The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-21
Foreign Notes OF Real Interest


The rag pioker of Paris collect about $4,000 worth
night
Pssrds out q Ia Russe In Paris, which 10 square
and ragged
Switzerland yearly receives about s2aVuoooo from
foreign tourists
Bicycles longer In Danish cities faster
than the speed of cab by decree of the Government
The first trace of tho British Rrnaoas WASP which
left the port OF singapore in 1887 buoy Just found
In the China sea.
Two million francs have been added tho for
tune OF tho Compile do Par,s through tho will Of the
Marquis de St. AstieE
Tho Austrian census shows that In Galcia seventy.
four per cent OF tho population neither
wrto. and only nine per cont can read.
seamless steel boat made from ono piece Of metal
by hydraulic pressure promises to DO very desirable
II will last q great while and cannot leak.
NJ. Marcy. by arranging his own apparatus has suo.
decided in photographing tho flight of inseot the ex
posurs of the plate being necessarily ooo,h
part of second.
In France four stretches of straegcal railway have
been opened recently. They extend from Aurlao to
Saint EMS les Martel, Lonsle saunisr 10 ChampaR
NOS dEstrtes Saint Denis to saintJu st en- Chauss q
dEstri ss Saint Denis to Frassy.
Ono OF tho London street car companies has in use
an automatic ''uarter." Two powerful spiral springs
fastened 10 the front axle wound up through being
ap?ed Tor tho cars stoppnge so that when 1t Is de-
sired 10 again they arc capable OF starting Il
The device effects tremendous saving aud mercy to
horses
Tricks have risen into tho dignity OF decorating dinner
tables II soak terminating lettuce seed In alcohol
for about six the table plan an equal
mixture of lime and rich SOIL and the soup
sprinkle with lukrwarm water it will sprout immedi
seiy and the lettuce will grow about tho size Of
hazel nuts before tho time for serving salad.
The trial Of tile PySis an in erestng annual ceremony
that In form another has occurred for centuries
The Fyx IL box which certain numbers Of coin. Of
dan. vnipus Nil
in tho British Royal Mint for year. Tho Goldsmhs
Company has Afforded the jury since Its institution
several hundred years ago When tho jury open tho
Pyx they weigh the coins buk AMI several indvidu-
ally. testing the with IRE and chemcaia so
there be left no rsce OF doubt OF The true of
British and Brit:sh-made coinage The loss OF weight
remedy" allowed to tho Master OF the Mint for loss
10 . nf gr in but none such has been recorded for
80 years 7soI 0!5 pieces In all were coined last year
for use at home aud In tho colonies
The expiration OF the tenth year OF Cen Wannow.
skys activity rs Russian Minister of War has directed
attention to the remarkable changes in the constitution
AMI disposition OF the Russian army IN years
when Wanna wsey entered sn!ce the Russian cavalry
Of odds and ends OF all SORTS and without
any prevalent system. Now the cuirasserA uhlans
hussars 40. are found only in tho guards The $1,000
Russian cavalry Of the limo are almost exclusively
dragoons that To- they are mounted infantry with the
task hasten At critical take pos Isssion
Of particularly important posiona and hold them til
bic for the incsssant activity OF Russia on
her western boundary. To bis efforts are due
the persistent construction of strAteRcAl rail-
ways In the weuern p-0vncea the massing OF
troops on tho German and Austrian frontier.
tho great grde Of forincations for the
OF western Russia against invaders WannowSky has
also brought !: about that not only the reserves. but
Aso the militia have camp drill every year To ali this
should DO added his activity in re uniformna the whole
army ami Introducing tho 10 milime,rs rifo which
Eussa IL about Ilacs the hands OF all sodiers