The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-23
Foreign Notes OF Re., Interest.


The accommodations OF the Vatican may be imagined
when tho Pope put 22oo beds in It At the disposal Of
the French pilgrims. free Of charge.
Higher collegiate education for girls 10 becoming pop
ular France There two girls lyc4es In Paris a.
ready and there 10 to DO college In the Fsubours
Poirsoniere.
Old French forts arc being sold very cheap French
artist has bought the Fort du Guescn for about eleven
hundred dollars. They 20 from . few hundreds to ,
thousand dollars
company Is formed in France before the winter 10
on to insure damages against frost The annual loss
during bad weather to agriculture 10 put at about Of
teen million dollars
A discussion upon the Churchs relation to science
having brought out the assertion that II the Church
admits the necessity for her doctrine to be
sstent with science her very existence 10 threatened
correspondents Of the Spectator furnishes letter from
Cardinal BeIArmine. great champion of Church au.
thor!ty written In 1914 year before the condemns
OF Copernicus. The letter says: "Isay that II Il
should At any time be actually proved that the
stands 10 the centre Of the universe and the earth in
the third heaven and that tho sun does not round
the earth but the earth round the would then
necessary to proceed with great elaboration in
piHning the passages Of Scripture which appear to
assert tho contrary and rather TO say that do not
understand them than TO say that . demonstrated
proposition 10 false but shall not believe that there
~ such demonstration until II 10 shown to me"
Only one landed proprietor In England possesses
than 100 900 acres In county there being three IN
ireland and fourteen In Scotland. In England tho
Duke Of Northumberland proprietor OF 1871 $40 acres
in northumberland. In Ireland Mr.. Richard Burridse
IL proprietor OF lOOl52 acres In Galway the Marquis
Conyngham l2as4o acres In Donegal md the Marquis
Of Sligo 1922 500 In Mayo In Scotland tho Duke Of
Argyll In Argyle the Earl Of Breada
bnne 23+. 1d6 acres In Perth and 2o4lD In Ar
Sye; Mr. Evan Bnillie Ut Dockfour. 1Ail4s acres in
Inverness; the Duke of Buccleuch. 253l1 acres in
Dumfres and lO+. %6l In Roxburgh: MIR. Donald Came
Of Lochie 1O9L74 acres In Inverness the Earl Of
Dalhouse. 1855 COZ acres IN Forfar the Duke OF Fife
l3D,s2O acres In Aberdeen: the Duke OF Hamilton.
l02,2lO In Butte; Sir George Macpherson Grant
IO3,372 acres In Inverness; Sir James Aatheson <Oo
O7O acres In Ross the Duke of Richmond l58852 acres
IN Baun Sir Charles Rosa llO<%O In Ross; tho
Earl Of Seaned 100 224 acres In Inverness and last
but not least the Duke OF Sutherland with less than
ll70<t4 acres In Sutherland that his Grace Ia pos.
sessed OF very nearly the whole county the total Area
Of which Is J, 2aI. S<6 acres.
A Censor attached to the imperial court In Pelin
having suggested that the Emperor should take IN the
ancient practice OF having the classics and other
sacred writings expoundcd TO him daily, his Mnjesty
published this decr.ei since we have undertaken
the task Of governing In person We have daily re.
ceived in audience the Oincals OF the metropolis and
the provinces and done our very utmost TO rightly dis
Germ the proper men and pass judgment on their
actions. Such time As remains at disposal after
transacting tho multitudinous affairs OF state We de-
vote to the study or the classics and historical
often engaging In discussion with the tutors
and never permitting ourselves for = moment to in.
duge in luxurious ease KEN Lung abolished the read
Ing the ground that the readers took
to indulge in general Adyics and Intriguing lie lis
tened for ten years and then called q halt Tho
present Emperor continued Two emperors have
thus expressed their views with regard to thi,
matter and the conclusion they arrived at was
that these expeditions were . mere fraud; that
they did not advance true OF the min.
cples ~ government that those concerned
to put forward their private views and by nattery
carry out their false designs We see through ali this
quite clearly and would be well were the Censor 10
revereuy perase the views Of former soyereixns in RI.
gard 10 this matter. Ills memorial ia moreoyer IN
many respects obscure and Ms srsumsnts not 10 the
point. His proposition need not be entertained"