The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-29
Foreign Note. Of Real Interest.

Foreign Notes Of Real Interest.
This year the Prix du Salon given to the sculptor
Charpenti'r for his group tie " Lutt,uG"
monument has been erecLed at QUu re Bras to VII.
liam frederick, Duke of Brunswick, where he fell,
The tallest schoolgirl in the world lives at Rled
STERLING. She is in her eleventh year and is
about feet high.
classical students A. Cambridge placed III the First D
vision OF the First Class
An English plaintiff has recovered damages and costs
for injuries done to his clothes by barOed wire fence
while walking along public path after dark.
Frederic LemRttre son of the great Frederic, has
Just died at Versailles in his I'D yoar. He had been
actor and manager at Versailles, hut almost
known in the theatrical world OF Paris
For the first time since its foundation a Jew. Prof
Julius Bernstein has elected Rector Magncus of
tho Halle University Up to within a comparatively
short time Jew permitted even to teach there.
four In hand race from presburg to Vienna, dis.
lance OF forty miles took place June Ia Seven
coaches started, with ten minutes interval between
each. Tho first prize of thousand horins by
Baron Nicolaus wesselenyi, in hours A. minutes IS
seconds, the roads being described as bad
The highest price at the Crabbe sale was l77,OOO
francs for Meissoniers Guide" A Holy Family" by
RubenS brought lR0Jo francs. the total money rear
lied being 59ooJO francs During the last months
single auconeer at the Hotel Drouot has sold pic
lures TO the amount OF over 500 90 franco
When Labouchere questioned tho actual value of a
Senior Wrangers ability list submitted 10 him in
their behalf containing some of the Senior Wrang
during the present century" The list contained only
hve Judges -four Bishops and a Dean. and some six
eigh: eminent astronomers and mathematician
The Photographic Society OF Geneva has been testing
the theory that tho long companionship of man and
wife tends 10 make them look more aud moro like
other. Photographs Of seventyeight old couples and
equai number OF adult brothers and sisters show
ed that the married couples lik each other
than tho brothers and sisters of the blood
The Earl Of Camper asked the House OF Lords
have the inc uds statistics of religious
denominations, but tho Lords would not have 1t the
Archbishop OF Canterbury taking the lead In opposition
The Church Of England he said would take no part in
urging religious census not because they shrank
1t their account. but because they would not
take advantage OF the interfere with
freedom.
Tie cigarette habit is fourishinR Tremendously in
Austria Tue number OF cigars smoked in that country
during the past year I,USj,OOuO'O. showing
duction OF Il OU0OO on tile previous On the other
hand the consumption OF cigarettes to s5 UUUUO
or Increase OF lT4OJnO The quantity OF tobacco
sold by the Government which monOpolizos the mar.
ket, has neither incrcated nor dmished though Abe
consumption Of snuG Is steadily declining Cigarette
smokers in Austria take the ready made article
The PROF retor of Av SOpcrS HIlC Hoiiy was prose-
cuted for running lottery Ia that he tod the readers
OF his journal II they collected certain number OF
coupons out Of II and them the office they each
stood equal chance" OF winning EI.uNO. Tho pont
was II III eelllng his article,
although fully worth tho money, man also sold a
chance of winning prize no viola led lottery law
1t was SO decided aud the defendant was made pay
nominal hne though the Judge said 1t was by no
means . nominal offence.
In q stone quarry near Kertsch, In south Russia a
cAtacomb has been discovered in tho form of n vast
hall divided into several compartments by thirteen
oolumnS adorned arstically with ornamental figures
On one Of them is written in Greek rouudhand: The
Judge sorak built this sanctuary site, without
win ,hal
no ono touch or desecrate my body after my death for
he who does will enter the SPIRIT Kingdom
This inscription is surrounded with drawings Of the
human heart and surmouned by two winged Eeuii
holding floral embemA
Two years ago three hundred whales were driven
ashore the estate OF Mr. Eruce sumhurgh In the
north Of Scotland and they were killed and sold Mr.
Bruce at once demanded that third OF tho value OF tho
whales G+OO should be paid To him. In accordance with
an ancient custom by which the Lard" Of this prop
erty was entitled to claim thirds or all salvage The
Sheriff opposed the claim the ground that Mr. Bruce
had taken part IN tho capturing OF tho whales and The
Court OF Sessions has upheld the Sheriff. The Judge
intimatSd that although tho landlords demand was
JUSTIFIED byprecOdent 1t was BASED neither upon prncp
nor upon justice, and It was time for u new rule
Tho renunciAtion of her succession rights by the Arch
duchess Valerie, on her betrOthaL performed in
Vienna June 10 Tho Archbishop OF Vienna tile highest
court diRnareS, the members OF the rriyy Council
tho hinBters, including three members OF tho
purpose from Pesth and the state Notary a,semU,ed In
the Privy Council Chamber OF the IIofUurg. -Four
Captains OF the Imperial Body Guard ODD tho right
or tho throne. On tho stroke OF 10 tho Emperor
tered tho inner apartments with the bride Ter nanc,e
Fix of The Arch iukcs the Duke OF Cumber and the En-
perors Adirtanr and the chainnrrtus Of the
bride and bridegroom. Tie Emperor standing below
tho throne invited tho audience to witness tho sol.
enn ceremony Then he mounted the throne, ana
ronnt Ma noky. Minister OF the imr rial i'ouse read
tha Iaal at Vat.
having made deep reverence before her father then
went 20 a small liable on The leu ~ tho throne on
which was crGcihx between two lighted wax tapsrs
Hnd size, taking IN her right hand glove laid
two fingers on the BOOK, and holding the text OF
tho oath in the o'hr hand repeated Il A.diby word by
word as read by tho Archbishop including lhy oath
proper Mt the end OF tho document She then
signed tho of rcnunciation and again bowng low
before the Emperor took er seat fathers right
The document was then signed by the bridegroom tho
State Notary AffKed tho seals OF the couple and the
ceremony was over The bride WAS said TO look IRA.
diAnt with happiness" BY the PrGRmatio Sanction.
published In 1924 by tho Emperor Charles W. IL was
declared that the different Austrian countries must
never be divided but that when the male line fails the
female members OF the house to he admitted to
succession provision that admitted the rule Of Maria
Theresa. Tho Sanction furthermore provides that
whenever Princess OF the House OF HapsburE mGrres
must rSt her rights succession Arch.
duchess Valerie had the nrBt claim throne but
the nrBt in the female line Of succession IL the
ATohdueheSS Elizabeth, the late Grown Princess little
daughter who Ghs mArTieL must In or turn