Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-13
CURRENT TOPICs ABROAD.
Matters That Interest People IN IAnndoo and
Paris.

AStSere Toot Int9feSt Pe0p1e N L0D60D end
Paris.
THE CHAT or TWO BIG CrrIEs-0cssIP or THE
GREAT DIVORCE Casa NAaNITlcENr MKw
CHURCH IN PARrs--CoLD wRATHER At TIE
FRRxCH CAPITAL.
Dunlaps Cable Letter to The Evening Star.
LONDON. Dec. 13.-It - denied that Mr.. Par
nell offered f20, 900 to settle that disastrous
divorce case, but il is admitted that he did
offer to settle with the Times on a basis OF
nothing if that fine old Irish gentleman. the
o Shea, would withdraw. The Times refused
to have anything to do with the matter, and
hence this trouble. Mrs. O'Shea Is Just now
professional beauty, or rated as such at any
rate, in the shop Windows where this modern
Gree is displayed in q variety of deshabilles,
and at multitude OF prices to suit rich and
poor alike. Stories Of an interesting and some
times even thrilling nature are current touch
ing this lady. One attributes to her the
Bohemian virtue Of being smoker. At any
rate Dir. Parnell went to see her at Brighton
before he left for Ireland and spent half q day
with her trying to say goodbye.
sULLIyAN's NEW GRAND OPERA.
Sir Arthur Sullivan put the last finishing
touches to his grand opera, 'Ivanhoe," yestcr-
day, and in five weeks from now it will be pro-
duced at D'Oyly Cartes new theater It il
said that the full score of voices and instru-
ments will cover $40 pages of manuscript M
written very neatly and closely. The mere
manual labor involved is enormous. Sir Ar
thur has been busily at work upon it for more
than year.
Edward Solomon, the composer of ..TiIlee
Taylor" has been engaged to write the music
OF the next comic opera to be produced at the
Savoy Iheater, to follow the ''Gondoliers"
FREYCINET CRosES AN IMMORTAL"
Freycinets election to the French academy
is a very popular movement As writer and
speaker NJ. Freycinet has a hight. elegant and
lucid style and excels in clear statement. or
derby marshaling of facts and delicate though
striking inuendo. He excels most in areu-
ment. In which he never seems to dispute but
gently compels his hearers to deduce for them
selves the conclusions at which he wishes them
to arrive. thereby saving their sclf-esteem while
gaming his point. He liz delightful fireside
companion and talks charmingly besides be-
ing one OF the best Rhess players in France.
His English Is almost as fluent and felicitOus as
his native French and his personal magnetism
is remarkable.
N: Ereyeiaet was born at Folk in 1928 and
has held many prominent offices. besides being
the author OF many important works In 1878 he
was elected member of the French Academy
Of Science.
SIR CHAs. RUssELL's FEES
1t is assorted at the Old Bailey in London that
Sir Chas. Eusselrs brief in the libel case of
Marks-Dutterficld. in which he acts us counsel
FOR Mr. Marks, was marked 1000 guineas-a
magnificent fee, surely--but that is not ALL His
''refreshers, as tho daily fees TO counsel are
termed. outside of the real fee. are go u day,
contiltloRaliy on his never leaving the court
while the trial is going on. He has conscien-
tlously earned his money, for he has never
bcen absent for Il single moment during the
hearing OF the case. a very uncommon thing
with counsel Of his standing.
A MAGNIFICENT PARTISAN CHURCH.
The ecclesiastics gre again calling for more
money in Paris, this time for the completion,
80 they say. OF the gorgeous church Of the
Sacrc CTnr at Montenatre. The building has
the reputation Of being the most magnificent
and elaborate structure used for the purpose of
worship in the world 1t is not yet half finished,
although the enormous sum of ~. PSI, 900 francs
has been expended on it, equivalent to
s4,iG2, 7aO. and its custOdians claim 60 OOO, 900
francs Will be its total cost when completed.
COLD WEATHER IN PARIS
The cold weather in Paris has been excep-
tiOnally severe; in fact, any cold is un-
comfortable there, because the city and
Its houses are SO lily adapted to cope
with frost. The people are not
accustomed to stiffened fingers and frozen
noses. SD IL IL not remarkable that two Parisians
should have fallen dead on the Boulevard des
Italiens and the Rue Provence yesterday, actu-
ally .benumbed by the cold and frozen to DEATH
But even the severe climate has its compensa-
tons and is taken advantage of to give the So
cial element a boom. There IL skating, and
skating is not an every-winter occurrence.
The lakes in the Bots de Boulogne are frozen
over and covered with gaily dressed ladies Gid
ing about. The water at Versailles is q solid
mass OF ice and supports a multitude daily.
Last evening the officers Of the garrison there
gave skating fete and one of the most brilliant
scenes imaginable was presented.