honorable
and comfortable resting place for what Shake
speare calls your wholesome dead body, only
eighteen burials have taken place during the
last twenty years, but this number will be i'm
mediately added to, because it is her majesty's
especial command that the remains Of Sir John
Boehm, the eminent sculptor, shall rest there.
WHY PATTI WILL NOT SING.
The good people OF Moscow and st. Peters
burg will, after all, not have the pleasure of
hearing Madame Patti this winter in the series
Of opera and concerts which had been arranged
to take place during the months Of January
and February under the management of Mon
sieur Zet.
For this the thanks Of the admirers of La
Diva have to be rendered to the laws under
which life is allowed in the dominions of the
white car and also to the officials who carry
out these laws, and these thanks are likely to
be uttered in q somewhat highly spiced fashion
The circumstances leading to this breaking
up Of the season will throw some light upon
the system OF local government which obtains
in Russia.
Il seems that some time ago another artist for
whose performance many seats had been taken
in advance did not fulfil the engagement and
The sntbor;t;e. th.refora determ;nof that for
az s't'.a sneEe: u.soi neu sIas iol
sI'au.a sh u IneS pau ioa sea ~ .St ~ ~
wora ,,r'.;i A. ,,o.fnsro.a oon,,.roJ y"
Aci;nc in ,,oa 20 he 3D. Tho cb;ef of
,o1;oa ,rnpns aN,o VI .s ~ &c. $50
rrhioh az oupo1n,,nr. Il IL 70. -; enrnar.a
and onaras ottraotad DE- Ia ,onI 49, b;s cana0
"in "a ~ssa;si e .oUS ny S az s,s,
wb;cb Wons;enr Hef hsd aprranoed 70 send 70
EnSand fur thu onarsnt e Which, h;s CONTRACT vt
with Madame Patti called for
The sweet singer waited for the materializa-
'lon oi .ne guaransee' put as tne cash dld NOT
Russia and tbat s The raason NV The sn 80 W.
ment is at an end.
,v,.,,,, .r
Ahosner phase oI the Eyraud trlal ls Iurnlsneo
in the suit OF the estrangleur's wife against an
English assurance COMPANY to compel the COM
panv's .ccentance Of the mast years nrem;um
On a life Insnrance no1;cv ON the mprderer,s
life. Evrand neglected. 10 nav last years nre-
MUM IA well "a this. and the nrosnectiye
widow, now she sees the chances Of her hus-
band demise increasing, wants to speculate on
E,,t .Ie luii extent .uo..
the infai;biIitv Of FrsrcP law i H. ;,s MIMI does
not crave the premium or the risk. and will
make defense of a yery fiorid Character. that
q man who commits murder likewise commits
suicide because he sacrifices his life to the law.
Hence the policy ia void for a paragraph in the
policy saws 40.