The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-27
NOTES FROM ABROAD.

During last year Cambridge University
matrlculated 952 students.
A SorOsis club on the American model
has been started in Bombay.
The French watch product for 1890
amounted to AGA, 436 watches.
Rich layers of silver ore have been dis
covered on the Medvezhiy Island, in the
White Sea.
A lunatic got into the strangers gallery
of the House of Commons recently and
made scene by finging papers among the
members.
Vadomosu OF Moscow is informed by its
correspondent at COnstantinople that Pro-
testantism is very successful In Macedonia
and Albania.
The ringleader of the May day labor riots
at Fourmies has been condemned to six
years solitary Imprisonment and ten years
loss Of civil rights.
A Tolstoi community at Kharkoff, con-
tanning number of educated men who have
left society, has been suppressed by the
Russian Government.
The Russian Agricultural Department of
the Ministry Of Imperial Property has this
year planted poppy seed in various points
In CaucaSia as an experiment Tor the cult
ure Of opium in that region.
A French mechanic of 80 committed sui
eide because he had lost the power to
drink. He left a letter saying: "One
small glass of liquor makes me ill now. AS
cannot live Without drinking l am killing
myself"
A marble slab has been placed in the
house in which PaganiGi died in Nice. The
inscription concludes with, The powerful
bow that drew forth magic sounds now lies
inert, but his supreme sweetness still sur
wives IN It's scented bIeezes of Nice"
Mr.. BOtt of Manchester has invented a
pneumatic dynamite gun OH a different
principle from that of Captain Zalinsky.
Instead OF having compressed air in the
gun, he fills the rear portion of the protector
with compressed air and fires it out by its
own Internal force.
A few weeks ago a brigand chief, Do
menlco Nocchla, was released from the
Naples prison, after having been shut up
for sixty Years. He is now IS. After an
unusually brilliant career of brigandage and
$4,000 francs had been set upon his head, lie
was condemned to prison for life in 1871.
The Government of Austria is informed
of fresh arrivals of Russion troops ON the
Galician border in numbers far beyond the
ordinary requirements OF frontier duty. IL
is also reported that the Russian fortifica-
tons have been greatly strengthened and
equipped with guns of heavier caliber than
those hitherto mounted.
In the hygenic cabinet Of the University
OF hazan samples have been collected Of
the hunger bread" upon which the peas
antry lived i'll various parts of the empire.
Scientific analysis has shown that that
flour with the admixture of five to ten
pounds of rye -four or soft-boled potatoes.
AS the highest dignitary of the Evan
gelical National Church of Prussia, the
Summus EpiscOpus, Kaiser William, is de-
veloping tendency to ritualism, After
August 18th of this year the prime ipal func-
tionaries Of the church, the General SupeIin-
tendents Of the Ecclesiastical Provinces,
must wear cross suspended from black
band around the neck, hanging upon the
breast
Deputies Bowie, ,Cavallotti, Imbriani and
BarZilai have convened Republican con-
ference, to be held in November, probably
at Milan. The Italian Government is con-
sidering the question whether or not to sup
press the movement King Humbert per-
sonally fay0rs tOlerating the meeting, but
he may yield to the views Of the Ministry,
which are understood to be of the opposite
nature.
The Cossack Peshkov. who attracted gen.
eral notice by the long journey on his little
gray horse from Caucasia to st. Petersburg,
was Outdone by all officer of the Fifth Regi-
ment of Ritlemen, Ivan Lvovitch Bakhmu-
tof, who arrived on June 2Sth in Moscow
from pladlvostok, having travelled all the
way on foot. The distance is II 600 versts,
ana IL TOOK MIN one year and sixteen days to
make it.
The Paris grave-diggers' strike of some
months ago has been followed naturally by
strike of the funeral mutes, the porteurs
des pompes funebres, or, as they are
known Familiarity, the croQuemorts. They
want more pay, shorter hours and a re-
dress of grievances. The few that there
are OF them are on duty from o'clock in
the morning till O'clock at night for five
| francs day.
The monk who usually received visitors
| TO the famous Grand ChartreuSe monastery
recently feb over precipice and lay at the
bottom OF the ravine two days before he
| was discovered and taken back to the
monastery. He died from the effects of
his injuries and exposure. 1t tranSpireS
| that he was General Ncoai, the conqueror
| Of and Governor of the Russian Caucasus
| before his adoption of the m0nastc life.
The German court circle is bringing all
| its powerful influence to bear to induce the
Emperor upon his return to exercise Glenn
| ency In the case OF Baron Job Won Man
teuffel, only son and heir of the late Field
Marshal Manteuffel. who was recently con-
| yicted in Berlin of selling to Hebrew firm
Of Breslau forest which he had previously
| mortgaged to the crown, thereby defraud-
, Ing the Hebrew purchasers of 90, 1000 marks.
A Gordon Cumming case happened under
| Napoleon III. A very brilliant staff Cap
| tain, Count d'Andlau-who was one OF the
| Emperor'S eQuerries-was caught cheating
| at Compiegne. To prevent a scandal Napo-
leon imposed secrecy upon the hccusers, and
d'Andlau pledged himself not to touch
| cards again. His secret was SO faithfully
| kept that by the end of the Franco German
| or two afterward he became a General.
| Then he laid himself open to another
| charge Of swiudling and was senteneed TO
| two years Imprisonment and the history
| came cut