The morning call., 1891-11-01
NOTES FROM ABROAD.

On September 18th postal savings bank
was opened in st. Petersburg. Savings from
% kopecks Ia quarter of ruble) up 10 1000
rubles can be deposited.
The former Secretary Of the Empress
Eugene, Damas Hlnard. has died at
Neullly lie was learned man, having
been professor in the College of France and
Librarian in the Louvre.
By French law BOulanger's will is void.
ana every effort is being made to induce
Nine. Boulanger to assert her rights. As
the Generals widow she is entitled to an an
nual life pension of $780,
new naphtha spring of immense capacity
was recently opened in Bakoo on the Tag
gieff grant. If it continues with the same
power as at present, it will be the richest
naphtha fountain in the world.
The Benbow's 110-ton guns are to be sent
back 10 Elswlck to be strengthened. An
other monster. a 67-ton gun on the Ausop,
developed crack and had to be taken out,
and, upon further trials. it became entirely
useless.
The statistics OF Tie French Exposition at
Moscow showed that it lasted l6l days aud
mad nearly a million visitors. The majority
Of the exhibits have been sent to Paris and
many of them will be sent to the Worlds
Fair at Chicago.
The st. James Gazette protests against
any such disposition of the models of Mel
sons ship, the Victory. and the EddyStone
Lighthouse as will make it possible for
them to b. taken to Chicago or elsewhere
out of England
The naivete Of the Britisher can be seen
in letter to the Times. asking that the
German steamers running into Southampton
shall be required TO run slowly In the Selent
as the waves from the Spree recently
swamped two boats living on the beach and
put two children in jeopardy.
An old woman lives near Vienna who was
a servant of Beethoven. She speaks of him
n = mn iria In
lived there when he wrote the Choral SYM
phony, and ali hough the home IS in wretched
repair, she will not have it touched. 1t is
let out in rooms to poor working people. but
1t is still visited by strangers.
The Russian Ministry of the imperial
property has been Informed that despts
the existing regulations there are women
working in the mines in the Polish prov
inces, aud that besides the hard labor they
have to perform under the ground and the
rude treatment to which they are subjected.
they meet with accidents more frequently
than the men,
The driver OF steam tram.car ia Paris
saw woman upon the line in front of the
engine. She was psralyZed with fear. 1t
being Impossible to stop Roadway in time to
save her life the engineer courageousIy
crawled along the side of his engine in the
hope OF being able TO save the woman. Un-
fortunately, at the critical moment he missed
his footing and both were killed.
Inc CORES ponuent oil the Times at Paris
says: "a German parsonage of high rank
recently sought to induce the Car to allow
an interview with the German Emperor.
This effort elected the following reply from
the Russian Foreign Office: The Cars
safety requires secrec, in making journey.
The Car has reserved the right to arrive at
spontaneous decision in the matter.
The Borghese picture OF Cesar Borgia.
for which Rathschild has Just given Sl25,-
600, is said in Rome to be as likely TO be
Bronzino as a Raphael. By an edict of 1920,
this picture belonged to the "inalienable"
portion of the Borghese gallery. When the
Government found that it had disappeared
circulars were sent TO the custom houses on
the frontier, but too late, the picture was
over the border.