The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-26
Foreign Notes OF Real Interest,

Grery died worth 1OOD.OOO francs.
Taking the officers holding honorary rank into account
there $50 Generals in the British army or nearly
for every hundred soldiers.
Rajnh Brooke Of Sarawak Rorneo. has proclaimed
his Vyner Brooke as his and has decreed
that he shall attain his majority at the age OF IL
Mr. Freeman. at this stage. has begun IA history
~ Sicily Mr. Edmond de Goncourt. although seventy
has begun twelve monographs on Japanese artists.
The woman to whom Mendelssohn wrote the letter
from London describing the first performance of
Elijah" Madame Frege. has died in I.eps!c aged 10
Meissonier TO have painted OF the rrescos OF
the Pantheon but he died before he had finished his
sketch Detae Cagin or Constant will take his place
The subrentions to the Italian theatres being gen
orally down Also the San Carlos Theatre in Lisbon
is,o have its annual assistance reduced from $4,000
TO scl ono.
After giving SIS. OOo for Common MIR Maple refused
the offer OF SlOOotO from a turfman in Vienna That
is the largest price known have been offered for
horse in Europe.
The Welsh National Council meeting with the Lib
era Federation OF Wales at Pont yPridd decided to
raise 1ooDto carry the campaign for Church
disesta Adjustment:
There are two dangers to France. says Jules Simon
Germany and socialism. The former is less important
since Cronstad but the danger socialism has be
increased since the Congress at Brussels.
A couple Of Frcnchmcn have made harp of wood
with strings twisted from strips OF American mr. They
play on il with leather gloves covered with resin and
tho tone is described MS wonderfully pure.
Seven years ago n warrant was issued against an
Engsh poacher for threatening to shoot two police
officers. Last week he was sentenced for that offence
to months imprisonment with hard labor.
committee Of French officers said to have decided
recommend the adoption Of breast plate for tho In.
fnnfry made o: nine parts OF copper and alum.
hmm. equal 10 steel plate u three times tho thick.
ness, II will only be Worn in time OF action.
The centenary OF the j" Magic Fiute i" will be cele.
brAted at Berlin on Sept. 80, There will be also a
Mozart performance In December Vienna All over
Germany arrangements being made celebrate tue
memory of the musician who a hundred years ago WAS
buried in rauner's ernvc.
IN. Plymouth Town Council! hive decided to erect a
memorial communicating the departure Of the May
Flower from plymouth. u viii taxi the form of tai.
let liked in the pavement the Barbran Pier men.
tionng the fact ,hnt tho Pilgrim Fathers cubarkcd
from there Sept. IN. 1870.
The biggest Danish hound living Is thought to he.
long to the Cnnr, 1t presented the Czarina few
years by her father the King Of Denmark The dog
Ia generally found in the hall leading the Gar, pri.
vae apartments, and the Emperor places great con..
dcnre in the moral effect Of his presence
Shibatx Ieahin. the greatest worker in Japancsc
lacquer ever known. has Just died the age Of 81
His work first attracted attention in 1874 IL was a
voive tablet in the shrine OF the village OF OIL near
Toxic. where 1t still Is zeshin began to paint funs and
worked up To within nve days of his death.
The yearly nine days pilgrimage the shrine Of Our
Lady of tho Dunes Mt Dunkirk has been held with great
feryor Sotre Dame des Dunes Is patron OF sear,r
ing people and is greatly yeucrated by the men EN-
gagged in tho Iceland Fisheries who leave Dunk irk in
April and return in september They inmc visit
the shrine and oncr their prayers.
Tho Russian nobility are in comparatively as wre.c
circumstances ~ tho pcasanry. In 'rtober there Will
he nearly 400 estates belonging to MOBILES Sold by auc
tion at the instance o the state Bank that
them money mortgages The estates will bring In,
less hnn their mortgage value. account OF tho in
ability o Jews foreigners foreign Syndicates to az
| Quire landed property.
The abolition Of capital punishment ia being writer
about in the London press with tho effect OF
very clearcut argument In favor Of letting 1t remain
letter from convict in Western Australia telling ar
old pal In England that murderous assault on prisor
warder might bo punished with hanging had this ex
preston; They tops cove out hero for s!uggins
blote" tmsannG they hang = convict out hero for as
sauitins warder) THAT bit Of rope. dear Jack, Il
| agreat check on mans temper"
The German Socialists are In q very perturbed state
Two weeks ngo at Berlin n meeting Of the pnrt,
developed serious disagreement between IN. All.I
and the Jungen the old and young sections The youn
fellows ray that social democratic ieas cannot b. re-
Allied by parliamentary action md that the pres.n
| leaders are timd to uselcssness. A member VIII
| defended the present leaders Bebci Lebknerht an,
Genbcrgsr -ai that the latter had spent more year
| In prison than many Of the young men had beef
Socialists but the latter to make re volutio
they might do II on their esponsiby After pro
iouged excitement resolutions passed In favor
the present leaders but much u expected st the NEE,
Spg N October u Halle.